SIS 530 BIOS PROBLEMS

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I have just upgraded my PC from Windows 98 to Windows XP SP1. Since then, the movies & videos are playing in slow motion. The sound drags. My PC has got 233MHz CPU & 128MB of RAM. Iam using the Onboard VGA taking 8MB of RAM. Do I have i to upgrade my VGA BIOS or something?

[Denniss]

Bad upgrade decision, XP needs wy more memory than your very small 128MB. Try to disbale memory consuming functions like 3D-dekstop but that won't help that much.

[cp]

the vga bios is integrated into the mainboard's bios and it is possible to upgrade it. i can do it if you want, just send me your mainboard bios of the complete id string. but like Denniss already stated: it won't help that much. you'd better get (in that order) a faster processor (AMD K6-2 400 or better), more ram (128MB+) and a PCI vga card (TNT2/Voodoo3 16MB at least).

[edwin]

I am no longer upgrading socket 7 systems ever since SP2 was released. To run XP SP2 half decent you need 512MB and that is more than most sokcet7 boards can handle at maximum.

[cp]

i've SP2 running on machines with 256MB and they work like a charm. you can't expect miracles for sure..all that fancy stuff is shut off. as a rule of thumb: if you don't have more than 128MB RAM and a processor slower than 500MHz you'd better stick with Windows 98SE.

for your information: the SIS530 chipset can handle upto 1.5GB ram (besides it supports some other cool stuff, at least it was back then ;))

[KachiWachi]

Windows 2000 is always an option too...

sis 530 is a retarded vga i've had like 5motherboards with it integrated and i have one as a PCI video card, IT SUCKS IN XP
Your ram is okay
You could use a faster CPU
and another video card
To smoothly watch videos on a socket7 system you better use a DOS based windows like 98/ME

sersoft2 wrote:

sis 530 is a retarded vga i've had like 5motherboards with it integrated and i have one as a PCI video card, IT SUCKS IN XP
Your ram is okay
You could use a faster CPU
and another video card
To smoothly watch videos on a socket7 system you better use a DOS based windows like 98/ME

I think that need other OS, that run in old machines.
For what videos, Movix its maybe the better option
If you need a complete OS, try http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Upgrade your processor to AMD K6/2 550 MHz and also your memory. Im using AMD K6/2 550 MHz processor and 256 MB PC-100 SDRAM using Jetway J-530 (SiS 530 based motherboard) and its running WinXP SP2. On-board video memory is 8MB I use.