MSI 975X Platinum PowerUP Ed..anyone?

[Planet X]

@trenchdog73: Pin 9 is the opposite of the blind pin. If you cut it your USB will work just fine. Believe me i had to do the same.

@Rattletrap: This solution is also from the MSI forum: You should disable the J-Micron controller in the BIOS than your RAID will work as well with the newer BIOS. The J-Micron controller will still work for CD-ROM or DVD but not for harddisks. Just use the intel one for this. MSI is already busy to solve this later on.

But now a question from me to all of you:

If I use ORTHOS for more than 4 hours and i switch off my PC it just shut off without saving, it is like take away the power. I had the same issue with 2 different ASUS P5W DH. Is that normal with the 975X chipset?
With a P5B Deluxe I did not had this issue but the RAM is much slower with P965 chipset and also the ICH8R is much slower in restoring or creating ghost images. So i bought the MSI board. I really like this board the only problem is left is the shutdown issue after long stress like ORTHOS and the RAM 5-5-6-12 issue.

Please let me now if the shutdown thing is normal. Or what could that be? It drives me crazy....

[Rattletrap]

I will try clipping the 9th wire. I don't have USB on my case. I have one of those 21 to 1 card reader/usb things that occupy a drive bay. I also have the USB thing that comes with the motherboard (and installs in a card slot hole). Would I clip the wires on those? I also have a SEAWELL 7 port powered USB hub, would I clip number nine on that too?

On another note. I have my system set up to boot two drives on a RAID 0 (that is my drive c). Then I have 2 drives on the IDE 0 channel (which are my old saved data) and 2 CD drives on the IDE 1 channel. With this setup RAID does not work after BIOS 7.16

I am thinking of getting a couple SATA drives and replacing my IDE HDD's and just remove the problem all together. Then I will have a RAID 0 boot, 2 backup single SATA drives. Then I need to figure out something for the 2 DVD/DL drives.

If I'm not mistaken either HDD controller can be set up to be IDE, or RAID right? So what you are suggesting is switching which controller I am using for my RAID?

Rattletrap

[trenchdog73]

thanks for the help, Ill try clipping when I get home. I found it on the msi forum the 9th wire is actually the one labeled 10, the ocshield wire. I hope this solves my problems, we will see shortly.

[trenchdog73]

Worked like a charm, no more power serge warning or lock up.

[4n70n]

Bios Beta ver 735
http://rapidshare.com/files/1767311/7246v735.rar.html

I got it yesterday from msi tech support...maybe anyone interested to try it...

[Federelli]

Hey guys, any luck with vios 7.35?

I have the same problem most of you have, i can't boot at DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 2.1V. All i get is DDR2-800 5-5-6-15, even when i force 5-5-5-15 in the bios.

I'm guessing that the Command Rate is being forced to 1T and without the option to change it to 2T, we can't do a thing .

[NickS]

Maybe your RAM isn't D9 but Elpida?

[Federelli]

Huh? Me?

Here's my ram: http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?i...1064gi3qu3.jpg

[smokinkane]

I tried bios 7.33 but my raid won't work, this has happened on every release since 7.22 which is what I'm on right now. Is there a special trick to get my board to recognize my raid-0 volume on these newer releases?

[Planet X]

@smokinkane: Just disable the J Micron controller in the BIOS than your RAID 0 will work again with the newer BIOS.

[Spookgf]

@smokinkane: Just disable the J Micron controller in the BIOS than your RAID 0 will work again with the newer BIOS.

witch version is that 7.35?Beta or official?

[Planet X]

witch version is that 7.35?Beta or official?

That is for all versions above 7.1 official thus 7.22, 7.25, 7.20. 7.33, 7.35 My RAID 0 is working with all of this BIOS. I just don't use the J Micron controllers.

[Federelli]

So noone with memory issues tried 7.35 yet?

You can get it here: http://free-ri.t-com.hr/zbrnelic/

[Spookgf]

For Corsair 6400C4 take a look here also http://www.hardforum.com/showthread....&page=12&pp=20

[Federelli]

I did and as you can see i already posted there weeks ago :P

[Spookgf]

I did and as you can see i already posted there weeks ago :P

Sooooory bad eyes from too much searching

[Federelli]

Ermm spook, does it also not post for you at rated settings? 800 4-4-4-12 2.1V?

[Spookgf]

Yeah only in 667.I cant seem to reach 800 with 4-4-4-12 only 4-5-6-12 but i haven't try 7.35 yet.I try it tomorrow....

[Federelli]

What would be better in that case?

DDR800 4-5-6-12 2.1V (where that 6 could be a bug and be actually a 5)
or DDR667 4-4-4-12 2.1V?

Did you try lower voltages for 667 4-4-4-12?

We got pretty similar PCs, yours being superior by a small margin

Join me at Corsair's tech support to see if we can get something from them : http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=54771

[Amey]

I dont have any issues booting @ 800 4-4-4-8 with my Gkill HZ.Me on BIOS 7.1 official release.

[Spookgf]

What would be better in that case?

DDR800 4-5-6-12 2.1V (where that 6 could be a bug and be actually a 5)
or DDR667 4-4-4-12 2.1V?

Did you try lower voltages for 667 4-4-4-12?

We got pretty similar PCs, yours being superior by a small margin

Join me at Corsair's tech support to see if we can get something from them : http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=54771

I have tried 7.35 and with raid seems to have no problem if u disable J Micron controller.I wana ask u in which fsb are u running with DDR800?Also if u have tried 7.2 official for memory DDR Mhz

[Federelli]

So 7.35 beta is no different than 7.2 official as far as arm goes.

I haven't overclocked yet, and i won't do it until i get my ram to it's rated speed.

[Spookgf]

So 7.35 beta is no different than 7.2 official as far as arm goes.

I haven't overclocked yet, and i won't do it until i get my ram to it's rated speed.

Did u find something like "Write to Precharge Delay" in bios?

[Federelli]

Of course not as there is no such option, seems like that ramguy is pretty clueless.

IT also seems i got bad ram .

[Spookgf]

Of course not as there is no such option, seems like that ramguy is pretty clueless.

IT also seems i got bad ram .

That awful!! I will try the test myself to see about mine cards.Except setting DDR800,V2.1 and latency 4-4-4-12 is there something else about USB that i need to do because i cant understand them too?