I built a new system with the K7T Pro2, 128MB PC133, Elsa TNT2 card, 30GB WD drive etc. Had the system up for 3 Hours and was very pleased. Decided I wanted to boot my old W95 Disk to pull some files from a compressed partion. Switched the BIOS to boot from the Slave and Rebooted. 95 came up wanted new drivers and asked for the CD. After reading the CD 95 said it wanted to reboot. When it did I got no video, a red, green, red, red diagnostic light pattern and the system started to beep extremely fast no video, no activity nothing. I thought the motherboard failed (because I triend new memory which the light pattern indicated was the problem) and the reseller's tech support sent another one. I replaced it and it worked perfect. Then (like an Idiot) I decided to boot from the 95 disk again. Same result. I then knew I had killed the BIOS (I tried re-flashing etc) and nothing short of a hot swap or new BIOS would help
I found a link at:
http://www.deja.com/group/alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar
where a user had exactly the same problem (with two motherboards also) and a posted reply stated what is written below. I contacted MSI support and the tech finally checked and said it was a known issue (with W95 V1 and the VIA chipset) and they agreed to send a new BIOS.
I swear it seems like a Virus but I put the 95 Disk back into my old system and it works fine. I am going to check that disk out though.
Joe
Below is the post
What happened is that the VIA (KX133 and KT133 both) chipsets have an issue with Windows 95 (original version, Win95 4.00.950 no a, b or c) that causes BIOS corruption. The continuous beeps that you hear are from the boot block sector of the BIOS attempting to repair itself (utilizing a repair bootable floppy with the proper flash files
included) and not finding it. In my work rounds (through a strange twist of irony I happen to be a tech at a PC Club store out here in Arizona) I have seen this happen twice. Both times I had to "hot-swap" a known good BIOS into a board to boot it and then place the old BIOS back into it while the machine was booted, then flash it. The
W6330VMS.201 bios (version 2, beta 1) takes care of the Win95.0
issue... if you flashed your BIOS to this it is assumed that you will not have further problems with this chipset.
Of course, if you want to make absolute certain that you don't run into this problem again (once again it is the VIA chipset and not MSI) then now might be a good time to consider an OS upgrade.
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Gary / SI212 Tech Supreme and Shybie Extraordinaire ... *.*
MSI K7T-Pro2-A(MS6330) with AMD Thunderbird 1GHz Athlon Processor
BIOS 1.8/384MB CL2 ECC SDRAM/V4 4500/35GB HD/InWin Q600N 300w PS
In a world full of people, only some like to fly. Isn't that CRAZY?-Seal
I found a link at:
http://www.deja.com/group/alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar
where a user had exactly the same problem (with two motherboards also) and a posted reply stated what is written below. I contacted MSI support and the tech finally checked and said it was a known issue (with W95 V1 and the VIA chipset) and they agreed to send a new BIOS.
I swear it seems like a Virus but I put the 95 Disk back into my old system and it works fine. I am going to check that disk out though.
Joe
Below is the post
What happened is that the VIA (KX133 and KT133 both) chipsets have an issue with Windows 95 (original version, Win95 4.00.950 no a, b or c) that causes BIOS corruption. The continuous beeps that you hear are from the boot block sector of the BIOS attempting to repair itself (utilizing a repair bootable floppy with the proper flash files
included) and not finding it. In my work rounds (through a strange twist of irony I happen to be a tech at a PC Club store out here in Arizona) I have seen this happen twice. Both times I had to "hot-swap" a known good BIOS into a board to boot it and then place the old BIOS back into it while the machine was booted, then flash it. The
W6330VMS.201 bios (version 2, beta 1) takes care of the Win95.0
issue... if you flashed your BIOS to this it is assumed that you will not have further problems with this chipset.
Of course, if you want to make absolute certain that you don't run into this problem again (once again it is the VIA chipset and not MSI) then now might be a good time to consider an OS upgrade.
--
Gary / SI212 Tech Supreme and Shybie Extraordinaire ... *.*
MSI K7T-Pro2-A(MS6330) with AMD Thunderbird 1GHz Athlon Processor
BIOS 1.8/384MB CL2 ECC SDRAM/V4 4500/35GB HD/InWin Q600N 300w PS
In a world full of people, only some like to fly. Isn't that CRAZY?-Seal
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