Disable onboard LAN on P67A-GD65-B3

Can anyone else confirm the following two symptoms? I've tried the last 3 BIOS releases as well as 2 identical motherboards and all of them are affected.
If you disable the onboard LAN, two things happen:
1. You can no longer boot from a Memtest86+ CD. It hard locks the PC during the Memtest86+ loading screen.
2. You get an error message that flashes up during the POST process that states: PXE-E01: PCI Vendor and Device IDs do not match!

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If you disable the onboard LAN, two things happen:
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2. You get an error message that flashes up during the POST process that states: PXE-E01: PCI Vendor and Device IDs do not match!
With the Lan Controller disabled, it seems to be related to how the 6 series chipset operates in some way. Until a newer BIOS revision, the Z68-GD80(B3) if either Lan is disabled, it lost PCI function. If #1 is disabled, PCI does not work, #2 also did not work. Now, with a BIOS revision, #1 enabled will work & PCI works. Disable #1 & enable #2, #2 Lan port works but PCI is again disabled. Conclusion, a BIOS revision seems to be able to address this, so recommend a ticket to MSI Tech Support concerning this right away. Currently, I don't have the P67 hooked up, but I can test it out later & see if it also has this behavior with the Lan disabled since it only has one port instead of the two on the GD80. http://support.msi.com/
Just realized I don't have a PCI device connected in the P67, all PCI-E.

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MSI Z68A-GD65 G3 Onboard LAN DOA

Hello, I think my onboard LAN is dead.
The LEDs on the connector are off. I installed the drivers but it says I don't have a cable plugged in.
Now I'm using a cheap PCI 10/100 LAN card and it's working fine. Any ideas??

Does 'Network Adapter' show up at all in Device Manager? If not, try removing the PSU power cord, removal of the battery for awhile, CMOS clear & reset. Double check in 'Settings' that feature is 'enabled'. If still not working, or the driver install attempt fails, would then recommend RMA of the mainboard.

P67a-GD65 System Freezes and Recovers During 3D gaming and Online Video

The Problem:
Temporary system freeze with audio stutter. The system recovers 30sec - 2min later.
Key presses made during freeze will execute after system recovers (ctrl+alt+delete for example)
Usually, but not always, I see an error message in the system tray and I do NOT experience bsod.
This happens seemingly at random from 3D accelerated applications, and web browsing. Games such as BF3 (moderate), WoW (seldom), Planetside 2 (frequently), Minecraft (seldom), Hawken (seldom), etc.
Also happens frequently in both Internet Explorer 9/10, Firefox, Chrome, and Steam store browser. Typically when watching steaming video (youtube, HULU, flow player, etc)
but Pandora audio streaming also seems to create the conditions where this happens.
Error Message:
"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernal Mode Driver 314.07 stopped
responding and has successfully recovered"
The problem also shows up in the Windows reliability history with the following data:
Source
Windows
Summary
Video hardware error
Date
‎3/‎6/‎2013 9:11 PM
Status
Not reported
Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name:   LiveKernelEvent
OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:   1033
Files that help describe the problem
WD-20130306-2010.dmp
sysdata.xml
WERInternalMetadata.xml
Extra information about the problem
BCCode:   117
BCP1:   FFFFFA8011E0C4E0
BCP2:   FFFFF8800654A198
BCP3:   0000000000000000
BCP4:   0000000000000000
OS Version:   6_1_7601
Service Pack:   1_0
Product:   768_1
My System Hardware:
CPU: Intel i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz
Motherboard: MSI p67a-gd65 (B3 stepping)
Memory: G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
GPU: Originally MSI 6950 2GB. Replaced with EVGA 670 FTW 2GB.
PSU: CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W
HDD: 3x Western Digital WD RE4 WD5003ABYX 500GB in Raid 0
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 with all updates
Case/Cooling: Silverstone Raven 2E with Thermalright silver arrow cpu heatsink
What I've tried:
Updated all motherboard drivers and bios (4.3) to current versions (no improvement)
Updated display drivers (in safe mode with driver sweeper. No improvement)
Updated Realtek Audio drivers for onboard sound (no improvement)
Updated Intel Rapid Storage drivers (no improvment)
Cleared CMOS and tested system at default settings with no overlock (no improvement)
Flashed 6950 back to 6950 stock bios and removed overclock (no improvement)
Replaced old 6950 with new GTX 670 (problem still occurs in the same exact way)
Tried GPU in 2nd PCIe slot. No improvement.
Checked GPU Temps. GTX 670 fan profile in EVGA Precision X set to keep temp below 70 degrees Celcius. Card maxes at 60 degrees under heavy gaming load.
Complete reformat of raid array with fresh install of Windows (4 different times) Seemed to help for a few days, then freezes came back
Ran OCCT and Prime 95 Torture tests separately for a few hours at stock and OC settings. System stable with core temps of high 50's overclocked, and low 40's stock.
Ran Memtest86 for 10 hours with zero errors.
Used digital multimeter to test 12v rail on PSU. Noted solid 12v reported. Didn't test other rails.
Unplugged PSU cables from motherboard and reattached firmly
Ran HD Tune and Data Life Guard Tools for error checking on hard disks. Zero errors found.
Disabled Windows Aero (no improvement)
Updated Adobe Flash Player to latest setting (no improvement)
Removed Adobe Flash Player (no improvement)
Turned off Adobe Flash hardware acceleration (no improvement)
*EDIT: Forgot that I also adjusted Nvidia driver profiles for apps that have frozen to include power preference to max performance
All of my hardware with the exception of the new 670 was purchased and configured back in February of 2011. This problem first occured in BF3 multiplayer sometime in early 2012,
and has gradually been happening more frequently. Web searches found many individuals with this error, but the solutions are all over the map, and I've tried just about everything that I've found.
I think I've narrowed the problem down to the motherboard, but I just can't find a clear answer or solution. Maybe it's the raid array? I really thought replacing the GPU would solve my trouble here
and I was...NOT happy when it happened again with the new 670 that I scored for $250 after amazon gift cards. I typically get kicked/disconnected during online game play when this happens and I'm ready to be done with it. I was hoping to fix the issue without needing to buy new hardware, but I don't see any other way at this point.
My patience runs thin. Please help!

Quote from: Froggy Gremlin on 11-March-13, 15:28:36
Might want to ask for the special archive to return the mainboard to pre-Ivy support UEFI/BIOS and then test again with everything set to auto/stock/default.
Already tested that before updating to 4.3. I started having the problem on 1.8, then 1.J0, then 4.3.
Quote from: Bernhard on 11-March-13, 15:30:29
Just a shot in the dark.
The length of time that your CPU has been running at the OC could have accelerated the eventual degradation.
Have you tested your CPU in another board or do you have access to a "known good" CPU to test in your system ?
I do not have another 1155 lga board to test the cpu in unfortunately, hence the CPU stress testing. Based upon previous experiences with multiple overclocked systems that I've run at much more aggressive overclocks, I don't believe I'm seeing a processor failure, though I can't rule out the possibility.
Quote from: xmad on 11-March-13, 23:26:01
Quite a few components can cause this.
Do you have a friend that could lend you a psu to test? A weak of failing PSU can often be the cause of something like this?
No I don't have another PSU to test. I did use a digital multimeter to test the 12v rail, as well as the motherboard contacts for testing voltage to the cpu and system They were all right in line with what I'm seeing reported in the bios. I did not test these contacts while the system was under load however, so I may need to do it again.

MSI P67A-GD65 and other 1155's whine

Hello MSI and community.
Recently I decided to build a PC especally for minimun noise.
I waited a long time for the B3 boards so I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of returns. Sadly this didn't work out.
First of all I ordered the cheapest and first mobo(gigabyte ph67-ud-b3) that was relesed. Soon as I plugged it in and Windows 7 got to boot screen (from the DVD) it started giving off a high pitched whine.
After alot of research I RMA it and ordered a Asus P8H67-M LX. Loaded it up and thought woohoo no whine, then as soon as windows finishes installing the drivers (first time on windows) of goes the whine again.
I RMA that 1 too and bought the MSI P67A-GD65 advertized as "whistle free" as well as people on another forum saying they didn't hear anything from theirs. This one does the same but I can't keep sending back boards for RMA and want to keep this one so I'm here hoping to try and resolve the issue with MSI.
I have tested these boards with Casecom 500w, ozc gamextream 700w, antec true power 650w and coolermaster pro m 600w with them behind a door to eliminate any fan noise.
MSI GPUS: 8800GS, 8800GTX and 560TI as well as onboard from the h67 board.
I've tried many differant BIOS settings, nothing but disabling C-STATE (fully disabled) effected it. (I havn't manually played with volts)
On the other 2 boards I noticed it seemed to dim when I unplugged all USB devices and in their BIOS it was c3/c6 I had to disable, MSI board doesn't whine as loud as the other 2 but it's more constant but with a morse code type theme to it which seems to be coming from CPU socket whenever the PC is idle, it's equally noisy from either side of the board. It's very annoying and accually gives me a headache as maxium distance.
Alot of people have said their 1155 board don't make a sound but 3/3 for me have so I'm not sure what to think.
I'm currently running with c-state disabled but Turbobooster only seems to go to 25% and slower clock speed on my i5-2500k and I assume for power usage, all things I don't want.
Can you give any information at all? Might it be possible to correct with a BIOS update? I'm open to any suggestions and will keep checking back here.
Hope you will be able to work with me on this issue.
Thank you in advance, I've prefered to go with MSI all my computering life.
Paul

Quote from: HU16E on 22-March-11, 04:18:14
Used the same CPU cooler on all three? That would be my wild guess.
I test it fanless of course but no I have used mutiple heat sinks aswell.
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What's wrong with throttling down at idle or low usage? Who sits at a stop light with the engine at full throttle?
I'm not too sure what disabling C-state accually does but when running Orthos I saw speed was at 3.6ghz instead of the 3.3 while disabled.
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Contact MSI Tech Support by opening a ticket & ask them. This is a user to user forum, being as such, MSI will most likely never read your thread.
Thanks, I didn't realize that.

P67A-GD65-B3 Realtek Adapter Not Found Windows 7 64-bit

Specs:
Mobo:P67A-GD65-B3
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz
Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C
Boot Drive: Intel 510 SSD - 120GB
Data Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black WD6402AAEX 640GB 7200 RPM SATA
Video: XFX HD-587X-ZNFC Radeon HD 5870 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Professional
I've just finished installing the OS, and installed the driver DVD from MSI
Windows 7 is not recognizing that an network adapter is onboard
I reflashed the BIOS to current version 1.9 - no change
LAN is enabled in BIOS
When I try and install the Realtek drivers, I get the "Realtek Network Controller not found" error

Quote from: HU16E on 29-March-11, 06:31:07
I doubt seriously that dilburt was questioning your pc building prowess. Many suggestions are given generic as the build skills & knowledge of many posters is not known. Your other comments are non productive. Presume the I/O plate is not causing a problem, & has the port itself been closely examined for any damage?
No I wasn't questioning or accusing him of questioning my ability... merely that I know what I'm doing. Much of the advice has been responses suggesting things I already mentioned in my first post.
I will try the rear I/O panel and reset that as well.

Blank Screen and flashing cursor on new build-P67A GD65 (B3). Help needed.

As per the title, a computer was built for me with the following specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500k
Cpu Cooler: Arctic Freezer xtreme Rev 2.0,
Motherboard: MSI P67A – GD65 (B3)
PSU: Super-Flower Amazon 550W
RAM: 4GB G.Skill RipJaws-X, DDR3, 1600
HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 7200rpm
Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Xtreme - 1 GB GDDR5
Disc Drive: Samsung SH-223C DVD+RW
Case: Cooler Master 690 II LITE Midi-Tower
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
Everything went ok with the build and installation of the OS. Computer was booting ok. When I took the computer home that evening, powered it on and a blank screen with a flashing cursor on top left hand corner appeared. Tried several times but failed to boot up properly. Just to note that I can enter into the BIOS and it recognizes HDD, processor, Disk Drive and RAM. What I have done so far (of course with advice from computer experts as compared to me) are the following:
1. I removed all the parts except cpu and cooler then put them back. When I restarted a message appeared that win7 need to do a repair. It went thro the process and then it stated it can’t do repair. Did this twice. When I restarted the third time, a blank screen with the blinking cursor appeared again.
2. Cleared the BIOS using the button on the outside of the motherboard and also once using the jumpers inside the motherboard. After doing this, I pressed on the “”ON” button several times (with no power on to the computer) to dissipate any current that was left there.
3. Interchanged the RAM on different slots. Also tried using only 1 stick of Ram at a time.
4. Checked the HDD on another machine and it was ok. Formatted the HDD on the other machine, plugged onto new machine and tried to install OS again but no joy.
At this point, I’m now stuck after almost a month when the machine was built. Would it be the motherboard? RAM? etc. Just wondering if I should RMA the motherboard since it is just over a month when it was delivered.
A point to note, there is a message that comes up when it is booting stating no HDD is detected. I googled this but found out it was to do with a marvel adapter that needs to be disabled or something like that. However, it was mentioned that this wasn’t going to affect the performance of the pc as the BIOS can detect all the components.
I also noticed that when I switch on the pc, there is a small pause before it kicks on then there is a long beep followed by 2 small beeps. I presume this is normal.
Any help on this will be highly appreciated?

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I also noticed that when I switch on the pc, there is a small pause before it kicks on then there is a long beep followed by 2 small beeps. I presume this is normal.
Disable EuP 2013 & that should take care of the pause. The beeps are normal at startup. Only time I have observed a blank screen & blinking cursor is if the system wasn't getting enough juice to initialize, or their was insufficient power in an OC attempt. What kind of +12V amps does that PSU you have provide?

HELP! My 2011 MSI P67A-GD65 (B3) build suddenly refuses to boot

Hello, I am new to this forum because I hadn't had any troubles yet.
I built my system in July/August 2011. Here's what it has:
MSI P67A-GD65 (B3)
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge CPU
16GB Corsair Vengeance 240-pin DDR3 1600
650w Corsair Enthusiast PSU
MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/OC GeForce Graphics Card
1x 2TB Hitachi 7K3000 7200RPM SATA 6 GB/s (With Windows 7 64-bit installed)
2x 3TB Seagate 7200RPM SATA 6 GB/s (For storage)
I have used this computer for graphics and video editing...it has served me faithfully. Yesterday evening while editing a Word document, I got "do you want to save your changes before exiting?" and of course I said yes. Then to my surprise my computer proceeded to shut down and reboot. At first I thought maybe I missed a Windows Update message telling me it would reboot in xxx minutes so I was not alarmed. But then as I watched it reboot, it gave me the POST message that there was no disc drive recognized. I thought that was weird since I never noticed it before. But then after the BIOS screen with the MSI graphics thing I was faced with a blank screen except for a flashing cursor two inches from the top of the screen. When I realized that this wasn't going to leave, I got a bit worried so I did a reset through my tower's button and same thing happened...I unplugged everything and let it sit for a few minutes... restarted 10 minutes later....same thing. Did it again and then went into my BIOS to look around. It showed no HDD's connected and I had 3 hooked up. I was concerned my HDD went bad so I connected it to another pc and accessed it with no trouble as another storage...I was happy my files are all there. So then I reconnected to my original build and got the same POST message, but this time the drives were visible in BIOS....but still no boot.
I have another blank SATA HDD so I removed all my HDD's and connected it by itself along with my SATA DVD drive and I tried to do a clean Win7 install on it. But at the point in the install process where it asks WHERE you want to install Windows, no drives showed up. So that door was closed. I tried the same thing again after swapping SATA port locations, thinking 1 was defective, but I got the same treatment from all of them...nothing recognized during the install process, although the drives are showing up in BIOS....
I think I know why the POST message is saying 'no drives detected,' though...I read it is saying that based on the SATA ports being used...I have 8 SATA's on my MOBO...4 6gb/s; 4 3gb/s. 7-8 are 6gb/s and ONLY when I have a HDD plugged into one of them does it show on the POST screen...which I still think is weird, and seems to have just started happening last night with the rest of the problems...but I could live with that since I could disable the message in BIOS I think.
But I have tried to clear the CMOS...all three ways...jumper, button, battery. I reset BIOS thru BIOS.... Nothing changes. BTW, in BIOS I ran a RAM memory check and it passed. Besides, I am not hearing any weird beeps...related to that....
I don't know why this would happen after working perfectly for 2 years... And why would it politely shut down in the beginning of the process anyways? I mean...I appreciated being asked to save my changes...but I don't know what else to do...PLEASE OFFER SUGGESTIONS...any help is appreciated.
Thank you in advance...I hope someone can help me! I am still covered by warranty...but I want to do this right.
Thanks!
Marie
EDIT: BTW, I have also tried unplugging everything from the pc except for the DVI and power plug in case that was interferring....

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On a slightly different topic...would it work (I have never done this!) to take my OS HDD and boot it on another PC? I am thinking this would not work because of system files and etc., but I have always wondered this and now would be the best time for me to know
It mostly works if the components used aren't too special. As you have no RAID setup it should work. However you will need to reactivate Windows once it made it. Of course you will also need all drivers for the new machine. Be aware that you might not be able to connect to the internet before you installed the proper driver for the ethernet adapter.

890GXM-G65 - Onboard LAN

I have this board for like one month now. I connect to broadband using the onboard LAN. I have noticed that the LAN dies frequently. I have to go the Network page, Disable the lan, enable it again and it starts working fine. Any ideas ?
OP system : Windows 7 x64
Driver provider : Realtek
Driver Date : 05-11-2009
Driver version : 7.9.1105.2009

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I connect to broadband using the onboard LAN.
Do you connect directly to a modem, or through a router?

Problem with onboard LAN

Hi,
I have the following problem: After playing around with overclocking and having to reset the CMOS a couple of times, my onboard LAN stops working even if I don't overclock anything. No ping, and the traffic LED is always on. And most interesting, when I shutdown my computer the traffic LED stays on. Is this a BIOS bug or what? Anyone experiencing the same problem?

Well as you know Overclocking Can sometimes Fry something, or Everything on the Board, This is why it is Dangerous....But Before we go there, I assume that you Have Tried Disabling and then Re-Enabling the LAN in the BIOS, And in the "Device-Manager"?......And do you have in the Device Manager (Under-Network Connections) the LAN Listed? And if Click on it, does it say "Device Enabled, and Working Properly"?....If yes, then You are going to have to try to Clear The NVRAM in the BIOS by Enabling this option, and this will Reset the PNP/PCI String, and Hopefully that will be it.....If not, Go into the Device-Manager, and Uninstall the Driver, then Reinstall it......Try that, and let us know, And if you already did all of these things, then You May have Bigger Issues................Sean REILLY875

K8NGM-V, Onboard-LAN problems

Hi, I'm having some serious problems with the onboard LAN card on my K8NGM-V board. I've been trying alot and I cant get it to work properly. I installed the latest drivers from nvidia (nForce 8.26) and the card is detected and installed as "nvidia nForce networking controller", after a reboot it is assigned an IP from my DHCP router, so far so good. But when I try to access the internet (or my router which I'm directly connected to) it's not working as it should. I'm only getting like 25% successrate when I'm pinging an hompage or a LAN device. It's going REALLY slow to connect to webpages, most of the time the connection times out.
Right now I'm using a PCI network card, which works great. So the problem have to be with the onboard lan.
If anyone have the slightest clue to what could be wrong, please post!

Some nVidea lans seem to have some problems. I'm not sure wether the follwoing will be a solution for your adapter, but trying won't hurt you.
Goto Device manager and look for the adapter. Select Properties -> Advanced and look for Offload Checksum. Set it to Disabled, restart and try your connection. If it doesn't do anything, simply set it to what it was.
Edit: also, check for adware/spyware/virusses and check your firewall settings. Do you have a sperate modem? If so, what happens when you skip the router and connect directly to the modem?

Disable onboard Video

I have a onboard GeForce 6150SE, nForce 430, I want to change to GeForce 8400, My computer won't detect the new card, I changed bios to 16X and still won't find it, how do I disable onboard card and what do I need to change for the new one to load?- Do I need to change legacy boot?

I finally fixed it. After flashing back to the newest bios, I did a hard CMOS clear and booted with just the mouse and keyboard plugged in to the top USB plugs (no LAN or audio hooked up) and it allowed me to disable it finally.
Every motherboard can disable onboard video... Just because it is part of the 790GX chipset doesn't mean it can't be disabled. There is some sort of bug I don't even know how to reproduce for this motherboard.
edit: after saving and restarting it took away the disabled option and only went back to UMA or UMA+Sideport. MSI engineers and/or bios team fails hard. This is the only board I've ever seen act this stupid.

Can I make a hardware raid with the on board Marvell SE9128 chip on p67a-gd65?

Hi,
as you all know the RAID 0/1/10/5/JBOD with the p67 chipset are pure software raids or "fake" raids. I saw some sata-raid pcie 2.0 x1 cards on the sell which have the Marvell SE9128 chip. So my question is: Can I make a hardware raid with the onboard Marvell SE9128 chip on the p67a-gd65?
Thanks
--pepe

Quote from: Stu on 06-November-11, 02:31:26
Hardware RAID explained:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/conf/ctrlHardware-c.html
What do you want to say with this? I know what's the difference between a software (fake) and hardware raid? Your post doesn't answer the question. The p67-chipset has integrated software raid. The marvell se9128 is also found on some hardware raid cards. That's why I'm still wondering if it is for a hardware raid on this board or not.

Freezing/Hanging - Mobo Issue (P67A-GD65)?

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Chassis - COOLER MASTER Elite 430 RC-430-KWN1 Black Steel / Plastic Computer Case
Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
CPU - Intel Core i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.4GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52400
Mobo - MSI P67A-GD65 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
PSU - RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-630SS 630W ATX12V V2.2/ EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Modular LED Power Supply
RAM - Patriot Gamer 2 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model PGD38G1333ELK
GPU - EVGA 02G-P3-1386-KR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
CD Drive - Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM
---------------After reading CPU temps--------------
Upgraded CPU Fan - XIGMATEK LOKI SD963 92mm HYPRO Bearing CPU Cooler bracket included I7 i5 775 1155 AMD and dual fan push pull compatible
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Alrighty everyone, so this might end up being a fairly lengthy article, but I want to make sure I give you all of the information so you can correctly assess.
Earlier in the year, I decided that I needed a desktop for college. I had seen people do it before and I was fairly adept at computers, so I put the computer together with the above components from newegg.
Originally, I put the desktop together in about five hours and hooked it up. Worked great, except on startup it gave (and still gives) me an error of saying "No Hard Disk Detected", however the opposite could not be truer as it found my hard drive when I loaded the OS; Windows 7. I then tested it that night with Starcraft II and it worked great; no minor bugs, nothing. The following day, I pull all of my games/programs on it including skype. Here is where things started to get weird. On Borderlands, everything went great and without a hitch, however when I started Civilization V, after playing for about an hour, it froze. And this freeze froze everything; the keyboard, the monitor, the mouse, etc. A buzzing sound came from the speakers and a hard restart was necessary. This freeze also happened again during the Multiplayer for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Starcraft II (after about an hour), League of Legends and even Skype, while using my webcam. Also, in the Windows reliability program and windows events, no freeze is registered.
So I thought "oh, this is obviously overheating or a voltage problem" (the cpu temps were getting between 85-90 C's). So I fixed the RAM's voltage so it fit exactly what it needed (it required 1.65 volts, but the auto detect only gave it 1.5, so it was around .15 off). While waiting for the fan and thermal paste to come, I reinstalled Windows 7, reinstalled the drivers for all of my components and checked event viewer (which I ended up needlessly fixing an event 3011 and 3012 for corrupt performance readers).
My fan and paste came in yesterday and applied both, making my cpu super-cooled leveling off at a max of 50 C's at full load and 25-30 C's idling. The hottest component is now the GPU which usually hits 65-70 C's under full load.
At this point, I figured "great, I have been freeze-free for 2 days, let's retest", so I played two games of league of legends last night (around 1.5 hours) on skype and it froze. Again. Once I restarted my desktop to let everyone know what happened (and loaded skype and rejoined the conversation) I only got in two words before it froze again.
In summary, basically under stress, especially under games/programs requiring the internet, the computer has a full freeze, requiring a hard reset. I tried to fix the voltages (RAM) as well as cool the computer, which seemed to work only for a short while. Further once the computer freezes, whenever I turn it back on, it is more prone to freezing unless I leave it off overnight.
I'm not even necessarily looking for an answer, just an idea of where to start. Thanks again, I would really appreciate some help on this one.
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Update: I used Prime95 to test it as well as Intel Burn Test. No freeze during IBT, and for Prime95 it usually gets hit on the In-Place Large FFT or Blend Test. Hasn't frozen on Small FFT. I also just updated the the mobo's BIOS again to the latest one. Also, with the update, if I put the RAM's voltage at 1.65 (or anything above Auto), it won't boot the OS.
Any ideas welcome.

Quote from: bspeir on 08-August-11, 04:15:04
Right, saw this in my email inbox and thought I would respond, being the OP and all. I asked MSI what the problem was (giving all issues I had) - the response I received was
"We have to suggest you contact your reseller (The place you bought this MB from) and have them test the MB completely for you to check if this MB is faulty or not, then ask for some help.
If the reseller for some reason cannot help, we have to ask you to contact MSI distributor or MSI office near your place to seek further help" about 2-3 weeks ago (took them a month to get back).
The only problem with this, is I am a college student and half about five days left to get back to school and I NEED this desktop for school. So giving back the computer, allowing them to run tests, then waiting to return it seems like an entirely long and not necessary considering the desktop WORKS, but only on 4GB of RAM as opposed to 8GB.
However, I AM willing to check the c-state, but I will need some information first to make sure my desktop won't explode if I do this wrong.
1) What does the C-State do?
2) How do I disable it?
3) Is this really an option I should check into?
Thanks again, this community has honestly been more helpful than MSI's actual customer support.
It won't help you with your problem but I've tested C-state for a while and you can read what it will do in the link HU16E provided. I've noticed that in Idle state the usage of power drops a couple of watts, so when you have your PC in idle a lot of time and you care about power saving it's worth trying. When overclocking it can be unstable however. I have a CPU that handles all cores set to 46 with all energy settings on and auto Vcore completely stable, when going to 47 I have to compensate. The first thing I have to do is disable C-State because it will BSOD when in idle for a while. So I will suggest that if you use stock settings and care about power saving you try it and otherwise disable it.

P67A-GD65 major issues

I'm having some major problems with my P67A-GD65. I received this board from an RMA about 2 weeks ago (previous board had the no and/or corrupt ME issue), installed it and have had zero issues until two days ago. I was playing a game when the game crashed. I didn't think anything of it and started up again but the crashes continued from that point on (game has been installed and played without issue for 2 weeks, since new RMA). I did a restart and upon reboot several windows services and other apps all crashed. I checked event viewer and noticed all the crashes are listed under the same event ID (event ID 1000, Exception code: 0xc0000005). At this point I scheduled at disk check (using windows 7, enabled both fix file system errors and scan for bad clusters), I let the scan run it's full course (took several hours) and there were zero errors. I decided to reintall my OS and see if I had any better luck, thinking perhaps the game crash caused some freak, one of kind, system error.
As soon as the OS was running again, I was immediately greeted with more of the same errors. This time searchindexer.exe crashed over 100 times, until I got a BSOD (bad_pool_caller stop 0x000000C2). I rebooted and there were no errors, again checking the event viewer, I saw the same event ID 1000 with same exception code (also, this The Windows Search service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 138 times, bear in mind this occurred in a 10 minute time period). I tried to install some of my drivers, only to have my sound drivers refuse to install with a CRC error and my video drivers install, then immediately had the catalyst service crash upon reboot. I was afraid perhaps it was my SATA port going bad so I moved my HDD from SATA 8 to SATA 1 (avoiding all the Intel ports) but this didn't help the issue at all. Is it possible I got a bad RMA board from MSI? Any ideas on things I can check out? It's odd it was working fine for the first two weeks.
I mention the problems beginning with the game crash because something odd happened after the crash. I was playing a game within Steam. Right after the crash, steam no longer worked. As soon as I tried to start steam again, it would crash and quit immediately. I had to do a complete reinstall of Steam to get it working again. I do have UAC disabled so is it possible by some freak occurrence the game crash could have damaged my OS install? Again, I did a complete reinstall since then though and had no improvements.

I just wanted to add a few of the errors from event viewer:
Session "Circular Kernel Context Logger" stopped due to the following error: 0xC0000188 (event id 3)
{Registry Hive Recovered} Registry hive (file): '\??\C:\Windows\System32\config\COMPONENTS' was corrupted and it has been recovered. Some data might have been lost. (event id 5)
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume2. (event id 55)
Windows (3204) Windows: Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error -501. (event id 454)
Windows (3204) Windows: Corruption was detected during soft recovery in logfile C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\MSS.log. The failing checksum record is located at position END. Data not matching the log-file fill pattern first appeared in sector 1417 (0x00000589). This logfile has been damaged and is unusable. (event id 465)
Faulting application name: iexplore.exe, version: 8.0.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc69e
Faulting module name: mshtml.dll, version: 8.0.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bda8a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0019ed82
Faulting process id: 0xdb0 (event id 1000)

P67A-GD65 Does not even start

Plugged all the components.
When pressing the power button on the board, this is what happens :
1) Power button lights up
2) Reset button flash once
3) 1-6 Led just above CPU flash once,
MSI P67A-GD65 B3 Intel P67 Motherboard - ATX, Socket H2 (LGA1155), Intel P67 Express, DDR3 2133MHz (O.C.), SATA 6.0 Gb/s, Gigabit LAN, CrossFire/SLI Ready, USB 3.0
Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Vengeance 4GB DDR3 RAM - PC12800, 1600MHz, 1x4096MB, Non-ECC, Unbuffered
Crucial CT128M4SSD2 m4 2.5" Solid State Drive - 128GB, SATA 6Gb/s
Cooler Master HAF 922M ATX Black Mid-Tower Case - 5 External 5.25" Drive Bays, 5 Internal 3.5" Drive Bays, 2 200mm Fans, 1 120mm Fan
Intel Core i7-2600K BX80623I72600K Unlocked Processor - Quad Core, 8MB L3 Cache, 3.40 GHz, Socket H2 (LGA1155), Retail
Ultra X4 500-Watt Modular Power Supply - 135mm Fan, ATX, Lifetime Warranty w/ Registration, 80+ Bronze, ATI CrossFire Certification, Vibration Dampener Included
EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 Video Card - 1280MB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, Dual DVI, Mini HDMI, SLI, DirectX 11
And nothing happens, the computer doesn't start.
I triple checked, and everything looks fine?
Any idea what can be the cause?
Regards

At first glance I see your PSU's maximum amps are 32A on the 12V rail.
Inspecting the power requirements for a typical system with your GPU indicates about 35A. see here https://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/power-requirements-for-graphics-cards
As a first test can you install a less power hungry GPU ?

Disable onboard LAN on P67A-GD65-B3

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