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| pmc:
--- Quote from: _Iz- on June 20, 2003, 02:23:47 pm ---you can load the defaults from the console as well. You might be better off doing it all from the console. see ultimarcs help/documentation for the command. --- End quote --- Excellent. I'll try that. BTW, as for original overclocking question.... I'm actually UNDERclocking on this box. The chip is 450MHz and but I run it with a 6x multiplier on a 66MHz bus (~400MHz). Would that affect keyboard input? How? |
| _Iz-:
No, underclocking shouldn't cause any problems as long as the chip is running at (or very close to ) the proper voltage. Does your motherboard have a Via chipset? Other than the occasional blue-screen, the behaviour you describe is not normal, even for Win98. Have you ever tried running in pure dos mode? Sounds like the motherboard is flakey. Could also be bad ram or weak powersupply. |
| _Iz-:
One suggestion if you can't make any of the others work - can you attach the ipac to another computer, program it there in console mode, then move it back to the mame computer? Kind of a pain but should get the job done... |
| pmc:
--- Quote from: _Iz- on June 20, 2003, 03:16:26 pm ---One suggestion if you can't make any of the others work - can you attach the ipac to another computer, program it there in console mode, then move it back to the mame computer? Kind of a pain but should get the job done... --- End quote --- Actually not a pain at all. And it'll show if I have a problem with the other setup. I'll try that for kicks. Mobo is a PC-Chips 565 branded by Matsonic. I don't think it's flaky -- I know it pretty. Red Hat 7.2 runs awesome on it but win98 has been known to have problems with the PCI bus and the IDE drives. A weak powe supply is definately a consideration (it's a 250W with 4 IDE drives, one EISA card, and at least 3 PCI cards). Never thought of that. I'll debug with that in mind..... Somhow I still feel like that's not related.... but then again.... Am I hearing that this is not normal IPAC behavior? That was sort of the root of my original question.... Thanx for the help.... |
| _Iz-:
Definitely not normal behavior for the Ipac. Now on the other hand, I can't say I'm surprised that it's a PC-Chips mobo, explains alot... I've had bad experiences with more than one model of PC-Chips mobo's. One in particular out of the blue decided to refuse to init a PCI NIC, period. Any PCI NIC. And would lock the computer solid for no apparent reason as well... YMMV... |
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