The MSI Neo2 Platinum Owners Help Thread

FatRakoon said:
Its a bit early for me ATM, but also check out whether they are double sided, or single... Thats another one that will force them to default to 333.

As for the NB Fan, I just got one of the VANTEC ChipSet coolers... They seem to do the trick for me, as thats what I use on all my PCs...
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Those passive vantec ones ? What video card do you have ? Does it overhang the NB ? There isn't much space between the top of the stock cooler and the edge of my 6800 ultra....
 
Stolly said:
Those passive vantec ones ? What video card do you have ? Does it overhang the NB ? There isn't much space between the top of the stock cooler and the edge of my 6800 ultra....
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Erm, no... One of the Fanned ones... They are marginally under a tenner.

Here are some outdated pics, ( Yeah, ok a link to them then ) but they are pics never the less, showing the one I mean, actually under, or rather behind the cooler on a HIS Rad9800Pro

http://fatrakoon.co.uk/pc/mb-neo2.htm

I have used these little kits on a lot of my systems as they are far superior to the naff ones that come stock, and they seem to be reliable in that the one on my KD7-Raid Mobo has been on it since... Maybe 4 years? I got that very cooler for my KT7A and ThunderBird 1400 when that was a top dog Mobo, and its still going strong and is totally silent still.

They are supposed to be VGA Fan cooler, and both a NB & SB Heatsinks, but to be honest, thats wrong because VGA coolers are slightly larger than NB Coolers so the holes dont align, but they are 100% perfect for the NB.

Abit KT7, KD7, NF7, NF7S, MSI Delta, Delta L, Neo2 all have this kit on.
 
I also got a 4400.

After comparing it with a single cored FX Chip, I can only say that if you are into games, then go single core, and if you are into anythign that needs multiple CPUs then stick with what you got.

The GFX on the other hand isnt too hot. The 7800GT is available in AGP Flavours, so go for that... Again, only if you are into games.

Other than that, TBH you will be wasting money buying a new CPU as there isnt really THAT much betwen them anymore.

Alternatively, I am looking out for another 4400 x2... If you want to go for a Pentium 4 3.6Ghz Prescott & Asus Mobo... we could talk?
 
FatRakoon said:
Erm, no... One of the Fanned ones... They are marginally under a tenner.

Here are some outdated pics, ( Yeah, ok a link to them then ) but they are pics never the less, showing the one I mean, actually under, or rather behind the cooler on a HIS Rad9800Pro

http://fatrakoon.co.uk/pc/mb-neo2.htm

I have used these little kits on a lot of my systems as they are far superior to the naff ones that come stock, and they seem to be reliable in that the one on my KD7-Raid Mobo has been on it since... Maybe 4 years? I got that very cooler for my KT7A and ThunderBird 1400 when that was a top dog Mobo, and its still going strong and is totally silent still.

They are supposed to be VGA Fan cooler, and both a NB & SB Heatsinks, but to be honest, thats wrong because VGA coolers are slightly larger than NB Coolers so the holes dont align, but they are 100% perfect for the NB.

Abit KT7, KD7, NF7, NF7S, MSI Delta, Delta L, Neo2 all have this kit on.
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Order placed, cheers for the advice !
 
Stolly said:
I finally snapped. I've had enough of that whiney little northbridge fan. It was making more noise than all the other fans put together.

I unplugged it, and so far the PC is stable.

Any tips on being able to run it quietly ?

Or a suitable replacement ? I'm concerned that some of the ones on the market are two tall to fit, with my 6800 ultra hanging over that area.
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I know what you mean... it’s not even a good loud... it’s a high pitched annoying whine.

I haven’t been able to add a different cooler to the NB because my BFG 6800GT literally touches it, so anything slightly bigger in size wont fit. However I have just bought an arctic cooler NV5 so this may create some space for a new cooler.

However, if you want a free method to silence the NB but keep a small amount of air flow, do this:

Open MSI CoreCentre, click on the CoreCentre name at the top of the console, it should take you to a menu where you can adjust fan speeds. Turn the NB down to about 2/8. At that speed it becomes silent.
Then shove MSI CoreCentre in the start up menu so it loads when the computer boots and will automatically reduce the NB fan speed. Then just close CoreCentre. Winner!
 
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just installed a new spinpoint drive but windows wont boot with it plugged in?

am i missing something in the bios to get windows to boot?

seagate 160 primary (sata 3) this has windows installed and is set as the boot drive
samsung 250 secondary (sata 4) (unformatted)

Help!
 
Make sure the BIOS is actually trying to boot from the seagate first before the Samsung.

On most of my Motherboards, when you add a HD, quite often, the BIOS seems to awnt to boot from the newer one... This is not always the case, but when oyu chop & change anyhtign like the HD/CD/DVD drives around, the BIOS often swap around with the boot order too!

So, just make sure the BIOS is looking for the SEAGATE to boot from first.
 
SH4RKY said:
just installed a new spinpoint drive but windows wont boot with it plugged in?

am i missing something in the bios to get windows to boot?

seagate 160 primary (sata 3) this has windows installed and is set as the boot drive
samsung 250 secondary (sata 4) (unformatted)

Help!
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Very odd. Adding a second drive should not stop the first one from booting. You are using the correct SATA ports (3,4). So that should also make things easy.

Are you seeing the new drive in the BIOS? Do settings seem good there?

Maybe worth testing the drive. Try booting PC with a diagnostics floppy to test that disk. Only have the new drive attached on it's own when doing this test.

Have you tried swapping the cables around? Could be bad cables?

Maybe worth trying SATA 1 and 2. Though this depends if you are overclocked. SATA 1 and 2 are not locked on this M/B, so you will need to drop your overclock back towards stock speeds for the test.
 
right,

tested both cables with the working drive. both working fine

The seagate will boot from sata port 1, 2 and 3 but not 4. sata 4 detects it but one of the options (i forgot the name) is set to large.
when the drive is plugged into 4 i get a disk read error and no boot.

i tried the seagate in 1 with the samsung in 2 - nothing
i then tried the seagate in 1 with the samsung in 3 - nothing

boot priority is HDDs and the order is seagate 1st, samsung 2nd.

i dont actually have a floppy drive in this current build, so i was wondering, as these Sata drives are plug and play, can i plug the samsung in after windows has booted and then use a program to test it??
 
Sata is supposed to be PnP however, I am a bit 50-50 on that as I also know that some Mobos will be killed by removing or adding a HD.

So, I would hold back on that one until someone can give you 100% answer.

Ok, have you tried only the samsung, perhaps on SATA 0, without the Seagate connected at all. and then instaling windows onto it?

Perhaps just try to format the samsung, or even removing the partition, and then re-trying to add it to the Seagate's setup?
 
Ok, installed a floppy and ran the Samsung utility.

Checked for errors and did a low format (which just seemed to check for errors again) all passed and performed successfully.
So 4 hours later and it still didn’t work.... hahaha

Well actually not so much haha more :mad:

Ill try the format through installing windows, also what’s SATA 0?

I’m running bios rev 1.9. I cleared the CMOS when I installed a new CPU with the HDD, so all settings were reset - am I missing something in the bios?? Does raid need enabling etc??
 
Is it possibly something to do with jumpers or sata drivers etc etc??

maybe a bios update could fix it, but i read that the 1.9b isnt good if you want to overclock. any other options?
 
Sorry...

I often refer to SATA 0 as the first SATA

On the NEO2 and many others its SATA 1 + 2 and also SATA 3 + 4 - On the NEO and many others, SATA 1 & 2 are NOT LOCKED which is bad for overclockers, but 3 & 4 are, which is good for clockers.

Anyway, When I referred to SATA 0 - I was meaning SATA 1

I am sure this could be linked, but on my Motherboards that have SATA, I have found something very annoying...

Some drives will work on SATA X but not SATA Y

Have you tried putting the SAMSUNG on SATA 1 and the SEAGATE on SATA 2 and booting still from the SEAGATE?

Now, the BIOS ( If it works ) may still try to have the SAMSUNG as its C: and this may cause some problems, but if the partition on the Samsung is not active ( Not bootable ) and the BIOS is set to boot fromthe Seagate anyway, it might just work?

Only a thought.

As another option, is the samsung will runon SATA 1 with the SEAGATE on SATA 2 then, how about using the SAMSUNG as C:... I can bet that although the SEAGATE is in my eyes a better HD than SAMSUNG, the SAMSUNG will be the quicker of the 2... If it does go in, then according to the Disk Manager, the SAMS?UGN will show up first and you can use Partition magic or summat to move the data from the old C: ( Seagate ) to your soon to be new C: ( SAMSUNG )???

Again, just a thought.

Alternatively, have you tried to tell the BIOS that the SAMSUNG is not there... The PC will hopefully boot up as nomal, and Windows will find the drive and use it as it should, but according to the BIOS, its not there!!! - I know this worked on a lot of sysems I have had in the past.

If the PC still does not work, then you are fully in your rights to send the HD back and have it replaced for another make... Thats always got to be a serious option, because it seems to me, that although they both seem to work ok, that fact seems to also be, that they dont work together. You have rights to do that.
 
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