PT880 Chipset MB

Has anyone had problems with a PT880 FSR motherboard with a P4 3.2GHZ Proc and Corsair 512MB stick? I am having the hardest time diagnosing my installation problem with Windows XP. When I disable all Caching, I can get through the first dos phase of XP setup, but after it bluescreens with a STOP 0x0000000A.
I would appreciate any insights on how to build with the right components. Its my first time upgrading.

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Originally posted by SGT.Slaughter
Well I found out that prescott processors are not compatible with the onboard cache on the PT880, therefore the MSI PT880 FSR MB sucks. I exchanged it for a ABIT motherboard that supports prescotts and now I am rock n rollin.
Thanks Everyone!
weird, Prescott´s should be compatible according to this cpu testreport, bios 1.6;
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=636&kind=1
Wish you good luck anyway.

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Via Pt880

Hi,
Seeing as a few people are having similar problems with PT880 chipset, I decided to see what info is about.
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?page=2&articleid=197&cid=3
Read this part : Specifications of VIA's PT880 Reference Motherboard
I cannot fully comment, as I do not have a PT880 chipset board to test, but it does seem to me that it is upto 3rd Party mainboard manufacturers to allow PRESCOTT compatibility...........
So, may I suggest you check your mainboard page and then the CPU section..
I know that the mainboard listed below will support PRESCOTT but ONLY certain types and NONE of the 800FSB
Del

PCIe or PCIx ?
DDR or DDR2 depends on the motherboard. Only one type is possible at one time.
PCIe or AGP, depends on motherboard design, whether there are one PCIe and one AGP slot available. Even if yes, you may or may not use both at the same time. This depends on the motherboard chipset, and BIOS support.

MSI Pt880 Neo

Hi i am making my own computer... so i bought a X_Dreamer II computer case and then i bought the MSI PT880 Neo and installed it on the case and then i was reading the mother board manual.. and it said that the mother board supports Pentium 4 and upto 3Ghz so does that mean i have to BUY the pentium 4 chipset separate?
This is what it says exactlyon the box :
MSI
VIA PT880 Chipset based
PT880 Neo
Corcell Chip
Designed for Intel Pentium Northwood/prescott (socket 478) processors

Hi,
2.8 or 3.0 Northwood CPU..........
Nvidia 5700 series and above or ATI 9600 series and above, both I consider min for high end GAMER system.......
ALSO, choose PSU carefully......
Del

[VIA Series] pt880 neo fsr - win xp pro install problem

Can you help me please?
In the course of Windows XP professional installation the Blue screen appear (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ***STOP: 0x0000000A) just after formating to ntfs. I have a inovated Bios version 1.9 (p4 3.0Ghz prescott). How next.

Hi,
Clarify:
Ram tested in PT880 chipset MSI mainboard
All DDR 400
1) Corsair 2-2-2-6
2) Twinmos 2.5-3-3-8
3) Infineon 2.5-4-4-8
4) PNY 2.5-4-4-8
5) Generic 3rd on 3rd (Cheap as chips stuff)
All tested in MSI mainboards as well . 865Platinum, 848P Neo-s and 845GE max
Please note:- I buy memory second hand, so I have to run memtest86.........
Also, I use Enermax PSUs.
Here to help
Del

MS-7008 SATA drives not visible

Hi,
My MS-7008 ATX Mainboard has:
Supports Intel® P4 Northwood/Prescott (Socket 478) processor.
VIA® PT880 chipset
VIA® VT8237 chipset
- High Bandwidth V-link Client controller
- Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC
- Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller
- ACPI
- Supports Serial ATA
- Supports USB2.0
Have been funning this motherboard for many years without problems. Until now, when I decided to use SATA drives in addition. Bought Samsung 1 TB (HD103UJ model) drive, connected to MB and fired up my W2K3 system.
To my large dissapointment drives did not show up in the list of available disks. I am looking under Computer Management - Disk Management. Device Manager shows some error under SCSI and RAID Controllers - VIA RAID Conntroller 3149 ... It has this yellow sign with "!" in it. Understand that driver for SATA migh be missing. Since that point I have been to tones of pages on web reading and searching, but after two days still no luck... Tried MSI page, VIA (producer of southbridge chipset) page, tried out many drivers I could find there, but still same message. On the other hand, those are not listed in computer start up post messages either. I checked all settings in BIOS, found only one regarding SATA and there it says enabled.
The only thing I did not check out yet is to play with HDD jumpers. Somewhere I read that by limiting speed of HDD one can make them appear. But I do not have jumper avalable and HDD manual is very unclear, not sure if I can do that even if I had jumper. Have only 4 pins ( two sets times two pins) so it is only 4 possible combinations, will try as soon as I get some pins.
Anybody else have any other idea??? Really painfull to search for something that should just work in "plug & play" mode

Unfortunatelly Disk Management does not show that disk. I am quite sure this has to do with finding right drivers. Furthermore, I hope that these drivers can be installed now, after system has been installed. I believe SATA drivers need to be installed during system installation only if SATA drive is the one where you install the system. In my case, this drive will only be used as data drive, so hopefully I can find the right driver and install it now. Pleaes note, that BIOS identifies SATA 1 driver (I temporarely connected another SATA drive that I had). The only problem is, I can not find the driver.... One possible reason could be that my system "windows Server 2003 X86 is not supported"... That would be dissapointing :( I have looked through MSI page as well as VIA support and tried many possible drives (I go into device manager and select SATA driver that is currently with yellow warning sign, right click it and do update, then select the new downloaded driver, but system does not accept it).
I also tried to uninstall existing drive completely, and then do "search for hardware changes". This finds new device and places it not under unidentified devices without driver. It places into SCSI and RAID controllers group and call device something that ends 3149 ... VIA chip used on my board is 8237, so again, kind of weired number that Windows automatically assigns to new device. But again, it does not allow me to change the driver to any of the downloaded ones, saying that it is not newer driver than the one currently installed....

Sneak Peak at MSI's new X58 Nehalem board.

Sweet. I ran across this a little bit ago. The new MSI X58 MB. It doesn't seem to say which model, but looks like a Diamond as I see some familiar black and red HW SATA ports, but there is a third blue one! Maybe RAID 5 HW RAID FTW!!!!
I like the triple channel memory, but will hate having to pay for triple packs of RAM.
There's even a good shot at the new Nehalem 1366 CPU socket. Pretty cool looking layout.
Here's a link to the article for you to read:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9593/index.html
Happy day dreaming
-=Mark=-

Quote from: Del UK on 06-June-08, 03:46:04
Going triple channel, seems a step back really........... We have had Dual Channel mainstream for a few years now. Via had the Quad channel with the PT880 chipset, but never become popular......... so why triple and not quad......?
Everything else is quad pumped up.......
We now have the P45 chipset with support of 16Gb ram, so will we be looking at 32Gb with this mainboard?
Nice find by the way, Mark
hmm, what if it has been raised from quad pumped to x6 (Sept?) pumped? that would be cool. It sure would make sense then. or better yet triple data rate memory (TDR). I just hope there's something to take advantage of it at any rate. The current dual channel doesn't seem to offer much in performance increase. RAM sizes are getting so big that we don't need anymore than 2 sticks as it is, so 3 better give us something besides more unneeded RAM.
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I would agree that quad channel would have been better for speed .... But 8 Dimm slots? biggthumbsdown
It might have worked with just 4 Dimm slots as well with each one on a seperate channel, so there could be budget boards with 4 slots, and high end boards with 8, but it would be difficult to fit 8 slots onto a normal sized board.
I really like the layouts of the slots on these boards, they have gotten it right by ensuring that one PCI slot is still usable with all of the PCI-E populated.
The board with 3 slots can handle 3 double width cards, or the 4 slot board can handle 4 single slot ones. I hope we will see boards with just two PCI-E 16x slots as well though.
Makes me feel like crying for having bought an X48 now lol.
With all these boards going in features I'm thinking they may grow in size. I seen a few days ago a case with 10 slots on the back. I think it may have been a server case, but with triple and quad sli/xfire I could see them creating a bigger board. although I'm sure multi-core GPU are just around the corner, especially since AMD and ATI have merged. I can't can wait for a multi-core CPU/GPU combo for some awesome onboard video.
-=Mark=-

848p mobo won't post

I have a 1.7 I pulled from my old dell (people think its intell)
anyways, bought a 848p neo, bought an Echo Star 480W Power Supply, 512 of PNY PC3200, grabbed my old video card (I know it works) which is a GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (256 mb) and put it all together.
Anyways, the system turns on like a charm, makes a few reassuring noises and then hangs before the monitor ever displays a single message. As in, the monitor stays in standby like its not even plugged into a turned-on computer.
Nothing smells funny, and the computer will continue to hum away; just I don't think its doing anything.
The reason I don't think its doing anything is the diagnostic lights on the back (I'm using the D-Bracket 2) are the same no matter how long I leave the computer running:
red green
red green
In the manual, this light configuration means the motherboard is "Testing Base and Extended Memory" but unfortunatly
a) I have no idea what it means by "Testing Base and Extended Memory" and
b) I have a suspicion that my problem is something different than what the lights are talking about just because it seems like the lights shouldn't STAY in that position.
I really have no idea what to do; I tried resetting CMOS, but that didn't help.
Any help would be appreciated!

Hi,
1) hit reset button 3-4 times
2) Install 1 stick of mem only
3) Try lower spec ram ddr 266
4) Update bios too 1.4 or above
Please also note that certain ddr400 mem sticks are not 100% compat, with this board.....
I have only just switched too PT880 chipset.....
You should be able too boot system now........
Del

PT880 Neo (VIA Chipset) Serial ATA Driver needed!

I have just recently built a computer with a NEO PT880 Motherboard along with a Seagate Baracuda 120gb HDD with Serial ATA support, however, W2k does not detect the hdd (because of it being SATA), the bios does see it, yet I need the drivers to install it but the motherboard did not come with a floppy to install the driver during W2k 'F6' prompt, any ideas or can you point to where I can grab the proper drivers? Thanks.

I need this too, didnt get a diskette and cant finish building this new computer :( Anyone have it?

Overclocking my PT880 got best results with a PCI video card instead of a AGP card. Why?

Hi guys,
I posted a complete review of my PT880 OC experience at the "Overclocking section of the forum: thread post PT880 OC results" : https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=48006&sid=&threadview=0&hilight=&hilightuser=0&page=2
Some days of test with my new PT880 board and I was able to run my P4 (B?) 2.4Ghz at 18 x 154 = 2772 Mhz. I got this speed using a cheap PCI card XFX GeForce 4 MX440, from my old P3 computer. I also got system to work with higher FSBs, but with some unstable sound board issues that I related on the link above.
This week I decided to change the card to another same cheap XFX GeForce 4 MX440, but now a AGP 8x version. My surprise is that the system started to hang with just 20~30 seconds of use. Setting the front side bus to 133 helped to fix the stability issue. Playing a bit more I could OC using a 144 FSB, getting a final speed of 2592. Trying higher FSBs results in a unstable system again.
This makes me wondering if the AGP/PCI is really locked. Using 144 FSB, it is supposed that an unlocked AGP port will be running at 72 Mhz, what is the limit for some AGP cards... My BIOS setup is using the AGP clock option at the default of 66Mhz. Is it really working at this speed?
If the AGP/PCI bus speed is really locked in this VIA PT880 MSI motherboard, why this difference in OC results when I change from a PCI to an AGP card (same manufacturer, same nvidia chipset) ? Will be the northbridge more occupied now?
My PC setup now:
- MSI PT880 LSR with Bios upgraded to 1.4
- Pentium 4(B? 533Mhz) 2.4Ghz
- 512Mb DDR PC3200 NonECC ADATA Memory (just one module, so just single channel)
- XFX GeForce4 MX440 AGP8x
- Seagate 120Gb 7200RPM ATA100
- Seagate 80Gb 7200RPM ATA100
- Prolink PlayTV HD (conexant cx88)
- Sound Blaster Live! 4.1
- LG DVD-RW 4040b
- 450W generic PSU
That's all for now

Your AGP bus uses more bandwith than the PCI bus, thus making the OC more dependend from the AGP bus. And if your AGP slot will drain more CPU power and fragile as AGP can be, it will not tolerate errors due higher clock speeds. Mhz += Stability -. Notice: PCI is 33 Mhz/ AGP is 66/133 Mhz... . As you see there is less margin for errors. While you overclock the CPU will make tolerable errors: NP with PCI... But AGP... will take it to the MAX. [I hope this reply is No nonsense]

PT880----Possible cold boot issue-----What are YOUR boot times??

I may have an issue with this board that I hadn't really noticed since I've been so heavy into the max overclock I could get.
My post and then boot time is strange and annoying-----and sometimes I have to just shut off and turn on-----to actually complete the process. It just seems WAY too long! But maybe this is normal for the chipset.
Turn on>>>>>to POST beep = 40 seconds----D-Bracket shows code of "Memory Detection" during this time.....(----This is the time that seems way out of whack)----most boards I've ever had go from turn on>>>>to Post beep VERY quickly.
From POST beep>>>>>to "Welcome" screen in BOOT = another 20 seconds
Completion of BOOT = another 10 seconds-----not so much worried about this one as I would think it would be Windows dependent and what additional software was loaded.
This total process seems remarkably slow----and again----sometimes-----I NEVER get the post beep (The D-Bracket code is stuck in Memory Detection) and I have to turn the machine off and start again.
What are you guys' times with your PT880???? I tried two different types of RAM---no difference----changing RAM DIMM slots-----no difference----changing RAM timings and voltages----no difference-----I also ran Memtest on both sets of RAM (passed), reflashed Bios----cleared CMOS, and reset NVRAM----no change.
Any ideas??? Beta Bios 1.53 issue??
John

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Originally posted by markt435
Well I finally got my system fixed. Hmmm I have about a 20 sec start up. My proc is overclocked to 3.4Ghz as well. I would try reseating memory or clearing the BIOS. Or putting different sticks of memory in if you have any laying around.
Already done-----See last paragraph of my post....

Intel Chipset Mainboards

Hi,
Quick fact info find:
Which of MSI mainboards with Intel chipset have the following feature in the bios:
Under Advanced BIOS Features........in bios.
CPU L1 & L2 Cache..........Enable / disabled (WRITEBACK or WRITETHRU options you may not have)
MS- number
Ver
Bios
Thanks in advance for your help and time.
Del UK

Hi Bejon,
L1 / L2 Cache Update Mode:
Available options: WB (Writeback), WT (writethrough)
WB (Writeback): There are two concepts of cache-handling. The first is the write-back, you work against the cache, and when that data is finished, it's written back to the primary memory. You should put it as write-back to recieve the best performance.
WT (Writethrough): The second one is the write-through, that instead of waiting until the work with the data is finished writes to the primary memory for every change in the cache. (From
http://www.wimsbios.com/index.htm?/HTML1/advanced.html )
Ok, how can you tell, if basic ENABLE is using WRITEBACK or WRITETHRU.....?
I know that WRUTETHRU is the ENABLE on this PT880, as it is half the speed of my basic 2.4 bench.....
This is why......so I can advise, when people say "I only score 500 when someone else scores 1000......etc "
Del

PT880 - Boot Problem

OK, I know, there's plenty of topics here stating problems with people's PT880 boards having a similar problem, but nowhere where I could find a clear solution.
A little different from other people's problems, here's my situation:
after setting up all the hardware with all new parts that should, for no reason, be defective, ive gotten to the BIOS and am ready to install win XP...
450w power supply
VIA PT880 MoBo
2.8E GHz P4 CPU (Prescott)
2x512 Corsair pc3200 ddr
160gb Samusung HD
52x CDRW Drive
1.44 Floppy Drive
setting the RW drive to first boot w/ XP inside ready to install, nothing usually happens when it's time to boot, except for the blank screeen after the "network first, then local" message
however, when it does happen to try and read the XP disc, i get the message:
"Can't find NTLDR"
doing my research, i know that "NT loader" has something to do with windows, and basically what it is, but i still have no idea how to fix this
reading around, i see that the prescott isn't exactly this board's best friend, so would a BIOS Flash help this out at all? it looks like other people with the 1.4 upgrade continue to have similar problems...
also, when it comes to the floppy drive, the tiny green light on the front never turns off once the power is on, which i thought was weird ... so the drive may or may not be working
with all these different factors, i have no idea where to begin. if someone's got some advice, that would be great... thanks a lot!

i had to use a Northwood to install windows and live update to flash biops to the newest which is 1.5.
As soon as I put the northwood in, everything worked normal
I installed Xp pro and chipset drivers then Live update and flashed bios
I then shut her down and installed my Prescott 800fsb.
Then I booted her up and never had one problem since
I figure you need to do what I did, it's easy and it will work for you to
Also use live update to get the Via 4in1 version 4.51 chipset drivers.

PT880 + P4 2.80E Freezing

I just got a brand new PT880 and P4 2.80E GHz and have been having problems galore. I have read through most of the posts here and they have helped tremendously. However, I am still having one more significant issue. When I start up a game, I can play for about 15-45 minutes and my computer will lock up.
My temps seem to run between 109F/43C and 122F/50C (after it has frozen and I restart, I check the temp in the BIOS, it reads about 122F/50C so that might be a little low.) The P4 should have a thermal diode that should throttle back if it gets too hot though so that doesn't seem like it should be an issue. I have the cover off of the computer, but I will try putting a box fan near it to see if I can rule out heat. Maybe the passive cooler on the chipset isn't enough?
I set the aperature size to 64MB and 128MB in the BIOS, didn't seem to help. I've messed with all the settings under AGP timing.
My (cheap) power supply might be a bit weak: +12v/17a, +3.3v/20a, +5v/40a.
( http://gpb-jge.com/file/ap440f.html )
If 17a isn't enough on the +12v, then I will trade it in for an Enermax 350W Whisper Power Supply, EG365P-VE FC (+12v/26a, +3.3v/32a, +5v/32a) I would gain a lot on the 12v and lose some on the +5v
( http://www.enermax.com.tw/eg365p-ve-fca.htm )
I will try running a stress tester on my machine that works only the processor to see if I can rule out my video card causing any weird kind of incompatibility. I was able to play the same games on my Athlon 1500+ though with the same card. Maybe now it isn't getting enough power because of the P4.
I tried overclocking as that has seemed to work for some, but made matters worse for me.
My big question is about the power supply. Should I take mine back for the Enermax? Could this solve my problems? Any other ideas? Has anyone had this board and processor work flawlessly?

Oh-No Another Prescott Victim ....You are Going to have issues that we Cant Help you with in Here, as Most of the Issues are Prescott Related,,You will Be Much better off Going to http://www.viaarena.com To see what the VIA Boys Have figured out....But By All means you NEED a More powerfull PSU and the ENERMAX 465W-VE is the One you want..........Sean REILLY875

PT880 & SATA2 problem

Hello!
A have a PT880 Neo-SR (MS-7008) MB, with VIA VT8237 chipset.
I'm trying to connect a WD1600JS (SATA2) in addition to an existing SAMSUNG SP1213 (SATA1).
I know my MB doesn't support SATA2, but I thought it would recognize the WD SATA2 as SATA1.
But when I connect the new WD which is SATA2, it doesn't recognize it AT ALL.
I've tried to connect other WD which was SATA1, and it recognized it, so the SATA connectors and the WD aren't damaged.
So I found that my MB doesn't recognize SATA2 disks, and can't treat them as SATA1.
Is this issue is a problem only in my MB, or the problem is in this PT880 model ?

Maybe you can try updating your BIOS from www.msi.com.tw and see if that rectifies the problem.
Be warned that the risks on failure of BIOS flashing can results in death of mainboard and neither the forum nor MSI is liable for the damage.

PT880 boot problems

The system will not boot any devices (floppy, hard drive, or cd-rom) after it posts. Everything else seems to work fine. All the devices are detected, and the boot order is set correctly. Suffice to say I've tried just about every combination of BIOS settings (inlcluding adjusting the ram voltage as some have suggested). I've also tried unhooking all the drives and running the system, and I've tried the drives in various possible combinations, but nothing seems to work.
I've notice a few other posts to this forum with similar problems with the PT880 motherboard and/or the 2.8GHZ-E processor, but I was wondering if anybody has come up with a solution or has a suggestion.

Oh-No......Not Another Prescott issue ......No I'm not Trying to be Rude, or Make light of the situation, as I rally Feel for Ya Dude.. It's Just that No Matter what forum I Go Into ABIT, ASUS, GIGABYTE, I am Reading all of the Same threads, and the Common Denominator in all of them, is the Fact that a Prescott CPU is installed, and it seems to be the 2.8-E and the 2.8-A Prescotts that are the biggest Offenders..........Do You Have the Latest BIOS Installed? As ONLY the Latest BIOS Has the Microcode for your 2.8-E Prescott....Do You have the Absolute Latest 4-1 INF (Chipset) Drivers Installed?.........You Should even go to VIA's Site to see if they have newer 4-1's or any Further Info on this Prescott Mess, as I honestly think that it is a NB Driver issue with ALL of the Manufacturers Boards http://www.viaarena.com ............Sean REILLY875

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