BIOS failure at startup K7N2G-ILSR

I have just put together a new machine with a K7N2G-ILSR motherboard, an Athlon 2500+ processor, and an IDE disc, not much more than that. At startup, I get the first MSI screen, but when the BIOS screen is then shown, it disappears after about half a second. Instead I get a new screen "Scanning IDE drives", which after about a second gives the message: "No drive attached to Fast Trak controller, The BIOS is not installed".
I cleared the CMOS, and then I actually got the BIOS screen (because it said CMOD CRC error), but the next time I restarted the machine I was back with the same problem as before.
It is possible to enter BIOS setup if I press delete at exactly the right time when the BIOS screen flicker, but I have not find any configuration that would help. Further, after I cleared the CMOS, now my processor is not recognized in detail, it just says AMD Athlon. Before I did that, it actually said Athlon 2500+, how do I make it identify it exectly?
I would really appreciate any advice.
Thanks!

Well, the manual does not say a word about the "fast trak controller" is, and it is not clear what kind of drives that are referred to in that error message. Is this only about Serial ATA drives, or what?
What I have now figured out is that the POST screen (where it is said that DEL will take you to bios) will never appear if the full start MSI screen is enabled, which it is by default. The manual does not say a single word about this, but it refers to the POST screen as the first screen, where one can invoke the bios setup.

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K7n2g-ilsr Promise bios doesn´t show

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k7n2g-ilsr Bios 1.2
AMD XP2400+ 2Ghz
2*256MB DDR400 Dual
Geforce 2 MMX 200 64MB (AGP)
1 HDD 80GB Seagate SATA
I turn on my computer and fasttrack menu doesn`t show
with another HD (on IDE1) and windows XP sp2
I've downlodaded the oficial Drivers: Promise PDC20376 Serial-ATA RAID Utility (37653.EXE)
add new hard->SCSI->WinXP Promise Raid Console SCSI Processor Device
Works right.
add new hard->SCSI->WinXP Promise FastTrak 376/378 (tm) Controller
Yellow (!) and : device can´t start (code 10)
(I chose WinXP directory installing drivers)
What am I doing wrong? Thx.
I've downlodaded other oficial Drivers too: Promise Serial-ATA RAID Drivers (sata48N.exe) and the same problem...
Hard drives are working right, they have been tested.

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I turn on my computer and fasttrack menu doesn`t show
do you mean you don't see the Ctrl + F prompt when you first power up?
try reconnecting the SATA cable, or connect it to the other port. try another SATA cable. try another power connector. try that drive in another system

K7N2G-ILSR BIOS 1.3 Problem

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have a K7N2G-ILSR and flashed lastest bios but no work for me...?
CPU: AMD Athlon 2700+
Video: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Memory: Corsair 512-XMS3200C2

mrbig,
Try removing the power cord from the power supply and the battery from the motherboard and leave them out a good 15 to 20 minutes before putting them back in.
Good Luck,
Richard

K7N2G-ILSR: BIOS Flashing

I am using Win XP PRO with NTFS file system. I plan on flashing my Bios on K7N2G-ILSR from 1.1 to 1.2.
Should I follow the regular procedure of make a DOS boot disk from winXP and flashing it from C drive
OR
use the method described for "Flashing the Bios using Non Fat File Sytem" (Using RAM Drive)?
I would really like to use the regular procedure, since it seems to be easy and I fully understand it.
Your input will be greatly appreciated.

just use live update ,it does it ntfs way for you
c way will not work

K7N2G-ILSR with 2800+ BIOS Settings

I have just changed my CPU from a 2400+ (266mhz) processor to a 2800+ (333mhz) and it won't run with stability unless I leave the CPU FSB Clock at 133mhz (for 266mhz) as it was set before (which means that is goes to 1666mhz CPU speed instead of 2083mhz - is 2083 correct for 2800+ ?).
Can anyone make suggestions for the best settings to make my PC work again. It crashes, blue screens and even the post boot screen is corrupt and flashes strange chars.
I have tried all sorts of combinations and nothing works as long as it is 166mhz FSB. I know that without a AGP Card, it will only run DDR333 but I was hoping my DDR400 would just downclock.
These are the settings I require
1. System Performance - Auto?, Manual?, High Performace?
2. CPU FSB Clock - 100?, 133?, 166?
3. CPU Interface - Normal?, High Performance?
4. FSB/DRAM Ratio - BY SPD?, AUTO, 1:2 etc
5. Memory Timings
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T-(RP)
XCAS Latency - 2? 2.5?
My relevant Spec is :
K7N2G-ILSR with AMD 2800+ Retail
2x512mb Winbond DDR400 (In Twinbank Mode)
450w PSU
IDE ATA133 IBM 80gb
Windows XP Pro
I know I should of left it alone....Cheers in advance ;(

How can I tell if its a real 2800+.
I paid for a 2800+ Retail Boxed AMD chip with fan etc in the box.
By stepping do you mean overclocked?
I have tried the manual settings but it always shows jumbled letters etc on post and windows is unstable or won't boot.
I am going out later today to buy Corsair XMS2700. Does it matter that they are not in a bundled matched pair? The only pair I can get from my supplier is a 1gb (2x512mb) and its very expensive (£200).

K7N2G-ILSR raid boot problem

Hi,
I have an msi K7N2G-ILSR mobo and am having boot problems on the raid system.
Everything worked fine (raid 0 set up sata) and would boot fine, the bios had to be set up to look for other boot devices in order for the system to boot with raid drives.
Problem occurred when I added an ide card to give me 2 more ide channels. Still fine if I only connect cd roms to new card but as soon as I connect a hard drive it appears the msi board stops looking for the raid drives as a boot device, because I get the message NIVIDIA Boot Agen PXE-2.0(build 082 v1.82)
Copyright......................(info)
Copyright......................(info)
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FFFFFFFFFF..-FFF..-FFFFFF... etc.
PXE-53: No boot filename received.
PXE-MOF: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent
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It seams there needs to be a bios update as when you scroll through boot options (first, second & third) in advanced setup there is no choice for raid. Therefore the only way to boot from raid is to choose “look for other boot devices” and that is OK until you add a second ide card with hard drive on.
I have version 1.6 bios (latest on msi`s site)
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Hi Raven,
For your info windows xp will support any number of ide channels (upto the number of spare pci slots you have).
I have another computer that has 2 extra ide cards in and has 2 dvd`s (on seprate channels) & 6 hard drives as well as raid hard drive set up. Windows is not confused and supports all devices and has done for the last few months ! This mobo has boot from raid in its bios so has no problems on boot up. The reason I need so many ide channels is simply I do video work and need loads of storage space so until I can buy 800gb hard drives for a reasnable price I am stuck with having to buy 200gb drives.
As I said it looks like either a bios update from msi or I`m going to have to buy a new mobo.
Regards.

K7n2g ilsr just wont reboot normaly

well i have a k7n2g ilsr bios 1.4
and a 1.7ghz amd xp+
pc 2700 333 mhz 256 ddr ram brand infineon HYB25D256800BT-6
maxtor sata 80 gig 8 mb buffer
aopen 350 watts power supply
still this is a very simpel machine
and it wont run on 1.7 as it must i know it runs on 1433 or something more but windows says its a 1600 +
it wont reboot right i have too shut of the power completly wait for more than a min than boot it up again
dont think am a newbi
i am building pc's for over 5 years now and never did i see this
i changed 3 times from cpu
no difference
changed from ram still same prob
funny thing is when its running its runs so stabel
and i would realy like this mb too run properly cause it will end up in my tuned car 8) :p

well i aint a newbe and all my settings are too normall specs...
i am using the igp card
still i think its the memmory
those bast@rds from the shop d@mn them
i asked a pc 3200 en they given me a pc 2700 grrr X(
strange think is when it has booted it runnens like a dream its even faster then the laptop of my friend and thats a 2.6 p4
intel sucks whoehahaha
am thinking of getting some other ddr ram
or maybe a new power supley
still i wished msi would write a new bios that correct this failure on this kind of ram if they do
i buy my self 3 other boards of the same type
cause it rules
WHEN IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
grrr
X(

K7n2g-ilsr IGP graphics interference

When using the IGP, I see moving diagonal lines on my desktop.
I don't think it's a memory compatibility issue since I don't experience any reboots, lock-ups, crashes, etc. I suspect it's the PSU but I need a second opinion on this.
I already experimented with the bios settings with no luck, even on default.
Here's my specs:
XP 1,700+
MSI K7n2g-ilsr
2 pcs. twinmos 512 ddr400 (twinmos chips)
Enermax 330 watts (+3.3v=30A, +5v=32A, +12v=12A, combined +3.3v and +5v= 160W)
I know that the 12v rail is too low, but like I said, I don't experience reboots and everything, just the annoying interference.
I haven't got this problem whenever I use a separate agp card (geforce2mx)

Your combined is low as well...should be more like 200W to get enuff power to this setup...
Cheers!! 8)

USB 2.0 problem (K7N2G-ILSR and HP PSC 2210)

I'm using a K7N2G-ILSR mainboard in combination with a HP PSC 2210 all-in-one printer. The printer sometimes stops printing and produces an error. The print can not be deleted and I have to reset the computer.
I'm using the latest HP drivers for the printer, Windows XP Pro with all Windows Update fixes and the latest upgrades for teh mainboard (Live-Update).
Is this a known error and is there a fix/workaround (can I set the USB in the BIOS to 1.1 only (instead of 1.1 and 2.0)??
According to HP it is related to the chipset and the USB driver. Until now I have not find a document explaining the problem for this mainboard and a proper solution.
Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks for your help!
Cees

Cables are cables still at this point in the game so it could be that you have a faulty cable but there are no special 2.0 cables to buy...
Never been a big fan of the All-in-one printer/scanner/copiers, I've had nothing but problems most of the time when my clients buy them...but they still buy them...if you think about it they really only came out just over a year and a half ago so that technology isn't quite mature yet...
I doubt that it has anything to do with your setup directly, it sounds like a driver issue and one that's clashing with another driver that's used for something else in your machine...no I don't know what cause I don't know what you are using in your system heheheh
I had a client that bought one of the newer photo printers, why I don't know cause he doesn't even own a digital camera, but he just had to have one, but anyway, it would error out everytime he tried to print to it...I reloaded his system and systematically added in one component at a time...writing down everything I did...when I put in his ATI All-In-Wonder card and loaded the software for the TV part lo and behold when I printed I got the error again...couldn't fix it for my life either with all the newest drivers from ATI and HP...went backwards in time for older drivers to no avail...the guy stiffed me on the bill for over $1000.00 and I've not heard from him again so I can't tell you if he fixed it or not at this point...
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SATA controller on K7N2G-ILSR "supports IDE"

I have a K7N2G-ILSR with the onboard Promise 20376 Serial ATA controller, which supposedly supports using the IDE3 port as a separate IDE channel to connect hard drives and CDRoms and whatnot. I have not been able to simply get the SATA controller to work with IDE. I have tried connecting a hard drive and optical drives. With the single hard drive, instead of simply booting like it should, it tells me that no array is defined and asks me to create one. Since I have data on the hard drive already and don't want to risk erasing it by "creating an array", I didn't push my luck. With optical drives, it is the same story, except that of course I can't create an array with an optical drive, even if I try (nor does the setup utility let me). I am also thinking about purchasing a SATA adaptor for the hard drive, but am afraid that it is going to ask me to create an array again (again, fear of losing data). So, how do I get the IDE3 port to work as advertised? And how would I get the SATA working in a non-RAID configuration?

They don't advertise that...
On-Board IDE
An IDE controller on the MCP2/MCP2-T chipset provides IDE
HDD/CDROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66
operation modes
Can connect up to four IDE devices
Serial ATA Interface (Optional)
Support 2 serial ATA plus 1 ATA133
- RAID O or 1 are supported
- RAID function works w/ATA133+SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
• Connect up to 2 Serial ATA devices and 1 ATA133 device
This is from the website, I don't see that they say you can use the SATA as regular IDE drives...they are part of the raid controller period...the misconception comes by thinking it's used like we use a regular IDE but you have to create an array as I said in order to use them...you can select one of the raid drives to use as a boot drive via the BIOS but you have to enable the drive in the raid setup before it's accessible thus creating a seemingly IDE device...I don't have any SATA drives here atm so wasn't able to test this part of the MB yet...and I've beat my board into submission now and have to RMA it from doing so much testing with it...if I do get another one I'll see about getting a SATA drive and see what it does when I load the drivers for the raid in a non-raid setup and post my results...I agree that they don't explain it well either but I've never thought the manuals were written the best for most boards out there since English isn't their first language...something gets lost in the interpretation unfortunately heheheh The raid doesn't support opticals at all so that's not an option here...
Hope that helps...
Cheers!! 8)

Board killed after changing FSB? K7N2G-ILSR

I have a K7N2G-LISR. After I changed the FSB which was at 100MHz by default, the D-Bracket showed that the CPU was damaged. I cleared the CMOS and than it showed damaged memory. I tryed the RAM and the CPU with another PC and both were OK.
Any suggestions?
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Try to set J10 back to safe mode (100mhz) after reset the BIOS then turn it on. If it boots set J10 to 133mhz.

K7N2G-ILSR: On-board video too unstable to use

Putting together a new computer for my son. Using K7N2G-ILSR and was really looking forward to the onboard video. Using Athlon XP 2100 (from my prior machine -- 100 percent solid CPU) and initially bought Corsair 2700 256MB with the new board. As an immediate downer, the board refused to work with the memory (nonstop beeping/D-LED stuff, etc.) at power up (tried all slots -- same result). Observation: this compares very unfavorably with my highly-favorable experience with Soyo boards, by the way. Swapped out that memory with Kingston 2700 256MB from my daughter's machine, which is running Soyo Dragon Lite.
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Next (BIG, BIG) problem: Onboard Video is WAY, WAY too unstable in Windows 2000 to be usable. At the outset, the video is showing random horizontal streaks (of trash) across the screen. The only time I've seen that before in my 15 years of PC use is in a Diamond video card a long time ago that was also defective. However, I can live with streaks. The problem is that the machine crashes every time, 100 percent of the time, within 15-90 seconds of booting into Windows 2000 (SP3). (Of course, used latest video driver from a web site, different settings, different refresh rates, and all the other usual stuff, etc., etc., etc.) By the way, I had the patience to try this with and without SP3, and tried a zillon different bios settings. Nothing worked -- same immediate crash problem. Also booted into safe mode and same deal -- but at least that confirms that the problem is probably underlying hardware-related problem, not software/driver problem. (If it can't run under generic Windows VGA driver, then it probably can't run under anything else.)
Only solution is to swap in an existing AGP card. That solves the problem 100 percent but I am not exactly happy camper since I paid for the on-board video (and for budget reasons the card that I am swapping in is not exactly cutting-edge.)
If anyone has a silver bullet fix for this, I would love to hear it. Otherwise, I will assume that the onboard AGP is defective and/or poorly designed, whereupon I would have been better off not spending the extra money for it. My best guess is that the memory and/or other video circuitry is defective.
Otherwise, happy with the underlying performance of the motherboard itself but the video fiasco is a BIG letdown. :O
Thanks.

SILVER BULLET FOUND!!! (and it was free) BIG, BIG, BIG cigar to Bikeman for his above post, which focused my attention on the BIOS. Had considered it at the outset, but figured there was no way I was going to need to flash a brand spanking new board. But when you read the BIOS update notes, one of its fixes is with Kingston memory which is currently in the board. Recall from above, however, that Kingston was a fallback as board complained bitterly about the Corsair memory that I bought with the board. (My daugher's Dragon Lite is quite happy with either memory.)
So here's the rundown. Actually couldn't see what bios ver. I had at POST as text went by way too fast. So install live update software which confirmed that I had older v. 1.2 bios. (Interestingly, the live update itself was old enough that it itself had to self-update before I could use). Flashed BIOS to 1.3 using the Windows version of update, which I will report worked real smooth.
Rebooted and proceeded to install fresh nVidia driver from nVidia website. However, I can tell you that the BIOS was definitely the problem because before I wouldn't have been able to easily get to the point of installing video driver without 5-10 crash/reboot cycles -- so the new-found stability made it very clear that the BIOS update was the "silver bullet" I was looking for.
Postscript impressions: (1) MSI boards are VERY finiky about memory (which is a problem that I have never had with Soyo boards), and (2) this is the 2nd MSI board I have bought and the 2nd one that has had severe bios issues. The first board was a low-end A socket board with AMI bios that arrived faulty/trashed -- half way thru POST, bios would start spitting out garbage ASCII characters.
Again thanks again to Bikeman for saving me from spending any more money (on psu or other memory) and for letting my son's system now run 8X AGP.

Fan speed varies 0 - 42 000 !! on K7N2G-ILSR

Hello people! :D
I have MSI K7N2G-ILSR board. I use the on board cpu fan connector for my cpu fan.
The problem is this: according to PC-Alert the fan speed varies very much: sometimes PC-Alert says the fan is spinning over 42 000 rpm/min REALLY! and sometimes it says 0 rpm/min (it is an enermax adjustable fan)!
I didn't have this problem say 2 months ago, but now I have it all the time. I have to switch off the PC-Alert to use the PC. I have tried other surveillance programs too and they give the same result!
I have the newest version of PC-Alert installed. Other details you can find in my signature below.
Best wishes to you all
Tatu Heiskanen

Hia again!
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Problems installing Windows XP on at K7N2G-ILSR

Hi,
I am having problems installing Windows XP on at K7N2G-ILSR.
Config.
K7N2G-ILSR
With 2 120 GB Western Digital WD1200JB drives
Liteon CDRW and Toshiba DVD
Memory ME-512MB-PC2700 DIM/DDR333/512MB/PC2700
Bios settings are all set to default. And at 4/2003 version
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Have you tried changing the APIC function in BIOS. Either disable it or set it to MPS 1.1 see if that helps.
Also make sure your FSB is 100MHz and make sure your jumpers on the mobo are correctly set up. There are a lot of installation issues relating to FSB and win XP.
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K7N2G-ILSR-HELP!!!!!!! Please, please, try to reply to it by the end o

:O i recently bought a computer with a MSI K7N2G-ILSR after reading all the reveiws on it. i am 15 years old, and my dad will k*** me ( ;( ), because i have already fried some chips with messing around. Now i have another problem. Everytime i turn on the computer, nothing appears on the screen, but the monitor is working as i've tested it on another pc. the D-LED'S hang on:
1:green
2:red
3:green
4:green
in the manual, it says:
'initializing Floppy Drive Computer'
any help????
also is there anyhting i could do to get some files off the pc, because the only fix will probably be a reformat of the hard drive and i've got to hand in some coursework by next week and its NOT backed up!!! ;( ;( ;(
i have cleared the CMOS, and jumpered it so it would run at 100 mhz but it would still not boot up.
my system specs are:
80 gig Maxtor hard drive
2x128meg ram
cd-rw drive
dvd drive
windows xp professional
microsoft office 2000 premium
p.s also i have noticed some pinging nosies

Im using a K7N2G-ILSR. this is the one with the onboard graphics so adding another graphics card is out of the question. The cd-rom and dvd drive lights flash, the hd light is continuously on. Nope i havnt flashed the bios recently, i havent even changed anything in the bios. the machine is 'booting' upto the 'initializing floppy drive controller'. after that it crashes. nothing is shown on the screen before and after that, not even the companys logo.
b4 this started to happen, i was copying some files from the dvd drive and windows crashed. So i restarted it. An then the problems. All i have got plugged into the motherboard is:
2 sticks of 128mg(unbranded i think) pc2700 ddr sdram (dual ddr)
80gb seagate hard drive @ 5400 rpm i think
A Mentor Modem card using the Intel chip.
DVD-DRIVE
CD-RW drive
i think the psu is 350 watts but im not sure
i noticed the pinging noises when i was writing the first message (After pc f***** up!), and it wasnt from the pc's speaker and it has stopped, i think i was imagining them.
It cant be the psu because it has worked fine until now, and ive been copying cd's from one drive to the other, which would take up alot of power and it was fine.
thnx 4 ur help

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