K8N Neo Plat MS-7030 monitor blinking issue

My socket 754 K8N Neo Platinum is acting strange. It seems I can be using it and suddenly it will freeze for a second and then the monitor will blink once and then everything is as it was. It will do it randomly. If I remember correctly, it started after I upgraded from 1 gig to 2 gigs of RAM. I have run Memtest, Rightmark Memory Analyzer, 3DMark all extensively and have had not one RAM error. Does anybody else have any ideas??
I have 2 x 1gig OCZ Platinum 3200 RAM, Athlon64 3400+, Geforce 6800 Ultra, Audigy2zs, and Viomax 500watt PS.

You could have som bad connections in the molex connectors between PSU-mobo , PSU-gfx .
Connectors can build up galvanic corrosions specially between different metal in female/male plugs.
Cleaning the connectors and redo the connections might help .
Could also be software/drivers/irq etc.
Try loading the system e.g with a live linux cd like knoppix or something.
If it works well there , you know its a software problem in your windows installation/software/drivers and not hw related.

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Posted on this forum a couple weeks ago, but was reqested to get a little more information via a d-bracket, so wanted to post that again and see if anyone had any ideas.
My setup is in my sig, just RMA'd the video card and got the new one back. EVGA did not indicate if there was anything wrong with it, but I did get a new one back from them.
When I seated the new vid card and installed the d-bracket, tried once again to get past the first boot. Screen is still blank however like no signal is getting to the monitor. The d-bracket that is now installed shows two red on top, one green on bottom left and one red on right bottom, which according to what I have read indicates a keyboard issue. However, the keyboard I had plugged in is the one I am typing on now.
Also, it is producing single beeps, all the same beep with the same interval between beeps.
Tried with one RAM stick, two RAM sticks, swapping them between slots. Tried with just vid card and RAM installed, and also with HDD plugged in.
Any ideas?

You gotten the advise about getting a better PSU in this post: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=111918.msg834998#msg834998
So why do you come back with the same problem again while you never answered on the other topic?
Topic closed.

K8N NEO PLAT - Onboard sound problems

I got a really confusing problem, maybe one of you could help me with...
My brother has s754 k8n neo plat motherboard and he has always used the onbard sound controller. Yeasterday we formatted his computer, and did a fresh XP installation. Since then i cant get the sound to work properly, only if i put the headphones in the "blue" input instead of the green. The sound is very low but works there.....I installed the latest Realtek Audio driver from the MSI page. According to windows the sound works perfect, no driver issues reported or anything...The mp3's start playin but theres NO sound....
Could it be driver issue? Updated to the lates BIOS also btw.
Appreciate all help, thx...

Hi, we are sailing on the same boat!
I am also facing the same problem recently with my K8n Neo4 Platinum Ultra. I have Win2K Pro, Win2K Server/ Win XP 2003 Server installed in my system.
I do not know, why such a typical problem exist with my system?
Any help from good techies shall be very useful.
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Overclocking msi k8n neo plat

trying to overclock my msi k8n neo plat and run mad 2001
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bfg 6800gt
corsair pc3200
i go into bios and set ram at 400mhz, set agp at 67 mhz. then open center and enter 210 mhz fsb. when i start madonion, it freezes. is it my memory?

Could be a ram incompatibility issue. I have some OCZ pc3500 EL which is great in my other systems, but doesn't work in the Neo without bluescreens and crashes to desktop. It might also be a power related issue. What type of power supply are you using and what is the amperage on the 12v rail? That seems to be pretty important for this board.

Help my K8n Neo Plat...(No POST!!!!!)

I bought my CPU and Mobo on eBay.
My K8n Neo Plat deosn't POST........
I did all shoots I can do...... but it deosn't work......
1. 1 long beep every 3-4 sec
2. D-Bracket Lights
L/T : Red R/T : Red
L/B : Green R/B : Red
I'm using
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pqi PC3200 1Gb Ram
Super Flower TT-450SS PSU
DC Out Put
+3.3V 0.3A 32A
+5V 1.0A 42A
+12V 1.0A 27A
-5V 0A 0.5A
-12V 0A 2.5A
and ect.....
Help ME Please !!!!!!!!!

PQI Site - PQI DDR-400 MD441GUOE not giving much away - Support - Faqs : underconstruction
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MD441GUOE
yielded
PQI 1GB DDR400 PC3200 128x64 184pin Unbuffered
Think your either going to have to try some other memory to test your system & test if it is this memory causing issue
or
get some more info by e-mailing PQI
assume you've now tried it in both slots 1 & 3
luck

MSI k8N Neo Plat 2...system freeze and crash during h-end gaming...

MSI k8N Neo Plat 2
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Centon 512 MB DDR 3200 x 4
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Under some graphically intensive situations, during gaming, especially dealing with alot of background visuals, like fire/lava, etc, the system will after a short while of playing either, crash, freeze, reboot, or freeze while a loud screeching nosie emits from my speakers...I have tried updating my graphx card drivers to the most recent and the symptons still persist..Is there something I need to set in BIOS regarding mem timings, I have tried playing around some, but that hasnt worked either...Any help would be greatly appreciated !!!
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If no go - Run Memtest86 http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
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Msi k8n neo plat problems

I have built 2 computers exactly the same.
msi k8n neo plat
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asus cd drive
When i tried to install windows xp pro on both the machines i got the same error. could not copy file. On each try the file was a different one. After hours of trying new things i found that putting the memory in slot 2 on the motherboard solved the problem, windows installed and booted up as norm. When i moved the memory back to slot 1 the computer would not boot.
I have now left the memory in slot 2 but the computer will still crash every hour.
I am sure this is something to do with the memory but not sure what the problem is.
Can anyone help.

Can anybody tell me what i should set the cpu fsb frequency to in the bios.
I just read this in the faq
What is the fsb speed of this cpu?
Depending on which FSB you are asking about: The Athlon 64's have the memory controller built in (which was previously part of the Northbridge on the motherboard) which uses up to 200MHz DDR Memory (400MHz FSB) The HyperTransport link from the CPU to the rest of the motherboard runs up to 800MHz. Just to expand on my answer... The HT link is 800MHz, but it's 16 bit in size (2 bytes worth of data per clock) the total bandwidth of the HyperTransport link is 3.2GB in total - 1.6GB sending data to CPU and 1.6GB receiving data from CPU.

K8N NEO PE MS-7030 and Geforce 6800 Vanilla

I am on the way to buy a new graphic card , and I have 2 choices : 1- XFX 6600GT AGP 8x 128MB 500/100 and 2-XFX 6800 AGP 8X 128MB 325/700, the difference between both about 25$ for the 6800
I prefer the 6800 but I read bad stories with nforce 3 mobos, so it is safe to go with the 6600GT, I know there is no much difference between 6600GT and 6800 but in 6800 you can unlock the extra pipelines and the vertex shader
I read a lot of topics about freezing and craches with ms7030 and 6800 series ??
any one is using K8N NEO PE MS-7030 and Geforce 6600 Vanilla without problems ??
is the problem still or it has been solved ??
SO what is your recommendation ?
Thanks

Quote from: Russ_xp on 23-October-05, 22:14:28
Go for the 6800, the problems with the nf3 chipset affect all series 6 cards including the 6600GT. The solution is simple - just disable fast writes in the BIOS.
The 6800 is a native AGP card but the 6600GT is a PCIe card with a HSI chip to convert it to AGP and it gets very hot. Also you may get lucky with the pipes and it should overclock a bit. If you stretch a bit further get the 6800GT with 256Mb and it OC's to Ultra speeds.
Too right... In addition disabling fastwrites and the dreaded ATI/NV speedup option, make sure that the 2D/3D accel speeds are at the same settings, if not the card tends to "freak out".
I have a BFG6800 OC ("vanilla" 6800 GPU/slight "factory OC") and I got lucky & was able to unlock the hidden hardware. I had an early 6800 GPU though & I think that Nvidia "closed the door" on that mod with the later builds. Something to keep in mind.
Regardless, with the unlocked hardware I was able to get near (close, but not quite) stock GT speeds but the benchmark score didn't really translate to the real world. The big limitation of the 6800 is the puny 128 mb of RAM. If I had it to do over again, I'd saved my pennies & got a GT (w/256mb of RAM), I'd be a lot happier with it. It's not that the 6800 is bad, but the GT is a LOT better.
The good thing is that the 6800 GT prices are starting to come down a bunch since the 7800's came out. If you shop around, you should be able to find a great deal on one. I'm about to go looking myself, if I come across a killer deal, I'll post back.
Edit: I've done a quick search & the chances of just finding an AGP 6800GT don't look too good. I've checked 5 vendors so far and they're either out of stock or discontinued I may have waited a bit too long....
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Need help upgrading BIOS - K8N Neo Plat

HELP!!!
I have bios 1.1 on my K8N Neo Plat. I have been trying all morning to upgrade my bios to 1.3, but have been unsucessful so far. Note that I do NOT have any fancy MSI programs installed (I don't like bloat).
Sooooo, I donloaded bios 1.3 from the MSI website. This is a little zip file. Then, I tried the following....
1) Install from an XP boot floppy. -- Flashing the bios appeared to work, but upon reboot, ver 1.1 was still there.
2) Install from Win98SE boot floppy. -- Same story. Flash appeared to work, but 1.1 was still present.
For both type of boot floppies, the flash program says that it is currently re-programming the bios, and it exits normally, without any errors. The filename that I was loading a file called "W7030NMS.130".
3) Just for giggles, I downloaded bios ver 1.1, and use the "FC" command to be certain that they were different.
4) I checked my BIOS screens for any hint of BIOS protection, but could not find any.
5) The readme file that came with the ver 1.3 said to work from the hard drive, but boot floppies do not seem to like NTFS. So I simply cannot do it this way unless I re-partition and re-format.
Any ideas???

Try making a boot floppy with this.
Thats Dr DOS Disk For Bios Flashing from http://www.bootdisk.com
It's pure DOS, and will work with any OS.

MOVED: MSI K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) won't post and just beeps

This topic has been moved to AMD64 nVidia Based board.
MSI K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) won't post and just beeps

1)Main Menu - No Post/No Boot problems and fixes - Bios-Central Award Bios Beep Codes + others
2) Memtest86+ As Stated
3) Power Suppy Requirements & Selection
4) Post Specs re Powe supply 3.3v 5v & 12v Amps., Gfx cards Drives etc.,

MSI K8N NEO PLAT + CD / DVD-RW Drives

Hi, i have the msi k8n neo plat. I recently had to replace my old mobo due to the old power supply blowing or something. So i got me a 480watt enermax coolergiant psu. Replaced the mobo for a new msi k8n neo plat. Put the mobo in and psu. Working fine and dandy. Now i installed 64bit xp to primary, and ive had it running for for about 2 weeks. Went to install linux to the second hard drive, so i changed the boot order, saved settings and went to load disc...however now my cd and dvd drives dont work, and they dont work in windows either.

Can anybody tell me what i should set the cpu fsb frequency to in the bios.
I just read this in the faq
What is the fsb speed of this cpu?
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Msi k8n neo plat and audio problem

got me a msi k8n neo plat, great board but have a few minor problems that i have noticed. one is the audio problem i have- when i listen to winamp, and surf, i will loose my winamp connection surfing, and then have to start winamp. is this a bios thing, or nvidia platform or chipset problem?

Hi
Thats the Nvidea board, this is the via board forum. You want forum below this one, as they will be able to help better.
good luck
jocko

Msi k8n neo plat and microsoft ie

getting my msi k8n neo plat board running satisfactory , except for one problem . when i got to amdmb.com, i start surfing the site, and after a minute or 2, i get a microsoft ie error, send the error report to microsoft, and then ie closes. what is the problem , is it with amdmb.com site? its the only site that this problem with ie is present, all other sites i don,t have this problem

just tryed using the browser firefox, and it works great. its just ie that doesn,t work on amd.mb, and only that site. wierd problem, never experienced anything like it before. had run a short memtest , no errors. the 6800gt , msi k8n neo plat and amd 64 3400 work great. get some super madonion benchmarks-all default-1024 x 768 32bit- 22,755. i was hoping for 22,000, but exceeded my expectations. can get into the 23,000 + with overclocking the 6800gt, have had it overclocked at gpu-412, memory 1.12. not sure how much more you can increase the numbers, thinking my gpu is close to the limit at 412.had a problem with windvd, it ended up being a configuration in windvd- had to enable hardware acceleration , bingo- worked great after that. got my corsair xms pc 3200 to work at 6-3-3-2 timings. still getting to know the board, there is definately a learning curve to be delt with on this board, but i am getting it to work better by the day.

Msi k8n neo plat and 3dmark03

with my msi k8n neo plat , bfg 6800gt, and amd 64 3400 clawhammer- i get 11,114 in 3dmark03. seems like i should be getting a higher score-any suggestions.

You appear to have misread my post, read carefully, I said "at clock speeds" not "at stock speeds" which I think is where u misunderstood. I know it's overclocked, but who isn't going to if there is so much headroom? With coolbits you can have higher speeds when running 2d or 3d applications to keep temps low and for longevity of the card.

K8N Neo Plat SM Bus Controller Problems

Hi, I just did a recent build witht the K8N Neo Plat and am having some problems.
My original build kept getting corrupt files from any self extractor that did a self verify. I could install windows and the MSI NForce Drivers but many files got corrupted. I finally figured out it was Bad Ram and replaced the PC 3200 I Was using with a stick of PC 2700 I had lying around. I installed windows with no problems and all of the windows updates(which were where I was getting corrupt files). But then when I installed the NForce3 Drivers from the MSI Cd I get blue screen of death, which I did not recieve with the bad ram. I then revert to last known good setting and can install of of the NForce3 drivers except for SM Bus Controller. I have tried using the NForce3 Drivers from the MSI CD and a download version. Both won't install, it still shows up with an exclamation point next to it in device manager. I have tried choosing the driver directly, but I get an accessed denied message. The only problem is when SM Bus won't install, I cant run my new 6800 GT at AGP 8X. It stays stuck in PCI mode.
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apply minimal heat paste
clamp sink down switch machine on
the prob is not the heat the prob is the chip clocking 8ghz
the sink and fan work really well
the bios is version 1.5 public
i'm trying to back flash it but i need version 1.1 .1.2. 1.3 and the prog to fash it
and an explanation (it's my first time lol)

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