- Nov 13, 2001
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Does MSI have a history of rushing boards out to market prematurely? I bought into their i850/Socket 478 solution and so far have had quite a few problems that also seem to exist on their SiS645 boards. I was just wondering since Socket 478 still appears to be fairly new if I should be patient and give MSI a chance or call Newegg and RMA them for the higher cost Asus board.
I am having problems like:
After flashing from Bios 1.1 to 1.3, the CPU temperature now reads 21-26C instead of 41-47C. Gee... with an ambient of 27C, too. :-/
Both both versions of Bios, shutting down Win XP often results in a restart instead of a shutdown. I saw what might be a solution to this related to ACPM, but talk about obscure!
Changes made to the BIOS settings always result in system hang after POST. I have tried a subset of changes with the same results. Before flashing to 1.3, I had no problems making these same tweaks.
Various notes about system file corruption would show up at boot-up. After hitting reset thinking I had to start a repair process, it would always boot up and run fine. Now I also get BSOD's on boot up and sometimes on shut-down, but always after resetting, it boots up and runs fine.
Some of these time correlate to when I flashed the BIOS and updated a slew of drivers, so I'm going to try backing up one step at a time if I can, but it seems silly I should have this kind of trouble and I'm wondering if I should give it some more time and give MSI a chance to stabilize the BIOS code, or whether I should finally admit I got suckered and RMA it for an Asus.
I am having problems like:
After flashing from Bios 1.1 to 1.3, the CPU temperature now reads 21-26C instead of 41-47C. Gee... with an ambient of 27C, too. :-/
Both both versions of Bios, shutting down Win XP often results in a restart instead of a shutdown. I saw what might be a solution to this related to ACPM, but talk about obscure!
Changes made to the BIOS settings always result in system hang after POST. I have tried a subset of changes with the same results. Before flashing to 1.3, I had no problems making these same tweaks.
Various notes about system file corruption would show up at boot-up. After hitting reset thinking I had to start a repair process, it would always boot up and run fine. Now I also get BSOD's on boot up and sometimes on shut-down, but always after resetting, it boots up and runs fine.
Some of these time correlate to when I flashed the BIOS and updated a slew of drivers, so I'm going to try backing up one step at a time if I can, but it seems silly I should have this kind of trouble and I'm wondering if I should give it some more time and give MSI a chance to stabilize the BIOS code, or whether I should finally admit I got suckered and RMA it for an Asus.