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RainMaQer
12-17-01, 02:00 PM
I'm just curious if I should enable "Video Rom BIOS Shadowing" for my vid card (sys specs in sig)Thanks;)
Karsta
12-17-01, 02:02 PM
No. Disable all bios shadowing stuff. They are not useful anymore.
Sagei
12-17-01, 04:32 PM
I agree with Karsta.

No shadowing.

Also video cacheable should be disabled along with System BIOS shadow.
RainMaQer
12-17-01, 04:52 PM
Also video cacheable should be disabled along with System BIOS shadow.

What's that? Would it be the option that has a setting of either UC or USWC (or something like that:D )?
Karsta
12-18-01, 12:00 PM
No that's other thing. USCW means 'Uncacheable Speculative Write Combination'. You could test using it. There is possibly some benefit using USCW because you have Pentium with BX chipset. If it slows down use UC.

Edit:
Almost forgot. That video bios/video ram cacheable is used in combination with shadowing. You should have them disabled. Caching is done to L2 memory which has better use in caching the slow (compared to video) SDRAM you have.
Karsta
12-18-01, 12:07 PM
Adrian Wong's Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide is good read for tweaking bios. Here's link:

http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/BIOS_Guide/BIOS_Guide_Index.htm