The MSI Neo2 Platinum Owners Help Thread

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 12:38

Thought it would be easiest to make a thread for this board, since many will be recieving today. Any advice help, tips etc, please post in here to share, im about to start tweaking

Ive installed and up and running (havent formatted yet, still on my p4 install at the mo).

Does anyone know what the sensors should be for MBM5? The MSI utility dosent seem to report temps correctly (idle 54C at stock with my reserator) Winbond 3 looks to be right at 36C idle, any ideas?

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 16:01

ive flashed to latest bios - it has improved slightly, but the sensor is obviously goofy - its alternating between 47-51C.

Still even at 2.6ghz it feels like 51C is too high at stock, i havent primed yet tho.

The most annoying thing is to reboot, i have to shut it down then start it up again, if i reset, it stalls on loading, but fires up first time when shut off, very weird.

Im not sure what my ram should be set at, i dont really understand these timings (im used to intel) so if someone could explain them, ive got kingmax pc4000 in sig. Still it seems happy enough at 237FSB so far

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 17:05

it dosent do the "turn off" issue at stock, only when i ramp up the fsb.

Quite annoying to say the least.

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 17:21

read back a few posts, when i overclock i need to turn off the pc when rebooting rather than reset, or it hangs on loading.

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 18:30

its the only real problem ive encountered so far - bios update didnt help it unfortunately, and i havent read of anyone else with the same problem yet.

Does anyone know whats the max voltage i should be putting through a 3500 chip? The temps definetly cant be reporting correctly - 53-56C idle - 61-63C full load at 2520 on the reserator.

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 18:56

Ive just rebooted at my clocked speed of 2520 - and lost my PCI cards, put it back to stock and they show up again. AGP is set to 66 (so i presume pci is locked at 33)

anyone else? (im probably the only goon still using pci cards right enough

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 19:17

great stuff, ill give that a try

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 19:41

im using 2 satas - (not raid) samsung spinpoints - and i didnt need to load the sata drivers on load up, just installed without a hitch (the OS install that is).

derthballs · 19 Aug 2004 at 20:38

starting to wonder who's pocket annandtech is in. (MSI's obviously

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They got to 300 FSB pretty quickly with their chip - well i cant even do 250x10 with my pc4000 which did 270fsb in my intel.

phooey!

derthballs · 20 Aug 2004 at 13:31

yeh it runs perfect at stock - no probs there.

derthballs · 20 Aug 2004 at 22:05

have you tried using the other 2 sata ports on the board ?

I maxxed out the same as you tho, about 2.6ghz (235fsb) or so. Was lightning fast at that tho.

derthballs · 22 Aug 2004 at 20:15

I couldnt get mine to run at 250fsb with HT set at anything, tried all the way down to 2

derthballs · 24 Aug 2004 at 21:17

if your getting a 40 error dosent that mean that your ide cable is in upside down?

derthballs · 25 Aug 2004 at 08:10

Originally posted by Paulus
i was having trouble with random reboots etc until i moved the ram to different slots...

now i have it running stable at stock and my first impressions are that its quite a nice board.

tomorow im going to try to tighten the Ram timings and try to overclock.

will report back .

Remember dual channel is slots 1&2, 3&4 not 1&3 2&4 on this board (colours are wrong on the board).

derthballs · 25 Aug 2004 at 13:30

I really liked the board too - was a bit niggly, but nothing major that annoyed me - but my satellite setup used too much resources on it, so i had to go back to p4 (HT, best invention since the wheel) and swapped my 2.6C for a 30 capper 3.0C that does 3.9 - and its about 10% slower than the 3500 and board running at 2.6ghz. Once i get broadband ill go back to A64 - only 9 months to go

derthballs · 26 Aug 2004 at 15:40

what temps are you getting with that cooler mate? I had my board watercooled and idle temp was still about 54C :eek:

derthballs · 26 Aug 2004 at 16:33

doh, how did i miss that. Im sure my board was mis reporting the temps, i got the cpu up to 2.7g and it was okay, temps just seemed barmy :confused:

derthballs · 26 Aug 2004 at 19:04

put a hairdryer onto it , and then push the screws from the front, pops off easily then

derthballs · 29 Aug 2004 at 18:31

1T makes a massive difference to performance - absolutely huge.

derthballs · 29 Aug 2004 at 22:14

the problems i accounted were attributed to overclocking, at stock it was very stable, just when i pushed it past 2.6ghz (3500) that it was giving problems.