Factory Fault with BXMaster?

[Lycan]

Hi guys,
I've got a real major problem here with my BXMaster motherboard and some PC-150 Mushkin HSDRAM I just purchased.

I'll give you some background... The PC-150 Ram from Mushkin requires RAM settings of:

Cas Latency = 2
RAS to CAS = 3
Precharge Delay = 2

to run at anything over 124FSB setting.

I'm currently running my P3-700 @ 966 (138FSB) with PC100 Ram and I purchased this RAM in order to reach the 1Ghz mark... however...

When I set the RAM Timings to 2-3-2 in the BIOS, shut down the PC, insert the PC-150 RAM and try to reboot, the system freezes just as its about to start doing the memory test counting thing...

Upon further testing and elmination... I have come to the conclusion that the BIOS settings for the Ram timings, Cas Latency, RAS to CAS and Precharge Delay dont do anything!!!! (((

They are stuck on 2-2-2.
Setting them to 3-3-3 does nothing at all.

To prove this I set the ram to 3-3-3 in the BIOS, loaded Windows, loaded WPCredit and clicked on Offset 76 and in there it reports the Ram timing settings as 2-2-2 (00010111)!

WTF!! Have MSI stuffed up here bad or what??
Am I doing something wrong??
Does it look like the BXMaster is heading for the rubbish bin??

Any help, suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[GetInMyFatBelly]

I had the same problem. I ordered the 128MB Mushkin 150 HSDRAM for $99 for another motherboard I was going to buy (got it yesterday and it works fine with the Abit SA6R). I tried it out on my BXMaster and when I booted up after going into bios settings and changing to 2-3-2 and change to non-ECC, the memory test would start normal but when it got to 64MB it would jump to 128MB and and say "Memory Test Fail". I call up Mushkin and they send me out aother stick with a preaddressed return label for the original stick (great service). I put the second stick in and get nada, same as you. Would not even post at boot-up, just freeze. I was worried that I was getting some bad RAM, because the stick that I had in there before was a stick of Mushkin 128MB ECC PC133 Cas. 2 Rev. 2 ram and it worked fine. I read your post and figured the board just ain't compatible with the HSDRAM and when I got the Abit SA6R yesterday, I tried the HSDRAM in there and it worked fine, in fact both sticks of HSDRAM booted and worked fine, but I sent the first stick I got back because I was a little leary of the "Memory Test Fail". Mushkin has great service so I would just exchange for a different stick of ram from them like the Rev. 2. Or you could get another motherboard, but the BXMaster is a good board if your not upgrading. Hope this helps...

 

[GetInMyFatBelly]

Oh, and you might want to notify Mushkin that the HSDRAM is not compatible with the MSI BXMaster and has been confirmed by a second party.