MSI 975X Platinum PowerUP Ed..anyone?

**ryguy** · 10-15-2006, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by ShapeGSX

Does this board have any issues with S3 standby?

Does everyone have an issue with USB 2.0 devices with this board?

I know I do. If you read the MSI forums it is a pretty well known issue.

**ryguy** · 10-15-2006, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by aasmaukr

I got the board now, and i can't go over 380MHz FSB. No matter what voltages i run, I've tried several beta bioses and they don't help. I got a E6400 with a Tt Mini Typhoon cooler and OCZ 6400 Gold memory. I guess my mobo doesn't like OCZ right? I think I'll sell it and get a P5B vanilla.

Probably the memory. I have mine at 385 with an E6600 Gskill memory.

**ShapeGSX** · 10-16-2006, 09:15 PM

Well, against my better judgment, I purchased this board. I installed XP (needed to install using just one stick of memory) and everything seemed to be going well. I got a few Data Execution Prevention errors after XP was installed, which I thought was odd. But the computer seemed to run well. I had many reboots as I installed the drivers, and they were all very quick.

Then I hit Windows Update, like I always do. There were 64 updates to download. Some of them were not downloading correctly, for some reason. Most of them installed, but those that didn't download correctly did not install, of course.

So I rebooted after Windows Update was done. Now the damn thing won't boot at all. It gets right up to the point where the Windows XP loading screen disappears and the mouse pointer SHOULD appear on the screen. But it doesn't. Instead, the USB ports go dead (mouse LED turns off) and the computer resets.

What is odd is that XP doesn't try to go into safe mode on the reboot. It thinks everything is fine.

I've tried disabling audio and USB 2.0 to no avail.

I'm using BIOS 7.10.
RAM: PQI Turbo 667 DDR2 4-4-4-12 settings at 2.0V (tried 2.05, too)
Conroe E6700 2.66GHz ES (not overclocked at all)
Freezer 7 Pro HSF
Ultra XFinity 500W power supply
Maxtor 250GB IDE HD
NVidia 7900GS video card

It isn't a crazy setup by any stretch.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

One odd thing is that the northbridge seems extremely hot to me. Is that normal?

**Mortal** · 10-16-2006, 11:31 PM

I've been having the same DEP problems and at times slow bootup (long pause before logon screen where it goes all black and mouse pointer takes about a minute to show up).

Strange.

**FrobinRobin** · 10-17-2006, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by hifiking

I got the x1900 and the x-fi music too, and lately I got irq bluescreen (and disturbed sound for a minute before the bluescreen). A friend of mine had to put his x-fi to another slot to get rid of this.

Just for info, I had constant blue screen reboots when loading BattleField 2. I disabled the auto-restart and found that the RealTekHDAud.sys (or similar) was causing the issue. I went to Realtek website and downloaded the latest driver. This stopped my reboots.

Although it may not be reason you can't get 400FSB (I know I cant no matter how much voltage I apply to vcore, vdimm, pcie) but I'd update the driver anyway. Last time I looked on the MSI website they still had the old version.

**ShapeGSX** · 10-17-2006, 06:27 AM

I ended up doing a repair install of XP this morning, and it is back up and running, but I don't dare download any critical updates for fear that it will keep it from booting again.

I've also been having trouble with installers getting "lost". They will be unpacking an archive and then all of a sudden just stop. The CPU will be stuck at 50%. This happened with Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2.

And Photoshop CS2 just quit, saying there was an error in the source media. I re-installed photoshop and it worked fine.

I've even upped my memory voltage to 2.1V and decreased the RAM speed to 533MHz. And I lowered the timings to 5-5-5-15. It had no effect at all.

I think I may return this thing for a P5B Deluxe.

I've never seen such a flakey motherboard.

**ShapeGSX** · 10-17-2006, 07:32 AM

The really odd thing is that I was able to complete SuperPi 1M in 19.something seconds.

And SuperPi 4M completed without error, as well.

But something like unpacking an archive gave the board fits.

**Sumanji** · 10-17-2006, 07:53 AM

Aw man, seems like there's too many issues with this board

Gonna wait for the nF680i and RD600 boards to hit the market... hopefully they will offer more!

**JasonDTM** · 10-17-2006, 08:12 AM

I have 7.26B available, just I want to know who's all leaching my bandwidth this time.

**Rattletrap** · 10-17-2006, 09:50 AM

I am hoping that this bios will allow multiplyer changes as well as fix some of the wierdness with the USB 2.0.

Thanks,

Rattletrap
www.reservoirdogsmc.com

**nullzero** · 10-17-2006, 10:42 AM

I would love to try out 7.26b

hasnt been a new bios for a while.

**hotrodtheman** · 10-17-2006, 12:37 PM

Yeah same here, i'll take the plunge and try out the 7.26 also

**Mortal** · 10-17-2006, 03:02 PM

I wouldn't mind trying it aswell. I'm a masochist!

**revenant** · 10-17-2006, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by ShapeGSX

I ended up doing a repair install of XP this morning, and it is back up and running, but I don't dare download any critical updates for fear that it will keep it from booting again.

I've also been having trouble with installers getting "lost". They will be unpacking an archive and then all of a sudden just stop. The CPU will be stuck at 50%. This happened with Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2.

And Photoshop CS2 just quit, saying there was an error in the source media. I re-installed photoshop and it worked fine.

I've even upped my memory voltage to 2.1V and decreased the RAM speed to 533MHz. And I lowered the timings to 5-5-5-15. It had no effect at all.

I think I may return this thing for a P5B Deluxe.

I've never seen such a flakey motherboard.

Try lowering the vdimm to 1.9.. it's worth a shot.

**ShapeGSX** · 10-17-2006, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by revenant

Try lowering the vdimm to 1.9.. it's worth a shot.

The RAM is specced at 2.0V, but yeah, you are right. It is worth a shot.

It is just so weird that the computer is not blue screening. Applications just get screwed up.

**ShapeGSX** · 10-17-2006, 03:54 PM

Ok, I did that and my first impression is that the system is much more stable. I just played Fear Combat and it flew! Nothing has crashed yet. That will teach me to trust PQI. Of course, I just ordered the ASUS board. Doh.

Well, now I get to choose which one I want. The real test will be whether or not Windows Update kills it.

Thanks for that suggestion! How did you know?

**revenant** · 10-17-2006, 04:06 PM

Ha! That's great... well, I was chatting with a buddy who bought my old 975x off me and he did a bunch of reading on it and said that if you go over 1.9v it can cause some of the memory issues which have been hit and miss on this board. I just thought it was worth a shot to mention it because you had no success when adding vdimm. Lots of these ddr2 modules are pretty forgiving in the 1.8 to 2.1 volt range and will behave almost the same.. so figured yours would be ok dropping down a little.

**NickS** · 10-17-2006, 04:14 PM

Cancel order? lol

**ShapeGSX** · 10-17-2006, 04:18 PM

I would, but it is already in UPS's hands.

Newegg is too fast. I'll have the board tomorrow, and I'm having it shipped ground.

**JasonDTM** · 10-17-2006, 06:33 PM

Here it is boysMSI 975X 2.1 7.2b6

**aasmaukr** · 10-17-2006, 09:41 PM

Thanks, I'll update at once and post results when I am back from school.

**Mortal** · 10-17-2006, 09:48 PM

Cheers Jason, much appreciated!

**4n70n** · 10-18-2006, 02:19 AM

Jason, maybe you can tell us...what are the fixes of the new bios?

**smokinkane** · 10-18-2006, 02:40 AM

I installed 726 and it wouldn't access my raid volume, no matter what I selected in the bios, my raid was gone. So with this new revision 726b do we know if the sata raid is working on the intel controller? Does anybody else besides me have a raid 0 volume on this controller?

**smokinkane** · 10-18-2006, 02:41 AM

I currently found 722 is my best fit, stable at 415fsb and reboots in windows work almost all of the time.

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