K8N Master FAR C&Q

Does this last bios solve the issue, that the board turns off, when you want to use cool 'n quiet with 2 cpu's? I just found that out, when trying to upgrade to 2 opteron 280, and didn't found an option to turn cool 'n quiet off in 1.42 bios, what you can download from the site.
Or is there something else known as an workaround?
greetings
Thomas

Happy Hollidays
have done the modifcation and C&Q is working after downgrading the Bios to official 1.42 but now i have the strange effect that i cannot install/upgrade the driver for the graphics card. Even on a fresh install it's the same.
I'm using Vista64 Ultimate, Sapphire 3870, 8GB Ram(4x2GB), 2x Opteron 280. On the old running Install the driver works, but cannot be upgraded.
There is no error while installing the Catalyst driver (tried 8.10 to 8.12) it says everything went fine, but after reboot nothing is working. Is there a way to get a detailed error?
As mentioned earlier, i also had to upgrade the network driver for the broadcom interface, after i changed cpu+memory, bios revision kept the same. So maybe this is also a sideeffect from ... i have no idea *sigh*
I'd appreciate any hints
Caldro

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K8N Master-Far 2 - Memory & Graphics Card

What is the absolute fastest, largest, best quality brand memory for this board?
Can I install an ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder/Crossfire or am I limited to SLI cards?

You can put any PCI-e card in there that you like.
Even Crossfire.
It's only SLI that needs and nVidia chipset, all the rest works just fine.
But make sure your PSU can handle it, as that is a far more important factor

Cooler K8N Master 2-FAR

Greetings
I am planning to buy an air cooler for my opteron 250.
Wich mounting does the K8N Master 2-FAR uses? Is it a standard socket 940 mounting? Cause i read somewhere that a regular zalman who is compatible with 940 socket doesnt fit on this mainboard.
Does it use an intel mounting?
Maybe you can recommend me an air cooler on this mobo for my cpu
Plz help me
Greets
Geof

It uses an Intel Xeon socket 603 screw mounting.
Other Intel coolers could be compatible, but I don't know the types.
Look a bit further in this forum section, as this issue has been discussed a few times already.
For your info, all MSI S940 boards use this same mounting, so what you see for e.g. a K8T-Master board does also apply to yours when it comes to the cooler mounting.

K8N MASTER 2-FAR ..silent fans?

i have the K8N MASTER 2-FAR board with two dual-core opteron 275
the fans are default boxed msi-fans.. they are just unacceptably LOUD..
does anyone know of a good replacement..i bought the ultra-silent ZALMAN's (9500)
but apparently this MB not only doesnt fit two of those since it's an eATX crammed into an ATX layout (actually, i think you can make them fit if you can live with losing one of your PCIe-slots )
but also, the footings for the fans are completely non-standard so basically you cant use any common 3rd party fans.. (sigh..beginning to wish i'd bought that tyan now)
anyway.. does msi have a line of "better" fans that will actually fit on my MB or does anyone know of a 3rd party that works..
thanks
//s

Quote from: Bas on 26-October-06, 06:11:52
No way, 8x PCI-e is still 4 GB/sec.....
Your CPU's can't manage that....
1 PCI-e channel is 500MB/s, so 8 is 4GB/s
Don't foget that your memory is doing tops 6.4GB/s, so it can't even fill 16x, let alone 2 of them
There is no way you can fill 4GB/s at all, too much traffic is going over the bus.
Anyway, that's not the problem at all, the card can't do it, it doesn't even need that much speed to perform.
Do you know what funny, AGP 4x still can't be filled, and 8x is way overboard....
No way you notice anything between PCI-e 8x or 16x
Actually your information is incorrect. And My 6800gt will in fact bench slower at PCIe 8x than it did at 16x. With CPU2 running hot, I switched the SLi switch card around and put the 6800 in the 2nd PCIe slot and it ran at 8x as it should and my 3dmark05 was about 300pts lower on average
PCIe 16x is 4gb/s
PCIe 8x is 2gb/s
PCIe 1x is 250mb/s
Common Buses and their Max Bandwidth
PCI   132 MB/s
AGP 8X   2,100 MB/s
PCI Express 1x   250 MB/s
PCI Express 2x   500 MB/s
PCI Express 4x   1000 MB/s
PCI Express 8x   2000 MB/s
PCI Express 16x   4000 MB/s
IDE (ATA100)   100 MB/s
IDE (ATA133)   133 MB/s
SATA   150 MB/s
Gigabit Ethernet   125 MB/s
IEEE1394B [firewire]   100 MB/s

K8N Master-2 FAR server 2003 x64 load problem

hi to all
i have K8N Master-2 FAR mobo and opt 250 cpus.i cant load server 2003 x64 os.it says clasical '' did not find any hdd'' i searched in forums and web but i couldnt find any floppy driver for server 2003 x 64 enterprise edt.can someone send me pls if you have? my e mail is [email protected]
thanks mert

What type of interface does your HD have? IDE or SATA? My K8T Master-2 did the same thing with XP Pro 64. Turns out that the K8T doesn't support SATA II only SATA I, not sure about the K8N. I had to set the jumper on my WD SATA hd to "Use 150mb transfer only" before the BIOS would recognize it. After I set the jumper, everything went smooth as glass...just wish I could take full advantage of my hd's SATA II potential speed. Hope this helps.

K8N MASTER 2 FAR .Loud machine..UPGRADE HEATSINK AND FANS??..HELP?

Hi All.
I'm a bit of a newbie in this area..but...
My machine is very loud and im not so sure of the best way to quiet it down.
I was wondering if anyone would/could recommend a good set of replacement heatsinks and fans for my K8N MASTER 2 FAR board.
I am especially trying to find fans that are quieter than the stock ones on the heatsink now.
Also, while we are at it could anyone recommend good, quiet case fans?
Any other suggestions for quietude??
Thanks..

Just rebuilt my machine after an mobo RMA..
Is there a particular setting called "smartfan"in the Bios?
or is it just a matter of setting the temp range?
Also..
After the rebuild, I noticed my CPU temps idle, were a bit erratic.
CPU 1 was showing 8C and CPU 2 was showing 45C
Very strange.
Could this be a heat-paste issue?
any suggestions?
Thanks for all your help.

K8N Master2-FAR

Hi guys,N
I'm in kinda trouble. I bought this new socket 940 MSI motherboard K8N Master2-FAR.
The problem is the following. I dont know what power supplie to use for this type of motherboard. It requires 3 +12V connectors for JPWR1 (24pin), JJPWR2 (8pin) and JPWR3 (4pin).
Now most power supplies have only 2 12V cables , one for the 24pin and one for the 8pin. As its not enough this motherboard also requires a power supply that comes with a -5V pin supply (donno what that means).
For the moment i bought an Antec Neo HE500 watts power supply but he doesnt have a third cable (JWPR3) and doesnt support -5V pin supply. Antec replied to me that NONE of there new power supply supports this -5V pin supply
Can anyone plz help me? Maybe a list of compatible power supplies or the power supplie that MSI used to test this motherboard.
Greetz
Geoffrey

well ok,
lemme explain as clear as possible cause my english is not my native language :D.
1) In the manual of the msi mainboard is written that the power supply MUST COME with a -5V pin supply (Its very rare on a power supply cause even Antec, or coolermaster hasnt such a line). Now, i looked at the tested power supplys on that mainboard and I saw a ZIPPY power supply that comes with such a -5V pin supply. The -5V pin is located at the 20th pin of the 24pins connector.
Now this is the tricky part: MSI mainboard (8kN master 2far) Requires such a -5V BUT on the manual is a schedule of the 24pin connector on the mainboard itself. On that schedule is NOWHERE a -5V pin located. So why the hell do they require a power supply with a -5V pin supply when the 24pin connector doesnt have one. On the 20th pin is 3VSB located and NOT -5V as the zippy connector does.
Isnt this confusing...... .... how do i suppose the let my mainboard work properly when they give contradictionary information . I find that a 275€ mainboard may have a better manual .
Can anyone explain this? :D
Greetz Geoffrey

Overclocking the K8N Master2 FAR

Hi, I was wondering if anyone with the K8N Master 2 FAR board has had much success overclocking it.
I've checked through bios and either i'm blind or there isn't an option to lower the multiplier( Never OC an AMD 64).
I am at present running it at 215 x 13 but would love to get it higher.
Any help is appreciated.
Sean

Quote from: hanshot1st on 05-June-07, 05:19:26
I've owned this board since it was launched, and MSI never followed through with the promises of overclocking. No way to lower multiplier with 2 cpus.
Here I am looking for drivers for Vista, and downloads for this board have completely vanished from MSI global support. This is the first and last MSI board that I will own.
Balony, Vista is the problem, not this board or MSI.
Vista lacks a lot of drivers, if you want to complain about Vista, I suggest you write Billy Gates an email....as MS wants serious money for their Vista driver signing....this is not an MSI problem....M$ want more money....that's why Vista is lacking drivers.
It didn't vanish at all, this is a server/workstation board, so look at the right section at MSI, you will find it.
As for the OC part of this board, yes you can OC it a lot, no problem at all, will it bring you much? No it won't.
You have just 1 post here, so sorry, I don't take you very serious at all.

K8N Master2-FAR MS-9620 (v1.X) - Adequate PSU?

Hey all,
This is my first post. Been having some post/ display issues as well as continuous beeps that do not stop until i turn the PC off. All turns on and runs, but absolutely zero display to the monitor and continuous beeps. No pattern...just beeps and black screen.
After much research, resetting cards, resetting ram,using single stick, single graphics card, etc. (not touching CPUs yet) - i've understood the PSU could be faulty. (thanks to another post)
With this board K8N Master2-FAR MS-9620 (v1.X) the manual recommends a minimum 600w supply as well as a -5V pin supply (page 2-8 of the manual)
Any education and advice on which PSUs in the current market are compatible for this board is greatly appreciated.
What should i be looking for?
What on new egg tells me the PSU has a -5V pin supply?
Build was done in 2006, pooped out in 2012 - life happens, and i'm finally getting around to working on it. Original PSU was 550W Cooler Master 'RS-550-ACLY'
Thank you so much, and i do hope that the PSU is the issue and not the board.

computer worked no problem before, for a solid couple years - pretty mcuh sat for a while
broke it down to troubleshoot: 1 cpu, new 1000 watt psu, 1 ram stick, 1 graphics card.
Interchanged out each individually and tested after each swap out - same results. Tryed different ram in different slots.
Just keeps beeping.
I did get a new case. Would the case front panel connections cause issues? hmmm? but this was having same issues in first case (just didn't have a speaker connected to board to hear any beeps)
maybe i should disconnect the case connections and then try booting without it connected?
i'll try that, but at the same time - i've been hunting for another compatible motherboard to support the devices....with these being from 2005/2006 and technology advancing so fast - finding similar ATX board, with dual socket 940 opterons and SLI ready capability is a bear.

K8N Master2-Far, Single 144 Opteron & Areca 1220

Hi
I would appreciate feedback please. I have already built a Gigabyte based Samba server using the Areca 1120 (PCI-X) RAID controller & 2 x Opterons.
For reasons too complicated to explain, I now want to build much the same thing but using a single 144 Opteron and the Areca 1220 (PCI-E) RAID Controller. This is JUST a Samba file server, it doesn't do games, isn't used for browsing the web, OpenOffice, etc. and sadly, will not be 'Folding'.
I was on the point on ordering a K8N Master2-Far, Areca, ECC RAM, PSU (dual-line !) etc. when I read some of the postings on this board. Now, I'm not so sure . . .
There appear to be a number of 'issues' with this MoBo. If you have built a system based on it, how has it gone ? What BIOS version are you using ? What PSU are you using ? I would be particularly interested to hear from anyone who has experience with it and with the Areca 1220.
Many thanks in advance.

Hi
I would appreciate feedback please. I have already built a Gigabyte based Samba server using the Areca 1120 (PCI-X) RAID controller & 2 x Opterons.
For reasons too complicated to explain, I now want to build much the same thing but using a single 144 Opteron and the Areca 1220 (PCI-E) RAID Controller. This is JUST a Samba file server, it doesn't do games, isn't used for browsing the web, OpenOffice, etc. and sadly, will not be 'Folding'.
I was on the point on ordering a K8N Master2-Far, Areca, ECC RAM, PSU (dual-line !) etc. when I read some of the postings on this board. Now, I'm not so sure . . .
There appear to be a number of 'issues' with this MoBo. If you have built a system based on it, how has it gone ? What BIOS version are you using ? What PSU are you using ? I would be particularly interested to hear from anyone who has experience with it and with the Areca 1220.
Many thanks in advance.

K8N Master2-FAR - System fan shows 0 rpm ???

Hi, I just got the K8N Master2-FAR and equipped it with two dual core opterons 265 and 4gb of dual channel ram.
My biggest problem right now is that all the system fans are running at full speed, though the hardware monitor in the BIOS show 0 rpms for them?
At the same time my cpu fans are blowing at about 3600 rpms even though their temperature is only about 36 degrees C...
It sounds a lot like a jetplane, and I'm worried the case will start flying
- what to do, what to do???

Quote from: Djernis on 02-April-06, 18:15:14
I've got the system fans fixed now -Faulty wiring... my own fault
However the speed of the cpu fans are still running 3600-4000 when they are idle at about 36-37 C ???
like what i have said, u can use speedfan to control it..
@admin, soory for using msn stylo....

Quick FYI: WaterCooling Block compatible with the MSI K8N Master2-FAR

If you're like me, you hated the noise from the stock CPU fans on the K8N Master2-FAR... well I did alot of searching and couldnt find any difinitive information about what fit, or didnt fit, on that motherboard as far as heatsinks or cooling blocks.
I just finished installing a water cooling system in my system, and I used the PolarFlo E-Series CPU blocks, and they fit perfectly!
http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-blc-218.html
Anyone else have any confirmed working heatsinks or water blocks for the K8N Master2-FAR board?

Hi
I`m using 2 of this
http://www.alphacool.de/xt/product_info.php/products_id/348/cPath/5_18_66_184/cpu-kuehler-xeon/wak-cpu-alphacool-nexxxos-xp-bold-xeon-603-604.html
with my 2 Opteron 265.
Case is a Lian Li PC7 SE-B.
Pic inside:
http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=22159&stc=1&d=1145233096
So long
Insane

K8d or k8t master far?

Hello to all, looking at a server mobo what do you all think would be the better board?
k8d master far ms-9131 amd chipped
k8t master far ms-9130 via chipped
Ive looked and cant seem to find out if the k8d can use a dual core, I know the k8t is single core Dual processer mobo..
second suggest a PSU
are either boards very picky on ram pc2700
going to be the server for my shop. trouble free and last a long time!!
henrythe9th

Pay attention now!!!!
The MS-9130 is the K8T-Master-2FAR does NOT support Dual-core or new CPU's the FAR7 does, see below !
You are mixing numbers and boards here.
Let me show you the pages of the right boards:
>>K8T Master 2FAR-7<< = MS-9617 and does support ALL new CPU's, incl dual-core. Workstation board socket 940.
>>K8D Master3-133<< = MS-9161 ver2 and does support ALL new CPU's, incl dual-core. Server board socket 940.
As you are looking at the K8T Master 2FAR (MS-9130) and the K8D Master3 (MS-9161 ver1) boards, they are NOT the same and do not support the latest CPU's.
Please pay attention to this, as you are looking at the old boards, not the new ones.

K8N master2-far doesn't detect Areca 1220 raid controller

Today i purchased the last components for my system. Everything works perfectly except for my Areca 1220 8x pci-e raid controller. As i feared the controller is nowhere to be seen, not in the bios, not in windows. I already had bios version v1.10 but flashed the bios version on the msi site anyway. Nothing changed. On the msi site under "QVL" i see my Areca at the bottom of the list. Does that mean that this MB can work with this controller? What must i do to make it work? I think i have to see it at least in the bios!
Your help is appreciated. Now 5x 300 GB of storage is doing nothing.

Quote from: Bas on 10-November-05, 20:30:00
Maybe you need to update the cards firmware.
I already looked into that matter and found out that the only way to upgrade the firmware or bios is to use their http tool McRAID Storage Manager. This of course is done in windows. Now windows doesn't see my Areca 1200 and so McRAID doesn't see it either. I can't update my Areca.
This problem is well known by the motherboard manufacturers. Let me quote something from the Areca site:
Q10150407 - Is there any socket 939 motherboards that work with your model ARC-1210 raid controller? In a SLI board I would use one 16x slot for Graphics card.
Our PCIe ARC-12xx series controller uses Intel IOP332/333 processor. The Intel high performance IOP (IOP331/332/333) has integrated the bridge chip in the controller. But the original NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset BIOS has the problem after Bridge IRQ routing. All controllers use Intel new IOP 332/333, such as Areca, Intel, and LSI have the same IRQ routing problem. Those NVIDIA 939 M/Bs can be worked in the Windows environment. Due to the Windows system takes over the BIOS job, and Linux & FreeBSD need to use the M/B BIOS, so it has problem with our PCIe controller.
Currently, DFI, Ausu, MSI and Gigabyte have BIOS to solve the problem. If you have problem in this kind of mainboard, please try to manufacture latest BIOS.
We have tested DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI & ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, and Asus A8N-SLI Premium. It works very well with our firmware 1.38 and newest mainboard BIOS. Try to swap the graphic and our controller, if you find some warm boot problem in the Asus A8N-SLI Premium.
I still think i need an updated bios for the k8n master2-far (ms-9620). The fact remains that there are problems reported with every SLI motherboard. I knew this already from the socket 939 platforms. I was sceptical about the k8n master2-far but thought that a server MB should have no problems. I did ask a question about this however at the shop where i bought this MB. I even found an reply from you to another user who had similar concerns about the Areca controllers and an SLI MB. You said that it should not be a problem. Even so i always kept the possibily open that this problem can happen. And here i am
Thanks for your help. More input is always appreciated as i am still waiting for an answer from MSI in the Netherlands about this problem. Right now my server is doing nothing. I hope my raid controller will work very soon.

Windows XP won't load on K8N Master2-FAR after BIOS Flash

I downloaded the w9620nms.110 version BIOS from the MSI website and flashed the BIOS. Since that time, Windows XP Pro will not load successfully. I re-flashed to go back to the 1.00 version and even tried the 1.26 version I got from this site. Each time it still didn't work. I cleared the CMOS and retried. Still no good.
I reformatted the windows partition on the HDD (nVidia RAID stripe) and reinstalled windows. The installation seemed to go fine, but when the system tried to load Windows, it failed again. Just keeps re-booting.
Is there some setting in the BIOS that got changed in the flash that I'm missing that effects this? A setting that needs changing back (other than the SATA RAID which I've re-set and whish is recognized by windows and the BIOS).
Or, it is possible the RAID stripe was corrupted somehow?
The system worked for several months before the flash.
Any help on this is much appreciated!!
Running:
K8N Master2 FAR (v1.00 original worked, now v1.00, 1.10 and 1.26 current, don't work)
Single, Dual Core AMD Opteron 265
1x1GB Kingston kvr400d4r3a PC3200 RAM
Antec Neo HE 550 power supply
1x EVGA GeForce 7800GT (non-SLI enabled)
2x 250GB WD SATA-II HDD (nVidia RAID stripe) in two partitions
Sony DVD-RW
Windows XP Professional
Thanks,
Mark

Quote from: maz on 10-March-06, 02:24:20
I downloaded the w9620nms.110 version BIOS from the MSI website and flashed the BIOS. Since that time, Windows XP Pro will not load successfully. I re-flashed to go back to the 1.00 version and even tried the 1.26 version I got from this site. Each time it still didn't work. I cleared the CMOS and retried. Still no good.
I reformatted the windows partition on the HDD (nVidia RAID stripe) and reinstalled windows. The installation seemed to go fine, but when the system tried to load Windows, it failed again. Just keeps re-booting.
Is there some setting in the BIOS that got changed in the flash that I'm missing that effects this? A setting that needs changing back (other than the SATA RAID which I've re-set and whish is recognized by windows and the BIOS).
Or, it is possible the RAID stripe was corrupted somehow?
The system worked for several months before the flash.
Any help on this is much appreciated!!
Running:
K8N Master2 FAR (v1.00 original worked, now v1.00, 1.10 and 1.26 current, don't work)
Single, Dual Core AMD Opteron 265
1x1GB Kingston kvr400d4r3a PC3200 RAM
Antec Neo HE 550 power supply
1x EVGA GeForce 7800GT (non-SLI enabled)
2x 250GB WD SATA-II HDD (nVidia RAID stripe) in two partitions
Sony DVD-RW
Windows XP Professional
Thanks,
Mark
i have the same problem.... also i trie with win2000 an don,t reboot but halt on

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