915P Neo2 - Live Update - IAA

I have a problem with Live Update on my 915p Neo2.
Live Update reports the latest IAA version as 4.5.0.6515 the installed version as 4.5.0.6515 but the actual installed version is 4.7.0.6815.
I have updated IAA separately outside of Live Update, but Live Update should show the installed version correctly as 4.7.0.6815 but it does'nt.
Anyone?

I think you need to dig to the device manager and check the real driver version. Live Update may report the wrong thing? Or you actually didn't manage to install the later version?

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915P-Neo2 Platinum - Live Update Crashes

Is anyone else having trouble loading MSI's "Live Update", especially "Live Monitor" on the 915P Neo2 Platinum? Every time I load it the entire system collapes in the Blue Screen of Death upon reboot.
I've tried loading Live Update from both the enclosed "Drivers & Utilities" diskette and from the MSI Website where the latest version of Live Update (I guess) is located.
Both crash my new system the same. It just keeps looping at the Boot-Blue Screen-CRASH!-Boot-Blue Screen - CRASH!
The only way to recover is to do a Restore in Safe Mode.
Very disapponted with the 915P Neo2 Platinum board in general, i.e., the above reason and the slow, ragged - even sloppy - boot.
And if there is any advantage in these high-priced PCI-Express videocards that justifies the money, I can't find it. My old 875P Neo (signature system) smokes this new 915P even with its ungodly high-priced DDR2-675 memory.
Stay clear of 'em.

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Originally posted by mike315
Is anyone else having trouble loading MSI's "Live Update", especially "Live Monitor" on the 915P Neo2 Platinum? Every time I load it the entire system collapes in the Blue Screen of Death upon reboot.
I've tried loading Live Update from both the enclosed "Drivers & Utilities" diskette and from the MSI Website where the latest version of Live Update (I guess) is located.
Both crash my new system the same. It just keeps looping at the Boot-Blue Screen-CRASH!-Boot-Blue Screen - CRASH!
The only way to recover is to do a Restore in Safe Mode.
Very disapponted with the 915P Neo2 Platinum board in general, i.e., the above reason and the slow, ragged - even sloppy - boot.
And if there is any advantage in these high-priced PCI-Express videocards that justifies the money, I can't find it. My old 875P Neo (signature system) smokes this new 915P even with its ungodly high-priced DDR2-675 memory.
Stay clear of 'em.
i 2nd this motion very disapointed with its compabiltiy and abillity to find drives
try harder MSI (Sorry very annoyed at this point)

Neo2 defaut FSB frequency , live update and core center issues

Hi,
This is the point : i bought a brand new 915P Neo2 last week,
out of the box results : Windows XP SP2 install is OK right
now, Graphics Card is working properly but the system is
still unstable !
--> I decided to install MSI core center but while running
pc freezes !
---> tested MSI live update, packets download is working
but the tool is still unstable and pc freezes .... while testing system...
---> tested a small utility (third party) from intel website
to compute P4 target and actual frequency
this tool reports that my p4 is running at 3.24 Ghz,
I double checked and found that defaut FSB was set to 810 Mhz
even after hardreset and bios safe mode, CPU is running at 203 Mhz * 16 = 3248 Mhz
I really dont understand why reset value has been set to 203 Mhz ?? why not 200 Mhz
so MSI 915 P defaut setting is 1 % overclocking strategy ?
the bios setup is not really taken into account ??
have you ever pointed out this problem with defaut frequency ? is this a problem ?
what is your opinion regarding MSI utilities ?
I have a lot of random pc freezes, too many for this board !
all advices are welcome !!

I don't usually recommend bios updates, but you should seriously consider it if you can get the board to run stable.
Test your ram with Memtest86. This should give you an indication if you can do a flash from DOS, plus it will test the ram for you.
Try setting your FSB to 201. On the 865/875 boards that will hold the setting. 203 is typical of MSI and other manufacturers, but it really isn't high enough to be considered overclocking, and certainly isn't high enough to cause problems. But it keeps them in the race with the others when the reviewer's determine which board is best by looking at the decimal places.
You don't list your power supply data. Power and ram are the usual culprits, with heat being another.
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have you ever pointed out this problem with defaut frequency ?
Who are you asking? Have you?

Live Update 3 / Core Center Neo2-FIS2R

Ever since I update to Live Update 3 (from 2) and updated to the newest version of Core Center, I've been getting error messages like "Hardware monitor not found" or "Service not started." I usually get two or three error messages. This made my computer restart erratically. When I uninstall the software it stops, and then starts again when I reinstall it, even if I install the old version.

Hello,
I had exactly the same problem !
I tried to uninstall LiveUpdate and CoreCenter, then install PCAlert4 but without success (error message like "No hardware monitor"). After that I have uninstalled PCAlert4 and installed MBM then it's works fine !
Regards,
Higgins
865 PE Neo 2 FIS2R
P4C 2,8 GHz
Antec 1080 AMG, Enermax 550w ATX EG651P-VE(FMA)
Creative Geforce4 Ti4600
2 * IBM 180GXP 80Go RAID 1
IBM 180GXP 180 Go
Seagate Barracuda 80 Go 7200 RPM
Creative Audigy 2
Corsair TWINX 2x512 Mo DDR-SDRAM PC3200 Low Latency

MSI KT8 Neo2 F board, upgraded cpu and used MSIs Live Update, now unstable BSODs

I've had this mobo for almost 2 yrs now with an AMD 3500+ cpu and recently upgraded that to the FX-55. To do that, it required using MSIs Live Update and needed newer chipset drivers. It has the latest bios according to Live Update.
It took a few attempts but finally booted w/o BSODs and has been running for over 1 week BUT is still not right. It's sometimes unstable and will crash (BSOD) just by starting up a browser. I had the bios settings at "optimized" and have tryed a few other changes but so far, I'm not gaining. Last night I couldn't keep it running more than a few minutes w/o it crashing.
I have the MSI manual for my board and plan to spend some more time playing with it tonight but might anyone here have any ideas? It's not running hot (reads 50C) and was stable before with the 3500+. I've tryed "Fail Safe" bios settings too but nothing's better that way either.
I'm hoping that someone here has a few ideas?
Perhaps related?
After initially running this with the new cpu, I'd see the "searching for MAC address" message and it'd hang there on boot. Someone told me that was because it was trying to do a network boot, selected in the boot sequence SO I've unselected that and that's when things got worse (oddly as it shouldn't IMO). One can select the 3+ boot devices (floppy, USB, CD-DVD rom, HDD) and it use to see the HDDs (2) before but now I'm not (only floppy and CD-DVD rom) and if I unselect the ethernet option (boot other devices), it fails to boot at all and says "insert floppy" as if I was installing Win98 way back when (running XP Pro btw). Something's definately not right with my bios selections.

Let's go back to basics here for a bit. Start by posting your complete specs in your signature like we do. Make sure that your PSU values are also in there.
Let's also look at some tests to help determine where the issue is. I would recommend Memtest86+, OCCT, Prime95, and 3DMarks as a great first series. Also get CPUz and lets see what it shows for CPU and Memory.
If we can get an idea where things begin to fall apart then maybe we can determine if this is driver, hardware or some other issue without having to make the flash happen first. The reason why I am avoiding the flash at this point is that if things are mostly working maybe there is some other cause than Bios. We know that some FX's work with 3.x and some that don't. So I would like to try a bit of checking before we dive into a flash that could cause more issues than it solves if we get this wrong. As things are mostly working now we can assume at least for the moment that maybe the flash is not needed. If we don't see anything during testing that sheds some light then maybe we go ahead with the flash.
That is if your willing to take some time to try and sort this out and maybe learn some stuff in the process. It is of course your call and we will respect whichever decission you make here.

915P Neo2 PE and stupid beeps

hi everybody, sorry for english,
i've a new mobo - 915P neo2 PE
2.8GHz Intel P4(775)
2x256MB DDR2 Apacer (533MHz) in dual channel mode
ASUS AX600XT
500W Mercury Silent PS
after start i get 4 short beeps everytime i start my comp.
if i disconnect one of my usb devices i get just 3 beeps
if 2 i get 2 beeps etc.
if i disable usb controller in bios - no beeps
but it's not everything - i cannot install liveupdate, becouse by initializing of liveupdate my comp crash, also i cannot install sp2 for wxp, becouse it after next restart crash
i manually updated BIOS to 1.5, but no result.
i put DDR2 in normal mode - the same
i put DDR2 to other mobo - everything OK
i changed my VGA - the same
i changed my power supply for one with 24 pins - the same
i changed my CPU - the same
i changed mobo for other 915P neo2 PE - the same
no idea
pls help me, i'm short of brain

add one> those aren't classical beeps, one is high tone and three are low, i don't know what does it means
add two>there's no chance install wxp without sp1 on this chipset, if i install sp2 or live update utility it will crash by boot periodicaly

Wich bios driver for 915P neo2 platinum-54g

915P neo2 platinum-54g m-board
P4 630 3,0GHZ cpu
2*512M Kingston 533MHz DDR2
Club3d 128MB Radeon x300se hypermem PCI-E
not sure of the power, but think it's 300w, 20-pin connector. (waiting a new power on monday, 400w ultra-low noise)
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
So I read from the MSI site that the 915p neo2 platinum doesnt support p4 630, but the cpu support list says it does after the bios update..
But now Im not sure wich bios driver to use cause I cant find the exact model from the site.
I use that comp as a music studio comp and I get a crash in about half an hour the comp is on.. (using cubase program)
At first the crash appeared at cubase startup, but after I updated the g-card & s-card drivers the crash was post-poned to that half an hour..
But still, when I try the Core Center programs Auto overclocking test it crashes almost straight away.. Once I got from 200MHz to 205 MHz
Other times it crashed straight away..
So I think myself that the bios driver is the key, but Im not sure of it.
Or wich driver to use.. the 915P Neo2 Platinum (7028v18) or 915P Neo2 Platinum v1.0b (7028v36)

Quote from: ant3202 on 07-November-05, 08:00:33
use MSI life update to update your BIOS, to minimise to kill your mobo.
its not connected to the internet and I dont want to connect it cause its for music only...

A few bios problems with my 915p Neo2 platinum board

I'm wondering af anyone here can help me.
I just got a new system and a friend of mine helped set up the bios for me, afterwards he failed to tell me how he had configured the bios (my first big mistake).
Since the buidling of the system there have been 3 short beeps at the beginning of startup. I was told that it was a warning system of some sort and when i looked it up, the informations pointed towards a problem with the RAM.
I ran memtest86 and it found no problems with the RAM, so i contacted the site i bought the parts from and they suggested i reset the bios.
I did so and the beeps remained, but my DVD and DVD-writer drives arent being detected anymore.
I took my PC around to another friends house with only his keyboard and monitor connected. The beeping had stopped before we changed anything. Bringing it back around to my house resulted in the beeping returning.
From this i gathered that the only things different may have been his power source and the peripherals i have attached to the back of the case. (speakers, printer, kb/m, etc)
Going by the manual map, my 2 HDDs are connected as slave/master in IDE port 1 and my two DVD drives are connected to the yellow IDE port that is closest to IDE port 1 (it's either IDE 2 or 3, the map isnt too clear on which is which).
Long story short, can anyone help me in identifying the source of the beeps and their meaning, an optimum setup for my bios and how to get my DVD drives to work.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me. I'm fairly new to building computers and my friends are the type to suddenly become unavailable as soon as a problem arises.
edit: just noticed i missed the spec description part menitoned in the rules.
MSI s775 915P-Neo2-Platinum
Version 1.4 of bios
Pentium 4 540 LGA775 3.2GHz
Corsair VS 1GB DDR2 240 pin RAM
256 MSI PCI-express GF6800GT, latest drivers
600W 3XS-EzCool PPFC
Western digital WDC WD1600JB-00EVA0 (160GB) (master)
Seagate U series 5 HDD ST340823A (40GB) (slave) Both on IDE slot 1
Liteon DVD-ROM (spec unavailable)
MSI 4x DVD-RW +/- (part no: G57-CB00243, this is all i could find on this part form the box)
Sound Blaster Audigy
Windows XP SP2
second attempt at clearing up the garbled mess from above.
Motherboard is making 3 short beeps on startup. Indication of a problem with memory. I've established that it's something external that causing the beeps as the memory has checked out fine with memtest86. Hence i will be checking all the attached devices.
I was guided to reset the bios in an attempt to clear up this problem above. Doing so has resulted in my bios being unable to detect my DVD drives.
My DVD-drives are connected to IDE port 2/3 (manual is unclear on which is which).
Everything was in working order (with the exception of the beeping) before the bios was reset but due to my lack of knowledge/involvement with the original configuration of the bios, i'm at a loss as to how to fix it.
If anyone could recommend me any updates for the bios, or could advise me on how to configure my bios accordingly to the parts i have i would be most appreciative. Also, if osmeone would be abel to shed some light on the beeping issue i would be thankful also.

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Originally posted by Danny
The board uses a Via raid controller for the IDE 2 and 3 channels, and you do have that enabled.
Under SATA devices configuration you should select Enhanced instead of compatible. But this should effect your problem.
I see there is a 1.5 bios released that mentions the via controller
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=601&kind=1
Maybe someone with this board will pitch in and help.
I saw this and was wondering if i should install it. It would be the equivelent of resetting the bios again wouldnt it? So it wouldnt be that much of a step back from where i am at the moment and it might be able to sort my IDE problems.

No picture with 4 sticks of ram (915P Neo2)

Hey, wonder if anyone can help. I am having trouble getting 4 sticks of ram to work with my motherboard... There seems to be a lot of threads around about this but I've not been able to find an answer. A few people have suggested it could be a problem with the motherboard
I get no picture on the screen if I have the ram in:
-All 4 slots.
-2 sticks in Channel A.
-Sticks in slots 1 + 3.
-Sticks in slots 2 + 4.
The only way I can get a picture is to have 2 sticks of ram in Channel B. I have updated the bios to the latest version (1.80) I have also tried lowering the memory speed to 400mhz and increasing the ddr voltage to 2.00v.
Spec:
motherboard: 915P Neo2 Platinum
ram: Geil ddr2 512mb pc2-4300 533mhz. x4
cpu: p4 3.2 lga775
If ive missed any info that you would need just let me know. Any reponse will be appreciated, as this has been puzzling me
Thanks,
John

Quote from: elektroscience on 07-June-06, 05:30:28
I have updated the bios to the latest version (2.80)
915P Neo2 Platinum doesn't have this bios. Where have you downloaded it?
915P Neo2 Platinum BIOS versions: 1.x
915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0B) BIOS versions: 3.x
Please make sure you have flashed the proper bios.
What your PSU spec. It is better to create your own rig signature as others did.

915P Neo2 - 54G Platinum CD needed (URGENT!!)

Please Please Please Please Please... has anyone got, or can make me a copy of the CD for this motherboard:
915P Neo2 - 54G Platinum
I stepped on the original accidentally, and with me at 18 stone it didn't stand much of a chance.
I can pay for postage etc and if it makes it easier, I have a paypal account. If anyone is local to me and has one of these boards all the better; I live in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
All the best Lee
PS: if ya want a bit of resume check out my eBay feedback (http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=darkan9el&ssPageName=STRK:ME:UFS)
Tried a bit of home research and well, I am totally confused now, I have never had such an awkward Motherboard to install and find files for as this one. nowhere on MSI's website is there a reference to an MSI 915P Neo2-54G Platinum. They make it but they don't acknowledge its existence!! ??? everything on the PC is new and has been tested using things like memtest etc and installing in other systems... I have 3 systems running. I've always had AMD systems before but thought I would try intel... never again!!
Is this the same moby as the: 915P Neo2 Platinum but with a wireless card added or is it a differnet moby altogether?
XP Pro SP2 comes up with errors on install, the disc tested fine in other systems, I even changed the CDwriter to an MSI one but it still kicked up a stink.

Hi Lee,
Sorry! I thought I had an answer for you that I posted here. I've modified my post to remove my suggestion after re-reading your request. I thought when I first read your post that the 54G in your model must have been a mistake on your part but after the re-read I see I was wrong.
Good luck finding a cd.
Mike

Plz help 915P Neo2 Platinum temperature problem

Hi All
i have 915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0B) main board
one day my computer stop working and when i press power button nothing happen
i change power supply and it work but when i log into windows it freez and stop responed
when i press restart button the computer didn`t work i had to remove power cable and put it again to work
i try linux it work for some time and stop respond and i had to remove power cable and put it again
my cpu temperature say it`s 59 but when i but my hand on fan i didn`t find it hot
i updated bios version
from this page
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=626&kind=1
to 3.6 because it said that fixed bios detect wrong CPU temperature.
some time the cpu temp say`s 104 c !!! put when i toutch the fan i didn`t find that it`s hot like that
some times when i press restart button it make shutdown not restart
i can`t install windows because it freez when i try to do that
i didn`t know why the computer work for some time and freez
and some times it didn`t work and i had to leave it for some time and try again
can any one help me to find why this happen is the problem in power supply that i replace it or what plz help
sorry for my language i speak english littel
Regards

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 28-March-07, 19:38:10
what is your newest PSU? can you provide PSU details(can be found into PSU sticker), and remaining parts of your hardware e.g. what VGA you got?
"some time the cpu temp say`s 104 c !!! put when i toutch the fan i didn`t find that it`s hot like that "
seems your CPU heatsink is not making good contact with CPU surface, or there is too much thermal paste or CPU cooler is going down.
power down PC, remove power cord from the PSU and re seat CPU cooler, clean CPU socket from any dust, clean CPU surface from existing paste and apply a new one. then mount CPU cooler (ensure its mounted property, ensure CPU FAN is spinning at expected RPM). re-test, if no go, change your CPU cooler with new better one which gonna do the job.
thank you very much for your response
i change the PSU again with other and the computer work fine now
and use new cooler and the temp between 40-55 is this good ? new fan speed 3000 -4000 rpm
and sys temp is between 30-40
my hardware is
P4 3.0 LGA 1 MB cache
256 DDR2 x2
915P Neo2 Platinum v 1.0B
magic power supply 300W
Western Digital 80 GB x 2 @ ATA
VGA pci express 128 ATI
WinXP + SP2 + all latest Windows Updates

915P Neo2 Platinum

Hope you guys can help i have the 915P Neo2 Platinum "NOT"(V1.0B) with the Broadcom BCM5751 onboard lan i had alot of the same problems with the sound and lan as others in this group and was able to fix it with the bios update. Every thing was fine untill i had to do a fresh install of xp home "dam kids" now my lan does not show up i made sure it was turned on in the bios and did another fresh install with no luck, hope you can help
Antec true430
+5V -5V +12V -12V +3.3V +5VSB
Max. Load 36A 0.5A 26A 1.0A 28.0A 2.0A
Min. Load 0A 0A 0.8A 0A 0A 0A
Load Reg. ±3% ±5% ±3% ±5% ±3% ±5%
Ripple V(p-p) 50mV 50mV 120mV 120mV 50mV 50mV

The very first thing to do after fresh installation is to install Intel INF driver. Have you done that?

915P Neo2 Platinum problems

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me as I've been tweaking bios settings for 3 days and not managed to get anywhere with this.
I've have the following:
1x 915p Neo2 Platinum Mboard
1x Sapphire x600 235MB Graphics
1x Corsair PC2-4200 512 MB DDR2
1x 40GB Western Digital IDE drive
1x 30GB Western Digital IDE drive
When I first switched it all on, the board powered up but I got no display and no beeps. After pulling out all wires and adding the minimum of devices I got it to start up properly and got into bios. Eventually, after tweaking some settings and then systematically adding each device in turn I got everything connected whilst maintaining stability so it would still boot up.
Next problem I has was that it wouldn't boot from a floppy. It kept giving me "Disk I/O error". I tried several different floppy disks - same problem. I changed the floppy cable and still got the same error. I then bought a new floppy drive and tried that but still got the same problem. Decided to carry on and install XP incase floppy started to work later.
When installing, I pressed F6 to load RAID drivers. I selected the IDE RAID driver, it chugged away and carried on loading setup. My 2 IDE drives were successfully identified and I selected the installation drive and formatted it (tried quick and full format), after it had done this, it then tried to load the RAID driver again from the disk. At this point, the driver disk is still in the floppy drive, but it then says that it can not load the file from the disk and to try another. Again I tried several disks all of which gave the same problem.
I've searched this forum to help me with my earlier issues and found answers but couldn't find any info on this one. Can anyone help? I'm starting to think that my mboard has a poorly floppy controller. Also, I've got completly confused about the RAID setup, I currently have both my drives, 1 as master and 1 as slave, in IDE2 and have not touched the RAID BOIS setup - does this mean I will still be able to use these as 2 different drives? Eventaull I will add SATA RAID.

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Originally posted by Del UK
Hi Masjj,
Could list some details of the PSU you using please, as this would help. Please see sig below as a guide.
Confirm please:
You can boot and format, then when install happens, failure????
Del
My spec is as follows:
No OS yet
- tried Win XP (blue screen after RAID driver load)
- trie Win XP with SP1a ("can not load viaraid.sys" error after disk format)
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (MS-7028 Ver 10A)
BIOS - Shows "915P/G NEO2 A7028IMS V1.0 05/27/04" on first screen, in BIOS setup screen shows v02.56
Intel P4 3.0GHz PRESCOTT, 1MB L2-Cache, 800MHz FSB
Sapphire X600 256MB + 19" TFT
Soundblaster 5.1 Live card with LiveDrive
Western Digital 30GB IDE (Master)
Western Digital 40GB IDE (Slave)
Pioneer DVR-105 DVD/RW Burner
DVD-ROM
WD 800JB+CD-RW
1* Corsair Value 512MB PC4200 DDR2 Ram
PSU - eTech 460 +3.3v-28A +5v-30A +12V-30A
I cannot boot from Floppy, can boot from CD. When I try to install WinXP with SP1a, I hit F6 to load RAID drivers, choose driver from list. Setup then detects HDDs, I format install drive, then it tries to load RAID driver again from disk and gives a fail message of "unable to load VIAMRAID.SYS" and will not continue. If I try to install without RAID drivers, it says that there is no storage device connected.

915P Neo2 Platinum - Memory?

Have devoured the MSI website & various others & I'm still not sure if DDR2 667 - PC2 5300 or DDR2 667 PC2 5400 is safe to use in the 915P Neo2 Platinum. One very tiny phrase, in one place, on MSI's website IMPLIES that it is OK, ". . . Support Dual Channel DDR2 533/400 MHz and up", BOLD emphasis mine. "and up"? I just can't interpret this.
At the price of these DDR2 DIMMS, this is no place to make a mistake, but the DDR2 667 PC2 5400 modules seem to be more plentiful, & even more competitively priced, than the DDR2 533/400 modules.
This is my third MSI build, & some of the posts here make me think I've made a mistake this time.
I would appreciate any advice/observations/experiences.

Some early, tentative answers to my memory question(s) are beginning to trickle in. As many of you undoubtedly know, DDR2-675 is a still-developing area, leading edge stuff. I did not heretofore know this . . . maybe I should have.
I am not a lazy PC enthusiast. Maybe I missed some of the available resources in my earlier searches & too soon resorted to pleading my case in this Forum (a dandy, if anyone cares what I think), & by writing Corsair. The "RAM Guy" at Corsair emailed me back with a nice, informative answer, & in the meantime I had just located some apparent answers on my own. Maybe these resources had been updated since I first looked, maybe I missed them, whatever, here are a few links that shed blinding light on the entire subject of DDR2-675 and some "wicked" latencies:
http://compatible.corsairmemory.com/memorysearch.aspx?modelid=550
http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/memory_guides.html
http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/currents/CurrentsOCT04.html (awesome, even newer DDR2 "wicked" latencies!)
http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/products/guides/buyers_guide.pdf
I am a 59-year old retiree geek-guy, with enough time to buy PC component parts & then build PCs and PC systems (this one for a grandson), & to research my choices. But, it's still difficult to track down the information novice builders like me need to make informed choices. The build process is infinitely rewarding, challenging, and, yes, at times very frustrating. I know . . . not exactly a news flash to any of you reading this.
Sorry if I previously whined in this fine Forum, & on this especially useful Board, "Intel P4 & Celeron P4 based board".

Live Update 3 - Intel INF hangs

I've been having problems with my 865PE Neo2 crashing randomly while running games so I decided to try updating drivers. One of the weird things I see is WinXP telling me a "serious error" has ocurred and is a "driver failure".
Anyway, I run Live Update 3 and tell it to download the Intel INF file. It took me a least a dozen attempts to get a full download of the file. Now that I install it, I get to 60% and the system hangs. ;(
Fortunately I can reboot the system and it still runs but I have no idea if the Intel INF is the correct version or if it will stop these random crashes.
Details on the crashes:
I'm running with a 3.0 gHZ processor at stock speed. I have a gig of GEIL DDR433 memory. Audio is an Audigy 2, onboard sound is disabled. Video is an ATI 9800 PRO. My boot drive is an SATA drive and I also have 3 IDE drives not counting a CD-R and DVD drive.
Crashes occur during LAN or internet gaming with BF1942. Sometimes the app exits to desktop. Sometimes I get a sound lockup and have to reset the system.
Any ideas?

My system specs are listed in my first message at the top of this thread.
I did read through the ReadMe in the install package and I did see something that is rather disturbing. The instructions lead me through control panel and device manager to list devices by connection. The names of the devices the ReadMe tells me to look for DO NOT match what I see in my control panel. I'm definitely looking at the WinXP folder for the INF.
The Readme file says to look for these PCI devices:
12. Right-click on the line containing the description
PCI standard host CPU bridge
-or-
PCI standard ISA bridge
-or-
PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
-or-
PCI System Management Bus
-or-
Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller
-or-
Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
What I'm seeing on my system are lines like
"SMBus Controller" with the chip number at the beginning of the line. The files LOOKS like the appropriate one but why are the instructions wrong? ?(
I still tried to follow the ReadMe instructions anyway and burnt the "Disk1" folder to a CD. I tried to update the driver for my "SMBus Controller" and when it looked at the CD it said it didn't find any drivers there. X(
MSI, why oh why didn't you include drivers on your CD! ;(
Any suggestions on how to do the suggested repair? The INF install doesn't show up in Add/Remove Programs.

915P Neo2 - Live Update - IAA

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