BIOS Help

[dayloon]

Within the next few days I will buying the following kit and while I am quite comfortable building it, I always struggle with the BIOS side of things (i.e. which settings to use for optimum but stable performance). Can anyone recommend anything or point me in the right direction ? At the moment im not really interested in overclocking. Many Thanks.

DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4400CDBOX)
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3

 

[Baddass]

best advice is just to read through the manual for the motherboard which should walk you through what all the settings do. Some general stuff:

- turn off floppy drive seek on boot up, helps speed up boot time
- set the boot device order to HD0 first, saves it scanning to try and boot from CD Rom, or floppy first
- Set AGP Aperture size to half your phsyical RAM
- leave RAM timings on auto i guess if you're not overclocking
- turn off devices you dont need like printer ports, firewire, SATA, RAID etc. depending on what you need active or not