845E MAX2-LR / S.M.A.R.T

During post messages, the HDD controller displays S.M.A.R.T. capable but disabled, I have searched the BIOS from top to bottom and there is no S.M.A.R.T enable or disable setting anywhere
Does anybody know where it is?
845E MAX2-LR
Intel Pentium 4, 1.60GHz
PNY 256Mb 2100 DDR RAM
WDC 100GB 100 ATA HDD
Maxtor 30GB 100 ATA HDD
Pioneer DVD 106S
HP 9700i CD-RW
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 PRO 32MB AGP

As I said in my original post, there is NO S.M.A.R.T setting anywhere, as a matter of fact, it is not even written in the manual. It appears this board has an INCOMPLETE BIOS.
The following items are missing:
S.M.A.R.T IDE FOR HARD DISKS.
AGP MODE
AGP FAST WRITE
AGP ARPETURE SIZE
IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION
All of these settings were available in my KT7266 Pro2 and I feel they are important and should have been included on the 845E MAX2-LR as well, whether the chipset is a VIA or Intel, the BIOS should have been relatively close.
I flashed the BIOS back to V 5.2 to see if these items appeared and they did not, so I guess this is the way this board was meant to run. I hope MSI and AMI will look into this issue, otherwise, this mainboard is HISTORY!

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845E MAX2-LR / USB 2.0 Issue

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Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller.
This does not apper in Windows XP.
Does anybody know what this green circle means? I have never seen it before.
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PNY 256Mb 2100 DDR RAM
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HP 9700i CD-RW
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Be sure you have installed the intel inf first, then after restart install the ICH4 USB2.0 driver .
You need to have an updated bios for it to work, so that might be your problem.

[845 Series] 845E MAx2: CPU cooler and power supply stop when power cable plugged in to HDD

Board: MSI 845E Max2
BIOS: 6398E V.1
UPDATED BIOS: 6398IMS V.5.7 040203
CPU: Intel Celeron 1,7GHz
RAM: 512GB Infineon
Power: ATX 300W
Hard Disks: WD and Maxtor 10GB-30GB
Hi all,
whenever I plug in the power cable to the hard disk computer shuts down after 2-5 seconds. If I try to start it again nothing happens. So I need to plug off and on the ATX-connector again so that the power supply works and the CPU-fan spins. However, as long as a hard drive is attached (it does not even need to be connected to any of the IDE-controller; having connected to the power supply is sufficient) it shuts down.
Following tests were done:
1- other hard disks were used
2- other power supply resources were used
3- computer was started with short connecting the power switch through the respective pins
Still the same result. If no hard disk is plugged in, system starts fine.
So I flashed the bios to A6398ims.570 without connecting the hard disks (since no hard disk drives were available the win98 start diskette created a c drive in the physical memory - afaiu - and I flashed the bios via this generated c drive). But nothing is changed!
Does anyone have an idea?

Hi again,
after reading the PSU guide I used a HDD which was 20GB (an older one of app. 4 years) and system booted normally. It seems that the PSU of 300W was having a difficulty of serving the relative newer HDD with power. I will test it with a min. 400W PSU and let you know if the problem is completely solved.
Thanks for your helpful comments.

Help! Problem with Microstar 845E Max2-BLR (MS-6398e) and HDD

Hello ,
My system configuration :
P4 1.8 Ghz, Master HDD Samsung 80 GB sw8004h, Slave HDD Samsung 40 GB 7200 obr, Microstar 845E Max2-BLR (MS-6398e) ,Gf 4 TI 4200 DVI 64 DDR , 512 DDR
Sytstem Win XP pro,
and i have problem , maybe You can answer me where is the root of this situation.
I connect harddisks to Ata 133 raid controler (IDE 3 and IDE 4) one disc to one IDE port, when i copy files for example 700 mb from one disc to another one , copy process goes very fast, but when i copy the same file from one partition to another partition on the same disc, this process takes me about 5 minutes!!!! where is the problem??? I installed all software for raid, for ata133, intel aplication accelerator, and nothing changed :( , my buddy have the same mainboard , hard disks connected identical like me , on his computer copy process of the same file takes about 2 minutes.!!!. Big thanks for any response for my question. Regards. G@@my

I would try this ... leave your ram at 200...
there is a memory setting .. tha comes set at 8 .. I forgot the name . Doh .. drop it down to 4
then set your FSB to 144 ... see what happens ...
leave the voltage core at defualt. I am doing this with cheap generic 512 ddr 266... .and it works like a charm..
no cold boot issues or glitchy lock ups .
I doubt our boards are much different ...
I have eard Alot of problems with Kingmax =(! ...
Samsung seems to be the best bet !

MS-6398E 845E Max2

I need a redhat linux 8 driver for the onboard Promise Fasttrack133 on my MS-6398E 845E Max2 MSI does not have one and Promise does not have one. Other versions dont work. Any help?

I just found a thread on the OLD Forum with the exact same problem on a different motherboard. There is still no solution, however.
Here's the link: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/old_forum/index.php?target=article&tid=22586
and i've pasted the thread below...
Anonymous
Join Date: Dec 31, 1969
Location:
Posts: 0
Subject: 845 Ultra CPU or Memory Problems??
This is our first experience with the MS-6398, 845 Ultra.
We installed a 2.0 processor and smelled a foul smell, assume the CPU was burnt and returned it for another. We installed another brand new processor and then the D bracket showed 4 LED, indicating CPU problem.
We then removed the CPU, it appears to still be okay and then for the heck of it, installed another stick of memory. Then the LED's changed to LED2 being green, indicating memory problem.
Now we're still there, no stick of memory will work, we're using PC2100.
Are we missing something? Is there a jumper or setting or something that we aren't seeing or reading about.
Thanks!
[email protected]
Jun 07, 2002 12:56
Anonymous
Join Date: Dec 31, 1969
Location:
Posts: 0
You probaply fried the MB look around the MB around the CPU socket see if any of the chips have a bubble on them!
Jun 07, 2002 13:17

New bios 845E Max2 is out

Just notice from the msi web site that the new bios version 5.4 is now out for 845E Max2 mobo.

Hi ArbalestPang,
You can email MSI tech support as often as you want but I do think they are either too busy to response or just ignore any support request emails. I have tried couple times to email them some of my minor problems related to this mobo I have and so far I got no response from them.
By the way, the new Bios still have not fix the problem for system hungs during warm boot if you oc the FSB from 100 to 133.
Regards,
Ed

Northbridge fan 845E Max2

Hello all
I was wondering if it is safe to remove the fan on the northbridge of the 845E Max2 (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=311). I want to remove it, because it's to noisy and because I only use it as a server.
Thanks in advance
Tonny

Yep. No problems there. I would replace the stock heatsink with a better one. I use an NB-1 from thermalright. But this is me. The stock heatsink will just fine for you.

Linux Redhat 7.3 Support IDE RAID Promise PDC20276 "845E Max2 LR

845E Max2 LR (MS-6398E) Motherboard with onboard PDC20276
I Must have linux redhat 7.3 support for onboard
PROMISE IDE RAID -- if it was clearly supported I
could build a serious web farm or render farm with
this nicely priced powerhouse of a motherboard.
I emailed MSICOMPUTER.com to see if they support it since web site has no
specific mention of Linux Redhat 7.3 support.
Very low cost high performing MBoard -- I am hoping to build a web farm using the
mirroring capability of the onboard chip
Please advise if you know of anyone with success or hints.
I am assembling it and about to try -- no doc on Promise.com or redhat.com or msicomputer.com
or anywhere.
promise.com site says mboard maker must support onboard promise chips. promise.com web site
says promise.com will not support mboard makers.
Thanks In Advance
Critical Need for support backing by MSICOMPUTER
Arthur

Quote
Originally posted by wystewart
Check
http://www.linux-ide.org/
You will likely need to patch the kernel and re-compile. Suggest using the latest kernel, 2.4.19.
Thanks. Here is were I am up to (see my question at the end).
I. I received rhup-ftb22.zip from the people at promise.com who promised that they can't support
this but I "could try it". MSI.com must support the onboard chip. Anyone at MSI.com feel free to contact
me direct -- perhaps we can work something out
and together we can qualify this promise chip for
Redhat 7.3, anyway:
rhup-ftb22.zip contains:
1.02.0.22up
FT-ioctl.txt
install
modinfo
modules.cgz
modules.dep
pcitable
readme.txt
rhdd-6.1
setup-ft
II. complete readme.txt:
----- snip ------
FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.02.0.22
Installation Note for RedHat Linux [06/27/2002]
[INTRODUCTION]
1.1 Foreword
This driver diskette should be used with all Promise FastTrak Series
adapter and onboard chipsets running under RedHat Linux operating
systems.
Do NOT use this diskette for other versions of Linux for FastTrak
support.
NOTE: For FastTrak users with Promise chips labelled PDC20265R or PDC20270
(FastTrak100 Lite motherboard-embedded solutions or FastTrak100TX2)
running with Linux kernel versions 2.4.x, be aware of additional
instructions to be performed.
See Item 1.3 below for description of the issue which use of the
driver and instructions solves.
1.2 Support List
PDC20262 FastTrak66
PDC20265R FastTrak100 Lite
PDC20267 FastTrak100
PDC20270 FastTrak LP/TX2/TX4
PDC20271 FastTrak TX2000
PDC20276 MBFastTrak133 Lite
PDC20277 SBFastTrak133 Lite
with
Red Hat 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16-22)
Red Hat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2-2)
Red Hat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10)
Red Hat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3)
1.3 Linux kernel 2.4.x ATA issue on FastTrak Series PDC20265R/PDC20270
Linux Kernels 2.4.x misidentifies PDC20265R/PDC20270 (FastTrak 100 Lite
motherboard-embedded solution/FastTrak100TX2) cards and/or chips as simple
IDE controllers. This results in the built-in Linux IDE driver trying to
handle the controller and can prevent the proper FastTrak ATA RAID driver
to be loaded. Follow the installation instructions AND the parameter
commands referred to in the Notes section.
This called "IDE issue."
[INSTALLATION]
Extract the contents of the ZIP file on to a formatted floppy disk.
(ZIP file can be extracted by `WinZIP' in windows or `unzip' in linux)
Label the disk "FastTrak Driver Disk".
2.1 To install the FastTrak Series Linux Driver into an EXISTING SYSTEM:
1.) Boot linux system and login as root.
2.) Insert FastTrak Driver Disk for install FastTrak Driver by issuing
commands :
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
# cd /mnt/floppy
# sh install (Answer Yes/No when inquire setup configuration)
You can answer Yes to load FastTrak driver when linux booting everytime.
# cd ..
# umount /dev/fd0
NOTE: All IDE channels except the first and second one are disable
for the "Linux 2.4 ATA issue". It can be enable by removing
'ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0' in
/etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf.
3.) Reboot redhat linux system.
2.2 To install the FastTrak Series Linux Driver into a NEW SYSTEM
1.) Start the RedHat Linux Installation with CD ROM booting.
2.) At the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux ..." installation screen, a
prompt labeled "boot:" will appear at the bottom of the screen.
3.) If you are in "IDE issue", please press TAB key and append parameters
(see Note 1 below).
--- OR ---
If you are NOT in "IDE issue", type "expert" (without quotations)
at the "boot:" prompt, then press the enter key.
4.) At the "Devices" dialog box, insert the FastTrak Driver Disk in the
floppy drive and then select "OK" or "Yes".
If installing RedHat 7.1/7.2/7.3, please skip to Step 9.
5.) After reaching the "Devices" dialog box again, select "Add Device".
6.) When asked "what kind of device would you like to add?", select
"SCSI", and then select "OK".
7.) Press the "P" key and scroll down to "Promise FastTrak Series ....",
and then select "OK".
8.) The installation process will now display "Promise FastTrak Series
Linux Driver" has been found. Select "Done".
9.) If you are in "IDE issue", when the Boot Loader Configuration menu
is displayed, please type parameters (see NOTE 2 below) in the Kernel
parameters field.
--- OR ---
If NOT in "IDE issue", ignore step 9 and proceed to step 10.
10.) Continue with the installation as normal.
11.) If installing RedHat 7.2 or Update Linux to RedHat 7.1/7.2/7.3.
Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 when installation at the "Congratulations" menu.
Other RedHat version please click "Exit" button to finish installation.
12.) Insert the FastTrak Driver Disk floppy, Issue commands to load FastTrak
driver.
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
# cd /mnt
# sh setup-ft
# cd /
# umount /mnt
# exit
13.) Choose your selection here, after FastTrak driver setup successful.
Please Press Ctrl-Alt-F7 and click "Exit" button to finish installation.
[NOTE]
1.) "expert ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0
ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0"
2.) "ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0
ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0"
----- snip ------
III. For my RAID farm, render farm, I have multiple
20 GB IBM IDE/100 hard drives, so I connected one
of them to a regular (non-RAID) IDE port, booted from CDROM and sucessfully installed Redhat 7.3 selecting very simple defaults. Tried multiple times, clean shutdown, clean reboot, all OK, no surprises. Great.
Then after clean shutdown, I removed ths drive from
the IDE connector and moved it to the first RAID IDE
conenctor. Then I added an identical blank drive to the
second RAID IDE connector. The boot process guided
me to select between "Performance" mode (striping)
versus "Security" mode (mirroring). I selected mirroring
purely so that I do not have to panic when a drive fails, I can take my time in replacing the falty drive and no
one will ever have noticed a problem.
Upon reboot, it started to clear boot but locked up
within a few seconds after starting to spew boot messages.
I would have expected that Linux would have recognized the RAID array as some standard
supported SCSI drive.
I guessed the promise engineers didn't think of
adding a BIOS option to force the chip to emulate
some simple cheap reliable SCSI drive (maybe the next
motherboard support chip), so I imagined that I would
have to make sure PDC20276 (MBFastTrak133 Lite)
support is added.
Then I returned the drive to the IDE (non-RAID) port,
rebooted successfully, unzipped rhup-ftb22.zip into
a directory and ran the following command:
# sh install
Looking at install, it seems to take a peak in
the following directory:
/lib/modules
and sees the name "2.4.18" in mine just to figure
out where to copy "FastTrak.o" (/lib/modules/.../kernel/drivers/scsi in my case).
Then it determines that /etc/lilo.conf is not there
and confirms that /boot/grub/grub.conf exists and
append the following text to the "kernel" line:
ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0
then inserts the following modules:
FastTrak
scsi_mod
sd_mod
QUESTION: Should I now expect to boot OK by removing the drive from the IDE (non-RAID), moving to
first RAID port, adding second blank identical IDE drive
to second RAID port?
BEFORE DOING THAT: Before trying, for fun, I added two blanks to the RAID ports and booted from the IDE
(non-RAID), yes three IDE drives altogether.
Here is what I now see in the dmesg:
---- snip ----
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PROMISE FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.02.0.22
scsi0 : FastTrak
Vendor: Promise Model: 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev: 1.10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 39062500 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
sda: unknown partition table
---- snip -----
FINAL COMMENT:
Seeing the following line in the readme.txt:
Red Hat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3)
is very comforting when my uname -a results in:
Linux **.**.com 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
Perhaps I should freeze my kernel at 2.4.18-3 until
promise gives me the source code to FastTrak.o X(
In the words of strongbad of http://www.homestarrunner.com:
X( What's their freakin' problem X(
Arthur

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My system is:
Win XP Pro
P4 2.4G
MSI 845E MAX2
MSI TI4600
365w enermax ps
512M stick of PC2100
The manual says the motherboard supports pc2100 ddr.
Was that the best ddr at time of printing? I really want to pull out the pc2100 & drop in 2x 512M sticks of Corsair PC3200 400Mhz DDR. But does the board support this? How about PC2700?
If so, would I have to tweak anything to get it to work right?

Sounds like I'd be better off going for an extra 512MB stick (3 total) instead of higher Mhz specs. I've seen a few posts about using PC2700 DDR333 on 845E max2.
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I dont want to buy 2-3 sticks of pc2100 now & later
upgrade to pc2700; an incredible waste of money when I can get Corsair PC2700 for same price as various brands of PC2100. I just need to know which type is the max/I should use. I've seriously looked & cant find the answer.

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hi to all
I bought MSI 845E Max2 Series MS-6398E (v.1.X) ATX Mainboard, I
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Hi
Recently, i made a "little" upgrade in my computer and i decided to buy this:
MSI 845E Max2 MS-6566E
512MB DDR 266
P4 2,4 MHz 400
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro128 64
HDD 40GB Seagate Barracuda 7200
DVD 16/40 Panasonic
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No boot, signal or else.
I thought was graphic card and i put an older ATI All in wonder pro pci .. nothing again..
I contact my dealer and he replaced my msi by an Asus P4S333 ;( until the new msi come and replace again ).
This problem was a msi defected board or maybe an anoying conflict?
Will be my new ATI radeon 9700 pro accepted by MSI 845E Max2 MS-6566E?
I really need help ?(
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Korgh
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Dual Video Cards with 845e max2

I cant seem to get dual video cards working with my new MSI 845e max2 board.
i have one AGP TNT2 64 this card works fine i have tried two PCI video cards.
i have also flashed the bios to the Latest release.
XP with SP1 finds the second video card but says device will not start, i have also tryed different PCI slots, still the same error.
I would love to get this working due to doing mostly a lot of Video Editing can some one please shed some light on this.
Many thanks
MAV

I have only setup dual Video on 845 Max but
use nvidia chipset on all cards PCI tnt2 m64s and any AGP that is nvidia
Use a new driver detonator 30+ and you may have to shuffle the PCI cards around if you have a'hardware conflict
Works under 9x, W2k and XP
Make sure all the cards are using the same driver version... you may have to manually udate each driver in some cases

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Hi,
Recently I installed a MSI Max2 Motherboard/P4 1.8Ghz with Maxtor 7200rpm ATA133 harddisk and Windows98.
The bootup to Windows98 is very slow. The Windows98 startup screen will stay for at least 30s before going to the desktop. What could be the reason?
Also how come the ratio settings on the bios is displayed as "Locked" and I could not change the ratio settings.
Pls help. Thanks.

Quote
Originally posted by Assaf
What are you doing with the NIC? (what is it connected to)
Your problem is probobly that you need to assign a manual IP to the NIC in order to prevent the IP being negoshiated each time.
control panel->network
find the component TCP/IP->intel Pro 10/100 (or whatever the NIC is showing up as).
Choose in the proporties to assign a manual IP such as 192.168.0.1 with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0 (for example).
Thanks! I did what you advise to add in a dummy IP address. It does improve the bootup time but still slower compare to my previous system. By the way it took 1min 15sec from bootup to Windows Desktop. Slow right?
Could it be the IDE cable, I mean is there such a cable call ATA133 or ATA133 uses the same standard IDE cable? :O

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Hello.
I'm running Windows 2000 Prof and Service Pack 3 on a MS-6398 Mobo. In W2k no Suspend options are available, neither standby nor suspend. If any devices will block this I might have the options but an error message like "system cannot go into standby / suspend because any device ...".
Does anyone knows a solution that might be work (except changing OS of course )?
Thanks.
Martin

Hello.
First, thanks for your response.
Hm, seems like any standard type.
ACPI-Uniprocessor-PC
Which type do you prefer for functioning and where is the decvice driver which I need?
Regards,
Martin

MSI 845E Max2-BLR raid controller...

I've got the upper named motherboard and a big problem with the onboard raid controller. I have 2 HDDs on raid 0. I can't install linux on it. The first thing I made, was that I mailed Promise. They told me, the fault is that on the boards is only a LITE Version. Is there a way, that I can flash it to a normal controller, or am I hopeless lost???
Cya mike

you mean on an ide each for raid 0,not the same ide
lite raid purley means its got less features than full blown version on seperate card,so their comment makes no sense
ask if its a linux thing here
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/

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