hello.. I got a really hard problem. After month of trying to get a stable system with a KT266, SIS735 AMD761 boawrd with VIA 686B Southbridge I finally bought the MSI board. I installed eveything & was quite happy that eveything was running stable.
I have following hardware:
AMD Athlon 1400 MHz
2x 256 Double Sided DDR RAM from Samsung (with fpllowing nr. on it: M368L3313CT1-CB0)
I have read the booklet and placed one in mem slot 1 and the other one in mem slot 3
MagiColor GeForce 2 GTS Pro
SoundBlaster Live ! Value
Promise Inc. UDMA100 TX2 controller
1 Afreey DVD as Primary Master
1 Richoh 7163A CD-Burner As Sec. Slave
1 Samsung SV4002H as sec. Master
2x Samsung SV4084H both as master on the SCSI Controller
I have DISABLED onboard Sound & Modem, just using the onboard LAN
I started 3DMark2001 at 9 pm, left it running for 99 loops & came back next day after university, just to find it having a 1107 bench. that was quite unusual.
then i installed Sisoft Sandra 2001 te, let it run and here are the results:
http://www.funky303.de/cpumark2.jpg
http://www.funky303.de/memmark2.jpg
http://www.funky303.de/mumemark.jpg
I have read many reviews in the past & have seen screenshots taken with the same board & same cpu, often even weakre cpus, all of them getting damn higher scores.
Also i have read the problem about nvidias SUPERSTABILITY issue that just lets some kind of memory working, or tuning down the Memory Clock to 100 Mhz, but that shouldn't affect the CPU clock at all.
also my winXP nees about 2 mins to start, I have 3 times passing by the blue thing, than my sys needs about 1 min to get to the logon screen, then just another one to load my profile. which is not serverbased.
my system is connected to a DSL router with integrated DHCP server, so there shouldn't be any problem with finding an IP. I tried giving my system an IP, but the bootUp time was not shortened. I used Boot_Vis but that didn't help me too.
I reinstalled winXP then 2k, but same problem.
Another thing what I have seen is that the PC Alert III Monitor does show my cpu temp @ 50° C, but does NOT show any rotation of the CPU Cooler at all, niether the BIOS does.
so who can help me getting my fu*king system to work.
whish you a stable & running Merry Christmas & a happy even more stable & fast New Year ;o)