The MSI Neo2 Platinum Owners Help Thread

daven1986 · 28 Dec 2005 at 18:44

ok i also have the error "ROM could not invoke" or something.

Topitoff · 28 Dec 2005 at 18:46

As far as the temps are concerned, these boards are notorious for wrong readings; though the missreadings in earlier BIOS were solved in 1.8 and later - apparently? I have two of the boards and one reads my Opteron at 40C idle and 54C onload - the other 33 and 44, both using BIOS 1.8. NB with BIOS 1.B the values were a couple of degrees less with the lower reading board.

I seem to have problems with the memory at 1T with 1.B BIOS, thats why I'm on 1.8.

Topitoff · 28 Dec 2005 at 18:58

MAllen said:
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.

Have you tried this since changing to large?

noxidjkram@hotm · 28 Dec 2005 at 19:19

daven1986 said:
ok i also have the error "ROM could not invoke" or something.

I have this too!

And when i try to run Core Cell it says my motherboard does not support this.

Any ideas?

M

MAllen · 28 Dec 2005 at 19:23

"ROM Could Not Invoke" sounds like it is trying to boot from LAN. DO you have "Boot other devices" set in the BIOS? If yes, turn it off.

Topitoff · 28 Dec 2005 at 19:25

noxidjkram@hotm said:
I have this too!

And when i try to run Core Cell it says my motherboard does not support this.

Any ideas?

M

Core cell works on one of my boards but not on the other. The one it don't work on is an OEM one that says it's manufacturer as displayed by CPU-Z and sandra as Eveshamvale?

This link may help with this board:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43033

noxidjkram@hotm · 28 Dec 2005 at 19:28

MAllen said:
"ROM Could Not Invoke" sounds like it is trying to boot from LAN. DO you have "Boot other devices" set in the BIOS? If yes, turn it off.

I'll check on this - thank MAllen.

M

noxidjkram@hotm · 28 Dec 2005 at 19:29

Topitoff said:
Core cell works on one of my boards but not on the other. The one it don't work on is an OEM one that says it's manufacturer as displayed by CPU-Z and sandra as Eveshamvale?

This link may help with this board:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43033

Yes, its an OEM board.

I wonder if it was disabled by manufacturer - the chip is onboard...

M

daven1986 · 28 Dec 2005 at 19:30

i'll give that a check, and yes all my drives are set to boot in the correct order, I just get a blank screen after "verifying pool data"

MAllen · 28 Dec 2005 at 19:31

daven1986 - this is weird. Have you done the Master/Slave tests? Changed the cable? Swapped the jumpers? Etc?

daven1986 · 28 Dec 2005 at 20:37

yeah, the master drive is the one with windows on, my slave drive is just data, the jumpers and cable were not swapped because it worked before the bios update.

MAllen · 28 Dec 2005 at 20:53

daven1986 said:
the jumpers and cable were not swapped because it worked before the bios update.

Can you at least try it this time to eliminate it from this problem. Otherwise there is no point in us giving advice if ya going to ignore it.

daven1986 · 28 Dec 2005 at 20:55

ok tried it, same problem, im going to try a different bios (easybios). hopefully it'll work. Apparently it solves the "Rom not invoked" issue.
Daven

daven1986 · 28 Dec 2005 at 20:59

"disk read error occurred", i might just reinstall win xp 64....

daven1986 · 28 Dec 2005 at 21:01

ok disk read error occurs on the windows disk........

not anymore

noxidjkram@hotm · 28 Dec 2005 at 23:35

MAllen said:
"ROM Could Not Invoke" sounds like it is trying to boot from LAN. DO you have "Boot other devices" set in the BIOS? If yes, turn it off.

Ok - disabled 3 things in BIOS and now it doesnt report this.

MAC LAN (Nv)

Onboard 1392

Onboard LAN

Not sure which one fixed it as i did all 3 at once (i dont need any of em).

M

daven1986 · 28 Dec 2005 at 23:52

mine seems to be ok now, i just formatted and reinstalled windows with the new bios

Liam · 30 Dec 2005 at 00:40

Just upgraded from a IDE HDD to a SATA HDD, now Windows takes ages to load! I have a Raptor plugged into SATA port 3 and the 320GB into SATA port 4, before Windows loading screen didn't even scroll once, it now takes about 10 scrolls!

Any ideas?

FatRakoon · 30 Dec 2005 at 01:35

Bummer said:
Just upgraded from a IDE HDD to a SATA HDD, now Windows takes ages to load! I have a Raptor plugged into SATA port 3 and the 320GB into SATA port 4, before Windows loading screen didn't even scroll once, it now takes about 10 scrolls!

Any ideas?

DMA for the SATA Ports?

Update the drivers?

Its quite possible that once you have updated things, it will get better... It sometimes does anyway!

Liam · 30 Dec 2005 at 01:39

FatRakoon said:
DMA for the SATA Ports?

Update the drivers?

Its quite possible that once you have updated things, it will get better... It sometimes does anyway!

Whats drivers can you update?