The MSI Neo2 Platinum Owners Help Thread

sid said:
Ok memtest fails at 400 mhz with 4 sticks of ram. i guess this is memory controller issue on the CPU, Did they not fix this issue in the newer CPU revisions??? or is this a motherboard problem? Running the newest BIOS

sid
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If the sticks are double sided then they will only run at 333mhz according to MSI's test report.
Maybe try testing them two at a time in dual channel mode.
 
afraser2k said:
I think I've just killed my board with a faulty BIOS update. I installed the Live Monitor utility from the MSI web site and launched it that way, everything seemed to go okay. Windows asked or the PCI bridge drivers upon next boot but when I tried to install the latest nForce3 drivers from nvidia.com the machine reboots. When I try to go into BIOS there's a black screen with flashing white cursor on the top left corner.

So anyone else had a similar fate or think it's just a faulty installation process?
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Reflash the BIOS either manually from DOS or make a floppy with the BIOS version and Award flash util with an Autoexec.bat file to set it going.
 
Looks like a false alarm.

What I did was a full shutdown rather than soft reboot so I don't think the full changes were made. I tried later on and the BIOS loaded with the new version and then I could re-install the nForce3 drivers for the hardware. :)
 
Sputnik II said:
If the sticks are double sided then they will only run at 333mhz according to MSI's test report.
Maybe try testing them two at a time in dual channel mode.
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Rite although this was quick all 4 sticks at once passed memtest at 333mhz at 2-2-2-5 at 2.85V

BUT the pc still crashes so im not sure now, i think it might just buy a 2GB kit, cos this is taking the urine now

sid
 
Hiya Guys rebuilt my pc with a zalman flower and acousticase, it now has problems posting, I switched my ram to slots 3 and 4 instead of 1 and 2 so I could fit the 92mm zalman flower more easily, could having the ram in different slots cause a problem?
 
Another update from

I purchased the 2GB OCZ pc3200 EL-DDR kit last night

I hope this one works fine in this motherboard, Ill just have to sell the BH5 stuff now

sid
 
anyone have any cold boot problems with this mobo?
i oc'ed my pc, which is:

opty 146
geil one - 512 x 2
msi neo 2
si-120
450w enermax psu

mine was running fine at 2.7ghz last night, but when i got back home today from work, the pc doesnt boot up!

someone said try another bios but i dont know which one :confused:
 
jmhduck - have you tried booting with just one stick of RAM installed? are you sure you have the HSF mounted correctly? Could be worth removing the CPU and reseating it as this also helps. ;)

hartgeh3 - there doesn't seem to be any well known cold boot problems. Try resetting your BIOS in case it has corrupted? How far does it get when booting? Does it even turn on?
 
Cheers MAllen HSF is seated correctly as I checked temps in bios after I posted, I'm going to use the msi bracket to see if the board is reporting any errors, I would like avoid reseating cpu but if all else fails I will

Cheers
 
MAllen said:
hartgeh3 - there doesn't seem to be any well known cold boot problems. Try resetting your BIOS in case it has corrupted? How far does it get when booting? Does it even turn on?
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i can turn the pc on, but i get nothing on screen. its just blank, after clearing the cmos is comes up back again. ive just done the bios again will check in the morning if it boots up this time.
 
When using Core centre with this board is the sys temp sensor built into the Chipset? I have alway thought it must be but, having used a temperature probe on the Chipset cooler it seems that core centre sys temp is lower than that of the chipset cooler. :confused:
 
Hiya Guys my board is now failing to post, I reseated the processor twice (as the msi bracket thing was stopping at processor initialisation), so I removed the board from the case and retryed (this time it stops at nitialisaing floppy disk controller), so I tryed the ram in slots 1+2 instead of 3+4 and tryed single sticks as well as a completely seperate ram stick and tryed another gfx. Whilst I was doing this all hdd's/optical drives were unplugged. And I reset the bios multiple times using the jumper

I think it's time for a new motherboard what do you guys think?
 
I had that Jmhduck - my trials are buried early on in this thread (repeated every 7 or so pages! :D )

The floppy initialisation error seems to be a catch-all. It failed on mine because I had my hard disks set to Master/Slave. Switching them to Cable Select sorted it out. Nothing I did with the floppy drive fixed it (that cost me just under a tenner alone).

Not been able to get three IDE hard disks working inside this machine at all. I suspect the disk controller to be sub-standard on these MSI boards (hearsay).

The RAM needs to go into the slots closest to the processor or it won't work at all.
 
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