The MSI Neo2 Platinum Owners Help Thread

Hitachi now make all of IBMs drives. In fact, they bought the IBM drive business when they had the Death-star problems. (Due to experimental glass platters I believe). My Hitachi/IBM SCSIs have been running fine for years now. And I have various other Hitachi SATA drives which are all good performers.

I have been surprised by the cheapo "Excelstore" drives which ain't too bad for "normal" PCs. These are made in the same Chinese factory as the IBM/Hitachi kit and are a bargin for the price (especially for the kids PCs).

Old Seagate drives - lol. I have some of these well over ten years old which are still going strong. Back in the days when quality was important. :) Though I haven't seen the part of the spec which mentions surviving 50mph collisions!! LOL!! Quality :D

I think WD take a good number of short cuts when building their drives - this is why they can fail so quickly when the enviroment is not "perfect" for them.

(That's enough OT from me.....)
 
Yeah, I put an Excelstor in my dad's PC, and was impressed by how quiet it was. I can't comment on the speed as the PC itself is pretty slow.

Hitachi released a fix for the IBM DeathStar drives iirc, that updated the bios on the drive to fix it (in reality it constantly waved the heads about when idle so they didn't crash). Whether its available or not publicly I do not know.
 
Sorry, i am a bit of a noob and could do with some help. I am about to format and thought id download the latest drivers for my mobo and put them on a cd save me nstalling the ones that came with the mobo and updating later!

Can somone point me in the direction of the best/latest drivers for this board (neo plat 2), please.

Also is it worth me flashing my bios or can i do it later?
 
This will sort you out I recon.

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=607

Wont be a bad idea to have MSI's Live update thingy in for a kick... A lot of people say that updating the drivers with the Live Update thingy is not a good idea, and this is especially the case with updating the BIOS with it through Windows, but to be honest with you, I have been liking MSI boards more and more and I have never had any kind of issue in any way with that, on any of my current MSI boards, so I recon it should be just peachy... Plus, it saves the drivers to the HD so you can simply just copy the contents of that folder to CD for when you have reinstalled, and you will know that not only are the drivers fully up to date, they will be exactly the ones that MSI recommend.
 
Quick question:

My northbridge? fan is starting to whine a lot when booting up and sometimes during generally operation. I'm assuming it needs replaced, and due to the position of the AGP graphics card, anything other than a similar fan won't fit.
So, what exactly do I need to buy? Not sure of fan size, rpm etc............
 
Need help. I used the msi download software to save the latest board drivers onto cd. I formated ect and installed sp2 of a cd, i had downloaded it, restarted and then installed the nforce3 drivers of the cd. When i restarted it stayed on the windows screen with the green bar moving for about 3 mins then gave me a blank screen.

I restarted pc and it went throgh booting and before it got to the windows screen it stopped on black page with one flashing white curser at the top left of the screen. Restarted and got the same.

Cleared bios and set ut up again and got the same problem, stayed on windows screen and then gave me blank page.

I have updated bios lately through that MSI programme and have only had the problem since. Is it the bios or what?

And what shall i do now?
 
Mine didn't get that far when I last updated the bios. When I went into the bios, it had changed my boot drive. So all I did was to reselect the boot hd, save and exit and all worked again.
 
I have checked that and the boot set up is fine. Could it be hard drive bad blocks? If i reformat but instead of sellecting the max meg for the partition select all bit say 5 gig then that should solve it, right?
 
If you got bad blocks, then formatting it quickly would mark off the bad sectors... Marking off just 5GB from the end wont do a thing, as even if there are bad blocks there, its unlikely that during an install, there would be any files written near the end of the disk anyway.

Ok, try this:-

In the BIOS, disable both the Ethernet ports.

I recon that would be the problem... The drivers dont work with the NForce one. The Gigabit one is fine, but not the NVIDIA one... Or at least thats what happens with my MSI Neo and the DFI LanParty...

The Drivers from the CD is fine, but not the downloaded ones.
 
I have it sorted now. For some reason its the floppy. If i have the floopy cable plugged into the board or the floppy drive connected it goes bonkers and i get all sorts of problems!

I dont know if the board is duff or the cable but i dont need a floppy drive that bad anyway.

What mother board software are you lot using to keep an eye on teps and stuff when ocing?
 
Before updating the bios my machine hung at the detecting IDE drives 90% of startups. So I upgraded to the newest bios (1b I think) from the MSI website, however now on reboot I cannot get into windows, it doesn't detect my IDE drives?!? Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks

Daven
 
Are we talking PATA or SATA drives? If PATA, try changing the master/slave jumpers. If you have Master / Slave set, then swap it to Cable Select. Or if you are using Cable Select, swap it to Master / Slave.

Make sure your Master drive is on the end of the cable.


Usually I would always advise to set the Master/Slave jumpers, but some people have foudn CS helps them out with some motherboards.
 
PATA and it used to be fine, all the jumpers are set and I was running windows fine (except for the bios hangs) until I flashed bios, now I get some nvidia boot error "NON-SYSTEM DISK", and I find in the bios it has "none" next to both my HDDs :( even though if I do "detect" it finds them....
 
Have you "Reset BIOS to Defaults"? This needs to be done when changing BIOSes.
Then you need to reset your personal BIOS settings - including Boot Order.

Have you got any other IDE cables you can test?
 
daven1986 said:
PATA and it used to be fine, all the jumpers are set and I was running windows fine (except for the bios hangs) until I flashed bios, now I get some nvidia boot error "NON-SYSTEM DISK", and I find in the bios it has "none" next to both my HDDs :( even though if I do "detect" it finds them....
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Hi this is an easy fix; in the BIOS select the IDE hdd and below detect dirve there will be two other options both set at auto; set the second to "large"

HOpe this helps

T
 
will try it now, also my cpu temp is reported at 43 degrees this is at stock with a zalman 9500 on full, any ideas on how to fix it?

now i get a disk read error...
 
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