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To: Spots who wrote (7017)	4/12/1999 11:30:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

>I change Video RAM cache from disable to enable in the ABIT Award bios. Voila..no more problems ___________________ ?Huh. Unless I completely misunderstand, that makes no sense on a healthy mobo. Maybe the other way around (i.e., disable to make it work). Should only affect the speed, or so I understood it. Yup..I changed it from disable to enable. The default is disable. I assumed it was the more stable position (well ok, I had it there because it was the default). The manual indicates You can select Enable or Disable. When you select Enable, you get faster video RAM executing speed via the L2 cache. You must check your VGA adapter manual to find out if any compatibility problems will occur. The failures seemed to be video related. Both AGP and PCI video cards..Matrox and ATI had problems. I suspected a bios setting as it did not seem to be card specific. Now I suspect the bios settings were correct and the board had some problems. The SCSI card worked without a problem for awhile..I do not suspect the SCSI card. I hope it was not damaged. I also had the Video bios cache enabled. There is no warning in the manual about the video bios setting. Just guessing but maybe there was an issue with the PCI bus. Maybe I could flash the bios and get it working. Maybe the power supply is out of spec. Isn't it under warranty? Probably. Most boards have at least a year. Probably not one of those 'no quibble' warranties like the Maxtor harddrives. For a hundred dollars I do not want to go through the hassle. One benefit of a board with no onboard components..my losses are smaller... For me..it is water under the bridge. I will try the Aopen board. Zeuspaul