The MSI Neo2 Platinum Owners Help Thread

Thanks for all the tips... but a bit of embarrassment on my half now :o

After installing windows on the Samsung and then getting it to boot with the Seagate as the secondary I thought I was onto a winner.

So I swapped the drives back and booted from the Seagate like usual and once again, I got a black screen. However instead of turning the computer off, I turned around to watch a bit of lethal weapon 2.... as one does.... haha, anyway I looked back around and windows was booting normally.

After playing some more, I found that it wasn’t actually not booting, it was just taking its sweet ass time to get started...

So now the drive is fine and seems to be up to speed according to hdtach etc, the new problem is removing the annoying 30 second black screen just as windows starts to load?? Any ideas what could be causing this??



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The Samsung is very quiet when reading and writing, it’s near inaudible (probably why I thought the system had crashed when it’s probably looking at the Samsung drive) but it does ‘throb’. It causes a pulsing vibration that resonates on the case and I find more annoying than the fans.

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oh, and I think I need a fresh install of windows... after booting practically instantly on the fresh install on the samsung drive its shown me how full of crap my current install is... haha :p
 
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We've all been there mate... Dont worry about it... even the best of us will get caught out on the most stupid things from time to time.

Yes, systems, no matter how well kept, will get slower and slower as time goes by.

I have rarely had any of my PCs on the same install for longer than about 3 months.

My youngest son, and my daughter have had theirs on for marginally over 3 years, and thats only because they only play games, and my eldest son has only had his done because I have given him my old SCSI gear ( 8 years old and he is running a Newcastle 3000 @ 2.4Ghz with a 6800GT and 1GB RAM, and a 72GB ( 4x36GB ) Mirrored & Striped Raid array - what a Spawny git ) and I have given him a nice clean install, but other than that, I usually do an F&R every 3 or so months.
 
Yeah I can see the attraction of fresh installs, although downloading all the drivers and other crap to patch windows and get everything working as it should cant be worth every 3 months??

can you just reinstall windows but leave patches, updates and program files alone??


Thinking about it though, now i have 2 hdds i can alternate between them and always have a working copy. unless registering throws up problems.
 
TBH mate. I have all *** downloads and drivers already here on my HD, or on one of my many customised installation CDs!

My motherboards are mostly NForce, a couple are VIA and one is... Well.. Intel I recon that the Windows update does not find any updates for anyway, and my Graphics are nVIDIA or ATI and to be honest, I download fairly regularly anyway, so for drivers etc, its not a problem at all.

Windows' own updates are fairly straight forward for me too and only take a few minutes really... In fact, I only really do the updates to have a look for any specific drivers, as pretty much everything I can set to do automatically, the rest is really all stuff I dont really care about, or, I have ready on the disks.

A fresh install from blank HD to fully up-to-date with all my drivers and system tools, antivirus and anti-spyware crud, that I have intergrated into my installation disks, dont even take me an hour, so its hardly anythign I care abotu too much.

Hey, just a note for you... My quickest full-on installation with Windows XP, has been 11 minutes, from blank HD to desktop, and that was on my NF7S & Barton 2500 @ 3200... It was a well cut down install, but still 100% fully functional as nothign was actually taken out, just trimmed a bit.

As for the 2 HD idea, this is somethign that many already do!

I find it a little silly sometimes however. and all you really need to do, is ghost your C: on a full install, preferably AFTER you have activated it, doen your drivers etc, and perhaps every once in a while so you can always go back, sort of like windows recovery, only far superior in that viruses often target the recovery so recoverign your PC sometimes starts up viruses that you didnt know you had... I have never used it and never intend on it either, plus its just crap anwyay.
 
So i think my MB is goosed, whats the warranty on these things ?

Under stress the PC either freezes or reboots, when it reboots i just get endless beeps about a second apart.

The Diag LED's are showing "early chipset initialisation"

Any mileage in doing a bios update ? Its at the latest one that the auto-update tool can find, are their any other ones later than that i can try ?
 
Anyone know if this board will POST with an athlon64 X2 if it has an old bios installed? Ordered the B Grade one off OCUK and received it today, and will be trying it later - fingers crossed it will POST!! No idea what BIOS version it has installed...
 
If you dont know, what BIOS it is, then I think its probably safe to assume that it will NOT boot... Depends on how long you have had it you see, as the BIOSes that do x2 CPUs are fairly recent.

Why not just upgrade the BIOS anyway, and then you will know it will, and what version BIOS you have!

FYI The BIOS number is near the TOP-LEFT of the BIOS boot screen when it starts up.
 
Thanks for the info. Would have flashed the BIOS if I could, but you need the machine running to do that. Anyway, for future reference, it posted, detecting the CPU as "Hammer Family Processor Unknown", and before flashing the bios, was only running in single core. Now updated from BIOS v1.80 to 1.B0 and all running fine. Just installing drivers! :-)
 
Sijo45 said:
Anyone know if this board will POST with an athlon64 X2 if it has an old bios installed? Ordered the B Grade one off OCUK and received it today, and will be trying it later - fingers crossed it will POST!! No idea what BIOS version it has installed...
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Just out of interest mate, did you get a backplate with yours?

I have an Asrock DualSATA 939 but because i'm still running AGP, i thought i'd get one with a bit better overclocking.
 
Yeah, it came with one. The manual says about sticking it on, but it had already been attached by the previous owner, before it was sent back. I have no idea what it's for, or why it is needed - any ideas?

Thought perhaps it was to do with the 4 holes for mounting a heatsink, but as I just got a retail pack with the bog standard heatsink, I didn't have to get involved with them.
 
I ordered one of these yesterday and it arrived at 8:05 this morning. Thought it'd be a nice treat for my secondary machine.

Anyway, I was quite surprised and pleased to see it was a complete package, with all the cables, manual, extra usb ports and IO back-plate ...for £23 it's got to be bargain of the year :p ...now to see if it works :o

Oh I ordered a 3200 Venice for it too, should run nice and cool and quiet, or that's the theory anyway. Be interesting to see how it compares to my 3700 in terms of clocking ...I know this isn't the 'point' of the system but ya gotta have a play!
 
Yeah, I bought the same board! I was really happy with it for £23.50! Absolute bargain. Joet from this forum who I know in real life was highly unimpressed that I spent £240 on Athlon 64 x2 4200 and £23 on the mobo...

When I went to put it all together, I dropped the chip, and bent a few pins.... :mad: Thank god my dad used to be a professional electronic engineer and bent them back for me. Works fine now, but close call! Those pins are so fine!
 
Well, it works perfectly fine, no problems at all 'yet'. It's been running various versions of 3DMark along with super-pi and prime95 since ive had it, and it's been fine thus far. Really pleased with it :)

To be brutally honest I don't think I'd have put an X2 4200 in it, maybe a X2 3800 but really you want to pair a cpu like that with high-end PCI-E graphics card in my humble opinion (depending on what you use the system for of course). Mine is running an AGP 6800GT and a 3200 Venice, nice relatively cheap secondary system ...and fast too by most standards :p
 
Well, I don't play that many games, and I have a reasonably video card in the form of a Radeon 9700, so just thought I'd stick with that for the moment.

From benchmark results, I seem to be getting almost exactly the same results as same CPU in an Nforce4 board, so not too much of a problem. Does anyone know if there were other changed between Nforce3 Ultra and Nforce4 aside from PCI Express support?
 
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