Curious if your board is green ? The retail MSI boards are generally red and their OEM versions are green colored (have a green oem msi as well as retail red variants of a diff soc 478). It's red actually - leading me to wonder if someone's simply flashed a bad bios in its past. You could try …

Nice, I wasn't really aware of that method. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

Hi all - so I just grabbed an MSI MS-6714 (Ver 5) from eBay. It works (as in boots fine to an existing Win9x installation) but the bios appears to be hugely stripped down. In all the documentation I've found relating to the 6714s there should be a lot more options in the bios menu and this is …