polardetective

Thanks for your prompt reply. I really meant switches in the motherboad. I read in Asus forum (link below) that setting the switches to “1” chances the FSB from 400Mhz to 533Mhz. I want to check it first in the diagram before it would ruin my motherboard haha Joke only.

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Perhaps fellow members has anyone of you guys tried this? BTW it’s true that it can overclock the motherboard through jumper at the motherboard socket but if I’m not mistaken this is only applies to the Intel Chipset but not for ATI.

Has anyone of you guys tried it to make a jumper in the motherboard socket in an ATI chipset? Yeah me too I was also confused at first.

Basically what he was trying to say is that installed a software called “Powerstrip. Once installed configure the GPU( ATI X200) to the max frequency at 401MHz. Pls take note the GPU 401Mhz max frequency is still based on the rated FSB 400 MHz at 100 MHz bus speed. Since he had overclocked the CPU (as he mentioned on item 1) through setting the switches to both “1”, the rated FSB is now gone up to 533 MHz at 133MHz bus speed. Therefore the GPU frequency was also increased to 415MHz or more. Hope my explanation is clear.

Just to reiterate to other fellow members has anyone of you guys tried this? Does it make a sense to you? Pls advise Oh BTW we have the same ATI chipset though.

No surprise MSI is unwilling to let go a schematic, I guess. I'm sure such documentation would fall under MSI 'trade secrets' -- can't let any proprietary info out lest they risk losing their competitive advantage. Service manuals, however, can be written to hide sensitive information.

There's even a connector (JLPC1) which I suspect is used to help diagnose hardware problems. Bloody Holic. *Any* info that MSI would be willing to offer to help me debug this would be useful! The POST failure is a recent development.

It began intermittently, and became more frequent over time, until finally it wouldn't start at all. But every time the BIOS managed to initialize, the board ran beautifully in every case. I've ruled out all but the K8N Diamond Plus itself (via swaps with redundant components on other operating boards), and the fact it runs great once initialized tells me the problem is related to the BIOS. This problem 'feels' like a pull-down, trigger or broken trace someplace. And I've already used contact cleaner to hopefully ferret out any dust bunnies causing shorts. I've asked MSI whether they would still service this board out of warrantee.

So far no response. In the interim, if someone with MB hardware development experience can even throw out a common/probable failure for these boards that causes what I'd described (4 red LEDs), that would be a good start. I appreciate the offer for parts. If I manage to identify which one is the problem (w/o a schematic *sigh*), I'll definitely take you up on it! Thanks, Phil. Phil, You have to goto Taiwan to have it tested with MB-engineers. They are the only ones that have all documentation en testing facilities.

I visit MSI EU from time to time and if a problem is that deep it will be shipped to Taiwan to be repaired. Personally, I think you better try to find a second hand motherboard, as I think you never find the problem. There are many signals involved. BTW, not initializing is often the CPU and memory combination, I trust you have tried 1 stick of el-cheapo memory with this system? Because the BIOS can't initialize before the CPU has started, but the CPU can only start if the memory can be initialized by the CPU.

Ergo, if your memory needs something special, big chance it will fail before the BIOS can do anything. Why don't you tell us the setup of the system and what you have done so far?