BIOS 2.1 K8N Neo Platinum 7030

What about the latest BIOS 2.1 K8N Neo Platinum (7030) ? Is it safe to upgrade or should i stay at 1.7 (that really works great) ?

If 1.7 is working for you I'd suggest staying with it. (Always a good idea even if the new bios is stable).
I had problems overclocking with V2.1 (the ide initialisation hangs) and many others have complained about problems with more than one stick of mem.

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  • New Bios For MSI K8N Neo Platinum [ 1.55]

    NEW BIOS FOR MSI K8N Neo Platinum !!!!
    BIOS 1.55 FOR K8N
    AND CLICK
    Apothikeusi/Emfanisi (Greek Language )
    Your CPU temperature is in the safe range. Please rest assured. If you are
    willing to, would you please flash BIOS to the version 1.55 verifying? We
    send it by attachment. As to how to flash BIOS, please refer to the word file
    in the attached file. Please kindly inform us of the results. Thanks for your
    cooperation.
    In addition, please enter BIOS to load optimized defaults after flashing BIOS.
    Please feel free to let us know if you still have any further issues or inquiries.
    Best regards,
    MSI Technical Support

    OMG !!!!
    Something is really weird about this bios !!!!
    I can't boot overclocked from bios even at 220 HT, and at the beginning i was REALY disapointed.
    Then i set it to optimize defaults ( and yes i did the whole flashing thing ) and i am now IN WINDOWS with my cheapo Kingston Value that did MAX 230 with problems NOW AT A WOOPING 237 Mhz and still going UP !!!!
    OMG OMG....
    If only i can get it to boot from bios.Seems pretty stable in windows even at 237.
    Really strange guys.I thought 230 was my memory limit....
    Gonna try higher and let you know.
    P.S. this bios seems to like Kinston Ram....Value at least  

  • HELP! K8n Neo Platinum (7030) 2.10 Bios -- CPU overheating

    AAAAAH Someone help me!!
    I just downloaded the MSI Liveupdate program, and Updated my Bios from 1.7 to 2.10.
    With Bios version 1.7 I was running my AMD 64 3200+ at solid 35-55 degrees (min to max)
    Now with this new bios version, my CPU runs at 57-72 degrees (min-max) !!!!!!
    HOLY CRAP -- this processor is not even rated to run at temperatures above 70 degrees Celsius!!
    I'm in the danger zone as I type out this message to you guys, and I'm worried I'll reduce the shelf life of my processor.
    CAN ANYONE HELP ME??? I've tried changing All the settings around in the bios, I've even set the processor down to about 1.8 ghz, and it's still running at temperatures above 55 degrees...
    From what I understand there is no way of removing a bios flash, is that correct? Am I stuck with this crappy 2.10 bios flash?
    What can I do? Please dear god... help me.

    Ok answers to your questions:
    My board is a MSI-7030 (K8N Neo Platinum) And Originally I flashed the bios from 1.7 to 2.1 Via Liveupdate (MSI Live Monitor & Live Update 3)
    - I read your faq on how to manually rollback the bios, and i rolled back to version 1.9 (which I had never had before)
    and that did not seem to work. My temp is still at 68-72 C -- even in the bios.
    A few questions I need to ask now:
    1) Is the next step is to revert back to 1.8? Then if that doesn't work, back to my original 1.7?
     -- also, 2) Who is Syar? Where can I get his version of the bios? --
    Finally: 3) What is the CMOS battery?  I know what the Jumper is, but I'm not sure what the battery is...
    Is that the circular battery that's next to the BIOS Jumper? (maybe a picture would help..)
    Thanks for all the responses so far! you guys are saving me from having a major emotional breakdown here.. I thought I was going to have to buy a new mobo.
    I'll check back here on the forums in a few hours to see if anyone has responded,
    (p.s. TY SO MUCH for caring enough to help a fellow hardware enthusiast!!!  )

  • K8N Neo Platinum 7030 Problem

    I have a K8N Neo Platinum and as of the past week my computer has been acting really strange.  I has had random lockups that at first made me think it was the video card.  That wasn't the case.  I tried a different power supply and that didnt help.  So I decided to take everything out of my computer.  I had everything unplugged from the motherboard power, ide cables, etc.  I noticed as I was taking everything out that I felt like I was getting shocked by my case but I don't know how because I had no power supply in my computer and all the cards, processor, memory were taken out.  When I took the mb out i didn't feel the shock anymore, but when I put the mb back in the case and hooked the power supply back up to it I did.  I even vacuumed out the case totally removing all dust and dirt.  Am I missing something here?  HELP lol

    thanks for replying glenn after 2 days of hunting i can now say
    90% sure the whining is from the powersupply
    using my advanced hearing device i found a flaw in its design.  before i would put it near psu but not hear the whine from there. well it occured to me to tilt it ever so slightly (tip from radio broacasting in college) to let the noise in but block any wind from crossing the end of my tube. and ch ching finally from the rear of the psu is where it is loudest. 
    ive owned 3 enermax and theyve been the best psu ive ever owned.  but this weekend im swap it with my other and see if it still happens. it will probably take 2 hours total do it which is why ive put it off this long. ive tried bumping the wires around even though its a full size chieftech with all my watercooling gear its almost impossible to not have the wires overlap each other at least a few times. but with the moving around i did do it didnt help. 

  • No power on Socket 754 K8N Neo Platinum 7030-010

    Hi, all -
    I've stripped the system down to just:
    Neo Platinum part MSI-7030-010
    AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (Socket 754) - retail, so original AMD HSF
    512MB Corsair XMS PC3200 - half of an original 1gb TwinX pair
    Dual 74gb WD Raptors in Raid 0, but tested with them detached.
    Lite-on DVD burner (I misremember the model), but tested with it detached.
    MSI Fx5500 AGP vid card, but tested with it pulled out.
    No overclocking at all.
    Standard PS2 Mouse and KB, though I also yanked those and tested with no better results.
    This is sitting in a case that came with a QMax 330W psu:
    +3.3 - 28A
    +5 - 35A
    +12 - 16A
    +5VSB - 2A
    -5V - 0.3A
    -12V - 0.8A
    "+5/+3.3 total 200W max"
    "+5/+3.3/+12 total 330W max"
    The whole system has been working juuuust fine since last August.
    I built the rig for a friend, so here's their story - it suddenly started making a funny noise (thought to be PSU?) and the top of the case (above the PSU) was hot to the touch. Powered down and went to dinner. Later, it will not power up. You push the button, and there's NOTHING. No clicks, no temporary fan whirs, nothing. You could hear a pin drop.
    I tested the PSU as far as starting it up, and it does start, but I don't have the equipment to test it for voltages. I tested the mobo as far as shorting out the power switch jumper with a screwdriver, and NOTHING. I also plugged in another psu that I had sitting around, with the same results.  I was able to get the 2nd PSU to start while still plugged into the mobo, and the "D-Link 2" LEDs start at 4 red, and stay at 4 red.
    My biggest clue is that manually shorting the power switch jumper on the mobo does nothing. I have entered an RMA request to MSI, but if anyone else has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
    Thanks!
    Rob

    Thanks for the resource!
    Two others I've read claim that I need no more than 300W under full load. I'll have them replace the PSU anyway.
    MSI approved the mobo RMA, though, and I just disassembled the machine. Turns out that the stock AMD HSF - the one that came with the CPU - which I attached with the heatsink goo that came with the CPU - has cemented itself to the CPU. I "gently" pried the hsf out of the socket and it took the CPU with it!
    I can't get the CPU off of the heatsink without some serious work.
    Has anyone run into THAT one before?   

  • Severe Problems with BIOS v1.9 for K8N Neo Platinum (7030)

    I updated to the new BIOS and nothing but crashes, so I tried to go back to 1.7, because everything was working fine with 1.7 and now, the BIOS is asking for a password, and I never setup a password in the BIOS. What the heck, now I have a $1000 (US) paper weight, thanks alot for the buggy BIOS update, now you can send me a new motherboard!!!
    **Edit** Well I found a work around, went back to BIOS 1.5 for now until I can get 1.7 to work again, 1.8 and 1.9 are screwed up beyond belief, you can't set any overclocking features, RAM timings are messed, there is no choice for 1T/2T, currently I'm running at SPD on the DRAM and stock on all the CPU functions. I would really like if someone could test these BIOS versions before putting them up so stupid people like me update them. Also, leaving more choices than one BIOS update in MSI LiveUpdate would be nice, because flashing via the floppy drive is a pain in the butt, lucky I have an extra computer to use.**End Edit**

    Do a floppy drive flash with the correct switches.  Go back to the last bios that worked properly or try Pinochio's bios which a lot of people like.  Liveupdate will mess up your bios.  So can winflash if you do not use it correctly.
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=81017.0
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=86257.msg617198#msg617198
    After you have read about it, do this using the correct flash utilty file name and the correct  bios file name
    "DOS floppy flash shall be performed with :
    awfl833d.exe w7030nms.180 /py /sn /wb /cc /cd /cp /f /e
    (Replace biosfilename with appropriate version for Neo1/neo2 etc , switches remain the same )
    After flash is complete :
    TURN OFF PSU (don't restart) wait 15 seconds
    Turn on again , press the power button .
    Enter BIOS and load optimized defaults (NO OTHER CHANGES) , save + exit
    Boot the system again with the floppy in the drive to let the DMI pool build and update itself .
    Good luck. 

  • K8N Neo Platinum 7030 blue screening/loading to black

    Running: athlon64 3200+, 1x 512mb crucial 333 1x 256mb crucial 333, nvidia gforce 6800
    My computer worked fine for many months, and even though I didn't install anything recently, it started freezing and blue screening, then loading to a black screen.  The first time it happened I was playing a video game, then I restarted and it did it again when I was playing the video game.  After a day or two it stopped loading to black screen, and it loaded successfully.  But whenever I tried to play a game it blue screened. 
    Then I reformatted, and when I was re-installing norton, it blue screened again, then it loaded to a black screen again.
    Thanks for your help in advance

    It would help to know a little more about your system setup, however I would agree that you should try memtest first.  You should also try to get another 512MB stick to match your other one.  Generally (from what I've learned and heard) RAM likes to be matched in pairs that are as identical as possible.  One of my other thoughts is maybe your HD is overheating?  Feel your HD when your systems starts bluescreening.  If it feels kind of hot to the touch (like fairly hot compared to your processor) then that could be a problem.  My HDs were overheating and I could never figure out why my computer kept crashing until I felt the HDs, moved them to a better position, and placed a fan in front of them.  Also, do you have all of the latest drivers for your equipment?  Check your event log and see if it tells you whether the error was from a driver.  If it is from a driver, then just uninstall the piece of hardware and reinstall the latest drivers.
    Those are my first thoughts.  Good Luck.

  • Bios from my Msi k8n Neo Platinum (socket 754)

    Wich is the last beta bios  from my Msi k8n Neo Platinum (socket 754) ?
    And where download?
    Thanks

    A thread here , from when 1.56 appeared:
    MSI K8N Neo Plat Beta Bios 1.56
    and when 1.55 appeared:
    New Bios For MSI K8N Neo Platinum [ 1.55]
    Seems to me that the 1.5x series were focused on chipset timings and ram .
    Another thing is that i can boot from a usb pen with this one .(never got it to work with others) .
    Beta bioses don't come with a changelog , they leak out . So any complete
    list of changes is not possible to provide.

  • Msi k8n neo platinum - The 1394 delete from bios device list

      hi.
    the line where 1394 was is now empty , i try everything i flash the bios and stuff
    no luck for me???
    it look like the 1394 onboard conroller is dead?

    A thread here , from when 1.56 appeared:
    MSI K8N Neo Plat Beta Bios 1.56
    and when 1.55 appeared:
    New Bios For MSI K8N Neo Platinum [ 1.55]
    Seems to me that the 1.5x series were focused on chipset timings and ram .
    Another thing is that i can boot from a usb pen with this one .(never got it to work with others) .
    Beta bioses don't come with a changelog , they leak out . So any complete
    list of changes is not possible to provide.

  • BIOS FOR K8n neo platinum

    A while back there was a big post about how to properly upgrade your bios and he had listed every bios beta or official for download.  Anyone have that post? and What is the best bios for the K8n Neo platinum? Im still running on 1.1....

    Quote from: Supershanks on 09-June-05, 04:24:05
    Just the usual bios to bios temp tweak - no worries   
    Have been running with speedfan with a 4C offset think i can dith it now with 1.8 
    Higher or lower?
    Hmmm... My SpeedFan is running with no delta adjustments on the temps. I wonder if there is a discrepancy in what it's reporting & what it actually is after you boot into Windows
    I'd try to go by what the Hardware Monitor says, but temp's always seem to be high when you're in BIOS anyway....

  • Official, non-beta K8N Neo Platinum BIOS when?

    Hi,
    I see a lot of beta 1.5x BIOS releases for K8N Neo Platinum. Anybody know when the official release will come from MSI???
    Thanks.

    Quote
    Originally posted by darthhen
    Yeah I guess. It's hard to tell sometimes. I don't have the time to test out all the different beta bioses. I just want to update to the stable one.
    yes but its also wrong to assume tha beta BIOS are unstable.in fact most these days are rock stable hence the fact they become official.

  • K8n Neo Platinum non-booting SATA RAID setup question

    I've spent several hours searching an reading trying to find out how to setup a non-bootable SATA RAID. All I can seem to find are posts about bootable installs using F6 and the drivers on a floppy.
    I have setup the disks in the bios an defined the array an everything checks out. But when I boot back to WindowsXP it only sees 2 drives that it cannot find drivers for even if I point it to the correct Nvidia directory. I attempted to just reinstall the drivers but that caused a Bluescreen from a corrupt driver file that I then had to go into the repair console to copy from a floppy.
    The manual an a couple of posts here say that I should go into Admin Tools-> Disk Management an it will then popup a wizard. But I'm not getting that far.
    I currently have the disks on SATA 1 and 2 but will move them tonite because I've read its better for them to be on 3 and 4.
    This is on a K8N Neo Platinum 7030 on Windows XP SP2.  If anyone could help or just point me to where I can find help it would be greatly appreciated. 

    When the raid controller is enabled in bios and you start windows you can install the nvidia raid driver
    from within windows .
    Use the add hardware wizard from control panel .
    Start the add-hw wizard .
    Yes i have connected the hw - next .
    Add a new hw device (bottom of the list ) -next .
    Install the hw that i select manually from a list - next .
    Select scsi/raid controller - next .
    Choose have disk .
    Then browse for the location of the nvraid.inf file

  • K8N Neo Platinum, NO POST

    I have 2 known good Athlon 64 3400+ CPUs.
    CPU#1 is a ClawHammer SH7-C0
    CPU#2 is a NewCastle DH7-CG
    The problem is as follows:
    CPU#1 works and is stable on the board, (MSI K8N Neo Platinum, 7030)
    CPU#2 will not POST on the same board, D-Bracket gives all reds except from #3, according to the manual this is 'Initializing Keyboard Controller'.
    And the speaker gives 1 long beep, follow by a pause (Indicating RAM error, RAM is known good, and tried with different sticks too)
    Since CPU#1 worked on the board, i figured CPU#2 must be broked, so i RMA it, and it returned with 'No errors'.
    I have tried most everything known to man:
    Reseat the CPU, RAM, *
    Boot with the board out of the case
    Update bios (Have latest, 1.6)
    Reset bios by JBAT and remove battery
    New and different RAM
    You name it, i've tried it.
    Except for RMA the board, could the board really be broked? It works with the ClawHammer...
    I'm going nuts. 

    I've got the same motherboard running with a Newcastle. The only difference between you Newcastle and Clawhammer would be the level 2 cache. That isn't going to have any effect on the cpu working in your system. You cleared the bios so the bios should automatically detect the level 2 cache on the new cpu. I use bios 1.5 on mine. The 1.6 bios is very new. It is only supposed to effect cpu identification, but with a new bios who knows. Did you try the 1.5 bios that's been out a while and is well tested? I don't believe it's the motherboard or it wouldn't work with the clawhammer. Who tested that Newcastle and said it was good? I wonder if they really tested it in a live system? Bad cpu gets my bet.

  • MOVED: MSI K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) won't post and just beeps

    This topic has been moved to AMD64 nVidia Based board.
    MSI K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) won't post and just beeps

    1)Main Menu - No Post/No Boot problems and fixes   - Bios-Central Award Bios Beep Codes + others
    2) Memtest86+ As Stated
    3) Power Suppy Requirements & Selection
    4) Post Specs re Powe supply 3.3v 5v & 12v Amps., Gfx cards Drives etc.,

  • K8n Neo Platinum MS-7030; freezes during OS install

    I am an experienced builder, I have built dozens of systems and even trained people to build their own. I am also an experienced forum user (new to this board) I have searched extensively on this subject and tried every suggestion I have found. Alas I am still having a problem.
    My System is
    K8N NEO Platinum MS-7030 ver 1
    Athlon 64 300+ Newcastle
    CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) (PC 3200) VS1GBKIT400
    2xWestern Digital Caviar SE WD1600JD 160GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard
    Pioneer  DVR-108
    I built this system in November 2004, for my cousin and his family. It installed XP Sp2 and has never given the slightest hint of a problem.
    My cousin bought a OEM version of x64 so we could finally make it into the 64-bit system it is intended to be. We backed up his files and formatted the hard drive, he also bought the second hard-drive so we can make it a raid-0 system.
    I flashed the bios to 1.70 and all seemed well. Install keeps freezing. I tried to reinstall XP32 still freezes intermittently. I have tried all of the f6 driver installs, in 32 and 64 bit. I have tried PCI and AGP cards, I have tried one sided PC3200 memory. I tried an IDE hard-drive. I have even tried using my Power-man 450 watt server PS that has been running my Dual athlon server for three years. I have tried enabling and disabling every bios setting available, I have tried underclocking the memory and dis-abling cache in the bios. Currently the board is on the table, with one stick of memory, the processor, and an old creative PCI graphics card with a seagate 20gb IDE hardrive, it still freezes. I have tried raisng and lowering voltage for the CPU and memory. I have even back tracked to the original bios, and tried every bios in between, setting and resetting every option in bios, with each, I have made dozens of attempts, and read hundreds of posts here, including Raid tutorials and installing XP  tutorials. It won't even install XP32. Any other suggestions before I RMA?

    Nice to hear it helped .
    Flashing between different bios generations sometimes needs a full flash with bootbloack/dmi/and reset during/after flash (not only awflxxx biosrom and enter ) 
    this because they are sometimes completly reworked .
    I always use the full commandline option also with the /f switch and it's never given me probles switching between very old and very new versions .
    Some don't like to reflash the bootblock though , but sometimes it should be , as it has changed trough some versions .
    Same goes for winflash , always markes bootblock/dmi/update all/and cmos reset .
    The nice thing about winflash is if the flash goes wrong it's just to kill it through taskmanager and try over until you get a successfull flash .
    As long as you don't shut down or restart your computer it's working even with the mainblock erased .
    Experienced this myself today , when trying 1.9b6mod for neo2 .
    Mainblock was erased and new programming stopped at 22% .
    So i downloaded from internet another winflash version (1.0.0.1) and was able to reprogram back to 1.8R2mod by tictac .
    For the 64bits I had the same problems while testing/running it with the beta version back in january (not tried XP64 with the newest retail version and newest nvidia xp64 drivers) .
    It installed fine on single drive but bsod'ed with raid-0 .
    Try making a new custom floppy with the latest nv-ide/nv-raid drivers on it , and
    recreate the array with "clear disk data" and the option to set as bootable .
    Have the sata ports set at "sata dma enabled" in bios .
    It's also different depending on which sata ports you are using .
    Sata port 1/2 is connected to the nv-chipset though the chip-link to the marvell extrenal PHY for the drives
    and port 3/4 use the internal integrated nvidia PHY .
    So you can have different results depending on if you create the array on port 1/2 or port 3/4 .

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