875P CPU Ratio locked?

Just setup my system
875P MSI NEO MB
P4 2.8 800FSB HT
2x 512 HyperX Kingston RAM
2x WD HDD SATA Raptor 36.7 10000RPM
KT - 436 WM Case
ANTEC 480w TrueBlue
Sony FDD
Pioneer CD/DVD-ROM
The Drives are setup in a RAID-0
Here are my problems
1) The Freq/Volt is listing the CPU Ratio as Locked!?!?! WTH!! I can't touch the multiplier!!
2) I cannot get the HDD LED to work for the life of me anyone had success is the manual wrong? should I try other Pins?
3) My case has Front Panel USB(x4). 2 of the connectors from the panel are meant to plug into the board and each have a n extra pin that I think is meant as an extra ground or something. Should I just ignore these and plug them in normally?
My RAM runs at 2/2/2/6 8 just fine and the drives are working great got windows loaded just fine with all the drivers and MSI utilities. Though the tru-color doesn't work very well turned everything a bit too blue.
Number one is my real headache I really wanted to run this sucker at 3.0-3.2 and up the FSB a bit.
Also sorry I don't know which BIOS revision I am at since I am at work I'll post it when I get home. Though the auto update thing told me it was up to date.

Ok well I found out Intel still locks their chips I thought they had stopped doing this and just found out how wrong I am.
Anyone have any insights on the HDD LED??

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I'm using a i7-4770k cpu
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Quote from: ctst on 23-June-13, 05:14:03
thanks for all your input/
The keyboard is fine, i can adjust other settings and navigate the menu with it. I even tried naming an OC profile and it worked fine.
I do believe there is something wrong with either the cpu or mobo that identifies the i7-4770k as a locked cpu.
Btw, OC genie works fine and i can clock the cpu to 4.2 ghz.
And I'm new to this, what does flashing the cmos mean?
On nameing OC profile, i didnt mean "normal ABC" i mean, Special, hmmm ...marks like = ( ) % ¤ # " ! - + ? `´ ... and so on
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As Russian's MSI forum is dead I'd ask here.
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Win!
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MOVED: BIOS showing 2500K Locked & Cant adjust CPU ratio in Windows.. P67A-GD65

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Modding Corner.
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Quote from: zsde on 12-January-11, 14:10:44
The best I can advise is to delete Control Centre from your PC and attempt changes via the BIOS. IF that fails then MSI technical needs to be advised so that they can try and simulate your hardware combo. If it does work via the BIOS, then MSI technical should be advised irrespective about the Control Centre's inability to perform the functions it should.
My own experience with Control Centre software has been anything but satisfactory. The best way is still to tweak via the BIOS.
Just to confirm, you did do a CMOS reset/clear after the BIOS update? Power cord removed..... the normal procedure?
Yeah I've been working in the BIOS.. Bummer the tool lets me change everything but the CPU ratio..
I cleared CMOS w/ the same process you mentioned a few times prior to be sure..
Just after I made the initial post I opened a tech support tkt so we shall see.. I still think it has something to so w/ the BIOS interpreting my CPU as locked but I could be wrong..
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BIOS showing 2500K Locked & Cant adjust CPU ratio in Windows.. P67A-GD65

Hello all..
I am not having any stability issues at all with my setup.. It is running great and I love the P67A-GD65..
However I am having an issue w/ CPU ratio adjustment..
I am running the 1.6 BIOS release from the 1.4 the board shipped with.. The issues remained on both BIOS versions..
I noticed in the CPU section the BIOS is seeing my 2500K as "LOCKED".. I can however adjust the CPU ratio manually in the OC section of the BIOS to achieve the overclock I want..
I enabled the "adjust cpu ratio from OS" option.. However the Control Center II software will not show me a dropdown to adjust the ratio in Windows 7 Pro 64bit.. So I have to make manual CPU ratio changes in the BIOS for now.. Control Center II does allow all other options to be changed.. Memory settings etc.. I just can't change the CPU ratio..
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Quote from: zsde on 12-January-11, 14:10:44
The best I can advise is to delete Control Centre from your PC and attempt changes via the BIOS. IF that fails then MSI technical needs to be advised so that they can try and simulate your hardware combo. If it does work via the BIOS, then MSI technical should be advised irrespective about the Control Centre's inability to perform the functions it should.
My own experience with Control Centre software has been anything but satisfactory. The best way is still to tweak via the BIOS.
Just to confirm, you did do a CMOS reset/clear after the BIOS update? Power cord removed..... the normal procedure?
Yeah I've been working in the BIOS.. Bummer the tool lets me change everything but the CPU ratio..
I cleared CMOS w/ the same process you mentioned a few times prior to be sure..
Just after I made the initial post I opened a tech support tkt so we shall see.. I still think it has something to so w/ the BIOS interpreting my CPU as locked but I could be wrong..
Thanks for your assistance.. I appreciate it..

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Originally posted by NovJoe
Hi ZhaoYun,
This is one important feature that msi has locked in their NEO boards. Reason is not very sure, but because Intel is afraid of dealers selling o/c systems using lower processing CPUs to customer and has implement a lock in the CPU ratio to prevent this. I used to have an Abit board which unlocks all feature including CPU ratio for o/c, but performance still lags behind this NEO board, although I have the Abit board to o/c my system to 2.66MHz and my NEO2 board to remain system speed at 2.4GHz.
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