K8n Neo Platinum MS-7030; freezes during OS install

I am an experienced builder, I have built dozens of systems and even trained people to build their own. I am also an experienced forum user (new to this board) I have searched extensively on this subject and tried every suggestion I have found. Alas I am still having a problem.
My System is
K8N NEO Platinum MS-7030 ver 1
Athlon 64 300+ Newcastle
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) (PC 3200) VS1GBKIT400
2xWestern Digital Caviar SE WD1600JD 160GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard
Pioneer DVR-108
I built this system in November 2004, for my cousin and his family. It installed XP Sp2 and has never given the slightest hint of a problem.
My cousin bought a OEM version of x64 so we could finally make it into the 64-bit system it is intended to be. We backed up his files and formatted the hard drive, he also bought the second hard-drive so we can make it a raid-0 system.
I flashed the bios to 1.70 and all seemed well. Install keeps freezing. I tried to reinstall XP32 still freezes intermittently. I have tried all of the f6 driver installs, in 32 and 64 bit. I have tried PCI and AGP cards, I have tried one sided PC3200 memory. I tried an IDE hard-drive. I have even tried using my Power-man 450 watt server PS that has been running my Dual athlon server for three years. I have tried enabling and disabling every bios setting available, I have tried underclocking the memory and dis-abling cache in the bios. Currently the board is on the table, with one stick of memory, the processor, and an old creative PCI graphics card with a seagate 20gb IDE hardrive, it still freezes. I have tried raisng and lowering voltage for the CPU and memory. I have even back tracked to the original bios, and tried every bios in between, setting and resetting every option in bios, with each, I have made dozens of attempts, and read hundreds of posts here, including Raid tutorials and installing XP tutorials. It won't even install XP32. Any other suggestions before I RMA?

Nice to hear it helped .
Flashing between different bios generations sometimes needs a full flash with bootbloack/dmi/and reset during/after flash (not only awflxxx biosrom and enter )
this because they are sometimes completly reworked .
I always use the full commandline option also with the /f switch and it's never given me probles switching between very old and very new versions .
Some don't like to reflash the bootblock though , but sometimes it should be , as it has changed trough some versions .
Same goes for winflash , always markes bootblock/dmi/update all/and cmos reset .
The nice thing about winflash is if the flash goes wrong it's just to kill it through taskmanager and try over until you get a successfull flash .
As long as you don't shut down or restart your computer it's working even with the mainblock erased .
Experienced this myself today , when trying 1.9b6mod for neo2 .
Mainblock was erased and new programming stopped at 22% .
So i downloaded from internet another winflash version (1.0.0.1) and was able to reprogram back to 1.8R2mod by tictac .
For the 64bits I had the same problems while testing/running it with the beta version back in january (not tried XP64 with the newest retail version and newest nvidia xp64 drivers) .
It installed fine on single drive but bsod'ed with raid-0 .
Try making a new custom floppy with the latest nv-ide/nv-raid drivers on it , and
recreate the array with "clear disk data" and the option to set as bootable .
Have the sata ports set at "sata dma enabled" in bios .
It's also different depending on which sata ports you are using .
Sata port 1/2 is connected to the nv-chipset though the chip-link to the marvell extrenal PHY for the drives
and port 3/4 use the internal integrated nvidia PHY .
So you can have different results depending on if you create the array on port 1/2 or port 3/4 .

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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.,

K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) drives

the lastest drives from my K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) (socket 754) are 5.03 ?
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_list.php?part=1&kind=1&CHIP=1&COM=4
Thanks

Ouuchh!! Hown uninstall my old drives 5.03 ?
After installing 5.10 I will not have problems with my all drives (Ati 9600 xt /soundblaster live ) ?
My problem is the system is very very slow. and my old cpu (athlon 2.0 msi k4 ultra -512 mb) was faster than my new AMD Athlon64 Processor 3200+ Newcastle -Msi K8n Neo Platinum -512 mb)
I suppose the problem is my a memory
DIMM 1
Module Name   SMT-OF-AMERICA
Module Size   256 MB (1 rows, 4 banks)
Module Type   Unbuffered
Memory Type   DDR SDRAM
Memory Speed   PC2700 (166 MHz)
Module Width   64 bit
Module Voltage   SSTL 2.5
Error Detection Method   None
Refresh Rate   Reduced (7.8 us), Self-Refresh
Memory Timings
@ 166 MHz   2.5-3-3-7 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
@ 133 MHz   2.0-3-3-6 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
DIMM 2
Memory Module Properties
Module Name   SpecTek
Module Size   256 MB (1 rows, 4 banks)
Module Type   Unbuffered
Memory Type   DDR SDRAM
Memory Speed   PC2700 (166 MHz)
Module Width   64 bit
Module Voltage   SSTL 2.5
Error Detection Method   None
Refresh Rate   Reduced (7.8 us)
Memory Timings
@ 166 MHz   2.5-3-3-7 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
@ 100 MHz   2.0-2-2-5 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Sorry for my English

K8n neo platinum restarts or freezes :(

ok, hopefully you guys can help me, you seem to be pretty good at helping poeple on this forum. i want to say first that i have gone through this forum countless times during my time with this motherboard. I've searched and read alot on this problem, but i need help diagnosing my computer. My problem is this. I've had this computer for a little over a year, and it's ran fine up until about 2 months ago. I had a problem where i went to turn it on and it started but then shut off after about 4 seconds. i then had to flip the switch onthe psu for another chance. Then it worked, and worked for about a month without ever sseeing this happen again in that time. then recently it happend again only this time it never started up. eventually it would sometimes turn on and stay on, but wouldn't boot. i would have to use the psu to turn it off. i tried then the cmos and battery to no help. I rma'ed the board and when i recieved the new one i put it in. Now, my computer works as far as booting and everything. Everyting installed fine as far as os and drivers, games, ect.. Only it restarts or freezes randamly. I say that cause it doesn't necissarly mean when playing games or intense programs. it happend while i was typing this 2 times for example. I've done things like checked temps on cpu which show in the 30s idle. i've ran virus and spyware programs. I've flashed bios back to 1.4 which is what i had before and worked fine sept the temps readings, which i didn't mind. i flashed because i thought maybe 1.7 was my problem. I've also, what's making this hard to tell for me, ran stuff like 3dmark 05 without a crash, or full rounds of games fine. But other times durijng a game or just a webpage it'll crash. What i need is help finding the component that is causing this problem. I'm not sure what tests to use, but will try anything and tell yous results. I can buy a new piece to replace something, or rma something possibly, but i'd rather not just buy peices without any reason. Any help would be appreciated greatly. My build is
amd athlon 64 3400+
Ati radeon x800pro
ocz pc3200 400mhz ddram 1024mb
msi k8n neo platinum 1.4
wd 10,000 rpm 8mb ws740gd
sound blaster audigy 2
antec neo power 480w

ok, first, thanks for being patient with me richard and for taking time to help
2 things before the list. 1: other lan is in there cause i originally a year ago had trouble using the onboard one and there was a brand new lan card a friend had laying around. Then recently i was able to use the onboard to connect to net and the lan card to allow my girlfriend to go online through me on her laptop.
2. i just noticed in my computer it's showing i have a floppy drive, which i don't, but i suspect this is from the other night the cmos error and it reset my bios i think, so i just have to redue that.
interrupt request:
(isa)
0 system timer
1 standard 101\102 key or microsof natural ps/2 keyboard
4 communications port (com1)
6 standard floppy disk controller
8 system cmos\real time clock
9 microsof acpi-compliant system
12 ps\2 compatible mouse
13 numeric data processor
(pci)
5 nvidia nforce pci system management
14 nvidia nforce 3 250 parallel ata controller (v2.6)
15 nvidia nforce 3 250 parallel ata controller (v2.6)
16 radeon x800 pro
19 linksys lne100tx fast ethernet adapter(lne100tx v4)
19 via ohci complaint ieee 1394 host controller
20 nvidia nforce 3 250 serial ata controller (v2.6)
20 standard enhanced pci to usb host controller
21 nvidia network bus enumerator
21 nvidia nforce3 250 serial ata controller (v2.6)
22 standard openhcd usb host controller
23 standard openhcd usb host controller
i should say also, if this shows my drivers are not updated, i didn't because i never did before and it worked fine for a year, and i'm one of those that has the motto "if your computer is fine, don't tweak or upgrade stuff, don't touch or do anything"

Does K8N Neo Platinum(ms-7030) have Dual Channel Support?

Hey i have 2x1gb sticks of corsair xms DDR-400 PC 3200 ram and i can't get it to run in dual channel mode, does this motherboard even suport dual channel mode, because according to this http://www.memory-up.com/Memory_Finders/MSI-Memory-MSI-MS-7030-K8NNEOPLAT-Memory.html it doesn't.
btw both cpu-z and memtest86 tell me im running in single channel mode, and i've tried all combinations of DIMM Slots
Any help would be appreciated
system specs:
Windows XP Pro SP2
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
MSI K8N Neo Platinum 754
PNY GeForce 6800 128mb
2 x 1gb Corsair PC-3200
Seagate 120GB SATA 7200
Artec 12x Dual DVD-RW
Artec 16x DVDRom
Floppy Drive

Quote from: silentkevin on 02-July-06, 09:03:17
Thanks for the quick reply, looks like im out of luck on that
I wouldn't worry about that too much... As far as everyday use goes, a 754 board is almost as fast as a 939 setup at similiar CPU speeds.
The only way to see the difference is by running a bunch of different benchmark progs, which have little to do with the "real world" anyway.

Can't install Win7 with K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030)

Hi,
with an XP system running smoothly on my old machine, I decided it's time for a Win7 installation. However, the Win7 installation crashes after first reboot with a BSOD some 20 seconds into the windows boot process (logo displayed). I suspect missing RAID (nforce3) drivers as the cause of the problem as I'm trying to install onto a logic partition of an existing RAID, but I can't find any drivers for the board/RAID chipset for Win7. Even MSI seems not to provide anything beyond WinXP64, which is a bugger.
I tried the latest drivers from nVidia for the "3000 professional series" (hoping they mean nForce3 by that), but they do only support the RAID as a device class, not as a controller, which is odd (the manual says that both should be listed in the additional driver selection menu of Win7 install).
Can someone help me out, please? Am I missing something? How did you get Win7 to run on your MS-7030-powered machine?
TIA!

Using ancient technology it is unfortunately pretty normal things will be hard to do. Nvidia stopped nforce 3 support long ago (3000 professional series does not refer to nforce 3) so there are no raid drivers for Win7. Check this thread of another forum on running raid on a K8N Neo2 Plat. (also Nforce 3): http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/solved-k8n-neo2-platinum-msi-nforce3-win7-x86-raid0-t72428.html

MSI K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) Accessories

I bought a Neo Platinum board, and it came with board only. I only need the backplate. Can anyone send me one? I will pay for shipping.
Thank You.

How to contact MSI.
contact your nearest MSI office, they should be able to supply you with any missing parts, if you cannot obtain them locally

MSI K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) Performance on 3000+ (socket 754)

I want to thank many guys for their help on various posts on these forums. I found out many useful tips on my newly built system but seems I have missed something somewhere...
The problem is that my system seems to perform a bit low. On the following I will provide my system configuration as it is generated by 'cpuz' program:
CPU-Z Report
CPU-Z version 1.28.6.
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs: 1
Name : AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Code Name : NewCastle
Specification : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Family / Model / Stepping : F C 0
Extended Family / Model : F C
Brand ID : 4
Package : Socket 754
Core Stepping : DH7-CG
Technology : 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets: MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, x86-64
CPU Clock Speed : 2009.8 MHz
Clock multiplier : x 10.0
HTT Bus Frequency : 201.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache : 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache : 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache : 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed : 2009.8 MHz (Full)
L2 Location : On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic : yes
L2 Bus Width : 128 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer: -- (Doesn't say MSI)
Motherboard model : MS-7030,
BIOS vendor : Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS revision : 6.00 PG
BIOS release date : 08/26/2004
Chipset : nVidia nForce3 250 rev. A1
Southbridge : nVidia nForce3 MCP rev. A2
Sensor chip : Winbond W83627THF
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status : enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfer Rate : 8x
AGP Max Rate : -1x
AGP Side Band Addressing: supported, enabled
AGP Aperture Size : 128 MBytes
Memory
DRAM Type : DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size : 512 MBytes
DRAM Frequency : 201.0 MHz
FSB:DRAM : CPU/10
CAS# Latency : 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# : 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge : 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) : 8 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) : 11 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer : 16 clocks
# of memory modules : 1
Module 0 : DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Software
Windows version : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version : 9.0c
Now that the cpuz report is complete, let me inform you about my HD and Graphics Card:
Hard Drive : Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 80 GB @ 133MHz
Graphics Card: XFX NVIDIA GeForce 5200 with 256 MB of memory
So here is my first question, which is relevant to all the above:
? What seems to be the problem and my CPU clock is limited to 2GHz? I've tried many different things on BIOS but unfortunately my Clock Multiplier can not be more than 10x? Is this a problem with my mainboard? Should I try to flash the BIOS?
Some more thoughts:
If I try to increase the FSB Frequency, then I get the expected speedups on my programs as long as the change is small. For example, if I set the FSB Frequency on 210 MHz I actually encounter a 5% (about) speedup in my performance. The problem is that on execution time, this FSB frequency changes (actually increases) and that can be onserved from CoreCenter. So as a result, I can not change the frequency that much since system hangs if it exceeds 240Mhz on FSB on execution time (I have reached 239 MHz at most without stability problems on execution time) - this value was obtained (if I remember correctly) by setting the FSB on 215 MHz, when my next step on 220 MHz caused a system crash soon afterwards...
Can you please help me so that I can have a 3000+ performance?
I know for sure that this is a problematic system setup, since my pc behaves more or less on execution times like one of a friend of mine which uses a plain AMD Athlon XP @ 2400 MHz. Needless to say, If I try to make a comparison of the current setup with a Pentium Processor, my system is equivalent to that of a Pentium @ 1,4 GHz (about) which is really irritating.
Thank you in advance for all your help on that one.
Test Beds: I use some programs I 've written in order to have a comperative analysis of my CPU. Hopefully, when this problem is fixed I will provide you with some useful feedback. This is the least I can do for your help.
Did you think that was it all about? Wrong! I have one more question:
? I have a Microsoft Intelli Wheel Mouse which doesn't close whenever I close my system. Why this thing happens? Is there a way of making that PS-2 mouse close whenever my system shutsdown?
Thank you in advance fo your help on all the above,
- Dimis -

Quote from: Supershanks on 16-May-05, 22:50:21
the memory settings in cpu-z looked like the timings used by corsair memory modules, which is why i suggested the memory voltage of 2.7v as a lot of people have problems from running memory @ auto voltage.(2.5v) it's a common oversight.
Very impressive must admit i pulled a homer, eyes started glazing over towards the end of the theory
Have tried running your hurdles cubic perm17.in in a command prompt window but it doesn't work for me sorry.
you might like to try Super Pi which performs a similar function to your program. Unfortunately the link seems to be broken at the minute Super Pi, Post Your Times
You might find it here Kanada Laboratory home page - See FTP Link If you can get it run it & hopefully you can then find some comparisons
luck
I want to thank you all guys for your feedback. Especially you Shanks for your links. At least these showed me that things were not as bad as I initially thought of on my machine!
So I had more guidance on the investigation of my initial problem (hurdles). I 've updated the page which now consists of new information. Perhaps you would all like to have a look again and observe something reaaaaallly strange. I would like to hear your explanations since I am only speculating ...
For your convenience I provide you the link once again:
AMD Processors - Comperative Analysis
Finally, I would like to remind you that if anyone has a solution to the problem I have with my mouse (refer to my initial post), I would be happy if you could share the solution with me!
Regards,
- Dimis -

K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) Hangs at BIOS

Sorry if this was asked before.
My motherboard is acting a bit weird. This doesn't happen every time, but every once in a while when I reboot or power on my computer, it just 'hangs' at the BIOS screen. It doesn't attempt to boot to any device; all I see is the Platinum logo. The system is not locked up, as I can hit F10 and see the standard BIOS screen that displays about of memory, etc. I'll hit the reset button on the computer or CTRL+ALT+DEL and it usually boots then, but sometimes I have to do that more than once.
Is anyone else having this problem?. And does anyone know what to do to resolve this problem?.
Thanks.

Panoramix,
You only have the singlle Sata yes ?
if so you can simplify the list (which is a good ide btw)
Quote
1. Hook up the drive to serial port 1/2/3/4. There has been issues around with people using SATA port 1 and 2 in regards to overclockability. If possible always use SATA port 3 or 4 unless doing a Raid 0+1 or 1 where 4 are required.
4. Go into "Integrated Peripherals"
5. Press ENTER on "Onboard Devices"
6. Press ENTER on "RAID Config" select "disabled" on all drives
Quote
8. Return to "Onboard Devices" menu
9. Locate the SATA1/SATA2 - SATA3/SATA4 and enable the option that corresponds with your drive.
10. Back out to "Integrated Peripherals"
11. Go into "Ide Function Setup"
12. Check that relevent "Sata DMA" is Enabled
Quote
13.From here we will exit/save
reboot
Insert Windows cd
2. Very first thing we will do is boot into the BIOS and go into "Standard CMOS Features"
3. Check to make sure your drive is located on what SATA channel you have the drive plugged into
18. Go into "Advanced BIOS Features"
19. You will want first boot device to be CD-ROM for Windows XP/2k installs.
20. You will want the second boot device to read HARD DRIVE.
21. Save/Exit
The screen will prompt to boot from Cd
press the any key to continue
You dont need to load any drivers so can continue through the load driver stage.
When your asked where you want to place the new installation :-
a) If a new drive Select the make partition & enter the size you want in Mb & Format.it
If you have an early version of windows be aware it will only see 1st 137GB of drive. So format 1st Os Partition only. Rest of drive can be formatted subsequently with Admin tools once windows is running & has been updated at least to SP1.
b) Select existing partition or delete existing partition & proceed from a)
From here you should be able to complete the install of Windows XP/2K fine. You can go into the bios and make "hard drive" first boot if you wish now.
The above looks complicated as i've not renumbered your original steps.
the bottom line is you dont normally need to do anything with raid or install drivers
when using single sata
you might also like to look at Help putting a computer together
Hope this doesnt confuse you but the above is simpler.
Good look

K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) RAM Issues

I shut my computer off last night (I almost never turn it off) and when I tried to start it in the morning, all it did was start beeping (1s beep with 2-3s pause between beeps). I figured it was some sort of RAM problem, so I started fiddling with my 2 RAM sticks (512 MB each), sticking them in different slots, etc. I found that the only way I could get it to boot was with 1 stick only in the 3rd slot. Any sticks in other slots causes the same beeping issue at boot. I think it half booted (Windows didn't finish booting before it locked up) once with RAM in 1st and 3rd slots, but since then it just beeps with that combination. I'd really like to be able to use the full 1 GB of RAM that I am used to, but at this point it won't work. Anyone know what could have happened overnight and what I should do to fix it (other than buying new RAM, I'm broke at the moment)? Thanks!
Ed

Quote from: Chebyshev on 13-February-06, 06:12:18
I tried this and got it to flash something on the screen for a second about a failed BIOS Checksum and something about floppy drive A: I then made a floppy with the 1.7 BIOS on it and the flash utility set to run in autoexec and tried putting that in the floppy. I can tell that it starts to read to floppy right when that messge comes up, but it then immediately shuts off. Any ideas on how to make it not shut itself off and actually flash the BIOS?
Yes....
You will need Two Floppys !
One with DOS only and one with the flash tool and the bios.
Insert DOS untill you get the A:>
Take out the first and insert the second floppy
type the flashutility.exe to get it up and type the biosversion you wnat to flash.
BTW...this info is included in the Readme when you download the bios.

Good News For K8N Neo Platinum Users!!!

Ok, after fiddling with my BIOS for almost 2 days now, and scanning the forums for a solution, I contacted MSI Technical Support in California, USA. They are sending me a new BIOS chip, free of charge, so anyone having a severe problem with BIOS revisions 1.8 and 1.9 on the K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) please give tech support a call, I let them know I would be posting this in the forum and they will be inandated with phone calls, but woohoo, they are sending a new chip pre-flashed with BIOS revision 1.7.
Please refer to this thread for the reasons why:BIOS v1.9 Is Terrible

What good news? UK based MSI did not offer any such replacement bios after my problems updating to 1.8 bios.
I purchased a new bios chip with 1.9 bios from a UK supplier.....after fitting the bios I returned to the same problems as before, failure to boot past post and freezing in bios menu. I then remembered another post on this sight and removed one stick of memory......everything back to normal .I have just fitted a 1gb Corsair cas 2 memory and all seems well I will save my 2X 512 Corsair XL my next project which will not be a MSI Motherboard
MSI UK have not come out of this very well and from the posts that I have read there are quite a few people out there with problems. Many thanks to all those who posted on this, it certainly helps to know that you are not the only one with problems.
MSI K8N Neo ...AMD 3400 Newcastle
Zalman Cooller CNPS7000A
1 X 1Gb Corsair 3200C2PT
Gainward 6600GT Golden Sample GLH
550W Enermax Power Pack(EG651P-VE)
Sound Blaster Audigy
Seagate 300 Gb Hard Drive

MSI K8N Neo Platinum Nforce3 250GB - PSU?

My sister in law have this board, MSI K8N Neo Platinum nforce3 250gb chipset, recently the power supply sounds noisy and a high frequency sound from the Antec Truepower 380W SP. Had maked an RMA to Antec and they had agreed to replace the 380W psu with SmartPower2.0 450W. But they asked me one question, that im not sure about:
"Make sure that your motherboard does not need the -5V. If you want more information on the power supply you can look at this link: http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=26450 "
So, do Antecs SmartPower 2.0 450W suits this board and what really is -5V for? As I read the manual, it said ATX 20 pin power connector: JWR1 and at pin 18: -5V
So does it mean this board need a psu that gives -5V on ATX 20 pin power connector and thos board can't use with Antecs SP 2.0 450W?

Quote from: syar2003 on 22-February-06, 05:10:37
Hi!
The K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) doesn't use -5v to anything.
So the -5v from the old atx spesification is not needed in your case.
WoW, thanks for fast reply!
So, it won't be any problem to use Antecs SmartPower 2.0 450W with this board then? Want to make sure about it, before accept Antecs offer for replacement and had spent over 4 days to find the problem with his computer. Really don't want to do it again.
This is his riggs:
Antec Sonata
AMD 64 3000+ S754
Corsair Value S. PC3200 DDR 512MB
Maxtor Diamondmax 9 250GB SATA
Maxtor Diamondmax 9 IDE 160GB
Sapphire Radeon 9550 Atlantis 128MB DDR
and
Accton ethernet card on PCI slot
MSI D-Bracket2
so
With the "new" Antec SmartPower 2.0 450W
Any problem with this rigg and PSU?
edit:
Dound this post that it said the board do need -5V and now Im confused?
http://www.archivaty.net/forums/about12964-30.html

K8N Neo Platinum with Venice vcore problem

Hello,
I got a new Socket754 CPU Venice E6 3000+ and replaced it with NewCastle CG 3200+.
But BIOS indicates VCORE is 1.9V+. It's obvious that it's too high and also CPU temp is 0C/32F.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
Athlon64 3000+ Venice E6
K8N Neo Platinum (MS-7030) BIOS 2.1
WD Raptor 36GB
Reserator1 Plus
Seasonic S12 500W
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
SB Audigy2

Please create your own rig and put in your sig with details of PSU and BIOS rev. Have you OC'ing your pc recently?

The same old problem with temperatures (K8N Neo Platinum)

I have problems since bios v1.0 on my K8N Neo Platinum with temeparutes.
I have installed a Prometeia Mach II St colling unit
I Tested the v1.0 official bios, the temperature was allways -65º full ou idle, what it is impossivel.
In the moment i flashed the bios to v1.2b5, temperature changed to 49º, and I did not move in nothing. The same temperature appears in all bios since v1.2b5. Now I have the v1.4b2 bios
Sorry the Bad English

Here are the instructions to reflash the BIOS for your K8 Neo. I am currently running ver.1.4 with little problems. My only snafu is the LED for my optical mouse stays lit even when system is off, however I have no RAID, Ethernet, onboard sound, or SATA drives. I have just a simple basic system, and I don't overclock. My board is the K8 Neo Platinum socket 754, with an AMD64 3000+. YOU MUST HAVE A FLOPPY DRIVE CONNECTED TO SYSTEM FOR THESE INSTRUCTIONS TO WORK!.
Flashing BIOS on K8 Neo per MSI. READ ALL instructions before starting.
1.Check your BIOS for flashing protection and disable it.
2. Know your board model#. a. Open case and find model# on the board between the PCI slots, or b., boot system and at first DOS screen you will see 'W7030ver1.4122101'. This means you have a MSI model 7030 motherboard with BIOS version 1.4 issued on 12/21/01.
3.Download the Bios that matches your motherboard model and version#.(I believe the Neo Plat had two versions, 1.0 and 1.1). I have 1.0. It will be found between the PCI slots. Create a folder on C: drive labeled 'C:\TEST'
4.EXtract the BIOS file to C:\TEST folder.
5.Create a boot floppy. For XP, at Desktop double click My Computer, right click floppy drive, click Format to format the disk, then click 'Create MS-DOS Boot Disk'.
6. Set boot order to floppy. Hit F11 to select boot device.
7. Insert boot floppy and restart system.
8. At A:\ prompt type in the following,
C:\ (enter)
cd\TEST(enter)
awdfl833c(space)w7030nms.130
The w7030nms.130 is the BIOS file name you downloaded to C:\TEST. Keep in mind you're dealing with DOS file names, so you may need to open a DOS window in Windows, and search C drive for the TEST folder and write down the DOS file name of the BIOS file BEFORE you start the BIOS update.
9. Reboot when prompted. It shouldn't take more than 10 seconds to update the BIOS.

K8N NEO Platinum BIOS 1.8

I updated to this, only to find my machine would not boot to Windows. This, presumably because it was using 1T when, with two double-sided DIMMS, I require 2T. I couldn’t find anywhere to change that setting.
I noted on the boot screen that it was a workstation BIOS, and the flash utility is 859G rather than the usual 833C.
Got 1.7 on there now.
Have other people had trouble with this?

Quote from: Derek Baker on 27-August-05, 23:24:19
I updated to this, only to find my machine would not boot to Windows. This, presumably because it was using 1T when, with two double-sided DIMMS, I require 2T. I couldn’t find anywhere to change that setting.
I noted on the boot screen that it was a workstation BIOS, and the flash utility is 859G rather than the usual 833C.
Got 1.7 on there now.
Have other people had trouble with this?
me too.
K8N NEO Platinum MS-7030
Sempron 3000+ E6 64bit /no OC (200x9)
Samsung
Previous 1.7 BIOS is 2T Commandrate display on POST Screen.
1.8 Bios is 1T Commandrate display on POST Screen.
then, run Memtest86 1.55+ result no error on 1.7BIOS
but, run Memtest86 1.55+ result a lot of error on 1.8BIOS
Fixed no error to set Memclock to 166Mhz
I Replaced other memory.
I wish to select memory setup 1T/2T commandrate

K8n Neo Platinum MS-7030; freezes during OS install

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