GiGaBiTe
Veteran Member
The 3200+ should boot with a 200 MHz setting and be recognized properly, unless it's fake.
If the system is so unstable that it's causing garbage on the screen when trying to boot something, I'd suspect bad RAM, bad power supply or potentially bad capacitors. While MSI was better than other brands in the capacitor plague era, they still had some boards with marginal caps. That and they're ~20 years old, and who knows how long that board was in service for, the CPU VRM caps could be degraded.
If you don't have any other PC2700/3200 memory available, try taking the memory out and cleaning the contacts with something like CRC 2-26 or Deoxit Gold. You may also want to hose down the RAM slots too, they get oxidized over time and can make bad connections. Can't tell you how many old boards I've had with ever so slightly oxidized RAM slots causing havoc.
If the system is so unstable that it's causing garbage on the screen when trying to boot something, I'd suspect bad RAM, bad power supply or potentially bad capacitors. While MSI was better than other brands in the capacitor plague era, they still had some boards with marginal caps. That and they're ~20 years old, and who knows how long that board was in service for, the CPU VRM caps could be degraded.
If you don't have any other PC2700/3200 memory available, try taking the memory out and cleaning the contacts with something like CRC 2-26 or Deoxit Gold. You may also want to hose down the RAM slots too, they get oxidized over time and can make bad connections. Can't tell you how many old boards I've had with ever so slightly oxidized RAM slots causing havoc.