Recent content by SxyBstrd

No worries. This board is different than pretty much every other one I've used in that respect (except for the other MSI I had). You have to read the manual very carefully to get it right and even then you probably wonder if it's just a translation error. I mean, the colors should match...

B33, Just to be sure, you are using slots 1&2 or 3&4, right? Not the color-coded slots (1&3, 2&4)... It's a little backwards, but I'm used to it coming from a K8N Neo2 Plat. The memory looks good. I haven't used OCZ myself, but nothing about their specs looks suspect to me.

B33, how many DIMMs are you using? If you're using 4 double sided, then I think you're out of luck... I remember being surprised to see that you can only use 2 double sided DIMMs at PC3200 speed, but I think that's actually a limitation of the chipset, not the board itself (the same applies to...

True, though it's always nice when things just work too. ;-) At least I haven't had a single hardware crash, failure to boot, or any problems indicative of hardware issues so far (and I probably spent 20 some hours playing with it over the last three days, mostly gaming). It's been smooth and...

Alright, I managed to get it straightened out finally. Ripped out all DVD codecs that had been installed and downloaded a tiral of PowerDVD 6. For some reason that worked. Go figure. At least it isn't a hardware issue.

If I rename the vob to mpg it plays sort of in WMP 10, and I can play the VOB using mplayer2.exe (the really old WMP). Somewhere something is not right in the registry I think... Bah. :(

Even when I copy a .vob file to my desktop and try to open it in WMP I get the "WMP cannot skip to the requested location". This was a clean install dangit. Sigh.

Thanks Brad, I gave that a look. It has the nVidia PureVideo as the primary driver for WMP 10 and gives it all green marks. It even reads the disc contents in WMP and displays the list of chapters and such, but when I click on one it says "WMP cannot skip to the location" and it never plays...

So I got the MSI K8N Diamond Plus in and had a successful install (I did have to do it clean since it didn't just boot happily into Windows with the old drivers, but I generally prefer to do that anyway). I was relieved to find that I was able to get my Zalman 7000 on the processor with plenty...

Less than 24 hours from order to delivery! I love NewEgg! I'm going to be installing my new board tonight. I'll let you know how it goes.

I agree with you in principle, but time is always against you when RMA's need to be done and I have the distinct impression that something is definitely weird/wrong with my mobo. Rather than wait it out and miss my opportunity to RMA I went ahead and ordered a replacement (god forbid that I be...

It shipped with the 1009 BIOS (which most people posting in the forums were using and having some luck with). They had just come out with 1013, but the changes listed were not related to my problems (I didn't notice anything that said: "fixed PEG functionality, which was fundamentally broken...

I dunno Dan. Maybe it's not the mobo (or maybe mine was defective), but I was (and still am) having a helluva time with it. Seems like if I touch the BIOS in any way (other than to reset it to factory defaults and turn off serial/game/sata3&4/silicon raid) I have some real troubles. And if I...

Just put mine on order from NewEgg. Hopefully it will be here tomorrow so I can get rid of the A8N32 and sleep easier...

Well, I got home with my copy of Oblivion last night and went to boot the box (same BIOS config as I had booted with the night before) and no dice. It hung at the loading Windows XP screen and finally rebooted itself. So I went back into the BIOS and tried once again disabling PEG. This time...