K7N2 Delta - hope this is of some help

Question

M/B K7N2 Delta - ILSR
AMD XP 3200+
CORSAIR XMS 2 x 256mb DDR400
ATI 9600XT
2 x 200GB MAXTORS
450 w PSU
I've had several years experience in building my own PC's, and I suppose like everyone else I've learnt some expensive lessons.  At the moment I've got several PC's all with AMD's ranging from XP 2100 - 3200+
2 Abit m/b, 2 Asus m/b and the latest one, which is the MSI Delta
This is the first time I've tried an MSI m/b and I have to say I've never known a board as twitchy as this when it comes to setting the FSB and DRAM timings.
When I first setup a m/board I don't, as a rule, adjust anything in the BIOS just to see how things bootup.  For the test I also attach a spare hard drive with a basic windows XP setup and very little else.  This helps me to observe how windows responds to the new motherboard - if there are any compatibility problems at this stage then windows will soon tell you in no uncertain terms with the dreaded blue screen messages.  And believe you me I've had plenty of them with this motherboard.
Not only have the blue screens appeared but I've lost count of the number of times this system has either crashed out on me or reset itself for no apparent reason.
Right then, my first port of call was the BIOS........hmmm, everything looked fine the system was on auto, the CPU FSB Clock showed 200Mhz and the DRAM clock also showed 200.  I switched the memory timings to manual because I wanted to change the CAS latency to 2.5, which I knew was the correct setting for the CORSAIR memory with an AMD cpu.
Next stop was to check all the cacheable stuff just in case the AwardBIOS was making too many assumptions which it sometimes does.
Tweaked a few other settings, but nothing that would have a drastic effect.
All this of course was to no avail, as the same problems kept happening.
Next step was to check for any BIOS update, and yes, as look would have it, MSI had brought out version 7.7, which I installed immediately.
During the process of updating the BIOS I noticed a message appeared saying, updating  DDR timings (interesting I thought, had MSI realised they had a problem).
Again all this was to no avail of course.  So I decided to tweak the CPU FSB Clock speed and started increasing it one step at a time, which only made matters worse and eventually I had to reset everything with the jumpers on the m/b.  So I turned to decreasing the speed and after some trial & error I finally got the system stable at 192Mhz. Of course this also effects the speed of the DRAM clock which now runs at 382.  Not quite what I expected but I suppose I should be happy that my system is still running.  
Let's hope MSI continue to release BIOS updates which may evetually improve their timings !!
My condolences to all who suffer with MSI blues
Truly yours
Webfan

Answer 1

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=48583&sid=
try his bios works fine at 10x 200 for me
and evan faster for many with xp 2500
your ram should be fine at 11,3,3 cas2 2.6v