975X Power Up Edition Hangs on "Initializing Hard Drive Controller"

Symptoms:
4 month old Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD drive would "hang" the system maybe 2-3x in the last month.
Upon reboot no boot device found. Power cable removed from PC, and plugged back in it would work fine.
I switched off my PC at 8am, come home at 5pm, switch on PC and no boot device found.
Remove power cable, problem persists.
Clear Cmos, problem persists.
Removed all other unnecessary hardware and tried different cables and ports, problem persists.
Reach conclusion SSD drive is dead.
Plug back in old Hard drive (Still fixed in bottom of PC, but not attached) and PC loads up fine.
Pc randomly restarts about 10x in the space of 24 hours, sometimes with the message no boot device found. (Power cable removal/plugging back in rectifies fault)
Now, problem persists also.
Remove all unnecessary hardware, and try again. Problem persists.
Clear CMOS.
Pc shows MSI splash screen, and hangs.
Removed even hard drive, same problem.
Checked D Bracket and I have RRGG which is "Initializing Hard Drive Controller" "This will initialize IDE drive and controller"
MOBO: MSI 975X Platinum V2.1
CPU: Core2Duo E6300 1.86Ghz
GFX: MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/OC
Memory: Corsair XMS2-6400 2048MB (X2)
PSU: Corsair TX650
HDD1: Corsair Force 3 120GB / HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 250GB
HDD3: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
HDD4: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Currently have GFX, 1 Stick of ram, the CPU and its cooler plugged in, that's it.
Any suggestions? I've searched this forum but there aren't any real solutions, one was dead and required RMA'ed, another one depended on the PSU, and another one didn't have enough power to the PCI-E card. (GFX)

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Plug back in old Hard drive (Still fixed in bottom of PC, but not attached) and PC loads up fine.
Pc randomly restarts about 10x in the space of 24 hours, sometimes with the message no boot device found. (Power cable removal/plugging back in rectifies fault)
Just to be sure on this: What you are saying is that currently, it does not matter what kind of device is attached (SSD, hard drive, optical drive), you get the ""Initializing Hard Drive Controller" "This will initialize IDE drive and controller"", even though if there are no SSDs, hard drives and optical drives connected to the system whatsoever?

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I am a 17 year old high school student who has put together a total of 12 machines. There are a couple of issues I would like to address:
1. Every PC I built was based around SOCKETA platform and EVERY board was an MSI.
2. I just finished building two machines around the KT3 Ultra-2 board (I am typing on now), have given the one to my uncle and aunt. NO PROBLEMS. XP2100 512 PC2700 Two 30Gb Maxtors RAID0 Saphire Radeon 9000 Pro 128mb DDR.... No trouble. They went together in about 45 minutes... I have hauled mine (I kept one for me - yippee!!) up to my cabin and back again... never ever failing...
3. I understand everyone's frustration in this issue, for it is DEFINETELY an issue, BUT, MSI I can guarantee is working out the solution and they stand behind their products. I was having trouble with an Nforce based board. Sent it back, got a new one in 4 days... That has been my only trouble MY ONLY TROUBLE. And on top of it, I later learn that it was my fault. I was the one who grounded mysterious pin 9 on the USB header... It was how the case came set up---you know with the front USB ports...
4. I also know that MSI's boards are the most stable I've seen . I've helped other students with home built PC's who use Gigabyte, ASUS, Abit, ECS... and I've seen trouble with all of them.
5. Stick with it. Don't give up. Get your board and if need be your proc. replaced, and move on. This board is worth it. It is so nice. I have had my machine on for two weeks straight. Running XP PRO. Nothing but solid.
6. WHY DOES EVERYONE BLAME EVERYTHING ON THE PSU??? I have used cheap-o 300W generic supplies (granted, I have never owned or set-up a GF4) but plain and simply put, I have not had any stable problems with MSI boards and cheap power supplies. MSI does an excellent job with their power stabilization portion of the board, and design their boards around imperfect voltages. Nothing is perfect. "30 amps", that's rediculous.
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Hi! I am from Argentina and 7 months ago I been purchase a MS 7246 board. Since that time, I never could run my memories a 800MHZ and I never could make that my motherboard detect correctly my memories speed. I been really disappointed with msi and this motherboard, and sincerely I lost confidence in the support and manufacturing process; nevertheless, I will try posting my problem in this thread hoping that somebody could help me.
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I had a look at your screenshots. The first thing I noticed is that you RAM modules have really strange SPD values:
Your stick's SPD values do not seem to comply with the JEDEC standard. Maybe this is an additional explanation to your problems causing BIOS and/or memory controller to be a little confused.
The second thing I noticed is the fact that the automatic frequency/multiplier and Core voltage adjustions done by the C1E feature is now working properly:
As you can see on the pictures I took from your screenshots, VCore and multiplier are now changing. That means, that the feature is working properly. If you close all background applications and running programs and leave only CPU-Z running, Core Voltage should drop to a certain minimum level and stay there with the multiplier set to x6.
The fact that C1E is working now, could explain the small drop in temperatures to about 48°-50°C @CPU cores.
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Comments:
- Maybe cpu sensor is broken or bad? (I touch cpu cooler and is not so hot)
I really doubt that.
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- The northbridge 975x definitely is hot. (But i suppose that your should have same situation here)
Yes, it has a tendency to get rather hot, especially if the system is overclocked.
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- If I do not use my computer from 5 or 10 minutes temperatures decrease at 50ºc (core 0) and 48ºc (core 1), but not much more.
This is the kind of drop I expected with C1E working properly again.
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¿Do you see something strange in my temperatures
Your temperaturer are elevated and a little higher than average, but not really dangerous after all. You should not worry yourself too much. The shutdown temperature of your CPU is around 85°C. So you still have some headroom.
However, if you find the time (and the money ) you should at least consider optimizing your cooling solution, either by re-installing the heatsink and applying new and better thermal paste and by tweaking the airflow that goes through your case, or even better by installing a more efficient heatsink to your CPU.
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¿Do you see something strange in my temperatures and memories?
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I googled around a little bit to find more information on general issures with the particular kind of OCZ modules you are using (OCZ2P8001G). What I found was the following thread in the OCZ forum:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=112411
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Yea but if you RMA them you just get the same model back. I don't think it would solve anything (Unless they are giving out Rev2s?)
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Well i've had nothing but problems with the 2 sets i've had. No one at OCZ informed me that i needed the rev2's to work how i want.
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I'm pretty sure that OCZ gets the same Elpida chips from Samsung that other DIMM makers get. The only things specific to OCZ would be the PCB, SPD programming and speed binning.
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That is what prompted Tony to suggest an RMA. That is how I know it is the ram having problems not the board.
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All I really know about Rev. 1 ELP is that an OCZ rep told me it used the same Elpida chips as Gold but was higher binned. Rev. 2 uses different chips.
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I don't know but IIRC, I read someone here post that they are using Micron D9xxx. Given the higher cost of rev. 2, that seems plausible enough.
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If you are using Rev1, you are the first I've heard without problems.
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I think the problem is rather isolated to only a group of people with bad sticks.

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Greetings everyone
975X power up edition mobo, just got Corsair XMS2 6400 Ram, however the ram is not running at 6400/800mhz, but instead running at 667MHZ. I've reset my bios and still no change. Any suggestions on why this is?

Quote from: Jack the Newbie on 04-August-07, 23:00:21
It would be interesting to really verify that.
Have a look at this list as well:
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Ok, Let's sum it up then
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Viktor92 first used OCZ Gold DDR2 800, but then he couldn't post his pc. These modules have Powerchip chips.
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I have built a new comp for someone who wants reliability so i choose to go Platinum, but ... i cant make it boot.
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I guess is a BIOS problem, as i readed in another post (yeah used search first xD) but the only guy who could solve the problem was flashing the bios, but i cant even see a word on the screen, is it possible to flash the bios in my condition ??
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EDIT: my english sucks really bad, forgive me !!
EDIT2: Forgot to add !! when i remove the VGA the motherboard DOES the "VGA ERROR BEEP" and the leds are in the correct combination for VGA ERROR ... so i guess processor works and ram too (both OCZ and generic), if one of these fails then it wont make any sound, m i wrong ??

ITS ALIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, to be honest, i dont know what it really was but tried 2 things:
First i followed step by step and word by word the "clearing CMOS" guide (this mobo has a button and not a juper, so i pressed the button like 2 minutes to be REALLY sure xD), then i realized that it was not doing the "beeps" anymore, but the screen was black like before.
SOOOOOOOOOOOO THEEEEEEEEN ... (shoot me in the head for this) i unplugged the video and keyboard from the KVM switch (could THIS be the problem ?? i used it wit hundreds of computers and never gave me prblems before ??? ??? ???) and plugged the cables directly and now its alive !!!
THANKS !! :D :D :D :D :D
One last thing !!
Do you recommend me to upgrade the BIOS ?? the board always did a "false boot" then starts normally, i readed it was some "hardware checking" feature, its that true or its totally useless ??
THANKKKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSS =) (im so damn happy now LOL)

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