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Monitor or mobod problem.

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When the computer is started the splash screen for the msi board it has comes on and then remains black. The fans are running and all sounds find but it still stays black. After it has warmed up it will then come on after resetting it many times. After it is on for a while it works fine.


I just got off the phone with MSI and they said it could be a number of things but I guess I learned something others told me I didn't have to do was wrong. When you have a sata drive and aren't putting it to a raid you still have to install the drivers from the disk. Is that really true? I have built a bunch and never done it and they all work great except this one. He said in the device manager I should have a section that says scsi and sata. I don't on my home computer. Let me know what you know about this.
 
You might want to check your BIOS to see if there is an option to select Video output to AUTO/PCI/PCIex. On my MB there is, and if it's set to PCI (default) you won't get Video as it's putting the signal out to your PCI Video card (which you don't have - it should be PCIex).

As for the SATA issue, I've been seeing that mentioned on the threads here recently and I'm a bit confused about it. I never install SATA Drivers for my Drive and it works great. I guess it's possible it's integrated in the NF4 Chipset driver package, but if that's the case I'd expect you would be okay too assuming you have the NF4 Chip.

 
I was told a long time ago that you only have to install the other disk if you are installing a raid config.I am totally confused now. What about anyone else?
 
If you're talking about doing Raid, then yes, you'll need to install some drivers for that.

With just normal (non-Raid) configurations I wouldn't think drivers would be needed, they should be supplied by Win XP (if that's what you're using).
 
Try flashing your board to the latest BIOS. You *normally* don't need the RAID drivers off a floppy unless your hard drive's on a controller that's not integrated in the cipset.
 
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