Official MSI P7N Diamond (780i) Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread

[BababooeyHTJ]

Hey BababooeyHTJ:
When your board returned from RMA, did MSI team told you something about your board or they just sent you the shipping information mail with the tracking number?

To be honest with you I don't even think that they sent me the tracking info. I had to check the rma info at MSI's website for the tracking info.

[dogg]

My e8600 was not supported with 1.2 bios... I put there e8400 and flash to 1.32 beta / or it was 1.23 beta? /.. put e8600 back and it works...

[rage10]

my p7n d will not stay on for more then 3-4 seconds into windows install for windows vista or xp.

WIN XP: it will go through the chose drive and partition and load files part of the installer. but once it gets to the installing part it reboots.

WIN VISTA: the installer it starts to load and then reboots. it used to get to theenter product code screen and when I pressed ok it rebooted. but now it only stays on for 3-4 seconds.

thanks in advance for the help,
rage10

[Fiskbit]

Check your SATA/RAID drivers. The stock ones may cause rebooting and such. There's information earlier in the thread about this and is what caused me to have reboots during OS installation.

I discovered yesterday that I'd been having significant problems reading from and writing to my harddrives (a couple hundred errors in early February and several hundred yesterday). My initial thought was that it was a harddrive issue, but as it was happening on multiple drives, my attention turned to RAM or motherboard. Today, I came home to find that the computer I had left running while I was out for the day was powered up and dead, and no amount of effort will get it to POST, even with cleared CMOS. This motherboard has been little but trouble for me, and while I am often happy with the results I get out of it, it is not worth the blue screens, random rebooting, various quirks, and high failure rate that I've experienced and have been suggested by others' posts in this thread. I hope no one else is suckered into purchasing this unreliable board; it certainly hasn't been worth the money I put into it last year and I'd hate to see more people deal with the various problems it presents.

[rage10]

there are no drivers. I'm trying to do the inital installation.

[stickboy00]

have you used a memory checker like memTest86 to see if you have a stable memory subsystem?

[Fiskbit]

You should be installing the SATA/RAID drivers as an early part of OS installation, not afterward. And yeah, I agree; give MemTest86 a try and see how it fairs.

[FedericoUY]

Hi, got my motherboard back from RMA. Excellent service from MSI, brand new one, sealed in a bag. Everything is working perfect, but there's a strange item that came with this board. This is a small card with some kind of chip, and a led (green color when I power on). This is not a original item of the board of course.
Does anyone knows what is this for?

[FedericoUY]

Today, I came home to find that the computer I had left running while I was out for the day was powered up and dead, and no amount of effort will get it to POST, even with cleared CMOS. This motherboard has been little but trouble for me, and while I am often happy with the results I get out of it, it is not worth the blue screens, random rebooting, various quirks, and high failure rate that I've experienced and have been suggested by others' posts in this thread. I hope no one else is suckered into purchasing this unreliable board; it certainly hasn't been worth the money I put into it last year and I'd hate to see more people deal with the various problems it presents.

That's not good to hear Fiskbit, really bad luck as the rest of us (those who had to sent this board to RMA). I've been some hours trying this new board and it really looks like it's not the same board. Have had zero problems and the new 1.3 official bios looks really stable and improved. Didn't try OC yet, but i guess this finally get a good road. The only thing that worries me is how hot NB still works. Still wondering what's that rare thing that came with my board...