TO: All Asus i9xx series chipset boards

[|Hive|]

Today I bought an MSI 945P Neo-F motherboard for a secondary rig with a P4 DualCore 805.

- There is no conflict on this board. (SMBUS controller is automatically assigned an IRQ and uses a different I/O range)
- There are 3 'Motherboard Resources' whereas all flavours of Asus ones i've seen have 4.

(see attached pic.)

This seems to be an Asus only issue.


cheers.

P.S. I usually buy Asus ... but I must say this MSI board is sweet!
It has:

Pros:
- 5-Phase power
- Larger/Taller northbridge heatsink than the Asus P5WD2-Premium.
- Individual Mosfet heatsinks. (but only 3 out of the 5 are sinked)
- Decent price of $122.00. CDN

Cons:
- Requires ATX EPS12V powersupply. (But I cheated and modded a normal PSU myself ... its a simple mod).
- Crap hadware monitor that doesn't work in Server 2003. (fans/voltage/temp etc.)
- Uses 'LiveUpdate' software to flash bios which uses IE and requires installation of some ActiveX controls.

 

[Randyman...]

BUMP!!! I just read about Intel's 7.2.2 update. Has anyone tried it to see if it fixes these issues?

(See this thread: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=4414481#post4414481 )

I will probably try it tonight or Tomorrow...