K8M Neo-V BIOS - any manuals?

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I was wondering if there is any documentation out there regarding the BIOS
settings for the K8M Neo-V motherboard. I tried MSI's website, of course,
but all I could find were PDF versions of the standard manual, which has
very litlle information in it about the BIOS settings.

I've been having some videocard problems, and I figured it would help if I
at least knew what the proper BIOS configuration settings are.

All help is greatly appreciated.

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<KnightCrawler@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> Yeah MSI really skimped on the manual.
>
> Only thing I can tell you is to turn off AGP fast write since it's a
> via based board.

Thanks for the feedback!

I turned it off, along with a couple of other things in the BIOS...

I got my system to work without crashing while playing games. I have no idea
what went wrong in the first place though... As I said, I turned off some
BIOS options that seemed unnecessary, and I reinstalled Windows; I also
installed the original drivers both for the motherboard and for the video
card.

So what exactly went wrong? I have no idea. For now, I'm just so glad the PC
just *works*... :-)

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<KnightCrawler@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> Sometimes one setting in the BIOS can cause havoc on a machine. I was
> troubleshooting a friends computer and when you disabled the Asus
> Bootsceen Logo the computer would become completely unstable. Can't
> figure how that one setting could cause so much trouble but it did.
> Anyways he can live with seeing the Asus logo at every bootup.

I see!

On my system I turned off "Spread Spectrum" and "Wake on MPME", FWIW. I
wonder if the former wasn't the actual culprit in my case...