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MSI K7T Turbo overclockers bios posted

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No, I know what you're talking about. The promise controller is being detected that entire period of time. "Funny" thing is is that I forgot the work around... I'll post back if i remember, been on a different mobo for about eight months, sorry 🙁
 
Well, it's 45 seconds in the middle there. Add another 10 on the front, another 15 to get through the Promise setup, and then another 30 for Windows?

Slappy5 - yes, that is EXACTLY what it appears to be doing. Where most machines would run through the IDE's quick and get to the "DMI Pool" deal - this one does the IDE's and then sits and waits and waits. Then onto the Promise screen and so forth.

If you can remember or locate a solution, that'd be great!
 
Yeah thats my complaint too, the long time to initialize after detecting the ata 100. Does the same thing w/ my SCSI card in, as SCSI boots before RAID. So far so good tho.. Temps are at 105 under full load, and i am runnin it at 1.85V.
 
bluesky,

I've read that other places as well but which voltage is correct? The one I set in the BIOS or the one that is reported via the various software programs.
 
Go into the PCHEALTH STATUS in the bios, that will post the current voltage going to the chip / chipset / etc.. They always put out a little more voltage then what you select in the BIOS. I am assuming this is to ensure better stability..
 
Hmm, this is curious. It boots quickly now. I don't know why. I've been installing the drivers for my cards and what not, fiddled with the BIOS a little. Suddenly it rockets through that first screen.

All I can think is that it's something in the BIOS. I turned off the USB keyboard and Mouse supports, both serials, the built in sound, the parallel port, maybe another thing or two I didn't need. It was pro'lly one of them.

Give it a shot.

For this latest BIOS, maybe it isn't all inclusive. I get the 5 - 12.5 multiplier range, but there is no interleave option. Rats, I just flashed it last night, might have to try out the other one. It works, but it makes me nervous every time...

 
Memory interleave is enabled by setting the SPD enable. You'll then see it in Sandra, and notice an improvement in memory scores.

I cant believe you got rid of that major pause at POST! I've tinkered with every bios setting I can think of.. its annoying as hell. But Im running the 2.4 release bios. Also, are you BSOD'ing when you close Sandra, with a KMODE_EXCEPTION on evian.sys? No matter what I do (end process, normal exit, kill utility) on closing Sandra I BSOD. Evian.sys is one of the two fastrak drivers. Im running win2k. Any ideas anyone?
 
I'll have to check out this "SPD - Enable". Hmm, I don't remember it being in there. Do you remember where it was? Integrated Peripherals perhaps? I'll check tonight...

I'm dual booting 98SE and 2000. I figured I'd almost exclusively use 2000, but - while 98SE runs like a champ, 2000 BSOD's every 5 - 30 minutes or so. Seems to happen when opening and closing programs. I don't know enough about 2000 yet - I wonder if there's a log file that can sort of spell out what happened?

My BSOD's are two fold - the KMODE_EXCEPTION is one of them, the other is something about IRQL_..._NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL or some such thing? "TBirdHD.sys" seems to come up on that one each time. No idea what it means, but I'm learning. I have no such files named that on my machine, and a brief internet search shows nothing anywhere written about a file with that name. So I don't know where to start.

I don't know what to tell you about the bootup time. It was during me changing some drivers and the BIOS settings at the same time. I might consider writing down my settings, loading the defaults, and seeing if it comes back. That'd clear up that question... However most of my time will be on this 2000 for now.
 
i tried to flashed mine but it don't do anything. it went to the flash screen bios and ask " are you sure you want program" somethign like that. I press Y and it just sit there doing nothing for like 15 minutes. No bar showed up or anything.

below the greyed bar showed the option of which block is update, bad, etc.

anyone has some expereience?

i'm trying 2.5 bios d/led from german site now. IT WON"T WORK Either.........the screen just freeze.

I have duron 700 running STANDARD, everything STANDARD....w/ win2k
it is kt7 TURO with RAID...i don't use the raid though, i use scsi hd

is there any thing in bios that should be changed in order to flash bios?

ALfred
 
Can you guys help me out here.
I've got the MSI Turbo-R and also have that booting issue where it just hangs at bootup THEN kicks....but I can bear that. Is there a way to turn off the raid? I must be blind or I need a new eye check but I don't know which bios setting to disable. Otherwise, my system is running perky in W2k. Not oc yet, but it's on my agenda.

Thanks
 
I don't know about disabling it... The Abit you can just turn it off. Apparently with this one you don't. But you can use the IDE ports non-RAID. Some trick with setting up a single drive by itself as RAID lets it operate normally.

Not sure about the long delay at startup either. But - I did get rid of it. Somewhere in my fooling with the BIOS and loading cards and drivers, it got very fast through there. I've been screwing around lately, and cleared the CMOS, and the delay came back. My conclusion is that it's in the BIOS, one of the settings. Diligent work would tell which one.

I am on the latest BIOS rev. The MSI site has good instructions for how to do it - make a bootable floppy and extract their program to it. Then run it using what was mentioned earlier in this post, someone wrote out the exact line to type at the a: prompt. Done any other way it won't go.
 
Hi, i typed:

awfl789 w6330vms.250 /py /sn /cc /r /ld /nbl

i tried with other overclocker bios with the same thing, just change the bios name(including the dot section).

all three bios that i tried give me the same freeze.

The other problem is when i try to set my bus speed to 115, it seems that it take LONG time to boot up to the FIRST screen. My monitor kind of sit there in power saving mode as if there is NO computer connect to it. After a while, than the first beep sound and boot to the first screen. AND YES it takes time to go to my SCSI card screen.

From the card screen to the dmi pool is fast though.

ALfred
 
Hmm.. well your command line switches are correct. Have you tried loading default settings in the bios, then flashing? Other things to try: move your dimm(s) to different slots, remove all pci cards save for video, clock down the cpu (if you can *sigh*), swap video card for another (if possible), disconnect all device cables, save for floppy. If you try all that and still no flash, I think you're looking at RMA.

Good luck.
 
I got that flashing bios problem too. Copy the whole thing from the floppy to your harddrive, flash from here and it should work.
 
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