MSI 7411 Motherboard Sneak Peek (share your thoughts!) - Page 75

Originally Posted by cyberized

TKS to Mr. JAVA and ALL:
Getting some of these things/problems kind of sorted out today - so maybe you can help me from here:
1] to TEST to see whether it might just be the Tuner and it's capabilities preventing me picking up what were my most powerful local digital channels or not - - - I connected the antenna back up to my HDTV's built in tuner....WALA.....Perfect reception.....don't think I even needed to buy the new antenna. And it appears I wish I'd never bought this ATI All in Wonder hd 650 PCIe which is in this HTPC I bought. At least I now know forget the PC Tuner........will really miss the guide info though. Vanilla OTA....is a grab bag.
2] About no sound out of SPDIF....I decided to put in the MSI CDROM and re-install the Realteck drivers/program........so it first uninstalls them.....then I try my sound.......right off the bat, I notice when I scanned lightly over the sound icon.....was using the SPDIF......so I tested my MS Sound bag - all working....I then went to HULU and tried a show there.....WALA....Sound at least in Center, Right, Left Front.....which was quite an improvement and a BIG relief.........when I went into Device Manager it showed all the drivers were MS drivers.
I then re-installed the Realtek setup off of MSI disc......and went back to NO SOUND.....I think I now know why....when you read what it says over the sound icon now it says " HDMI" not "SPDIF" - - - - I think the ol' fella that was here setting it up....he had screens I cannot even FIND, in order to set it up right, and I remember he was real shaky on which options to choose...I kept telling him "SPDIF" and he kept thinking it was HDMI....appears he must have ignored me and picked HDMI......and I cannot for the life of me get to initial setup program for it. I looked at that little connector job to connect up the 5.1 card....WOW! That would drive me even crazier, little holes for wires and even littler screws - YIKES!

Can someone tel me how to access original setup of that Realteck Sound Program?

Also - the man I got this from e-mailed me with what he said was a solution for the poor reception from tuner card.....said I needed to use the features available on the ATI Catalyst Media Center,,,,,,,I don't know if he even installed it.....all I can find is the Catalyst Control Center....NO C. Media Center - which has the very tools that I need. Does anyone know HOW/where to look for this mystery software?

Getting BURNT out on this new high tech toy - let me tell you

TKS michael

Originally Posted by cyberized

TKS Again...........FIRST a POSITIVE report - I have gotten, don't know how, am thanking God, 7.1 Sound OUR now from the Realteck SPDIF OUTPUT. Sounds GREAT too.
I disconnected the antenna cable from the Tuner Card and connected it up to the Tuner in mya Sammy HDTV again to TEST reception problems - - - NONE! Everything clear as a bell. So I leave the ATI Tuner disconnected UNTIL I can FIND a download of the Catalyst Media Center......I cannot FIND it at ATI?AMD, have wasted mucho time and effort to NO avail. For some reason, I guess, the man that put this together only installed the Catalyst Contol Center.........I would have thought that that would automatically include their Media Center too - sure appears from what you say and the builder that using that Media Center I would be able to straighten out this reception problem.

PS: I think I may pull and sell this 5.1 Sound card........whoever designed that connector should be SHOT! It is designed for those very small guage wires [little holes] so easy to make them bigger - so all could easily fit and same with those screws to attach the wires.......forget it!

Originally Posted by cyberized


PS: I think I may pull and sell this 5.1 Sound card........whoever designed that connector should be SHOT! It is designed for those very small guage wires [little holes] so easy to make them bigger - so all could easily fit and same with those screws to attach the wires.......forget it!

Originally Posted by elockett

I built my second Maui system today and cannot get any OS to install in a stable way. My first build several weeks ago went smoothly. What I encountered today was random BSOD on every install attempt (~ six). The farthest I got was a complete Win 7 install plus download and install of the latest ATI CCC and Win 7 drivers. As soon as I clicked on the Windows button to reboot I got a BSOD. After several more failed Win 7 install attempts I powered down the PC for 10 minutes then tried a fresh Vista 32 bit install. It crashed on every attempt within a minute of initial file loading from the Vista DVD.

With one exception, all of the Hardware is all new from the Egg:
Antec Fusion Remote Max case
Corsair 400W PS
MSI Diva mobo with 5 channel amp card
AMD 4850e CPU with stock HSF
G Skill DDR 800, PC2 6400 RAM (2X 2GB sticks)
Used Plextor DVD drive

I don't know if this matters or not, but I first tried a working, generic DVD drive that came from a HP desktop PC that was just over a year old. The Maui would not detect it in the BIOS but it picked the Plextor up immediately.

The BIOS reports CPU temp between 32-35C.

Note that (what I assume to be) the IGP heatsink was very hot to the touch. I could not keep my fingers on it more than a few seconds. Is this normal for the Maui board?

Given the symptoms, what is the best way to troubleshoot this? should I buy more RAM of the same type and capacity and swap it with the existing RAM? Do I need to buy another CPU + HSF to do the same test as the RAM, or do the symptoms point to something else? I don't have dedicated PC test gear so I'm not sure how to troubleshoot beyond swapping parts.

Thanks.

Eric