MSI K7D Master-L Problem

[neorowen]

I've been tring to figure this out in another forum ( Click here to see the full thread (http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33410) ) without much luck.

I have a K7D Master L, bios 1.6, two MP 2400's, and 2 sticks of corsair 512mb ram. The problem is the board won't start up in 133 mode. It'll post from a cold boot but then start rebooting itself endlessly or freeze on the cpu detection. In 100 mode it'll start but then not detect a keyboard once windows xp install started running.

I really need help with this and have been working on it since 2/03. Also I have replaced all the hardware attached and tried a new PSU.

:help:

[Mntsnow]

Welcome to XPC Neorowen

I didnt notice what heatsinks you are using...but I did notice in one post you did mention that you were hitting around 60* which quite honestly is way to high for not even having any type of load on the procs.

I'll do some more thinking on your issue

[neorowen]

I'm using slk800's with 80mm fans. The temps don't get that high anymore.

[Mntsnow]

ok.... The new board you got what bios version does it have? also have you tested the board with other procs? How about with just a single cpu? (must be in socket 0)

[neorowen]

Actually I seem to have solved the problem. I hard set the vcore to be 1.675 and I disconnected my hard drives from the mainboard's controller, using a promise ultra 100tx2 controller. seems to be stable now. Weird... I'll post again if anything comes up.

[Mntsnow]

Please do keep us informed as I would like to know just for future reference

[neorowen]

The system is unable to run in 133 mode, I am not sure why. I have installed and setup winxp in 100 mode just fine. I don't understand the stability issue. It just starts to boot windows and it comes up with this big blue screen and stops dead.

[Mntsnow]

Usually what you discribe is caused by bad memory that can't run at the selected FSB speed. But you have mentioned that you have replaced the memory?

[neorowen]

Yeah I've tried both sticks seperatly, last time I tried I got an errors screen talking about acpi.sys. I am not sure what the problem is, perhaps the motherboard is not giving the chips enough power or cycles or something.

On a side note, I can run the pc just fine in 100 mode, but it can not go into standby, that option is actually greyed out.

[Mntsnow]

In the bios you need to enable the ACPI options which will be in the power section. Then the standby options should become avaliable to you