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    Quote Originally Posted by mfurse
    SMBIOS/DMI is for stuff like interrupt information, IRQ tables, fan/temperature monitoring etc. Sandra isn't always 100% correct in what it says so I wouldn't worry.

    If you are patched to SP2 and the latest secutiry patches then a quick disable of the firewall/virus scanner shouldn't cause u any problems whilst doing a live update.

    To get live update to work you may need to click the yellow security bar to enable the activex control, think I had to do this back along. Once I enabled that it went off and checked for updates, then showed the one for my board, I downloaded it and then it asked to flash using winflash, which I agreed to. If you would prefer just before the flashing occurs u could disable the virusscanner, its just to prevent anything stopping the flashing going to plan.

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    Is win-flash the only option it offered to you ? As i think i read on the mis forums that dos-flash was also available. Did you see that option ? Also take a look at the mis forums, there are lots of big, flashy, posts saying that win-flash is dangerous apparenly... and dos-flash should be used. Why tho, i don't know, i can only guess cause win-flash is flashing from windows.

    I noticed the msi live monitor proggy, allows you to apparently update with-in a separate window/box on it's own, and not have to do it via a browser window. Not tried it yet, only got as far as the big green circle live update button.

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    That's just their way of saying "don't trust this info, because our software ain't that good at reading different BIOSes"

    Agree with above though - difference between 2.0 & 3.0 CAS RAM is really only about bragging rights - makes little to no difference in real world apps.

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    winflash does carry a higher risk because of the amount of stuff that *could* interfere with a bios flash in windows,dos flash just makes a dos boot disk with the binary file, flash utility and basic disk operating system (DOS), this prevents any "mishaps" by havinga far more cut down operating environment - however, it is a little bit of a pain and floppy disks can be corrupted too...i always flash by floppy through dos with my DFI board now, and it works fine, but I always check the disk with winimage first to check for bad sectors etc.

    The winflash does run through the winflash program, not a webbrowser, the browser is just to check for the stuff initially. Once the bin file is down the winflash program runs and does its stuff, away from the browser.

    The CAS latancy thing I have seen loads, with my memory at 270 2.5-4-4-7 1T I get 6988Mb/s in SANDRA, with 270 2.5-3-3-6 1T (is unstable after about 3 hours of use) I get 7065MB/s...really worth the instability to me? no Bragging rights? maybe (btw, the 3dmark's look no different with tighter latancy, and neither does superpi - so why bother!).

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    Quote Originally Posted by mfurse
    winflash does carry a higher risk because of the amount of stuff that *could* interfere with a bios flash in windows, dos flash just makes a dos boot disk with the binary file, flash utility and basic disk operating system (DOS), this prevents any "mishaps" by havinga far more cut down operating environment - however, it is a little bit of a pain and floppy disks can be corrupted too...i always flash by floppy through dos with my DFI board now, and it works fine, but I always check the disk with winimage first to check for bad sectors etc.

    The win-flash does run through the win-flash program, not a webbrowser, the browser is just to check for the stuff initially. Once the bin file is down the win-flash program runs and does its stuff, away from the browser.

    The CAS latency thing I have seen loads, with my memory at 270 2.5-4-4-7 1T I get 6988Mb/s in SANDRA, with 270 2.5-3-3-6 1T (is unstable after about 3 hours of use) I get 7065MB/s...really worth the instability to me? no Bragging rights? maybe (btw, the 3dmark's look no different with tighter latency, and neither does superpi - so why bother!).

    Matt
    - Mfurse, when you say "dos flash just makes a dos boot disk with the binary file, flash utility and basic disk operating system (DOS)" Does the MSI Live Update program (if you chose the dos flash option) actually save the bios update, and all those other files you mentioned, to a floppy for you ? Configuring and setting up a bios flash floppy, all automatically for you ?? Then all you have to do is restart and pop the floppy in, and it will do it all for you ??

    - *Update on the ram thing, before i go on, just wanna say all you guys here at hexus have been great with helping me on this problem - Cheers Anyway, about the ram, i've sent it back to where i bought it from for testing. Because i was thinking of just keeping it with 3-3-3-6, but when i rang the tech support of the company, the guy there said that 3-3-3-6 would be ok, but he also sad i should send it in for testing anyway. Because you never know, it might actually be that the ram is faulty, and not testing the ram, might mean more problems occur down the line, if it is faulty. So he advised me to send it back for testing, because of the bios / cpu-z timings difference's. So there you go ! You never know, if the ram is faulty then they'll replace it, and i might be able to get it at cas 2.0 after all !

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    Now thats something I have never tried...presumably live update would download the bios, prompt you for a floppy and then make the correct disk up for you, all you need to do is restart and boot from the floppy. I can't think of anything else that option would do!

    Good effort on sending the ram back, never hurts to play it safe.

    Good luck with the pursuit of more free speed!

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    I hope they do find it faulty, and replace them, and i get two new ones. Not only because of the cas thing, but also because those two sticks were really really annoying ! Because their notches at each end, were out of line. So clicking into place the two arms at each end, that hold the ram in place, was an absolute nightmare ! I still have cuts on my hands from those two little bad boys. - lol im dreading having to put them back in if they don't get replaced.
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