I am having problems with my new setup, can anyone help please?

[Syborg1211]

I just tried installing the board today again and everything seemed to work well without a reformat or any changes, weird. Notice I said seemed. I even got my sound blaster live working and played an mp3. But after I played an mp3 I tried to do a game test with Half-Life Counterstrike and got some strange vxd error. I did disable the onboard sound through the bios. Another problem I awas having was with some of my fsb settings. It was odd at times since it once reported my fsb as 230. I had mo idea what was going on but it drove me nuts.

 

[Syborg1211]

Where were you reading that the sblive and this board don't get along? And this the same problem with all 815e motherboards? How about 815ep boards? I am contempplating returning this motherboard and getting a cusl2-c.

 

[LXi]

Again, people are too tempted to return and get a new board just because they fail to get it to work properly. Im going to ask you again, is your SB Live! sharing with anything? Im going to tell you again, you need to reformat. Your OS gets totally messed up when swapping motherboards and switching between different devices. Reformat is absolutley need when swapping motherboards and if you didnt take that into account before you install it, you shouldn't be blaming MSI for it.

 

[Syborg1211]

Ok, I will plan to format and install windows me on an old hard drive tonight and see what happens.

 

[LXi]

Update us on how it goes.

 

[Wik]

Got my 6337 today and up and running. I am running it at 148 mhz FSB on my 550e. I did a fresh install of Win2K with it running at 133.

I was not able to get the onboard sound to work at all. Someone else on the forums here said that OC messes up the onboard. I went ahead and put my first revision SB live value in it and it works just fine. I am using the latest Live Ware and drivers for the card so makesure you do the same. I have not tried to clock back down to 100mhz to try the onboard sound and I only had the on board video working long enough to get the bios set.

I am confused as to some of the things that say optional in the book. Smart D-Led? Multi-channel sound? and also I can't get any of the keyboard power-up features to work.

I am loving this board alot. I really like the EZ bios update even though the Bios is already the latest. I am still trying to figure out the EZ Logo program to change the boot logo. There are a lot of cool programs buried in the Drivers disk. Look under MSI utilities while browsing the cd without auto run.

Tomorrow I will Try my Windows ME drive on this board to see what happens. Anyone else with this board please share your knowledge so that we all can learn more about.

 

[Syborg1211]

Sorry guys, I never got to reformatting last night. I didn't do anything yesterday. All I did was go on the forums for a while and went to sleep and woke up at 5 this morning. Anyways, I will most likely get to it tonight.

 

[MushkinTechs]

<< Can I use 3 sticks of 128 mb mushkin rev2 ram in there or just 2 only because of the chipset regulations? >>



i815(e) chipset based motherboards motherboards only officially support &quot;a maximum of 2 double sided or 3 single sided DIMMs when the SDRAM interface is operating at 133MHz. Upon detection that additional rows are populated beyond these configurations, the BIOS must downshift the SDRAM clocks to 100MHz through a 2-wire interface of the system clock generator.&quot;. This is quoted from page 18 of the Intel i815 chipset datasheet available here

So supposedly you can only use two 128MB REV 2 modules at a time without the motherboard automatically reverting to 100MHz. However in my experience, motherboard manufacturers aren't following that rule of reverting to 100MHz, and you can install 3 double sided DIMMs. But don't take my word for it, I would suggest following Intels suggestion even though some people may notice no ill affects. So I would suggest avoiding three 128MB REV 2 modules and would instead suggest getting 128MB REV 3 modules since they are single sided and allow you to install 3 modules while still following what Intel officially supports. Or you could get two 256MB REV 2 modules which are double sided. The 256MB REV 2 modules will allow you to achieve the maximum amount of memory that the i815 chipset supports, 512MB. As opposed to the REV 3 128MB modules, where you'd be limited to 384MB.

 

[Syborg1211]

Alright, all seems well. I was able to install windows and all that stuff, but the real test comes when I put half life on and see what happens. That would require me to get my computers all hooked up on a lan to get the files so the real test will occur tomorrow since I have a bit of homework tonight. But it seems LXi is right about the reformatting thing...

 

[Syborg1211]

I tried installing my hard drive in as a secondary slave to my 1 gig hard drive I formatted and it gave me registry errors and corrupted some of my files. So then I put my hard drive back in my other computer and I also had registry errors on both hard drives and it also corrupted some files also. What is up?

 

[Raincity]

If your overclocking, most likely your ram cant handle the the high buss speeds at a 222 setting. The corrupted reg file is usually the first symptom that the memory or possibly the hardrive cant handle the overclock. Try slowing down your ram timings in the bios first and see if that helps.

Rain

 

[Syborg1211]

Red Dawn- That's exactly the solution I was looking for. Thank you very much. I shall try it later on.

I was not overclocking at all, and besides, I know my Mushkin Rev 2 can handle over 145 mhz bus speed 2-2-2

 

[Wik]

Red Dawn, does that work in Win2K also? I have not been able to transfer a Win2K OS from one system to another without having format. I do all the time in Win98 and ME but Win2K always gives me a blue screen at bootup.

 

[Syborg1211]

Basically, I am screwed. I HAVE to reformat now. I found out that most of my files are corrupted and scandisk won't even get past the first phase without restarting. I have so many corrupt files. Red Dawn would have been the savior if I hadn't done that last thing. Darn it.