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How about an A64 Tweaker screenshot of your most stable, highest clocking memory settings.
That's on crappy Hynix D43 chips! I can do suicide DRR600 :toast: none of the boys on geil pc4000 can dream about speed like this.
cheers
dude... u posted a A64T screenshot but had 1/3 of it covered :P
maybe it doesn't matter.. hehehe
PC4000 isnt D43/TCCx based.
You should only need to hold it as long as it takes to get to the POST screen where you can press DEL to enter the bios.
You have to hold it before pressing the power button until it shows the POST screen however.
I find my board has a cold boot issue at times.. to solve this I press the power button once to power on then wait 10-20 seconds (POST screen should be up by then... but isnt if cold boot happens) so I just press the power button again.. and it pops up in about 5 seconds.
You might want to try 1 stick of ram in slot 3 (from CPU) and power on with the CMOS battery removed... if that doesnt go, then i'd say its time to start checking the CPU if its dead or if you need to reflash the bios.
Would the POST screen take more than 5 or so minutes to show up? also I'm trying something a friend told me, unplug the power, reverse the cmos battery and short the power button with a jumper, but I'll try what you suggested in the morning, also I don't think the cpu is dead (I hope not) as there wasn't any reason it would die, I'm thinking of picking up another MSI K8N Neo 2 Plat at tigerdirect which is about an hour drive since I can't wait long for a MB rma :P
One more thing, how would I reflash the bios in this current state
no, it should take a maximum of 10 seconds... more likely 2-5.
Dont reverse the battery, just remove it, unplug the PSU from the board and press the power button down for about 5 seconds.. that will definately clear any power in the board..
w00t, finally got the board back from RMA :D
Video card appears dead after the mobo shorted-out on me, but other than that it all works! Currently burning in the CPU, then will start testing the 1.8mods and 1.95b.
How long did your rma take? and did they give you back the same model board?
I don't see any progress still so I think I'm going to go buy the mb from tigerdirect and check everything out
RMA took 2 weeks. I sent in a faulty 0448 Taiwan board (Neo2 54G) and received back an 0506 Taiwan board, again a Neo2 54G. :)
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Originally Posted by uniacid
First off, don't panic. I had something like this happen to me after a bios flash and OC attempt. I couldn't post and was about to rma my board when I thought, "Hey, why not try a PCI gfx card? Can't hurt..." I removed my 9600xt (now a 9800pro...cheap upgrade from a friend :D) and I installed the S3 Trio that I had laying around. Booted up and to my surprise my monitor turned on! Apparently, my bios was corrupt and I had to reflash. (Here's a good site for that...http://www.lejabeach.com/MSIK8N/k8nneo2.html) After the reflash, everything's running well....no problems to speak of and I'm running 1.9B5. If you have a PCI gfx card laying around give it a shot....you have nothing to lose, except for a possible long wait for your rma return. Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes...and good luck! (Hopefully you won't need luck of any kind) ;)
Thanks, I will diffinitely try that, I'm setting up my server as my pc right now and I'm glad to know that my other components are working (Gfx card, HD's , Cdrom) and I should be receiving my new psu today as well, I will see if I can get a pci vid card at compussr or so and test it out.
Ok update: I tried with a pci vid card with the 3700 and it didnt work, but I tried it with my FX-53 and it posts, but it still turns on automatically, so now I am unsure if I should still rma my mb and now should I rma my cpu?
I guess I'll try to rma both tomorrow, but I'm still wondering how this could of happened, maybe I tightened the cpu waterblock down too much?
Don't give up yet. Put the FX-53 in there and reflash the bios. There's a chance that a corrupt bios won't let you boot with the 3700. If you can successfully reflash, you might find that you don't have to rma anything. That could save you a headache or two. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by uniacid
(bios page....http://www.lejabeach.com/MSIK8N/k8nneo2.html)
If you're unsure about flashing the bios from a floppy, follow these instructions:
1.) Insert floppy disk into your floppy drive. (of a working computer with internet access) Format and "Create an MS-DOS startup disk."
2.) Download "AWFL833D.EXE" from http://www.lejabeach.com/MSIK8N/AWFL833D.EXE
3.) Download "7025v18F.zip" from http://www.lejabeach.com/MSIK8N/7025v18F.zip (That bios image is the same one that you'd get from MSI's webpage. It is for bios 1.8 final release, so it should support venice and sandiego chips.)
4.) Copy "AWFL833D.EXE" to the floppy disk.
5.) Decompress the bios file "7025v18F.zip". There will be a folder called "7025v18F" created and it will have 4 files in it. Don't worry about any except the one titled "w7025nms.180". Change the name of the file "w7025nms.180" to "w7025nms.bin". Copy "w7025nms.bin" to the floppy disk.
6.) Insert the floppy into the machine that you want to reflash. (K8N Neo2 Platinum in this case.)
7.) As the computer is booting, keep hitting F11 (pretty sure it's F11) to get the boot menu. Choose to boot off of the floppy disk.
8.) When you see "A:/" type "dir" (no quotes)....this will give you a listing of the directory on the "A:" drive. (This is not necessary, but it will let you know what's on the disk so that you don't make a typo.)
9.) You will see "A:/" on the screen....type the following after it:
AWFL833D w7025nms.bin
It will look like this: A:/AWFL833D w7025nms.bin
10.) Hit enter and follow the instructions that come up on the screen. DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER OR RESTART IT UNTIL THE FLASH IS COMPLETE! (It will let you know when it's done.....it shouldn't take more than 4 minutes tops to copy the bios files.)
11.) Restart with the floppy out of the drive and keep pressing "del" until you get into the bios when rebooting.
12.) Hopefully, it should work again and you can do a happy dance like so: :banana:
Give it a shot and let me know if you start ":banana:ing." If it works, you owe me a beer. :D :toast:
Good luck and don't be afraid to flash! :stick: (Don't forget that it's not going to get any worse than it is now....you can't break what's already broken.;))
hmm thats odd. I would put it down to a faulty PSU, but then again mine does a similar thing with the board but i have no problems at all once its booted
my system turns on straight away after the psu recieves AC power - the PC turns on but fails to boot, no POST or anything, just the fans spins etc. i put it down to it being an incompatibility between the mobo and PSU (Antec 480w - about 1.5 years old). The solution is to hold the power button while you apply AC power, and let it go after about 1-2seconds of the computer being powered. Then it POSTs fine :). after a soft-off (e.g. holding button for 4 seconds or just going to shutdown from windows it works fine booting up again as per normal.
i only get the issue after removing AC Power and then reapplying AC power (plugging the PSU baack into the wall)
weird but why could the bios be corrupt? even though it worked fine before? I guess I could always give it a shot but I need to ship out this cpu quick (Sold my FX53)
Are there 64bit drivers for raid hards that are on 3&4 (those one that are locked) ports?
Alright I just tried reflashing the bios and then put my 3700 back in but no go and also when I use the 3700 now the mb powers on automatically, when I used the fx though it didn't so now I'm unsure if the mb is faulty and if I should still rma it, what do you guys think?
Oh and does anyone know how AMD is with their rma's?
RMA'd a CPU a few weeks back, it took 9 days for me to get a replacement. :)
not bad, do you think i should still rma the board?
just got back from fedex, shipped out the parts :X
When I have to flash my bios cuz i've gone to far with something and it wont post, I turn off psu via its swtich and reset the jumper on the board which is a b*tch to get to then I plug everything back in, soon as i flip the switch on the psu, computer starts up, werid.
did you try clearing your cmos? what were you doing to push it too far? I just had a similar problem except my cpu seems dead :/
it happens all the time, doesnt matter what i do to get it not to post, but when i have to reset cmos, when it comes to powering it bacj up it always turns on as soon as i turn on the psu again, turn on after powerloss or poweroutage w.e is disabled in bios to. Boards just werid.
so after you reset the cmos still no post? try some of the tips given to me a page ahead or so, see if those work or not
remodded 1.36 bios http://www.swjka.com/k8nneo2bios/?dir=./need.for.mhz