MSI 875P instabilities with 9800 AIW

Currently I am experiencing random lockups in Windows and within 1-2 min in 3D games complete lockup. I've tried setting colours to 16bit depth, using older Cat drivers, removing all hardware except videocard, disabling fast writes, forcing AGP 4x mode and changing powersupplies. Still no go. Only thing I have done was flashing the original bios with the beta bios. System is abeit more stable than with original bios.
Heres my current specs
MSI 875P-LIS2R mainboard with 1.93 beta bios
P4 2.4C 800FSB stock speed
2x 512MB DDR400 Infinieon
ATI 9800 AIW CAT 3.7 drivers
SB Audigy with latest base drivers, no creative software installed.
WD 36G Raptor SATA on SATA1 plug
Plextor Premium CDRW 1.04 firmware,Master on secondary
Pioneer 16X DVD, Slave on Secondary
Bios at default settings
Intel Chipset drivers 5.0.2.1003
Windows XP Pro SP1 with all updates

Ok heres the thread http://www.msi.com.tw/program/service/forum/index.php?threadid=29842&sid=
and heres the fix if you cant find the patch.
The server to download that patch isnt responding.
Its only a registry value to change, here is how you do it:
Open regedit ("Start button/Run" type regedit hit OK)
Open the registry tree left pane to (doubleclick on the folders or the "+"):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlS etControlCreative TechEmu10kxDriverSettingsWavePin#00000002
Now in the right pane there is a value named "Turbo". Doubleclick on that and change the data field in the dialog that opens to 0 (zero) and hit OK.
Thats it.
Regards
Duke

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Hi!
I was just wondering if anyone tried MSI 875P mobo with a PSU without -5V connection?
Does it work?
Thank you for answers,
Xp-ert

I was asking because in the manual the corresponding pin is marked -5V not N.C. as in manual of my newer MSI board!
I've read some other threads on other forums and found out that everyone who tried that burned either the PSU or the mobo.
So i wonder if the pin is just marked in the manual and then unused or not.

Problem with S-ATA optical drive(MSI 875P Neo)

Ahoy MSIers,
I am in a most dire situation, and before I go to spend money on some computer-tech guy to solve my problem, I thought maybe you could help me.
*My PC specs:
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood C 2800Mhz
MSI 875P Neo
A-DATA 512Mb RAM DDR 400 * 2(1024)
PowerColor Radeon 9800Pro
Western Digital Hard Drive 80Gb 8Mb buffer P-ATA
Pioneer DVR-212D S-ATA (The main issue here)
Bios - AMIBIOS - VERSION 3.31a
Windows XP Pro - SP2
Until 2 days ago I owned an MSI CD(P-ATA) burner which was virtually dead.
2 days ago, It died completely, So I decided that I will not just replace a CD burner for a CD burner... no! I will buy myself a new shiny DVD burner!
So I bought myself a Pioneer DVR-212D(S-ATA) and I went on with installing it.
I plugged the Serial Power Cable from the PSU to the drive, and connected the drive and the S-ATA port on my M-Board with a serial-ata cable.
I booted up, and found that the device was nowhere to be found although power is being transferred to it(the drive opens and closes when pressing it's eject button).
I searched the net and found that I was supposed to "enable" S-ATA in my BIOS.
Tried that, yet every setting I tried besides the default setting gives makes the computer freeze for a few minutes at the MSI logo and then a "friendly" error massage appears, usually it's something like
"4th master drive ATAPI incompatible" ( the number changes, I haven't got a clue why).
Searched the net a bit more and found almost nothing... most s-ata "problems" were about booting from a s-ata hard drive....
I am getting desperate, So in order to maximize the chances of me getting help solving this issue, I took a few pictures of the BIOS and the inside of my case... maybe it will help, I dunno.
Here are some pics:
The S-ATA cable connected to the Mother-Board
Back of the DVD burner with the S-ATA cable attached
BIOS - standard CMOS features
BIOS - Integrated Peripherals
On-Chip IDE configuration
P.S
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A friend of my father's, whose occupation is a computer technician toke a look at the PC and bios settings today.
WE tried EVERYTHING and It still wouldn't work so we concluded that the problem is probably in the hardware.
There were two possible "suspects" here - The Mother Board(specificially the S-ATA controller/ports on it) or the drive itself.
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that's the end of that story

MSI 875P with Linux

Hey guys i am trying to install linux on my computer, I am running an MSi 875 P Neo Fisr2. every single version if linux i install it freezes as soon as it has to detect usb, my problem is my mouse and keyboard are usb . I have switched to different Bios releases and even tried 1.74 Beta. Still same issue. Anyone can help ?

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Posted by Pete M I have Redhat 9 on MSI 875P, very steep learning curve to start with but I now have Ethernet up and running along with onboard sound, next task is to sort out dual boot
Hey Pete, perhaps you can help me. I have tried several times to install RedHat 9 on my system. Every time it hangs up after a line which indicates it is searching for IDE0. I have only a SATA harddrive and was guessing linux was on an endless search for a IDE harddrive.
I see you have both SATA and PATA drives in your system. Did you install Linux on the PATA drive? If so, was that out of necessity, did you try to install on a SATA drive?
UTW

Need help with msi 875p neo

i just bought one of these and set up my system, but as soon as i flick the power switch on the psu there is a 2 sec delay then it automaticaly boots up without me pushing anything then it just hangs..nothing no boot screen nothing. i check that d brakect thing and it says "Inializing keyboard controller" it stays there and does not change.
my system spec:
msi 875P Neo-FIS2R
intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz 800MHz Fsb
2 x 256 mb pc-3200 OCZ EL-DDR cas 2 @ DDR400
thermal take spark 7
leadtek winfast A280leTD 'Geforce 4 Ti 4200'
WD raptor 36.7 GB SATA 1
Xaser III casing
Thermaltake Purepower 480W
MS intellieye Explorer
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Originally posted by MaKoMaN
thaks for all ur help i found the problem one of my memory sticks had a scratch the other one works fine.. but now what do i do with the scratched one?
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Help: FSB Setting for MSI 875P with Intel 3.06 533Mhz & Corsair 512 27

Help: FSB Setting for MSI 875P with Intel 3.06 533Mhz & Corsair 512 2799 333Mhz
Need a little help here, Intel's specs for the P4 3.06GHz 533 is a multiplier of 23 x 133Mhz.
However 133Mhz as a FSB seems very slow.
The 875P NEO has two BIOS settings: CPU Ratio and Adjust CPU Bus
What are your settings for these - I am quite confused?
Thanks!
G.

133 is the stock FSB setting. set your memory to DDR333.
Do you want to overclock? you might want to set your memory to DDR266 which is 1:1. so u can adjust a bit of FSB from 133 to maybe 150.
PS dont forget your memory timing. 2-6-3-3 would be oki i think. what bios version r u using?

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--------[ EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003-2005 Lavalys, Inc. ]
Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 3
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2800 MHz (14 x 200)
Motherboard Name MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R (MS-6758) (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Canterwood i875P
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (10/11/04)
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 238464 MB (200326 MB free)
--------[ DMI ]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ BIOS ]
BIOS Properties:
Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
Version V2.4
Release Date 10/11/2004
Size 512 KB
Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP, LS-120
Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, EDD, BBS
Supported Standards DMI, APM, ACPI, ESCD, PnP
Expansion Capabilities ISA, PCI, AGP, USB
[ System ]
System Properties:
Manufacturer MICRO-STAR INC.
Product MS-6758
Version 00C
Serial Number 00000000
Wake-Up Type Modem Ring
[ Motherboard ]
Motherboard Properties:
Manufacturer MICRO-STAR INC.
Product MS-6758
Version 00C
Serial Number 00000000
[ Processors / Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Processor ]
Processor Properties:
Manufacturer Intel
Version Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Processor
External Clock 200 MHz
Maximum Clock 4000 MHz
Current Clock 2800 MHz
Type Central Processor
Voltage 3.3 V, 2.9 V
Status Enabled
Socket Designation FC-478
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WAN Miniport (IP) 5.1.2535.0
WAN Miniport (IP) - Packet Scheduler Miniport 5.1.2535.0
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Quote from: Jack t.N. on 14-November-09, 08:00:05
Clear CMOS with your PSU unplugged from A/C power. Then load "Optimized Defaults" in BIOS and retest.
thanks jimi... jack
will try that and post later if it worked... ive never cleared cmos, this sort of thing is relatively new to me but thanks again

How to disable AGP Fast Write with MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R ??

How can I disable AGP Fast Write with the MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R ? I can't find an option for this in the BIOS !

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MSI 875P and IDE 3

Hi
I will be powering up my newly built 875P system this Sunday and I would like some help in getting my hard drives connected/drivers installed before I do that please?
I do not have any S-ATA drives at present and I don't want to use RAID, but have two Maxtor ATA133 hard drives and I have the choice of using IDE 1 & IDE 2 which are ATA100 or, I could use IDE 3 which will support my ATA133 drives, though I don't think I would notice much difference if I used either port?
The installation will be a new one with a Windows XP install and, in order to get my computer to boot from the master drive, say on IDE 3, what settings, in what parts of the BIOS should I change/enable/disable before starting the installation?
I am also right in thinking that, after I have made the changes in the BIOS and the XP setup begins, I need to press F6 to install the drivers but as I don't want to use RAID and I have no S-ATA drives right now, what do I need to choose after inserting the motherboard floppy?
Regards
Brave01Heart

Hey,
Well to answer your dilemma, it can be done but might require some trickery. I did some experiments and right now I am running 2 WD2000JB drives on it in RAID-0, but by reading other posts I was able to do the following as a test.
Two Seagate Barracuda IV ATA-100 7200RPM 80GB Drives were used.
I don't know if you can do both at once, but I did one at a time and it worked for me. But I did this with the old 1.5 bios. I don't know if you can with the 1.74b or others but I think you might because I don't think the flashes change the bios version on the actual promise 378 controller.
I put one drive on IDE as cable select. Went into the BIOS and set PROMISE Onboard to AS RAID. Now I save and exit and hit CTRL-F when the Fasttrak Bios tries to load. I choose create array within the Promise BIOS but only choose 1 drive. Then save and exit. Then repeat with the second drive also as cable select. It should allow you to do what you are trying. In fact others who have done the same have reported that it gives a boost in drive transfer rate. like changing from standard IDE on an old 40 conductor cable in DMA mode, and then plugging a promise card with an 80 conductors and going UDMA.
If you get the error where it will not let you select only one drive, you may need to set the drive jumpers differently.
Good Luck! Hope this helps,
MR BREEZE
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MSI 875P Neo FIS2R Bios v1.74b
Kingston HyperX3500 1GB Dual DDR433
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB @ 441/371
WD1200JB Primary Drive
Pioneer DVR-105 (unlocked firmware 1.33b)
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Antec TrueControl 550
Sandra MAX3! CPU: 11696
Sandra MAX3! Mem: 5565
3dMark2001SE: 20995
3dMark2003: 6848

NEO2-FIS2R ATI 9800 AIW Pro TV Tuner causes freezes/blue screens. Help!

I recently upgraded my system from P4 2.4Ghz to P4 3.4Ghz Northwood and went from All in Wonder Radeon to 9800 AIW Pro. Only other change worth mentioning is I created a 0+1 RAID using 4 hard drives which were previously configured differently. I watch a lot of TV while I work on the computer. I do a lot of disk writes and data management which ultimately creates a lot of transfering of data between disks. Never was a problem in the old config. BTW, I also use an external HD conntected through USB for data transfers as well.
Immediately, my system went from stable to unstable. I first noticed that the destop redraw on bootup was slower. Then I noticed that the TV had a delayed response on changing channels and changing volume. Switching to another window causes a slow redraw and sometimes causes a jerk in the TV display like a hickup. Other symptoms include blue screens but no driver is referenced. The blue screen otherwise is a normal STOP screen except for the bottom quarter of the monitor which looks like video garble. Sometimes it just reboots. Sometimes, it freezes. I noticed that doing disk transfers while watching TV usually speeds up the behavior. Comparatively, my use of the TV in the old config was transparent regarless of how much I taxed the system.
Anyway, in view of the unexpected behavior, I decided to backup and reinstall the OS from scratch using a vanilla install method. Everything was detected properly, OS installed fine. Installed ATI's latest Catalyst drivers. I turn on the TV and within about 15 minutes of use, the erratic behavior begins. I figured it was a bad card so I exchanged it out. Same thing with the new card. ATI is shrugging their shoulders and pointing at MSI.
I ran hardware tests, updated the MB BIOS to latest available. Tested all four hard drives/RAM. I can't find any hardware issues. I'm very conservative with my BIOS settings so aside from the default values, I have only changed the settings required to allow for a 0+1 RAID config on the Promise controller.
I put my old ATI Radeon back in and ran the TV for hours and had no problems at all. I also swapped my old 2.4 back in with the 9800 AIW Pro and the problem is recreated so that is what has me ruling out the processor.
Here's what the box looks like inside.
Antec 480 True Blue
MSI NEO2-FIS2R (w/latest BIOS)
1GB Corsair VS512MB400 x 2
4 Maxtor 160GB hard drives, 8MB Cache, 2ea SATA, 2ea PATA
Intel 3.4Ghz Northwood CPU, 512KB, 800FSB w/Zalman 7700CU HS/F
ATI 9800 AIW Pro 128MB DDR
Front/Rear 120mm Case Fans
Optical drive, floppy drive, modem card, sound card.
NOTE: All USB ports are being used by devices with their own power supply except for a web camera. All fans are using power from PSU. No fans use MB power.
I also checked to insure that the AGP card was seated correctly and verified that it was. So, I'm pretty bummed out that I just dropped circa $500 on improving my system but I can't even get it work as well as it used to.
I think I have found the problem but short of getting rid of the 9800 AIW Pro, I am hoping that someone else has had this problem and can help me out. Your ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!

Good News!!
While the DDR voltage was set to 2.7, I recreated the conditions in which the failures tended to occur. Within minutes, it was obvious that something had changed as I had never gone that far without getting kicked out, freezing up, or blue screening. Since this is looking more and more like a power issue, I decided to leave all of my external USB connections disconnected except for the external hard drive because I normally transfer data back and forth frequently from it.
When I saw that the system was holding up well, I connected the rest of the USB connections. Everything ran OK for a few minutes but then the sound from the TV dropped out while the picture continued to function. Although, this marked another failure, it was a marked improvement over what had been happening previously.
NovJoe suggested tweaking the voltage to 2.7 ~ 2.8 so I upped the voltage to 2.8 and setup the same environment and the machine has run that way for about 3 hours. That one increment seems to have made a difference.
Questions which come to mind.
1. If this is a power issue, is it the motherboard's inability to supply the correct voltage to the motherboard components or is it a PSU issue which isn't providing the motherboard enough juice to do its job or a combination of both?
2. If this issue can be corrected through tweaking voltages, how do you know how far to go before damaging system components?
One of the original symptoms with the TV is still apparent. Upon changing channels, there is a second delay before the sound and picture synchronize. Changing foreground windows also causes a "hickup" in the TV's sound/video. I'm more concerned with what this behavior may mean from a system performance standpoint rather than the annoyance since this is a 9800 AIW Pro and it should be snappy instead of sluggish.
Up the AGP voltage? On that subject, the people here seem to have a lot of background with tweaking the BIOS. I'd appreciate any other ideas in tweaking this system as well.
Ultimately, I have to answer the question of whether I need to get a bigger PSU or can I safely correct my system performance by using BIOS tweaks?
Thanks again for all your help.

MSI 875P Neo LSR Dead??

Hi y'all,
Saturday 12th of juli I've bought some components:
- Intel P4 3.0GHz 800MHz FSB
- MSI 875P Neo LSR
- 2*512MB Kingston HyperX PC3200 CL2
- Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 Pro
- Iiyama Vision Master Pro 413
After installing the whole bunch, I tried to boot the system but nothing happend!
So I waited for about 5 min. and booted again. This time almost succesfull but..... the only parts that were working are my fans (casefans, cpu-fan and the Northbridge-fan).
The powerswitch wasn't working (and it was installed correctly). I had to power the system via the powerswitch on my powersupply. So my guess was that my mobo was dead!
After returning the mobo back to my retailler, they concluded that it was dead indeed, so the gave me another mobo.
So after installing the new board, I tried to boot again, but still no succes so far.
My retailer tested the board again and it was also dead.
Some symptoms:
- Active fans
- No HDD, floppy and DVD-player/Burner activity
- Blank screen (display in standby)
- Instant power on when I turn the switch on on my powersupply
I've tried different videocards, memory modules and clearing the C-MOS, bur nothing seems to help ;(
Can you please help me out????
Thanks
Best regards,
Arjan

With regard to the motherboard stand-offs, motherboards dont always use the same amount or in the same position (the stand-offs are movable -either bending out of brackets in the case or unscrewing)
Always check ALL the standoffs line-up with screw positions for your moterboard before fitting, a wrongly positioned post can short-out PCB traces/pins
Another easily overlooked item is the square 4 pin 12v connector (older type power supplys dont even have one), the 12v power connector is located by the northbrige/AGP socket (the CPU will not start without this fitted)
Sometimes when physicaly altering a computer the reset or power-on (start) switchs dont line up correctly with their buttons -this can cause the switch to be permanently "on"
The power-on switch will cause the computer to "cycle" (constant restarting) and the reset switch will cause the computer to hang with-out initialising -try removing the reset switch connector from the motherboard
If none of those are the problem i would suggest trying a different power supply -or maybe your dealer could check the one you are using at the moment

MSI-875P-FIS2R

"BUMP"
Hi
WOW! I have just purchased the MSI 875P Neo and after reading through the many, many problem posts regarding this motherboard on this board, I'm beginning to wonder if I've made the right choice? Just read one from 'ferres' saying that he may have got an 875P from an earlier batch and this might be causing his problems. How can we tell if I have a recent build of the board?
I'm just getting my related hardware together (i.e. hard drives, cd-rom, display cards etc) so I have not set up the mobo yet but I would like some help with installing the drives using PATA and, or SATA.
Ok, having read the manuals and seen, apart from the normal dual ultra DMA 66/100 controllers integrated in the Intel ICH6/ICH5R chipset (IDE 1 & 2), there are also two integrated SATA/SATA RAID 150 ports (SER1 & SER2) in this chipset.
Also, the board has the Promise 20378 onboard controller with IDE 3 for connection two hard drives at up to modes UDMA 133. It also has two SATA/SATA RAID connectors (SER3 & SER4).
Now, I don't want to have any RAID Disk Arrays at this point because if I can get 133MB/Sec or 150MB/Sec without RAID (not on IDE 1 & 2 of course), then I simply want to connect my ATA133 Maxtor hard drives normally on IDE 1 & 2 @ UDMA 100, or on SER1 & SER2, or with the "As S-ATA" enabled for the Promise 20378 in the BIOS, connected to IDE 3 as Master & Slave, which will give me ATA133.
There is also the fourth option of using SER3 & SER4 on the Promise controller.
The problem is that my Maxtor drives are not SATA drivers and I know that you can get SERIAL conversion kits that will allow me to use my drives as SATA drives and achieve 150MB/Sec but I have not found out where I can purchase them so (if anyone has a link in the UK I would be grateful),I would be happy with 133MB/Sec for the moment.
Q: Given this information, can anyone who has already configured their 875P successfully using any of the options given above, I would appreciate details of exactly how it was done. I.e. What connections did you use and which is best:
IDE 1 (For hard drives set to Master & Slave @ ATA100)
IDE 2 (For CD-RW/DVD Drives)
SER1 & SER2 (With Serial conversion kit - not sure about ATA 133 drive jumper settings when using PATA drives on SATA ports)
IDE 3 (Master & Slave)
SER3 & SER4 (Again with Serial converstion kit)
Q: Also, given the above options and with regards to SATA/PATA, what BIOS settings did you enable/disable for best perfomance?
Q: I intend to have my CD-RW/DVD drives on IDE 2 so, if using anything other that IDE 1 for my hard drives, does IDE 1 have to have any devices on it for the system to work correctly or can it be disabled (bearing in mind the boot sequence).
At present, I have WinXP Per installed as Master on IDE 1 in another computer and also have a Maxtor 80GB ATA133 as slave on IDE 1, so I will need to transfer the drives to my newly built pc once I have enough information and I would assume that, after first enabling the appropriate options with regard to SATA/Promise 20378 and others, it's best to boot to the CD and fresh install the O/S ?
One last question regarding the USB ports, the manual states that we can have total of 8 with 6 at the rear of the box and two at the front, or 4 at the rear and 4 at the front. Well there are already 6 on the back I/O plate (4 at the top under the mouse/keyboard and two next to the LAN at the bottom)- how can we only have four at the rear when there are already 6 there? My case also has two at the front and I also have D-Bracket 2 Connector which when connected to JLED1 and JUSB2 gives another 2 USB ports and when I connect the cabling from my front case USB ports to JUSB3, then I have another 2 USB ports making 10 in total?
I have many other questions regarding the 875P but I will wait for these answers before asking anymore.
Regards
Brave01Heart

During boot up it will say what bios version you have. If you got version 1.0 best to get 1.5 and up.
Serial ata should be in native mode, legacy mode will lose 1 of the ide ports.
Some of my previous issues may have been attributed to Win2k which seem to require SP 4 to run properly in hyper threading set ups.
Ferres

Overclocking an MSI 875P Neo-LSR Bios 2.2

Here is my configuration :
CPU : Intel Pentium IV 3.2C 800Mhz HT
RAM : 1Gb [2x256MB DDR-400 PC3200 Infineon] + [2x256MB DDR-400 PC3200 Kingston]
GC : Club 3D Radeon 9700
MB : MSI 875P Neo-LSR Bios 2.2
HDD : 120 Gb Maxtor 8Mb cache + 40 Gb Western Digital 2 Mb cache
CPU Fan : Zalman CNPS-7000AlCu
Yesterday i tried to use CoreCenter and went to 215MHz (3.6 Ghz i think) with no hitch.
Now my question is with this configuration what can i reach and what to use (CoreCenter or Bios) ?
And which OC for the memory ??
Tx

I think use bios is better because of more flexibility. You can go up to about 3.5GHz.
please read:
Overclocking Guide

MSI 875P FISR2 not recognizing cd-rom discs

I'll start off with "everything was working" before I started sleeving my power supply (which I am now regretting). I am at work now, but will provide as much detail as I can. Any suggestions are welcome.
Anyway, after putting everything back together, I have some problems with my Lite-On DVD/CD-ROM and also my CDRW and floppy drives. After booting up and getting into XP Pro (w/service pack 1), the cd drives and floppy don't seem to recognize a disc when it has been put in. When you put something in one of these guys and drill into it via Explorer, I get the message "Please insert disc." BIOS recognized the drives and XP seems to see them (the icons show up in my computer). However I didn't check the device manager in XP. The strangest thing is that if I leave a cd in the drive and boot up, everything works fine. Auto-insert works and fires up the cd, and I can drill down into it's contents, etc. Everything seems normal.
Here is what I have tried so far:
- tried another IDE connection
- made sure all cables and power connection were seated tightly.
- tried just using one device hooked up a time (and set to master)
I am completely baffled by this and would appreciate any thoughts you might have. I ran outa time last night, but what I plan to do tonight is hook the drives up to my other computer and see if they work correctly there as well as hook another cd player up to the new machine and try it. I guess I can also try another IDE cable, but again, the cable seems to work fine if you boot the pc up with the cd in the player.
I think I have a spare power supply I can even try, but I just can't imagine that this is the problem (although it is the one thing that has been changed). I mean, everything is getting power....
Here is what I can remember about my system:
MSI 875P FISR2
Intel 2.8 P4 800mhz FSB
Kingston DDR400 (1 gig)
PixelView (NVIDIA 5900) grahpics card
Enermax EG365P-VE (350 watts)
Western Digital 120 gig SATA drive
Bios version 1.4
Lite-On DVD/CD-ROM
Dell CD-RW
XP Pro w/service pack 1

Hi strummer2k,
If your using the MSI round cables then they will be Ultra 133 straps but there are two types, the 40 pin ones which will limit it to DMA 33/66 and the 80 pin ones which will enable ULTRA 100/133. I'm surprised how many people arn't aware of that and I recently did a small contract for a Computer Hardware shop in the city and the guys there were suprised when I showed them the differnce, it can boost performance quite a bit. The other important thing is to go into device manager and select your IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and select you Primary & Secondary IDE Channels and right click one of these at a time & select Properties/Advanced settings.
You will need to have the correect straps for the following to work:
You will see a setting which says PIO Only or DMA if available - select DMA if available, do the same with the other channel and reboot and you will be running Ultra DMA for your drives. If you have an older CD Rom that doesn't support Ultra DMA & is on the same channel as another drive then it will only run at PIO on that channel. Im using W2K and I'm guessing that XP is still using the same functions?
This is going to make your hard drives run a lot faster as well as they will be using one of the channels, most likely Primary.
Some
bios's have settings that can enable/disable this as well

MSI 875P FISR keep in touch

I'm currectnly building a new computer using this MB. I would like for others who are using this same board, or are curious of the performance of this board to keep in touch with with me. With it being brand new and everything I want to keep in touch with others to discus benchmarks, errors, configurations and anything pertaining to the system. Updates and anything.
My computer will be made the following:
MOBO- MSI 875p FISR
CPU- 2.4 G 800 Mhz P-4
RAM- 512 Corsair XMS DDR3200 ( 2x256 )
VGU- Chaintech GForce4 TI 4200 128 DDR
CD #1- 52x CD Rom
CD #2- 16x DVD 48x24x48x Cdr/Cdrw/Cd rom Combo Drv. LG Brand
Onboard Sound ( For Now )
WD 80 Gig HDD running ATA100 ( Possibly raid0 later with 2)
Will post the BIOS onfiguration and changes in hardware as they are made. Keep in touch people.
enGRAVEr 8)

Unfortunately, I had a bad experiaence with thepeople I was ordering my MB through and they didn't want to resolve the problem. I have chosen another board. I do want to keep this going though. I will be building another computer in about 3 months and the info gathered here will be helpful. I really like this board. I have instead chosen to go with the MB DFI LANPARTY PRO875 RETAIL and believe it or not, they have already shipped it. It should be in Friday, Monday at the latest. Everything else will remain the same though. Keep this going so we all have a standard place to find information on these boards. Thanks.
FYI, the other company told me that because I didn't pay for the fastest shipping, I could not be certain that I would recieve it within a month. I asked if I could do something to make that certain and they gave me a hard time. The main diff with the board I am going with and the MB I was going with is I don't have any Firewire unless I get a card. Oh Well. I doubt I would have a lot of use anyways. Also, no one else had one in stock that I could find. Well, talk to you all later. Bye for now.
enGRAVEr 8)

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