Is new MSI K9A2 Platinum DOA?

Bought a new MSI K9A2 Platinum Version 1 MOBO off eBay, installed with spacers between board and case and installed my current hardware. Power came on but, pc would not post. Monitor kept showing no signal, power and HD LED came on for 1 to 2 seconds and Green and White LEDs on MB came on and stayed on. So I cleared CMOS, took out one video card and NIC so was pretty much down to bare minimum, one video card, one stick ram, CPU, HD (SATA) and MOBO but, still suffered same issue. Is MOBO DOA?
Existing Hardware from my PC:
Antec Neopower 500 (500 watts) power supply
AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (3.02 GHz) (Windsor, 90nm, AM2 (940))
Cooler Master Aquagate Viva CPU Liquid Cooling System
2 x 1 GB RAM Mushkin: (XP2-8500, Part Number: 996535)
1066MHz Latency: 5-5-4-12 Parity: Unbuffered
Voltage: 2.2-2.35V Pins: 240
Module: 128Mx64 Chip: 64x8
2 X ATI Radeon 1950 GT running in Crossfire mode (installed both cards in dark blue ports)
Fujitsu 300 GB HD SATA
Sony DVD RW
Bigfoot NIC model: Killer M1
ATX Case with 4 X 90 MM Case fans
Initially thought could be the video cards but, owner's guide and MSI Tech Support state that K9A2 can support up to 16X, so I assume that also means it support PCIe 1.0 as well as PCIe 2.0.
Have read on MSI forum that power could be the issue but, tend to believe if I take it down to bare minimum (CPU, CPU Cooler, 1 Stick of Ram, 1 Video Card, HD (SATA), 2 X 90mm case fans and MOBO) that it should have booted up at the point.
Link to new board, MSI K9A2 Platinum, specs: http://us.msi.com/product/p_spec.asp...tinum&class=mb
Link to MOBO owner's guide on MSI, http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=do...1&prod_no=1332
Any help or ideas?
Thanks in advance

Boombox,
Good morning and thanks for putting my concerns to rest, like I said before, I have to upgrade a part at time. Next piece is AMD Phenom II X4 955 (hopefully gets here NLT Tuesday) with RAM I purchased last month and did not want to fry them first time I boot up the system. Plus I am on Day 2 since switch out of my K9A and still no issues
Also I must weigh in on MSI's RMA process, overall the process is pretty smooth, my issue is with the replacement MOBO. Guess after they tested my old MOBO (NEW OUT OF THE BOX), they had to replace it. Replacement board was USED (assuming until failure by previous owner) and had some "Cosmetic issues", 1. Copper Cooling tube is slightly crushed not sure what that does to air flow and 2. Half of the IDE pins were bent, I can't see thing in front of me, so I had to take a digital picture of IDE plug and blow up so I could see which way to bend them back. Figure there would be some sort of QC before return but, guess not......
Assuming since it all relates to this post, once I install CPU and RAM will let those that have taken time out of their day to help me, know what my latest status is. Again Thanks to all of you, hopefully I can pay back your help in the future.

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I had the same problem with the same board and I obtained an RMA, after experiencing the same problem with the new board I am under the impression that something is wrong with my hardware setup.
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Quote from: Jakemo136 on 02-January-09, 01:07:12
You know, I would agree with you, but the memory is a PC-8500 kit, rated at ddr2-1066, thus I'm not actually overclocking them. I'm attempting to just clock them, if you will, rather than run them underclocked. Happy new year, btw!
Yes you are. That's heavy OC settings:
Quote from: Jakemo136 on 01-January-09, 09:52:43
Okay, got my compy workin again! Lo and behold, it wasn't the board after all. My sincerest apologies. Ordered new ram, OCZ Platinum DDR2-1066 2x2 Gb, plugged it in, and the machine fired right up. There was much rejoicing.
Anyway, I have a new problem:
Before my compy died, I had the CPU and RAM overclocked to 3.2 GHz and 1066 MHz, respectively. Worked great. Now, however, I cannot get my system to POST when I try to overclock it to those speeds. The fastest I can get it stable is 3.192GHz, with the following settings:
CPU FSB: 266
HT Ratio: x4
CPU Mult: x12
CPU Freq: 3192 MHz
RAM set at 5-5-5-15, FSB/Mem 1:1.66, Adjusted DDR frequency 1064, CPU-Z says 1058, no biggie.
CPU Voltage: 1.399 V
RAM Voltage: 2.2 V
Here's the settings I try for 3.2GHz and 1066:
CPU FSB: 320
HT: x4
CPU Mult: x10
RAM still at 5-5-5-15, for 1066MHz
No go at all. Spread Spectrum disabled, Cool N Quiet disabled
Thanks!
"I'm attempting to just clock them, if you will, rather than run them underclocked. "
Only AM2+ CPU can support 1066.
You use "AMD 5000+ BE", support 800.
Main Memory
• Supports Dual DDR2 533/667/800/1066 (1066 for AM2+ only)
- 4 DDR2 DIMMs (240pin / 1.8V)
- Supports a maximum memory size up to 8GB.
http://global.msi.eu/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1332

BootMGR missing (with a twist) MSI K9a2 Platinum

Hey guys I am new here, and I apologize for bringing up a problem with millions of tutorials but I am yet to find one that applies to my specific case.
So I turned my computer off last night, and attempted to turn it on this morning... Btw I am dual booting with Windows 7 64 Ultimate, and then on some partion somewhere I have Windows 7 RC. I will attempt to describe the scenario with these pictures:
So I couldn't' embed the images properly, so here is the album:
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Thanks for the link to the drivers!
I have burned them to a disk an attempted to load them during the windows start-up recovery. But when I press "Load Drivers" and search the CD (with the given drivers) I cannot find a file that will work.. When I click on a given file, windows says something along the lines of "This file cannot be used".
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MSI K9A2 Platinum Phenom 9550 slow as hell

hi guyz
i just recently put 2gether a new rig at long last, not as grand as some i've seen on AMDzone but its a good start. i was using an old Athlon XP which is far too slow to run pinnacle 12 (video editing s/w) hence the new upgrade. after purchasing the phenom 9550 i was expecting to fly, i mean compared to my Athlon who wldn't. i stuck with XP although i play games vista is too system hungrey so i've heard. anywayz after getting my rig up installing the latest sp3, m/b drivers, bios upgrade the whole works, the performance was almost the same as my Athlon which really freak me out. i splash so much on the new rig n got my old Athlon back
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phenom 9550 x4
seagate 500GB HDD sata
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Quote from: Sm3K3R on 05-February-09, 23:21:47
prince_terry ,this was my first impression too, in the first month.
After i installed all drivers in the proper order ,after i assured the RAM is in dual channel ,after i have put the SATA HDD at SATA 1 specs (to make the computer boot up faster ),after i updated to latest BIOS -es ( the video and mobo) ,the computer started to be what it should have been.
Make sure you have good drivers for the SB 600 ( if your HDD is conected to its SATA ports) ,in XP SP 3 you should use older drivers ,that are not available on the MSI website at this moment (there were available somewhere in the 2008 spring-summer).The package available now doesnt have the PATA drivers(IDE emulation) and this may show poor performance for the drive in games(choppyness).
On the other hand the 9550 is inferior, in my opinion ,to a X2 6400+.Sure 6400+ is only dual core ,but there is a lot of software that doesnt know what a quad is.
Also make sure you disable Cool and Quiet in BIOS options and HPET option (recomended OFF for XP) and in On Chip SATA BIOS section under Integrated Peripherals make sure PCI IDE Busmaster option is on (a legacy option that will speed up Windows installation for ex.).
Also a poor PSU with low voltages may lead to same poor performance,check the voltages (with a digital multimeter) and make sure they are in spec.
do u hv any good location for the SB600 that i can download from. all my bio update r from MSI website. C&Q has been disable will look into the rest n let u knw the outcome. thanks

I have a MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard. Bios version 1.8 overclocking

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MSI K9A2 Platinum + Phenom 9600 + 2GB Mushkin XP8500 cannot boot into windows

Hi!
I am building my computer using the Spider platform and I ran across problems during booting into windows.
I am using MSI K9A2 platinum with Phenom 9600 and Mushkin 2Gb kit XP8500 ddr2 1066. I have no problem installing windows xp.
The problem starts when I install the utility and drivers that come on a cd from MSI, my computer requests to re-boot after installation and after
that it will not boot into windows. I can get to the windows logo and then the system reboots right away.
I checked the bios and it shows that the ram is running at 800mhz and i have tried running with just 1 stick and im getting the same problem every time.
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thanks!

Quote from: nirianto on 22-February-08, 01:32:52
Everything is stable now...I guess installing the driver from the MSI website is the best thing to do right now
I notice that my ram is underclocked to 800mhz instead of 1066mhz...I have update the motherboard BIOS to v1.2 and i checked that the ram is running on unganged mode...I tried adjusting the spd to 5-5-4-12 with voltage of 2.2v as suggested by the mushkin ram itself
Any idea?
"I have update the motherboard BIOS to v1.2 and i checked that the ram is running on unganged mode..."
That is the correct mode.
"I notice that my ram is underclocked to 800mhz instead of 1066mhz..."
1066 is not officially certified by JEDEC, also your memory probably don't have SPD configuration for that freq.
Contact to Mushkin for more details.
"I guess installing the driver from the MSI website is the best thing to do right now"
Yep
"Everything is stable now.."
nice :smiley:

MSI k9a2 platinum trouble

I came home from work yesterday after installing a vista update on shutdown. turned the computer on and walked away. came back and it was blank everything was seemingly on but nothing on the screen. So I had to do a hard reset. Took a few times but finally I got a screen telling me that something on the north bridge I believe (bad recollection of what was on there I was tired and angry) failed due to overclocking... now I had tried to overclock this motherboard a LONG time ago. results were undesirable so I reset it back to factory defaults and uninstalled the overclocking software that came with it. now I was just playing some games and had a critical error (no time to read it) that resulted in the PC not booting up at all no beep no post just turns on everything spins but it seems like it is in a perpetual loop of restarts.. any and all help would be great. Email me if you know how to fix it or if you know for sure I am screwed.
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Give me solution , MSI K9A2 Platinum

my motherboard MSI K9A2 Platinum it seeem die after i flashed 3 times continuosly without restarting the pc dont ask me why i do it, i am just was crazy that day .the program called "afuwin" lastest version. i flashed it with the last bios 1.4 (A7376AMS.140) ,afuwin seem detect only .rom files but i think this is no matter and i process to flash A7376AMS.140 , the original one is version 1.1, after i restart my pc , there is no video signal just a black screen , mouse and keyboard is no working, but fan gpu,cpu it seem working. i try to clear cmos by take out the battery and change jumper to clear cmos for 2 min , and nothing. my board is rev 00 when i saw it with cpuz, if that can help..... . but definitelly i think my board is dead. after clearing cmos i also search some information, and there is a trick for ami bios to recover after bad flash or corrupted flash, is by floopy you must copy an oficial msi bios and change it to AMIBOOT.ROM copy it to floopy and boot the pc with the floopy, but is not working for me becuase my floopy seem not read anything and i dont see anthing with my monitor, really desesperated

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 24-April-08, 05:06:18
Have you removed power cord from the PSU?
yes i have, also i have put the PSU to 0 and take cable out from the wall.
by the way , when the mother boar is running there is a green light in the middle i suppose that is normal??

Msi K9a2 platinum with memory

Dear,
I have bought a MSI K9a2 platinum with a AMD Phenom 9600. I have placed 2 sets of these memory G.E.I.L GX22GB6400UDC4. In the manual they said that I have to change the memory settings in the bios to run at 4-4-4-12.
When I look in the bios, I see a lot of memory settings to change. Which one do I need to change to run at these settings?
Thanks,
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1. If 40 represents tRC (which it probably does not): it's too high. Set this value to Auto in your BIOS, and set tRC to 20 or 21.
2. You can't, there isn't any setting for it. But since you have four sticks of memory that fill up all of the DIMMs, there is no other option than to run it in dual channel. Software might detect it as single channel because of the Unganged Mode setting, which creates two separate 64 bit channels (but is obviously still dual channel)...

MSI K9A2 Platinum stopped working

Hi, guys.
I have
MSI K9A2 Platinum
AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core
Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB
Corsair Value S. PC5300 DDR2 4GB * 2
and been using it fine for quite some time. I was dabbling in 3DS Max and left a big render job on overnight. The next day my system was dead. When I press the power button the CPU fan spins for 1 second and the LEDs flash on and off. I read these forums and came across this thread: http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=113170.0. The exact same problem. And he fixed it by replacing the PSU. So I thought I should give it a try and replaced my Chieftech 550W with an XFX 650W, but the problem persists. I am thinking it is the CPU since it happened during a render. Any thoughts?
regards
Kevin

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When I press the power button the CPU fan spins for 1 second and the LEDs flash on and off.
Hmm, sounds eeriely familiar to me... what happens if you disconnect the 4pin CPU power connector? Does the fan stay spinning, and the LEDs on the board stay illuminated (but system still does not POST)?
I had a K9A2 Platinum board for some time, and the same thing happened to me... tried different PSU, CPU and RAM, but it turned out to be a problem with the board's voltage regulator, and I ended up replacing the board...

MSI K9A2 Platinum + ocz 1066 runs 800mhz?!?

Ive tried all i can do to get this memory to run at proper speeds. I updated the bios to the most current version 1.6. I tried setting the voltage and latency settings in there manually. The ratio button does not give me a option higher that 1:2. It makes the memory run at 800mhz. Im not the first to have this problem as i have googled and found many with the same problem yet i haven't come across a solution that helps me.
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P10664GK - Retail
MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.1GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor Model ADV60000DOBOX - Retail
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Quote from: radd on 31-December-08, 16:16:42
Might want to help out a provider of your motherboards from receiving future negative feedback and have them correct the way they display the memory standard. To those that don't research a board from the providers site. I feel deceived and i don't think i will use a msi product ever again. But thats all talk and if the price is right i might. Im just a little pissed off about this. Know of anything that can get it to 1066? why does it only work with am2+?
"Might want to help out a provider of your motherboards from receiving future negative feedback and have them correct the way they display the memory standard."
As you can see its stated clear at MSI Web ==> http://global.msi.eu/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1332
"I feel deceived and i don't think i will use a msi product ever again. But thats all talk and if the price is right i might. Im just a little pissed off about this."
That's pure no sense. As i already told you that has nothing to do with the mainboard.
Newegg is not MSI problem, but there is listed correctly too. Board can support 1066 memory sticks.
As you can see you are currently use 1066 memory sticks without problem,
at what frequency will they run that's another story and do not depend from the mainboard, but from the CPU used.
"Know of anything that can get it to 1066? why does it only work with am2+?"
Because the CPU works in that way. Memory controller integrated in the CPU can works at 800 max.
For 1066, you need latest AM2+ generation CPU which memory controller support 1066.
For more info you can ask AMD or to read AMD Tech docs.

Are there any MSI K9A2 Platinum Bios version with better V-core adjust?

Hi everyone
I wonder if anyone knows if there are some bios version to MSI K9A2 Platinum there they have change the V-core settings. I think it´s very big step between the different V-core setting.
In my bios (v.1.3) i have this settings at V-core. Auto=1.32v (AMD 5000+ BE) then 1.36, 1.39, 1.44, 1.49, 1.51. etc.
So, if anyone knows if there are som bios version that have better options to the V-core settings i would be grateful

Quote from: AaronYuri on 05-April-08, 18:33:22
Moved it here, as you don't overvolt a chip to run it at stock.
Okay. I´m sorry if i post it wrong. I have change my profil now

MSI K9A2 Platinum No Video

I run a computer repair service out of my home here in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I get an average of 3-4 repair jobs a week. Also buying broken computers to repair and resell. Recently I got a job to repair an MSI PC. The customer had acquired the computer from her ex husband. Her complaint was that the computer was randomly loosing video. My first thought was that the graphics card was going bad. (Also MSI). Upon receiving the computer it was clear that it was not taken care of as it was full of dust and pet hair, and overheating was most likely issue. (shes a dog groomer lol). After a through cleaning plugged everything in and sure enough...no video, everything running as it should be, all fans, all lights on motherboard lit up. I pulled the video card out, put it in another computer, video came on, so i ruled out this as the problem. Tried running with just one RAM stick close to the CPU, nothing, pulled the battery, replaced, video was back, put it all back together and it was running fine. I advised her that the motherboard was on its last leg, in the meantime she had contacted her ex husband, he agreed as the system was over 7yrs old. He would be coming up to bring the rest of her things and would bring her a new motherboard. The new one being an MSI 970A-643. Also with an AMD FX Black Ed. CPU, and 4 sticks of 4gb Corsair XMS 3. But not a new power supply. So installed all of this, the power lead to the CPU was short by 4 pins, so decided to try it that way as it was all she had. On powering up, no video! Then thinking back remembered this issue. So I pulled a power supply from one of my gaming systems. This one had a matching lead. Now everything worked fine. So for payment aside from the original $50 I got for going over it and cleaning it out, I accepted the left over parts. The motherboard, ram, power supply, cpu, and cpu cooler.
I know this is turning into a long story :(
Here is why I decided to post here...I have this K9A2 Platinum motherboard. My thought is that it has a bad capacitor near the PCI slots as the graphics card did not work on any of them. But after searching for them have had no luck in finding them. Is there a way to order a set for this motherboard from the factory? This will be my first attempt at repairing a motherboard, and have been waiting for just this type of situation to try.
Looking at sets for other motherboards I see my investment as being around $20, to me a small price to pay for the satisfaction of knowing I can bring a bad board back to life, and a small price also for the experience gained. And if all else fails, I can pull the CPU and get another board.
Also before attempting this I am not lost on the fact that it could have been the power supply after all, but my POST card did give these error codes when I was in my first round with it...
No.1 code 00
Control to Int 19
boot loader
No.2 Code: 00
(same)
Signal error
Check PCU & Power Box
RST: Invalid
IRDY: Invalid
FRAM: Invalid
At time had yellow light under the graphics card, a green light above it and a white light above it if this helps.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I am no expert by any means, I am an HVAC Tech, turned self made computer repair person, and I have never had a customer not get their computer back not working. I never over charge and always get them back within 2 days tops.
I have read that maybe the PCI slots are bad, can find nothing about changing them or the parts to do this.

To begin with this was moved to wrong section of forum, this belongs in either 'Retired' section or 'AMD' section not Intel C2D/Q.
As for caps see badcaps.com ( http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=2 ) for replacement for online ordering of them, they have been supplying these items for quite a few years or get what you need from a local store if available, you will not get any MSI factory cap kits as they do not offer such repair items for sale.
My advice would be assemble components and test with a known good PSU and if it runs OK then you know it was the PSU that went belly up. It could be that due to age and bad PSU some caps may be bad but that could be seen easy enough just by close examination of them. badcaps has plenty of pictures for comparison of good vs bad caps.
What brand and model is the PSU in question?

MSI K9A2 Platinum has weak MOSFETs

Well gang I am on my fourth K9A2 Platinum board. The first two I got were just plain unstable. The third one I got and put into my kids computer is very stable. I bought a replacement for my second one and I have to say with 8GB (4x2gb), 9850BE, SB Fatal1ty, 4x 3870 voltmodded to 1.675V at 985/1210 this board was running every test perfectly. I was able to get the FSB up to 230 with DDR-920 5-5-4-10-2T and it ran 10 hours stable on Prime95 (4 instances, affinity) with 1920 MB on each instance.
Well I figured without a working northbridge multiplier this was darned good so I started on the CPU. I bumped the CPU voltage to 1.6V in the BIOS and set the multiplier to 13 for an overclock of 2990MHz.
Started Prime95, came back in a couple hours and the system was OFF.
When I press the power button only a flicker on the mobo LEDs then nothing.
Decided to unplug everything except I forgot to unplug the 4-pin power connector, then I jumpered pins 4 and 6 on the 24-pin power supply. A MOSFET decided to go up in smoke.
Did I mention I am water cooling everything now? NB, SB, CPU, VRM, memory, video cards... I checked and the VRM heat transfer pad was secure on and got burnt from the pop.
All I can say is, gang, after working with this motherboard for almost 6 months now and having nothing but trouble I was ***SO*** encouraged to get everything working so stable. I did not experience a single cold boot loop with this new board either. Then POP... I'm so upset now... this board can't handle the settings in its own BIOS.
I have a DFI Lanparty I bought with a Promise FTTX4650. I am going to switch to that now. It has a digital PWM. This shouldn't happen there. I think it does PCIE slots in a x16/x4/x4 configuration though so I am not entirely encouraged and it only has room for 3 of my 4 video cards. It's either that or suffer with PCIe 1.1 on a Skulltrail and drop $1500 for a CPU.
Well anyway, this board in general has so much potential. It's too bad MSI just didn't manufacture or support it properly (no northbridge multiplier, no PCIe setting in the BIOS, etc).

At work I just put together a Gigabyte X48 based board and the thing has 14 chokes (the square blocks) labeled R80 while the K9A2 Platinum has just 5 I believe labeled R34 or R45 (I forget, I'm too lazy to go look). It does appear this board is a bit weak on the VRM side. I see more MOSFETs on the K9A2 Platinum than on the X48 board I saw, however. I'm sure everyone will be using a Digital PWM/VRM pretty soon.
Honestly if your board is giving you fits return it to where you bought it and ask for a new one. It took MSI 3-4 weeks I think to replace one of mine and it looks like the "repaired" it but I have no idea what they actually did to it... Anyway that's my advice. The newer ones MFG in 2008 seem to be pretty good. The Promise SAS chip onboard is incredibly fast at RAID0 and 4 PCIe 2.0 slots at 8x/8x/8x/8x is really, really sweet. This board is still very unique in the market, I think these two features make it that way. I would have paid $50 more for the same board, just with higher quality caps/chokes/VRM/etc on it.
Looking forward to the 45nm Phenoms, that's all I can say. I seem to have topped out at 2950MHz on the Phenom 9850 I have. I took one core up to 3.3GHz for a while under Prime95 but haven't been able to do it again (BSOD: failed to receive a secondary processor interrupt)...

New Msi Neo2 Platinum....many problems

Here`s my setup:
A64 3200 939 winny watercooled
Msi Neo2 Platinum bios ver 1.4 vcore 1.50 HTT x4
2x512 corsair xmspc3200xlpt timings 2.5-3-3-7 1T vdimm 2.85 235x10 fsb 1:1 in the first 2 slots next to the cpu and tried the last 2 also
BFG 6800 GT OC 256mb 1.65 volts
SB Audigy 2 zs in the third pci slot
80 gig Maxtor
80 gig WD SE
Truepower 550 about 2 yrs old 12v amps are rated at 24a
6 case fans
waterpump is on the 12 volt rail
VC is on its own rail or leg
hdd`s and floppy are on thier own rails or leg
Fans and water pump is on its own rails or leg
Cd rom and burner is on its own rail or leg
i ran memtest on my on my sticks seperate and together and passed at 250 fsb 1:1 for 5 hrs and they are a matched set
im getting random errors,device driver errors and crashes in HL2 and in 3dmark05 and in 03 i get as high as 2500mhz and my rig reboots itself tried changing ram timings to 3-3-3-8 and no change
curious my psu not enough for the job amp wise ? i checked my 12v5v and 3.3v rails with a dvom and im getting 11.96 on the 12v rail under load, 4.98 under load and 3.28 under load but the bios reads about .20 to .27 under what my meter says
this psu ran flawless with a NF7-S ver2 ,barton xp2500 mobile@2477mhz and a 9800 pro
im new to the board but not new to o/cing and this board has me baffled any ideas would be helpful

Sounds like you are suffering from the NF3 + 6800 combination problem.
Theese things that gives troubles are dx9 it seems.
Interesting thread:
NF3 & 6800(series) compatibility ???

Is new MSI K9A2 Platinum DOA?

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