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I got this mb. I've bought for the 1st tima a serial ata hd. NO WAY TO GET IT WORKING!
I got no more the mb installation cd, so I dowloaded drivers from MSI website and I've put them into a floppy...
I run windows xp installation, I hit F6, I install the drivers (S key)- win finds either sata driveres, either raid drivers -, I hit RETURN to confirm.... no way to let windows find the hd in the following screenshot.... it says something like "no hd"...
someone can help me?!?!'
Please!!! :p:
Yes i dont see the point in modding the beta as theres going to be problems with it and if the 183, 150 divider was ready to be enabled msi would have done it. Better to wait for the official and then mod from there. Doesnt work for me anyway so im still using 1.8 :p:
i installed winxp on a SATA disk without the need to press F6 to install 3rd party hdd drivers......Quote:
Originally Posted by damascato
Someone can help me??? :confused:
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paulopais/erro.jpg
I don´t inderstand i have an 1.4 bios from msi.
This is taken from a post of mine, #1527 in this thread. Follow these instructions to flash bios from a floppy. Use the bios version of your choice if you don't want to install the official 1.8 bios.
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.
just broke 3ghz stable :banana: :banana:
Nice is that with the vapo?
What psu do you have, I got the same board and I can't apply more then 1.60 in corecenter (1.5 actual) before it shuts downs, are there any voltages at which your shuts down Just trying to find out whats the cause. How many amps on your 12volt line.
prime stable? and running a half multiplier puts your ram at the 10x divider sped doesn't it?
You can try and flash it with UniFlash.Quote:
Originally Posted by paulopais
Nice work with that vapo! ;) Now for 3.1Ghz! :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by sideeffect
Yes i had this to and i thought that it was the cpu reaching its limit but it wasnt at all. The cpu hammers the 12 volt line and with a vapochill and 9800 also drawing power on the 12 volt it can cause i problem. I use 2 psus now a 430 watt enermax to power the vapochill and the case fans and a 460 watt enermax to power the rest. Cpu clocks a bit higher, voltages are much more stable. You cant trust mbm or speedfan they give wrong reading on the +12 and +3.3 v lines you need to use systool or corecenter to get the right reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4rory
It says in cpuz that its a 12x divider 250.6x12 = 3006 which is my cpu speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by brschmid
htt is 286.4 x 10.5 = 3006 as well.
voltages are all spot on even under full load. So far i ran 6 hours prime stable plus lots of gaming and 3dmark benchmarking its fully stable the cpu has more in it im sure, its the ram that needs lots of messing around with to get it stable at highish speeds.
Heres some sisoft benchmarks at current speed with 32 bit version of sisoft win32
http://www.swjka.com/website/pictures/sisoft.jpg
I opened my psu and modded the rails on it to bump up the volts on all the rails, I only have 18amps on my 12volt line, I got a 9800pro, gig of rev.2, 1 raptor drive, 1 dvd burner and like 12 fans +90mm tornado, and 4 cold cathod lights :D.
I'm gona try to test this weekend with a lowend video card that draws less and if it's the case and I get better clocks with a lower drawing video i'll pick up a ocz psu.
Good luck mate. I have 33A on the 12 volt line and it works a treat.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4rory
Does anyone fancy throwing me some info here?
Basically, I got the Neo2 Platinum.
I got a Winchester 3200 that has done 2.8 ( 285FSB to be exact )
I got Corsair XMS4400TX that can do 285FSB
Yet, no matter what I do, no matter what guides I try to follow, the best stable clock I have had is 230FSB.
I have had it to 235, when it finished the BIOS screen, then just as Windows is supposed to start... It hangs?
234 and Windows does startup, but then it BSODs when I am expecting the logo to appear!?
Its me, I know it is, but I am really miffed at this, because so far, its no faster than my Barton or XP17 Clocked boxes and I expected so much more.
Could anyone perhaps tell me what to set in the BIOS, and to what, to try to get it further?
Like I said, both the CPU and the RAM can, and have done it.
Just not by me.
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Originally Posted by FatRakoon
I think most of the problems with the board are ram related. Try NFM modded bios to see if that helps you, it sets different timings for the ram and can help . Other option is to open athlon 64 tweaker and windows memtest and try all the different settings until you find whats stable for you.
do not use SATA port 1 & 2Quote:
Originally Posted by FatRakoon
yup just about to say that dont use those sata ports there not locked and will mess up the sata drives use the ones near the cpu socket.
Did 1.96 beta bios fix the sata locking issue ?
Edit - yes it does apparantly fix the issue, shows details at msi user forum.
Any one tried out the 1.9b6 bios yet!
is it any better than the 1.9b5?
As I (all of us!) was hoping for the offical 1.9 for July but they seem to be having problems - but then again its not as if all the other Nforce3 mobos r issue free with venice, sandy and X2 :rolleyes:
I found 1.96 to be better than 1.95 - has working multiplier controls etc. I'm running it on my system now, and it seems just as stable as any of the 1.8 Mods. No improvement in OC, but not too bad for a beta bios. :)
Can we have a modded version of the beta bios? Please Who knows how long it will be befor an offical release, It shouldnt take long, and the 1.8mod on the 166 divider uses a max async latency of 8 and readpreamble of 6.5ns.
can we just have a 1.96 bios modded with
read write queue bypass of 16x
bypass max 7x
max async latency of 7ns
readpremble of 6ns
idle cycle limit of 256clks
thats all thats needed for 1.96 since we got some alpha timings in that bios.
maybe we can add some more timings to the bios?
ryderocz on the ocz fourms mentioned that he thinks the reason tccd/tcc5 is not clocking well on sandys and venice core are because they drive the memory "strong"
and not even the lowest setting on some boards, like ours can set the drive stregnth low enough. does the drive strengh in bios have a value for both the week and strong settings... maybe they can be lowered?
is there a way to get at least 3~3.1v out of these boards.
i cant stand the friggin fact that i cant go past 250mhz stable with my ocz pc4000 el gold rev 2 since all i can get is 2.85v
this ram needs more and right now i cant afford a ddr booster unless someone wants to do some hardware trading ;)
its controlled by the 3.3v line so there for no vmod should be needed.
I dont think they put a cap on it like asus does with the k8ne deluxe where you cant go higher than 2.7v
didnt i read somewhere that the neo2 plat has a voltage stop at 3v ?
many people need those extra volts me inparticular lol.
For anyone that has issues when trying to use the 1.96 beta bios and unable to get into bios setup this bios mod is for you. The error was caused by the cpu temperature reading so this bios removes that reading from the bios and so the setup menu now loads.
Big thanks to cd1986 for this mod. The bios has been tested by me and works fine but the risk is yours to take.
1.96 beta no temps mod
Three things you could try to increase the memory voltage on this board:
- buy an OCZ DDR Booster (easiest way)
- add a v-mod --> http://www.rhcf.com/sis-bin/ultimate...1;t=000023;p=0
- if you have adjustable rails on your PSU, increase the 3.3v rail to say 3.7-3.8v