IOQD question

O.K I try to post this in hardware related topics but no answers from anybody for a long time.

SiSoft Sandra Pro is telling me my "IOQD [(Host Bus) In-Order Queue Depth] is set too low. Performance will suffer." but I have no idea how to change it. SiSoft's help file says:

"Warning W231 - The IOQD (Host Bus In-Order Queue Depth) is set too low, most likely 1, i.e. no queue. This indicates the depth of the host bus pipelining; thus 1 indicates that no pipelining is to be done on the bus. This reduces the performance of the host bus which is crucial to performance. P6 (Pentium Pro, II, III, Celeron) has an IOQD depth of 8 while the P4 has an IOQD of 12. Most chipsets have an IOQD of 4 or more.

Fix: Check that BIOS settings were not reset or set to Fail-Safe defaults. Reset them to Optimised or Normal settings "


Motherboard: QDI Advance 9 (VIA Apollo 133) with VIA 4in1 Hyperion drivers (v 4.49)

RAM:2 x 128 Mb PC133 (PQI)

Intel Pentium III 667 Mhz

HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax 8 40Gb

Windows XP Professional SP1


I try everything (different memory timings, loading setup defaults in BIOS….) but the problem remains. How can I correct this?
Any idea?

 

Why not try Sandra Pro tech support since their diagnostic made the suggestion.