So I have a PC with an AMD Athlon 3200 processor, and I had a problem. I started screwing around with the overclock settings in the bios menu, and when it went to restart, I got nothing on the monitor. Wondering what the hell to do, I yanked open the case, located a bios jumper on my MS- 7030 motherboard, pulled the plastic off and set it back on using the other 2 of the 3 metal pegs. To my surprise, the PC loaded up, I put the BIOS options back, and now it works. My question is if I need to put that plastic piece back on the original 2 for any reason, or if I can just leave it like this.
ALSO, when I look at my specs with a utility software program, it says my processor is an "AMD 64 3200 + 2211..." Is it supposed to say 2211?
Oh also, in the bios menu, one option says "Boot OS/2 for DRAM > 64 mb. Can someone tell me what that means and if should I say 'no?'
Thanks!
Probably an easy couple of questions for the experienced
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Not as far as I remember, as I don't intend to use OS/2.
From my understanding, it's a setting like the disabling of the Parralel port, it's mostly just there as a toggle for nothing.
On that note, who the hell does have their serial and other such obsolete connectors enabled? Aimed at the geek crowd.
From my understanding, it's a setting like the disabling of the Parralel port, it's mostly just there as a toggle for nothing.
On that note, who the hell does have their serial and other such obsolete connectors enabled? Aimed at the geek crowd.
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I can't tell you for sure whether the jumper should be put back to the original without knowing what it's called, but you probably should stick it back.
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My server uses a parallel port to communicate with my Laserjet 4MP, which itself only has serial and parallel communication. Before that, my old inkjet printer was connected to my computer via parallel.Ace Pace wrote:Not as far as I remember, as I don't intend to use OS/2.
From my understanding, it's a setting like the disabling of the Parralel port, it's mostly just there as a toggle for nothing.
On that note, who the hell does have their serial and other such obsolete connectors enabled? Aimed at the geek crowd.
For awhile I had an old serial mouse connected to my server.
I had an old, old router which I dicked around with for awhile and communicated with via null-modem cable.
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Re: Probably an easy couple of questions for the experienced
If it's not affecting the system, you don't have to. But if you don't, you might lose the jumper, which could leave you up shit creek if you need to reset the BIOS again.Superman wrote:My question is if I need to put that plastic piece back on the original 2 for any reason, or if I can just leave it like this.
Yes. 2211MHz is the actual clock speed of the Athlon 64 3200+.ALSO, when I look at my specs with a utility software program, it says my processor is an "AMD 64 3200 + 2211..." Is it supposed to say 2211?
Why exactly should you disable them? You'd be surprised to find good, useful stuff that connects over them. I finally ditched my LaserJet 5L for a Brother office printer, but that is only because recently I've been printing 20+ page documents relatively often and the LaserJet had a busted loading mechanism that demanded that I load each page by hand or it would pull them all in and clog up. Not to mention that my backup modem for the situation if my DSL connection dies is a quality external 56k that connects using the serial port and its lightyears better then some crap winmodem shit that gets peddled as modems these days (I've seen it do 30+ on lines where the winmodem crowd gets barely over 10).Ace Pace wrote:Not as far as I remember, as I don't intend to use OS/2.
From my understanding, it's a setting like the disabling of the Parralel port, it's mostly just there as a toggle for nothing.
On that note, who the hell does have their serial and other such obsolete connectors enabled? Aimed at the geek crowd.
I have no devices that use serial ports, so I disabled them when I initially set up the system.
Two of my 3 printers have both parallel and USB ports, while the third is USB only.
However, I connect all three of them to a Trendnet print server (1 parallel, 2 USB) so I don't use the parallel port on the PC at all, so I also disabled it on initial system setup.
Two of my 3 printers have both parallel and USB ports, while the third is USB only.
However, I connect all three of them to a Trendnet print server (1 parallel, 2 USB) so I don't use the parallel port on the PC at all, so I also disabled it on initial system setup.
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