MSI Mega 865 TV-out card

I am ordering an MSI 865 Deluxe this week and will use it with my TV. Unfortunately I have been told that the MSI Mega TV-out card will not be available in our country.
Does anyone know or use other brands of PCI TV-out cards with their Mega PC?

I would also recommend a converter, here is an example of what you are looking for.
http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=108377
More reasons for this are no drivers and Macrovision will work. If you use a gforce and try using the TV out most DVD playing software will stop, this will not happen with a conveter.
The Graphics are not the quickest on the 865 but tend to do the job.

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MSI Mega 865 PRO???

Lookie lookie, the next Mega has been unveiled:
http://msices2005.vtion.com/
They're revamping the faceplate, moving the knob and buttons to the right side. Also, it includes a 7-in-1 reader, with new support for MMC cards. It looks like they're finally including a wireless-G card. Most intesting is the claim of "Home Theatre Without Windows". They use different wording on the site than for the Hi-Fi mode of the 180's and normal 865's, which implies that this machine would be able to play movies without booting Windows.
Judging from MSI Athletic Support, they'll probably shaft us with specs to its display and remote too.

i own a MSI Mega 865..and im happy with it..but i never turn the thing off...
so the Radio/CD/MP3 player...and if i waited and got the 865pro...even the DVD player on the would be of absolutely no use to me!
if this wants to be a real all-in-one HTPC...i would really need a few things :
firstly ...DVB card with BDA support.....
secondly ....the on-board graphics must be fully DX9 compliant..including the freaking drivers...and be more than 16MB onboard-VRAM...i would like DirectxVideoAccelleration, VMR9 and HardWareMotionCompenstation support ..which i belive are currently only on the radeon and nVidia FX and later cards
next we need more than just VGA and s-video....we also need DVI-in/out...and while your at it MSI..give us component too
i belive the SPDIF 5.1 in and out are an absolute must and it should stay...the more channels the better
as it stands i had to fork out a whole lot more money to get this the way i wanted it...this MSI *WAS* really a barebones HTPC....but since i finished building it im very happy with it

MSI Mega 865 DVDRW Drive

Hello. Can you please tell me which DVD writer I need to buy for my MSI Mega 865. I want to add a DVD writer behind the panel and my third party Sony doesnt open the front panel. Do the MSI drives work OK. Thanks.

Hi williac10,
Though you are right in asking for a better alternate optical drive here but I think it'll be better if you ask the Mega PCs users in our Mega PCs, SFF PCs Forum .

Replacing the MSI Mega 865 Power Supply

Has anyone attempted to replace the power supply on the MSI Mega 865? Is it ever suggested?
I am currently looking at the following (http://www.tomshardware.com/firstlook/20040720/index.html) as a possibility, but I seem to recall that there is a special connection that is necessary for the HIFI 'always on' functionality.
If you have successfully replaced the power supply, what product did you use?

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Originally posted by Stu Online
the mega psu has extra connectors to supply 12v power while the pc is off, so the cd drive works in hifi mode (i think!)
Interesting, does that mean theres a possibility for modifying an existing PSU so that it also supplys 12V (i wouldnt be able to do this tho, dont know enough about this stuff )

Mega 651 TV-Out card problem

Hi freakz,
i have a Mega 651 with the original MSI TV-OUT card, but I don´t get any picture onto my TV.
I´ve already reinstalled the diasplay drivers. In windows I can´t find any configuration for the TV-out.
In the bios I´ve tested all settings.
My TV is switched on, so the card should recognize it.
Does anybody have the same card working? When does the picture appear on the TV screen? at the bios booting or at the Windows screen?
Which resolutions should I choose? I´ve tried 800x600 and 1024&768. Nothing.
Perhaps the card is broken, but first I will try everything so I can get shure.
Please... Can anybody help me with my problem or give me tips?
Thanx
Alex

Hi,
first of all, be sure I have tried everything, other cables (even shorter ones), ....
It´s the add on card for the Mega 651 which has a composite and a S-video plug.
I work with the chinch composite output.
In the bios I can choose between TV, CRT, or both.
Even if I only connect the TV, nothing appears on it.
Should I see the POST screen on the TV, or first when the display driver has been initialised?
Alex (still no pictures )

MSI MEGA 865 not support Prescott 3.2 & higher

i have 3.2e Prescott but has vcore problem mega 865
and then see link
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/slim_pc/slm/pro_slm_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=547&kind=4
mega 865 not support 3.2e Prescott
maybe power supply & cooling problem

Have you checked your XP Eventlog, I had a problem like this also and it turned out BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) gave the problem. (and booted my PC)
I had to upgrade to BITS 2.0 and now I'm running like a charm.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b93356b1-ba43-480f-983d-eb19368f9047&displaylang=en
Also, before I assembled my PC I had a look at
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/ to calculate the wattage needed.
I'm assuming the configuration in your .sig and I'm getting to 265 watts for your configuration with 3.2 prescott . (Hardly any difference with mine)
Ray

Mega 865 Duluxe - Graphics card upgrade

Hey there, I have a mega 865 Deluxe and I have just brought an LCD TV. I am currently using the onboard graphics card, but thinking about adding in a new card that has DVI output.
Can anyone suggest what sort of card i can get away with adding. I'm gonna use it for the occasional game, watching dvd's and using the LCD TV as my new PC monitor.
My current set up is:
Mega 865 Deluxe
Win XP Pro SP2
Northwood P4 2.8
Maxtor 80gig harddrive
1Gig
Soundblaster 24 bit Live sound card

Thank you. I just picked up an ATI AIW 9800...I read here that a lot of people are using that. I am using the 2.8GHZ Northwood processor, so I hope I don't run into over heating issues

3.0 Ghz Prescott+Mega 865+What AGP Card?

First, sorry for my english.
This week Ill get a Mega 865 + 3.0 Ghz PRESCOTT + 160 GB SATA HD, and I think to buy a FX5900 AGP card; but it seems that prescott processors requires half height agp card... Why? energy prob? if yes, can I replace the Mega 865 original power suply?
And about the HD and his 160 GB, can I will use it until I flash the BIOS to secure the prescott support and the HD size bigger than 120 GB?
I dont want to find a comp that dont recognize CPU+HD!!!!
All help is wellcome, thx.

Don't you wonder if people cannot press a search button ?
A simple search on prescott 865 agp yielded 5 results among which ;
Why half size AGP card with Prescott CPU?
Anyway
Half-height cards is probably a power issue, check around on the forum on peoples signatures to see what will work. Full height cards do work.
Ray

MSI Mega 865 Reserator cooling, Northbrige passive cooler?

Hi all,
Have been running my mega as a media centre for five years or so. Have been through two sets of fans which though quiet at first have got progressively noisy again, especially when starting up or working PC hard.
I want to go as fan free as possible but before I do....
Is the reserator system the only fan free system and the best for me, it is ferociously expensive but I will pay it if it really is worth it.
The Northbridge(?) also has a noisy little fan, can I do away with this and fit a passive heatsink? Could I also water cool it?
Any options for laptop style external power supplies or water cooled PSUs that will fit in the box.
Many thanks all, lookforward to your answers,
Epirb, or Barney if you prefer!

Hi Barney,
If you'd looked in the sticky topics, then these topics listed in here might be of help to you:
How to cool your Mega PC down
In particular, Emma's topic about how she fitted a Reserator 1 to her Mega 180, which essentially should be the same process as for the Mega 865. Unfortunately, her pics no longer seem to exist, but otherwise, her topic might help you.
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What I need to know is if anyone has any ideas about the other chip which I am calling the North bridge. Is this the right name, I am not sure.
Yes, that will be the Northbridge chipset.

MSI Mega 865 Availability

This might sound stoopid but does anyone know if the Mega 865 barebone case is available to buy in the UK yet?
I've been looking around quite a lot of UK sites and don't seem to be able to find it anywhere. I've found it on US sites and some of them talk about "pre order".
If this is available to buy does anyone know where from?
Cheers.

It's available in Sweden at least, and has been for a while now, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be in the UK!
It's strange though that stores such as Ultim8pc only sells the 651 and not even the 180. Maybe they've been visiting this forum and thought better of it...
Good luck in finding one anyway!
-M

MSI mega 865 so am I screwed?

i have had my mega for about a year now and its great but for one problem.... today i was using xp for web browesing and it just died. and i went to reboot it and the system turns on like normal sans the booting part... no logo no bios no nothing. so am i screwed? is there any history of captors or other componets?
it was running a
p4 3ghz
1gb ram
ati 9600se (low fourm factor)
ati tv wonder
sata hard drive
dvd rw
so it want anything that would get super hot....

If the iTunes Store has replied to your request and told you that they cannot refund your money, then yes, I'm afraid you're out of luck as regards this purchase. To prevent this from happening again, turn off "In App purchases" in the Restrictions settings on your iPhone. You may also want to turn off the ability to install apps, to prevent purchases in case the child gets hold of your iTunes Store account information, and set the password to be required immediately. For more information, see:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4213
Regards.

MSI Mega 865 Deluxe No Display

My PC has just gone mad in the last couple of days.
After I unplugged the PC from the power cord and plug it back again on Saturday (cos I had some problems with the graphics and sound- sound and graphics suddenly went missing), it does not allow me to reset the time. Not only that, the time on the display has remained at 4:01 overnight. Once again, I thought unplugging the PC from the power might solve the problem and let me reset the time. But it's gone from bad to worse, there was absolutely nothing displayed on my PC- not the time, not the temperature, nothing whatsoever.
Does any one have similar problems and what's the way to get around it?
My PC is only 2 weeks old and it never seemed to work properly.

What I meant by the Graphics missing is that there were no display on my monitor at all when I was half way playing a game- so does the sound in certain occassions. With the sound problem, rebooting can help to solve the problem but not all the time.
Now, the main problem is that the actual display (where it shows the temperature, clock, etc.) on the machine is completely blank. The machine doesn't seem to be able to detect the on-board sound card either.
My configurations are as follow:
O/S: Windows XP1 Build 2600
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.20G-C (800Mhz FSB)
DVD: LG GSA-4120B 12X +/- Dual Layer DVD Burner OEM
Hard drive: Western Digital 160G 7200RPM SATA-150 (8MB buffer)
RAM: 1GB KIT DDR PC3200 400Mhz Kingston
Video card: MSI 256MB FX5500-TD
I somehow wonder if it has anything to do with the muck up that the Live Update did with my BIOS. Apparently, my PC can't detect my HDD after I used the MSI Live Update to update my BIOS and it took some time to get it back to shape.

SATA Hard Drive no longer recognized by Mega 865

I recently put together an MSI Mega 865 barebone system with the following specifications:
Processor: Intel 3.2c Ghz (Northwood core)
Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 10kRPM Raptor
Memory: 1 GB (2 x 512MB) Kingston 3200 (400Mhz)
DVD Player: Plextor 8X DVD RW
Video Card: HIS Excalibure 9800Pro 128 MB
OS: WinXP
Finally got everything up and running, and then I went to boot up, and the system can no longer find the SATA harddrive. In fact, it's not even an option in the BIOS now.
My question is the following:
Would the SATA be available all of the time, or only if a SATA enabled harddrive was recognized?
When the system is first powered on by plugging the power cord into the wall, the hard drive makes a small amount of noise, as if it's spinning a bit. When the computer starts up, there is no noise at all, although the hard drive does get warm (which makes me think there is power to the unit).
I tried the 2nd power supply (old IDE) for the hard drive, but that provided that same results as the SATA power supply.
There were some inconsistencies with my mega 865 prior to this. First, the HIFI would randomly lock up, and the only way to get it back was to unplug the computer from the wall. 2nd, it had lost communication on the serial port (why, I don't know). 3rd, and final, it doesn't seem to recognize my hard drive (or my hard drive is ruined).
Can someone help me out here, I'm not sure whether to return my HardDrive, my MSI Mega 865, or both.

The system worked for 4 days or so. One day, I started it up, and it couldn't boot because it couldn't detect the SATA drive. When this happened I decided to flash it to the the latest BIOS, but even this did not help.
The unit had problems before, it would lock up on initial power up, the HIFI/CD/DVD would not respond (when the computer was not on of course). I would have to plug and unplug the unit 3 or 4 times before it would power on and not lock up.
I contacted MSI support, and explained my problems. They told me to return the unit to the reseller. I'm not sure if the problem was the unit, the hard drive, or both, so I went ahead and returned the HD and the MSI unit. It'll be another 2 weeks or so now before I get my computer up and running. :(

Tvanywhere and Mega 865, install MSIPVS fails ..

Was unable to find a local source for the add in tv card for my MSI MEGA 865 and decided to use the TV anywhere card. I was also interested in the NTSC and PAL support. Everything went well until i tried to install the MSIPVS Software. The drivers installed properly in step one, but in step 2 installing the MSIPVS software i received a "Setup failed to run installation: The remote procedure call failed". I uninstalled the MEDIA Center Deluxe III program and removed all software except INCD. I am running windows XP, 512 mb memory, 3ghz intel processor. I removed the software and hardware and tried to reinstall several times, it made no difference and it failed in the same place.

see threads in the Mega PC forum
Windows XP has installed itself to the E: or F: drive because the card reader has taken C: and D: and in this case Intervideo software won't install correctly
you're gonna have to disable the built in card reader (either unplug from inside, or disable USB controller in BIOS) format your hdd and reinstall windows to C: partition - not sure if Repair would fix it
this happened to me the first time i built my mega 651 and it was SO frustrating, especially as everything else worked fine

Mega 865

I have
MSI Mega 865
P4 2.8 GHz (800MHz)
Apacer 256 MB RAM (400HMz)
ATI Radeon 9550
MSI Mega TV Tuner Card
WD 160GB SATA
WinXP (SP1) and Media Center Deluxe III
everything working properly, but:
if I got change TV chanel in Media Center - freeze whole system,
and
I have disabled background music, but radio playing everytime

Enter Audio Mixer and mute the radio input. Everytime you start MSI Radio or MCIII, this input will be unmuted and, when you close the app, the input should be muted again.

MSI Mega 865 TV-out card

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