Unlock extra pipe lines on the X1800GTO - turn it into X1800 - Page 2

**simple_inhibition** · April 11th, 2006

hopefully thats all it was. good luck man :)

**Capper** · April 11th, 2006

man, what an ordeal....sorry to hear about this Sbohdan

**gvblake22** · April 11th, 2006

Wow, that's lame! That MSI board should run your 830 as long as you have BIOS 7160v14 or newer (according to their Mainboard CPU Support List)
Since it is supposed to work, I would think a BIOS flash would be your best bet (given you have an out of date version). For your sake (and sanity), I really hope that solves the problem :!:

sbohdan · April 13th, 2006

thanks for all the support guys :)
it turned out that that was it :!: after the bios flash (with a different cpu) the system just turned on with my D830 too :D
the funny thing is that the previous bios was from july 2005 and the newest one is from august (only 1 month difference) and it made all the difference from completelly unusable to perfectly fine. another funny thing is that after putting in the old HDD from my previous rig it booted up just fine in the new one- there was no need to reinstall windows (just few automatic hardware installations and that's it)
so I'm really happy that I didn't have to RMA anything and wait another 2 months by time I have it ready :P
now my next worry is that the vid card that I bought (vanilla 6800 PCI-E) doesn't seem to have 4 more pipes to open, so I just might end up with "I've got what I paid for" :? which is not usually the case with the video cards I lay my hands on

I'm not giving up just yet: I'm downloading the newest version of riva tuner, will try a modified bios and will ask the specialists at MVKTech if they have any idea. will post back on my any progress (maybe I shouldn't clog up this thread since it has nothing to do with the 1800GTO
:oops: )
thanks guys again for the support :P

April 11th, 2006	#12
Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 6,038 Blog Entries: 6	man, what an ordeal....sorry to hear about this Sbohdan INTEL E8400 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 4GB DDR3-1600 // Palit HD 4870 // Antec 1200 // Seagate 750GB HDD // Zalman CNPS9700 // BFG ES 800W PSU

April 13th, 2006	#14
sbohdan VGA tuner & F@H Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 663	thanks for all the support guys :) it turned out that that was it :!: after the bios flash (with a different cpu) the system just turned on with my D830 too :D the funny thing is that the previous bios was from july 2005 and the newest one is from august (only 1 month difference) and it made all the difference from completelly unusable to perfectly fine. another funny thing is that after putting in the old HDD from my previous rig it booted up just fine in the new one- there was no need to reinstall windows (just few automatic hardware installations and that's it) so I'm really happy that I didn't have to RMA anything and wait another 2 months by time I have it ready :P now my next worry is that the vid card that I bought (vanilla 6800 PCI-E) doesn't seem to have 4 more pipes to open, so I just might end up with "I've got what I paid for" :? which is not usually the case with the video cards I lay my hands on I'm not giving up just yet: I'm downloading the newest version of riva tuner, will try a modified bios and will ask the specialists at MVKTech if they have any idea. will post back on my any progress (maybe I shouldn't clog up this thread since it has nothing to do with the 1800GTO :oops: ) thanks guys again for the support :P Main rig: Chieftec modded case,MSI P4N Diamond, D830@3.48Ghz,1.4V,928FSB 2GB patriot Extreme Performance 6400@900Mhz, 4-4-4-17 Inno3D 7900GT@542Mhz/1.6Ghz, Thermalright SI-97 Samsung 320GB, Maxtor 250GB; Antec 500W Swiftech NB, Asus StarIceBlue CPU cooler; XP Pro Laptop: Dell XPS 1530 (T7500; 3GB 667 RAM; 160GB 7200rpm HDD; 8600GT; Vista 32bit) my 6800LE mod

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April 11th, 2006	#11
simple_inhibition socket 939 junkie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In front of my pc in Ft Bragg XD Posts: 1,473 Blog Entries: 1	hopefully thats all it was. good luck man :)

April 11th, 2006	#13
gvblake22 Modder-ator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tempe Desert Posts: 6,476 Blog Entries: 1	Wow, that's lame! That MSI board should run your 830 as long as you have BIOS 7160v14 or newer (according to their Mainboard CPU Support List) Since it is supposed to work, I would think a BIOS flash would be your best bet (given you have an out of date version). For your sake (and sanity), I really hope that solves the problem :!: