Seeking information on the MSI K9MM-V motherboard

[golubovsky]

Hi,

I am trying to make a decision on bying a MSI K9MM-V m/b, but
information that manufacturer and seller present is a little bit
ambigous, so I hope owners of this board could clarify some things:

Seller's board reference e. g. here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813130064

1. There was a user feedback that Windsor core is not supported (as of
Dec 2006 last on the mentioned Newegg page). MSI website states that
version 1.1 of BIOS supports Windsor. Any practical experience on
boards bought recently? CPU planned for it is ADO3800CUBOX (Athlon64
X2 3800+ 2.0Ghz)

2. The picture of the board shows a VGA connector, seller says there
is no on-board video. I am going to use this board for mostly command
line, so fast graphics is not needed at all. Is there any on-board
video (MSI mentions some S3 but is not specific on that)? OK, there
was a message on this group mentioning S3 Unichrome, but what it video
memory size? Shared with system?

3. Is it capable to boot off a PATA IDE CDROM? The MSI website
mentions only SATA and network/usb drive. Or at least SATA CDROM?

4. I'm a little bit behind (sorry) understanding all that DDR memory/
motherboard/CPU compatibility regarding its speed. Which memory
(manufacturer, speed) does it work well with?

5. Any success or issues having Xen 3.0.x running on this board (in
the full virtualization mode)?

Any other issues owners of this board would like to share?

Thanks

 

[Franc Zabkar]

Hi,

I am trying to make a decision on bying a MSI K9MM-V m/b, but
information that manufacturer and seller present is a little bit
ambigous, so I hope owners of this board could clarify some things:

Seller's board reference e. g. here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813130064

1. There was a user feedback that Windsor core is not supported (as of
Dec 2006 last on the mentioned Newegg page). MSI website states that
version 1.1 of BIOS supports Windsor. Any practical experience on
boards bought recently? CPU planned for it is ADO3800CUBOX (Athlon64
X2 3800+ 2.0Ghz)

2. The picture of the board shows a VGA connector, seller says there
is no on-board video. I am going to use this board for mostly command
line, so fast graphics is not needed at all. Is there any on-board
video (MSI mentions some S3 but is not specific on that)? OK, there
was a message on this group mentioning S3 Unichrome, but what it video
memory size? Shared with system?

This is VIA's tech info on the chipset:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/k8-series/k8m800/

Integrated Graphics Technology

"The VIA UniChrome Pro IGP delivers exceptional integrated graphics
and video playback performance for the latest 3D and digital media
applications, without the need and expense of an external AGP graphics
card."

Integrated VIA UniChrome™ Pro IGP
- Dual pixel pipelines
- 128-bit 2D/3D engine
- 200MHz engine clock speed
- 16-64MB shared memory

Optional external AGP 8X/4X port

MPEG-2 hardware acceleration


- Franc Zabkar