[Athlon64] K8T Neo Hangs at Gigabit Boot agent

Topic pretty much explains it all. This morning I heard a long beep and jumped out of bed thinking my computer was overheating. Pulled the plug and the beep continued. Turned out the beep was my alarm clock which was unplugged and was telling me the batteries were dying, but that's another story. Anyway, I plugged the pc back in and hit the power button and now it won't boot. It either gets to the Gigabit boot agent and hangs, or gets to the SATA Raid Bios Setting Utility, scans for serial drives, finds none, and hangs there. I've reset the CMOS twice now, swapped harddrives around, and even swapped IDE ports around in every combo I can think of. I currently can't even get into the BIOS setup.
After messing around for a long while it now gives me 3 long beeps and no video at all anymore.
Problem fixed. Had to disconnect the cable for my LAN and that got me into the setup utillity so I could set up the boot sequence the way it used to be.

It happens to the best of us, glad it solved

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Hi
I have just upgraded the BIOS to V 1.7 and after going through and changing settings, the machine generally boots up fine, although it does lock up occassionally at teh "Scanning for IDE devices" and something about "Realtek Gigabit Boot Agent". I simply have to press restart and it boots up fine next time, but I would like to do what the Realtek thing bob is for. Is it to update the BIOS on the Ethernet device? I didn't get it with my previous BIOS v1.1.
If any of you learned people can help I would be gratefully appreciative.
Rgds
Martin
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...if you use the onboard LAN for your internet connection, leave it alone...you can confighure it to not show the message by pressing the keystroke combo to enter it, but it won't save any boot time...if you are using another network adapter or dial-up then you can disable it in Integrated Peripherals...

Gigabit boot agent

Sorry, I do not want to irritate anyone with a stupid question, but what is the Gigabit boot agent that appears during start up used for?

The gigabit boot agent is a small piece of software in the BIOS, (on the k8T anyway) that allows you to boot your pc from the network.
If you have a dhcp server properly configured, you can give have it give your machine an IP address, and also tell it that there is a server on the network that has a boot image that it should load. You machine will then connect to that server, retrieve the boot image, and load it.
Most cards that have a boot agent use PXE, which is a Preboot eXecution Environment.
I have used netbooting in a few places that I have worked and it was very useful. I used it at a college to allow any computer connected to the network to be netbooted to a dos based ms-networking prompt, so I could reimage the machine with ghost instead of having to carry around a network boot disk.
You could also use it for kiosks, or so that you could have machine with no local storage.
I was looking into using it to boot some pc's straight into a dos version of citrix, so that some old pc's wouldn't need hard drives at all.

MOVED: [Athlon64] K8T Neo- VIA K8T800 MS-6702 - Windows XP Professional x64 - Driver

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[Athlon64] K8T Neo- VIA K8T800 MS-6702 - Windows XP Professional x64 - Driver

Yes, but in the long run I think you would be better off with a PATA CD-device. Performance wise difference is very small.
Eh, you tried hitting F11 during first BIOS screen, to select?

K8TNeo - Lockup in Gigabit Boot Agent

As the subject says, I got some serious problems with booting my machine.
2 out of 3 boots, it locks up when coming to the message;
"Realtek RTL8110S/8169S Gigabit Boot Agent ...."
I can't be alone in experiencing this?
What are your solutions to this problem?
The only I can think of is a new bios (2.3), additional network card...
Thanks..

When you flasj a Bios you have to also go into Bios and reset everything. If you don't then things don't work as you are set to defaults. In this case the boot order defaults to boot from LASN which is what you are seeing. I assume that you know how to set up Bios's as you flashed yours.

[Athlon64] K8T neo FSR and Sempron64 3100+

My 64-bit Sempron is not recognized by the board (displayed "unknown processor" during boot), but looks it is working.
In "CPU support" section there is note "NONE" which means "not tested".
The only problem I noticed was, that there is not working Cool'n'quiet functionality.
(it was no problem with Athlon64 3000+)
Should be there another problems with this CPU in this motherboard?
I noticed, that there is different version of K8T board (namely K8T neo-V), which (looks like) support Sempron64:
in BIOS from 15.7.2005 there is note: "Support AMD new revision CPU (E stepping)"
(previous note "Support cool & quiet function with Sempron CPU 3000+/3100+/3300+ Rev. D0." looks similar as latest bios from my board)
Can I use this BIOS with my motherboard?
Will be created new BIOS supporting 64-bit Semprons with this board?

Usually if a MB is going to support a CPU they get a Bios update out fairly fast. If may be that the board is too old to handle the newest chips. Keep in mind that the original Neo has been out for over two years now. You may be way better off at this stage to stay to a socket 939 solution than a socket 754 now anyways.
However they may still come out with a Bios update. We can't know here as this is just a user to user forum and we don't have any insider info from MSI.

K8T Neo F1S2R No Longer Boots - Help Diagnosing

Hello,
I've had good service from my K8T Neo Athlon 64 mobo for 2 years. Today when I turned on the PC, all the fans cranked up and nothing more. The four test LEDs stayed red. No beeps, no display to the monitor. The light on one CD drive (I have 2) and the HD light come on solid at power up. According to the manual, four red LEDs at power up indicates a bad processor or processor connection and nothing more.
I removed my Audigy sound card since I know it has been known to cause boot-up problems on these boards. Still no boot.
What I need to know is if this is most likely a bad processor as stated in the manual, or something else like a bad mobo or power supply (Enermax). I don't have a spare processor, 64 bit PC, nor power supply to swap and check, so I need to know what is the best step process to resolving the problem. I'd just hate to go out and buy a new processor to find out the problem isn't the processor.
Thanks!
Buddy

UPDATE: Kudos to MSI support! I RMAed my original failed, over 2 year old K8T NEO via the MSI online support system. Shipped the K8T back to MSI on 4/11 and received a replacement on 4/26. It took only 11 business days, east coast to west coast and back.
I was having stability issues with the new K8MM-V motherboard described here https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=95656.0
in that I was unable to run my Radeon 9800 Pro at "full" hardware acceleration without crashes. I could only get stability using the onboard graphics or setting the Radeon 9800 to "low" hardware acceleration (the setting next to "none").
Pulled out the K8MM-V and installed the warranty replacement K8T NEO. The replacement K8T booted flawless, only requiring reinstallation of the Radeon 9800 Pro's Omega drivers on the first boot. I've had flawless performance with hardware graphics acceleration set at "full" with no reboots or blackouts since.
It was easy as pie to execute warranty service with MSI.
A big thank you to MSI for their fine support and for providing this forum....and a just as big thank you to all the fine folks here for offerering their expertise and help to us novices.
Buddy

K8T Neo FSR Won't Boot!

Hello!
My system doesn't boot . It power all of the fans and disk. The Power and Hard Disk leds stay lit (no blinking) the D-Bracket shows 3 red leds and one green led (green is on the lower left). I try without any disk units, no cards (just my graphic card which I test on my P4 machine and is OK) and just 1 stick of ram. The sytem was working "normally" except for some sporadics blue screens and reboots and the no NVRAM thing and that my RAM gets automatically reset to 200 (that's why I try the 1.92B BIOS ver) Last thing I remember was flashing the 1.92B Bios using the windows utility and after that kaput! What can I do? are there any procedures to fix this or did I kill my mobo?
Any tips suggestions will be really apreciated, many thanks in advance.
K8T NEO FSR
AMD Athlon 64 2800+
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MSI GeForce4 Ti4200
Seagate Barracuda 80 GB
Old ACER CD-ROM 40x

Hi
The lower left led is inialising the Keyboard controller. ODD if nothing has been changed.
you can reset the comp by clearing the jbat1 jumper. Switch power off first, page 2-25 of manual. If that does not work make a rescue disk. place file AMIBOOT.ROM on floppy put floppy in drive, reboot and press ctrl + home.
But check the keyboard first.
cheers
jocko

K8T Neo-FSR will not boot Windows XP

Hello,
I just finished swapping out my old Asus P4B266 motherboard for an MSI
K8T Neo-FSR. I plugged all my old components into the motherboard and
started it up. I can get into the BIOS and everything seems to be ok
as it detects all my drives (Seagate 120 GB IDE, Zip-100, Floppy 1.44,
Creative Labs DVD and Plextor DVD burner). However, after exiting the
BIOS, I get the screen that tells me to select how Windows XP should
start (safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, safe mode with
networking, or start normally). This is where my problem is. I
cannot get Windows XP to boot regardless of which option I choose. I
really do not want to have to reformat my drive. If anyone has a
solution or suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.
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K8T Neo-FSR
Athlon 64 2800+
512 MB Crucial PC3200 RAM (non-ECC, unbuffered) CAS=3
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Not a lot without BIG risk of losing some data. If you have mega important files, you will of course have several backups, and backups of back ups.
So you could slip another HDD in a bay and plug the cable from your Sys HDD into it. Then install OS to it, and use it to check and repair your IMPORTANT HDD, after, of course, you have done ANOTHER BACKUP. you may be able to use disk management or device manager to fix MBR and boot files. As your offending HDD and the old C: partition, will will have a new Partition letter now, you can use XP CD repair facility of repair your previous installation. You will of course lose IE and OE info and settings, but not a lot else. But there again havng back up to Express Assist all your emails,OE settings and accounts along with all yout IE settings and data, will be restored at the touch of a couple of keys.
cheers
jocko

K8t-neo-fsr no initial boot

Just picked up all the parts today..msi k8t neo-fsr, amd64 3200cpu 450w power supply. 120gig sata drive, dvd burner.. turned it on and nothing. d-bracket shows up as 4 red led's. and the front power led just flashes..
please help.. I need to get this working this weekend...
Thanks,
Mike

well hang on there, 4 lights is proccessor error.
now carefully look at mobo 1st is heat sink doen all the way, you did take plastic off of heatsink, when you put the processor on the board you ligned up the triangles lifted release bar and processor slid right in all nice and easy...then locked bar down, and carfully placed heatsink on and locked it.
now the bad news if you have to take off the heat sink do it slowly,as usually it will rip the processor out ,sometimes damaging pins, and you will have to use artic silver or a new heat sink with a pad, you canot use old pads or goo..it has to be cleaned off. ther is a good article on that one.
@psu
i would say psu is limited on upgrades..at 18a but if you want to return your new one just say you got it for an hp, act kind of sumb ,and say that it takes a whole different plug and everything, that usually works...
btw what kind of memory do you have ..non ecc i hope.

[Athlon64] K8t Neo FIS2R V1

Hi. Trying to set up a K8T Neo FIS2R V1.0 with an AMD Sempron 2800+. When I hit the power button it powers up for 1 second then dies. The green light on the tower flashes and manual says CPU overheat. Checked cpu is seated ok, checked RAM ok. If I unplug the 4 pin power connector the cpu fan then runs ok but nothing else works. Tried different video card, diffrerent RAM, different PSU. I have cleared the bios as stated but problem still exits. Could I have a faulty board? Thanks

You should use at least bios version 2.0, which if i remember correctly is the first one with support for semprons. I recommend 2.1, 2.2 causes some problems with agp aperture size on 256mb.
I don't see any other possibility than getting a "normal" amd 64 processor and then update your bios (of course it would be unnecessary to install the sempron then, because normal 64's generally perform better).

[Athlon64] K8T Neo-FIS2R RAM Question

Hi All
At the moment I have 512mb of Corsair 3200 RAM (2x 256) in a MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R, and I was wondering if it would be ok to put another 1gig of non Corsair in with out it going nuts at me.
Thanks for any help.

Many thanks for the help.

K8T NEO FIS2R 6702-010 Boots Win XP for 30 min

This is my first hang up with MSI
The second was with a nvidiot chipset K8N SLI
I haven't much felt like dealing with this system because it's so very problematic.
Takes 30 min to boot then hangs up
Via sata seagate 160
ath 64 3200+

She's on her merry way back to MSI for warranty repair ups ground.
Meanwhile I'll build another system that will boot like it's supposed to .
How about a MSI 945GNeo-F with a modest P4 2.80 533FSB on board video and all.
Keep it simple is my motto now.
Good luck to all and thanks for trying but this was a lost cause from the beginning.

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Originally posted by Nutty Buddy
2) After the reboot, problems abound.
- The Windows Loadup screen with the scrolling green bars will only scroll 1 1/2 times before my login screen appears. With my KT3, it scrolled about 12 times, so something is not loading
That's because your system is much faster loading Windows!

[Athlon64] Preventing VIA RAID during boot with a K8T Neo?

Is there a way to stop the VIA controller looking for RAID devices on a K8T Neo MS-6702 VER 1.0 board?
The system has a single SATA connected to the VIA controller.
Thanks.

It's looking 4 disks, since u have a disk, and use it, i gues u want it to be found
It's the same thing with IDE devices, only thing is that the message is displayed shorter, giving the impression it works faster.

[Athlon64] K8T Neo Hangs at Gigabit Boot agent

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