Hard disk problems with Far7 ?

Hello Everyone, I am new to this board, and this is my first post.
I purchased a FAR7 board about a month ago, and slowly came to realize I could not get Windows XP Pro to install.
The problem appeared to be with the IDE Controller. In the BIOS, it would not autodetect correctly and the install would always freeze at the point where windows would be started and it needed to communicate with the drive in 32bit mode.
Not to mention needing to clear the CMOS constantly, reset, reboot, etc.
Below is the letter that I submitted when I RMA'd this board, I hope this might help if anyone else is having a similar problem, or perhaps others have fought this battle and succeeded where I have not.
Just wanted to add that I appreciate that MSI has this support board, they do have a good service record as far as I am concerned, which is a very important consideration when choosing hardware.
I have bought many MSI graphics cards, motherboards and add in cards exclusively for the past several years and have never had a single issue with any of them and have been totally satisfied with all of them.
Any comments, thoughts, suggestions are appreciated !!
2x 242 Opterons
Antec TruePower 2.0 550 EPS power (dual 12V rails 19A each).
Kingston PC2700 ECC KVR333S4R25/512 2.5 REG (QVL Cert by MSI for this board)
BIOS 1.12
Main problem:
IDE Hard Disk Channel not working correctly in 32bit mode.
Cannot install Windows XP Professional
Cannot install Windows XP Professional with SP2 slipstreamed
Setup was a Single Master disk on IDE Primary
Cable Select on Hard Disk and 80 line cable supplied with the motherboard.
I am able to see the hard disk in 16 bit DOS, only if I select
[IDE Primary Master]->[Access Mode]->[LBA] (no matter which drive I tried)
I am not able to edit Capacity, Cylinder, Head, Precomp, Landing Zone or Sector
These are automatically filled in when an Access Mode is seleted
(like LBA, CHS, Large or Auto).
This contradicts the manual on pages 3-6 and 3-7 which
says these parameters can be edited.
In the case of the Western Digital 1200JB drive, selecting
[Access Mode]->LBA did appear to select the correct
Capacity, Cylinders, Heads but the same problem occurred with all
drives tried.
Otherwise, I am not able to access the disk drives.
Booting directly from Windows XP pro CD, installation is able to proceed
until the point where Windows is started and installation tries to do anything
related to accessing the hard disk. System freezes.
I tried installing Windows XP pro via DOS,
Booted from DOS floppy, format 2 GB C: partition
run winnt.exe from <CDROM>/i386
Copies files to the hard disk, starts windows and freezes
at same place as above when installing off of
installation CD of Windows XP Pro.
Secondary problems:
Constant freezing during power up on Memory test
Several reboots needed to produce successful post
Things I have tried:
New power supply -> Antec EPS TruePower 550 watt supply.
Specs here -> http://www.antec.com/specs/TPII550_EPS12V_spe.html
Changed RAM to MSI QVL certified 512 MB PC2700 ECC stick
New (KVR333S4R25/512)
Tried several hard drives.
New Western Digital WD160JB
New Seagate 120GB EIDE 7200.9
New Seagate 120GB EIDE 7200.9
Older Western Digital EIDE 1200JB
Older Maxtor 20 GB EIDE
Upgraded BIOS,
the board came with 1.0,
I upgraded to 1.12 from MSI web site
Various BIOS settings
Clear CMOS, power off,
Load Fail Safe defaults
Load Optimized defaults
I have spent many hours and considerable expense,
trying to make this motherboard work.
I have made many attempts to install Windows XP Professional.
and tried many variations of the BIOS settings but no success.
Please help, it cannot be this hard to setup a motherboard.
I registered the motherboard at the MSI web site immediately upon purchase
Thank you!

I used the 80 wire cable that came with the board and ran the WD's jumperless (cable select) with the drive at one end and the blue connector on the MB. I also tried a 40 wire cable with the drive set to master. Both of these scenarios worked fine on my other computer, which I switched back and forth several times to prove to myself that the drives were fine and the cables were ok.
I did run spinrite from dos and was always able to work with the drives as long as I selected LBA access and disabled [Integrated Peripherals]->[VIA OnChip IDE Device]->[IDE DMA Transfer Access].
The MB never autodetected any of the drives correctly. Only when I used the the older WD 1200JB with access mode set to [LBA] and disabled IDE DMA Transfer Access did i get partial success. Admittedly, this is a very obscure problem and not many others are hitting. Hopefully the service guys will be able to sort it out since it is easy to reproduce.
I never used that JPWR2 connector, the manual stated that it was to supply power to the graphics card but my card has a regular 4 pin molex that i could get directly from the power supply. Wonder if the board would blow up if someone stuck the 4pin lead from their PSU in there ... maybe not such a great feature.
I did not try a single CPU or run memtest86 - things I probably should have tried. The problem to me seemed to be the integrated IDE controller was just not working correctly, so after changing ram, power supply, drives etc and seeing the exact same problem with the hard disk, I became more convinced it was just a flakey board. Plus the need to clear CMOS and reboot constantly to get the board to post added to theory.
Oh well, it is in RMA land now, so when it comes back I will let you know how it goes.

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