Chaintech MPM800 Issues
Ok, has anybody used this board before, I've tried two different motherboards and both have issues with both Radeon and nVidia GPU cards. The most compatible seems to be the Radeon 7000 card. Basically the machine will BSOD after the initial reboot of the Catalyst drivers, both v4.
Ok, has anybody used this board before, I've tried two different motherboards and both have issues with both Radeon and nVidia GPU cards. The most compatible seems to be the Radeon 7000 card.
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=204
Basically the machine will BSOD after the initial reboot of the Catalyst drivers, both v4.6 and 4.5. As for the nVidia card, I just grabbed a GeForce FX 5200 and it locks up during the initial install of XP.
Went into the BIOS settings and turned everything to off or slow, including changing the AGP to 4x and no fast writes etc.
I've also tried using the following memory modules.
Apacer 512MB/DDR400
Kingston ValueRAM 512MB/DDR400
TwinMOS 256MB/DDR400
Of course this is a fairly new board and there are not any BIOS updates yet and the boards I have are the same rev as on their website.
Any tips would be appreciated but I have my doubts about this board as I've never liked Paintech boards
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=204
Basically the machine will BSOD after the initial reboot of the Catalyst drivers, both v4.6 and 4.5. As for the nVidia card, I just grabbed a GeForce FX 5200 and it locks up during the initial install of XP.
Went into the BIOS settings and turned everything to off or slow, including changing the AGP to 4x and no fast writes etc.
I've also tried using the following memory modules.
Apacer 512MB/DDR400
Kingston ValueRAM 512MB/DDR400
TwinMOS 256MB/DDR400
Of course this is a fairly new board and there are not any BIOS updates yet and the boards I have are the same rev as on their website.
Any tips would be appreciated but I have my doubts about this board as I've never liked Paintech boards
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you can solve your problem by reloading your os or running a system restore to the point where you loaded the mobo drivers. do not load the service pack for the board from the cd supplied with the board.
this worked for me.
The board runs great and it out benched the asus board.
chaintech products rock!!!!
this worked for me.
The board runs great and it out benched the asus board.
chaintech products rock!!!!
Originally posted by sylo:
Quote:you can solve your problem by reloading your os or running a system restore to the point where you loaded the mobo drivers. do not load the service pack for the board from the cd supplied with the board.
this worked for me.
The board runs great and it out benched the asus board.
chaintech products rock!!!!
Actually this didn't work, I tried multiple times of deleting the partition and reformatting the HD, long format instead of quick via our pre-install CD's. I even tried another CD to no avail, also different graphics cards and memory sticks didn't help at all I'm afraid
As for the benchmarks, well that may as well be but I'm afraid that our clients *ONLY* want reliability, not performance and besides the Asus solution was just what the client wanted and they have since placed and order for 25 identical systems, enough said
As for Paintech, well their quality control sucks as I've had issues with their boards since the Socket 370 days, blech
Quote:you can solve your problem by reloading your os or running a system restore to the point where you loaded the mobo drivers. do not load the service pack for the board from the cd supplied with the board.
this worked for me.
The board runs great and it out benched the asus board.
chaintech products rock!!!!
Actually this didn't work, I tried multiple times of deleting the partition and reformatting the HD, long format instead of quick via our pre-install CD's. I even tried another CD to no avail, also different graphics cards and memory sticks didn't help at all I'm afraid
As for the benchmarks, well that may as well be but I'm afraid that our clients *ONLY* want reliability, not performance and besides the Asus solution was just what the client wanted and they have since placed and order for 25 identical systems, enough said
As for Paintech, well their quality control sucks as I've had issues with their boards since the Socket 370 days, blech
