DIAMOND PLUS BIOS

When do you think we'll get one??

I do not think they have one, I have been sent BIOS upgrades V1.16 and V1.18 to try and fix problems I have and V1.16 did not do much of anything that I have noticed and V1.18, if you set "MCT Timing Mode" to "Manual" the computer will not boot, until you clear the BIOS.
I complained about the BIOS default voltage setting for my memory modules was outside of the manufactures spec and they answered if the default voltage out of specification for the memory I should not use the memory in the MS-7220. I know this an error, in the BIOS, because if you set the voltage manually, to any voltage setting within spec, the BIOS indicates it is a safe voltage to use with current installed memory. Nevertheless, answer was not that the BIOS correct, not correct or we know will correct the problem. Their answer was not to use the memory, if the BIOS setting were in error. Corsair lists the memory as one of preferred modules in the list of compatible memory for the MS-7220.
I beginning to think there is nobody home are MSI Tech Support, if you know what I mean.
Roger
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K8N Diamond Plus BIOS problems

Hi , just replaced my lanpartyUT sli-dr expert with K8N Diamond Plus mobo and having problems allready :D
Just finished overclocking and now running at (250 x 11 x 800mhz x 1.300v+0.2v x dram/fsb 1/1 x 2.80v)
Memory timings --> (3,7,14,3,2,8,2,2,1,3,200mhz(15.6us),1,16x,7x,7ns,5ns,0clk,DiCC:enabled,1T,8beats,reduce 00%... ...)
The problem is "BOOT" related... System is PRIME95 stable , but still when trying to "restart windows" or "reset" the system wont BOOT !!?
When i shutdown and then power up, the system boots perfectly !? What can cause this kind of behaviour :/
I have OC:d quite many systems , but this is new even to me

The windows core program shows htt link 1000mhz exact. Memory settings are all "manually" adjusted. Cpu vcore is 1.300 & extra voltage 0.2v=1.5v.
All ECC options are disabled.Hdd:s adjusted manually. Should i rise the (NB) voltage , or does that have anything to do with this !? Maybe not at 250fsb only :D Cool & quiet is disabled naturally :/ All fan controls disabled , connected directly to psu. No D.O.T,s or anything automatic overclocking enabled. The (L cache & data cache scrubs) are strange to me, so those are disabled.After flashed bios , enabled boot sector protection. All the mobo power connectors are in use (24pin+8pin+4pin) Could it be that the memory modules should be used on ports 3 & 4 (now on 1 & 2) ??
The mushkin redline xp4000 memory specs Fortron Epsilon 700W Psu specs
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K8N Diamond Plus- bios freeze & question about temp/voltage monitor

A weird issue I had right after I setup my mobo last night was that I could not access the "PC Health" portion of the bios. If I tried selecting it, it would just freeze. Is this a known issue? I'm hoping a bios update may solve this one. Does anyone know anything about this?

Well I was mostly just asking if this was a known issue, so I guess "no" is all the answer I need... Now, what would be my best solution? I am assuming bios update, is there anything else that I should consider?
But if it helps, as I said its a brand new build, so I'm running the default bios. 1.00. My other components are: Silverstone Zeus 560w, 2GB of G.Skill pc4000, Raptor 74gb, 7900gtx, Opteron 165.
Also, since my other thread was locked (I figured seperating two different topics would make it easier for people to respond to specific questions, I apologize,) here's my other question pasted:
"I just set up my new system with this motherboard (K8N Diamond Plus,) an Opteron 165, Scythe Mine heatsink, and a Silverstone Zeus 560w. Its these components that lead to my question-
I am getting temps of about 31C idle, 41C load. Nice temps yes, but I'm not sure how accurate those are. That means that it is idling at 86F in a room that was probably in the high 70's, maybe 80. Seems a little too good to be true, but then again, I am used to Intel's furnace-like temps
Its the voltage reading that has me a bit more concerned though. Corecenter is reading my +5v as 5.36v, and my +12v as 12.28v. The +3.3v is reading about spot-on at 3.33v. I'm hoping that someone else who has this motherboard can tell me this- are the readings in Corecenter for this motherboard generally accurate, and should I be concerned about this?"
Thanks for any help you can give. No sig yet because I just registered an hour ago, I'll work on it.

K8N Diamond Plus BIOS Bootmanager?

On my old DFI Nforce3 board I had a feature that was really handy. At boot I could hit escape and then choose the drive I want to boot from in a quick popup menu. Does the K8N Diamond Plus have a simmular feature? I find this to be very usefull becasue I dual boot x64 and x32 winxp and not having to deal with software bootmanagers was really nice. Honestly it was the only nice thing that DFI board had

Thank you

Re: DIAMOND PLUS Bios page has been down for a while now.

i really like my Msi dimond plus board, but one thing that really bothers me is that my kingstong hyperX pc3500 ram ran at 400 on my abit kna board and will only run at 333 on this board.. time for some new ram i guess. But maybe abit just makes a better bios.

Elaborate Rody, you never know!!

Wheres this K8N Diamond Plus bios V1.16?

I cant recall who said they had this bios here in the forums but I can only find bios 1.0 for this MB?

Quote from: RogerP on 23-February-06, 00:33:56
I have a copy and am using it, it does not do to many thing up front, but there are a few changes I BIOS parameters, but it still set the memory module default in correctly, at lest it does for my memory. Also, some random unexplained error messages no longer pop up during boot. In addition, my system is running solid.
Send me a personal message with your e-mail address and I will send you a copy. V1.16 comes with no grantee it will do any thing for you
Roger
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Thanks RogerP, I pm you.

MOVED: Updating Diamond Plus BIOS & Nonexistant PCI Modem

This topic has been moved to BIOS.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=97493.0

I see that few people have come and gone past this topic. Can anyone help or does anyone have any insight???
LPB

K8N Diamond Plus Bios problem solved ;-))

Thanx for the advices related to my previous topic. The system is 100% stable now , the problem was bios protection & cpu vcore related
I noticed that i had forgot to enable the bios protection after flashing and enabled it, now the system boots every time normally
The cpu vcore was messed up too.. i changed the 1.300v+0.2v to 1.400v+0.1v and it works now, the vcore is now 1.524v and i just primed another 24hours
Oh i almost forgot, i have to give extra credit to MSi from making this EXELLENT board i tought that my previous "lanpartyUT nf4 sli-dr expert" board was good, but this mobo has deffinetly shown DFi its place

No , the bios (boot) sector/virus protection is not so important.. Just noticed that my "FORTRON" epsilon 700w PSU was the main problem... You guys can imagine starting a 2X 7900gtx , x-fi fatality and 6hdd:s powered system with a psu that has only ("15A") 12v rails
When booting to OS , the monitor shuts down because theres not enough power to feed even the 7900gtx cards still the system boots, but
thats not a good sign... Just ordered the TAGAN 1,1KW PSU !!! its has 20A 12v rails..GOD DAMNED if thats not enough...

K8N Diamond Plus BIOS Beep

Is it normal for the BIOS to beep once when the system starts up? I thought when I built it, it never beeped but after I got it settled in my room it beeps upon starting it up with the BIOS screen still showing. Help! Thanks in advanced.

Quote from: SHAOMO on 29-June-06, 06:45:50
I unplugged all of my USB connections and it didn't beep when it started up. However, I have found a very peculiar quark. I have a Logitech G15 Keyboard and when I start up my computer with it plugged in, it will cause the BIOS to give me the initial one beep saying I have USBs connected, but then I receive what sounds like a long followed by 2 short. It's so weird. It only does it when my keyboard is plugged in. You guys ever hear of this? Is there a fix for this? Update BIOS maybe?
. . . . . just as Zuidema is stating about, ..... i too, have those kybrd's; i have fixed my system's from these beep's >>>>> i just unplugged the "speaker's" from both system's and now i have no more of those irritating beep's to deal with at boot up.............but this is only " my " way of a fix for my system's..... ............

KN8 Diamond Plus BIOS, here are my settings that seem stable, Ideas Anyone?

So, has anyone figured out exactly what the following settings could/would/should be? I know what they do, I just don't know why some of them should be soft settings or why some of them should ever change (NB-SB-CPU hypertransport for one)
But nonetheless, here's what I set, and it seems to be stable. When I got all these set, SLI seemed to settle down and start working consistently with the EVGA 7800GT CO N517 cards. Before these settings, most games crashed with SLI on, ran fine with it off....who knows
Cell Menu
Cool n Quiet - Disabled
CPU - 215
CPU Ratio - Auto (i.e.11)
CPU Voltage - 1.55 (actual 1.544)
Extra CPU Voltage - 0.1V
Memory
Clock - 1/1
Voltage - 2.95 (Geil Ultra X seems to need this :shocked_anim)
Mem settings 2-2-2-5, 1T (I'll spare you the rest)
PCIE Freq 100.00 (stock)
PCIE Volts - 1.50 (stock)
Hyper Transport
Hyper Transport C51D
K8-NB Freq Auto - Enabled
K8-NB Linkwidth - 16 16
NB-SB Freq - 1000
NB-SB Linkwidth - 16 16
NB Volts - 1.4
NF4-SLI
SB-NB freq - 1000
SB-SB Width - 16 16
DOT control function
All disabled
Spread Spectrum
CPU - Center Spread
PCIE - Enabled
SATA - Enabled
HT - Center Spread

Quote from: LatinPolarBear on 24-February-06, 16:27:45
I agree with Apple Renegade on the Spread Spectrum settings. I remember reading that Spread Spectrum can conflict with wireless devices when you've got an 802.11 rig.
Quote from: Apple renegade on 23-February-06, 22:28:21
Put all the "Spread spectrum" stuff on disabled. U don't need it. The option is there cus of possible interference with radio's and cell phones nearby.
Quote from: nanohead on 23-February-06, 22:05:59
CPU - 215
correct me if i'm wrong, but spread spectrum is disables itself if you increase the FSB. and, wireless devices work fine with the spread spectrum enabled (i got a 802.11g wi-fi card in the rig and i didn't have any problems with it)

K8n diamond plus bios 1.10, 1.20 problem

I recently updated my bioss to 1.10 and then 2 days later the 1.20 came out but both gave me the same problem, my pc does not switch off anymore, what happens is that I tell it to shut down, it switches off for 5 seconds then turns itself back on.
What cold it be? please help. ???

I also have had 3 isolated incidents where that has happened, I resolved it bye removeing the cmos battery for 1/2 hour! Btw did either of you guys notice that when you press the clear cmos battery button that it didnt clear the time/date? Maybe it's just my board! anything that easy usualy doesnt work as well as the manual method.
Brother Esau

DDR voltage for Diamond plus

Corsair says mem. voltage sholud be 2.75 volts but bios auto detects it at 2.6. Went to cell menu under select ddr voltage and hit enter but no sub menu comes up?? So how can i change the voltage???

Quote from: Wangmonkey on 19-March-06, 09:28:03
2.6 is the default Mem voltage. There is a OC Diamond bios with more headroom on Mem Voltage along with some additional things. Sorry dont have the link but you should be able to find it in the Diamond Forum.
he's talking about diamond plus. afaik diamond plus bios lets you set the memory voltage up to 3.4V. corsairs are know to have a problem with the mobo, since their spd settings are not read correctly. that's why you have to manually set the voltages to the ones recommended on the corsair site.

K8N Diamond Plus + Vista upgrade issues + Memory

When I go to install Vista Business , I receive an error before the install saying that my motherboard is Non-ACPI compliant. I went into the bios and and made sure that all ACPI settings were turned on. Also I installed 2 more gigs about a month ago and only see 3 gigs on post instead of the 4 that is installed. I tried to update my BIOS using the MSI utility but received a memory error saying it can detect the correct amount. I ran MEMtest and it passed .Here are my system specs:
K8n Diamond Plus - Bios ver 1.0
AMD Ath 64 x2 4800 toledo
4 gigs of Corsair XMS DDR433 3500LLPRO
2 x EVGA 7950 GT KO Superclocked 512mb
WD Raptor 74 ( OS)
WD SE16 320 gb (storage)
Plextor 18x
PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 SLI
XP SP2

Quote from: iampiglet on 02-February-07, 23:18:28
When I go to install Vista Business , I receive an error before the install saying that my motherboard is Non-ACPI compliant. I went into the bios and and made sure that all ACPI settings were turned on. Also I installed 2 more gigs about a month ago and only see 3 gigs on post instead of the 4 that is installed. I tried to update my BIOS using the MSI utility but received a memory error saying it can detect the correct amount. I ran MEMtest and it passed .Here are my system specs:
K8n Diamond Plus - Bios ver 1.0
AMD Ath 64 x2 4800 toledo
4 gigs of Corsair XMS DDR433 3500LLPRO
2 x EVGA 7950 GT KO Superclocked 512mb
WD Raptor 74 ( OS)
WD SE16 320 gb (storage)
Plextor 18x
PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 SLI
XP SP2
I have the same motherboard with 4GB Ram. I had to enable the memory hole in the memory configuration of the bios for it to see the full 4GB. However, Windows 32-bit will not show the full 4GB ram since 32-bit addressing limit is 4GB and all your peripherals have to be included like vid card memory, etc. So don't beat your head against your desk once you get your bios seeing the 4GB and Windows 32-bit doesn't. My Vista gives 2.8GB ram of my 4GB, some get more, but I know I have two video cards with 768MB ram also. I'm using 1.2 bios.
Incidently, I ordered an OEM Vista X64, it will be interesting to see if it sees all my memory since 64-bit can go up to enormous addressing ranges.
Good Luck

MSI K8N Diamond PLUS e AMD Opteron 185

Hi
I have a MSI K8N Diamond PLUS (bios v.1.2), from the website the AMD Opteron 180 2.4 GHz socket 939 is compatible with the board.
No compatibility info about the cpu AMD Opteron 185 2.6 GHz socket 939. These 2 cpu are very very similar (only different clock).
Do you know if it's really compatible with MSI K8N Diamond PLUS
Thanks in advance

It will work fine but isn't officially supported. Therefor post screen could show "unknown processor" but that's all.

Tips for my K8N Diamond Plus

so although i have been into hardware for awhile now i have never really been a big OC'er. it was never something i really wanted to do since i work my arse off to get my hardware. my buddy recently OC'ed his micro-ATX board with his AMD 3700+ from 2.2 to 2.9 on a stock heatsink and he is sitting stable. this got me thinking and wanting to try out a bit of OC'ing just to see what i am able to push my system until i upgrade from my current CPU to a new 4400+ dual core. so here is my system and im just looking for tips/a quick walkthrough of what i need to tweak to OC my box and keep it stable.
CPU: AMD 3500+ 939-socket, Newcastle core stock at 2.2ghz
MoBo: MSI K8N Diamond Plus with the 3.09 BIOS
RAM: 2x1gig sticks of PQI Turbo 400mhz/PC3200 timings of 3-4-4-7
PSU: Sunbeam 550watt SLI certified
Video Cards: 2x eVGA 7900gt's SLI'ed
that is basicly the big stuff, i have a X-FI soundcard and all SATA HDD's and stuff but that stuff doesnt really matter too much when it comes to OC'ing. anyways, im just looking for directions on what i should set my stuff to. if you could also through in a run down of how HT, the multiplier, my FSB, and the DRAM/FSB settings affect each other i would really appreciate it.
basicly all i would need is something like this for my settings:
multiplier:
vcore:
FSB:
DRAM/FSB:
mem timings:
HT settings:
and anything else i have left out.
again, i would really appreciate the help.

Quote from: Stick on 22-November-06, 19:13:44
geez guys, can't believe you haven't spoted the mistake yet.
first, the newcastle is socket 754, there is no newcastle core for socket 939.
k8n diamond plus doesn't have a 3.09 BIOS.
so iostream, please make sure that you get the details correctly.
tiresmoke, syar and bosskiller, slacking guys, slacking? (joke)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Core Newcastle s.939(http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=65000304) ----> CPU ID: http://www.techpowerup.com/cpudb/details.php?id=43
MSI K8N Diamond Plus BIOS 3.09 exist, can be found here:( 6 = MS-7220 bios 3.09) ---> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=101664.0

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