K89 NEO4 PLAT/SLI Do I have to send it back?

Was hoping to get a GEFORCE 7800 GTX for this mobo with either a 3800 or 4000 athlon 64 do I have to send it back to MSI for a bios flash.
P.S this is my first build so any tips would be welcomed.

No worries.
As for the Bios flash all you need to do with a newer core top get it to come up for posting or Bios Adjustments/Flashing is to use a single Stick of RAM. That forces the CPU's Memory Controller into single channel and that will get it done. If you try to post in dual channel with older Bios's that do not fully support a newer chip it will lock and you need then just to remove all RAM except from Slot 1 and reset the Bios as per your user manual.
No worries as it is not as hard as it sounds.

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K89 NEO4 PLAT/SLI Do I have to send it back?

No worries.
As for the Bios flash all you need to do with a newer core top get it to come up for posting or Bios Adjustments/Flashing is to use a single Stick of RAM. That forces the CPU's Memory Controller into single channel and that will get it done. If you try to post in dual channel with older Bios's that do not fully support a newer chip it will lock and you need then just to remove all RAM except from Slot 1 and reset the Bios as per your user manual.
No worries as it is not as hard as it sounds.

Can anyone explain this bizarre Neo4 plat/sli circumstance?

Just had mobo upgraded to Neo4 plat/sli. I only have IDE drives in the system currently. They are PHYSICALLY connected in this way:
IDE socket 1 cable
master - 80GB HDD, empty drive
slave - DVD burner
IDE socket 2 cable
master - 120GB HDD, OS installed here (WIN XP PRO SP2)
slave - 120GB HDD, data resides on this disk.
HOWEVER...
The drives are being recognized at bootup in this way:
Primary Master - 120GB HDD with OS (physically on IDE socket 2 as master)
Primary Slave - DVD Burner (physically on IDE socket 1 as slave)
Secondary Master - 80GB HDD (physically on IDE socket 1 as master)
Secondary Slave - 120GB HDD with data (physically on IDE socket 2 as slave)
Further, the WIN XP disk management utility shows the drives in a similar manner:
Disk 0 - 120GB w/ OS (drive C:)
Disk 1 - 80GB (no drive letter)
Disk 2 - 120GB w/ data (drive E:)
DVD burner - (drive D:)
How can this be? I thought that to show as primary master, a drive must be connected to IDE socket 1 as master? And how in the world can the Primary master and slave drives reside on two different IDE cables?
I didn't do this installation and cannot talk to the tech who did until Monday. FWIW, everything is working just fine. And it all appears to be jumpered properly. But before I go about the process of loading up all my software, etc., I feel a need to understand why this is happening. Is this a function of a bios setting that I can't find?
Can anyone help?
Thanks so much!

Well, in the first place welcome to the forum, secondly what you present it's correct, the system drive (OS drive) it has to always be the drive C: that's not a question of Master and Slave because if you go to the system properties you will see those drives as they are configured in the BIOS.
But for me that is a strange configuration....
Be well....

Neo4 plat SLI raid configuration

I made a striped raid config from my 2 160gig SATA drives in SATA 1 and 2. but when i tried to install windows on it, it didnt recognize the raid config and saw it as 2 seperate hard drives. I tried SATA ports 3 and 4. and it made no difference. then i tried 5 and 6. but it uses an old raid controller and it worked fine and i installed windows on it. BUT, im about to reformat and i want to use the newer raid controller. I have the MSI neo4 plat SLI mobo. But i saw that my mobo came with 2 floppys and i only installed 1 of the floppys during windows install... do i need to install both of them? I guess that might be why it didnt work... but can anyone assure me thats the problem? I didnt think i needed both of them...

Quote from: lupolian on 13-February-05, 06:09:50
I made a striped raid config from my 2 160gig SATA drives in SATA 1 and 2. but when i tried to install windows on it, it didnt recognize the raid config and saw it as 2 seperate hard drives. I tried SATA ports 3 and 4. and it made no difference. then i tried 5 and 6. but it uses an old raid controller and it worked fine and i installed windows on it. BUT, im about to reformat and i want to use the newer raid controller. I have the MSI neo4 plat SLI mobo. But i saw that my mobo came with 2 floppys and i only installed 1 of the floppys during windows install... do i need to install both of them? I guess that might be why it didnt work... but can anyone assure me thats the problem? I didnt think i needed both of them...
YOU HAVE TO INSTALL BoTH DRIVERS ON THE NVIDIA FLOPPY,THE RAID DRIVER AND THE MASS STORAGE DRIVER. HIT S TWICE TO DO IT. The other floppy is for the silicon image drivers,dont use it unless you use ports 5 and 6.

Neo4 Plat SLI & geforce 8800 GTX

Can anyone confirm if the geforce 8800 GTX will run in a Neo4 Plat SLI? The last bios mentions support for the GX2's but no new updates for the 8800 series.

Quote from: Biggs25 on 17-November-06, 13:48:05
Can anyone confirm if the geforce 8800 GTX will run in a Neo4 Plat SLI? The last bios mentions support for the GX2's but no new updates for the 8800 series.
Tested it and it works You might have to fiddle around with the cooler a bit - There's a capacitor next to the PCIE slot wich is in the way
Only 1 card tho, you can't run SLI on this board as the 8800GTX requires a full x16 slot and won't work on a x8 slot
so x8 - x8 SLI won't work.

Using the "silicon controller" on the MSI NEO4 PLAT SLI, quick question!

I have a stable OC w/ my FX55 (261x11) 2.87GHz, but now I want to use the Silicon Controller, and not just my NVIDIA controller. Does the MSI NEO4 PLAT SLI "LOCK" the silicon controller, so since my FSB is OC'ed, I dont want any problems.... By not using all 4 ports on the NVIDIA controller, will this maybe "relax" the nvidia controller, and not let it work so hard, or does it not matter. (overall speed wise)

Quote from: newls1 on 12-April-05, 08:06:00
I have a stable OC w/ my FX55 (261x11) 2.87GHz, but now I want to use the Silicon Controller, and not just my NVIDIA controller. Does the MSI NEO4 PLAT SLI "LOCK" the silicon controller, so since my FSB is OC'ed, I dont want any problems.... By not using all 4 ports on the NVIDIA controller, will this maybe "relax" the nvidia controller, and not let it work so hard, or does it not matter. (overall speed wise)
All of the PCI-E devices are locked, so that includes the SiI3132 controller and the Marvell Gigabit NIC. One note, it's best to use the SiI3132 "last". AnandTech did a benchmark of the two controllers, and the onboard nVIDIA controller was faster, although the 3132 PCI-E controller was much faster than the competitions use of PCI based SiI3112 controllers. If you've already used your nVIDIA controller for 4 SATA or SATA II devices, then by all means use the SiI3132 without overclocking fear.

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It seems strange that after you simply swapped a heatsink that your mobo blanked out.
Fiirst, you should check to see if your power supply is still working.
Second, if you psu is working, you need to go to the simpliest setup....1 vid card, 1 hard drive, 1 floppy, 1 stick of ram, etc and see if you can boot...just my 2 cents.

I bought the Adobe Acrobat Pro on Disc, then realized my new laptop doesn't have a CD drive. Can I just download it with my serial number or do I have to send it back?

I bought a new laptop after mine was stolen. I also purchased Adobe Acrobat Pro on Disc. I then realized my new steady state laptop doesn't have a CD drive... Can I download the software with my serial number or do I have to send it back and purchase the downloadable version?

I also purchased Adobe Acrobat Pro
Which version?
You can simply download the installer from Adobe, install then enter your serial number when prompted.
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I sent my Iphone 5c in for repair and when they sent it back my sim card wasn't in it is there any way i can have them send it back or do I need to get a new sim card for it?

I sent my Iphone 5c in for repair and when they sent it back my sim card wasn't in it is there any way i can have them send it back or do I need to get a new sim card for it?

You'll have to get a new one from your carrier. I believe the shipping instructions for mail in service explicitly tell you to take it out as you will most likely not receive the same phone back. Apple doesn't repair most phones, they replace them.

Many complains about screen shadows, will they fix it finally? I have to send it back 3rd time...

It's the 3rd time that I have to send iMac back to support for the screen, as again shadows do appear on the top corners of the screen. And is not only me, I know two more people with same issues...
Do you face the same issues, and after visiting support, the issue happened again ?
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I am about to send it in for the 5th time. Well, the second for this machine, they replaced it back in november and I already had the display changed once. This time I have yellow tinge on the lower-right side of the screen and the usual stains that periodically appear in 3 months time. They say it's an environmental issue, I say it's because of the low quality of the display itself. None of the other displays I have, not even a 2560x1600 Dell display, present this issue. I fear that as long as Apple will not acknowledge the stains issue we'll never see the end of it.

NEO4 Plat Sli SIL3231 Raid problem - Can't boot after BIOS Flash!

Hi, I have and Neo4 Platinum SLI. I had "the problem" a while back with the nVida raid where there was a hang on shutdown. I then created a RAID0 using my two Rators on the SIL3132 controller, and have three hitachi drives hooked up to SATA1 - SATA3. Back then, I had trouble getting my SIL3132 array to be the main boot volume. I could boot when no other drives were attached, but as soon as I attached them, I get the boot disk error after post. Somehow I got it to work, but not think this time, I flashed the BIOS and ran into the same problems, as the BIOS got reset.
First, I went in and re-enabled RAID on the sil3132 controller, and change the boot order to have the RAID voluime be the first boot device, and my other drivers be the next on down the line. Upon rebooting, my system hangs after verifying DMI pool at a blanksscreen for 5 - 10 minutes then gives my the "missing HAL.dll error". if I go back into the BIOS and disable SATA1/SATA2 and SATA3/SATA4 my computer boots just fine. I even completley disconnected my three drives an my system boots just fine. I have searched these forums and could not find anything close to my issue and wondered if it is something I am just missing in the setup. I will say that at POST my IDE devices has always read:
IDE Primary Master [None]
IDE Secondary Master [None]
IDE Primary Slave (my first DVD/R drive)
IDE Secondary Slave (My second DVD/R drive)
IDE Third Master (a 250gb drive)
IDE Fourth Master (a 250gb drive)
IDE Fifth Master (a 250gb drive)
IDE Sixth Master [None]
Is this normal? all my hard drives are SATA. the raptors and three SATAII drives.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Since the Nvida raid problem seems to have been fixed (as far as I read) I would like to go back to using the nVidia raid controller. I just need to back up my system first!
Thanks in advance.
J

Jkmet,
I have noted the same problem, with a USB Pen drive.
If I leave it plugged in and shut down, the next time I cold boot it tries to boot for the pen drive. What I found out the any time you add a drive before booting the BIOS places it at the top of the Hard Drive Priority list making it the boot drive. Same thing happens when I plug in a new SATA and does not mater where it is connected. So, what I have to do any time you add a drive with the power off you have to boot to BIOS reset the Hard drive priority list, then save, exit and reboot to boot from you windows drive.
I am sure this is a BIOS Bug, but MSI states that the way it should would work.
Roger
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K8N Neo4 (non SLI), does it have dual core support?

Hi, I've got a few questions:
- Can I install an AMDX2 4200+ processor in my K8N Neo4 non-SLI motherboard (model MS-7125)?
- If I can, do I have to update my BIOS? I bought this board in March of 2005.
- If I have to update my BIOS, how can I do it? I don't have a floppy drive, and the Live Update thing doesn't seem to be working.
Thanks for any help.

Quote from: Flexstyle on 01-June-07, 00:48:59
Hmmmkay here...
Well, I tried to find the USB legacy support, but I looked in every menu and submenu and I couldn't find it. Also, it turns out that I gave some misinformation--the USB options for boot are FDD, ZIP, and CD. Not even support for a HDD!
So, I'm back to square one.
Can I flash from a floppy...? I can probably get my hands on one if needed.
Or even better, is there a way to boot the flashing app from a CD?
"Well, I tried to find the USB legacy support, but I looked in every menu and submenu and I couldn't find it. Also, it turns out that I gave some misinformation--the USB options for boot are FDD, ZIP, and CD. Not even support for a HDD!"
in BIOS, ---> "Integrated Peripherals" ---> "USB KB/Storage Support" and Enabled it. then "SAVE AND EXIT" , hit F11 or F8 during post, then choice USB-ZIP, or USB-HDD and boot from it.
"misinformation--the USB options for boot are FDD, ZIP, and CD. Not even support for a HDD!"
choice USB-ZIP.

Neo4 Plat/Sli Dual PCI x16 or Dual x8

I'm a little confused about my motherboard (K8 Neo4 Platinum/Sli)... on the specs written on the box i can see "Dual PCI-E x16"... in the way that i understand that is... that i have 2 pci-e ports with x16 bandwidth on every port...
The usuer's guide says "The mainboard provides two PCI Express x16 and three 32-bit PCI-BUS"
This is true...??
2 x16 pci-e = 32 PCI-E lanes for graphics or 2 x8 PCI-E = 16 PCI-E lanes for graphics

There is only 20 pci-e lanes in total on nforce4 .
Dual x-16 in this explanation means the it has two physical x-16 slots .
On delivery the sli card/switch is mounted so the first 16x pci-e port has 16 lanes and the second 16x port 2 lanes .
When it's set to sli mode it reorganizes it to 8 lanes on each of the two slots .

Last night to get this right or it gets rma'd k8n neo4 plat/sli

Here is pics of the benchmarks and test programs of my system. The specs in my sig .
This system will not post with a pci-express card, and will with a pci card. It has posted and then just never came back on . Please desperate, will try any suggestions ?
http://www.clubeclipse.org/page2.html
http://www.clubeclipse.org/page3.html
http://www.clubeclipse.org/page4.html

ok sli card is pointed right way, pci-express card has been changed and still same sometimes the dlite says memory error and sometimes 1 and 4 are red.
Is there any other bios setting s or anything for sli. I have sli card positioned to non-sli
just trying other while wating for rma number but I think im getting closer

Need more voltage for RAM on Neo4 Plat/SLI

I bought this OCZ PC4000 VX ram to run on my MSI Neo4 but little did I know that the board will not put out more than 2.85 volts for the ram. This ram is supposed to run at 3.3 volts stock and can be set up to 3.5 before voiding the warrenty. I updated my bios to 5.0 beta 6 which allows me to increase the voltage up to 3.1 but it's still not enough. This ram performs better with more voltage. I do not want to replace either the board or the ram but I will probably replace the board if I can't find a solution simply because it would be cheaper than the ram. Will the ram voltage be able to go higher in future bios releases? Is there some mod I can do to increase it?

As I see this question being asked a lot with the new high voltage modules, I'm making this a sticky and locking it...
Even looking at Mushkin's new Red Line, only the DFI boards qualify.
as taken from the details from Mushkin's site
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Recommended Platforms--- Mushkin tests all Redline memory modules on Athlon64 platforms. Furthermore, when running two modules, only Socket 939 platforms are validated to run at rated specifications/timings. We currently recommend and validate the Redline memory series on the DFI LanParty UT NForce4 Ultra-D, DFI LanParty UT NForce4 SLI-DR, and DFI LanParty NForce4 SLI-DR boards as they provide the best combination of voltage options and compatibility for the Redline Series. Other motherboards may work, but may require modification for adequate voltages, and may not produce optimal results. Single Channel Athlon64 systems may have a hard time running 2x512mb dimms at rated speeds due to memory load on the single channel memory controller. Pentium4 and AthlonXP systems generally will not obtain rated specifications secondary to motherboard/memory controller limitations. These modules are compatible with most motherboards for Pentium4/AthlonXP CPUs, however end users are advised that lower frequencies achieved.

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