Updated to possibly serious problem with MSI K7T266 mobo

[stall6g]

Well this is the second K7T266 mobo that I have owned. (the first is in RMA hell since I blew the bios all to hell going for a 160fsb:rolleyes:). This second one that I received this week and have been trying to get Win2k on it with no success. It locks up hard after starting up win2k. The first one that i had had the resistor on R127 and had no install issues while this one has it on R126. Has anyone seen a workaround yet where MSI fixed this problem? Any comment or suggestions are welcome as this is giving me fits trying to do it. I'd put Linux on it but 1. I don't know jack about Linux and 2. I figure I'm already having difficulties with the one OS that I know so why bother and try and confuse myself even more.:confused:

[stall6g]

The person that i bought this off of claimed to have been running it with Win2k. I have tried everything that I know of including swapping out every part, cable etc. and it always locks up durint stratup of Win2k after it loads the drivers. One time it gave me a File Flashpoint.sys is corrupted. Anyone know what the this means? Any help would be much appreciated. It also says there is an error with the floppy but I have changed that out (tried the cable both ways if that is what you are thinking so I know that it isn't backwards). I can play around all day long in the bios settings but locks up hard or restarts like I said after it loads the drivers.

Different peices that have been swapped:
Maxtor DM60+30 gig HDD, Maxtor Dm45+ 30 gig HDD
ATI AIW Radeon, Trident PCI video card
800 mhz Tbird, 700mhz Duron
48X Memorex CDROM, Plextor 8x4x32 cdrw, 2x Sony cdrom
Linksys nic, no nic
Antec 300 watt psu, Codegen 350 watt psu
Ram is a 128mb stick of Samsung PC2100 DDR SDRAM (pulled from a working K7T266 Pro)
All cables have been swapped

Anyone have any ideas?

[stall6g]

Another thing that I just noticed is that vcore settings will only allow me to choose between 1.825 and 1.85v. The rest come up as chinese characters with a bad poker hand.

[wbierman]

Have you tried to reflash the BIOS? If that does not work...BAD board.

Are you trying to boot with the BIOS defaults?

[phil]

It sounds fuxor'd....I went through 4 CUSL2's that just refused to boot. My first one was great for a month, then bam...nothing and the subsequent RMA's wouldn't work. I got pissed off and asked them to change the board to a VH6T and it works great. I went through swapping all my hardware about and the companies suggestions that "I was doing something wrong" even though they tested every board that I sent back and they were faulty. It may be a bad batch.