The OFFICIAL MSI K8N Neo2-939 tips and tricks guide thread

**HighLife** · 02-11-2005, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by I(illa Bee

If you up you HTT speed, and coolgen is telling you your Agp speed is upping with it, then set t to 67 it will lock like its sospouse to, but you your overclcoking and the AGP is not moveing then leave it at 66..

My video and CPU are overclocked, specs in sig. Clockgen shows it at 66 not matter what i set my video card to.

**I(illa Bee** · 02-11-2005, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by HighLife

My video and CPU are overclocked, specs in sig. Clockgen shows it at 66 not matter what i set my video card to.

then dont worry about it....some peopel have a problem with it not locking ant runnign at the way to 80Mhz

**Karl Norris** · 02-11-2005, 04:26 PM

Hey all,

I had a failed flash using bios version 1.52 from over here:

http://www.svcheats.com/MSI_Neo_Plat2_939/beta/

I'm RMAing the cpu anyways, so the board is going back too.

Right now the board powers up, and will go for about a second or two and then powers back down.

Karl

**I(illa Bee** · 02-11-2005, 05:23 PM

Well, i just ordered a new Epox 9nda3 board, as i think i killed my NEO2, but it wont post....not sure why i just get FF...i hope my 3500 90nm is shot...

**I(illa Bee** · 02-11-2005, 11:39 PM

hmmm, with the new Epox board it still dosnt post. I may have killed my 3500+....dose anyone know what if would do if the epox baords BIOS is not up to date to support my 90nm?

The MSI board, will not do anything when i push the power buttom. When i remove the CPU, and plug in the power cord it comes on by itself....and dose nothing...

THe Epox board, when the CPU is installed, will power up, but the screeen dose not come one, it dose not post, It never says anythign but "FF" when the CPU is not installed, it will still power up

any thoughts....

**BerT** · 02-12-2005, 05:23 AM

Wich program do you guys use for temp monitoring ?

And Cant normally with the booster in dimm 4 , 2 memory banks still be used ?

**neil_010** · 02-12-2005, 01:23 PM

I have had this board for about a month, so far i'm pretty satisfied with it. Do any of you guys hear a strange high-frequency electrical buzzing noise coming from the board? Its really an odd sort of noise. It seems to fluctuate ... like when i run prime 95 it will increase in volume. The temps in core center seem kinda high ... I have an xp-90 w/ 52cfm fan but still even today in corecenter the temps were going all the way up to 62 degrees celcius, thats with 1.6volts on the cpu. I wish i could get more than 2.5 -2.6 ghz out of this 3200+ , but i can't put anymore volts on this cpu, temps get too high plus i live in florida so that don't help!

**BerT** · 02-12-2005, 02:57 PM

I'm off ocen the board and seem to be stuck at 24O HTT

Freq 3x ed agp 67 etc ..... bios 1.41

But i cant disable spread spectrum in bios? Anyone some info how to disable it ?

**Silvestre** · 02-12-2005, 04:02 PM

have just really noticed...it isn't disabled once we take the fsb up...does it matter? i do remember that it is disabled as we take fsb up on my dfi lpb...hmm, was it?...lost memory...hhahhahaha
btw, hey guys..having trouble here taking the winnie 3000+ to 300x9. right now running with 280MHzx9. AMD 64 is sure is fast with superpi, but not that great with 3dmark2001. my previous athlon xp-m run at 2646 (240x11) did better and it was stable. with winnie, 280x9 ist not so stable sometimes with superpi and it's only like 2520MHz. i'm bit disappointed. my last hope would be new bios, i think...any suggestion? using 141 and it's not so different from the official 1.4. is 1.5x good?

**split** · 02-13-2005, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by Karl Norris

Hey all,

I had a failed flash using bios version 1.52 from over here:

http://www.svcheats.com/MSI_Neo_Plat2_939/beta/

I'm RMAing the cpu anyways, so the board is going back too.

Right now the board powers up, and will go for about a second or two and then powers back down.

Karl

I seen someone else with the same problem, so don't *play* with this BIOS unless you have a BIOS savior.
I have also seen someone else claim to use it with no probs at all.

**BerT** · 02-13-2005, 04:48 AM

reached 10x250 with mem@ 250 2-2-2-5 3.3V
And cpu at 1.55-1.6V

Got some errors in windows and reboot pcmark.
So used mem divider to check max out of cpu.

Later on gonna put pc4000 in dualchan , am testing with bh5 512mb ( 1 module )

**BerT** · 02-13-2005, 12:36 PM

http://users.pandora.be/berteke/OC/

Tried with 1x512 MB BH5 and 2* 256 OCZ pc4000

My different oc attemps.
Further I couldnt get.

**IcEMaN666** · 02-15-2005, 04:37 AM

I've a msi k8n neo2 and sometimes i have cold boot issues.
i start the pc, black screen, after a while a beep and my msi says "system is in overclocking safe" or something similar.
i have to enter the bios, save settings and now i can start the pc, even without overclock.
i don't know what to do, i've tried some bios, nothing. anybody with the same problem?

**I(illa Bee** · 02-15-2005, 07:01 AM

Anyone overclcok a 3500+ .13 newcastel core on this baord... ?

**Keir** · 02-15-2005, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by split

I seen someone else with the same problem, so don't *play* with this BIOS unless you have a BIOS savior.
I have also seen someone else claim to use it with no probs at all.

I too have exactly the same problem. Just bought all new hardware to update my ageing xp1800. Neo2, 3200+ etc. etc. Worked perfectly on first boot, decided to update to the latest beta bios (1.52) before I did anything else and it just switched off after finishing. Now only stays on for about 3 seconds and goes off again.

Have now ordered a new bios chip and a bios saviour so I never have to go through this again!

**Silvestre** · 02-16-2005, 06:05 AM

i have flashed the bios couple of times until this moment...and i have not failed...changing from 1.4..1.41...1.51...1.52...1.36mod...back to 1.52...nothing's happened...luck maybe...

**wampir** · 02-16-2005, 06:08 AM

Thats what I got from my neo2

9 x 307 = 2763 Mhz , memory 276 2,5-3-3-7-1T (183 mem div in A64tweaker)

It's slower only 2s than 9x312 = 2810 and 166 div , 255 2,5-3-3-7-1T
maybe because of my old , many times crashed Winxp .

**Keir** · 02-16-2005, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by Silvestre

i have flashed the bios couple of times until this moment...and i have not failed...changing from 1.4..1.41...1.51...1.52...1.36mod...back to 1.52...nothing's happened...luck maybe...

Did you flash from windows or a boot disk?

I did mine from dos via a boot disk, perhaps thats the problem with 1.52?

**Karl Norris** · 02-17-2005, 08:13 AM

Hey Keir,

I too used the DOS method. Best recommendation would be stay away from 1.52 for now.

Karl

**charlie** · 02-17-2005, 10:20 AM

stay away from 1.52 BIOS

**IcEMaN666** · 02-17-2005, 11:46 AM

anybody with cold boot issues as me?

**Keir** · 02-17-2005, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by charlie

stay away from 1.52 BIOS

I will be after my experience!

Does anyone know which is the best bios to use for Crucial Ballistix PC4000 memory? I'm not sure what chips are used on these modules.

**teArdr0p** · 02-18-2005, 05:48 PM

i bought a brand new zalman fo my 3500+ i can't remove the 'plate' behind the cpu. Has anyone ever tried it? How come does that s*it comes out?

**split** · 02-18-2005, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by Keir

I too have exactly the same problem. Just bought all new hardware to update my ageing xp1800. Neo2, 3200+ etc. etc. Worked perfectly on first boot, decided to update to the latest beta bios (1.52) before I did anything else and it just switched off after finishing. Now only stays on for about 3 seconds and goes off again.

Have now ordered a new bios chip and a bios saviour so I never have to go through this again!

Beta BIOS's should be used by those with BIOS saviors only unless lots have success with one.
Obviously not the case with this BIOS.
I have seen a work round that would be worth a try if you had any ram you could try.

1) Hello, I had exactly the same problem with my MSI K8N Neo 2 i flashed to the 1.52 beta bios and had the 3 second problelm, pulling my hair out i tried new PSU, blah blah, the thing that fixed it was removing my Crucial Ballistix PC4000 Ram and sticking some el cheapo PC3200 ram in the, system booted perfectly >?

2) My BIOS just expired whilst updating to 1.52, I will give your method a try to see if I can get it to boot and roll back the update.
YAAAAAY!! Removing my Corsair XLPT and using an old Twinmos 3200 stick has got my machine up and running again so a BIG cheers bud!

Seems the 1.52 likes cheap ram. Go figure

i bought a brand new zalman fo my 3500+ i can't remove the 'plate' behind the cpu. Has anyone ever tried it? How come does that s*it comes out?

I applied even pressure to the lugs that stick through the motherboard, and mine fell off.
If it's been in use, it may have stuck itself firmer, so heat it with a hairdryer to melt the glue.

**Keir** · 02-19-2005, 04:14 AM

Yeah I saw that too split, been going to that other forum for donkeys years. I've got my bios saviour and new bios chip now so hopefully tonight all will be well. Shame though as I do have some ram in this computer I could have used, but don't need it anymore.

You seem a pretty knowledgeable bloke, any ideas on the best bios for Ballistix PC 4000?

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