km2m

"bluestringer" <srvrules DeleteThis @strato.com> wrote in
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 > "AdNoctum" <julius DeleteThis @caesar1.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
 > news:c7fmqm$asg$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...
  >> After my sons hp pavilion from 1999 went bang I have decided to build
  >> him a new system. The mobo that I have picked is an MSI km2m combo-L.
  >> Just wondering has any one had any experiances with this board and is
  >> it easy to set up, bios wise?
  >> Thanks
 >
 >
 > I have built 3 with this board. It is stable and very easy to setup.
 > No problems have been reported.
 >
 > bluestringer
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 >

It is a good, inexpensive board, but I have had one problem in a machine
I built for a friend. You will probably need to disable the various
wakeup settings. After a time, probably electrical noise, starts
turning on the PC spontaneously. Of course, if you leave the PC running
24/7 that is not a problem. Once the wakeup and alert features had been
disabled, except for the mouse, the PC behaved very well.

One other wrinkle which may answer a problem another poster had, there
is apparently no temperature monitoring sensor in the CPU socket.
Unless the CPU has its own temp monitor, the utilities that support temp
reports will report either nothing or the wrong value for cpu temp. The
system temp sensor is reliable.

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Slow onboard video but good board. I don't like the fact I cannot
read the temp for the CPU. I asked MSI about the CPU not reading the
CPU Temp, that it doesn't show it in the BIOS or with PC Alert4. They
told me it is something wrong with my devices or needing the BIOS
reset or a Windows XP thing. Ha! If the KM2M Combo-L doesn't have a
socket Temp then they should learn about their own products and tell
us, also to NOT include PC Alert4 as a supported tool to use.

Oh well, it was cheap!

Cheers,
Rick

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:56:06 -0000, Dennis Roark
<denro.RemoveThis@NOSPsio.midco.net> wrote:

 >"bluestringer" <srvrules.RemoveThis@strato.com> wrote in
 >news:LmJmc.33032$UG2.32560@bignews2.bellsouth.net:
 >
  >>
  >> "AdNoctum" <julius.RemoveThis@caesar1.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
  >> news:c7fmqm$asg$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...
   >>> After my sons hp pavilion from 1999 went bang I have decided to build
   >>> him a new system. The mobo that I have picked is an MSI km2m combo-L.
   >>> Just wondering has any one had any experiances with this board and is
   >>> it easy to set up, bios wise?
   >>> Thanks
  >>
  >>
  >> I have built 3 with this board. It is stable and very easy to setup.
  >> No problems have been reported.
  >>
  >> bluestringer
  >>
  >>
  >>
 >
 >It is a good, inexpensive board, but I have had one problem in a machine
 >I built for a friend. You will probably need to disable the various
 >wakeup settings. After a time, probably electrical noise, starts
 >turning on the PC spontaneously. Of course, if you leave the PC running
 >24/7 that is not a problem. Once the wakeup and alert features had been
 >disabled, except for the mouse, the PC behaved very well.
 >
 >One other wrinkle which may answer a problem another poster had, there
 >is apparently no temperature monitoring sensor in the CPU socket.
 >Unless the CPU has its own temp monitor, the utilities that support temp
 >reports will report either nothing or the wrong value for cpu temp. The
 >system temp sensor is reliable.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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