New remote controller for Mega 180

I was thinking that is it possible to use MEGA PC 865 PRO's remote controller in Mega 180 'cause one provided with mega 180 is not what I want.
It looks like that 865 Pro's controller would be much more useful, its bigger and there is better buttons (larger - so you can actually find them) .

Hi there,
I have the 865 (non Pro) and the remote is nothing to get excited about, not sure if it's the same as the Pro version. Have a search for "remote" in this section there are a few other more interesting options.
cheers
Rich

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Remote PSU for MEGA 180

I'm proposing this as just an idea and if anyone out there is skilled with electronics it is something to consider. In fact, I may do it myself.
OK, down to business. What's the single biggest component in any Mico PC? The power supply unit (PSU). In addition, the PSU throws off alot of heat (most is vented out the back but infra-red is radiated throught the case) and is generally noisy (fans). Lastly, PSUs in micro pc's are usually underpowered. Myself, I usually put in a minimum of a 350 watt PSU when I build a PC (preferably 450W). PSUs are often ignored but believe me, a high quality PSU is critical to making a dependable PC. In fact, may PC's I've repaired that were suffering from mysterious reboots were because of low quality PSUs giving off 'dirty' power.
So here's what I'm thinking. Take the PSU out of the MEGA 180 (or any micro PC), buy a high quality, high powered PSU, and mount it remotely. All you will need to do is splice in wire b/w the PSU and the plug ends (solder and use heat shrink tubing). Then, use a wire loom to make all the power leads into one nice cable. You could place the PSU in an out of the way area. I'm thinking a lenght of about 3 feet would be great.
So what will you do with all the extra space you've created in your MEGA 180??? How about a nice big heatsink on the CPU??? Or, what about a second hard drive mounted where the PSU was? The options are endless.
I've used a PC power supply to make a regulated 12 volt power source. To see how, check out my website at http://www.e-maxximumrc.com/html/power_supply.html

As far as I can make out, the MSI PSU does have some 'special' outputs as the Radio and CD can be powered when the Power Supply is 'Off'.
You would just need to make a 1 to 1 cable to get the power to the Chassis and the original connectors if you were just remote mounting the MSI supply. If you did want to buy a new PSU then you would need to measure what voltages you get where with the MSI PSU 'Off' and also check that the ATX connector (and the others) are standard as I would imagine this is a Custom PSU for MSI and there is a danger that things may not be as they appear. For instance, I know that Dell have standard looking ATX PSU's but when you actually check the pinout, they are different and connect a normal PSU to a Dell system and it becomes very 'interesting' - mostly a lot of electrons escape in the form of smoke!!

Girder Plugin for MEGA 180

Hi folks
I'm writing girder plugin for the MEGA 180 remote control. Unfortunatly it works just until reboot and that happens on any system - not only on MEGA 180.
Perhaps some of you are familiar with girder plugins and can tell me where the bug is.
http://n.ethz.ch/student/nschmid/MSIStuff/MSIGirderPlugin.zip
Plase read the README first.txt file for installation, watch the code, test the binary and tell me if you have the same problem. The source code need Borland C++Builder to compile.
I started also a thread in the girder forum.
Thank for helping me.
Nathan

Hi people
I've found the error and it is corrected. Additional I added the new device id I've got from Girder developer. I think the plugin will be soon aviable on Girder webpage.
Please heck out new version at
http://n.ethz.ch/student/nschmid/MSIStuff/, read the installation notes and download with the link.
Jadi wrote:
Quote
Now all I have to do is to program Girder for: ...
Please publish your configuration file. I think it will be a peace of interest for everyone.
Habe a nice day
Nathan

Remote (again) on Mega 180

Hi,
Got my Mega 180 together and it seems to work OK, BUT the remote doesn't work. Does it require the TV card since the motherboard manual doesn't seem to indicate a connectyor for IR in. I don't have the MSI TV card in my configuration.
Does anyone have a clue where to start debugging (Yes, I changed the remote battery...)
Regards,
Matti

The remote should work in HiFi mode as a barebone machine, i.e. with no CPU, RAM, TV Card etc. If this does not work, then suspect a hardware fault, or battery problem. You can do this with the full installation, but just switch on into HiFi mode.
If this works then try the PC mode. I believe that the TV Tuner card is needed for the remote to work in PC mode, but I haven't tried it without. You meed to install Media Center Deluxe III to make use of the remote in PC mode.
I have found the Media Center Deluxe III not very good, and hence have switched to ShowShifter (which requires more money to be spent). This does not work with the remote straight out of the box. I believe you need third party software like Girder. Does anyone have experience on installing and configuring Girder, I've still to start?
DON'T RUN THE "GREETING" APPLICATION OFF THE TUNER CARD CD, IT WILL TRASH YUOR LCD.

Sync issues with new Logic Controller for iPad / New Logic

Downloaded the new version of Logic for mac and the new controller for iPad today.
The iPad more often than not fails to see that Logic is running on the network and just hangs. If you open and close the controller on the iPad sometimes it will then boot up and go straight to the fader page.
However, it has limited functionality. The faders and transport appear to be working ok, but there's NO LEVEL INFORMATION being sent back to the iPad. So you can control the faders and everything, but there's no bouncing audio levels, not even on the mix bus. It looks like nothing is playing, apart from the fact you can see the transport ticking through the bars.
Something seriously amiss here.
(iPad 2, worked fine before, never had a problem with it...)

Quit the Logic Remote App.. (Don't just close it but quit it..)
http://osxdaily.com/2013/09/28/quit-apps-in-ios-7/
Delete Logic's CS (Control Surfaces) file
Quit Logic Pro
In the Finder, choose Go to Folder from the Go menu.
Type ~/Library/Preferences in the "Go to the folder" field.
Press the Go button.
Remove the com.apple.logic.pro.cs file from the preferences folder.
Restart the computer.
If you cannot find this file you have not followed the instructions exactly as described!
Now Launch Logic Remote on your iPad and reconnect....
Test....
Note: If you use any other external control surfaces you will need to re-add those too...

Front Panel LEDs problems for Mega 180

Hi, it's rigth one year I got a Mega 180, and I've not ended yet to tune and optimize it
I admit it's like a hobby now
I immediately ask you for my LEDs problems.
I have read many topics and maybe other people have the same my problem, also if I'm not sure if they treat about the Front Panel LEDs when they speak about the "LCD Display".
I have some switched off LEDs in my front panel, in the "time" displayng and in the volume bar: I have to substituite them? Someone have done it before? It's possible to remove the front panel or I have to disasseble all the pc
Or it's a firmware problem?
I also thank all people that cured the section of optical devices compatibility: last week I bought a new Pioneer 111D, because my LG GSA-4167B was not suitable in the PC mode, for DVD playback.
In fact I had many problems for the DVD fluently playback: I have spent 4 months trying new video codecs and also substituting the video card, then I finally have understood that was an optical device problem.
The Pioneer 111D was perfect in the PC mode, but then I had problems for HI-FI playing mode
Then I finally used my old Pioneer 108, that I had in the old desktop, and all work (I pray) fine both in HI-FI and PC mode.
I'll be very happy also to describe to whom that will ask me, my experience with the Mega 180 "assembling", during the last year, hoping it could be useful for other people.
Thanx

> Hi, I'm new to LabVIEW! Ok, what I'm trying to do is create a front
> panel with 9 LEDs. Then I have a Menu Ring, with three different
> options. These options determine the order in which the LEDs are lit.
> So what I was planning on doing was creating three subVIs, one for
> each of the options...but how can I do that when I only have one
> boolean for each LED? So basically how can I relate the LEDs on the
> front panel into the subVIs? I tried using globals - but it seemed
> like that just passed on the state of the boolean instead of allowing
> me to actually change the boolean in the subVI. I hope this makes
> sense...I'm really confused! Thanks for any help!
Initially, you might just hook your ring to a case structure to
determine which frame exe
cutes. You can put the terminals for the
Booleans in the different diagrams and about the only other thing to
keep in mind is that you probably want a delay in the loop.
Greg McKaskle

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)

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.

Can I make pictures with iPhone5S by remote control, say bluetooth? Or by the remote controller for App TV?

Can I make pictures with iPhone5S by remote control, say Bluetooth ? Or simply by the remote controller of App TV ?
Thanks for the advise :-)

There's this app:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wifi-camera-wirelessly-connect/id374351996?mt=8
I know nothing about it myself, so I can't vouch for how well it works. There may be other, similar apps available.
Regards.

40mm fan 3pin to mini 2 pin converter for Mega 180 anyone ?

Hi
I have read at length the mod advice to cool this little blighter down. I have purchased new 40, 50 and 60 mm fans, but I have just spotted the power connectors on the existing chipset and cpu fans (except 1) are miniature 2 pin connections. The new quiet fans have standard 3 pin connectors.
My questions are.
1. Should I just power the fans via the power cables from the PSU instead? I can get one of the cpu fans near the AGP slot into the supplied 3 pin connector, but what about the other two ? Do they need to be rigged to the motherboard ?
2. Does anyone know if and where I can but the necessary connection converters or fan replacements that will plug into the motherboard.
Many thanks for your help
Regards
Jasooon

Thanks Bas, haved hooked them all up and all running. Have just installed PC Alert 4 and now have warning errors of low voltages on the vcore.
Wondering how I can have caused this :( ?
thanks again for confirming approach

Day 2 installation advice for Mega 180 delux

Now that i got past the DMI Pool Problem, and have XP installed. I have 2 problems with the system.
1: i can't get connected to my lan via ethernet. lights are on at both ends of the cable and nobody appears to be home. have run the wizzard a number of times. lan connection is not bridged
1a: after fighting the ethernet connection for a few hours, moved the pc to my office, checked ethernet with a different cable etc, no luck. since it was now sitting next to my wireless hub i figured what the heck maybe this will work.
after down loading and installing Ralink driver update (thanks forum) and changing my netgear hub to channel 3 (thanks forum) i am connected via wireless. eventually computer is destined about as far from my home office as i can place it (kids) so need to get ethernet working. sound familiar, any suggestions?
2: In control panel the audio device is showing yellow question marks, doesn't look like drivers have installed, do i need to install the MSI Media Center to get sound out? looks like Media center has been the source of lots of grief.
3: Now that i am online, should i upgrade the bios, system came with 3.3. reading the postings i am not sure i want to introduce any more variables into the equation, but if it will help with 1 or 2...
4: From reading the forums it looks like xp sp2 is working well for most people, comments? i am running sp2 on 2 other machines and it is very stable. wireless management is also much improved.
thx again.
Amd Sempron 2400 proc
Segate 120G Drive
Sony DRU-540 DCD+-RW/+-RCD Drive
Corsair 512Mb (2 DDR-Dims)
XP Home unpatched, Bios 3.3

I would reiterate both Stu and Normunds advice.
1. Only update BIOS if you have to
2. Get the latest Nforce2 drivers from Nvidia. That should make a number of things work better. Hopefully sound and ethernet. If you're using onboard video also get the latest Nvidia display drivers from Nvidia.
3. I installed MCE 2005 which is XP SP2 + a front end. It is very stable. I have very few OS related problems. But I would turn off automatic update for XP. They are constantly wanting to update stuff that I don't even use.
4. For your ethernet problem are you getting an address assigned from DHCP ? Have you tried the repair connection thing from MS or wntipcfg.exe release/renew ? Does the machine address show up as connected from the router ?
If none of this stuff is working I would suggest checking for a router software upgrade. This happened to me about 6 months ago. XP was using some newer protocols that was confusing my router... and nothing worked.

FSB Setting for mega 180

hi, i just looked at my fsb setting and its at 166. i have a 2800 barton should this not run a wee bit higher than 2079.6Mhz?? i thoguht the fsb setting could be put higher at 200 on the mga 180's. i could be mistaken.
thank you for your help,
s.

Are you absolutely sure about that Stu? It does do it, it is just a matter of will the BIOS recognise the CPU, for example a Barton 3200+ which does run with a 400FSB.
In the 'Advanced Chipset Features' section of the BIOS if you change 'System Performance' from Auto to Manual you can take the 'CPU FSB Clock' setting up in increments of 1Mhz right the way up to 200FSB, so you can do it, as I say whether or not the BIOS recognises your CPU is another story.
I have another nForce 2 system that I use as a server(A7N8X-VM400) and i'm running an XP3200+ with 200FSB in that.
What isn't supported is the use of the onboard video at 400FSB, you have to use an add in AGP card...
I'd try it but I would have to take apart 2 systems to try it out :-(
J.

Mega 180 Remote

Hi,
Is there a "code" know'n for the Mega 180 IR-remote
I'd love to use my Marmitek remote for HIFI and CD playing
As i use the Marmitek remote for showshifter on my Mega 180 and for my TV, DVD and Sat set.
Don't like my table full with remote's

LOL
There is not any stockist in France for Mega 180 beacause this Mega is too old and nobody ditribute it now
And MSI France is not able to help me.
I'm very about MSI custumer service.
I must to make everything myself.

Mega 180 beeps, no POST

Ok I guess I need to sit down and tell you the whole story. I have a Mega 180 system that worked fine for two months (heck the best system I ever had) I decided to put the all in wander graphics card in to the system. I was going to the AGP slot of the motherboard of the mega 180. I went to the bios and saw something about high performance and about the AGP 8X knowing that my graphics card is for the 8X I decided to hit that save the Bios and shut down the system to put in the AGP card. After installing the card I started up my system and I got nothing to the screen, then the Mega made beep ever 3 secs. I shutdown the system by pulling the power plug. Waited 10-15 sec and tried it again, still no screen and the beeps. I pulled the plug again and uninstalled the graphics card. I again started the Mega up and switch the monitor hookups back to the built in graphs card. Still no screen and the beeps. My next guess was it had something to do with the Bios. I did the whole jumper thing and still got the no screen and the beeps. I even pulled out the battery and unplugged the power supply to the motherboard and waited 24 hours. Hooked back up everything installed the battery and powered up the system. And got no screen and the beeps. Ok maybe it is something elese so my sister having the same Mega as I do a 180(and thanks again sis for you help and the trust to use you mega as a test base) I pulled every thing out of my mega 180 and installed it in her’s. I put in the Memory, processor, hard drive, DVD-ROM. It worked with out a flaw it was just like before. I even tested the graphics card with out going to the bios (real trust from my sis or did I not say this is what messed up mine oh well) and the graphics card worked fine. So after another time spent I put back together my mega 180 (with out the graphics card in the AGP slot) and still got the no screen and the beeps. I then tested what the on line forms asked. I tried to put in other graphics cards in the other slot to see if it was looking there for a card, no luck. Then I took the hold thing down to BEST BUY (they have helped out before good Guys there) and they spent all day messing around trying to clear the bios and trying different memory and different graphic cards and no luck. They said to call in the warranty and see what MSI will do. (They did not charge me a thing for their time, and many of them I know want one now too even with this mess up I think this is the best thing out there in the world of pcs)
Ok so that bring us here and I thought to give you guys here a try be for I go ask MSI
Again thanks to all that help, I wish I could do more then say thank you.
Heck one more thing I would have done the redo of the flash the bios thing with the new file but the mega 180 does not have a floppy drive so no A drive.

Thanks for splitting this from the other topic to avoid any confusion.
I did use a can of air when I rebuilt my mega 180 after I tested all the parts in my sister Mega 180. And best buy looked over every thing and did not see any thing wrong. (four eyes always are better then mine) At this point I’m out of ideas thanks again for all you help guys. I guess I’ll send an email to MSI today and see what they say. (in a year or two I’ll hear something) I thought it would be fair to start here before going to MSI. In all, I hope this is truly a rear thing that happens to mega 180's for I still say this the best case to get. I love this case and I got two of my friends to buy one and my sister has one. We all love our Mega's a lot. (Heating can be fixed with a little work ok) And the radio rocks and the looks cant be beat. I will keep you all updated and again if you all have any ideas please post them here you never know one day this might happen to you.

MEGA 180 & Palomino cpu

Hi all, i tried the search function but didn´t find what i wanted.
so, will mega 180 work with a xp1800+ Palomino?
I intend to buy mega 180, but I have to know if my cpu will work for it.
if it will support the palomino, then i can buy 2x333MHz Kingston DDR258MB sticks.
otherwise I´ll only get 1 of those and then either a barton or a sempron cpu, sempron is supported?
oh, and how big is the box for mega 180? either in inches or centimetres

another question:
Would my old Duron 750MHz CPU work too?
Until I can buy either a Barton 2800+, 3000+ or sempron 2800 or 3000?
I´ll buy one of those in december.
I´ll use arctic silver when adding the newer CPU.
oh btw, I ordered the MEGA180 Deluxe with Kingston KVR333X64C25/512.
What Harddisk would be best to install into MEGA180?
I´m thinking of a 80 or 120GB HD´s from http://www.webhallen.com/list.php?avd=3&konsol=13&genre=53
Could this be good? http://www.webhallen.com/prod.php?id=11938
or is there better HD´s out there?

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