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For the life of me I can't remember how to access my bios mode upon startup, I've tried the delete button, all the F-Keys, and the control key? I'm running Win98 SE on a Hewlett Packard 9680C.
I'm trying to access the bios mode to alter my IOQD settings.
I've been running some diagnostic tests with SISoftware's Sandra Utility. One of the tips it gave me was this:
---->> Warning W231 - The IOQD (Host Bus In-Order Queue Depth) is set too low, most likely 1, i.e. no queue. This indicates the depth of the host bus pipelining; thus 1 indicates that no pipelining is to be done on the bus. This reduces the performance of the host bus which is crucial to performance. P6 (Pentium Pro, II, III, Celeron) has an IOQD depth of 8 while the P4 has an IOQD of 12. Most chipsets have an IOQD of 4 or more.
Fix: Check that BIOS settings were not reset or set to Fail-Safe defaults. Reset them to Optimised or Normal settings <<----
I have a Pentium 4 processor and 640MB of SDRAM and yet my computer can be painfully slow when loading documents, or simply navagating the folders on my computer.
Would changing my IOQD to a higher number fix this and/or improve overall preformance?
Thanks.
Hi Adam.
This is from HP's website.The page also gives info on the BIOS.
http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/get_doc.pl?SNI=hppavilion19332&LC=personal_computing&Tfile=bph04848#P4_685
Starting the BIOS Setup program
Start the BIOS Setup program by pressing the F1 key after you see the blue HP logo screen during startup but before the Windows desktop starts. You have only a few seconds to press the F1 key before the startup process continues.
Take care,Linda
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Yes, that got me into bios mode, thanks so much.
However, I couldn't find anything to do with IOQD settings. :(
I hope I'm not doomed to working on a slow computer. Perhaps there is a way to change the IOQD settings from within Windows?
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I couldn't find anything titled "optimized settings". I did find, under the Power menu an option to change to "maximum preformance". It was previously set to "customized" I gave it the switch and am going to test drive my computer a bit.
I've tried doing some research on IOQD settings and haven't found anything concrete yet.
Thanks for all the advice.
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Believe that In-Order Queue Depth (IOQD)is not a BIOS setting but rather a jumper setting involved with overclocking.
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Hi Adam.
Could - in-order queue depth - be jumpers on your motherboard?The following website shows an example of an Intel motherboard which has jumper settings for the IOQD.
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/r440lx/jumpers.htm
Take care,Linda
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Yes,
I did read that one some web page, about the jumper setting, etc. I just have no idea what it means, or if I can adjust it. Based on some comments I read on some other posts, I'm not even sure it would really be for the better anyhow.
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Hi Adam.
Jumpers are little posts that may or may not have a cover on them.For instance there may be 3 jumpers (posts) side by side and jumpers 1 and 2 have a plastic cover over them while 3 is not covered.
If you move the cover over to jumpers 2 and 3 leaving 1 uncovered, then that changes the setting on your motherboard causing another effect depending on what the jumpers control.
Take care,Linda
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