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DANG bro you went from bad to worse. :( I would take out the battery and a good long clear cmos. Looks like you have alot of troubleshooting to do. I havent had the pleasure of ripping the cpu out with the hs yet but it should be fine if the pins arent bent. Ive seen people do this before and the outcome was ok. :) I always give mine a good heatup before removal so this doesnt happen. If alls not well at least now you will have a good excuse to get new hardware :toast:
Thanks for the positive post hehe... i'm on it now and ifworst comes to worst ill buy a new mobo. :/
[QUOTE=sinister1st]......I want to know if this bug is common ive seen it pop up quite a few times at msi forums and i think MILYONS had the same problem........QUOTE]
ya little ot from Zero's problem but ya i had the problem with not being able to get into bios from reset, although i didnt test it again with sinisters solution but ill post when i do to see if that helps
I thought I had killed my board tonight :rofl:
But my girl has a Neo2 so I decided to hotflash the damn chip :D
Flashed ok... but no boot?
Ah well, going to have to RMA anyway... but I'll just wait 2 hours or so, maybe something magical will happen.
And I'll be damned, the board is working again, still don't know why my (obviously good flashed) bios chip didn't work in her board but it runs again...
I can't find a link, but I have the Bios on a floppy. I've searched for GTU2(the name of the mod) and come up with mvktech.net, and that sounds right, but I can't find the bios there. How can I make it available to y'all?
:confused:
PS..my bad, that's 1.16 mem. :rolleyes:
Garret: you didn't flashed the correct chip with the girl near.... :D.The girls have a chip too.Beware of the .....chips
Anyway i want to know if anyone here have an Ati card (eg: 9600) in combination with this board and then tried to get a stable system in games.I find that at 1.6v after 1h or 2h of playing for Eve-Online (www.eve-online.com) for example the game freeze and the VPU recover takes his action but i end up with a black screen with nothing on it but the music and sounds are working..I don't think is about getting warmed because the card is pretty cold..My opinion is the card don't like 1.6 voltage.If i do oc and the higher than 250mhz the windows don't start without 1.6volts setted on video card.I need to make more tests.
TY @ WIZ. That's the link! :D
Creeper
Ok, so I just got the msi neo 2 (non-platinum) yesterday and I must say that it is being mostly very friendly to me so far. It looks like the board came with the 1.9 bios and it has allowed me a very nice overclock so far. I am currently running my week 16 venice at 272 x 10 1:1 with some g.skills 2x512 @ 1t. Very happy with my cpu and ram overclock so far, but I am encountering a very strange problem when benchmarking.
My graphics scores in aquamark and 3dmark03 have dropped significantly. I am scoring 13000 cpu, but only 7500 graphics.
Has anyone seen this before....and does anyone have suggestions.
Could it perhaps be the bios version...maybe I should try another?
Peace
Guys, how are dual-core chips working so far with the Neo2? Stable? Can they overclock well on this board like the single core ones?
i flashed to the gtu2 bios for my bfg 6800gt last night and it seems fine, but my drivers are a little confused about the bios version.
http://funsicle.com/pics/bios_corruption.png
however, in the main nvidia driver section about the overall bios, it does get the version number correct (5.40.02.15.01).
edit: i should mention that i did the proper procedure of uninstalling forceware, driver cleaner, flash, then reinstall 78.03.
@HAVOC these neo 2s are good with the dual core this is messing around at 1:1 with bios 1.9 official. Going to do some tests when I have time with 1.b official and im looking at SE's tccd bios, I am already looking forward to the next bios release :) .I dont really like all these little bugs people are getting here and there I like it perfect or nothing! :slapass: :) . Im not going to waise my time with a dfi board, ill wait tell the next best thing and then Im buying. :toast:
Yeah, I'm thinking about getting a 3800 X2, but I don't want to change anything else on my system. So maybe I'll do it. I might overclock it a little bit (like 2400MHz max), so I don't think I'll have too many problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by sinister1st
Ah, Would a Zalman 7000A-AlCu handle a 3800+ X2? Or do I have to use another type of cooling?
I have a xp-90(& TORNADO loud as hell!) on mine and i got alot of fsb on the 9 multi with NO extra voltage easy (probably almost 2.4ghtz with no extra voltage.) 290x9 easy.
sinister: i have a little problem if you can give me an advice..
my specs are
A64 3000+ venice cooled by an arctic freezer 64 ultra tcl
MSI k8n Neo2 1.B sideefect bios mod
1 samsung ddr 333 stick 256mb
1kingmax ddr 333 stick 256mb
radeon 9550xt from gecube
Aureon teratec 7.1 space
wd 120jb.
I booted and windows work without any problem with the settings 280x9 but in games come the problem.At that speed The Chronicles of ridick freeze in a record time (1minute) and in lower freeze after some hours playing.In eve-online for example i played two hours and the game freeze, vpu do his job reset the vga and i end up with working sound and black image.I must quit game and enter again...I think either the vga don't support the higher frequencies or memory...PCI/Agp lock is setted at 66 mhz.
First set agp lock to 67 and try tweeking your voltages and timings i have a pretty low end 9600xt all-in-wonder on this rig and it runs fine while ocing. You can also try and mess with the ati/nv speed up but i dont remeber if that bios you are using enables or disables it by default you'll have to check , you might want to try some older drivers for that card and make sure you are using sata 3 or 4 ports. Have you tried using the stock xp ide drivers or nvidia drivers vice/versa? I dont use the nvidia ide drivers with xp only win2k but i havent tried them with bios 1.b yet. If you are stuck at 280 you have many options to try, but you should be able to get past that with alot of trial and error and those to sticks of ram you are using dont help you at all. Good luck :)
@Sniggle....you should be good to go. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"
Cheers :toast:
Creeper
For some reason the 3Dmark 2003 cpu test drops performance under the newer bios files compared to 1.8 bios for me.
Has anyone else observed this? Its something like 400 points down over 1.8 bios.
All the cpu specific tests i have run compare the same between 1.8 and 1.B and the graphics tests are also the same sort of results. Its just the graphics cpu test. :confused:
with my system i get 1774 in 3dmark05 and 13383 in 3dmark01se.In 03 i didn't tested.
@ sideeffect!
Thank you!
I'm using the 1.b Ballistix BIOS you built and it works great so far. Currently at 10x250 (had to up the vcore a bit but nothing major). When I got this 4400+ X2 I told myself I would be happy if I could get to 2.5. So I'm happy! :banana:
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Originally Posted by Rbreb13
Congrats Rbreb13 thats a nice speed for 2 x 1gb. Is that 1T or 2T btw?
3-4-4-10 1T actually. I'm playing with timings now trying for more memory bandwidth (3-3-3-8 1T). Sandra shows 2CMD but at boot it shows 1t and thats whats set in BIOS.Quote:
Originally Posted by sideeffect
2CMD in sandra doesnt refer to 1T or 2T its another timing. Either that or the the function is broken. either way sandra always says 2cmd so ignore it. The bios is correct also Everest and a64 tweaker will confirm it for you if you feel you need to check.
Youve done well though to keep 1T at that mhz with 2gb of ram. :woot:
Try to set trcd of 3 its more likely to go down than trp is And helps performances more in my opinion. Also try a tras of 8 seems to be more stable with ballistix than 10 is.
Ok, My name is rory and I have a problem.
A while back when my computer was running fine, I came on the forums and seen some new bioses, so I gave one a shot it was the tccd one, ok I had probleems right from the start, so I flashed back and ever since, everytime I touch my computer ie add a drive to back up or change some hardware My bios goes nuts, I've flashed back to 1.80modrev3 3 times already.
Anyways what happens is I try to boot and bios just keeps restarting, trying to get inot bios setting usally results in feezing as soon as I see the bios menu if I even get there or after a few (2-3) keystrokes every once and a while it will tell me cmos error f1 to contiune del to enter setup and sometimes it makes it to the raid checking screena dn realtec, very rarely do I see the dyi pooldate or something alone those lines, I have to reboot about 40 -70 times befor I can get to windows!
This has happed about 4 times now, today I bought a western digital 250 sata 2 harddrive and went to install it and boom. I am now in windows without the newhard ware after about 2 hours or trying everything I cleared cmos many times and took out battery let it clear for hours blah blah blah lol, this is really something else man, I'm thinking my bios chip has gone to :banana::banana::banana::banana: from to many flashses probably about 25, I flashed it again right now it can't be badly writen, I dont understand this.
Here are some pics. this happens sometimes when I'm in the bios menu or when it's just botting up this will happen about 10 out of 70 restarts sometimes i see werid things also like smiling faces, and sh-T it's werid.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...esuschrist.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ngtobootup.jpg
Some one help me, I want this new drive running and want to get rid of this problem, it's also not the overclock just when i reset cmos everything goes abck to normal. specs are in sig. :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
OK Everest confirms the 1T. I'm running at 3-3-3-8 1T, 4x HTT, 10x multi, 230 MHz FSB, right now and working up my FSB. I'm stable in games and Windows, Memtest passes and SPi 1M. I'll Memtest overnight again.Quote:
Originally Posted by sideeffect