[915 Series] 915P Combo installation trouble

I am attempting to install a 915P Combo board with a Pentium 4 530J 3.0/800/1G processor. At the moment I have only 1 DIMM, the processor, the power supply and the case power switch and speaker connected to the board. The memory, power supply and case are known to function properly. (I experienced the same symptoms with my system fully connected, and the system did not post.) Here is the situation:
After pressing the power button I hear one long beep and six short beeps. This combination is not listed in the Basic Troubleshooting Guide. When I had the D-LED installed the system hung with the bottom left and top right lights green and the other two orange. This combination is indicated as the processor read indication.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
EDIT: the one long beep and six short beeps might be eight short beeps; it's hard to tell. Eight short beeps is listed as indicated a display error, so I tried reinstalling my brand-new PCIx16 card. No luck.

AMI BIOS (American Megatrends Inc) don't have long beeps, just short beeps.
in ur case we have
6 Beeps 8042 - A20 Failure
8beeps Display memory read/write failure
So you must install your VGA card in another system.
AWARD BIOS have long beeps..
1 long 9 short, BIOS ROM error...
Just make sure your PSU is ok, Clear the BIOS, and send this mainboard for a check

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Hello everyone!
I'm pleasured to be in contact with you, I'm from Portugal, so any errors in my english, please excuse me
I've bought an MSI Motherbnoard 915P Combo and there is some questions that I need your help.
My system is:
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Ok... the problem is... my computer doesn't shut Off! I've installed the Windows Xp and SP2 from new, bu when I'm choosing the option "Shut Down" win windows, the pc shutt down only 3 seconds!!!
By the on/off button is everything ok...
Can anyone help me?
Thank's in advance.

Quote from: NovJoe on 21-March-05, 20:30:51
Check your power button connector to the mobo and see if it was fixed properly or you can try turning the connector 180 degrees around and fix it in and see if the same problem replicates.
Next you can also try to clear CMOS.
Check in your Power Management Options in Windows and check if there's any funny settings.
Thank you very much NovJoe for your kind attention and help.
Since I arrive home I'll try that.
i've tried the connector of the power in the board of the 2 possible way with no result.
How can I clear the CMOS? nly with Jumpers isn't?
And what do you mean to say with funny settings in windos? Can you be more specific please?
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I've been working over the last 24hrs with the very helpful OCZ folks but we havn't been able to get anywhere. I realize that OCZ isn't technically on the 'tested and verified' DDR2-list for the 915G-combo board, but OCZ is a good name brand (up there with Crucial) and I went for the higher-end Gold-series (CAS3) so I figured it wouldn't be a problem.
I've tried clearing the CMOS (no effect except to wipe out my bios settings). I have a D-Bracket2 installed and it hangs when the upper right light is green with the rest red (according to the D-bracket guide, that means 'Memory Detection Test - will hang if the memory module is damaged or not installed properly'. I can't imagine the RAM is bad - I have 2 matching ones to test (neither seem to work when installed by itself), and just got it brand new from Monarchcomputers yesterday evening in their retail box unopened.
Per OCZ's advice, I was unable to manually set a CAS of 4 with my Crucial DDR installed (I could only manually set it to a max of 3), so I also test-tried a manual set of the BIOS memory timing to 3-4-4-10 while the Crucial DDR RAM was installed and then retried the system with only the new DDR2 installed in their appropriate slots (Crucial DDR of course removed). Still no luck - the system won't get to bios and hangs at the Memory Test per D-Bracket2. It won't even get to a point where it tries to access/boot from floppy so that I can't run MemoryTest from disk.
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Cheers
- James

Thanks... I tried that.... still no go...
I just got an email from OCZ techsupport (they had requested that I email them directly).
"we have identified a problem with the PC4200 Gold DDR2 dimms, we need to get you a pair with reprogrammed SPD info on them. So we need to swap your kit out"
They were very apologetic about it, and from what I can tell I don't think this happens a lot with OCZ ram...
So that hopefully will be the solution to my problem.. I'm processing an RMA with them right now.. will let you know how it goes.. it's a 'relief' to find out that it most likely isn't my MSI-915G board's fault after all...
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after hours of troubleshooting and reading these forums and whatnot I've found out I am not the only one having this problem.....these MSI boards are pieces of i'd return it if I were you
this is the response I got from MSI's technical support via email
Dear Customer,
Since have tried a known good power supply then try with board outside of case with minimal components if same have board replaced with reseller if just received if had been working and issue occurred the can rma through us Thanks
Technical Support Division
MSI Computer Corp.
with such good english you can tell that MSI really puts alot of effort into customer support........The guy on the phone was foreign and hard to understand also and he said the same thing....Send it back!
I'm not getting a replacement either i'm getting an exchange because it is ridiculously evident through the 15-20 posts both here and on the online help section that this model of board is indeed a pile of and has many similar problems with no real answers. We got wtfpwnd, cut your losses and send it back

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Originally posted by Guci
The MB is packed with the software that can be used for SATA Raid configuration and in the manual it is explained how you have to configure your SATA controller as RAID in the BIOS (please download the manual for this mobo and look at chapter 5) as well as in WindowsXP environment.
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