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Adrian's Rojak Pot has posted Part 6 of the Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 7

Here's the list of the BIOS options posted in this part :-
- SDRAM RAS Precharge Time
- SDRAM Tras Timing Value
- SDRAM Trcd Timing Value
- SDRAM Trc Timing Value
- SDRAM Trp Timing Value
- Second Boot Device
- Security Setup
- Shadowing Address Ranges
- Slave Drive PIO Mode
- Slave Drive UltraDMA
- Speed Error Hold
- Spread Spectrum
- Super Bypass Mode
- Super Bypass Wait State
- Swap Floppy Drive
- System BIOS Cacheable
- Third Boot Device
- TX, RX Inverting Enable
- Typematic Rate
- Typematic Rate Delay
- Typematic Rate Setting
- UltraDMA-66 IDE Controller
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OCIA has posted up a quick article on overclocking the XP 2400 CPU.

Pinto, Palomino, and Phen Phen… What do these three have in common? They all once where the cream of the crop until they got the ax. Remember the Pinto? Wasn’t that a nice little car? To bad it exploded whenever it got rear ended. What about Phen Phen? Great stuff for weight loss if you don’t mind heart failure. Then there is the Palomino. A fast little devil that required a new fire extinguisher mod on the side of your case. Now we have the new Thoroughbred "B" chip that helps one of AMD's biggest weaknesses: heat. But just having a cooler running chip wasn’t enough for the guys at AMD.
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Adrian's Rojak Pot posted Part 5 of the Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 7!

Here's the list of the BIOS options posted in this part :-
- PNP OS Installed
- Power On Function
- Processor Number Feature
- Quick Boot
- Quick Power On Self Test
- Read-Around-Write
- Read Wait State
- Refresh Interval
- Refresh Mode Select
- Report No FDD For Win95
- Reset Configuration Data
- Resource Controlled By
- RxD, TxD Active
- SDRAM Bank Interleave
- SDRAM CAS Latency Time
- SDRAM Cycle Length
- SDRAM Cycle Time Tras/Trc
- SDRAM Idle Limit
- SDRAM Leadoff Command
- SDRAM Page Closing Policy
- SDRAM Precharge Control
- SDRAM RAS-to-CAS Delay
- SDRAM RAS Precharge Time
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Adrian's Rojak Pot has posted Part 4 of the Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 7

Here's the list of the BIOS options posted in this part :-
- Onboard IDE-1 Controller
- Onboard IDE-2 Controller
- Onboard IR Function
- Onboard Parallel Port
- Onboard Serial Port 1
- Onboard Serial Port 2
- Onboard USB Controller
- OS Select For DRAM > 64MB
- Parallel Port Mode
- Passive Release
- PCI2 Access 1 Retry
- PCI 2.1 Compliance
- PCI Clock / CPU FSB Clock
- PCI Delay Transaction
- PCI Dynamic Bursting
- PCI IRQ Activated By
- PCI Latency Timer
- PCI Master 0 WS Write
- PCI Master Read Caching
- PCI Pipelining
- PCI VGA Palette Snoop
- PIRQ x Use IRQ No.
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Service Management Functions (SMFs) provide operational guidance for Microsoft technologies employed in computing environments for information technology applications. SMFs are a core part of Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), which provides guidance through courses, services, guides, and other media that enable organizations to achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability, supportability, and manageability of IT solutions.

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PC Mag and ExtremeTech has posted gift guides

Geek Gift Guide
Got a serious geek on your shopping list? That is, you have a geek friend already, not that you're shopping to acquire one.

Either way, check out ExtremeTech's gift guide. It'll help you find a gift for that special hardware/software freak. Or get you the right lures to attract one.
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Holiday Gift Guide
It's after Thanksgiving (in North America), which means... time to shop. If you don't want to spend endless hours in the mall or trawling online auction sites, PC Mag has a handy list sure to warm the hearts of the more, shall we say, technically minded on your list.
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