SIS 530 BIOS PROBLEMS

billy · Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:53 pm

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?

Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:49 pm

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.

Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:58 pm

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).

Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:24 pm

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.

Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:28 pm

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 ;))

BiosMan · Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:44 am

Windows 2000 is always an option too...

sersoft2 · Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:56 pm

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

idcarlos · Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:49 pm

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/

Noel · Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:54 am

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.