MEGA 180 - Video Card Added

I've tried adding a Radeon 8500 video card to a Mega 180 system and when I add it, the system doesn't even POST, nothing. I know the card works.
If you have successfuly installed a video card into a Mega 180 please let me know exactly what you did. The manual seems to state that you simply install it and, of course, plug the monitor into the card. But no dice with this Mega 180. There is no place in BIOS to disable the onboard video either.
Help!!!

Actually, not for me. For a customer who requested this barebones speciifically. You're correct, the machine has been a NIGHTMARE. In fact, I had to RMA the first box I had. I built it, installed the software and proceeded to let it run for a few days before I delivered it. Well, the USB bus just up and died during this burn in period. It totally disapeared from Device Manager and no voltage was present at any of the USB ports.
It cost me $35 to send it back to MSI and it took 6 weeks for me to get a new box from them. Now this box has fried a few sticks of RAM on me and I'm having this $*&% driver issue and the system locks up and won't boot if I install a video card.
UPDATE: Today I tried a brand new Radeon 9600, no dice. Even after I blasted the AGP slot with compressed air. The machine won't even POST. I'm starting to think that the driver issue and the machine's inability to accept a video card are the same problem - the motherboard's video subsystem may have failed.
I build computers for a business and I've built a few hundred machines over the years. Generally, I only use Asus boards, AMD CPUs (love the A7N8X-E Deluxe, Geil RAM, and I prefer Radeon based graphics cards but I will use an nVidia card if need be). If I'm building an ultra cheap box for someone, I'll load the free OS, Knoppix, on it.

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Mega 180 TV Card---the straight scoop...

There seems to be a lot of confusion as to what TV card and what TV card drivers work well in the Mega 180.
After a whole bunch of trial and error----here's what seems to be the scoop. the dope, the real deal----to the best of my knowledge.....
---there is a mixup with TV Tuner Cards----two versions of the 8606 card
8606-10---Regular card----with an FM tuner---not really made for the MEGA----and....
8606-40 MEGA TV card----without the tuner (cuz your Mega already has one) and made especially for the MEGA
Further confusion:
If you have a Mega 180------ONLY use the TV Tuner drivers on the Mega 180 Install disk----NOT the regular drivers that are included with the MEGA TV card as this card will also work on the older Mega 651's and those drivers are basically for it.
In other words---DON'T use the Win Cinema Install disk that comes with the Mega TV Card if you have the Mega 180...
AND---guess what----those TV card drivers on the Mega 180 install disk only become visible in the main install menu when you have the card installed----they don't automatically appear so you know you need to use THOSE drivers vice the ones included with the card.
AND---the drivers only seem to work in conjunction with Media Center III!
It would be nice if MSI put out a little help sheet with some of this info....
Help----and a good manual-----what a concept......
John

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Originally posted by Blmcg
Make sure nothing else is running in the background while you do this, and ensure you have ALL the updates for your mega machine eg: Chipset etc. and try again.
I terminated everything I could via task manager and Media Center III still crashed. I'm pretty sure I have all available updates.
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Originally posted by Stu Online
what drive is your system installed to?
if windows has been installed to the F: drive (with card readers taking C: and D:) then intervideo software will not work correctly
It's installed to C: with the card readers on E: and F: Also, not only is the intervideo software not working but also Media Center III. If I can get Media Center III stable I'd be satisfied.
I've also tried removing the Radeon 9200SE but that didn't resolve the problem. Next I suppose I'll try some other capture/viewing software to see if it runs stable. Thanks for the help so far.

MSI MEGA 180 Deluxe - Card Reader

Does anyone have any advice on getting the card reader to work?
It was working untill I installed all the software from the install disk. Then I rebooted and it had stopped working.
I have since done a complete fresh install, but still have the same problem.
Not really conversant with BIOS settings, so don't know what they should be.
Have installed all updates for the Mega 180 from MSI website, and also have ALL updates from microsoft. (All 110MB !!!!! Thanks god for broadband!!)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Go to bios, and check in Itegrated Pripherals->Onboard Devices->OnChip USB.
This must be enabled. I have there V1.1+V2.0, and cardreader is working.
I was disabled this, when i installed WinXP, because cardreader start from drive C: and my HDD was like drive F:. So I disabled it, installed WinXP, and then enabled OnChip USB. Now i have A: (virtual drive) C: (Hard Drive) E: (DVD/CD-RW) F: and G: (CardReader).
Best Regards from Czech

MEGA 180 Wireless Card Cannot Run - No Resources

Well, I FINALLY got the MEGA 180 to recognize the built-in wireless card, but the card will not run becuase the system is telling me that there are no available resources for the card... huh?
Does anyone know what this means and how I can get my built-in wireless working? I currently have an external USB wireless adapter working, but I'd really like to remove it and try the built-in one.
Thanks,
Matt

Nice little update to report.
When I had my MEGA 180 open to lap the heatsink and reapply the Arctic Silver, I decided to check the Mini-PCI card to make sure everything was ok. Sure enough, it was not fully seated in the socket. This would explain why my wireless card would never work.
I pushed it in firmly, and when the system started back up, voila! I had built-in wireless.
Horrible quality control out of MSI to let a system go from the factory like this, but I'm glad it was something small.

Mega 180 Deluxe Card Reader

o_0Hi
I've a problem with my card reader, I can only use the CF Reader, the other one is bad. I've 2 drives E/F. When i installed XP, I enabled USB in the BIOS, was it right to do that?
Do you have any problem's with your's card reader's?
PS: The cards are OK....

no problems with memory stick card.i also have to new drives-it has to be like that
no special drivers needed (win xp included).optimized for "ejection" (not performance).
Maybe it's a technic problem .check all connections.
p.s. memory stick card has to be quite deep into the reader

Mega 180 - Install Video Card or Install Video Driver

I just spent 6 hours at a customer's house trying to fix the Mega 180 I built for her.
As I stated in a previous thread, the machine was working fine and then she experienced the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH. This is when your machine POSTS, loads Windows and just before Windows starts, the monitor goes dead. Windows still loads and if you remember where icons are on the desktop, you can click them and stuff happens. The monitor just stops getting a signal. However, if you hold down F8 during boot and chose VGA mode, you can use Windows in VGA mode. The monitor being used is a Sony Multiscan200ES.
Once in Windows, if you look under device manager, you'll see a listing of Unknown and under that it lists nVidia GeForce4 MX Integrated CPU.
So, I've tried the following fixes:
1) Uninstalled all chipset & viideo drivers, reboot, reinstall chipset drivers, reboot, reinstall video driver, reboot. BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH.
2) Uninstall video driver, reboot. Windows starts under the generic driver. I install the video driver, reboot, BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH.
3) Figuring there had to be an easier solution to this problem, I installed an ATI Radeon 8500 card that I had laying around (I know this card works) figuring that I'll just sidestep the whole video driver issue by not using the onboard video. Things just aren't that easy because after I installed the card the machine won't even POST. It turns on but nothing happens. ARRRR!!! I try reseating the card, nope - nothing. I take the card out and use the onboard graphics to make sure everything is ok in BIOS. I read that if the BIOS detects an AGP card it will automatically disable the onboard graphics but it doesn't seem like that's happening. So I look around BIOS and there is no way to disable the onboard graphics. I have it set to boot AGP first, etc. and nothing works.
I guess the last thing I can do is reformat the drive, reinstall windows, and reinstall everything else. But I don't want to do this because the machine is all set up, been used for a while, and it takes so long to reinstall everything.
My question is this. How can I either reinstall the video driver so it works or how can I install a video card so it works? Ideas???

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I'm going to hunt over at nVidia's website to see if they have a cleaner utility (ATI does for its Radeon drivers - rids the system of every last trace).
nVidia don't need a cleaner utility cos their software is better written!
stab in the dark - the vga lead is connected to PRIMARY vga port?
go to add/remove programs and Remove "Nvidia Display Driver" in Safe mode
restart your computer and it should boot into VGA mode, and prompt with Found New Hardware. cancel this.
the nvidia software will leave the install stuff on your computer, usually in C:\NVIDIA. browse to here and find and run the setup.exe to reinstall the software.
if its been working before, then its probably not a memory issue - it might also be worth making sure the latest nforce drivers (3.13) are installed too.
oh and customers usually WON'T admit to messing around to stuff they shouldn't - in my experience anyway!!

Mega 180/Media Player/Graphic Card/TV-Out

Hi,
after very long research I decided to use Mega 180 as a dedicated PC for media center purpose and to connect it directly to my TV (Siemens 100 Hz real flat 16:9) and to upgrade my second PC and to connect the two PCs wirelesly and to use Media Portal software.
And then I have started to read related posts and forums. But this time I learned that there are new issues I have to deal with.
1. TV-out: The TV-Out of Mega 180 is not good enough on a TV. My question is do I have to buy another powerful graphic card? I need recommendation. My TV has composite and scart inputs.
2. Media Portal: This software has lack of some features. If I use MCE 2005, will it be better?
3. If I use a video converter, will it help me to find better picture on my TV?
Yes bodies, unfortunately there is no way to find the best solution. And I am at the final stage. If this solution does not run, I will give up. I need your recommendations.

This is copied from another reply I made today. The Mega 180 can drive a TV just fine. But you need to spend alot of time making it work.
How you hook up to your TV depends on your available TV connections and your quality standard. The Mega 180 does have an SVideo output. I don't use this however. I have a VGA input port on my 42 inch plasma monitor. It accepts VGA 640 X 480, 800 x 600, or 1024 X 768 standard computer resolutions. It also accepts 480P or 1080i TV inputs using the VGA port. Many quality TV monitors have a DVI port or component video. These would require some sort of physical adapter to attach to a Mega PC.
So I actually run in 1080i mode most of the time. This makes DVD's and HDTV look really nice. When using the XP computer screen I keep it in 1080i mode but map this to 960 X 540 resolution using PowerStrip. This way I can read the text on the display without it being distorted. However this is pretty low resolution for most web browsers and email programs. So it is kind of cramped... When playing computer games I switch to 1024 X 768 computer mode. The good thing is the on board Nvidia MX440 graphics work just fine to generate all these modes. So I do not have a card in the AGP slot.

Choppy Video on MEGA 180

Hi all,
I'm suffering from choppy video playback on my MEGA 180. By choopy I mean every ten seconds or so it will freeze up for a split second, the audio stays in sync, but you can slightly tell that the video stops, or skips.
This happens when watching .avi, DivX or even commercial DVD's. It also happens on my screen saver.
Since I was using the onboard video I thought I'd try using a video card but the same thing.
What I can't figure out is what the onboard video and a seperate video card have in common, since it's happening to both.
My onboard video has the latest drivers, and the PC as a whole is up to date.
Any suggestions are greatly needed.
Thanks.

can you give more information on the hardware you have installed in your Mega 180?
and can you give more background information; ie how long have you had this system, has it ever worked correctly, did the problem start after you installed any particular software, etc etc...

Mega 180-----Media Center III and a Vid Card----Working???

I'm trying to narrow down what is causing Media Center III to crash intermittently on my Mega 180.
I think I have it narrowed down to the SoundStorm drivers conflicting with Media Center III
But I want to eliminate that it is a problem with the 18G "Crush" onboard video chipset. I am using the onboard only.
Anybody have a vid card in their AGP slot of the Mega 180 and use Media Center III??
Are you still getting crashes in Media Center III??
John

Finally I give up using the Media Center. I'm using now Girder with Nathans great plug in (see MSI Mega series girder plugin version 1.0 available ). The only disadvantage is that the fancy leds are not working.
Regards
Patrik

Advice needed for buying an AGP card for MEGA 180

Since 1 year I have a MEGA 180 with a SEMPRON 2500 processor, 512 MB DDR RAM, Lite-On DVD-R/W, Hauppauge PVR-150 running MediaPortal 2.0.0.0.-RC4 and it rocks!
I am not so happy though about the TV-output of the integrated GF4MX that came with the nForce2 chipset. I would like to disable this and insert a low profile, passive cooled nVidia-6200 with 128 MB-DDR. I am a bit worried about the power requirements of the card and the juice that the power supply (200W ) can deliver. Is it safe to use this card or should I adjust my demands? I am using the system for media purposes only, e.g. recording and watching recorded TV, watching movies and playing music. MediaPortal requires a DirectX-9 compliant card, DirectX-8 also works but with video artefacts. Gaming is no requirement.
Can anyone please advice what to do ???
Thanks in advance, Leo

Quote from: johnsaunders18 on 21-December-06, 06:08:32
get a nvidea 6200 they are fine, on a mega, i have built 3 machines based on teh mega 651 and they are all fine
hope this helps
john
Now that's what I call a quick answer
Thanks, John.

Mega 180 no post/video

o_0I've looked over the forum and I haven't found anything that could help (but if you know of a thread that has pertinent info then do tell). Anyway I've been working on my Mega 180 on and off for about a month and I still can't get it to post. I think all of my jumpers are correct and I've tried to dismantle component by component, but no avail (the only thing I got was some beep codes when I took out the ram).
I can tell you that the HD seems to grind a bit, the lights to the keyboard flicker on, and the fans spin when I power up (but no video...nuttin'). I even bought another processor just to make sure it wasn't that.
Could just be a general problem but I was just wondering if there was a persistent issue with the Mega 180s that could prevent it from booting.
I've built a few computers and I figured all those out, but this one is bothering me. Thanks for any help.
By the the way I got:
Athlon 3000+
2x256mb Generic DDR2700
80mb Generic IDE HD
Memorex CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
Thanks for any help.

Anyone ever get one of these mega 180's to post/work with only a single stick of ram? Or, am I going to find myself going to buy a second stick tomorrow? I might be able to get my hands on a second stick tonight, who knows though.
I'm having the same situation described above. The monitor I am using indeed works, as it is on a KVM. I have tried both VGA ports on the unit, to no avail. I have also tried both PCI and AGP graphic cards, and still no avail. The only beep is when I remove the RAM. *sigh*
cpu: amd barton 2500ish..
ram: 1x corsair 256mb pc2700
hdd: 120gb wd
cd: p.o.s. that is sittin plugged because it died on me when trying to troubleshoot this thing.
cpu and ram were just taken from a working PC that I decided to scrap, as I wasn't using it.
I'm too tired to keep playing with this tonight. So far, I feel I just bought a $300 radio that isnt worth $300.
...just tried another stick of ram, a generic 256mb.. it's a pc3200, but it was just laying there, asking to be tried. still, no go.
ok then guys. just ignore me. i decided to take the whole darned thing apart, to see the board in it's entirety, thinking maybe something was out of place or something...
i get it stripped, and to my disappointment, nothing. a rather bare board. so, i mount it all back as I think it should go. for giggles, i decide to boot it up (original equipment, mind you...only now, alchohol is in my system.) and, i suddenly get post. o_O
lets hope it statys that way. :D

Mega 180 VGA Video Out Of Range

Hello all.
I recently received a Mega 180 (used, but not too used). It had an ATI AGP card in it that I pulled out. I then installed Win XP Pro (SP2 and other up to date MS stuff).
It was working fine for a few days ... I have a KVM switch and plugs attached to it, with the VGA cable into the primary VGA slot. Now I can't get any video output. My LCDs (attached to the KVM, and directly to the Mega180) say that "video out of range". I've connected a CRT to it but it's not getting a video signal after the MS XP Pro initial screen.
I've gone into the BIOS and reset it to the "optimal defaults" but no luck there either.
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
ESlater

Bass: Are you sure it's the F6 key that allows one to reset to VGA mode? I've gone into CMOS and turned off Quick Boot, but still, everytime I press F6 I just get the Windows options for Safe Mode boot.
I did go into Safe Mode and set my resolution to 800x600 but that still didn't help.
I guess I can always go ahead and re-install the ATI AGP but I was thinking this unit should work with the standard VGA plug. What is weird is that Windows was running fine, and I wasn't really using the machine at all when the video mode got "reset" (or something).
I guess I'll boot into Safe Mode and remove all video drivers and see how that goes?
Otro: I thought that by hooking up the CRT I'd be able to capture all video modes (certainly more than w/the LCD). What's happening is that the CRT is turning "off" once Windows moves beyond the initial screen (presumably to the User Account Login Screen), as if the Mega 180 isn't even sending a signal down the VGA connection.

Mega 180 and ATI All in Wonder Cards

My Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo fried on me last night and now I'm looking to use the parts I have in another PC. I have an All in Wonder Ati Radeon 9600 Pro video card that I would use as a TV tuner. Paring this with a AMD Athlon XP 2100 CPU, 512 Kingson PC2700 RAM, 30 gig/250 gig WD HDDs, Sony DVD Burner, would I be asking for problems?

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how can you tell?
look on the sticker, it will say either "Kingston ValueRAM", or the part number begins 'KVR...'
as far as i know, the only way to disable dual channel is to use one stick of RAM, as Mega 180 only has two slots

Mega 180 and Graphics Cards

Hi i just ordered an mega 180 im just wondering on the best graphics card i can put into this and also if i do will i lose my pci slot to put in the tv tunning card?

Quote from: Nulll on 06-June-05, 21:21:30
Well i have.
I have the 9800 pro and the msi has NOT ENOUGH POWER. Sometimes the screen stays black but everything else loads great (you can hear windows tune). Turning the msi off and on untill you see the bootscreen works. Sometimes i have to boot 5 time in order to get a picture. I think the power core must be replaced for a more powerfull one. Don't know which one is best for this (suggestions welcome)
Sec; The card blocks the airflow, boosting the temp in the msi.
I really regret buying this msi 180, it just can't take the heat and high end video cards :(
It's wrong, sorry but the famous black screen at the windows load has nothing to see with the power. Check the forum and let's have a look at the anakin(?) thread. I got a 6800@GT, no power problem, and I used to have the black screen when I didn't have any additional graphic card. For the temp you'll have some modding but eveything's OK (my temp are max with dm3 or hl2 Proc: 60° Sys: 42° GC°: 65°).
Keep trying, mega is cool.

Which TV-tuner card for MEGA 180

Hello,
Just wondering which is the best tv-tuner card for the MEGA 180 which still enables the use of the original remote control.
I know the MS-8606-040 provides this but seems rather basic, the other model (MS-8606-010, TV@anywhere card) comes with its own remote control but can you use the one provided with the 180?
Any other makes which do the job?
Thanks
J_Jordan4302
AMD Athlon XP2800+
80GB Harddisk
512MB RAM
MSI Combi DVD/CD-RW drive
WIndows XP Home + Media Centre Delux III
On-board nForce graphics and audio drivers

The reason for this is the Microsoft requirement that any recording does not use more than 50% of the CPU processing time, hence I think you will find that all have a hardware MPEG2 encoder built in (that's why they are mostly the PVR versions).
I believe that the following are the officially supported MCE 2005 cards:
Adaptec    AVC-3610
ATI   ATI HDTV Wonder PCI
AVerMedia    M150
AVerMedia    A169
AVerMedia    AVerMedia E502 (CardBus, NTSC, PAL)
AVerMedia    AVerMedia M113 (PCI, NTSC, PAL, SECAM)
AVerMedia    AVerMedia M17S (Low Profile, 3D Comb, GR, NTSC)
AVerMedia    AVerMedia M183
AVerMedia    AVerMedia UltraTV 1500 MCE
Hauppauge   WinTV-PVR-150 MCE
Hauppauge   Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE
Hauppauge   Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE l.p.
Hauppauge   Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE
Hauppauge   Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE
Hauppauge   Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG TV Encoder
nVidia   NVTV P179 PAL and NTSC
nVidia   NVIDIA NVTV 200
Pixela   PIX-CTV200PW
Prolink   PV-M2TV307PL+
YUAN    MPC622 Mini PCI Video Capture Card (Falcon II)
YUAN    PCI Video Capture Card (Falcon II)
YUAN    YUAN PG600 PCI Video Capture Card (Falcon II)

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