http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=607 I got this motherboard. Alright now from what I understood its a nforce 3 board. Okay then why does it have a via chip on it and whats the via chip for? Do I have to install via chipset drivers on top of the nforce 3 drivers? Also what is cpu spread function for? And last but not least is there a way to set how much system ram a pci vid card can share with this mobo? Is it through agp aperture or something like that? Sorry for the questions, but im having a blonde moment..LOL! :>
The well-known nForce3 chipset from nVidia supports AMD Socket939 CPUs, providing AGP 8x and SATA; whereas the newer nForce4 Ultra supports PCI-X and SATA-2. In addition to the main nVidia chipset, the motherboard uses chips from Realtek (audio and Gb LAN), Marvell (another Gb LAN) and VIA (1394 FireWire). It looks like a good mobo, it's all you need if using AGP. It has lots of harddisk connections... Spread spectrum is a way to reduce RFI, but that's usually not a problem and can cause instability under some conditions - just disable it. AGP aperture never needs to be above 128MB, and 64MB is better is you're hard up for system RAM. But it's for AGP video @ 1x/2x/4x/8x 66MHz, not PCI video @ 33MHz. L8R
Okay ogs thanks. Do you know where I can find the marvel driver? I looked and google cbut cant seem to find one. Okay is there a way to share memory with a pci vid card? And basically install the nforce 3 drivers and then the via 1394 firewire driver right? Thanks ogs for the info.:>
go here and chose ur mobo http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_detail.php?UID=607&kind=1 and clikc on it lol
There is everything but the Marvell Gb-LAN driver there... Which makes me think it is recognised easily by WinXP, or by Windows Update. But I dunno - there's a question for MSI tech support ;^) EDIT: Here is one, on a different page (but same Marvell Gb-LAN controller): http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_detail.php?UID=637&kind=1
wdowsing I already posted the web page for the mobo im working with. Thanks anyway, but yes read the page I was refering too. This mobo has two lans...one marvel and one realtek...weird huh? Thanks ogs I missed the page. Good one last thing to do now is find a a updated usb driver and a via firewire driver since yeah said the via chip was for firewire. Woo yoo....thanks ogs. Off to google for the via firewire now and thanks for the page. I missed it for some reason.:>
thats okay wwdowsing. I totally agree its weird too use two different gig lans by different manufacter's.:>
