HELP, I need help!

[edtrip]

What a day. Since taking my k6 400 to 450 I have not been able to find lasting stability. Today it all went to hell and I'm not even sure what did it, tho I know it was an attempt to end the IOS initialization error. Anyway in the last 8 hours, I've reformatted C, reinstalled Win95, reinstalled the AMD k6 update, been getting my hardware working again, still have a lot of software to download all over. And finally set the cpu back to 400.
Ok, I can boot , things seem to be working, I'll rebuild, BUT since the reformat of C and the reinstall of windows I cant find my stuff on my slave drive. All the stuff is there in explorer, drives d,e,and f, but none of the programs show up under my start menu. No NFS, or GPL, or Half-life, or napster, etc. How do I get my freshly formatted C to put these programs back under the start menu?
Tell me theres a simple way to do this. Thanks.
(all this for an extra 50mhz)

[bdunn]

There are 2 common ways to clock this chip to 450. The more common is 4.5*100. Mine wouldn't boot like that but it worked fine at 6*75. The 6 multiplier is the same jumper positions as the 2 multiplier.

Good Luck
Bruce

[neo_otyugh]

when you formatted and reinstalled windows you deleted all the information in your start menu, as well as all the dll's that were installed in the windows system folder...you may have to reinstall all those programs now.

before you try to overclock again make sure you are rock stable at stock settings...then increase multiplier or FSB and bump up voltage if needed...

[cyclone2]

Did the same thing recently, some programs will work using their .exe file but to get them back into windows had to reinstall. For many games just use minimal install, re-patch as it was and you can still use your saved games. As none of the programs are in the registry and .dll files etc may be missing they wont be in start menu. As for me I just made shortcuts to their .exe and put them on my desktop.....anyone else?

[otheos]

You are far better with 4x100 than 6x75 as suggested! If you can't get 450 from 4.5x100 at anyh voltage, do not lower the FSB to go higher with multipier as this will reduce overall system performace. My 6x83=500 runs slower than 4x100=400 on the same board and same hardware. So eventhough 500 sounds cool, 400 is the way to go. Ok I admit some things will be faster due to the higer clock but, mem bandwith from 8x100=800MB/sec goes to 8x83=665MB/sec. This slows down the L2 cache as well, and if something does not fit in the L2 cache you will have to wait 6 clocks to get it done as opposed to 4 in 4x100.

For the other bit of your question.... reinstall over old installs.

[edtrip]

Thanks for your input, everyone. I decided I'd just reinstall my games. I continued to download and reinstall the programs I wanted. NOW, I HAVE A BRAND NEW PROBLEM, A REAL HEADACHE! I wasn't happy with the auto insert of my CD's , seemed to be taking a long time, so I checked the DMA box (I don't know why).
On a reboot, no more G: my Cd rom drive. No longer recognized by windows, when it was rebooting it gave me a blue screen that said Windows would boot with compatability mode drivers because the Standard Dual PCI IDE controller has "child devices" attatched that are using both 32bit and compatability mode drivers and windows wont support that.
Now under the System Properties, the performance tab shows my hard drives are using MS-DOS compatability mode and
Device Manager under Hard Disk Controllers has exclamation points in front of Primary IDE controller (single fifo) and
Secondary IDE controller (single fifo)
I cant remove either one because it says I have to remove the parent device-- Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller but just as soon as I try that everything locks up and if I just power off then reboot to Windows nothing has changed.
What is "single fifo", what are "child devices", how do I fix this and get back my Cd drive? Anybody....please.
BTW, I've got an asus p5a-b mobo w/o the onboard audio.

Nevermind http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by edtrip (edited 04-13-2000).]