Boot problems - K8N Neo2 Platinum

I just got an MSI K8N Neo2 Plat. edition to replace my busted Asus A8V, and already I ran into some intriguing problems:
-It POSTs alright, but when it attempts to load the xp bootscreen, it justs reboots
-When I put the xp install cd in and rebooted, it won't read and go to xp setup.
I tried swapping the memories around and used different SATA connectors but nothing works.....help?

I tried for days to get a WD Caviar 160 to work as a boot drive with the same board and had the same problems as you.  I eventually RMA'd the Caviar and replaced it with a Maxtor 200gb DiamondMax 10 and Windows installed just fine.
Some others have also reported the same problems with smaller capacity SATA drives (80-160), but no problems at all with 200gb drives.  Your problem may or may not be the same but if you can try another SATA drive that might save you some considerable headaches.

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  • Problem on boot MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum

    I am an italian lover of MSI motherboards.
    After I bought a MSI KT3 Ultra Aru, then MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR and now I have a K8N Neo2 Platinum.
    My hardware are:
    MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
    Athlon 64 3200 Winchester
    Corsair XMS 1024 TWINX 3200 PLL
    Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 80 Gb
    Asus Radeon 9600XT.
    The problem is that at the power on the bios don't start. The LED on D-Bracket are three green and one red. On the manual this error are written:
    Inizializing Video Interface
    This will start detecting CPU clock, checking type of video onboard. Then, detect and initialize the video adapter.
    This problem is frequent for my motherboard. However not always.
    I attend your answer for this problem.
    Thank you for all and for my english school.

    Hi Italiano,
    Welcome to the forum.
    Have you details of your power supply. please show Maximum 3.3v,5v & 12v.
    These are usually on the side of the power unit.
    try:-
    1) Enter bios Cell Menu - HT change from 5 ---> 4 using +/- keys. Save & exit.
    If it still doesn't boot try:-
    2) Re-inserting your Asus Radeon 9600XT. Sometimes they don't go in correctly.
    3) See if you can boot with just 1 memory module in slot 1.
    Luck

  • K8N-Neo2 Platinum pauses for 25 sec at boot, nvatabus.sys the problem?

    All,
    After POSTing normally and starting to load Windows XP, my system halts at the Windows XP splash screen for about 25 seconds. Nothing happens, no disk activity or anything, the system just sits there.
    I used Microsoft's Bootvis utility to see what was happening. It turns out that the nvatabus.sys driver consumes 100% CPU at boot for 25 seconds then the system continues to boot normally. Does anyone else see anything like this?
    I am running the latest nForce drivers from MSI. The driver in question:
    NVIDIA nForce3 Serial ATA Controller 2.6
    Driver Date 6/3/2004
    c:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\nvatabus.sys 5.10.2600.0446
    Windows XP SP1
    I have a RAID1 of two 160 GB SATA drives. The mirror is healthy and working fine.
    After booting the system is rock-solid stable, no problems there. It's just this unexplained pause at boot. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

    ok check it out guy's this thing drove me insane all night last night and most of today. I was ready to return everything and give up. But alas all is not lost. Here is the rundown on what i just did.
    My Equipment:
    Athlon 64 3800+(w/ stock fan)
    MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Socket 939
    2X512 Corsair TWINX1024-3200XLPRO ( with the cool led's )
    2 SATA HD (1 Maxtor Diamond10 300 GB w/ 16mb cache, 1 Segate 160GB w/8mb cache)
    PP&C 425 ATX Deluxe
    Radeon 9700 Pro ( cat 4.8 )
    Audigy2 ZS
    Sony Floppy
    Sony 8x52x52x32 DVD Rewrite
    I have been reading and reading just like all you guy's. On a few websites i would pick up bits and pieces on what to try. Heres what i did. Upon Boot up i entered the bios. I then went to Cell Soft and adjusted my timings for my memory. I was at 2.5 not 2.75. I then set my speed down to 166. Exited and restarted. Big mistake everything ri=uns terrible slow and my expensive DDR 400 memory was showing up correctly at 333. Rebooted again entered the bios. reset my speed to 400. Then set the Overclock feature to manual. Set my timings at 2,2,5,2 200 and 2.75 volts. After saving settings and exiting I then turned off the computer. As per some other suggestions I moved my Audigy2 to the bottom most pci slot the one above the orange slot. I moved my memory to slots 2 and 4. I moved my SATA to slots 3 and 4. I rebooted went into the bios again and setup all my voltages. CPU was Auto, AGP was max yellow setting. Memory still at 2.75. I disabled the onboard serial and parrallel ports. Rebooted
    Fearing the worst,
    5 seconds, 10 seconds, windows screen loging prompt. There was nothing wrong at all. It rebooted effortlessly. It re found my Audigy card and wanted driver but that was it. I am going to reboot a few more times and then run sisandra to test. I hope some of this will help you. I post in a few after some of those reboots.

  • K8N Neo2 Platinum ed. XP Boot freese problem !!!

     After the bios post screen, when the xp logo disappered, it's freese 2-3 minutes. XP starts normally and full functionally after the freese. I have no stability problem.
     I have install XPSP2 ( SP2 embedded XP cd. Created autostremer) Install all latest drivers and bios update (1.B0)
     I've use only one hdd, no raid array. I've try the bios settings optimized. Guided like this documents FAQ
    Specially thanks for your interest
    K8N Neo2 Platinum ed nforce3 ultra
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    sata1 Samsung HD080HJ SATA 80Gb
    ide1 LG-DVD writter
    MSI Geforce FX5200 AGP
    2*256 Kingston DDR
    No FDD
    A4Tech keyboard and mouse PS2
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    Check eventviewer for drivers/sw thats fails to load .
    Other than that most boot delay problems are related to bad IDE (master/slave) configuration or cables .

  • K8N Neo2 Platinum - satisfied except cold boot

    My new build is doing well except for the near-famous cold-boot problem. When the box has been off for a while, I hit the power button, fans & drives spin up, the optical blinks a couple times, but no video or POST. The LEDs look like 4 green, but 2 seem dimmer, as if they're just reflecting the light from the other 2. A 5-second hiit on the power button shuts it down, hit it again and it fires right up, but stops during post with the message that it's in safe mode and to reset my (nonexistent) OCs. From this point I can F1, boot up, and run for hours. No probs unless it's off for a while. I have seen the problem since early in the build, when I powered up outside the case with just 1 stick of RAM and the LEDs (no vid or drives).
    Searching the board shows a lot of people having the problem, but nobody seems to have a solution, so I went to the support site to check the knowledge-base and FAQs. Interesting to find there that A64 boards do not appear to exist. No FAQ, no option to spec socket 939 or 754 to search the KB.
    Maybe if we get a number of us with the problem to post specs & observations in one thread we can spot a pattern?
    I have noted that I can't just do an on-off-on. It has to spend 20-30 seconds in the lockup mode before cycling the power results in a successful boot.
    BTW all, some really nice things are happening with RAM prices lately. I got my 2 gigs for US$190 delivered.
    K8N Neo2 Platinum
    Athlon64 3500 (130 nm)
    2G (4 x 512) SuperTalent PC3200 RAM
    2 120G Maxtor SATA (1 & 2) in raid0
    1 160G Seagate SATA (3)
    1 Sony DRU 720A 16X dual-layer DVD +/- R/RW (primary master)
    PNY Verto nVidia 6800 vid
    Mad Dog 600W PSU (30A on +12)

    Quote from: elliott on 13-April-05, 09:23:05
    I'll give the bios a shot, but the idea of using the HT to slow the box down and then speeding it back up again in Winders...
    Putting HT to 4 does not slow down the box... Especially if ur FSB is over 200 (if ur overclocking) like in my case: FSB=260mhz, I must put down the HT to 4 in order to run everything perfect. HT standard is 200x5=1000, in my case its 260x4=1040... as long as HT is between 800-1200... I believe there is no real time performance loss as long as u have STABILITY. I have seen a lotta people in this forum fixing stability problems just by reducing the HT when they overclocking... some cases even to HT=3.

  • MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum cant upgrade to BIOS 1.4, Windows wont boot.

    Hello
    I have a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and I cant upgrade to BIOS 1.4.  I have tried everything and cannot get Windows XP to boot with BIOS 1.4.
    I have reset the BIOS, set defaults, cleared the battery etc but when I load BIOS 1.4 (from a 98SE an ME boot dish and even from the Live Update?
    The only solution is to rebuild Windows after loading BIOS 1.4???
    Help

    Hi !
    Well, I have that problem, too. I think the reason is a new RAID-BIOS-Version built in the BIOS-Update. I´ve tried the beta-versions V1.51 and V1.5X, too - but they won´t run anyway.
    My WinXp hangs while booting (before the WINDOWS-XP-Logo appears, or while fading in...). I cannot reinstall Windows completely because, when I install the 2 raid-drivers, the installation routine hangs before the licensetext - when I don´t install the drivers i cannont install on the raid-drive (beacuase the installation routine shows 2 hdds).
    I think, a new driver will solve this problem, but I don´t know where to find it....
    A.

  • K8n neo2 platinum problems

     
    ok guys I've been looking all over the internet and cannot find any answers to my problem.
    I have an MSI K8N neo2 platinum running easybios
    AMD Opteron 146
    2gb Ballistixs pc4000
    30gb maxtor
    120gb maxtor
    2x dvd rw drives
    nvidia 6800 agp
    sound blaster live 24bit
    I run windows x64 and after flashing my bios form 1.6 (I think) to 1b I kept getting errors e.g. "ROM cannot invoke" (or something), and primarily "disk read error", now the disks show up in the bios, they show up in a windows install but it just won't boot from them. I have flashed to easybios and the rom error went away but the disk read one was still there. I am now reinstaling windows x64 but would like to know how to fix such a problem if it were to happen again. Both my drives are IDE and are on the IDE0 cable with master and slave correctly set.
    Also the temperature readings for my processor are 42 degrees celcius when everything is at stock and I have a zalman 9500 heatsink fan on it running at full speed. This is obviously wrong - is there any way to fix this?
    Thanks
    Daven

    I has the exact issue with my board, except it was with the SATA drives. I flashed with e few BIOS', and the newest one that worked correctly was 1.8
    If it was me, I would reflash to BIOS 1.8
    Post back with your results.
    Also, even though you are installing Windows again, it will most likely corrupt your installation, as it did mine, twice, before I figured out the problem.

  • News - BIG PROBLEM - MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum - DOES NOT POWER!!!

    Hi to everyone.
    I'm a proudly owner of a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum that in one year gave me no problem until yesterday morning.
    I used the computer in the night before and when I finished I turned it off and I went to bed.
    Yesterday morning I found the power led blinking (like if the system was in standby), and there was no way to turn the PC on.
    I even took off the battery for more than 12 hours and I left only minimal components installed:
    the video card (Gainward GeForce 6800),
    the psu (Antec TruePower 550W),
    1 x 512 MB Ram Crucial Ballistix,
    and I checked them into another computer and they work perfectly.
    I tried shorting the MB power switch pins with a screwdriver and I've even tried to power on the system without the Memory or the Video Card... I've tried everything that came across my mind with no efforts!!!!
    Every time I give power to the MB appens only that the power led starts blinking, but pressing the button the PC doesn't turn on.
    PLEASE HELP ME... I really don't know what else to do!!!
    Thanks,
    Alberto

    Quote from: alberto_melita on 20-August-05, 20:14:56
    Hi thanks for the answers.
    I do have a D-Bracket, but my problem is not that the system does not boot or does not post... my system DOES NOT POWER ON (!!!!), so d-bracket is useless!
    When I plug the system power    the only thing that happens is that the power led starts blinking (with the system still in soft-off), and if I press the power switch button nothing happens! 
    I've the bios for 7025 v1.8 and the settings where for OFF on power-loss ond pressing the button (can't rememeber if it was more than 4 sec) was meant to turn off the computer, but considering that I un-powered the pc more than once without the MB battery the settings should be factory default by now.
    I went through the Windows-XP shut-down system, and i could not be an electrical problem as I always used the PC with a pretty good UPS unit.
    Right now these are the full specs of my sytem:
    - MB MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce3 Ultra
    - GAINWARD 6800 2600 GLH 256 MB Ram
    - PSU Antec TruPower 550 W
    - CPU AMD64 3500+ core Winchester @11*210 Mhz (this cpu has never overclocked very well)
    - HEATSINK Thermalright XP-90 with a 12 Cm Enermax Fan (CPU temp in always below 55 °C when stressed)
    - 1 x 512 Mb RAM Crucial Ballistix DDR400 optimized for  MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
    I left only these things inside my computer in the hope that it would turn on... it did not work. I tested each component but the MB, and they work perfectly.
    Again...
    Thanks for you efforts, any help will be appreciated.
    Alberto.
    All parts have been tested: CPU/RAM/GFX/PSU/HD/DVD,  just not the MOBO ?
    Checked if the MOBO is shorting in the case ?
    Have you tried using the reset switch as power, on/off switch ?  I've seen before when the power switch stops working (lose/bad wire busted spring) after swapping  reset to power, then the system turned on. Worth a try, as sending it back to USA won't be cheap. If its over 1 year old it mite not be covered by the re-seller and or MSI. Best to check this out as law and warranty is different from country to country.
    Good Luck

  • MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum RAM problem

    My spec:
    AMD64 3000+ Venice
    1gb RAM Elixir
    1 x Maxtor 120gb IDE
    1 x Maxtor 200gb SATA
    1 x Maxtor 200gb IDE
    ATI Radeon x800 pro 256mb
    I have a K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard, the problem is that when I try to add in another 512mb stick the system won't even boot up. I have tried other brands and amounts but still to no avail.
    I boot the system up and the monitor won't even switch on, but if I take out the 512 stick it works fine.
    Any ideas?

    Not quite.
    Use the color codes .
    If you have matched sticks in density (size) and timings (spd data) you can run dual channel.
    This means having one stick in memory channel 1 ( green ) and another in memory channel2 (purple )
    Theese are physically wired next to eachother on the motherboard , from cpu and upwards..
    You can not do that , with that mismatched modules the cpu can't initialize it's memory controller .
    So your only choice is to run two modules with single memory channel config .
    Use the colorcodes to make sure you use signgle memory channel config (since you have mismatched sticks and the A64 memory controller cant run those in dual mode)
    So your choice is to use either both green slots or both of the purple ones .
    Place the one module with the higest cas rating (slowest) in the green slot with the lowest slot number (marked on the board) .
    And the other stick on the green slot that remains .

  • New CPU, Msi K8n neo2 platinum - no boot!

    Greetings!
    I got the following components:
    *MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum -54g MB
    *4 x 512mb Geil Value Ram
    *Gainward 7800GS+ Bliss 512mb AGP
    *Samsung Spinpoint 500gb SATA HD
    *Corsair 620HX (620W) PSU
    *CPU AMD Opteron 180 Dual Core (upgrade from AMD 3000+ Winchester)
    I recently upgraded my PC with a new HD, more ram, new CU Fan/heatsink - on an AMD 3000+ (Winchester). PC wouldn't boot - I did however manage to fix it. I think it was because of the ram, one of the bricks had some dust on it. Since then, my pc has worked 100%...
    Today, however, I got a new PSU and CPU in the mail! A Corsair 620W PSU and an AMD OPTERON 180 Dual. I carefully cleaned the surface on the heatsink etc, and applied an appropriate amount of "Arctic Alumina" on the CPU/heatsink (as followed per instructions from Arctic). When I have connected everything, and fire my pc up - it just won't boot.. (The monitor won't light up).
    Since then, I have carefully checked all wires, unplugged/replugged etc.
    But it just won't boot!
    I do have the latest bios (1.0D), so it should support my CPU.
    I should mention some "weird" things, though. When I try to boot up, everything seems normal (All fans are running), but there are no lights on my case! And I can't turn off the PC while holding down the "power" button on my case. I can't reset either.. as soon as I turn the PC on (by turning on the PSU power switch), the PC starts running. Normally I would have to push the button on my case. ALSO: I have cleared CMOS, still a black screen. And I have tried 2 different monitors, so I know it aint that either.
    My old PSU was a Chieftec 360W one (and my case is a Chieftec also). The old PSU was connected to "SFAN2" on my MB,.. my new PSU isn't connected to any "SFAN" at all.. I doubt that has anything to do with the problem though?
    Any suggestions on what I might do ?
    Edit: D-bracket shows this (Yellow, red, red, yellow):
    BIOS Sign On
    - This will start showing information about logo, processor brand name, etc... - It stops here. No boot screen

    Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 14-November-07, 21:14:42
    remove power cord from the PSU(else will not work) and Clear CMOS Guide.
    leave one memory stick only in a 1st DIMM slot near to CPU socket and try to boot.
    Done & done.
    Still no boot screen :(

  • Cool and Quiet problem on K8N Neo2 Platinum v1.3 bios

    Hello
    I have a problem with the Cool and Quiet feature on the K8N Neo2 Platinum (v1.3 bios).
    As soon and I boot the Core Center v1.7.0.0 will instantly overclock my A64 3500+ CPU to 3000+ Mhz.  Of course this reboots my PC.
    I have Cool and Quiet enabled in the bios, Automatic overclocking disabled in the bios and the Core Center softwares overclocking is (well it was) disabled?  How can I install it or get it to stop overclocking the system.
    I want to run the Core Center to enable the Cool and Quiet fan controlling stuff.
    Thanks

    Strange that Corecenter would overclock your cpu to 3ghz. It's known to be unreliable software, but not that unreliable.
    Are you running a stock 3500+, or are you overclocking the HTT/FSB beyond 200?
    Previous posted was right about cool and quiet software. You don't need corecenter to run it. Just stay away from corecenter and even uninstall it
    Cool and quiet software (a device driver that you download from AMD, or that comes pre-installed with XP SP2) simply works as follows. It introduces the notion of several p-states (processor states) that it switches between based on its reading of cpu load. A p-state is a pairing of cpu voltage and cpu multiplier.  On my 3200+ newcastle, the p-states are:
    1.5V, 11x
    1.4V, 10x
    1.3V, 9x
    1.1V, 5x
    Your 3500+ might be similar. Anyway, just run cpu-z instead of corecenter to watch your cpu speed changing on the fly.
    As far as fan speeds go: the cool and quiet driver doesn't affect fan speeds.  That means to get the "quiet" part of "cool and quiet" you need either
    (a) a fan that has a temperature sensor and which automatically changes its speed based on that, or
    (b) just use the motherboard BIOS setting to do the same via bios software.
    (c) use speedfan to do the same via windows software.
    I myself prefer (b) but it depends on the bios accurately reporting temperature, which can vary wildly between bios releases (e.g. newcastles didn't start getting accurate temp reports until bios 1.4).

  • FSB Frequency Problems on K8N Neo2 Platinum

    I am using the K8N Neo2 Platinum with Newcastle 3500 and 2x512 Kingmax Hardcore ram, and I stumbled across a problem.
    Whenever I try to set the frequency above 225 Mhz, something freezes during boot-up.. I tryed setting the HT at 4x, CPU mul. at x9 and FSB at 250Mhz, but I cant boot, I get a message... something like Disk Read Error, press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart. My HDD is SATA Maxtor 120GB.  This is really driving me crazy, plz help.

    My K8N Neo2 never liked Kingmax hardcore RAM - they gave all sorts of instability, errors and boot up problems.
    They also gave errors in memtest86, even though they work fine with no errors in a P4 system later on.
    I had to replace them and after that things worked fine.
    You also may have to repair your windowsinstallation and try some other RAM.
    Does not hurt giving RAM some extra voltage as well.
    When your system is stable - you might want to update bios for best hardware support.
    Syar´s EasyBios 7025CU2.1C3 is a good version and it sets 2.75v at default which would be enough for most RAM to boot fine and run stable.
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=59711.0

  • MOVED: K8N Neo2 Platinum overclocking problem

    This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Modding Corner.
    K8N Neo2 Platinum overclocking problem

    Quote from: Sharp on 24-April-05, 06:04:48
    Hello,
    In the BIOS you must set the FSB:DRAM ratio to 1:1.
    Set the HTT (hypertransport Ratio to x4)
    Set the CPU ratio to x4 (just too see if it will work.)
    Set the FSB to 250Mhz
    Set the Vcore to 1.45v.
    Set the memory timings to SPD (or default values for DDR500)
    Set the memory voltage to 2.7v, 2.75v or 2.8v.
    Save and exit
    Then let it boot from the memtest bootdisk.
    Use memtest to see if it is ok, test for a long time, over 1 hour.
    http://www.memtest.org/download/1.55.1/memtest86+-1.55.1.floppy.zip
    Tight timings and high FSB is even better 
    I have the same problem I can go as high as fsb 219 without tweaking anything but the FSB. My system is about the same only my ram is ddr 400 so what should my mem volt and timg should be set to?

  • K8N Neo2 Platinum 54G BIOS problem

    I recently bought a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum-54G mainboard with W7025NMS v1.3  092204 revision of BIOS.
    AMD Athlon64 3000+ 939 is installed on the mainboard, with 2x512 GEIL PC3200 memory modules in dual channel configuration working on default frequency of 200MHz. CPU is recognized correctly as AMD Athlon64 3000+ on startup.
    Mainboard’s BIOS seems to be corrupted. In Cell Menu options, in the upper left part of the screen (printed blue) are processor and DDR working timings:
    Current CPU Clock 1810MHZ, Current DDR Clock 200MHz.
    Aggressive Timings and Dynamic Overclocking values are [Disabled] (processor working on its defaulf settings); Spread Spectrum is [Disabled] while all DRAM Configuration settings are set to [Auto].
    While entering HT frequency settings, (locked to [x5])  there are no other values to select – empty, and there is no way to leave it (ESC doesn’t help, the only thing possible to do is to reset the computer by pressing the Reset button on the chassis), but  the HT frequency settings were enabled when I loaded Fail-Safe settings, offering [1x], [1.5x], [2x], [2.5x], [3x], [4x], [5x].
    Adjust CPU Ratio settings offer only [StartUp], [x4]~[x9] values, but as I understood by reading the manual there should be [StartUp], [x4]~[x20].
    CPU Voltage, Memory Voltage and AGP Voltage are set to default.
    CPU-Z, as well as SiSoft Sandra 2004 and SiSoft Sandra 2005 and MSI CORE CELL show that processor works at a core speed ~1005MHz, showing multiplier locked on x5.0 and HTT locked at ~200MHz, while the voltage is ~1.05V!
    I downloaded the latest BIOS revision (v1.4), did the BIOS flash, but the problem remains!
    Anybody, help!

    Quote
    HT frequency
    is a known fault in bios & is easily sorted Bas HT Bios Error
    Quote
    CPU Ratio settings
    AMD64 CPOU's have a lock on CPU ratios which varies according to the specification of the chip. therefore the multiplier available in your bios stops at the max multiplier allowed by amd for your cpu.
    As an example i'm running a 3200 754 which has a maximum muliplier of 11 so that is the max i see in bios.
    this guide may help Bios Guide

  • Reboot problem with MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and 250 GB SATA HDD

    I'm having a "reboot" problem with my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum. After turning my system on it will run without any problems, until I reboot. After a reboot it will always hang after the initial windows-bootscreen. The HDD-light will remain on. If, instead of going into Windows XP SP2, I try to enter the BIOS after a reboot (DEL) the system will also hang (blank screen with blinking cursor).
    It started doing this after I installed the Maxtor 250 GB SATA disk. Before, I didn't have problems rebooting. If I disconnect the Maxtor drive I can reboot and enter BIOS and Windows each and every time. Reconnecting the Maxtor 250 GB SATA drive will return the reboot problem. I always have to use the power swith to get a working system again. It's not enough to do a hard reset (this has the same effect as rebooting).
    Here are the details of my system:
    MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (BIOS 1.B)
    Athlon 64 3200+ (Winchester, 2 Ghz, 512 KB cache, stepping DH-D0)
    2 x Kingston KVR400X64C25/512, 512 MB, DDR, PC3200 (2,5-3-3-8 T1)
    Asus Radeon AX800 Pro (256 MB)
    PSU Antec Sonata 380W
    HDD Maxtor 80Gb ATA (6Y080P0, Pri Master)
    HDD Seagate 250Gb SATA (ST3200822AS)
    HDD Maxtor 250Gb SATA (6V250F0 - jumpered in SATA150 mode, the mobo wouldn't work with the drive in SATA300-mode)
    Aopen COM5232/AAH Pro CD-Writer ATA (Sec Master)
    BenQ DW1640 DVD-Writer ATA (Sec Slave)
    P.S. The NVidia IDE-drivers are NOT installed. System is not overclocked.

    Thank you for all the replies. Upgrading to the latest Nvidia IDE-drivers did not fix my problem. Moving to other SATA-ports did not help either. Upgrading the mobo's BIOS is not really an option (I'm using one version before the most recent and there isn't anything in the fixlist of the latest BIOS).
    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:
    Quote
    Do not hijack another persons topic. If you have a similar problem, start your own thread anyway.
    Maybe in retrospect I should first have tried the solutions in other topics.

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