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.

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Now I've contacted Maxtor for (hopefully) a new firmware.
Quote from: rogueUK on 31-July-06, 16:55:42
insego please use the SEARCH BUTTON
I did use the search function to find other people with similar problems. The reason I started a topic of my own was because of the text you get while joining:
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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)

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 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 (V1.0b) problem

Hi, I just bought a whole new fresh system..
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0b)
Intel P4 LGA 775 530 3,0Ghz 800Mhz FSB HT
Sapphire Ati x700Pro 128MB PCI-Express
200GB WD Caviar WD2000 200GB 8Mb cache 7200RPM IDE
Lite-On DVDRW 8x+/- RW
Aspire 500W Visible Power
2x256MB DDRII-533 Corsair ValueSelect
now the problem I have is next:
I connect evrything correctly like I did a million times before with other systems..
I boot it up and it goes good.. I check my Bios, everything detected all ok
then I insert the WindowsXP Pro CD and reboot..
it gives the screen with Loading Files: blablabla u know that when its preparing the installation..
then I my screen goes black for a second.. normal I think.. then I get a Bluescreen!! even when windows isnt installed yet :/
So I think , hey I got another Maxtor 120GB IDE over here with windows onnit and all good. so i put that in, works like a charm.. so I think, lets try to install windows on it from another system so i do so.. I plug it back in my new system and it gives the exact same bluescreen when I just try to boot up windows.. but I was able to install windws on it from the other system so its not my HD..
I really dont know what to do, I did a memtest I got from another system so it aint the memory neither..
this is the bluescreen error:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0xF853D0BF, 0xF8989208, 0xF8988F08)
*** pci.sys - Address F853D0BF base at F8536000, DateStamp 3b7d855c
can anyone help me plz ?

had exact same problem so i followed what has been said. this got rid of the message Technical information:
***Stop: 0x0000007E (0XC0000005, 0XF853D0BF, 0XF8989208, 0XF8988F08)
*** PCI.SYS - ADDRESS F853D0BF BASE AT F8536000, DATESTAMP 3B7D855C
but i now have a new message Technical information:
***Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7C8263C , 0xC0000034 , 0x00000000 , 0x00000000)
system spec :915p neo 2 plat
intel 540 processor
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Wich bios driver for 915P neo2 platinum-54g

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P4 630 3,0GHZ cpu
2*512M Kingston 533MHz DDR2
Club3d 128MB Radeon x300se hypermem PCI-E
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Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
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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...

915P Neo2 Platinum Hard Drive/Optical Drive Configuration

My main drive is the 120Gb SATA drive listed below but I'd like to utilise a 160Gb PATA h/d that I used to use for backups on my previous system.
I have the SATA drive configured as my boot drive. ATM, my DVD drives are connected to IDE1 as I have a recovery CD which needs to be booted should I need to use my backups.
I've been tinkering with this system and would prefer to have the parallel IDE drive permanently connected to IDE1 but still boot from the SATA drive. To this end, if I connect my DVD drives (configured as master & slave) on a single IDE cable to IDE2 and boot, they aren't recognized as bootable devices when I hit F11 after POST. However, when Windows boots they do appear. With this configuration I can't restore data because I need to boot from a recovery CD-ROM.
Is it possible to have optical drives connected to one of the RAID IDE connectors and make them bootable?
If not, and since I do have 2 drives, I assume someone will suggest going down the RAID route. Can RAID1 be configured across 2 hard drives if I have 1 x SATA and 1 x PATA?
TIA.
915P Neo2 Platinum PCI-E (MS-7028) motherboard
BIOS v1.6
Pentium 4 550 3.4GHz 'Prescott' processor
Crucial DDR2 PC2-4200 512Mb RAM
Asus Extreme GeForce PCX6600 GT 128MB (PCI-E) graphics
Maxtor DiamondMax +9 7200RPM SATA 120GB h/d
Floppy drive
Thermaltake 480W ATX PSU Xaser Silent Edition
Thermaltake Tsunami Aluminium Case
LiteOn DVD-ROM
LiteOn Dual Layer 16x DVD±RW ReWriter
Windows XP Pro SP2

Quote from: NovJoe on 05-April-05, 21:25:01
To what I know, it is not possible to get Optical drives to work on IDE 2 and 3 since they are mainly for RAIDs and HDDs.
Keep the Optical drives to IDE 1 and the IDE HDD to IDE 2.
Thanks for your quick reply.
I've tried that - get the same problem with boot devices in that the h/d on IDE2 won't boot. (It holds a copy of my C partition.)

SLOW performance SATA HDD on the 915P Neo2 Platinum

Almost for a week I have tried to setup Windows XP prof. with SP2. Unfortunately the performance of the system is very poor.
For this reason I extended let test the system and compare the results with an other system.
My System Other system with diamond-maximum one 10, 160GB ATA133 disk
Disk - Sequential Read = 3.37 Disk - Sequential Read = 63.04
Disk - Sequential Write = 3.51 Disk - Sequential Write = 55.99
Disk - Random Seek + RW = 1.91 Disk - Random Seek + RW = 2.7
Disk Mark = 31.08 Disk Mark = 440.24
As you can see the result is awful.
Have tried all settings for a single HDD in the BIOS, but unfortunately no plausibly results got.
Is there people have the same problem ?
Kan any one help me out of this ?
My system configuration:
- Antec Sonata II 450 Watt
- Intel Pentium 4 630, Socket 775
- Corsair ValueSelect DDR2 SDRAM, 1 GB, PC4300, 533 MHz
- 915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0B)
- 2x NEC ND-4550 16 connected to EDI 1
- 1x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 250 GB, 7.200 rpm, 16 MB, SATA/150 connected to SATA_1
Thanks in advance !!

Can you try with HDSPEED? goto http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/ and download HDSPEED. Look for the Bandwidth and Sequential. Sequential is the actual throughput speed of your HDD, some 55~65MB/s is pretty good. Bandwidth is your HDD cache throughput speed, which should be some 100MB/s.

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

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915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0B) and SATA setup HELP !!

Hi,
Can any one help me with the BIOS settings for my SATA HDD on an 915P Neo2 Platinum motherboard ?
Configuration:
- Antec Sonata II 450 Watt
- Intel Pentium 4 630, Socket 775
- Corsair ValueSelect DDR2 SDRAM, 1 GB, PC4300, 533 MHz
- 915P Neo2 Platinum (V1.0B)
- 2x NEC ND-4550 16 connected to EDI 1
- 1x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 250 GB, 7.200 rpm, 16 MB, SATA/150 connected to SATA_1
I have tested with the following settings:
1)
   ATA/IDE Configuration [Enhanced]
   Configure SATA as [IDE]
Result:
   Can't format with Windows Setup CD (sp2)
   If it formatted with 3rd party utils, then performance of the system is very poor.
Thanks in advance !

Hi, I suggest you to set the ATA/IDE config as Legacy and check that all your HDDs are detected, if not all, at least your HDD and optical drive. Then continue with the installation. After WinXP installation settled down, then go back to the BIOS and switch to Enhanced again, and then continue boot up to windows and install Intel INF.

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".

A Few Questions/Problems With My New iPod *PLEASE HELP*

Hello! I just received my first iPod (4th Gen, 4GB, Red Nano) two days ago (Christmas Eve) and have so far been fairly happy with it. However, I'm experiencing a few problems with it and am hoping that someone could help me.
Firstly, a few of the album covers on my iPod are just black squares. I've read other complaints about this on the forums, but haven't seen any solutions. What can I do to fix this?
Second, I can't figure out how to put my songs in order. On iTunes, it allows me to put songs in alphabetical order, but being that most of my songs are part of full albums, I want my songs to be in the order of when they play on the actual albums. When I try to drag my songs into their correct places, I'm not able to.
Also, is there any way to delete the games that my iPod came with? I think they might be taking up too much room for my liking...
OK, well if you can help or add some extra tips to getting started with my iPod, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Bump...

New 955X Platinum and new BIOS relase for 915P Neo2 Platinum

Hi all,
Just wanted to bring some news to this forum so that not all topics are trouble related:-))
Hope it's ok with the moderators....
MSI has just relased their new 955X Platinum mobo, and I must say it looks great.
It has some special features like 9.1! Dolby sorround and E-SATA brackets for external S-ATA's. It fully support all the Intel? Dual Core processors such as the 820, 830 and 840 families and the highest Pentium 4 Extreme Edition series processors like P4EE 840.
Best of all, it delivers power to the cpu finally tru a 4.phase voltage regulator, so I hope this board OC better then its predecessors.
Sinse this is a Platinum board, I hope MSI havent skiped the 955X DIamond board they showed at CeBit2005 tough.
Anyway, look out for this board and you can read the press release here.
I know some of you 915P PLatinum owners have had som troubles with youre boards, I just want to inform you that MSI hase just released a new BIOS(1.7) to youre board. You can dowlad it here.
Well, thats all. Have a nice weekend everybody:biggthumbsup:

I know, but I,m hoping the 955X mDiamond will support SLI. nVidea has just revealed that they will support SLI on Intel chipsets.

A few bios problems with my 915p Neo2 platinum board

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