New Bios for 865PE Neo2 FISR2

Question

Does anyone have any idea when a new BIOS version might come out for the 865PE boards might come out?  I'm wondering because I was hoping one might come out to fix the problems they are having with OCZ and other ram's with manual cnofigurations and overclocking
Thanks
Trevor

Answer 1

I think it would do MSI better if they better organize their "tweak options" so people can understand what's going on and NOT end up surprised.
E.g. as observed by PeteJ61 in with memory timing = by SPD and  DRAM Freq = Auto
[ http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/index.php?threadid=24347&boardid=10&styleid=1 ]
SLOW = no PAT/MAT + standard memory SPD settings + standard FSB + standard AGP/PCI
FAST = PAT/MAT + fast memory timing + overclocked FSB overclocked AGP/PCI
TURBO = PAT/MAT + fastER memory timing + overclocked FSB + overclocked AGP/PCI
ULTRA = PAT/MAT + fastEST memory timing + overclocked FSB + overclocked AGP/PCI
standard AGP/PCI = 66/33 MHz vs overclocked AGP/PCI = 70/35 MHz
on "C" rev P4's, standard FSB = 200MHz vs overclocked FSB = 210 MHz
So if you want to be able to individually control them:
1. To control PAT/MAT, select SLOW vs FAST
2. To control memory timing, select anything other than Auto in DDR timing
My main problem is that Neo BIOS 1.6 (and probably Neo2 also) does NOT allow selection of standard AGP/PCI clock once I move up the FSB - bummer :( . For this, I use a windows utility named ClockGen to fine tune down to reasonable levels.
Would there be a valid reason why MSI just didn't select fixed ratios rather than all this "fine tuning"?