Help, 655 Max

I recently upgraded my system to a P4 3.06 GHz, 1 gig pc 2700 DDR SDRAM. I use OS windows XP. All the components are different than my first computer. The only similarities was the brand of the motherboard. MSI...
The problem I have, my computer acts like it is out of memory. When it clearly says I have about 700 megs free. This used to happen with my old MSI P3 board. With all the people and time I have spent looking into it. I have no idea what could be causing this. It needs to be restarted every couple of days. Any ideas anyone? Please Help, thank you.
-Jon

Some thoughts...
If this SAME problem occured with a completely different system, it has to be software. What programs are you using that are the same with your P3 board? Are you running any programs not designed for XP? Anything unusual? You have a nice setup, and hopefully you'll be able to use it at its max soon.
I haven't seen an out-of-memory error for years! And the people that I know who have, it ends up being a bug in a piece of software that has a memory hole somewhere.

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Help with 655 Max and Possible Memory Problems...

Just recieved my 655 Max and have put my system together, but when I turn it on it makes a constant beeping sound. I tried taking out both memory sticks, lol, and turning it on and the sound stops, I tried putting in one memory stick and the sound starts again.
I suppose this is a memory problem.
by the way I am using Corssair 256mb CMX256a-3200C2 memory.

[The alarm that you are getting is the CPU Fan Alarm you will have to diable it in the Bios. I am using a Vantec Aeroflow heatsink and my CPU alarm also is constantly on and was very annoying till I disabled it. My system still doesn't boot to XP yet as I have RMA'd bothe the MB and Ram. QUOTE]Originally posted by TritonB7
Hey Kaiguy the comp does continue to make sounds till I shut the system off. And I'm not sure how a standard pc tone sound would sound like, :(. But it does make beep followed by a lower pitched beep, and it repeats this till I shutdown the system.
(1) I cannot Access Bios.
(2) I have two sticks of Corsair 256mb CMX256a-3200C2 memory. I do not have any other ram available that will be compatible with this motherboard. Ive tried using one stick at a time in each of the slots. No Luck.
I highly think that both sticks not working is very unreal.
(3) and reseting bios by the jumper isnt working either.
I can probably try buying some diffrent memory, or returning the whole mobo and exchanging it for the same one.
By the way on my monitor when i turn the comp on it says 8x Extreme or something close to it while the comp is beeping. I doubt that, that has anything to do with it. This is my first MSI board :( , I've always been an Asus person but Im still open for MSI i'm sure I just recieved a faulty board.
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655 MAX-FISR SATA RAID-0 ?

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I am running into a small problem while upgrading a high end workstation at work and wondered if anyone was having the same problem, or could provide some advice. Here are the main specs.
-MSI 655 MAX-FISR (MS-6730) (No HT)
-Antec 400W power supply
-Intel P4 2.66Ghz 400/533Mhz Bus
-Crucial (2 sticks) 512mb DDR PC2700
Aligned in DIMM 1+3 as recommended by MSI
-MSI 128MB 8XAGP DDR Ti4200-Td8X
-Seagate (2 SATA) Barracuda Serial 80GB
In Raid-0
Here is my problem, and small but painful so far. The floppy controller on the 655 does not appear to be working. It registers in the BIOS and is setup to be the first boot device. When XP installation starts it asks to press F6 if you need to add SCSI,RAID,etc software. I press F6, and about a minute later it asks for the floppy with drivers for the onboard promise SATA software. Floppy does not initialize. The power lite just stays on. I tried to other floppy drives and another cable which I know work. Still nothing. I need to load this driver otherwise the SATA drives can not be seen by XP. I even tried it a different way with Seagate DiscWizard, but the boot floppy does not work that way either. I am thinking that the floppy controller on the board is bad. All the hardware is setup / configured properly. BIOS is all set.
Very frustrating, I hope that I am just missing something small. I have a tech support email sent to MSI. Thanks in advance if you can help.
Arcteryx~

Andy2 / Wonkanoby,
I will try flipping the cable now and the bios. Only thing is that the cable and board both have the cable guide tab that normally prevents you from putting the cable on the wrong way. Unless I really forced it on without paying attention. I have to go to another office but thank you for your quick response. Hopefully it is that simple.
Whipsnade, yes I have tried two other floppys and one other cable with the same results. Hopefully I will have a postive post when I try Andy2 / Wonkanoby recommendations.
Thank you all for the quick response!

Problems with 655-MAX FISR

I have an MSI 655-MAX FISR motherboard and I installed a Radeon 9000 128mb Pro on it. I play counter-strike alot and on my old pc, like 2 or 3 months before I built this one it started to skip and I got this motherboard and it skips on counter-strike too. I play for like 10-15 seconds then I freeze for like 5-10 then I play for like 10-15 seconds again and so on. I have tried a Radeon 9700 Pro 128mb and it does the same thing and I have also tried different ram and it does the same thing. What could be causing this problem? Is it the fact that this motherboard only works with Geforce cards ? Plz help me! Thanks.
My Rig :
Pentium 4 2.41 GHZ with 533FSB
80 Gig Maxtor HD
550 Watt Power Supply
Radeon 9000 128mb Pro
512mb PC2100 266mhz - also tried 512mb PC2700 333mhz together and seperate
Kingwin K-11 Case

Did that already, when I uninstalled the drivers for 9000 and put in 9700 but it still did the same thing. What else could be the problem, I have tried alot of things and don't know what else to do. Help Plz :(

655 MAX - LS & Geforce 4 Ti4600

I was curious as to if anyone else is experencing any problems with the 655 max and the geforce ti 4600 with freezing, especially in battlefield 1942, and UT 2003, The game will lock, then either make me reboot or continue playing the game until another lock up occours that causes me to reboot. I have a fresh copy of XP with sp1, and all the newest drivers agp/ide/etc.. installed correctly I have tried pretty much all the older Nvidia Drivers as well as the 43.45 , Something I found interesting is that it ran both games fine with my brothers G3 , and my friends Radeon 8500 LE , but as soon as I install the drivers for the 4600 it locks up in the games. The card itself is fine it runs excellent on my pals system, same drivers, please please help all tech support could do is tell me to reinstall the agp driver, but that helped none ?(

Hi IceAce,
Can I have more details of your com specs cos it looks to me like you are facing a PSU problem (most likely) as you are running a FX 5600 card and a P4 board. Did you update your windows service packs?
You can also check on http://www.hardwarezone.com to one of their reviews on the FX drivers that is more suitable for your system.
All the Best... :D!!!

655 MAX-FISR SATA RAID PORT

(wonkanoby, can you use the force to help me on this one?)
Configuration:
MSI 655 Max FISR 6730 (non HT) MoBo
Antec True 400W
(2)Western Digital (10,000 rpm) Raptors
Intel P4 2.66ghz
MSI TI4800 8XAGP
Plextor 48/40/48 burner
MSI 52X CDROM
Problem:
The second SATA port is not working (ser2)
both drives have been tested and work fine. (ser1) shows the drives seperately in the array. (ser2) does not show either of the drives.
I have tried tons of different configurations, cleared CMOS, re-seated everything, disabled/re-enabled SATA in bios, still nothing.
???Does anyone have any ideas/tricks to get this (ser2) port working correctly so I can setup both harddrives???
Background:
I have already had to send back (MRA-NewEgg) this board one time because of a similar problem that I did not spend a lot of time troubleshooting. I know that a lot of people are having problems and that the SiS 655 sucks! :O This time I decided to troubleshoot and that it might be something small I was missing. No such luck. I do not feel like sending this back and losing another week of use on this workstation unless absolutely necessary. I do have this same board on a similar system with (2)SATA Seagate 7200 drives and it works great. I am really losing my respect for MSI though as I have never had a bad motherboard from other companies, and this is 2 in a row for MSI. I even tried this:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/index.php?threadid=18931&boardid=10&sid=2ffcacaf0448de534331ac97aaa46912
with no luck.
Advice:
If I can't get this working and return, I really do not want to get another 655 board. I have not read up yet on the (Canterwood 875P Chipset) boards from MSI. Has there been similar issues / problems with SATA Raid as the 655 has? Im thinking of just paying the restocking fee with NewEgg and going with an Intel Canterwood board. Sure, the overclocking is not as good as other manufacturers, but this is a work machine so it won't be OC anyway. I would rather go with stability. Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
Arcteryx-

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655 max 6730 crashing specialist comp

i have a 655 max msi 8xtreme 6730 version 1.0 mother board with a 2.4 northwood p4 512 ram i have tried the basic config with nothing more than the board and a video card ranging from radeon 7000 gefrce 4 and now geforce fx 5200 and othe hard ware like sound blaster live 5.1 various ether net or lan cards and various didgital cameras and nothing works on this hunk of useless worthless equipment the only reason why this thing exist is to bring out the inner anger from deep in my spirit from just crashing with no message to mem dumps X( ;( ?( :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O please e-mail me @ [email protected]

I have a MSI 655 MAX-L (BIOS= A6730SMS V3.0 02252003) and a
Club3D 9800Pro 128Mb VGA card (BK-ATI VER008.004.008.018)
I had the problem that when WinXP Pro SP1 was started, it
freezes or black screen (Monitor led burning orange instead
of green) and i have to reboot with reset button.
Also sometimes it went back into VGA mode and i had to reboot WinXP.
WinXP log file says:
Source: ati2mtag
Discription:
The driver ati2dvag for the display device DeviceVideo0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the
device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.
The solution for me is: Disable Fast Write is the BIOS and
in WinXP and put AGP to 4x instead of 8x in WinXP
Now i got 5723 points in 3DMark 2003 and no problems
You can find these options in WinXP: Display Properties ->
Settings -> Advanced -> SMARTGARD
I use: WinXP PRO SP1, Radion v3.04 drivers, SiS IDE v2.03, SiS AGP v1.16a,
Try this solution, maybe it will help
Greetz
thedude
ps: i still like to have a solution to put agp back to 8x and enable fast write

655-max Fisr

Hi,
I got some problems with my MSI 655-MAX FISR Motherboard. I play alot of Counter-Strike and when I play my comp freezes for about 5 seconds then I can move again for like 10-15 seconds then it freezes again for 5 seconds and so on. It does this over and over and frankly I don't know what the problem is. I have a Radeon 9000 128mb Pro and I tested a Radeon 9700 128mb Pro on it but it did the same thing. Could it be my memory or something???
My Rig Is As Follows:
Pentium 4 2.41Ghz
Maxtor 80 Gig HD
Xcase 550 Watt Power Supply
PC2100 266mhz 512DDR RamRadeon 9000 128mb Pro
2 Front fans, 1 Rear fan, 1 Side Panel fan, plus the CPU and VGA fans.
Someone please help me with this problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dont forget now, Counter Strike is a Very Graphics Intensive 3D Game, And I am in NO way Knocking your Graphics Card But Understand that the Radeon 9000 is NOT Really Built For High Performance Gaming Card. You should Save up for a Higher Performance "Gaming GPU", I mean I have seen the All Powerful ATI-9700-Pro Advertized for $200.00US Dont Forget this Card was Over $400.00 1 Year AGO, and it is Just a Hair Bit Slower than the 9800-XT....Second, I think that You have answered your Own Question as Far as your Current RAM is Concerned, I mean I see where your 655-MAX Even Supports Up to PC-3200 (DDR-400MHZ) RAM >>> http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=655_Max-FISR If you were to Get Even 512MB of some Either Corsair, or Kingston "Value Series" RAM, Your Bandwith would Increase by Leaps and Bounds .
Your Processor is Definitely Fast enough for Great Gaming, along with your MB. So if I were you, I would First Upgrade the RAM, and see where this Brings you, and you can Do this For about $100.00 Bucks. Then worry about updating Graphics Later, Especially if other than the Temporary "Lock-Ups" and resuming, You are Satisfied with the Overall Graphics Quality...............Sean REILLY875

655 MAX & Tyan G9700 Pro

Please Help, I have the following problem.
My 655 Max-FISR motherboard has a Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) chipset, Device Manager displays the following error message for my Tyan Tachyon G9700 Pro Video Card.
Code 10 - the device cannot start.
If you manually update the driver in Device Manager, the video card seems to be installed correctly. However, the video card reverts to the "code 10" status when you restart the computer. How can this problem be resolved?
The Following is a Copy of the Conflict/Sharing with regards to this problem. Is it a setting in the BIOS that I am Missing? Its probably something simple but I don't know what. Please Help.
System Information report written at: 06/04/03 19:49:33
[Conflicts/Sharing]
Resource Device
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF SiS Accelerated Graphics Port
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF RADEON 9700 PRO
IRQ 18 C-Media AC97 Audio Device
IRQ 18 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF SiS Accelerated Graphics Port
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF RADEON 9700 PRO
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB SiS Accelerated Graphics Port
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB RADEON 9700 PRO

i have the same board and the same system information report.
I have a ATI radeon 9700 and it keep locking up in games, or will lock up if I don't install the drivers exactly right (windows xp install's drivers first, then i install the updated drivers from ati, forget simply clicking the "install" button on the cd.
Ive heard that increaseing the voltage to 1.7 helps ome people, but i haven't tried it yet.

Cannot restart using 4 RAM Modules on 655 Max HT Ready (MS-6730)

When I use four 512MB RAM modules, my computer starts up and works fine. The only problem is, that I can't restart the it (D-LED boot-error: Memory Failure). To make it run again i have to turn it off and unplug the power cable.
When there are only two RAM modules installed (slot 1 & 3), everything works fine.
What settings do I need to make in the BIOS that it works with all 4 memory modules?
I got four identical and tested Kingmax DDR333 Ram 512MB (MPM33d-383, http://www.kingmax.com/product/pro_deskMPMC22D-38KX3.htm)
my pc-configuration:
655 Max-FISR (6730) v1.0
BIOS A6730SMS v 1.1
P4 2.67
Windows 2000 Pro SP3
4 x 512MB Kingmax DDR333 (MPMC22D-383)
MSI Ti4800SE-VTD
Thermaltake 420W; 3,3V/30A; 5V/40A
Ricoh DVD+RW
Seagate Barracuda ATA V 120GB S-ATA
thanks and cheers

buenas wonkanoby
thanks for your reply. finally i made it work: its this freaky kingmax-ram....
i exchanged two of the kingmax modules by veritech modules and everything works fine now. instead i got problems now with an MSI 648Max-L Board from which i took the veritech memory......
so if anyone else reads this:
[size=15]IF YOU GOT AN MSI 655 MAX OR 648 MAX AND YOU WANNA USE TWO OR MORE MEMORY MODULES GET VERITECH DDR333/512MB (OR WHATEVER) BUT DEFINITELY NOT CRAPPY KINGMAX DDR333/512MB!!! [/SIZE]
cheers and enjoy :D

655 Max-LS + Geforce FX 5600

I'm having problems with the MSI 655 MAX-LS motherboard and MSI 5600 FX Cards, tried both the 128mb and 256mb version. It works fine until a driver is installed, then I just get a blank screen when it boots into win. Doesn't matter which driver you use, tried so many versions, tried the latest AGP driver from SiS, there's no new bios for the Motherboard. If I put in a Geforce 4 MX 440 it works just fine ... got any ideas? I was about to look for a flash for the FX cards ...

Hi IceAce,
Can I have more details of your com specs cos it looks to me like you are facing a PSU problem (most likely) as you are running a FX 5600 card and a P4 board. Did you update your windows service packs?
You can also check on http://www.hardwarezone.com to one of their reviews on the FX drivers that is more suitable for your system.
All the Best... :D!!!

655 Max FISR SATA & Video Card Troubles

Hi all
I put together my 655 Max FISR (non HT) based system 3 weeks ago and have had nothing but problems (this is the third PC I've built and it's the only one to have caused major problems). Initially the memory and video card were problematic, stopping me from installing Windows XP, but having read some of the other threads the poor old 655 seems to have lots of problems with various components.
My motherboard hated the Crucial Technology PC3200 512Mb memory (CT6464Z40B) I put in DIMM 1 and the MSI 5600U VTD-128 video card. Anyway suffice to say I solved the problems easily enough. I swapped the memory and the video card over with that in my MSI 645e Max U (the video card was a Connect 3D Radeon 7500 for info). The 645 runs beautifully with no problems whatsoever, unlike the 655!
I've now upgraded the Radeon 7500 to a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT which works really well. So if you are having problems with a card based on an nVidia chipset (which Win XP keeps saying has drivers that don't pass the compatability test) I'd try the ATI cards.
My main problem now is with the two Western Digital SATA drives I've got setup in a RAID 0 array.
Firstly I'm getting poor disk transfer rates (I used the SiSoftware Sandra utility to benchmark the file system, and got a really poor 23Mb/s). As an example Windows XP loads up in 1 minute 8 seconds from power on, unlike the 645 with a 80Gb Maxtor DiamondMax 9 which does it in 45 seconds - I was getting Windows up in 32 seconds after initial installation of XP!!! Now I know I've got PC2100 memory in this machine, but it seems to have got slower since I did a driver and Windows XP update (hope this isn't anything to do with the I've downloaded).
The second problem is a bit more serious, one of my Raptor drives keeps dropping off line when I run either the error checking or defragmentation tools in Windows. The computer shuts down and re-boots only to tell me there's been a problem (a drive has failed or disconnected) before asking for a boot floppy. Fortunately, if I delete then redefine the array I get the system up and running again, but it is annoying! Problem is, with the 655's reputation, I don't know whether I have a motherboard, cable or drive problem. A limited trouble shoot by swapping over the drives has ascertained which one the system alleges to keep failing, but I'm now stuck, short of trying new cables, or buying a SATA RAID controller and sticking it in the 645 to see if it is one of the drives that's at fault.
So any ideas on the drive situation?
Best regards

Apologies for being away for a while, been busy with work & sorting out a pair of bad Raptors drives! Thanks for the replies from Hellwolf_36 and simps.
I can now report that after I'd worked out that I'd got not one but two damaged 74Gb WD Raptor drive (one had a lot of bad sectors and the other would take over two hours instead of 20 minutes to format which is why I was getting that stop message) and I had replaced the memory with one stick of the Kingston KV400X64C25/512 DDR, my 655 is now working quite well. I haven't got round to checking if I've got the latest C-media driver installed though.
One thing I did do though was set up my Raptor drives as two independant arrays (C: & D:) rather than RAIDing them. This is because, I didn't want to stripe the drives just in case of another failure, plus I have more flexibility over storage space not mirroring the drives, unti lI can afford to by another hard drive or two. Anyway they're really fast in the first place.
For this motherboard I wouldn't bother with any other type of memory other than the KV400X64C25 as recommended on the MSI website, as it's quite fast and no hassle, (can't wait to get my second 512Mb so I can go back to dual channel!!) Only problem is that the price has gone up a little bit over the past couple of months.
So apart from this MoBo being particular about graphics cards and memory it's not too bad. My next challenges are too sort out the center/sub problem and network this baby.

Msi 655 max fisr ht ready: does it have fsb800 support?

i own msi 655 max fisr mobo, that supports ddr333 and fsb 533 as msi says. but it can handle also ddr 400 through overclocking and the bios has an option for fsb selection up to 250 mhz. according to me, this meens that one can use a cpu at fsb 800 by overclocking the mobo from the bios, even if it doesn't support the microcode of the cpu. does anyone have tested this statement, as at the time it is onlu speculation by me, as it is too expensive for my to buy new cpu and try it.
moreover, my revision of the mobo is stepping b0, thus it supports ht cpus and if it proves to support fsb 800 by overclocking, then i can keep it for a while, upgrading my system only with new cpu. i'll be thankful if anyone can provide me with some information on this topick.

What I am trying to explain is the downclocking of a DDR 400 RAM 1st to 333 Mhz then try to o/c to get DDR 400 or above, not saying that you are wrong.
Any board can support o/c'ing but it is all up to whether the hardwares that you have and their capability to do so as no one can actually determined whether or not the hardwares that you have will definately let you ends up the way it's really meant to be as there's always important facts being left out so it's always trial and error...
I have 2 of these systems running on the same mobo, but the highest I can reached with DDR 400 RAMs are just near DDR 400 not exactly 400 MHz and FSB are at near 170 quad = 170 x 4 = 680FSB... from a FSB 533 CPU. Both have different results as 1 is with DDR 333 RAMs o/c'ed to 380MHz on 2.8 B CPU and another with DDR 400MHz down to 333MHz then o/c'ed up to near 400Mhz on 2.8B CPU also...

Expected release if MSI 655 Max?

hello,
when is the msi 655 max mobos suppose to hit stores. i cant find it anywhere so i take it its not out in stores yet...

soccrstar,
I have no idea when it is going to be released, but I am 100% positive you will not find it in the nVidia/AMD/SiS Socket A Motherboard Forum! :D
I moved your thread to the PIV forum, where it belongs.
Take Care,
Richard

MSI 655 MAX DDR Support

Does the 655 MAX support single channel DDR333?

aight cool, then in that case i just ordered this board from newegg!!!

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