Hi, I set up the ultra2 mb with AMD 1800+ over the weekend. NO overclocking at all. I installed windows 2000. It has 256mb pc2100 kingston rams and a 30gb maxtor 7200rpm HD. THe video card is a 3dfx vodoo. I did some stress tests Prime95 and SiSoftware Sandra Standard). It didn't crash. The temperature was around 45-49c under full load. I use coolermaster hsc-v62 which is a auto speed cpu cooler. All looked great. No rebbot. looked very stable. But I always got some beeping and a green screen when I power up the computer before the video card info. is displayed. Fast boot is disable. The MSI logo is disable.
Then last night, I set up the modem. Then I flashed the bios with the lastest 5.6 bios. The machine rebooted frequently. I launched PC alert 4. The cpu temperature was around 40c. That looked ok. Sometimes the machine boots into windows, and after I do some non-cpu-intense work, like going online, or launching some applications, it reboots. Then during the reboot, sometimes it reboots again when the bios info is being displayed( not even get to boot the device). Sometimes it reboots when the windows 2000 startup staus bar is advancing. Sometimes nothing is displayed during the bootup. Checking the LEDs on the D-Bracket, it indicates that it's trying to initializing hard drive controller. It even reboots when I just look at the bios menu(eg. checking PC health status). I lower the cpu FSB clock from 133mhz to 100mhz. It still have the same problem.
I think it's the bios problem. Then i downloaded ami 5.5 bios and flashed it. It seemed to work. but after I ran Prime95 to do the stress test for a few mins, it rebooted again. And the same weired rebooting problems happened.
The screen before video card detection sometimes is red, sometimes is green. It alwasy beeps when the screen is displaying.
Because it reboots before it looks for the boot device, I think this is really a bios problem.
I don't remember the version of the original bios. There are only 2 versions of bios on the msi support site: 5.5 and 5.6.
Lesson learned: never go for the latest version if the current one is working fine. Being a programmer, I should have known that...................................
Please help.
Thanks a lot.
Then last night, I set up the modem. Then I flashed the bios with the lastest 5.6 bios. The machine rebooted frequently. I launched PC alert 4. The cpu temperature was around 40c. That looked ok. Sometimes the machine boots into windows, and after I do some non-cpu-intense work, like going online, or launching some applications, it reboots. Then during the reboot, sometimes it reboots again when the bios info is being displayed( not even get to boot the device). Sometimes it reboots when the windows 2000 startup staus bar is advancing. Sometimes nothing is displayed during the bootup. Checking the LEDs on the D-Bracket, it indicates that it's trying to initializing hard drive controller. It even reboots when I just look at the bios menu(eg. checking PC health status). I lower the cpu FSB clock from 133mhz to 100mhz. It still have the same problem.
I think it's the bios problem. Then i downloaded ami 5.5 bios and flashed it. It seemed to work. but after I ran Prime95 to do the stress test for a few mins, it rebooted again. And the same weired rebooting problems happened.
The screen before video card detection sometimes is red, sometimes is green. It alwasy beeps when the screen is displaying.
Because it reboots before it looks for the boot device, I think this is really a bios problem.
I don't remember the version of the original bios. There are only 2 versions of bios on the msi support site: 5.5 and 5.6.
Lesson learned: never go for the latest version if the current one is working fine. Being a programmer, I should have known that...................................
Please help.
Thanks a lot.
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