PLEASE I tried to find help on this everywhere!! Ms-6340

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

I have a MS-6340. Apparently according to the original manufacturer of my pc (now bust) it was an unaltered version from MSI.


My BIOS does not appear to be correct. It causes problems with all sorts of things like not adjusting certain things correctly eg. memory clock. All drivers are new, I have been experimenting to fix this over the last year. MSI say to use the ver1 AMI bios, but then my hard drive only runs at ata33 rarther that its specified ata66 (Western digital ata100 with the right motherboard of course). I have correct wire. I can run with new bios but can be unstable and data on hard drive seems to corrupt very soon after reinstalling windows (within about 2 weeks, particularly after a defrag) I have tried with different drivers and different versions of windows.

I have tried MSI, no support from any site.

I have also contemplated a new motherboard, but if this one doesn't work why will the others? the MS-6340 or kt7m is supposed to have been a good board from MSI..

[Rainbow]

There are more versions of MS-6340:
MS-6340M
MS-6340M v5.0
MS-6340M v3.0
MS-6340 (K7TM Pro)

Are you sure that you have the correct BIOS?

I have MS-6340 on my motherboard, which ones that?

Bios v1.0 runs slow, and will not let my hard drive run at ATA66 (Ami BIOS). I currently am using 4.7 Award bios.

Any ideas of what to do?

[Rainbow]

Looks what's printed on the board.

MS-6340 VER 1.

That would suggest an earlier version of the board. On Ami Bios 1.x it reports my UDMA mode as 3
However on Award bios 4.x it reports UDMA mode 4

But on MSI's website they say that early versions of this motherboard should use Ami Bios 1.x

In Sisoft after benchmarking the file system there seems to be no real difference in speed. Is there an advantage to the different UDMA modes?
Is my drive still going at ATA 66?

[Rainbow]

Does your board have Creative audio chip or just AC'97 codec?

Creative CTxxxx chip (I have an audigy and wanted to disable the chip but so far i have had no success)

[Rainbow]

The Award BIOSes 2.x and 4.x is for boards without Creative chip. Try Award BIOS 1.6. There's option to disable onboard sound chip there and support for hardware monitoring.

Thanks very much thats been the best advice I've had so far, i'll let you know if it works.

Well its definitly the best bios for my board out of the list as it is the only one so far that has actually allowed me to turn of the on board sound, and also is the best running bios. Thanks for your help