DMI pool data clicks at K8N neo2

I have neo2 mainboard
I have updated the bios to 1.8 version (the former was 1.5)
now when I restart the computer a "verifying DMI pool data" message appears which is followed by several 'clicks'
what is it and how can I silence those clicks?

Hi! From where do these "clicks" come? I have the Neo2 and Bios V 1.8 and I get clicky' wid' it too... Mine seem to be coming from the drives, like an old school floppy seek sound, try disabling boot-up floppy seek and listen to the results...

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Bios issues with k8n neo2, turn of memory test, and dmi pool data

Hey guys.
I recently flashed my bios to the 1.9's for the K8n neo2 running in my main machine.
Everything went ok for the most part, though i had some issues with boot record, and boot.cfg file. That stuff is all worked out now.
However, with this bios, I constantly get the extended memory test, on my 2 gigs of ram. The old bios i had, 1.4's, didnt do that. Is there an option to turn that off? I cant seem to find it any where?
My 2nd question is this, after this bios upgrade, my verifying dmi pool data takes longer then it used to, if it even did it before, im not sure, because my boot sequence was much faster.
How can I get rid of the "verifying dmi pool data" or speed it up?
Thanks guys

Tried to used the Bios 1c by Syar's. His bios is nice and easy. Maybe bould solve your problem.BTW do used liveupdate to flashed your Bios or is it manual? Stay away from using liveupdate as it causing a lot problems. Manual is the best way. Refer to my sig for the manual flashing. Here's the location of the files for the Bios 1C. Gd luck.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=59711.0
P/S: Create your own rig with details including the PSU and Bios revision and put in your signatures so others can help you.

New Build hangs at VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA

I put it all together and try to load the XP OS, but it hangs at Verifying DMI Pool Data.......(NTLDR is missing)
Have rechecked the cables and connections a half dozen times. (All new cables)
Checked and rechecked the boot order.
Disconnected the floppy.
I tried swapping to another HDD with a SATA, but I don't see it recognized during post, and I still get error message.
I put in an XP ms-dos starup floppy and it says update success, but won't system file transfer and goes back to the original error message.
What's up here?
I little surfing lead me to this link http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html
which says a possible cure might be clearing the CMOS.
I supposed that's done by changing the jumpers right?
But, I have searched this website and can't find any Bios downloads for the K8N Neo2.
If I clear the CMOS I'll need to DL BIOS again right?
I am sure the original V1.A is outdated anyway.
Suggestions? I don't want to go rooting around and changing things and make this worse.
This is my 2nd build and the 1st wasn't easy either.
MSI K8N Neo2 (AMD 939 socket) Mobo
AMD 3000+ / 2 X 512mb Corsair VS DDR400 Ram
120GB IDE133 Maxtor HDD
Asus NVidida Geforce4 ti4800se 9480 8x AGP
Rosewill RS2 500w PS (24 pin adapted to 20 pin)

Quote from: at2wooden on 04-December-05, 05:34:49
thanks......got the startup screen back but,
I am right back where I started.....Hangs at Verifying DMI Pool Data / missing NTLDR.
I did not install a new hard Drive, but a good pull from my old system.
Drive contanins data, but I should be able to format during OS install right?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
MSI K8N Neo2 (AMD 939 socket) Mobo <New>
AMD 3000+ / 2 X 512mb Corsair VS DDR400 Ram <New / New>
120GB IDE133 Maxtor HDD <known Good>
Asus NVidida Geforce4 ti4800se 9480 8x AGP <Used>
Rosewill RS2 500w PS (24 pin adapted to 20 pin) <New>.
yes just BOOT from CD and reinstall XP... better reformat partition which contains XP. if you have important things on this partition not only OS move it to secondary partition or to other HDD.

Solaris 8 x86 Hangs on reboot with Verfying DMI Pool Data

I've just installed solaris 8 on intel. I previously run 2.7 on same system no problem.
After installing 8 and rebooting the machine hangs after displaying
Verifying DMI Pool Data .........
It appears to of verified, but then does nothing else. I have checked all components are compatible (supported), tried differing rebuilds, upgrading from 2.7 However every time I get the same problem.
Any ideas?
alan (every).

Green,
I need you to think really hard here with me...what was the last program, piece of hardware you loaded into the machine? I've seen this problem so many times and it will drive you wild...you're having a driver or software issue during bootup and it's hanging the system..
What I would do is see if I can get into safe mode by hitting F8 as the system starts up...if it will boot into safe mode then go uninstall whatever the program is that you installed last or uninstall the drivers of whatever hardware you installed last...
Then try rebooting again normally...
I'll warn you now that I've only been successful in doing this when I've rebooted the system twice prior to trying this fix...if you rebooted more than twice it will corrupt your MBR and you'll have to FDISK and start all over again...
Insert your boot disk Win98SE preferred...select Boot from floppy with no CDROM or Network...
Type FDISK at the A prompt...go in and delete the non dos partition...DON'T CREATE ANOTHER PARTITION OR FORMAT THE DRIVE...
If it's a Western Digital Drive go to their website and get their Drive Utility tool and run it on the drive...
If it's a Maxtor go get Powermax from their site and run it on the drive...
Do same for any other mfg drive i.e. Seagate, IBM or whatever...
THEN if it passes the tests with no errors use the drive to reload your OS again...THIS TIME load your drivers one at a time, same with your software...Do a system restore point prior to each load...this way you can easily undo whatever fails if anything...
Hope that helps!
Cheers!! 8)

WAT DOES "VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA" MEANS?

i bought a sempron 2800+ and my msi motherboard is k8m800-ce from newegg and i set everything up i hope. when i boot up it was sloww and then after awhile it boots up faster. i used an old hdd from my old comp (ata-133) wd 80gb. i tryed to format but it wont let me do the commands. maybe i need a new hdd? i restarted the computer and see wat happens, it keeps on sayin "VERiFYIN DMI POOL DATA" what does this mean? rite now im goin to buy a maxtor 100 gb sata/150 and see if that will work. im installin win98 se then winxp. anyone knows wats teh prob? or if anyone else bought the same cpu or mobo have had these prob?
i have a 512 corsair memory pc3200, and one burner.

Clear CMOS Guide - read that for how to clear the CMOS, and refer to your manual for location of the CMOS jumper (JBAT1)
did you do (or attempt) a fresh install of Windows?
best to just do a clean install of XP, rather than install 98 and then upgrade

975x stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool Data"

Hey-- I just replaced my stock intel heatsink with a new Noctua NH-U12F. It requires a backplate, so it takes unbuilding and rebuilding your computer to put on.
Somewhere in the rebuilding process, something went wrong. My boot process gets stuck on the "Verifying DMI Pool Data....." stage. It has never done this before. I pushed the BIOS Reset button and it didn't fix it, i'm running BIOS 7.0 (stock)
I'm looking at it right now it's been there for a good 2 minutes
MSI 975x Plat PUE
intel E6600 : Noctua NH-U12F
ATi 512MB X1900XTX
Corsair DDR2 667 2GB
WD Raptor
WD Caviar
NEC dvdr/w
Ultra 600W x-finity
I don't have a case speaker so there's no beeps :-/
Thanks in advanced, you guys always help me out tons

yeah that's what i meant by bios reset button
i poked around online--could be a million things
so i tried them one at a time, it was my HDD boot priority out of order.
sorry i panicked on you guys
hope you're having a nice night/day as it may be around you (it's 3:45 in the morn here :()

Can't get past "Verifying DMI Pool Data"

Hello forum folks, I'm hoping you can advise me on my problem. Here's my setup:
MSI VIA K8T800 K8T Master2-FAR
Dual AMD Opteron 240's (not overclocked)
ENERMAX 550W Power Supply Model "EG651P-VE(FMA)"
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800XT Video Card, 256MB DDR
Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Platinum Series, Low Latency (Twin Pack) 184 Pin
1GB(512MBx2) ECC Registered DDR PC-3200
Asus Black 16X DVD-ROM Drive, Model DVD-E616P1 Black
VANTEC Nexus Fan Controller Panel Model "NXP-205-BK"
with 5 Coolmax Chameleon LED cooling Fan, Model "CM-825-CL" connected
Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD360GD
SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model MPF920
When I first turned the computer on, my floppy wasn't being recognized, but the computer did get past the DMI verification. However, since my floppy wasn't working, I couldn't get Windows XP to install since I didn't have the SATA drivers. So, I fiddled with the floppy cable until it worked. Once I got the floppy working, the computer would start hanging on the DMI verification. So I unplugged the floppy but it still wouldn't go. I scanned the forum for ideas and tried clearing the CMOS and setting the BIOS settings to both the optimized defaults and the fail-safe defaults. I haven't yet had the time to unplug each device individually, nor have I unplugged every device. I'm wondering if anyone has any other advice. I'm hoping I won't have to RMA the board, but I will as a last resort.
Thanks for any help.
Edit: Forgot the PSU, heh.

UPDATE:
Okay, I've tried unplugging individual devices and it seems when the Raptor SATA drive is unplugged, it will get past the DMI verification, but when I plug the drive back in, it says, "Updating ESCD ... Success" and then hangs after the DMI verification line. I've tried switching from legacy power to SATA power, reversing the SATA cable, plugging the SATA cable into SATA1 and SATA2 on the MoBo and none of that has worked. Do I have a bad HD or am I still missing something?

PROBLEM : BUILDING DMI POOL -WITH- K8N NEO4 PLATINIUM, Ultra nForce 7125

Hello
Problem with motherboard K8N NEO4 Platinum!!!
Description - BUILDING DMI POOL
Configuration:
MOTHERBOARD K8N NEO4 PLATINIUM, Ultra nForce 7125
AMD Athlon 64, 3700, Socket 939
Video: ASUS Carries to an extreme N6200TC, 256 RAM
2 JIG RAM Kingston PC3200 CL3 184-PIN DIMM KIT(2 PSC) model: KVR400X64C3AK2/2G
Power Supply RAIDMAX +24 PIN +4 PIN CPU+SATA 450W
I want to initialize the PC from the CD to install WIN XP, I can change the beginning sequence FROM the BIOS configuring the CD like first device, but from the menu boot with F11 I cannot change the boot order, this fixed one in the +HHD
Already change for several HHD, CD and Power Supply but the continuous problem!!!!!!!!!!
I believe that it is a problem with the CMOS it already cleans it from the reset button and it doesn't pass anything!!!!!!!
Thank You, for your help…

Borger_Montr,
The think you problem maybe the +12V@22A on your Power Supply, I highly recommend a Minimum of 28-30A and I repeat minimum.
If I am right you can prove it this way, you say you cannot even boot from Floppy drive or CD.
Leaving you case sides off unplug all of your case fans, power supply, CPU and motherboard Chipset fans are all you need if your turning it on for a short test.
In addition, Unplug all drives except for the floppy drive.
Then, insert a bootable disk into the floppy drive.
Boot the system, it should boot from the floppy with no problems.
If it boots from the floppy, you need a new power supply and when buy your new PS total power is a useless number. The +12V output current rating the one to look for on a single rail supply like you have now again 30A Minimum 35-40A would be better, on multiple +12V power supply each rail should be rated at 20A Minimum. I do not care how many rails you has each must have 20A or more. Another thing to make sure of make sure the power supply has all the correct cables and connect you motherboard and Graphics cards. Each graphics card and all of the power connectors on the motherboard should have there own cable with correct plugs that connect directly to the Power Supply. For no reason should you need any power cable adapters, all that means is that power supply was not meant for your system.
If you need any more details of instruction or I did not explain something well enough that you understood completely, please reply and ask pacific questions.
Roger
When submitting a problem, include a complete list of your system components; include part numbers, all Power Supply Voltages, and their output ratings. It is almost impossible to estimate what your problem is without knowing something about it.

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum - Release date?

I am sooo waiting for the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard to hit the retailstores!
I live in Sweden, Stockholm and I wonder if you guys here know when this motherboard will go gold? Is it coming to stores before in the US than the Europe or what?
I thought this was the right place to ask the question, this is after all the MSI forums!

http://www.datorbutiken.com/se/default.php?artId=MSIK8NNEO2PL
Kommer 2004-08-25
Hoppas det hjälpte. Har själv beställt detta moderkort från Specitek och lär juh få vänta nån vecka mer =/

K8N Neo2 Forgets BIOS Settings??

I'm having a rather odd problem. I built a new PC based around the K8N Neo2 motherboard/Athlon64 3500+. Whenever the switch on the back of the power supply is shut off, and then turned back on, if I don't clear CMOS by moving jumper JBAT1 to the "clear data" setting then back to "keep data" setting, the system won't POST. The diagnostic LEDs on the DBracket go Yellow, Red, Red, Yellow when this happens.
If I clear CMOS by moving the JBAT1 jumper, then the system will POST and it seems to work fine (although I have to reconfigure the BIOS). Also, if the power supply itself hasn't been switched off or lost power, I can turn the PC on and off with the power switch on the front of my case and the system will successfully POST each time without having to move JBAT1.
But it's very annoying, because when the power flips off, I have to move JBAT1 to clear CMOS and reconfigure the BIOS to get the PC going again.
Anyone have any clue as to why the board would act this way?? It's frustrating.

Looks like a bios dmi pool corruption or extended PnP system data
in nvram.
Try this:
Remove the AC cord from the PSU .
Take the bios battery out .
Set jbat cmos jumper to discharge for two hours .
After that time period
mount the battery
Set cmos jumper to normal
Connect AC
Turn PSU on (fire up the pc)
Watch the post screen
You should now get cmos-error .. press F1 to continue .. del to enter bios.
PRESS DEL
Then do only "load optimized defaults" and save/exit with F10 .
Next boot should post that BUILD DMI POOL SUCCESS , UPDATE DMI SUCCESS .
(after this you can change your other bios settings)
If you still have the same problem after this there must be an error
with the motherboard itself.

Windows doesnt boot anymore , amd format gives problems aswell. [K8N Neo2]

hi guys,
i made a thread about this issue in the dutch MSI forums aswell, but the more help the better no?
i'll first start with my system specifications , so we have that out of the way:
Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (s939) bios v1.5 (tried 1.B but that didnt solve my problem)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64bit 3500+ (2.2Ghz) (dont know the core , i think it was newcastle)
Geheugen: 2X Crusial BallistiX CL2 PC 3200 512MB (i also have 2x Corsair XMS PC3200 CL2 memory, but i only equipped my computer with the Crusial BallistiX memory atm)
Videocard: Sapphire Radeon X850 XT PE
Power Supply: Enermax 20 / 24pins 32A on the 12V line
well, my problem started about 2 days ago, when i shut down my computer, since the F.E.A.R demo ran a bit laggy ( i had all 4 of my memory modules in my PC then, and i wanted to remove the corsair memory ) once removed i only had the Crusial BallistiX memory in it , in dual channel , slot 1 and 2 (slots closest to CPU) , but once i booted my computer, i got a BSOD just after windows loaded.. something about the ACPI. the STOP number was:
STOP: 0x000000A5(0x00000011,0x00000007,0xF771F180,0x0100000E)
then i putted my corsair memory back in, but then i still got this BSOD.. and it said something about the BIOS, so i updated my bios to 1.B , but that didn't help a bit, so i donwgraded my bios again to v1.5 , hich i have now. i only have the crusial ballitix installed atm, which runs stable according to memtest (ran it for 14 hours, then i stopped it) with this timing: 2.5-2-2-5 1T (Cas latency 2 just wont run stable)
so my memory is OK i suppose.. and wlel, i couldnt get into windows, so as a final solution, i decided to format the harddrive, so i entered my WindowsXP CD , and it began loading the drivers (and i pushed F6 , and loaded the S-ATA / Raid Drivers ) , but straight after it loaded the things of the CD i get:
- a BSOD , with something about the ACPI
- reboot
- flashing underscore in the upper left courner..
so i cant really do anything , except get into the BIOS. i also tried to start windows in safe mode, but then i get a message similar to this:
'Cannot start windows , because the following file is damaged or missing:'
<windows-mainfolder>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
so i first thought about a virus, but that seems kinda odd , since i run a virus scan everyday (my virusscanner is NOD32) , and i think a virus with such destructive power will be detected..
another number from a BSOD (i get this one most of the times now) is this:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005,0x804F35C1,0xF7C45F10,0xF7C45C10)
hopefully you guys have an idea what to do, and as a final solution, i am willing to afford a new harddrive, but will that solve my problem? or is something else causing this problem?
Yordy_
(sorry for my bad english, i'm dutch )
*edit*
something i forgot to mention, is that sometimes when i enter the BIOS , it just freezes ( i cannot do anything.. )

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Try another CmosClear like mentioned before for the DMI-Pool and PNP Area to reinitialise.
didnt really get that, but i removed the CMOS battery , and placed it back in again , but that didnt help, and by the way, my problem got worse :(
i didnt do anything really.. just trying to start my computer .. but i can currently do this:
1. Press power on button
2. watch screen
3. press power button to shutdown
and that is as good as it gets :(
it sais to press del to get into the BIOS,but no matter what i press, it doesnt matter.. it then goes to the post screen, and displays this message:
CMOS Checksum failed! Loading defaults
something like that.. and here the system is totally frozen so i have to power off / reboot
and before hat message i cannot push a button!
I dont think my motherboard can be rescued can it?

New K8N NEO2 PLAT. and SC-939 3200+ help needed...

Hello,
I have just upgraded my system with K8N Neo2 Plat. and sc-939 3200+ A64 Cpu.
There are several issues I need to resolve which are:
1- Although I change from BIOS the settings for AGP to 4x8x and enable fast writes, I still cant see them turned on from the Catalyst Control Center. Everything is greyed out what can I do? They all used to be on and agp was 8x with my K7N2 Delta board....
2- Although I installed the original drivers from the MSI CD, I couldn't get one of the network prts to install. Realtek installed OK. But other one is defined by the device manager as standart network adapter. What can I do?
3- I am brand new to A64 system so I do not know what setting to use from BIOS can you help me out, for instance there are values for HT such as x3 x4 x5 mine is set to x5? what is this? should I enable cool and quiet, I am not intended to do overclocking. Can you give me some tips for best performance?
My best regards.

Make sure your bios is up to date: version 1.5. Look at the sticky threads and use the information to enable hidden bios features. Disable ATI/NV speedup in the bios. Uninstall your drivers and reinstall. If the information is still greyed out, download the free version of Sandra here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/ and check the module under video system information. This will tell you if fast writes are enabled and your AGP setting. Leave the HT(hyper-transport) set to 5X unless you plan on oc'ing, if you do oc then may find you'll need to reduce it to 4X or 3X. Try downloading the latest driver for your network from the MSI website. Right click the device in device manager and select update, select specific location then "don't look...I'll choose", direct it to the file where you've unpacked the correct driver and then update.

I have constant K8N Neo2 problems advice needed. (long) Update

I need some advice on what my problem might be and if I need to RMA the motherboard or power supply.
I have a new Athlon 64 3500+ processor, MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum BIOS v1.3 motherboard, with 2 512MB DIMMs of Corsair Value Select Memory. I have had and am still having a series of crashes and lock-ups I will list below. FULL SYSTEM SPECS BELOW AT BOTTOM.
I initially installed the motherboard with a SINGLE 120GB hard drive from the old machine and the installed the memory in memory slots 1 & 2 to try dual channel memory mode. I then formatted the C partition and did a clean install of Windows XP Professional with SP2, installed the MSI drivers on the installation CD that came with the motherboard (Nvidia nForce3 Version 5.03 System Drivers, Realtek gigabit ethernet driver, Realtek AC97 audio driver) & the GeForce v66.93 video driver. I then got my first blue screen "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" crash, I ignored this crash and rebooted. I shortly got a black screen crash which I also ignored.
I then installed a new 200GB hard drive and a old 120GB so I could transfer the data from the old 120GB to the new 200GB drive. The data transfer went fine. As I was preparing to install some applications I then got my second blue screen "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" crash. Suspecting the Corsair Value Select Memory could not handle dual channel I ran Memtest-86 for 2 passes and got NO errors with the memory in dual channel mode, so I left it.
With my data backed up on the 200GB new drive I removed the new 200GB and the second 120GB hard did another clean install of Windows XP Professional with SP2, this time with Nvidia’s nForce3 Version 5.10 system drivers, the Realtek gigabit ethernet driver and Realtek AC97 audio driver from the motherboard installation CD & the GeForce v66.93 video driver. I downloaded the latest version of Core Center and installed it and got it working. CPU temperatures were showing a low of around 29C, average of about 44C, and spikes at full loads of about 55-57C. I then ran Ghost to back up the boot partition. I installed all my applications, reinstalled the 200GB and 120 GB hard drives moved some data around with no crashes.
I then installed Rome Total War and played for about 2 hours and had one black screen crash after the reboot played for 4 more hours with no problems so I shut down and went to bed.
In the morning I got up started the computer let it run for awhile the CPU temperatures were in the low 30Cs to low 40Cs I tried to copy some files from the D partition to desktop and the screen freezes I waited about 5 min. with no change and no drive light activity so I hit the reset button. Upon reboot I got a ‘no system disk found” error, I went into the BIOS and checked the drive set-ups and boot priority, everything was correct. I tried for a half hour to get the system to boot with on luck. I used the Ghost to restore the partition image I had made earlier and still no boot. I finally decided to reinstall XP again put in the installation CD and when I got to the screen where you decide where to install Windows I changed my mind quit and bingo the machine boots into the restored Ghost partition???? I started to reinstall my applications got one more blue screen"MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" crash and another screen freeze that I had to reset.
So I decided to start from real scratch I removed the new 200GB and the second 120GB hard drive ran Killdisk on the boot drive, made a new clean 20GB C partition and did another clean install of Windows XP Professional with SP2, this time with Nvidia’s nForce3 Version 5.10 system drivers, the Realtek gigabit ethernet driver and Realtek AC97 audio driver from the motherboard installation CD & the GeForce v66.93 video driver. I installed the latest version of Core Center and installed it and got it working. CPU temps were as before.
I tested the memory with Memtest-86 again 2 passes no errors. Just in case I then moved one of the memory DIMMs to memory slot 3 out of dual channel mode and to a slower speed and ran Memtest-86 for about 20 hours with 21 passes with no memory errors, so I think memory can be ruled out as the problem.
Next I installed my applications I got one screen freeze that I had to reset. I reinstalled the other 200GB and 120GB hard drives. After I got all my applications install and Ghosted the boot partition. I have had one more one screen freeze that I had to reset.
I have a problem I simply cannot figure out. The memory is obliviously fine. While I have seen CPU temperatures spikes as high as 57C the CPU temps as reported by Core Center averages in the high 30Cs or low 40Cs and most of crashes/lock-ups don’t seem to occur during high CPU load/temp. The power supply might be a little light for the system but many of the crashes have occurred with only one hard drive in the system. The fact after one for the lock-ups the system would not boot for awhile and then magically just booted gives me concern there might be a motherboard problem.
Any solution ideas would be appreciated. Should I RMA the power supply, the motherboard, or both.
Full system specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+, Socket 939, 0.13 Micron, with retail heatsink and fan.
Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum BIOS v1.3
Memory: Corsair VS1GBKIT400 1GB (2 x 512MB DIMMs) Kit DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 Value Select Memory - one 512MB DIMM in memory slot 1 and one 512MB DIMM in memory slot 3 running at DDR333 speed.
Video Card: Chaintech GeForce4 Ti 4600
Drives:
Maxtor 6Y120L0 120GB hard drive as master on IDE channel 1. 3 partitions C (boot partition), D, & E.
Seagate ST3200822A 200GB hard drive as slave on IDE channel 1. Single partition.
Maxtor 6Y120L0 120GB hard drive as master on IDE channel 2. Single partition.
Sony DRU-500AX DVD-RW as slave on IDE channel 2.
SATA disabled in BIOS.
No PCI cards.
Case: Antec SX 835
4 80mm case fans (2 fans in front blowing in, 2 fans in rear of case blowing out).
Power Supply: Thermaltake W0008RUC Silent PurePower 420W w/Active PFC
Power Supply Specifications:
Maximum Power: 420W
PFC: Acitve
Power Good Signal: 100-500ms
Hold-up Time: > 16ms at Full Load
Efficiency: > 65%
Over Voltage Protection: +5V trip pointInput Voltage: 100 VAC / 240 VAC
Input Frequency Range: 47-63 Hz
Input Current: 8.0A
Output: +3.3V@30A;+5V@40A;[email protected];+12V@18A;[email protected];+5VSB@2A

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I then installed Rome Total War and played for about 2 hours and had one black screen crash
Great isn't it (although not without the occasional crash)
Would you say it's better but not there yet ? or the same ?
I thought the same as Ibn Quote
Your PS unit is a little weak for that much hardware, but I doubt thats your problem as well
re your PSU, given youv'e got a less hungry Graphic Card, thought it was at worse marginal, have seen worse.
To investigate further it may be worth diconnecting one of your HD, maybe the 200gb for a time.
It's a small thing but it may be slightly better to have both your maxtors together on IDE channel 1, given their identical.
good luck - keeo us posted

MSI K8N Neo2 Plat. + Audigy2 woes

Hi.
I'm getting the dreaded Machine Check Exception(0000009c) on my rig and it seems no amount of tinkering can get this combo to play nicely, and as I know there are quite a few more of you with the same problem out there(and a lot who DON'T have this problem) I thought it could be interesting to find out a bit more about this.
My box:
A64 3500+(newcastle)
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
2x512Mb (Kingston HyperX PC3000...old stuff from my KT333-mobo)
Audigy 2 (SB0240)
HIS 9800Pro Ice-Q
+other stuff that doesn't affect the problem
Running WindowsXP SP2
I've tried diff bioses (1.2,1.3,1.4b1), I've tried tweaking the pci-latency of the audigy(raising from 32 in steps of 8 to 96) with powerstrip. Tried moving the card to all available pci-slots(the audigy is the ONLY pci-card in my rig, its just the audigy and my 9800 in its agp-slot).
Tried all different driver revs for the audigy, from the one on the included cd up to the latest. Tried changing that pci-clock setting in the bios(hidden setting), to no avail.
I've run memtest86+,windows memory diagnostics and prime95 as well as a few other diagnostic tools from the UBCD for hours on end without any problems whatsoever.(at first I was inclined to believe that the psu might have something to do with this, but I don't believe that anymore, the problem seems to happen to people no matter WHAT psu they use.)
Facts:
1. With the audigy2 in place my machine WILL freeze with the 0000009c-error sooner or later(might take hours, might happen in 5 minutes). It does however seem to be related to using the soundcard(just sitting in windows without using the soundcard for ANY sounds keeps the box alive a lot longer than playing BF1942 and using teamspeak)
2. When I remove the Audigy2 from my system and use the on-board sound the lock-ups stop, no more machine check exceptions.(this isn't a solution, its a workaround)
3. Some people have the same problem while other people seem to be able to use audigys in their machines.
My guess is that it might be related to what model/version of audigy one has, that earlier audigy/audigy2-cards wont work properly...
So, those of you that have the problem, what model/ver of audigy/audigy2 do you have?
Mine is a SB0240.(random 0000009C-errors)

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Originally posted by MonarchX
How do you know if its the SB0240 or SB0350?
Model number on the box or the white sticker on top of the card.
Same card here Audigy2 (SB0240).
I don't remember the error message I got but it was something about a conflict with the nVidia RAID controller. It was right after updating the Creative drivers so I immediatly removed ALL Creative startup programs and services with msconfig. No more problems. It runs great. There is the occassional rare "burp" through the speakers but its no problem.
In "msconfig" uncheck the following under the "Startup" tab.
CTCMSgo
CTDVDDet
CTHelper
CTsysVol
SBDrvDet
regsvr32 (no problem so far with unchecking this one. I noticed there's a copy of it in one of the Creative folders. regsvr32.exe is a command line program used to register and unregister object linking and embedding (OLE) controls such as dynamic-link library (DLL) or ActiveX Controls (OCX) files that are self-registerable. This may be necessary to troubleshoot some issues with Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or other programs.
Attention the same filename is used by some spyware programs.)
In fact the only startups I've left running in msconfig are...
nvraidservice
NvCpl
zlclient (ZoneAlarm)
Next click the "Services" tab in msconfig - check "Hide All Microsoft Services" and uncheck "Creative Service for CD-Rom access".
I guess it should also be added that a couple of days ago my system became extremely sluggish and had difficulty starting up. There were a couple of BSOD's. Pressing on the back of the case near the PCI slots caused the lights to flicker. Uh-Oh! Apparently the Audigy2 card was a little loose in its slot. Reseating the card seems to have solved that problem.
Later, Conrad

K8N NEO2 Platinum rebooting

Hi all,just got myself a 64bit MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum board & a 3200+,am happy with it but a couple of days ago i got a blue screen with a long message that i didnt have time to read before the pc rebooted,after the reboot i checked the event viewer log file in administrative tools/control panel but couldnt narrow it down as my particular error code wasnt among the possible causes.
Among some of the possible causes were incorrectly installed USB drivers or the BIOS,i downloaded the latest BIOS update before this problem started(V1.40) which i am using now,i used the MSI live update software to flash it which i did in windows mode.Sorry for prattling on!well it did it again tonight and i managed to read a bit of the writing on the blue screen which mentioned flashing the bios to the latest version.I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem and if so could you please advise me? Thanks for your patience and any help Heres my sys specs:
Model: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Speed: 2.01GHz
Model Number: 3200 (estimated)
Performance Rating: PR3015 (estimated)
Type: Standard
L2 On-board Cache: 512kB ECC Synchronous Write-Back (16-way, 64
byte line size)
Bus(es): ISA AGP PCI USB FireWire/1394
MP Support: 1 CPU(s)
MP APIC: No
System BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG
Mainboard: MS-7025
Total Memory: 1023MB DDR-SDRAM
Model: Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI) ???
(00E1)
Front Side Bus Speed: 1x 201MHz (201MHz data rate)
Model: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 /
Opteron HyperTransport Technology
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Front Side Bus Speed: 1x 201MHz (201MHz data rate)
Total Memory: 2048MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed: 2x 201MHz (402MHz data rate)
Monitor/Panel: CTX EX950F series
Adapter: RADEON X800 Series
Adapter: RADEON X800 Series Secondary
Removable Drive: Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk: Maxtor 6Y080L0
CD-ROM/DVD: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B (CD 32X Rd, 24X Wr)
(DVD 4X Rd, 3X Wr)
CD-ROM/DVD: MSI CD-RW CR52 (CD 40X Rd, 52X Wr)
CD-ROM/DVD: AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device (CD 32X Rd)
(DVD 4X Rd)
1.44MB 3.5" (A:): N/A
Hard drive (C:): 76.3GB (51.9GB, 68% Free) (NTFS)
CD-ROM/DVD (D:): N/A
CD-ROM/DVD (E:): N/A
CD-ROM/DVD (F:): N/A
Serial/Parallel Port(s): 1 COM / 1 LPT
USB Controller/Hub: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub: Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub: USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub: USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub: USB Root Hub
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub: VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Keyboard: Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/
2 Keyboard
Mouse: PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Device: Creative SB Live! series
Device: Creative Game Port
Model: EPSON Stylus CX3200
Windows System: Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Home (Win32 x86)
5.01.2600 (Service Pack 2)
Network Drivers Enabled: Yes
Warning 100: Large memory sizes should be made of
Registered/Buffered memory.
Tip 101: Large memory sizes should be made of ECC/
Parity memory.
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Device Type: VGA Video Adapter
Device ID: bus 1, device 0, function 0
Windows Device Name: RADEON X800 Series
OEM Device Name: ATI Technologies ??? (4A49)
OEM Hardware ID: FUN_0, VEN_1002, DEV_4A49, REV_00
Device Name: PC Partner Ltd ??? (4A49)
Product ID: VEN_174B, DEV_0D42
Revision: A / 1 (0)
Version: 3.00
Command Queue Length: 256
Fast-Writes Support: Yes
Over 4GB Addressing Support: No
Isochronous Mode Support: No
Addressing Support: 32-bit
Data Transfer Modes Support: 4x 8x

My K8N Neo Platinum [754] did not include a NB fan. But this usually means the overall size of the heatsink is larger. If you remove the fan from yours, the size of the heatsink will not be big enough to cool your NB. As for temps, I've never seen my NB get hotter than 45'C. Note that the core on my NB should be slightly different than yours.
You could try to use the BIOS fan control for the NB. If set correctly, it should reduce some noise.

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