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First of all, don't try this if you cannot stand sudden shocks, rapid
increases of blood pressure or are suffering a mild, yet throbbing
hangover.
After manually setting my memory speed to 400 in the BIOs and
upgrading said BIOs to 1016 to fix a recurring 'disk not found'
problem at boot up (previous version was 1006). I discovered the bios
menu and noticed a setting under the jumper free setting called
'Turbo'. While the manual clearly states that it 'could' make the
system unstable, I none the less decided, 'what the heck', I could do
with a performance boost. This came after I had set my memory timings
manually and began to experience strange 'hangs' with IE6. Related?
Dunno, but the weren't happening prior to the memory 'adjustment'.
Anyway, I changed the setting to 'Turbo', hit F10 and......
Nothing! Screen went into power saving mode, machine was totally dead
(albeit for a flickering of lights from the front of my box) and my
heart stopped. I believe in the next few minutes I was clinically
dead. My heart had stopped after all and that mild hangover suddenly
kicked itself into 'Turbo'. I tried restating the machine four times,
nada, nix, nein, njet, nothing.... I remembered all those times I
swore I would do a full back up of my system, tomorrow. All the files
and address gone. Sniff and oh F**K.
I waited five minutes and re booted (again), praying silently to the
great silicon God and got a boot up. I quickly changed all settings
back to their former glories and that was that.
Moral of the story?
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!

System specs:
P4c800 Deluxe bios rev 1016
P4 2.6
1 GB Samsung PC 3200 ram
2 x Sata RAID Maxtor 120 fluid drives running on the promise
controller
1x 120 Sata Maxtor
1x 80 Sata Maxtor
SB Aud2
Asus G4 ti4600 graphics card

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Is the Turbo mode the same thing as Intel's PAT?

(Performance Accelerating Technology or something like that)



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"Bob Bobsen" <noneedtoknow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> First of all, don't try this if you cannot stand sudden shocks, rapid
> increases of blood pressure or are suffering a mild, yet throbbing
> hangover.
> After manually setting my memory speed to 400 in the BIOs and
> upgrading said BIOs to 1016 to fix a recurring 'disk not found'
> problem at boot up (previous version was 1006). I discovered the bios
> menu and noticed a setting under the jumper free setting called
> 'Turbo'. While the manual clearly states that it 'could' make the
> system unstable, I none the less decided, 'what the heck', I could do
> with a performance boost. This came after I had set my memory timings
> manually and began to experience strange 'hangs' with IE6. Related?
> Dunno, but the weren't happening prior to the memory 'adjustment'.
> Anyway, I changed the setting to 'Turbo', hit F10 and......
> Nothing! Screen went into power saving mode, machine was totally dead
> (albeit for a flickering of lights from the front of my box) and my
> heart stopped. I believe in the next few minutes I was clinically
> dead. My heart had stopped after all and that mild hangover suddenly
> kicked itself into 'Turbo'. I tried restating the machine four times,
> nada, nix, nein, njet, nothing.... I remembered all those times I
> swore I would do a full back up of my system, tomorrow. All the files
> and address gone. Sniff and oh F**K.
> I waited five minutes and re booted (again), praying silently to the
> great silicon God and got a boot up. I quickly changed all settings
> back to their former glories and that was that.
> Moral of the story?
> IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!
>
> System specs:
> P4c800 Deluxe bios rev 1016
> P4 2.6
> 1 GB Samsung PC 3200 ram
> 2 x Sata RAID Maxtor 120 fluid drives running on the promise
> controller
> 1x 120 Sata Maxtor
> 1x 80 Sata Maxtor
> SB Aud2
> Asus G4 ti4600 graphics card

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Dunno. It was just a setting option within the bios menu.

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:40:28 GMT, "Rich" <rmart_911@windycomcast.net>
wrote:

>Is the Turbo mode the same thing as Intel's PAT?
>
>(Performance Accelerating Technology or something like that)

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> Anyway, I changed the setting to 'Turbo', hit F10 and......
> Nothing! Screen went into power saving mode, machine was totally dead
> (albeit for a flickering of lights from the front of my box) and my
> heart stopped. I believe in the next few minutes I was clinically
> dead. My heart had stopped after all and that mild hangover suddenly
> kicked itself into 'Turbo'. I tried restating the machine four times,
> nada, nix, nein, njet, nothing.... I remembered all those times I
> swore I would do a full back up of my system, tomorrow. All the files
> and address gone. Sniff and oh F**K.
> I waited five minutes and re booted (again), praying silently to the
> great silicon God and got a boot up. I quickly changed all settings
> back to their former glories and that was that.
> Moral of the story?
> IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!

This is normal. It's the CPR (CPU Paramater Recall) feature. It happens
every time I tried to enable Turbo or clock too high as well. I think most
of us with P4C800/P4P800 have experienced this!

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Thank God, I always feel like it is just me experiencing these
outbursts of illogical problems.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:41:23 +1000, "Darkfalz" <darkfalz@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>> Anyway, I changed the setting to 'Turbo', hit F10 and......
>> Nothing! Screen went into power saving mode, machine was totally dead
>> (albeit for a flickering of lights from the front of my box) and my
>> heart stopped. I believe in the next few minutes I was clinically
>> dead. My heart had stopped after all and that mild hangover suddenly
>> kicked itself into 'Turbo'. I tried restating the machine four times,
>> nada, nix, nein, njet, nothing.... I remembered all those times I
>> swore I would do a full back up of my system, tomorrow. All the files
>> and address gone. Sniff and oh F**K.
>> I waited five minutes and re booted (again), praying silently to the
>> great silicon God and got a boot up. I quickly changed all settings
>> back to their former glories and that was that.
>> Moral of the story?
>> IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!
>
>This is normal. It's the CPR (CPU Paramater Recall) feature. It happens
>every time I tried to enable Turbo or clock too high as well. I think most
>of us with P4C800/P4P800 have experienced this!
>

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"Bob Bobsen" <noneedtoknow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thank God, I always feel like it is just me experiencing these
> outbursts of illogical problems.

Motherboard manufacturers take into account the overclocking craze of geeks
these days. Half the features on the box are related in some way to
overclocking.