Graphics upgrade on k9n2 diamond

hi i upgraded my board and cpu recently, i feel my ageing 8800gtx is now the weakest part, getting some slowdown on games not a lot but it's noticable, i also have a 2 games i would like to play at full settings on my 24" monitor.
i set the pc up with 2 gtx 260 which seemed good but they have returned to their home now. leaving the gtx
problems i have is the gtx260's just fit in my case, the gtx will only fit in the top slot (the gtx260 is about half and inch shorter)
so im limited (don't make me change the case!) to a card of 10.5 inches. whats working well? if it worth sli? or should i just get a 280 gtx in the top slot (assuming it's longer than the 260)
any advice? it's gonna cost me so i want to get it right, i have heard the ati cards are a good buy but im guessing i cant do cross fire?
many thanks
amd 9850 @2.7
msi k9n2 diamond
2x2 ocz 8500 reaper ram
8800gtx
coolermaster 850wat real power psu

morning thats an option i hadnt concidered, and didnt know i could do, the ati card seems the best value, in games forums they seem to be very well recieved, in this case the gtx has to go in the top slot though, would this still be possible?
i was thinking 2 gtx260, but i had vista since it was longhorn and the 8800 was one of the first out (and expensive) so i have had plenty of vista /nvidia er joy. to be honest untill a year ago the card, was far from it's full potential and only seems to have reached it, with drivers etc when they pull the damn card, will i have the same 'joy' with the new model, i wonder!

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K9N2 Diamond - Can't Disable Onboard Graphics

Hello all,
I have a peculiar problem (or maybe it isn't problem at all):
If I select to disable the onboard graphic chip in BIOS, the system halts (complete freeze) after memory check, only way out is to force shutdown and BIOS reset.
On board, there are four little status leds, when the onboard graphics is disabled, they are (looking from the "back" of board) from left to right: green-red-green-red. I haven't been able to find out what the sequence means, looks to me like MSI has never published the codes.
The freeze happens whether I have quickboot enabled or not.
My system specs are:
MSI K9N2 Diamond
AMD Phenom 9850 BE
XFX GeForce 8800 GT Alpha Dog 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI
8 GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 DHX
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB S300 RAID 1
CoolerMaster 700W REAL POWER PRO MODULAR PSU
Lian-Li SILVER CLASSICAL SERIES
Philips Brilliance 200W 20.1"
BIOS version is 2.0 (not flashed).
The XFX card works perfectly and when both cards are active, I have no issues with system at all (all works perfectly). Also RAM has passed Memtest++ several times and is correctly detected and configured by BIOS (800MHz).
All BIOS settings affecting performance are in their defaults (no overclocking, no voltage tweaking etc).
The problem is that I can't set these two cards to SLi nor MultiGPU because they are not identical (please correct me if I'm wrong in that).
The problem is that both cards now want to run separate monitor (I only got one I can use permanently) meaning that I either won't see boot messages or I won't see desktop depending on which card I have the monitor connected on.
So, in brief, here's my questions are:
Do you know why disabling the onboard chip freezes POST?
Do you know a solution to this problem?
If you answer "yes" to either or both above, please tell me too what is the reason and what is the solution

Hi and thanks for the reply.
Just to be sure what you mean:
Quote from: Fredrik on 02-November-08, 20:54:10
You should be able to disable onboard while monitor cable is connected to the 8800, should even be automatically disabled.
You mean having monitor connected to both cards and then disable the onboard chip?
Quote from: Fredrik on 02-November-08, 20:54:10
Could have to do with the Hybrid SLI feature . Disable if you don't want it.
That's disabled currently (you can't disable onboard chip if it's enabled).
Quote from: Fredrik on 02-November-08, 20:54:10
As BIOS seems to be involved, what BIOS version do you have?
Original 2.0 (shipped with board).

K9N2 Diamond graphics drivers

Hello, I've bought a PC with the following configuration:
AMD Phenom 9950 Black Edition
MSI K9N2 Diamond Board
2x2GB OCZ DDR 1066 ram
1x 9800GTX Video card
900 watt PSU - Tagan
Win Vista Ultimate 64bit
And I have a big problem with the chipset graphic card drivers - everytime I try to update the drivers, after restarting the system, my LCD goes to "Power saving mode". I have to uninstall the drivers (I tried 4 versions) and use the default one (7.15.11.7540).
And other one, don't know if it's problem - the chipset video card has always the same drivers, as the 9800 GTX graphic card - is it OK?
Thanks in advance for all your answers...

Use drivers from Nvidia 178.13 {September 25, 2008}
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_178.13_whql.html

MSI K9N2 Diamond - Issues

First off I would like to greet everyone. Now on to the fun part. I just recently upgraded my entire computer. Despite the poor rating of the K9N2 Diamond on Newegg I ordered the board anyway. I counted myself fortunate that the board wasn't DOA, however it seems to be the most finicky mainboard I have ever owned. The following are the components currently installed.
MSI K9N2 Diamond
AMD Athlon 64 7750+ BE
2x MSI GeForce 9600 GT OC
Antec Earthwatts 500W PSU
4GB (2x2GB) GSkill 1066 RAM
And the little Soundblaster X-Fi card that came with the board.
Here are my issues in (almost) chronological order.
After putting it all together I installed XP Pro x64 so I could take advantage of my 4 gigs of RAM. The system ran well for a while until I tried to use SLI while playing Far Cry 2. After about 5 minutes the game froze and nothing short of a hard reset would fix it. I researched that issue for a while to find that the probable culprit are the drivers. That was fine. I realized that my RAM was running at 800, so I went into the BIOS to fix that. What I read of the documentation on the board told me that RAM would run at 1066 provided it was using an AM2+ CPU, and the 7750+ is AM2+.
Anyway I adjusted the BIOS so that the RAM would run at 1066 and the machine refused to POST. That was irritating so I pulled the power cable and waited a few minutes. After plugging it back in and pressing power it again refused to POST. I spent about an hour and a half trying to get the thing to POST; finally resorting to pulling the CMOS battery for about 15 minutes which made the computer FINALLY POST.
After having several more issues with XP x64 I reformatted and switched to x86. I tried again to use SLI with the stock drivers that came with the card (ver. 175.xxx) which again froze games.
I decided since I was having so many problems that I should try and flash the BIOS to the current version. That didn't work well either. After successfully flashing in Windows with the MSI Live Update utility (which in hindsight may have been a poor choice) the board once again refused to POST. I thought I had bricked it but fortunately after pulling the CMOS battery again for a few minutes solved the problem.
Cutting to the chase I am now on my third fresh install of Windows and am too worried to change any BIOS settings or enable SLI. I thought my power supply was the culprit but after getting several opinions I'm postive that the PSU is more than capable of handling the load. So basically I have a $1600 machine that about 4 times out of ten refuses to POST.
Any help would be appreciated.

Quote from: Fredrik on 05-March-09, 00:28:02
You have noticed it does not run well with memory speed set at 1066, so change that. There lies very little if any performance in the vibration of the "silly" memory.
If something freezes it is a sign of - strangely enough - overheating, processor and/or graphics processor. Much fast memory keeps the processor very busy, and if there is bad vibes(!) between the processor and the memory overheating comes like spam in the mail box.
I couldn't even get the board to POST at 1066, so I just left it at 800. After three different copies of XP I decided to try Vista. I figured it couldn't hurt considering the computer doesn't really run well anyway. Games now crash whether SLI is enabled or not. Always the same issue. Game runs for about 5 minutes or so, and then it freezes and CTDs and this little pop up balloon tells me that nvldmmkm.sys has stopped responding and has been recovered. This puts me in the same boat as I was in with XP. I spoke to MSI tech support and the guy just sent me an updated BIOS and told me to use that. It didn't help at all.
Interesting though, I turned on Hybrid SLI support in the BIOS just for kicks and managed to play about 8 or 9 minutes of a game without a crash or freeze. I don't know how long that would have lasted since I closed the game. The weird part is my video cards don't even support Hybrid SLI. On the nvidia website the supported card list goes from 8800 GTX to 9800 GT, and I have two 9600 GTs. This just keeps getting weirder.
Also as an addendum, the computer no longer shuts down when I tell it to shut down. I mean everything else shuts down like the video signal to the monitor, disk drives, etc...just...the fans keep going.

K9N2 Diamond problems installing Vista 64bit Raid Drivers

Hello everyone I have been having problems installing Raid Drivers during Vista 64 Install. The 32-bit drivers work fine and I can also set up Windows Vista 32 in Raid 0. But the same place where the " No CD/DVD drivers..." clause is will not let me use 64-bit Drivers. I have tried MCP72 and MCP73 raid drivers and neither is recognized. This is my setup.....
AMD Athlon 64 x 2 (3.2ghz) Black Edition
LiteOn Blu-Ray Player/Burner
LiteOn DVD/CD Burner
2 x 640 GB WD HDD
8gb (4 x 2gb Sticks) OCZ PC 6400 (DDR2 800) Ram
2 x Nvidia GeForce 9800 GSOs SLI
Xion 850w Modular Power Supply
K9N2 Diamond Motherboard
I am not using IDE at all, everything is Sata. So in BIOS I have IDE Controller off. I have the SATA port Set to RAID. I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I had this same setup on my K9N SLI Platinum board and it all worked fine. However every since I "upgraded" to this board I havent been able to install Vista 64 on my Array. I also have tried formatting the HDDs and I have tried setting up the Raid all over. Plz help me. This is my first post ever in a forum so if you need any info that I did not post here pls just let me know :D

By the way Here is my BIOS Settings:
- Standard CMOS Features
(None of my Hardware is Listed)
- Advanced BIOS Features
Full Screen Logo Display Enabled
Quick Booting Enabled
Hybrid SLI Support Disabled
Primary Graphics Adapter PCI-E
Boot Up Num-Lock LED On
IOAPIC Function Enabled
MPS Table Version 1.4
PCI Latency Timer 64
* CPU Functions
(None Available)
* Chipset Features
HPET Disabled
On-Chip VGA Disabled
* Boot Sequence
1st Boot Device BD Player
2nd Boot Device Raid Array
3rd Boot Device None
* Trusted Computing
TCG/TPM Support No
-Integrated Peripherals
USB Controller Enabled
USB Legacy Support Enabled
Onboard LAN Controller Enabled
LAN Option ROM Disabled
Onboard IEEE1394 Controller Disabled
Extra Raid/IDE Controller Enabled
Raid Mode RAID
HD Audio Codec Internal Codec
*On-Chip ATA Devices
On-Chip IDE Controller Disabled
PCI IDE BusMaster Disabled
On-Chip SATA Controller Enabled
RAID Mode RAID
- I/O Devices
COM Port 1 3F8/IRQ4
Not sure if this helps any but I just thought I would post it anyways :D

K9N2 Diamond refuses to P.O.S.T...

Greetings,
I'm in a bit of a predicament and was wondering if anybody has some ideas as to the solution to the problem I am about to present.
Let me start with a little background:
I built this system around 2 years ago and haven't had many problems with it. I've reformatted numerous times, the most recent being last month. About a week or two ago
I tried to play a .wmv file via Windows Media Player. My system hung during program execution and I was forced to manually power off my computer (in other words, I held
the power button for five seconds). When I powered the system back on it failed to P.O.S.T.
Now, during a normal start-up a number of things happen:
A.) The computer powers on, fans start whurring, lights from the K9N2's on-board LED's will flash between green and red (this is important), and finally power is fed to my I/O devices.
B.) The mainboard then beeps (I cannot remember the beep pattern), all the on-board LED's are green, my display shows my BIO's screen, and the system then continues it operations before loading the Operating System.
C.) Windows is then loaded and I have an operational computer. Hurray.
Here is what happens as of now:
A.) The computer powers on, fans star whurring, lights from the K9N2'S on-board LED's will flash for what appears to be two cycles (basically the LED's go through two patterns) and then I hear a long beep followed by two short beeps. (Beeeeeeepp.... Beep. Beep.) The LED pattern stays as follows: RED, RED, RED, GREEN.
No power is fed to my I/O devices and I receive no display. The computer basically hangs. One thing I feel I should mention is that I was able to get the computer to start again by clearing the CMOS but this strategy will not work anymore. Note: this process involved restarting the computer countless times, clearing the CMOS, starting the computer and seeing if it would P.O.S.T, if it did not, I repeated the process. It was not as if I simply cleared the CMOS and the computer worked instantly. I had to do it several times.
Now it seems no matter what I do the system refuses to P.O.S.T. My computer specs are listed at the bottom of this thread. If you felt something was not clear or you feel you need more information, please let me know and I will be glad to explain. I look forward to working with anyone who is willing to help me tackle this problem.
Take care,
pr3ddd
COMPUTER SPECS:
-MSI K9N2 DIAMOND AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA NFORCE 780A SLI ATX MAINBOARD
-ABS TAGAN BZ SERIES 900W PSU
-AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6400+ @3.2GHZ PROCESSOR
-4GB OF CORSAIR DOMINATOR DDR2 1066 RAM
-NVIDIA 9800GX2 DUAL-GPU GRAPHICS CARD
-SEAGATE BARRACUDA 500GB 7200RPM SATA HDD
-CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER X-FI ELITE PRO SOUND CARD
-MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS X64 PROFESSIONAL

So.... Problem solved. Looks like it was the graphics card. When I got the almost normal boot I realized that the only reason I had: GREEN, RED, GREEN, GREEN LED's was because the system was waiting for me to load the default values for the CMOS but since I didn't have any display I couldn't see that. So I replaced my HDMI cable with a VGA cable and the system reverted to the previous RED, RED, RED, GREEN state. At that point, I took out the graphics card, used the onboard video and wa-la. Thank you Mike. I'd have never thought to reseat the graphics card. Looks like no games for a while... Oh well.

K9N2 Diamond: Shared video memory, how to disable?

As on subject: I can see the entry in the bios settings and I can choose the memory amount to share, but I can't disable it (entry is gray and unselectable) and even if I try to set other values than 256M the values resets to it when I save changes to cmos.
In addition windows recognize 512M of ram (which is the maximum value selectable in bios settings about shared memory) less then it would do: I have 4Gb of ram and 2 8800GT 512M: total system ram is 5G. Windows 32 bit see 2,5G of system ram, to reach 4Gb (the maximum overall memory size recognizeble by a 32-bit os) i miss 1,5G, 1 by the graphic boards and the other 512M...I bet is the shared memory. I would disable it so to free up 512M of system ram is there a way to do it?
K9N2 Diamond - BIOS version 2.1
AMD athlon 64 x2 4200+
Corsair dominator DDR2 2x2GB
2x NVIDIA GFORCE 8800GT in SLI configuration

Quote from: Asimov77 on 25-January-09, 05:22:30
As on subject: I can see the entry in the bios settings and I can choose the memory amount to share, but I can't disable it (entry is gray and unselectable) and even if I try to set other values than 256M the values resets to it when I save changes to cmos.
In addition windows recognize 512M of ram (which is the maximum value selectable in bios settings about shared memory) less then it would do: I have 4Gb of ram and 2 8800GT 512M: total system ram is 5G. Windows 32 bit see 2,5G of system ram, to reach 4Gb (the maximum overall memory size recognizeble by a 32-bit os) i miss 1,5G, 1 by the graphic boards and the other 512M...I bet is the shared memory. I would disable it so to free up 512M of system ram is there a way to do it?
K9N2 Diamond - BIOS version 2.1
AMD athlon 64 x2 4200+
Corsair dominator DDR2 2x2GB
2x NVIDIA GFORCE 8800GT in SLI configuration
If you're not able to change the share memory to none, go to on chip VGA in bios and disable it

K9n2 diamond + deneb

morning, I know this forum is user to user, but i was wondering when the new denebs are released would it be possible to just check for bios update and smack one in (so to speak) my 9850 blue screens when i mention overclock and is mt botttleneck at the moment. never had a problem upgrading dual cores, ie no re- format. should it be the same with the new phenom? if i need a am3 motherboard i'm going new intel build i think.
thanks.

The MSI K9n2 diamond is one of the few boards that is AM3 capable. They even have a beta bios. I have a k9n2 diamond also and even on the MSI product page it states it is AM3 ready. So all it would take is a bios update. I hope this helps

K9N2 Diamond Not Recognizing SATA DVD Rom

I just though I would try to post here to see if anyone had any ideas as to what might be the cause or if I should just RMA the board and hope it gets resolved.
To sum it up I have a PC that doesn't always like to reboot (not a problem really as I don't like to reboot it except for when getting updates) and will not recognize the DVD drive plugged into the SATA ports. Originally I thought it may have just been a flaky optical drive as it worked long enough for me to get the OS installed and everything set up back in late June early July. However for some reason Windows XP Pro x64 and the BIOS stopped recognizing the optical drive. Since I thought it might have just been a flaky drive I didn't worry about it too much as I had everything set up - was just annoying that I couldn't watch DVDs (but I could just go to the other room to do that so not biggie). On Saturday I bought a new DVD drive (one that could play Blue Ray disks figuring since I have my monitor hooked up through an HDMI cable why not also have the capability to play Blue Ray disks) and the same problem exists. The BIOS will on a rare occasion actually recognize the DVD drive however as soon as it reboots again it will not and even when it did recognize the DVD drive by the time Windows loaded up it didn't pick up on it.
I have tried all four SATA ports in combination with my SATA hard drive (and alternating between six different SATA cables too) but a vast majority of the time if I have both the hard drive and DVD drive plugged in the PC will not boot up - it just seems to hang (and sometimes doesn't want to let me into the BIOS).
PC Specs (included links from original orders):
Power Supply: ZALMAN ZM850-HP 850W Continuous @ 45°C (Maximum Continuous Peak: 1050W) ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Modular Heatpipe-Cooled SLI ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817379007 )
Mother board: MSI K9N2 Diamond Motherboard on BIOS version 2.3 ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3975888&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals )
Processor: AMD Phenom II x4 920 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103472 )
Memory: 8 GB Corsair 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (4x 2 GB strips) (2x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184 )
Video Card: Galaxy 96GGF6HMFEXX GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162020 )
Hard Drive: WD VelociRaptor 150GB SATA HD 10K/16MB/SATA-3 ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4164551&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals )
Latest DVD Drive: LG - 8x Internal Blu-ray Disc Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive ( http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9402265&type=product&id=1218099651419 ) (before that it was just a generic OEM Sony DVD Drive)
Keyboard: basic usb lenovo keyboard - nothing special about it (got this one because it is the same keyboard I use at work)
Mouse: Old Logitech USB mouse from something like 5 years ago
Gamepad: Logitech Rumblepad 2
OS: Currently Win XP Pro x64 (have Win 7 x64 disk but cannot install due to said problem with DVD drive recognition)

I haven't tested with a third DVD drive simply because I don't have a third :(
The original DVD drive (an OEM Sony Optiarc Beige 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA DVD/CD Rewritable Drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118033) was what was being used while I was installing everything and was the drive that I was noticing wasn't always showing up in Windows Explorer (well more often than not wasn't appearing, but it seemed to last long enough to get all the initial installations done and I really don't used the ROMs much past that). At the time I thought it might have been that the drive just went flaky and ignored it because I didn't use it.
The odd thing was it was also causing headaches when restarts were required for the same reason - the PC would freeze up on the motherboard splash screen (lack of a better term presently) where it normally does the POST tests (I think I am remembering that correctly .... when all the beeps takes place) so I unhooked the SATA connection to the motherboard for the drive and then the PC would actually reboot normally without the hanging. This made me also think it was the drive causing problems.
I've been running without any optical drive hooked up for a couple months now, but with getting my copy of Windows 7 I was getting ready to install that and picked up what I thought was the needed fix in a new DVD drive however when hooking it up the same problem started up again. This time when trying to figure out a setting that actually worked I rotated through all six of my SATA cables (motherboard came with extras ) and rotated them through all four normal SATA slots. Well actually I tied all six slots but it didn't seem like the BIOS wanted to pick up on slots five or six (the E-SATA if I recall correctly) as having devices (when I had the HDD and DVD Drive in slots five and six it said it couldn't find a bootable device).
I'm at work now so I can't double check in the BIOS but I am pretty sure it is just set for SATA since I don't use RAID or AHCI - I'll check again on this when I get home though.
The oddest thing about the whole thing (to me at least) is the lack of consistency with the BIOS recognizing the devices (well the DVD drive anyways). I would have thought that if it recognized the device (which it has from time to time) that it would keep on recognizing it, but it seems to want to forget that it did recognize it even after it did by the time Windows loads up.
It does not seem to have any problems when only the SATA HDD is hooked up though.
If it really is the MB being flaky I think I would only have four options:
1) Buy a SATA PCI controller card and see if I can get things up and running that way - though this wouldn't solve the problem if the motherboard is flaking out and not 100% sure what it would do for installing new OS quite yet .... not to mention be a little odd when there are 5 other open SATA ports on the motherboard)
2) RMA the motherboard and hope a replacement/fix can be made and be without a PC for the duration
3) Not upgrade to Windows 7 and sit on that upgrade till whenever and also have a new expensive paperweight (if I take the ROM out of the PC)
4) Get a new MB .... really don't want to pick this one since I built the thing tail end of June/beginning of July (just was slowly ordering the parts for longer than that .... I really need to stop doing that - kills possible return chances)
Of course I can also hope it is something else that I am just missing and that none of those are needed. I actually built my setup based on what a friend of mine has since his is/was pretty solid.

K9N2 Diamond Hangs pre-POST PCI-Bus not working

Hello,
I've had a happily working system for over a eyar, but the other day I discovered that the display no longer worked. So I rebooted and noted the diagnostic leds were RED-RED-GREEN-RED. After digging around and looking at page 2-26 of the K9N2 SLI Platinum's manual, it informed me that I was hanging at Bad memory. So I tried without ram and with new 800 speed ram, and still the same leds. Tried new ram in diffrent slots, no change. Tried only 1 stick, no change. Tried with no ram, mo change. Tried removing all PCI-X & PCI cards and still nothing. Removed all drive cables and still no change. In the end, I only have my processor installed and it still hangs at start.
I reinstalled everything and tried another approach. I used the onboard DVI graphics port and just bided my time. Got the usual R-R-G-R lights and waited a few minutes. Eventually I reached the BIOS. I checked all the settings, it was detecting processor, ram, drives, all were fine. So I let the system eventually boot into win7 and arrived at the desktop. I then discovered that the sound card was not operating either. This led me to believe that the entire PCI bus had failed.
Has anyone else come across this? I take it that at this point that my only avenue for fix if to RMA the motherboard.
Here's machine specs for anyone interested.
MSI K9N2 Diamond
AMD Phenom x4 940 Black Edition
OCZ 2x2GB Reaper HPC PC2-1066 RAM
Geforce 9800 GTX 512mb
SB X-Fi sound card
200GB Maxtor sata2
320GB Seagate sata2
750GB Seagate sata2

Quote from: PsyBeats on 19-February-10, 14:38:02
Hyper Type R 2 - 680w
18amps for +12v1, +12v2, +12v3, +12v4
I had some middle range Hyper ,it died after one year ,got a replacement with a defect which i fixed -bad soldering one cap bridged.
Sugestion -> get a proper PSU to test ,thats vaporware.They look nice ,but they "stink" inside soldering and components wise.Not to say that the PSU is multirailed.I bet that the wires are also under gauged .

K9N2 Diamond Hangs at post with 8GB of memory.

Doing some upgrading here and running into problems.
K9N2 Diamond V1.1 with an AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE.
I've narrowed the problem down to my memory, I think. I have 4 sticks of OCZ SLI Ready DDR2 PC26400 800s. If I put two sticks in, it works fine...so far, but if I put all 4 in the system will sometimes not post (no beep codes) Sometimes it starts to but will hang quickly usually on the splash screen. I've noticed in the manual it says the spec for DDR2 is 1.8v, but the DIMMS list [email protected] I suspect this could be my problem? Also, what are the freaking order of the DIMM slots? There's no marking on the board and the manual doesn't tell you either!
Regards,
C.D.

Just to let you know Bas, I would have loved to stick with Bios 2.4, but like I said I had to update so that my motherboard would work with my Phenom II x4 965c3. Now, after all the suggestions in this thread did not work for me, I contacted MSI customer service, like I do with all my unsolvable issues, and they have a beta bios that fixes a LOT of issues including the 4 sticks of ram issue with bios 2.5. Since I cannot just post the link due to (and I fully respect MSI's wishes) rules from customer service, but if you need the 4 stick of ram fix, contact MSI customer service and they will give you the link to the beta bios that solves this issue. I just wanted to follow up in case other K9N2 Diamond owners out there might be having the same issue!

K9N2 Diamond & Gigabyte 8800 GT SLI (Mb Problem!!)

Hi. I recently had a K9N Diamond with 2 Gigabyte 8800 GT (GV-NX88T512HP TypeB) in SLi, worked perfectly. One fo them fried and sent it to rma. In this time, changed motherboard (to K9N2 Diamond) and PSU (NOX Urano 600w to Corsair TX750). Worked all ok, but with only one Gigabyte VGA. Gigabyte rma gave me an identical card, but Type A. Tried SLI with the other one and it didn't worked. Both cards in solo work fine. Together, the monitor power led flashes but no image, I even hear the music of windows starting, but no image. Tried it with another motherboard and it worked. The board was a MSI K8N SLI Platinum. Not a vga problem. I read the manual, and it says that i need to connect the two 3way SLI connectors for a dual sli config. Rather confusing. It also refers to "SLI Drivers" ?. Never heard of it. Please help!!

No. But i achieved sli yesterday. I disabled the onboard graphics card (this board has Hybrid SLI) on the driver settings. The sli is running but only when windows starts. I can't see post, so i can't enter bios.

K9N2 Diamond SLI - How-to

Hey there everyone: I decided to go a little nuts and try to build a hell of a rig. BUT I have come across some difficulties.
First Here is what I have
[EDIT: forgot the CPU]
AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition
Thermaltake V1 cooling [/Edit]
Antec 900 Case
MSI K9N2 Diamond Board
4x2GB Mushkin DDR 1066 ram
3x 750GB Samsung Sata 300 harddrives
3x BFG 8800GTX 768MB Video cards
1000 watt Antec Powersupply
2x Samsung DVD burner
The problem here, in SLI (2 or 3 way) I get no video. when I take out all but 1 card, I get video, can make changes, but cannot disable the integrated Graphics card (upon boot the system hangs after memory count and before harddrive detection) The Harddrives I intend to run in raid 5.
Any ideas?
Thanks James.

Each time the system fails to boot; I reset(clear) the bios and load my known good values for a single card.
SLI-Ready memory - disabled (Just because it is known good basic config - during SLI testing, I have tried both disabled and enabled)
On-Chip VGA is enabled as with 1 card it will not boot with that disabled (this is tested repeatedly with the same results: Post OK, then when It should be detecting harddrives, it just sits there)
Hybrid SLI - also enabled as a function of the above (or auto, cant remember right now)
Primary Graphics adapter is set to PCI express slot.
The power connections are all in place - 8 pin motherboard additional power, all 6 6pin video power, etc.
The motherboard diagnostic lights all go green eventually, which tells me it likes something, however I never get a video signal to the monitor
BTW the monitor is a Viewsonic 22" LCD (don't know if it makes a difference)
This is not my first build - but it is my first SLI build, and I am thinking that there may be more to the SLI than I am thinking: EX. will I see a display during the entire boot sequence? if not, then that is partly to blame. I have not installed the OS yet (Vista 64 and Linux) and if it won't activate the display until the OS is loaded I just need to be sure that is whats going on... Then I will simply pull 2 of the cards, install the OS's and then put them back in.

Reviews for ATI Radeon HD 4870 Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro?

There's no review at the Apple Store on this [ATI Radeon HD 4870 Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro (Early 2009 or Early 2008)|http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB999ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=NDE4NDMx OA]. Googled and found nothing related to the Mac kit. Mostly PC based.
Should I consider this card? I need a spare/replacement graphics card for my Mac Pro (early 2008). The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT card has failed me twice.

Just came out on barefeats:
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal14.html
Shows new drivers with 285, also compares 4870.
If you play a lot of games on the windows side, you might also want to consider the 4890. I has recently became flashable (if you're into that kinda thing). It has a lot more leeway to be overclocked. Close to (or if your lucky) hitting the 1 Ghz core clock speed, gives very close comp to the 285, and at fraction of the price. You can get an XFX 4890 on newegg for $195.

No Video Scopes after graphics upgrade. Why?

I am on a Mac Pro that came standard with the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT. I installed a second card (identical) so that I can have up to four monitors. Since then, I have not been able to see any scopes when using Color. They worked previously, just not after the graphics upgrade. I just ran a software update and am using all current software as of 7-24-09. The other flaw I see is that when going to single screen mode, it will resize the windows to fit the screen however it does not resize the interface within the windows (first time I've seen this). Please help!

Zebulun wrote:
Do a forum search about multiple graphics cards if you're a bit skeptical and you'll also find the solution.
Or from within Color go:
Help > Release Notes
Gory details on dual display cards is documented.
- pi

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