890FXA-GD70, crossfire cards, and Revodrive configuration issue

I have the MSI 890FXA-GD70 with BIOS v1.8B5 and my Overdrive works fine in Pie slots E-1,3,5,6. The drive does not work in E-4, which is a X4 slot. I have two 5850's in crossfire. According to MCI's manual, if I want both cards to be on x16 speeds, I have to install my video cards in slots E-1 and E-5 with no other cards in E-3 and E6. This leaves me with only the E-4 slot to install my Overdrive in, which does not work. The best I could do is Overdrive in E-1, one video card in E-3 which makes its speed x8, and one video card in E-5 which keeps its x16 speed. Any knowledge on how to achieve x16/x16 for video crossfire and utilize my Overdrive?
http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz253/BKBridges08/MSI%20890FXA-GD70%20BIOS%20v1%208B5/Slotconfiguration.png
http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz253/BKBridges08/MSI%20890FXA-GD70%20BIOS%20v1%208B5/MainboardLayout.png

It is strange that the RevoDrive is rated as a x4 device but the motherboard bios locks up during posting. You will get a quick flash of the RevoDrive identified as a pair of 55 GB Raid 0 drives, then a black screen with a floating cursor on the upper left corner...that is it. I am sure it could be remedied with a bios patch for that PCIe lane...

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Purchased new 890FXA-GD70 board over the weekend and I am having problems after new build. Board will not post with 2 stick of Corsair DDR3 4GB PC1600 in slots 1 and 2. I removed one stick in slot 2 and board posted. I installed all drivers and Win 7 pro and added the second stick into slot 2 and will not post again. I moved the 2GB stick to slot 3 and the computer boots and seems to run fine. Should'nt DDR3 be run in slots 1 and 2?
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After checking the boards and google search, it appears that several other people are having the same issue. If the memory sticks are placed in dimm1 and dimm3 the board seems to post and runs fine. But that will not produce dual channel memory. Should I change memory to another brand? What is the best memory for this board. The computer has been running all day and seems to be stable but, just worried that memory is still incorrect and only have 10 days to return to Frys. I have also flashed the bios to 1.6! It appears that after reading several other post on this forum, they had to return the board, could I have a bad board?

MSI 890FXA-GD70 Probs (FF and 24/8 Pin Prob)

Hey Everyone -
I picked up the following to make a 2nd gaming rig:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz
MSI 890FXA-GD70
DDR3 Corsair 1333MHz 4GB
DDR3 Kingston 1333MHz 2x4GB (Bought this thinking the Corsair was bad - using them separately - not together..)
I already have video cards/Harddrive/psu (1000w) that I know work.
I have 2 issues with the new motherboard (MSI 890FXA-GD70).
1) I can only power up the motherboard if I unplug the ATX 8-pin while the ATX-24 pin is plugged in.
a) while running like this I get the famous flashing "FF" code.
2) If I have the ATX 24/8 Pin plugged in - it seems to have a slight hiccup of power and then nothing happens (except 2 blue phase lights for the RAM stay lit)
a) I've tried switching RAM around with multiple combination (single/duel etc) in all DIMM slots (1-4)
a noobie question:
Am I getting the FF code - because that 8 pin is not functioning properly?
Just to note - ive also triple checked the CPU to make sure pins were not bent/placed wrong etc...
Thanks for any help - Ive tried searching everywhere for a fix - and the ones Ive found didn't work. (other then returning the board )

You tried everything you could in my book, yes I agree RMA the board.
8 pin must be connected else the CPU doesn't get power.
However, it could also be the CPU that's broken, best to RMA both, board and CPU.

890FXA-GD70 Crossfire 5770's hangs system

Wondering if anyone has come upon this issue before:
890FXA-GD70
AMD 1055t
8gb Patriot 1600 RAM
(2) HD5770's in xfire
Ultra LSP750 PSU
I had the NB blow out on my 790FX-GD70 so I replaced it with the 890FXA-GD70. Everything was fine for about three weeks and then all of a sudden, the PC will not boot with VGA cards in pci_e1 and pci_e5 as required for x16 speeds. Single cards (tried both) work fine in pci_e1 but as soon as I add the second card to pci_e5, the system will not boot. Power flows, fans come on but no HDD activity, no video. Nothing!
Any ideas?

Quote from: Henry on 25-April-11, 02:08:42
What case do you have? How many fans, size, which ones are intake/exhaust? Is there a vent and/or fan next to the cards?
NZXT with five 120mm fans (2 intake and 3 exhaust) and case is open while testing so airflow is excellent.

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All,
I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing stability issues on the 890FXA-GD70 with bios v. 1.8
I was not able to Overclock at all with bios v 1.8
CPU = 1090T
DDR3 = G. Skill F3-16000CL7D-4GBFLS
GPU = HIS ATI 4980
PSU = Corsaid AX-1200
SSD = Crucial CT128M225
OS = Win 7 Ultimate 64-Bit SP1
with BIOS v 1.7 I had (And now again still have):
Bclk = 230 * 17.5 = 4.025 GHZ @ CPU Volt = 1.45 v
Memory = 1840 MHZ 8-8-8-20-1T @ 1.651 v
CPU NB = 2760 MHZ @ 1.30 v
HT Link = 2760 MHZ
with BIOS v 1.7 this was rock solid. However with BIOS v 1.8 not only could I not come close to this at all, I really was unable to OC at all.
In fact when I returned ALL setting to default, then set the DDR V = 1.651 and then enabled OC Genie lite, it wouldn't even boot. It just constantly rebooted for over 40 minutes before I gave up, cleared CMOS and then flashed back to 1.7.
Also, if I've posted this under the wrong section please forgive my ignorance.
Any and all post will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

OK,
I've set up a new thread here:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=147110.0
However, to be fair, the problem I'm wondering about is stability/instability as it relates to BIOS v. 1.8 on the 890FXA-GD70.
I was only wondering if anyone else was having similar issues with that version of the BIOS.
I am NOT experiencing issues with the previous BIOS v. 1.7
Thank you.

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hi, im new to crossfire and my cousin just gave me his old msi r4770 cyclone..
im wondering why i cant run both cards at full x16 bandwidth..
one is running at PCIE 2.0 @ x16 and another one at PCIE 1.1 @ x8
and why does the other one say PCIE 1.1 and not 2.0?..
i used PCIE_1 and PCIE_5 as the manual says..
here are the screenshots:

glad i could help you get it working! that is a common problem with dust and dabris getting into the unused connectors on motherboards leading to connection problems between cards and motherboard!
in future if that ever happens again try the clean and reseat as that is the most common problem!

SQL Server 2000 and BPEL configuration issues

I am attempting to get SQL Server 2000 to work with BPEL PM Server, and have followed a similar set of instructions as provided in a previously posted document regarding the switch from oracle lite to oracle production. I am following the OC4J route. I've seen a previous posting on this, however, I am elaborating a little more on the configuration details here and the difficulties that I am encountering.
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2) SQL Server 2000 JDBC Driver (SP3 latest version)
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1) setup the database in SQL Server 2000 (named: ORABPEL). then ran the ddl scripts that came with the BPEL installation for sql server. there were two scripts, one for domain and the other for server. the commandlines to run these scripts:
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-o c:\orabpel\system\database\scripts\domain_sqlserver.out
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<library path="C:\Program files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msutil.jar"/>
<library path="C:\Program files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\mssqlserver.jar"/>
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     ejb-location="jdbc/BPELServerDataSource"
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xa-location="AdminConsoleDateSource"
ejb-location="jdbc/AdminConsoleDateSource"
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<2005-06-02 09:36:44,482> <ERROR> <default.collaxa.cube.sensor> <PCException::<i
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<2005-06-02 09:36:44,482> <ERROR> <default.collaxa.cube.sensor> <PCException::<i
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<2005-06-02 09:36:44,482> <ERROR> <default.collaxa.cube.sensor> <PCException::<i
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ized connection factory jdbc/BPELServerDataSource
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ot fetch a datasource connection.
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Please check that the machine hosting the datasource is physically connected to
the network. Otherwise, check that the datasource connection parameters (user/p
assword) is currently valid.
Please check that the machine hosting the datasource is physically connected to
the network. Otherwise, check that the datasource connection parameters (user/p
assword) is currently valid.

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I just saw your post message about configuring SQL server 2000 with Oracle BPLE. Have you configured it successfully or still encountered any problem.
I am new to Oracle BPEL. Want to know if Oracle BPEL can use MSFT SQL server 2000 as the repository entirely, therefore, we don't need Oracle (or Oracle light database).
Will really appreciate if you can share information and experience to configure SQL 2000 with Oracle BPEL.
Thank you so much in advance.
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How can I get those clients that are not being managed by WSUS to be managed?
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wuauclt
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# Solarwinds® Diagnostic Tool for the WSUS Agent # 1/23/2015
Machine state
User rights: User does not have administrative rights (Administrator rights are not available)
Update service status: Running
Background Intelligent Transfer service status:
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OS Version: Windows 8.1 Pro
Windows update agent version:   7.9.9600.17489 (WU Agent is OK)
Windows Update Agent configuration settings
Automatic Update:    Enabled
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Use WSUS Server: Not found (There is no such key)
Windows Update Server: Not found (There is no such key)
Windows Update Status Server: Not found (There is no such key)
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How do I get WSUS to update my clients?
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On my computer I ran the command gpupdate /force I
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IMPORTANT Technical Information RE: 890FXA-GD70 - BIOS/Memory/Boot-UP Issues

I have been having the same problem (see my post...user 'n9nu') as many others have and I have been researching this problem for a month now and come across a few important pages on other web-sites that address this very problem. While I have not read over 100 percent of them completely, they all pertain specifically to these situations with several users being able to resolve their issue(s) with the following sources. Several of the posts mention the instability with a few of the BIOS versions (1.8 and 1.9), so read up on these as well.
TROUBLESHOOTING THE MSI 890FXA-GD70 BIOS, STARTUP AND MEMORY ERRORS/ISSUES
My currently installed BIOS: Version 1.9
Motherboard hardware revision: Version 1.1
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1066 8GB Kit
GPU: nVidia 590 Reference GPU
Overclock.net
http://www.overclock.net/amd-motherboards/724846-official-msi-890fx-890gx-890g-club.html - 'Official' 890FXA-GD70 Users Club (No affiliation with MSI)
http://www.overclock.net/amd-motherboards/770915-i-toasted-my-msi-890fx-gd70.html - Gee....a specific club for those who own dead 890's
Tom's Hardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/309538-31-solved-890fxa-gd70-debug-code-load-edit-bios - BIOS FF Errors
TechArena
http://forums.techarena.in/overclocking-computer-modification/1401757.htm - FF BIOS Issues
http://forums.techarena.in/motherboard-processor-ram/1402256.htm - BIOS & Start-up issues
http://forums.techarena.in/motherboard-processor-ram/1401777.htm - Pre-Purchase Information
http://forums.techarena.in/motherboard-processor-ram/1411672.htm - Memory/BIOS Issues
http://forums.techarena.in/motherboard-processor-ram/1401689.htm - FF Errors after upgrading BIOS
NCIX Forums
http://forum.ncixus.com/forums/?mode=showthread&forum=116&threadid=2282823&pagenumber=0&msgcount=0&subpage=1 - BIOS Code 'FF' & Cycling errors (re-starting)
Computerforum
http://www.computerforum.com/179382-msi-mobo-help.html - More BIOS 'FF' issues
The above references are just several posts that discuss and in some cases alleviate problems with this motherboard. Upon trying one of the more popular methods to attempt a boot-up, I successfully booted in BIOS bypassing that rude 'FF' BIOS code....however the happiness was short lived as I configured some settings in the BIOS and when I restart was presented with the FF again.
The method I used was to place one (1) stick of DDR3 memory in memory slot 4 (the furthest away from the processor) and was kinda surprised that it worked....and while happy, I didn't hold my breath.
I have BIOS version 1.9 currently installed and have been noticing many problems with that particular release, so I will be attempting to re-flash the BIOS to either 1.7 to bypass some of the other issues being reported or try version 1.8 again. I will keep on posting when I receive further information or come across a sure fix for this (a user oriented fix that is)...otherwise, it is going back for another RMA.
I am working with someone that I know that tricks out BIOS code in order to enhance/unlock/fix them and he is presently looking at it using the exact same hardware that I am to try and find out just what the exact issue(s) are and how to resolve them. This, of course, has nothing to do with MSI, but rather an attempt by someone who programs these for a living just to see whats what.
Tim
ARS N9NU

After spending 12-14 hours on the problem i can now safely give a detailed report of the problem
Disregard what i said before as they were just symptoms of another problem
It boots 100% stable if DIMM slots 1 2 and 3 are empty
it does not matter the make or model of the ram in slot 4 but the system boots and works flawlessly.
I ran extensive tests with prime 95 and memory tests. It works flawlessly in this configuration.
As soon as a stick of ram goes into any other slot either singular or dual channel the board does a rapid boot cycle
this constant power on and off if left too long corrupts the bios settings
bios setting problem is rectified by putting one stick of ram into dimm 4 and letting it reset itself in a stable enviorment
also while the system is stable i used the MSI software to check all the voltages and everything appeared normal
However
if i make the system boot with standard memory configuration such as one in DIMM 1 or 1+2 i get odd voltage readings
(extremely unstable if im lucky enough to get it to boot)
the NB voltage quickly fluctuates between 1.15 and 1.7+ every min or so like if there are micro spikes in voltage
While this happens the 2 lights next to the slots indicating i believe the dram power phase blink
But
When i only put a ram stick into DIMM 4 only one light for the powerphase is lit and it is stable
So this so far is not a corrupt BIOS chip to me but rather a symptom of another problem
I have another CPU coming in the mail tommorow I will test it out along with a few other boards
a 1090T
2 890fxa-gd70's and some others
If i have a hardware problem it will surely be singled out
I will find out what the problem is with this board and post my result.
If anyone has any suggestions to make this board work please comment

890FXA-GD70 AMD Motherboard Memory Configuration

I just purchased the 890FXA-GD70 AMD motherboard and have a question about installed memory. Can I install two 4GB bars in slots 1-2 and two 2GB bars in slots 3-4 for 12GB of RAM?

Quote from: Svet on 29-April-10, 03:45:08
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=130042.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=120827.0
This I was unable to get my answer from the provided links. I clicked on the links but wasn't really able to make sense of it.

Do MSI intend to implement BIOS support for IOMMU in its 890FXA-GD70 ??

All three of Asus 890FX boards officially support IOMMU in their BIOS -
see the following two links:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20100609185547531&SLanguage=en-us&board_id=1&model=M4A89TD%20PRO/USB3
and
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20100606232119109&board_id=1&model=Crosshair+IV+Formula&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
Now we ask for MSI's official stance on implementing IOMMU support in an upcoming BIOS for its 890FXA-GD70 motherboard.
And, if affirmative answer could you give us an approximate date when to expect a beta BIOs to try out?
The following OS environments should be able to take advantage of any hardware I/O virtualization support:
-Xen 4
-Linux+KVM
-Vmware ESX(i) (VMDirectPath)
-Parallels Workstation Extreme 4.
-Plus there's also a IOMMU wish ticket out for Oracle's Virtualbox...
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/ga-890fxa-ud5-iommu-bios-switch-39801/ - IOMMU support on 890FX motherboards
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough
http://infoworld.com/d/virtualization/parallels-workstation-4-extreme-lowers-virtualization-overhead-237?source=fssr

I contacted AMD a few weeks ago to clarify whether the IOMMU feature is available in the 890 FX chipset and this was their response:
"Thank you for contacting AMD. I would like to verify for you that yes, the 890FX chipset does offer the IOMMU feature, however you will want to keep in mind that manufacturers can decide to enable or disable this feature through the BIOS and therefore you will want to verify with manufacturer of your specific board. But in short, yes it does offer the ability to do so."
Pre-Sales Support -> http://us.msi.com/msi_user/PreSaleForm.aspx
I had contacted pre-sales support before purchasing my board and they said IOMMU was supported, however now that I have the board I know that the bios does not have the necessary support. Most likely they just thought I was asking about SVM.
I submitted a support ticket asking when/if they were planning to add support but again there was some confusion about it being different from SVM. Still waiting to hear back, I'll let you know when I do.

MSI 890FXA-GD70 and 3Ware 9750-4i BIOS issues

This is my second build with this motherboard. This post is just to help anyone who might be trying to get similar hardware combinations to work.
The BIOS revision is 1.7, which was the revision the board came with.
When running with a 3Ware 9750-4i board you will find that the 3Ware BIOS will complain about not being able to install. At first it was complaining about the motherboard BIS not providing enough RAM to live in, but after I set the on-board SATA controller to AHCI is stopped complaining and just didn't show up at all.
Now, don't be discouraged if you aren't booting from the 3Ware controller, because this won't stop it from working. When the OS loads the driver, everything is fine.
I suspect it would also work if you completely disabled the on-board controller, but that wasn't an option for me. I wanted to run three additional HDs and two optical drives on that controller, as well as the four drives on the 3Ware.
I kept experimenting with slot positions for the cards, but nothing produced a change at all.
Finally I spent time in the OS trying to make the AHCI drivers for the on-board controller work with connect/disconnect. There appeared no way in Win7 x64 to get any AHCI drivers to load but the default Microsoft ones, which don't support hot-swap or even connect/disconnect.
It appeared to me that the only AHCI drivers supplied by AMD or MSI specifically work only when the controller is in RAID mode. So I tried setting the controller to RAID mode in the BIOS, and discovered that it now played nice with the 3Ware BIOS. Now I am going to reinstall Windows 7 with the 3Ware drivers and select a 3Ware drive to boot from, to see if I can get the AMD or MSI-supplied drivers to work with the on-board controller. I suspect I will get all the features promised then. If I don't, I will return here and report the results.

I completed the new install of Win7 - this time with the 3ware controller as the primary, and the on-board SATA set to RAID.
First, I had to load drivers for the on-board RAID during the install, just to let the install continue. Then I had to load drivers to tell Win7 about the drive where I wanted to install. I thought it would ask for both up front, but it wouldn't take both - it only wanted the drivers for the controller to which the DVD was connected. THEN, after it was ready to ask for a location for the install, it let me put the 3ware drivers up.
Once the system was loaded, I was disappointed to find that none of the on-board RAID drives showed up in the add/remove dialog, but I was able to use a utility to make them work with hot-swapping. It is called Hotswap!
http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm
and it allowed me to connect/disconnect drives plugged into the on-board controller housed in the Thermaltake MAX-2533.
With the settings like that, the BIOS issues disappear, with both the on-board RAID and the 3ware co-existing nicely. This indicates to me that there is likely something wrong with the standard AHCI BIOS-related screen that makes the 3ware controller unhappy. I doubt the 3ware is the only BIOS-installing card to feel that way, so if you have your drives set to AHCI, but have issues with any other cards, you might look into setting the drives to RAID or to IDE (though you lose some features like NCQ)
I also forgot to mention that I also have a four-port PCI-Express NIC from Intel in the system, so I have updated the system summary below:
MSI 890FXA-GD70 | AMD Phenom II X6 1090T | ZALMAN CNPS9900MAX-B | CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B | HIS Silence H557HR1G Radeon HD 5570 | Antec Solo Black case | Corsair CMPSU-750TXV2 | 3ware LSI00216 (9750-4i) | Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port NIC | Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS (x7) | Thermaltake MAX-2533 | Plextor PX-L890SA | Plextor PX-B940SA-11

890FXA-GD70 and multicard crossfireX and pciExpress speeds

Hi,
I recently purchased the 890FXA-GD70 and am seeing some interesting issues. I have 3 HD48701GB graphics cards and according to the manual version 1.1 i should be able to run them in:
x16 x8 x8 pciExpress configuration in slots 1,5,6
(pc will boot but monitor never comes on, can only assume video cards are never initialized)
or
x8, x8, x16 in slots 1,3, and 5.
can get into windows but gpuz reads only x8 and x2, windows device manager only detects 2 4870 video cards.
Currently I am only using 2 cards in slots 1 and 5 which should yield x16 and x16, but according to gpuz I am only seeing x8 and x2 pciexpress speeds.
Also when using just one video card in slot 1 i see only x2 pciexpress speeds. cpuz reports x16 max available.
Are there some settings in the bios i am missing? or maybe a jumper on the motherboard i am missing? I also tried disabling cool and quite in the bios but that doesn't seem to do anything as the the mghz in cpuz report 800 with an x4 multiplier.

Update:
So i kept messing with this tonight and made an interesting discovery. I decided to try and get at least 1 card running at x8 speed so i tried just one in slot 3. Fired up and w00t x8 speed. Then to push my luck i tried a second one in slot 6, add crossfire bridge start up and bam x8 and x8. So with this much success i decided to put the 3rd card in the 5th slot, change my crossfire adapters. Startup, get into windows, and only 2 cards detected... i thought. So i went back into the bios with all three cards still plugged in and did the reset to default values or reset to failsafe, something like that. Started back up still with three cards in slots 3,5,6 and gpuz gives me readings of x8, x8, x8. I'm sticking with this for now but i'm wondering if after flashing the bios to 1.2 if reset to failsafe needed to be done to get all the settings back to a 'normal' state.
But for now my issues are resolved.
Thanks for reading.

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