MSI Pro266TD-LR Questions

Hi to everyone,
I was using Acorp 6a815epd with a pair of 1.26ghz piii tualatin's and upgradeware adapters.That was until one of the sockets of the Acorp, got burned.Also i was having some problems with the upgradeware adapters, as one of them would not sit well on the sockets making no good contact with the socket and having as a result system crashes.
So i decided to buy something else.And after a lot of reading i decided to get the MSI pro266td Master-LR board with the VIA pro266T.I am not really a fun of VIA, but i have heard some good comments about this chipset.
I run it now with my dual tualatin's [email protected] 155mhz fsb and its completely stable.It can go more but its not 100% stable.As ddr is very cheap now I bought a corsair xms 2700 DDR dimm.My benchmarks are really good.Getting same performance on Sandra with 2x2ghz xeons w/o HT of course.
My Questions now:
1.
I heard that there is a newer BIO, which is not on the MSI support website.Can some one email it to me?
[email protected]
This board does not have full Raid version.I saw on this thread that there is a BIOS that gives full support and 48bit LBA.
http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.p...t=pro266td+bios
Can anyone email me the BIOS or tell me where can i get it?
2.
Also the onboard Intel network card will get recognised by NT/Linux, but i have to set it to half/full duplex in order to work.It wont negotiate straight with my netgear switch.This is a bit weird.Anyone else have this problem or know a solution to this?
3.
Sometimes when its overclocked it wont start and i have to press reset once or twice and then starts.I am thinking that the PSU has to do something with this because its overclocked..Any ideas?
4.
Should i use Hyperion or 4-1 normal drivers from VIA?
Any other software/utility/patch for error fixing or better performance?
Any help would be really appreciated.

1.The bios you need for the full RAID is a hacked version and not an official one. I have no idea where you would find it.
2.Don't know really.
3.It might be the PSU.\, worth a shot.
4.The normal VIA drivers are what you need (4in1 hyperion).

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Our company have bought a lot of MSI boards over the years, but now we are going to start buying boards elsewhere.
MSI boards are usually good boards, but whenever there is a problem with a board, MSI never answer questions that we may have.
I understand that thousands of people are writing them emails everyday, but Asus, Gigatech, Epox etc. always answers our questions, even if it take a week or two or three.
As of this date we have never recieved 1 (not 1) reply from MSI ever, and that is not acceptable.
For instance - the last month we have tried to get an answer to why Adaptec RAID and MSI k7D Master do not work - but as always MSI do not answer.
My advice - do not go for MSI, but buy from Asus, Epox or someone else.

Yes, I understand your frustration. Personally, I've had an ok experience with MSI so far. As it stands, I've had one board go bad on me and I had it replaced from the supplier no problem. It took about a week.
However, I can see why you're fed up with MSI. They have been nothing but distant in relation to the many suggestions that have been repeated ad nauseum on this message board, for instance, such as was the case with the PCI speeds. It took many months for MSI to even try to fix that problem. With BIOS 2.6, I hear the problem has been slightly corrected but still needs a lot more in order to join the ranks of other more worthy boards.
I too am disappointed in MSI. With the millions of $ they possess, you would think that they would set a decent customer help line with a bunch of English-speaking people. Instead, we are met with people who do not even understand one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and therefore cannot even fix whatever problems or conflicts arise.
Abit, Asus and other board makers have proven that the PCI bug can easily be fixed. However, MSI engineers have done absolutely nothing in good faith until now. After being a witness to their amazingly blatant indifference to the message board members' complaints, I have no choice but to agree.
What is more, Asus does publish beta BIOSes while MSI does not. So if one major bug is the process of being corrected, anybody at Asus can enjoy the fixes right away, while we have to wait an eternity ro reap the benefits.
Even though my personal experience so far has been good, I have to admit that I have not experienced the frustration you have unfortunately encountered due to the fact that I haven't used any RAID or SCSI cards. I did not see how poor the scores were or which improvements were needed. In fact, I don't have a single card plugged into my motherboard right now.
However, with my next upgrade, that will most likely change and since I cannot seem to rely on such a big company as MSI to correct the problems for which they are responsible on their own products, I can't see this as being an encouraging sign for me to spend more of my hard-earned money on faulty products that I'm beta-testing, as well as non-existent customer support and late or non-existent patches/BIOS updates.
It is never too late for a company to change its image, but in reality, MSI screwed themselves over by deciding to ignore the public, which has been paying MSI employees during all this time. It is sad that the state of certain company ethics is poor.
The differences between each nForce board were minimal at best. I will therefore see no problems with switching products. I'll definitely return to MSI if and only if they ever change their ways. For now, I'm disappointed and will be shaking my head in disgust until the situation improves to my satisfaction, if that ever occurs.
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IDE 0 is populated by a CDROM & CDRW.
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I swapped the card between all the PCI slots with "USB KB Function" Enabled still no go. Changing it to a Adaptec 29160 gave the same results.
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I have tried both BIOS V1.2 and V1.3B1. Both yields the same result.
I am really at a loss.
Any pointers or suggestions beside switching to a PS2 KB (which I don't have) and Mouse ?
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[ Rodent ]

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ok man this whole thing really got me interested how come i fitted that thing on....
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Quote from: Odaik on 06-June-13, 10:07:20
Firstly, does anyone know MSI's policy with regards to swapping out the stock cooler for a waterblock?
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Quote from: Odaik on 06-June-13, 10:07:20
Secondly, are the GPUs binned for performance and low leakage, therefore coming with additional overclocking headroom, or are they simply average GPUs with the headroom used up with the stock overclock that comes on the card?
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Quote from: Odaik on 06-June-13, 10:07:20
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Quote from: Odaik on 06-June-13, 10:07:20
Finally, would it be accurate to say the GPUs are likely to last for less time than on cards with lower GPU clocks?
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do you need to remove the on-board jumpers to overclock if you are trying to achieve over 1600 Mhz FSB? I currently have the jumpers off.
Removing the jumpers will set the FSB Frequency to 400 MHz and force the system into a default-400 MHz Strap. You should also be able to overclock manually in BIOS starting from other jumper position. Just test and see which one works best for you. It may be the default position or the 400 MHz position (jumper removal).
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2. I've notice that the GTLREF voltage is not within 63% of the CPU VTT using the latest beta bios A7512IMS.153 [v1.5b3]. Is that right?
How did you notice that? What percentage does the BIOS set in your case?
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3. Anyone have any experience using the RAM modules I have? See sig for details.
That is more or less standard DDR2-800 memory which should not make any problems. In terms of overclocking it, you have to see what can be achieved. Memory OC Results usually vary from system to system.
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4. Green Power Center crashes in Vista when making changes. Is there a unknown compatibility issue? I've have installed fresh copy of Vista.
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