- Jan 4, 2005
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It is hard to believe a supposedly reliable motherboard manufacturer can be allowed to release a product without adequate driver support under Win2k or XP for either of its Ethernet ports. The Neo2 Plat has 2 GigE ports, neither of which will work on my BIOS 1.9 mobo. The NVidia-chipset-based GigE does not pass packets or appear in Network Properties, even though it's enabled in the BIOS, drivers installed, and with no resource conflicts. Worse yet, the LeadTek GigE port does not even have stable drivers. I had to reboot into Safe mode to uninstall it, as MSI only offers a beta driver that gives me a BSOD on a brand-new installation.
Has anyone ever had any luck getting either or both Ethernet ports to work correctly on a Neo2 Plat? If so, how the heck did you do it? I'm resorting to a PCI card that has worted in every system I've built lately - just so I can have direct LAN connectivity.
I'll also admit, MSI releases no docs for their on-board sound hardware or their network ports that I can find - and the sound circuitry also has never worked correctly either. For a board that advertised such a broad range of features, the results have been really disappointing. Their driver support is terrible, their feature docs are nothing but cheap Chinglish, and coupled with their terrible record in reporting accurate CPU temps with their useless CoreCell software, the overall result for me is a total lack of trust.
I also had incredible difficulties in all of these areas under XP Pro SP2.
Frankly, I will not ever be buying MSI again. I'm stuck with it for now, but next time it's ASUS or DFI for me. (When the M2 socket comes out, most likely.) I have never had so many problems with a Taiwanese motherboard before.
Maybe it's an issue with NVidia. Are other NVidia-based boards this way?
Any insight into any of these issues would be most appreciated.
Has anyone ever had any luck getting either or both Ethernet ports to work correctly on a Neo2 Plat? If so, how the heck did you do it? I'm resorting to a PCI card that has worted in every system I've built lately - just so I can have direct LAN connectivity.
I'll also admit, MSI releases no docs for their on-board sound hardware or their network ports that I can find - and the sound circuitry also has never worked correctly either. For a board that advertised such a broad range of features, the results have been really disappointing. Their driver support is terrible, their feature docs are nothing but cheap Chinglish, and coupled with their terrible record in reporting accurate CPU temps with their useless CoreCell software, the overall result for me is a total lack of trust.
I also had incredible difficulties in all of these areas under XP Pro SP2.
Frankly, I will not ever be buying MSI again. I'm stuck with it for now, but next time it's ASUS or DFI for me. (When the M2 socket comes out, most likely.) I have never had so many problems with a Taiwanese motherboard before.
Maybe it's an issue with NVidia. Are other NVidia-based boards this way?
Any insight into any of these issues would be most appreciated.
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