Board won't post with Ram in slot 2

My msi z77ia-e53 build responds like no ram is in the system (CPU Just cycles on and off every few seconds) if there is ram in the second slot, both ram sticks are good, I Found another someone else who had the same issue on an older topic but no answer to it

By the description, it sounds very possible that there are bent pin(s) in the CPU socket. Other causes can involve the CPU cooler installation, errant standoffs underneath the mainboard, or a faulty DIMM slot.

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MSI P67A-C43 B3 won't POST with Full RAM Installed

Hello all,
I recently purchased the MSI P67A-C43 B3 mainboard as a custom build
and have been having trouble with it. I have 16GB of ram for this board
(4x 4GB) and when I have 8GB installed (slots 1 and 3 filled), it POSTS fine.
When I fill ALL the slots for 16GB total, the board won't POST and just
power cycles ON and OFF and ON and OFF, etc...
I have replaced the memory and the PSU and am about to replace the
mainboard, but wanted to ask if anyone might have a suggestion for
troubleshooting before I do that.
Here's what I'm running on the system:
mainboard: MSI P67A-C43 B3
proc: Intel Core i7-2600K 3.4Ghz Unlocked
proc cooler: Corsair Hydro H80 CPU Liquid Cooler
ram: Corsair High Perform Vengeance 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz2x4 (4 of these)
HDD: OCZ TECHNOLOGY 120GB VERTEX PLUS SSD and Seagate 1TB LP Serial ATA HD 5900/32MB/SATA-3G
CD Drive: Sony Optiarc 24X DVDRW SATA
video: EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB 1024MB GDDR5 PCB PCIe
PSU: Thermaltake 750W Modular Power Supply. 80+ Bronze
case: Thermaltake Chaser MK-I Full Tower Gaming Case
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64Bit DVD
Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

OK, had some time to go test your suggestions here
These are the 1.5V Vengeance RAM Modules. Tried installing 2 of the RAM on slots 2 and 4 on their own. System Boots Fine.
Went into the BIOS and changed the voltage applied to the RAM modules from
AUTO to 1.575V. On AUTO it says is applying 1.5V to the 2x 4GB modules.
Installed the full 4x RAM on all slots... and the system just shuts down. Power cycling again.
What do you think here? Bad Motherboard? Can't think of anything else to try... totally stumped!
Thanks!

P67S-C43: Won't POST with two sticks of RAM

Hi, my new P67S-C43 has a peculiar problem: It won't POST with two sticks of RAM. I've tried both of my sticks (2 x 2GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600 CL9 1.5V) individually in Slot 1 and the system POSTs fine. When I insert the second stick in any other slot, the system proceeds to restart unsuccessully a couple of times and then it will not POST. Only one blue LED is illuminated. When the system is in this state I have to reset the CMOS in order to POST successfully with a single stick of RAM again, which made the problem difficult to diagnose and very annoying to troubleshoot (lose BIOS settings after every attempt with the clear).
Any idea of when we'll see a new BIOS? Are any betas available? I'd like to see if this is a BIOS problem before RMAing it.
Thanks.

Quote from: HU16E on 14-January-11, 16:52:36
Which BIOS do you now have? Current official is V1.5. It would possibly help to have a full listing of all the systems components. Work with the one RAM stick initially in the primary dimm slot, blue closest to CPU. Get the OS loaded, drivers, etc., then add the second stick in the other blue dimm slot later. I have a feeling the RAM is setting itself up wrong. Might try the manual settings of 1333 9 9 9 24 @ 1.50V's.
The BIOS was 1.5 out of the box but it's my understanding from another thread that there have been a slew of beta BIOSs released. I'm not going to load the OS until I get this straightened out. Also, both sticks would have the same settings with one stick or two installed. I fiddled with voltage, timings, etc but it still wouldn't work when I popped in the second stick. LIke I said, after every attempt with two sticks I have to clear CMOS or it won't work again with one stick. I'm hoping to try a newer BIOS before spending more hours on this, one setting at a time.
Also, I have a 2600K but the rest of the components are irrelevant. At one point I had everything but the CPU/fan, video card, and RAM unplugged and the mobo entirely out of the case. Still didn't work until there was only one stick.

Z68A-G43G3 Won't Post with Proc and RAM which work on my ASUS board

I bought two i7-2600K procs and a z68-G43 G3 board, along with an ASUS board because the store didn't have a second MSI board. The CPU and RAM (Kingston DDR3 - 1600) work fine on the ASUS board, as I built that one first. When I boot up the MSI board I don't get the normal bios screen, I get a message which says
EFI Shell version 2.10[4.640]
Current running mode 1.1.2
map: cannot find required map name.
Press ESC in _ seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue.
Shell>
Since I bought the board and left town for a project, I built the system after the 15 day return period offered by the store, so I am here since I cannot take it back. Is this a BIOS issue? I assume that since I cannot get past this point that I cannot flash the bios, but wanted to get some opinions here. I am in a bit of a time crunch and don't want to spend money on a new board if I don't have to.
Please help!

Quote from: SomeoneInAusTx on 07-May-12, 01:19:07
Problolem solved. I placed the RAM in the same slot order as instructed on the ASUS, but the MSI suggested order was different. I am putting on my dunce cap now.
Can you elaborate on what you mean? I am receiving this same issue and I am not sure what to do. I plan on swapping the 2 RAM DIMMS when I return from my business trip; however, I am skeptical that it will resolve the issue since the 2 DIMMS are identical. Specifically, the components are:
MSI FM2-A75MA-P33 FM2 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Team Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory (Blue Heat Spreader)
Thank you!

P67A-GD65B3 won't post with more than 2 RAM sticks/P

Issue is as stated. On this board the dimm slots are listed as 1,2,3,4 (as marked on motherboard). The computer will consistently power cycle (not even post) when RAM is in any dual channel configuration. I've tried 4 sticks of memory (2 separate orders of 2x4GB). All RAM sticks work in non-dual channel mode. I've modified the voltage to 1.65. I've verified the timings are correct at 8-8-8-24. I've inserted 1 stick at a time, let boot all the way to windows, and inserted the next stick. I tried the inserting 1 at a time numerous different ways. Anything else I may have missed? If not, I guess its RMA time.

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2 separate orders of 2x4GB
Check with G.Skill. I believe they only warranty & suggest one kit being installed. Differences in batches are noted as the excuse if memory serves me. UEFI/BIOS version 1.D was released by MSI to accomodate the non standard SPD profile programming, since a newer one, 1.E is installed, it rules a problem there out. It's also possible the RAM requires X.M.P. to be enabled to make them work correctly. Again, G.Skill is going to be the best source for advice on how to get their product to work.

(SOLVED) K8N SLI Platinum won't post with Saphire 5750

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a nice Xmas.
This is my first post on the forums. I’m from Portugal ,so I might write things that won’t make much sense to you but I´ll try to keep it simple.
I bought a Sapphire 5750 vapor-X for my kid's PC and I’m afraid I’m yet another one with the “black screen, no post” syndrome. I have tried the card on another system and it works fine.
What I did:
Remove old card (6800GT)
Put new card in
Reset CMOS
Switch PC on… no image on screen.
The fan on the graphics card starts spinning, the blue lights are ON, but no dice. My HDD LED stays on, my CD+DVD drives LEDs keep flashing but system won’t post, not even show MSI logo.
If I remove new card and get my old one back in the PC, it will post first time.
I have spent Xmas reading forums and haven’t found anything but a lot of ppl with the same problem and no real solution for it.
Hope you guys can help .

MSI forum:
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Yup,I think I have the same issue with you,man.But I have solved it as I flash the latest beta bios V192.Contact MSI Online OCSS to get the BIOS to solve your issue...
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=131546.0
1 thread hinting a board cant support Gen2 cards:
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Comments:
Nov 18, 2009- BTW, I do not even get to BIOS screen at all. All is black as if no card is plugged in.
Nov 19, 2009- After a few hours of search the result is:
Some ASRock boards do not support GEN2 video cards (such as Radeon HD 5770).
Only solution found: New motherboard.
http://www.fixya.com/support/t3235972-asrock_wolfdale1333_d667_radeon_5770
AMD forum
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If i remember right 1.0 is x8 and 1.1 is x16 and i far as i know it will never work as this issue go's back 2 years when the 8800GT hit the market and it would not work on PCI Express 1.0 but it would on 1.1
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=124445&enterthread=y
driver heaven:
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Warning about the HD5770 well at least on my computer the XFX HD5770 + a PCIe 1.0 slot = doesn't work. Again this was on my computer. I have another computer that it ran on fine using a PCIe 2.0 slot (Asrock 780g board), but my MSI K9A Platinum would not power that card. So you may need to replace your motherboard if it uses a PCIe 1.0 slot.
http://www.driverheaven.net/ati-graphic-cards/191317-5770-performance-increase.html#ixzz2jP3dOQ9e
allover ppl are having problems with 5xxx series on older systems.
i know some comments, solutions and explanations are closer to witchcraft than anything else but where there is smoke.....

P45 Platinum won't POST with full memory banks

I have 4 identical 2GB DDR2-800 modules. If I install 2 the system runs fine. If I install 4 the system will not POST, hangs with the memory code. I am replacing an old P35 Platinum that had exactly the same problem (though I was using 1GB modules with that instead of these 2GB modules). 2 modules fine. It doesn't matter which 2. 4 modules bad. Won't POST. Is there some setting that prevents you from using both banks unless you change it?

They are PNY Optima. I am running them at the default timings (I think the default is for BIOS to handle it itself with SPD). I probably wasn't clear before but both modules are installed in the same bank (both in orange or both in green). I just can't fill more than one bank and get it to POST. These modules all work fine independently. There is some board/BIOS issue that is not allowing me to use both banks. I had the same exact problem with my P35 Platinum with different modules. I could run one pair, but not two pair.

Help! Board won't POST anymore.

You guys are my last resort before I return this wretched board and get an Asus or Gigabyte. :(
Been having many of the probs listed here (cold boot probs, slave drive etc) and I've already done about 4 system restores to keep things stable.
The board was booting fine last night. Today I installed everything in a fancy new Lian Li case (P61) and it no longer POSTS! Just sits there with a blank screen making steady 'beeps'.
Thought it might have been the graphics card, but installed an other one with the same prob. None of the hardware has changed since last night, merely been housed in a new case, so I don't get why it'd stop POSTing.
Had a look at the DBracket lights and they seem to equate to the 'keyboard initialisation'. I tried it with another keyboard though, and without. Get the same lights everytime with a blank screen.
How can it suddenly have a problem with keyboard initialisation out of the blue? Did the board somehow get damaged when it got moved? The instruction for the case are the usual sucky sheet of paper that's hard to understand, but everything is plugged in correctly.
Oh and it doesn't even wait for the Power Switch to be pressed on the case, it starts up as soon as I switch it on from the PSU. Very annoying! Never did that before. Could it be the case?
Removing PCI cards, unplugging hard drives etc, none of it makes any difference
I'm back on my XP2600+ at the moment and unless I fix this, the MSI is gonna have to go back to the shop.
Anyone know how to fix?
Thanx.
System:
MSI K8N Neo Plantinum Socket 754
AMD64 3000+
2x512 Corsair DDR333
Nvidia Geforce4 4000 MMX AGP8x 128Mb
Tagan480 PSU
Seagate Barracuda 120gig (master, ide1)
Hitatchi 160gig (slave ide1)
Sata Seagate 200gig (sata1)
Pioneer DVD-RW (master ide2)
PCI Usb card

Hello there . . . First off try some of these things, a different PowerSupply, clear the BIOS w/ CMOS jumper. And remember like it even says in the manual, the NFORCE-based chipsets are easily knocked out by ESD or any static. Which is actually quite easy to do by accident when moving or changing out hardware.
Try this since you have two sticks of ram, take out both and switch them around, but make sure that a stick no matter which one, stays into DIMM-1.
And of course, whenever changing out hardware, always discharge yourself by touching the metal of your case, which is a GROUND, and will kill off the static you may carry. And again never do anything with power on. And when changing out hardware always remove the power cord from your power supply and wait about 5 - 10 secs. for the power supply to discharge the standby power it has contained.
Never work on the insides of a machine with loose clothing or jewelery, as again it's a static issue, and try not to work on a machine in your living room where you have cloth furniture or while standing on carpet.
I had a NFORCE2 Ultra board and then I upgraded to the newer AMD64 MSI K8N NFORCE3 and have never had a problem out of either board. It made me a little nervous when reading what MSI posted in the manual about NFORCE chipset and (ESD) and that a board sometimes will fail to post, specially when people change out memory sticks, while the standby power is on (meaning you've turned off the machine, but still some power in the supply, cause it's not totally off) and this isn't just with NFORCE though, most boards are sensitive to this, cause the CMOS is sometimes cached into whatever stick of ram is on DIMM-1 and if you remove it while the standby power is on, and you may get a static-discharge without you even knowing of seeing it, when and if this occurs, the board in some situations, will failt to POST because the static charge, how ever slight, may disrupt the BIOS Chip's information, wiping it clean or corrupting the little bit of data it has, again making the board fail to POST.
So I would advise precaution in the future. I would prob. just RMA the board or exchage it if you purchased from a local shop. And next time just be more careful.
And when installing everything into a new case, never hook everything up @ once, and then boot it up. Always one thing at a time. Install what you need to boot. 1st PowerSuppy, Board, CPU, Fan, RAM, VideoCard....then once you've seen it boot fine.....then turn completely off, again turn not just the machine off, but also your powersupply, and then connect up your HD, CDROM, etc. and boot again. NEVER RUSH, OR DO IT ALL AT ONCE. ALWAYS TAKE IT ONE THING AT A TIME.

P7N Diamond board won't post

I have a P7N Diamond board. About 3 weeks ago, I had more and more trouble with the computer. I thought it was a memory problem, because it failed Memtest. I initially had Mushkin memory and bought Crucial, specifically compatible with the board. It worked briefly but then failed to boot. I tried the Mushkin memory again and had some smoke, the memory got hot, and after that the board failed to post. Thinking it was a problem with the motherboard, I sent it in and received an RMA today.
I set up the new board with the Crucial memory that I had. I am fairly certain it is wired correctly, but the system fails to post, though it does turn on with all the fans. Where should I go from here? I have a Intel Core 2 Duo processor, E8400 processor, Zalman fan, compatible Crucial 2 x 2 memory.

Please provide links to the datasheets or manufacturer's product sites for your memory modules.
For futher testing:
Please use one memory stick only (!) and make sure it is not running faster the DDR2-800. The voltage should not exceed 1.95V for now and Spread Spectrum should be disabled.
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although it said on the memory that it was 2.0/2.1 volts.
Such standards do not exist. DDR2-1000 or DDR2-1066 at that voltage level is an overclocking/overvoltaged rating. Such settings are not necessarely stable.
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After that, the computer would recognize the speed on it as 800, although both the memory and the board say they support 1066.
DDR2-800 modules that need to be overclocked and overvolted to meet the promised ratings, are not real DDR2-1066 MHz modules (7-7-7-x @1.8V). With such sticks, stability problems are always lurking behind the corner.

K8N Neo4 Platinum - won't post with cards in pci slots

Hi
Just completed a new build - with 3800 + Dual processor - everything works fine but when I plug a PCI card in any PCI slot the computer then refuses to even post.
I've tried different cards and all of the pci slots but it makes no difference. Could it be a driver problem ? When I remove the card and try again the computer then starts up as normal.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Biamp

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everything works fine but when I plug a PCI card in any PCI slot the computer then refuses to even post.
I've tried different cards and all of the pci slots but it makes no difference.
1: PCI cards are bad, most likely your problem
2: PCI slots on MB are bad, highly doubt this
3: PCI cards drawing to much power, very doubtfull
4: ?

** MS-9126 mobo won't POST with ATI AIW 8500DV **

I just purchased the new MSI Master-L MS-9126 (E7205 chipset) & it's not working with my ATI AIW 8500DV... System won't boot up, no POST or beep code. I reset the CMOS, then it will boot once, but getting "CMOS checksum error"... and if I reboot the system, it won't boot up again, no POST.. I have to reset the CMOS again, and then checksum error, problem occurs in a loop....
I tried different CPU, RAM, unplug all other devices (HD, cdrom, floppy, soundcard,etc), same problem. But once I changed the video card, everything is fine…. Seems like compatibility issue with my ATI AIW. I contacted ATI support but no help. Any advise is appreciated, perhaps new beta BIOS???
MB Model Name:   MS-9126
MB BIOS Vendor:   Phoenix-Award v6.00PG
MB BIOS Version:   1.00
CPU P4 2.40BGHz
Memory      Infineon 512MB DDR266 x2

i have the ms-9216 master-L board 7205 chipset(same as gnb max) only a workstation board without some of the extra;s such as blue tooth, firewire,pci 2.2, but all else the same , check stats on both boards.. and also have ati 9700 pro, havent ran into any issues, man i love this board!!!.. 8x agp fast writes, win xp sp1, kingston pc2100 512 ,, and get this all this worked as soon as i booted and updated winxp and directx9 installed my latest catylist driver for 9700 pro, no lockups in any of my games,, Quake, counter strike, command and conquer-Generals.and bf1942.
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MSI P6N Sli Platinum won't Post with E8500

Ok, I've been pulling my hair out on this one off and on for a couple of weeks, and I figured I'd finally just post here and hope for some advice.
I recently bought a C2D E8500 CPU on newegg to replace the E6420 I currently have running in my system. The motherboard is a P6N SLI Platinum with the v1.7 Bios. The problem is that whenever I swap the E8500 in for the E6420 the computer powers on, fans start spinning, and then it just sits. No beeps, no lights, nothing. When I put the E6420 back in the whole thing boots up just fine. I've cleared the CMOS two different ways (removing the battery and hitting the CMOS reset button), and nothing seems to help. I have tested the CPU in another machine, and it works just fine. The MSI tech support has told me that the problem shouldn't be happening, and has suggested that I RMA the board to them. I'd rather not be without my computer for 3-4 weeks, so I figured I'd post here and see if anyone had any advice before I pull the whole system apart and send the MB in.
PSU is a 700W OCZ
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Ram is 4GB AData
Let me know if anyone sees any obvious problems.
Tim

I please have a look here:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=123486.msg932471#msg932471
Sending the board to MSI to be serviced is probably your only option to solve this.

MSI 890FXA-GD70 mobo won't post with two graphics cards (non-crossfire).

As title of topic says, I have a Sapphire 4870x2 graphics card in the PCIE 1 slot and in the #3 slot I have an ASUS geforce 9600gt passively cooled inserted. When powering on, no monitor signal. With either card in ANY of the slots alone, the motherboard will post as intended. I also cleared CMOS before using both and either together. This is somewhat frustrating as I would absolutely love to use the geforce 9600gt as a physx card in many of the games I play. Any advice on this one?

There are registry hacks available to make physx work with non-nvidia-primary graphics (ati) if you have an eligible graphics chip on-board. I fixed the issue now. Apparently, BIOS needed to know which graphics card was the primary - so by leaving the4870x2 connected first and connecting the 9600gt after (have a 120mm fan attached to the side of it with cable zip ties) things work as intended. So yeah, i'll get those registry hacks working and physx going on this rig. And please, if you're absolutely certain what you're saying say it. Otherwise, please do some research before telling me what I can and can't do.

H61M-E33 won't post with SATA controller installed

I'm having trouble with using a specific PCIe x1 SATA controller with my H61M-E33.
This board has three PCIe slots, and I'm trying to use three PCIe x1 SATA controller cards. Two cards are based upon the SiL 3132 chipset, and work perfectly. The JMicron JMB363 chipset card is the problem.
If I insert the JMB363 card into any slot, the board will refuse to even post. It sits there for a few seconds, then power cycles. It will do this over and over until you pull the switch off the power supply. It will do this if inserted into any slot on the board, and even if no other cards are installed.
This card works perfectly in another machine. It appears there is some kind of conflict between this card's chipset and the motherboard.
I'm running the latest beta firmware that's available (A41), but I had this same problem on the shipping firmware (A20). Is there anything I can do to try to figure out what is going on?

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The JMicron JMB363 chipset card is the problem.
Recommend to contact both MSI Tech Support with a ticket, & it may also be a good idea to contact the card manufacturer & see what they have to say as well. It is rather apparent it is a compatibility conflict of some kind since the other two cards work fine.

K9ND Speedster board won't work with opteron 2212

Hello,
Does anybody know if this board is compatible with opteron 2212? I am building a computer and when I plug both cpu's all I get is a black screen. If I plug in one cpu (it does not matter which one) the system boots.
Has anybody built a PC with this board using dual CPUs (Opteron 2212)? I checked the numbers and I have a matching pair. Am I missing something? I checked MSI's Qualified Vendor List and I don't see this particular CPU. They only show Opteron 2210, 2216, 2218, and 2220, does that mean that I can only used the CPU's on this list?
Please help!
Here is the link for the motherboard that I have. I have the workstation type, which does not have a built in VGA.
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=1131&maincat_no=133&cat2_no=208#

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 24-August-08, 03:33:06
How are placed your memory sticks?
Do you use 8pin CPU power cable rather than 4pin?
Hello, thanks for the fast replies.
My memory sticks are placed in DIMM one and two of CPU 0 and it's working with one CPU. If I plug in both CPUs with I memory stick on each (DIMM ONE) or 2 sticks (DIMM one and two) the system does not boot.
I also noticed that If i plug in the 4 stick (4gb) of RAM in CPU 0 the system does not boot either.
Quote from: Hans on 24-August-08, 06:47:28
Let's go simple with this one:
1. The bios is NOT the isue here. 1.3 simply works with the 2212.
2. You installed your stuff onto another K9ND Speedster and that booted. Was it a K9ND Speedster V1 or V2 that your friend has?
3. The board was RMA'd, right? Are you 100% sure that you didn't receive the same board back as you sent? Did you mark the old board in a way that you can actually tell that it was the one you RMA'd?
* Yes, I installed all the stuff to my friend's board and the same thing happened. He bought the board at the same place... :(
* Yes the board was RMA'd. I am sure that I got another one because the first board that I had before did not work with one CPU plugged in either and the new one does.
Quote from: Bas on 24-August-08, 22:22:54
You did connect all power-plugs properly did you?
Yes, I did. I plugged in the 24pin and the other next to it 8 pin.
Do you guys have any idea what could be wrong? Is it something that I have to change in the set up to tell the bios to accept 2 cpus or igb memory sticks? or is there something I have to change in the board on the board?
I really appreciate your help and effort. Thank you.

Board won't post with Ram in slot 2

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