Dragon Plus Users

[dadx2mj]

Soyo has released a new bios for the Dragon Plus version 2ba3. I was pretty hesitant to flash my bios as I was having no problems at all and system was rock stable. After reading a 3 page thread at AMDMB with only one negative comment I decided to take the plunge and flash my bios. It has only been about 6hrs but so far all seems good. I have run PC Mark, 3dMark and Sisoft Sandra benchmarks not to mention a few hours of Quake, UT, and Counter Strike with out any problems. Now for the best part and the reason I posted in this forum. With the old bios I could only run a FSB of 140Mhz. I have been running at 145Mhz since the bios flash with out a problem, something this system absolutly would not do with the previous bios. Your milage may vary but if you have a Dragon Plus I would serioulsy consider fashing to the new bios. OH yeah the new bios also adds support for XP2100+

[NascarFool]

Hey dad, I am running an XP1700 on a D+ and I can't get past 133MHz FSB. I did unlock the 1700 and it is stable at 12x133 @ 1.825v. I have 2x256meg Crucial PC2100 and I have tried with one installed and both installed. I can bump it to 138 and it will get to Windows but eventually it will lock up. I get the same results with all three bioses. (ba1, ba2 and ba3) Can ya shoot me all your ram settings? (please) Anything over 133 and 3dMark2001 will lock up on a black screen.

[dadx2mj]

My ram settings are pretty aggtresive

Dram Timining = Manual
Dram Cas Latency=2
Bank Interleave= 4 bank
Percentage to Activate=2T
Active to Precharge=5T
Active to CMD=2T
Dram Que Depth=4 Level
Dram Command RAte=2T
Write Recovery Time=2T

I am also using Crucial PC2100 DDR and an XP 1700+. I had tried many times with the old bios to go over 140FSB with no joy the new bios seems to have helped still stable at 145FSB might try for higher when I am posative it is stable at 145

[NascarFool]

Thanks, I'll see if I can get mine up to that speed now.