Impressed by MSI rs480

Decided to update my old Asrock skt 939 agp mobo with radeon 9550 graphics that I use to watch divx and downloaded tv series and films on my old 24inch widescreen panasonic television. Did a bit a bit of research and the only mobo that had onboard graphics with tv-out and a pci-e x16 slot was the ms rs480 motherboard. I read that a lot of people on this forum had had a few problems with memory, graphics and stability issues but I thought I would give the board a chance and if it played badly then it would be RMAed back to its online supplier.
My components were 2x 512mb pc3200 unbranded cas2.5 ram, Maxtor diamondmax 9 sata 80gig drive, old nec 1300A 4x dvd burner and a Jeantech 350watt 24pin atx with 34amps on dual 12v lines and my faithful old Winchester 3000+ A64 week 0445 and an igloo glacier tech cooler with a quiet 2k fan, installed bios for the motherboard is 3.3
Stuck all the above bits in cheapo case and this baby booted first time!! Booted win Xp pro sp1 disk and installed with no probs, installed service pack 2 again no probs. installed latest catalyst 5.6 drivers and mobo drivers from ATI website, everyting installed sweetly, installed 3.72 realtek drivers and I noticed a slight noise and crackle on the start of dvds and games. Uninstalled realtek and installed older 3.67 sound driver , check sound again, NO crackles at all. Played a few movies, music dvds, divx movies, not a stutter or problem at all. Have the UMA set to 128mb with async setting of 350mhz for the onboard video and all runs well. Played a couple of older 3d games including midnight run II and the 3d seems to be fine if a little slow. Have seen a 12pipe X800 with gdr3 ram for £124 that i might get in a month or so's time to play games with but for the moment the onboard graphics are ideal for the pcs main use.
I bought this board fearing that I may have problems but barring the slight crackle problem that I fixed with a driver rolback this board has been an absolute pleasure to set up. I think the Jeantech power supply has helped because it has the high dual 12v lines of 18amps and 16amps on 12v1 and 12v2. Cpu is running at about 34C, in the Asrock board it ran at 32C with the same 2 side 80mm fans blowing down onto the igloo. I have the dram setting as cas2.5 auto and it is memtest 86 stable and will happily bench prime95.
Have to say this is one very sweet mobo and makes a great small media pc to play movies and downloads.
Rob H

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Quote from: dannol48 on 06-May-05, 05:34:47
I do have a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse, but have them connected PS/2. I'll test them in USB when I get a chance. I usually avoid USB when PS/2 ports are present.....It just seems to avoid problems.
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I have seen mention (during google searches on the chipset) of a possible issue with ATI's USB having problems. ATI seems to have licensed alot of what's integrated on the SB400 from others, so I check who and what on the USB. Drivers are always a possibility. I do have XP-SP2 installed.
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MSI RS480M2-IL Periodic Audio Noise

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(2) Switch out the Power Supplies and test the audio
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Seagate SATA 120 GB HD
Samsung 16X DVD-RW (Latest Firmware)
Samsung Floppy Drive
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Liteon 104 Key Keyboard
Can anyone explain step 1, above.
Can anyone suggest any other test(s) to conduct to determine the cause of and solve my problem.
Thank you.

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Now that I've got your attention, specs:
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Symptoms:
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2) Motherboard RMA'd after purchase - simply refused to post.
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4) Video card RMA'd after massive heat spikes (upwards 120 C) detected. New video card arrived yesterday & have had one lockup since, which wasn't unusual with old setup. Problem still remains.
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Quote from: Tiresmoke on 28-July-05, 02:39:59
Well yes it could be the RAM. For what it is worth everyone I have seen with Kingmax RAM seems to be happy and so far as I know it works with all the cores. It is also not very expensive stuff. Hope that helps.
Kingmax, eh? I'll see if I can find any (I'm in Canada). Do you know how good their customer service is?
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Quote from: dannol48
FYI...you're not the first to report problems trying an nVidia gForce video card on this motherboard (ATI surroundview enabled Xpress 200 chipset).
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Bloody hell! Why didn't I check that? Well, I gotta think about this some more. Good grief. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

MSI 660Ti PE OC - New Drivers 314.07 - Crysis 3

Hi MSI,
Throwing this out there. You guys might be working on it.
Just wondering if you guys will bring out new msi drivers? The 306.97 are the most stable, but I would love to see a 314.07 since nvidia optimized Crysis 3 in the drivers. When I just install Nvidia 314.07 works fine in normal computing till I get black screens sometimes; Game crashes with no error message; Crysis 3 frame drops/stuttering/spikes and VLC has some tearing on sometimes. It is not a big deal, but would love stable version for my card.
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Sorry, but I know that is the case.
I was just under the impression that MSI creates there own version of the drivers to make it more stable towards the specified card.
Otherwise why recommend the MSI Nvidia drivers in the forums for people's problems.
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Recommendations or suggestions about the latest MSI mobos using AMD CPUs would be welcome. With all the new technology out there it is hard to know what works well, is reliable, and is extensible for any new hardware, especially faster CPUs, in the future.

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Has anyone noticed this with the 1.2C BIOS?

The temperature goes back to normal (dodgy high temps) after flashing the BIOS and cold booting the PC. But after that, if you just go into BIOS as you're booting your PC and then leave by saving to cmos and leaving, the temps are lower again.
Happens for me anyway, my NB temps are always at around 45C regardless of what I do though. I'd still like to know if this is normal.

I've gone so far as to replace the teensy NB heatsink, and put a much larger active one on. I did this after I saw its temp skyrocket to 57C , along with huge reliability probs. The trusty finger test verified that the cooler was really toasty.
When the old sink came off, thermal goop was only on about 1/3rd of the chip and all bunched in one corner. Frankly I wasn't impressed with MSI at this point. I put a modded Zalman passive cooler to make it fit around my vid card and to be able to mount a 40mm x 25mm fan on it's side. I have tons of airflow through my case with 4x80mm + 1x120mm + 3 PSU fans + Water cooling. With alkl that cooling and airflow I should be able to chill my beer in there while my compy hovers a foot off my desk!
I'm running 1.2 b12 bios, and temp still hangs around 45C even with the active cooler. My system is not OC'ed. Is this temp for real? I mean the chipset does not have a VPU, or a memory controller. This temp is at idle! It really should not be getting this hot. CPU stays around 29-32C.

K7N2G-ILSR: On-board video too unstable to use

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SILVER BULLET FOUND!!! (and it was free) BIG, BIG, BIG cigar to Bikeman for his above post, which focused my attention on the BIOS. Had considered it at the outset, but figured there was no way I was going to need to flash a brand spanking new board. But when you read the BIOS update notes, one of its fixes is with Kingston memory which is currently in the board. Recall from above, however, that Kingston was a fallback as board complained bitterly about the Corsair memory that I bought with the board. (My daugher's Dragon Lite is quite happy with either memory.)
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MOVED: [Athlon64] RS4280m2-il Overclocking?

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Modding Corner.
[Athlon64] RS4280m2-il Overclocking?

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Finally, upgrading from the MSI version of the RS480 to the ECS version was a cinch - the new ECS system recognised all the previous MSI settings and hardware and booted straight straight through to the OS. But now I;ve got 4 sticks of PC4200 ram I need to offload on Ebay....
I sure would like to know why the PC4200 ram couldn't handle the ECS board - it shoudl be useable up to 260Mhz.

A75MA-G55 Ineffective GPU clock

Checked out the IGPU clock tool in BIOS and saw "Ragne(I guess it's misspelled) 400MHz - 2000MHz"
I jiggled and put it into 2000MHz and booted, worked perfectly.
Now thinkin' I broke a world record in GPU overclocking I put it into a test.
Furmark done checking temperature and score. Exactly the same as stock frequency. That couldn't be true, it should be atleast 3 times the stock performance.
Later on 3dVantage Performance preset should be more honest, well exact same score as I get on stock. Made me think that the overclock feature is ineffective.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/259/2ghzgpu.png/ for picture
Anyone else tried the same and got same or different result=
System:
A8-3850 @ Stock
Kingston HyperX 1866MHz 2x4GB
2x WD Green 500GB in Raid 0
1x WD Black 500GB
Corsair TX650
CM 212+ CPU Cooler

Quote from: oldvikingschool on 30-October-11, 06:15:21
I tried A8-3850 on 150MHz BLK and play Dead Island, no problems(In fact it was smoother than ever!). League of Legends... everything went in slow-motion and speeds up randomly similar to a overly spec'd HD-TV. I think it's depending on game when overclocking a bit too much. (But damn 150MHz on 1.376v is pretty damn impressive, GJ MSI engineering team!)
Ya, it works fine for some games/apps(SC2 works great) but with BF3 it does weird stuff similar to what you are describing. If I put it at stock clock it runs bf3 fine.

Bios 3.9 any users? rs480m2

hey guys anyone tried this bios? is it any good? im still using bios 3.4 still works for me just curious if this has other benefits other than those pointed at the website... thanks

Quote from: mcszele on 12-April-06, 08:28:08
I tried 3.9 and had a problem booting because of a problem with 3.9 and NVIDIA raid. So if your running a raid array I'd make sure that you had a backup copy of 3.8 just in case.
Michael
I have a good question Michael. How are you running NVidia Raid on an MSI RS480 (ATI Chipset) motherboard?

Digi Vox crashes computer

Can anyone give me any pointers on this issue?
I have Digi Vox running on my computer, and while the software is pretty ordinary, I could live with it if only it didn't continually crash the computer. Without any warning whatsoever, the computer reboots. I know it's definitely the Digi Vox as it has never done it unless I'm running DVB-TV. It's extremely unpredictable - sometimes will do it several times in an hour, other times will not do it all evening. It's extremely frustrating, and all the Windows Error Report can tell me is it's "an unknown driver issue". I've tried shutting down every other program in the vicinity, but that makes no difference either.
I'm using the most recent driver, and my computer is more than ample going by the required specs. I've asked for online help from MSI, and the answer I got after two weeks (and a second note pointing out I'd like a reply to the first one) was install the latest driver, and check the specs of the computer, which was totally useless considering the above. I've replied that neither of those is the issue, but several days later have still heard nothing.
If anyone can help, I'll be your best friend forever :D.
Oh yeah...and another issue...according the manual you can record one channel while watching another. Can anyone tell me how the hell this can be done? I've tried starting recording and then changing the channel, but all that happens is a dialog box asking if I want to stop recording. If I hit "No", it stays on the same channel. Kinda defeats the object of the exercise. I've asked MSI about this too, and all I get is "Read the manual". This is after I've pointed out that there are no instructions, just the statement that it can be done (which, btw, is Q. 6 in the FAQs).
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Topenda

Hi Stu, thanks for the response.
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2.4Gh Athlon processor
Asus A7V400-MX SE motherboard (integrated sound and graphics)
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Windows XP Pro
Re recording/watching channels, the FAQ says: Can I view and record different channels simultaneously? Yes, but the channels must be from the same transponder.
I assumed the transponder meant the tuner. I've just realised it's not - as I discovered I can record/watch with ABC/ABC2, so transponder must be the transmitter of the program.
I must say I'm not overly impressed with MSI customer support. I still haven't had a response from my reply of 27/5.
If I can't find a solution for the crashing, I'm off shopping for another tuner. I need to record programs for work, so having the program reboot the computer in the middle of it just isn't good enough. Unfortunately I don't have access to another computer that I can try the Digi Vox on.
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BF3 w/ A75MA-G55 OCed

I have my llano(16-3650) clocked to 140+ bus clock with lab burse mode enabled, it runs everything great and passes all benchmark tests except for BF3. With lab burst mode enabled and base clock above 133, BF3 has weird problems(you dont run as fast and people warp all over in multiplayer. Once base clock is put under 133 it runs great again(yes i tested on the same server). Anyone else had this problem and have any suggestions/solutions? I hate to put it back to near stock speed but thats the only way it will run the game right currently.

Quote from: oldvikingschool on 30-October-11, 06:15:21
I tried A8-3850 on 150MHz BLK and play Dead Island, no problems(In fact it was smoother than ever!). League of Legends... everything went in slow-motion and speeds up randomly similar to a overly spec'd HD-TV. I think it's depending on game when overclocking a bit too much. (But damn 150MHz on 1.376v is pretty damn impressive, GJ MSI engineering team!)
Ya, it works fine for some games/apps(SC2 works great) but with BF3 it does weird stuff similar to what you are describing. If I put it at stock clock it runs bf3 fine.

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