There is no option in XP or anything that make a boot flopy that can start an "auto flashing" procedure, you have to run the awdflash utility to do the flashing. Run the program and see the parameters availables, it's fairly easy to use.
The best way to flash a new bios is to boot from a flopy...
No MSI bios for this mobo sets the manual timmings correctly, but don't worry about that.
Run Cpu-Z and watch the ram frecuency under the memory tab, if it is 400 it's OK (400 x 2 = 800).
Try to set memory timings at 5-5-5-15. Also you can increase the memory voltage, starting with 0.05v steps, and test the memory with Prime95 or Orthos by several hours.
If your memory is DDR2 800 Mhz, chances are that its standard voltage is around 2 - 2.1v, so check this also.
ANewPrelusion is correct in every aspect.
I think the highly inefficent memory dividers are inherent to the Intel northbridge architecture, because in the AMD platform and its onchip memory controller the perfomance gains are proportional with the ram speed, but here if I go from 1:1 to 1:25, I...
If you fill the four banks you still get double channel (provided the memory sticks are equal in pairs), but with only two sticks, they should be 1 & 3 or 2 & 4.
I've tried bios v7.4 official, and not only didn't solved anything, worst yet, the C1E option has dissapeared, so at idle my processor runs at 3-4 degrees hotter. I've replaced it again with 7.3, but I don't understand what the MSI guys are doing, every new bios seems worst than the later :mad:
I've just tried bios v7.3 official, and the reboot issue is still there. In the first reboot at 333 x 9, to my surprise the system shuts down and restarted ok, in the same way that when I change something in the bios and save it. But restarted another 3 times, the last one with PCI-E voltage at...
I know the reset button, and I've used it too, but it is only to reset the cmos. I've read again the manual, and I don't find any connection with the D-Bracket. I think I will open a thread with this item.
No this isn't memory problem. As I've said (because the manual says) with the fourth led in red and the rest in green, the board is "Testing RTC (Real Time Clock)", but I don't know what does it means, and what is wrong if the board freezes in that condition.
I've checked the lights on the D-Bracket connector, and when the system is hanged after a failed reboot, it is (or it was) testing RTC (Real time clock), because fourth led is red, anybody knows what does it means ??