MSI 865PE Neo2-P

[BCinSC]

I was just setting up a system based on this board and found that it appears I can't overclock much without frying my AGP/PCI cards. Am I missing something?

 

[TStep]

I'm not familiar w/ MSI Bios. but it is probably set to default. Try setting AGP to 66, 67, or 68 manually and see if that works out.

 

[Elemennop]

Without updating the BIOS, you need to set the AGP lock to 67.

Newer BIOS versions have PCI/AGP locks set automatically.

 

[BCinSC]

I think I have latest BIOS and in neither version did I see an option to lock the AGP. Have I been too spoiled by my MSI K7N2 Delta-L that did everything for me out of the box?

 

[BCinSC]

Confirmed latest BIOS and that any changes for FSB affect AGP/PCI. Well, I've got an acronym for that: POS.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Bizarre. I know someone with this board, that I was just advising last night to upgrade their BIOS, since they haven't since they bought it. They're not overclocking, but if the async PCI/AGP freq is "busted" in the latest BIOS version, I'm going to tell them to hold off. Thanks for the heads-up.

(Wouldn't be the first MSI BIOS upgrade that broke something, my MSI KT400 board is suffering from MSI's buggy BIOS tweaks as well. 🙁 )

 

[BCinSC]

I don't think it's busted in just latest BIOS. This board was v3.6 and I have another at v3.3 (latest is 3.A, aka .10) and all have same limitation. I don't get it, this was suppose to be a great board.

 

[BCinSC]

Is there a program like CPU-Z for Linux?

 

[BCinSC]

AGP/PCI increased in ratio with FSB increase, but I found that I could finally manually manipulate them back to 66/33. Now running at 4GHz (222FSB). Scaling back to 3.7GHz so I can run my KingMax DDR500 at 510 (won't go higher) and keep CPU for totally frying.