BIOS settings: please help

Question

Hello,
You can see my specifications below.
I have been busy for weeks with my graphic card to reduce it's crashing.
Now I hope that someone, seeing my specifications below, might be so kind to help me
with the system BIOS settings, who are still at "default values".
I do video editing, burning etc. but no gaming.
I don't intend extreme over clocking.
I have removed the NB-fan as reducing noise is important to me.
Could someone give me some system BIOS settings and values,
for a good performance.
tia
Azerty

Answer 1

Seems we do something similar. See my signature for details. For me, it
worked out better to use 5:4 rate and to increase overclock the CPU only,
because MPEG2 encoding seems still to be CPU bound and mem performance
is not that big issue. The increase of speed is aproximately the increase of
CPU performance.
To enable 5:3, you have to set DRAM timing from AUTO to 333. Still a clock
rate like 227 in my case is x15 fot the CPU but x4 /5 for the RAM, giving you
some potential with DDR400 RAM. In my case, the Corsair allow me 2-3-2-5-8
at the rate.
For me, setting ram timings to SPD allows the MB to do a lot of nasty things.
MSI is somewhat nasty anyhow. 200 MHz FSB is 203. To get something like 200,
you have to set it to 201. I prefer manual settings. PAT is enabled and disabled
just like the board wants. A lot of different behaviours for different settings
and BIOS versions. I use 1.8. Here, PAT is alwasy disabled in 1:1 when you
set RAM timings manually. When setting it SPD, it will be on in Fast and up.
For me, PAT is switched on in 5:4 even in manual. Some say, in 5:4, PAT
can never be enabled. But for encoding, I saw no difference. For cutting, also.
Disable spectrum spread. Let PIC/AGP work at 33/66 fixed. To ackomplish this,
you might have to enable SATA, even if you don't use it. It's a bug. If you
anable Parallel only, you can set "keep yes fpr Serial" in IDE settings. Look for
other hints in this forum. (Sorry, just saw in your sig that you have SATA).
For the fan: I asked the question and a lot of people said it's no recomended to
simply switch off the fan. So I decided to by a cheap manual fan control. I use
it to reduce NB fan to minimum, so I nearly not hear it. I also have a case fan
that is alread reduced and reduced further by this control. The Zalman Cu
fan is also quite silent, I also reduce it. For cutting, no problems. CPU in idle
is about 35-38c (case 33c), will not go beyond 40-42c when cutting. When I do
encoding, it will raise. In this case I have to give aprox. half throttle (I normaly
leave the room for some 12-15 hours of encoding 90 minutes CBR 6500 and
switch them to full). Otherwise temps will raise to 60c (and crash). With a bit of
fan, they will stay at around 50c, which is ok.
If you have further questions, you can also email me.