K8N Neo2 54G Platinum Northbridge cooler question

My northbridge cooler is slowly dying (can't say I'm happy with this motherboard at all), and I have to replace it. Does anyone know what voltage the northbridge cooler runs on? 5V or 12V?
(It's the MS-7025 model).
Thanks

I agree with syar2003 above. The Vantec showed above is the ticket. You can RMA but that gets you another MSI chipset fan and we already know that they are not up to the job (many failures posted here).
I have a K8N Neo4-F that the fan went bad. The down side is motherboard removal to pinch pins to remove fan assembly. The up side is the Vantec. Ball-Bearing and quiet and fits under my 6600GT card without modification. Looks good in there too.
While I was in there I upgraded my processor to the 4000+. Running cool and quiet now. Worth the effort.

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K8N Neo2-54G advice needed

This is my first attempt at building a pc so please excuse any incorrect terminology.
AMD FX-55
MSI K8N NEO2-54G
ATI X800 XT PLATINUM EDITION
2 X 512 CRUCIAL BALLISTIX DDR 4000
2 X 160GB SAMSUNG SPINPOINT SATA HDD (plugged into SATA ports 3 & 4)
ENERMAX NOISETAKER 600W
PIONEER DVR-108 DVD-RW (IDE)
SONY FDD
LOGITECH ULTRA-X PS/2 keyboard
On initial boot the keyboard lights flash briefly and the keys won't respond (ie pressing delete to enter setup has no effect). The diagnostic lights are all green except for the top-right which is red ('Initializing Floppy Drive Controller'). All fans are running correctly.
After about 5 minutes the CMOS setup page appears although the diagnostic lights remain the same ('Initializing Floppy Drive Controller'). At this point the keyboard keys function correctly and I can alter the CMOS settings (including enabling SATA ports 3 & 4 and disabling ports 1 & 2). The primary boot device is set to CD-ROM and the secondary to Hard disk. The CMOS recognises the CPU and RAM.
On saving and exiting the setup (with the Windows XP Pro CD in the DVD drive) the system reboots but once again the keys don't respond and the system seems to stop at the 'Detecting array ...' message. At this stage the diagnostic lights are now all green except for the top left which is red ('Boot attempt'). Sometimes it remains frozen and on other occasions the CMOS set up page reappears after several minutes.
If I attempt to boot from 'power off' with the XP Pro CD in, I get a 'Detecting array ...' screen for about 5 minutes and then a 'No disk reserved for RAID use, RAID disabled' message. At this point I am given the option to press Alt-F10 to enter the 'Realtek Gigabit Boot Agent' but again the keyboard won't respond and so the system decides to reboot itself and freezes at the next 'Detecting array' message.
I realise that I'm probably making an incredibly basic error but would greatly appreciate any advice as to where I'm going wrong.
Many thanks

I disconnected the DVD drive, hard drives and FDD as suggested, cleared the CMOS and booted. I had no problem accessing the CMOS setup (using the key) although the 'Initializing Floppy Drive Controller' diagnostic lights remained. The CPU and memory were detected correctly.
I then loaded the optimised defaults and rebooted, again with no problem. I then connected the DVD drive and rebooted. This was detected correctly and so I also added the FDD. I manually selected the 1.44 3.5 FDD option and then saved and exited. Throughout this process the diagnostic lights remained the same.
As soon as I tried to connect a hard drive via the SATA cable the system froze and wouldn't enter the CMOS setup. The keyboard wouldn't work either. I tried both drives together, one at a time, tried all four SATA ports in pairs and individually, swapped the SATA cables and had the drives both in and out of the case. Still no joy.
I disconnected the SATA cables and rebooted and reached the CMOS setup with no problems, reconnected the cables & rebooted and it locked up immediately.
Throughout the entire process the diagnostic lights remained the same.
Any more advice would be most welcome.

K8N NEO2 54G, win xp install problem

rigg:
Venice 3000+, 7000cu
Crucial Ballistix 512Mb pc4000
Hiper 480W
K8N NEO2 54G biosversion 1.6 i think
NEC 1500 dvd+r
Maxtor 160Gb, IDE
Ati 7500 32Mb
Situation: The problem is after i've formated the harddrive and selected which partition i want to have win xp on and all installation files have been extracted and the computer boots and the win xp log shows. Then it is loading for a quite long while but after that a bluescreen shows. And it stands "Unkown hard error" and my question for YOU is what it means?
NOTE that i've tried many times but the exactly same bluescreen shos
Note also that for a week ago i had a ATI Sapphire 200 with x300 onboard. The same rigg but not a single problem. So i supose there is a problem with the motherboard?
What should i do?
//Olof
Situation: I've installed all components correctly (100%)

It is one stick of ram that i'd got.
Okey i might try with just a regular cd-rom.. My girlfriend is coming by in a while with 3 diffrent win xp cds. I don't think there is a problem with all of em
http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/power/hypergroup/Hiper480/2.htm a review of my PSU. The power supply is around two months
Quote from: hcoshawn on 13-October-05, 05:40:57
I forgot that DR STU....always follow the DR's orders Malkovic.
GL

S939 K8N Neo2-54G Problem!!!!!

S939 K8N Neo2-54G with a AMD64 3500, 1gb 3200 Ballistix memory, and a Rad x800Pro Modded to XT.
Graphics worked fine in a SB75G2 although with this combo the board just craps out on 3d within 30 seconds, sometimes blue screen sometimes VPU reovery and sometimes just a nice ol reset.
Just wondered if anyone else is having problems like mine, or if there is a solution?
Tried hypertransport to 4 and slackening off mem timings to no avail?
Any help would be appreciated
Cheers
GiB

I had a problem with bluescreens on my Neo2 with 3500+ and mushkin 3500 level 2 memory. What i found worked was setting the timings to 2-3-2-10 from 2-2-2-10. Im not familiar with your memory but maybe try that? Also, check your PSU as the power demands might be higher on your new board and thats whats causing you problems.

Msi k8n neo2 54g platium problem

Hello again i foudn how to raid them, and now i got a new problem.
When i connect all my hdd's the computer goes blank in the winxp startup installation, just before i get to chose where to install winxp pro, i stoppes to respond, and that is when i load both driver's on the diskette, the raid and the storage driver that is, hope you guy's can help.
this is my sytem.
Msi K8n Neo2 54g Platium
Amd 64Bit 3500+
1024 Mb Geil Pc 4400
2*160 Gb sata Seagate
1*250 Gb sata Wd
1*120 Gb ide Maxtor
1*120 Gb ide Seagate
sony Dvd burner
before they werent raid'ed and every thing was ok, now i raid those 2 160gb seagate, and when all is connected, it stoppes to respond.

Don't know if this helps, but your getting it anyway
When installing windows don't have any Hard drives in front of your raid array, assuming that's where your putting your OS . Unplug them whilst windows is installed. This is due to the fact that windows places %systemdrive% as the first drive it sees (e.g 1'st master) , meaning it will be C: and hosts the os boot files .
(Taken from Syar2003)
Therefore if installing your raid on Sata 3/4 unplug all IDE Hard Drives plus SATA 2/3.
Once windows is installed Plug 'em all back in
Luck

915P Neo2 - 54G Platinum CD needed (URGENT!!)

Please Please Please Please Please... has anyone got, or can make me a copy of the CD for this motherboard:
915P Neo2 - 54G Platinum
I stepped on the original accidentally, and with me at 18 stone it didn't stand much of a chance.
I can pay for postage etc and if it makes it easier, I have a paypal account. If anyone is local to me and has one of these boards all the better; I live in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
All the best Lee
PS: if ya want a bit of resume check out my eBay feedback (http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=darkan9el&ssPageName=STRK:ME:UFS)
Tried a bit of home research and well, I am totally confused now, I have never had such an awkward Motherboard to install and find files for as this one. nowhere on MSI's website is there a reference to an MSI 915P Neo2-54G Platinum. They make it but they don't acknowledge its existence!! ??? everything on the PC is new and has been tested using things like memtest etc and installing in other systems... I have 3 systems running. I've always had AMD systems before but thought I would try intel... never again!!
Is this the same moby as the: 915P Neo2 Platinum but with a wireless card added or is it a differnet moby altogether?
XP Pro SP2 comes up with errors on install, the disc tested fine in other systems, I even changed the CDwriter to an MSI one but it still kicked up a stink.

Hi Lee,
Sorry! I thought I had an answer for you that I posted here. I've modified my post to remove my suggestion after re-reading your request. I thought when I first read your post that the 54G in your model must have been a mistake on your part but after the re-read I see I was wrong.
Good luck finding a cd.
Mike

Modded bios for K8N Neo-54G Platinum

Hi,
i've noticed that there are some modded bios versions available for the K8N (i.e. at syar2003's collection). My question is now whats the difference between them and the MSI versions (especially between the latest 1.56 versions)?
Edit: Has anyone allready used the modded bios 1.56 and has he got any performance boost?

Hehe , don't consider yourself a retard for this .
MSI's naming of theese boards is pretty simular and can cause theese
kinds of confusions .You are not the first one .
Anyway it was good you got the mishap resolved so quick
and got up and running again.
Look for radical_53 's post he has made a "Neo2" bios with nvraid ide rom bios 4.66 . Send him a message and he will email it to you ,i'm sure.
Vdimm voltage is not coming any higher i think , either for Neo1 or Neo2 .
Guess it has to do with board design , selection of regulator IC , and
the fact that msi runs mem from the 3.3v line (some voltage level will always be missed due to the components and regulation)
If you want really high vdimm there is just one way and that is hardmodding
the motherboard and that can be a risky affair bothe for board/mem and cpu
if things go wrong.
Other alternative is another mobo .
DFI's s754 takes vdimm from +5v and there is a modded bios that gives upto 4v for memory. They have a s939 board ready thats being betatested , but it's not released yet.
MSI K8N boards have pretty desent max vdimm compared to many others .
This is what i have found on some others :
Gigabyte max VDIMM 2.7v
MSI K8N Neo2 VDIMM 2.85v
DFI Lanparty UT VDIMM 4.0v (s754 with modded bios)
Asus K8N VDIMM 2.8v (some PCB's max 2.7v)
Epox VDIMM 2.8v
Chaintech VDIMM 2.9v

K8N Neo2-54G no multichannel decoding @ coax out :(

hi there, the german forum is always down... so i´ll post here my question:
is it possible to get a dolby digital signal out on digital coax output ?
i tried the last 3 days the following stuff:
new 3.72 ac97 realtek driver = just 2 channel pcm
Realtek_ALC_AP001 = just 2 channel pcm
nforce 4.08 = just 2 channel pcm
nforce 6.31 beta = just 2 channel pcm
nforce audio 4.57 only = just 2 channel pcm
ac97 adi 188 the same
all these combinations tested with 6CH + S/PDIF (opt. & coax) & 8CH + S/PDIF (opt. & coax) (realtek)
nvmixer shows correct output on all channels (on the mixer LED´s) -> l,c,r,ls,rs & sub... but still 2 channel :(
i have a sony str de 445 an this works fine before with my asus a7n8x deluxe mainboard (nforce 2).
any ideas ?
(after 3 days reading forums, where lots of people have much audio problems with k8n neo2, google 12 h.... i´am a little pissed of...)

yes i know, games with eax etc. only work with analog 5.1 outs...
but i´ll mix sometimes music in d.digital (realtime).. - thats 1 example for the needed 5.1 digital out...
i´ve ordered a audigy 2 zs today... i´am pissed of try the whole day get 5.1 on k8n..
i found also a german forum which descr. get d.digital on audigy 3.5 digital out -> to chinch
so i think that´s what i need... - but no more msi again...
edit: Quote
BTW what are you using for dvd playback.
i use power dvd 4 (works fine before)
watching movies is not so important to me... just get digital 5.1 out because of mix 5.1 songs etc.

LiteOn SOHW-1633S problems on Neo2 54g Platinum

Hello everyone,
recently I bought MSI Neo2 54 Platinum mobo with 3200+ AMD64 on 939 socket. Everything is just fine, exept one thing - every time I access CD Win XP goes mad:
1. If I see properties of my LiteOn SOHW-1633S DVD-RW drive in device manager, don't touch any settings and just press "OK", XP crashes with blue screen;
2. Everytime (100%) I insert Audio CD in tray and use _any_ audio cd playback app to play it, XP crashes with blue screen, complaining about CDFS error and mentioning something about gearAspiWDM.sys driver;
3. Usualy, when I insert data CD, I have to wait very long for drive to read it, but when CD is spinned up, reading is OK, but if spinning stops because let's say I read some pdf out of CD for some time, then drive cannot read that disk again on second access, and I have to reload (eject) CD to make it be read again.
First, I thought, that problem is caused of some buggy firmware of my Liteon SOHW-1633S, but the same problem persists even reflashing drive with newest firmware from site.
Second, I checked BIOS settings, all DMA and PIO settings are set to AUTO, enabled only "IDE prefetch" option, DMA on all SATA disabled (should it be anabled, btw?), so no "super tunning" options are set.
And last, after installing XP, I went straight to nvidia site, downloaded and installed 5.10 version of unified nforce chipset driver. No drivers from MSI mobo CD at all on my system, and corecell and other msi utilities are installed, but not started.
I tried that 5.10 with SW IDE driver installed and without, effect is the same, system still hangs on CD access. Any recommendations, tests and opinions are very appreciated.
P.S. AMD64 939 3200+, 512MB DualChannel PQI, Seagate Baracuda 160 SATA, Liteon SOHW-1633S, Leadtek FX5700 VIVO. All nVidia drivers from site, no drivers from CDs.
Thank YOU very much,
-c.

WELCOME.
1) ALWAYS set ANY CD/DVD-RW as secondary master in your system.
2) Please give full system specs, including PSU rails (look at my sig).
3) What about your IDE cable (does it has 80 conductive wires or is the one that has 40)?
4) If none of the above mentioned works, this could be a memory problem. Try with other type of memory or you can run memtest for 1 day to see if your memory is faulty.
Edyros!

K8N Neo2 Plat power and bios question

I have a K8N Neo2 Plat. I use a UltraProducts 500W xconnect PSU and a BFG 6800 GT OC.
A couple weeks ago the 6800 died. I contacted BFG and they sent me a new one.
The new one died the same way after a week. They said to check the power levels on the +12 rail.
In windows using softare tests it reports 13.58
in the bios it reports 12.22
both are over the allowed variance.
Ultra products told me to check with my motherboard manufacturer to see if there was a BIOS setting that would let me set the power on the +12V rail. Is that possible?
Is that something my K8N Neo2 Plat can do?

No, you cannot lower the 12V-rail by a bios setting. I really don't see what they mean by that.
Your motherboard does, however, regulate the power that comes from the power supply. Within certain margins it can lower the voltage and keep it steady. Your videocard can do the same. Now, depending on the tolerance (quality) of your hardware, you can vary on those margins. But on any piece of hardware, there is a point on which it cannot correct/lower a voltage that is too high. It then simply shuts down or dies.
To my opinion, the PSU-maker gave you a very funny piece of advice. What he actually says is that their psu may give too high a voltage (I talk about the 13+ now), but your hardware should correct this. That's not the way it works: they should make psu's that give 12V where it should. So, I'd demand a replacement. But, before you do: use a multimeter to measure the 12V-rail. You cannot trust the board's measurement too well.
But then, like Stick says, I think that 12.22 is within mentioned margins. 13.58V is too high. So, that's why you should first measure using a multimeter. Measure for a longer time. System idle, system full load. Write everything down and see how steady this psu is. If 12V dances arround, replace it.

K8N Neo2-54G: USB problem + other probs

This board is really giving me a headache.
I installed my new system yesterday, and all worked for a little while. It seemed very slow booting, and sometimes it did not want to proceed from the first screen, Platinum, requiring a restart. It usuallt booted on a second attempt.
I upgraded the bios to modded 1.37. After this it wont recognise any USB devices (keyboard and mouse attached).
I now tried to do a reinstall after flashing back to 1.36 bios. I attached my floppy, press F6 when XP setup is initialized, but when I am requested to put in my sata floppydisk, the pc can't read the disk. Seems like either my floppy is dead (seems to work ok according to lights and noice) or the MB can't communicate with it. (similar to usb devices).
Questions:
1. What is wrong with the USB?
2. How can I install sata drivers for XP without floppy?
3 Is the board dead?
My ram is OCZ PC 3200 512MB EL Dual CH Platinum rev.2 (only one stick of 512mb installed now), CPU is Winchester 3200+, Samsung 1614C sata disk.
I upgraded nvidia drivers to 5.10
Pls help!

I also just bought board yesterday and I agree that there are many problems, which are not helped by the very poor manual. You have to rely on forums for basic information. I too am having a problem installing the raid drivers from the A drive. I have the same ram (PC 3200 512MB EL Dual CH Platinum rev.2) coutesy of Asentech and a Athlon FX55. The operating CD has Windows XP +SP2 deployed and when I tried to load the drivers I got the message ' Filetextsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (1024) at line 1747 in d:\xppsprtm\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c' This corrupted my A disk and I had to down load files from the following site
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_list.php?part=1&kind=4&CHIP=4&ID=1
I guess that the drivers are niot compatible with WinXP SP2 . I am now at a loss and will try just Windows XP. Anybody any ideas on how to proceed?

[MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum] Is the motherboard dead? HOW? What? Hein?

Hey!
I am having big problems with my MSI K8N Neo2 54G Platinum. It was a really great board until the day the system could not power up. I pressed the button to turn it on and nothing happened. So I shutdown the switch of the PSU and switch it on again, while looking inside the case. This time the CPU and Northbridge fan moved, and the led of the wireless card turned on. But that happens only for half a second. The fans imediatly shut down. I checked if it was the problem of the case button, but it is not 'cause with a direct connection the same happens: the board won't boot. It doesn't even beep. Completely quiet. Any suggestions?
I am sorry for my English and thanks in advance
A64 3000+ 90nm s939
MSI K8N Neo2 54G Platinum
2x512 Patriot XBLK TCCD
200GB Sata
20A@12v PSU
PS: The computer was working fine 'till this happened.
Nukke.

Yes it can still be the PSU , e.g not accepting ps_on giving pwr_ok to mobo in-line with the correct timing specs .
It can also be motherboard not sensing pwr_ok from the psu .
The whole startup proceedure of a modern PC is complex and it is more to it than just amps and wattage and a on/off switch.
PSU itself does Power On Self Tests (POST) before the motherboard starts to powerup.
These tests determine if all the voltages are up to design specification and stable before sending a signal to the motherboard.
If the POST completes successfully, a POWER_GOOD or POWER_OK signal is sent to the processor over the POWER_GOOD line.
This signal must be continuously present for the system to operate and, if withdrawn (due to a brownout, for instance), will generate a system RESET.
The system will remain in a continuous RESET mode until the signal is restored. Since the processor initializes in the RESET mode, the system will not start until sensing the PWR_OK signal.
The AMD64 systems is strict to the power up sequence and at startup of a non mobile system
like this desktop motherboard the power state registers in the cpu is to be set/started correctly , and they are initialized with full power.
This aswell as the motherboard and PSUs cooperation of the ps_on/pwr_ok sequence and timing is in-line with
the latest atx spec makes it hard to say exactly where the problem is when things like this happends.
This is one of the major reasons we who replies here recommends "known" PSU brands , not only 12v=30A , cause
that "high enough" amperage don't mean s**it if the PSU is dodgy when it comes to theese other factors.
It's all quite complex , all that needs to be in-line and within given times and values that happens in the system when you hit the PCs on-button .
It involves sequences , initiations and values done by/in : CPU / p-states /LDT / Memory controller / motherboard / PSU , and more.
So an investment in a "good" ( known brand , respectable manufacturer, well reputated and with enough amperage ) PSU is a solid investment
that will serve you well for a long time , not only in current rig but down the road also .
Down the road if you also add some reserve for future updates when it comes to the strenght of power on it rails , then you may have goin_on it in several builds and updates.

SATA detected as removable device K8N Neo2

Anyone had Win XP SP2 detecting SATA drives as removable devices and placing the icon in the system tray with this board, Both my SATA drives have now become removable since installing this board under XP with the drivers off the CD and the updated Nforce drivers.

Hey Sammy,
Im hoping you can help me out,
I have had nothing but problems with my K8N Neo2 PLat mobo with the Crucial Ballistix ram,
im currenntly stable with them working on dimeslot 3+4 (Slot1+2 crashed system, wouldnt even boot.) but my system feels like its very under performing
I hope its not to much to ask but could you list you BIOS settings for your CELL menu ???
also is your timings (2-3-3-8 @1T) faster then what im using...
Mem capped at 200 then 2.5-2-6-AUTO
sorry if im a stupid newb but im thinking about packing this thing in and sending it back to where i got mobo and ram from :(
plz check out my OTHER post for all theproblems i have been having maybe you guys could help ???
New System - Not working right...help plz
system:
Product Name: K8N Neo2 54G Platinum Edition
Product Model Number: MS-7025
Bios 1.2
Mobo revision 1x
(fully Updated and Patched)
CPU Details: AMD 64 FX53 @ STOCK 2.4Ghz
FSB=200
Memory Details: 2x 512mb PC3200 400Mhz
Crucial Ballistix Double Sided
Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro 12mb Ram
Drivers Cat: 4.5
Power Supply: Thermaltake Purepower Butterfly 480 W
http://www.thermaltake.com/purepower/menu.htm#specialty
IDE Devices : 1x Maxtor 160GB ATA 133 HDD
S-ATA/SCSI/RAID: 1x Maxtor S-ATA 300GB HDD
PCI Slot: PCI slot 2
Creative Labs Soundbalster Audigy 2 LS
(latest drivers 4.xx)
Other Devices:
Plextor x8 Speed DVD/RW
Operating System: Windows XP
Service Pack: SP1
(Fully Updated and Patched)
thanks once again ...

K8N Neo2 plat problems. sound/boot/network

I just love the mobo. One of the best I ever had. But recently Ive run into som trouble with it.
When i boot it sometime hangs and the d-bracket tells me it is because of the floppy drive controller. Kinda weird since ive turned it off in the bios and I dont got a floppy connected. Ive read a little on this site and got to the conclusion that it is probably my PSU. A real cheap one that came with my case to around 30 €. Its only a 300w and it is due to a change. But i find it peculiar that i has run fine for several months.
When i got the mobo and i booted it came with an boot option that had something to do with the network. If you pressed shift+f11 or something like that you would enter a menu where it was possible to configure several network boot options and the possibility to turn it off. I did and now i cant get it back? Not that i miss it but i might use it later on and i am sure it can be reenabled. But resetting cmos by jumper or removing the batteri doesnt do it. How do i do it?
And then after messing around with a frontpanel audio thing in my case the onboard sound stopped working. Ive reset it to standard by putting the jumpers where they belong and not using the frontpanel. But still no sound.
Guess that was all my trouble hope that youll be able to help me
Thanks in advance

Know pepole with same case/PSU as me (with "only" 17A on the 12V) and morew power demanding HW (9800xt) ... no probs anywere....
I belive that poeple shuld be aware of that not all problems are caused by having a PSU with less than 24A@12V rail....
I am getting a little tired of all the "Buy a new PSU" - answers... Willing to get in a debate on this.
BTW - fromt his post: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=72160.0
MB : Neo
GFX: 5900XT oc 460/850
PSU : BeQuiet 400W 1.3 Color
12 V rail : 20A
Drive value : 5p
Cpu : 2,2ghz@2,4ghz
Status : OK
MB : Neo2
GFX: X800pro@XT PE 527/605
PSU : BeQuiet Blackline 450W
12 V rail : 5V 45A / 12V 22A / 3.3V 28A
Drive value : 4P
Status : OK, good overclock
MB : MSI K8N Neo2-54G Platinum
GFX: Connect3D Radeon 9800 Pro
PSU : 400W Zalman (ZM400A-APF)
12 V rail : 15A (1st generation)
Drive value : 7P
Status : OK, running GREAT
MB : Neo2
GFX: X800pro
PSU : BeQuiet Blackline 450W
12 V rail : 5V 45A / 12V 22A / 3.3V 28A
Status : OK
MB : Neo2
GFX: 9600PRO / 128MB
PSU : Seasonic 350W
12 V rail : 19 A
Drive value : 3p
Status : OK
... and mine (signature)
Also;

K8N Neo2 Platinum 54G BIOS problem

I recently bought a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum-54G mainboard with W7025NMS v1.3 092204 revision of BIOS.
AMD Athlon64 3000+ 939 is installed on the mainboard, with 2x512 GEIL PC3200 memory modules in dual channel configuration working on default frequency of 200MHz. CPU is recognized correctly as AMD Athlon64 3000+ on startup.
Mainboard’s BIOS seems to be corrupted. In Cell Menu options, in the upper left part of the screen (printed blue) are processor and DDR working timings:
Current CPU Clock 1810MHZ, Current DDR Clock 200MHz.
Aggressive Timings and Dynamic Overclocking values are [Disabled] (processor working on its defaulf settings); Spread Spectrum is [Disabled] while all DRAM Configuration settings are set to [Auto].
While entering HT frequency settings, (locked to [x5]) there are no other values to select – empty, and there is no way to leave it (ESC doesn’t help, the only thing possible to do is to reset the computer by pressing the Reset button on the chassis), but the HT frequency settings were enabled when I loaded Fail-Safe settings, offering [1x], [1.5x], [2x], [2.5x], [3x], [4x], [5x].
Adjust CPU Ratio settings offer only [StartUp], [x4]~[x9] values, but as I understood by reading the manual there should be [StartUp], [x4]~[x20].
CPU Voltage, Memory Voltage and AGP Voltage are set to default.
CPU-Z, as well as SiSoft Sandra 2004 and SiSoft Sandra 2005 and MSI CORE CELL show that processor works at a core speed ~1005MHz, showing multiplier locked on x5.0 and HTT locked at ~200MHz, while the voltage is ~1.05V!
I downloaded the latest BIOS revision (v1.4), did the BIOS flash, but the problem remains!
Anybody, help!

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HT frequency
is a known fault in bios & is easily sorted Bas HT Bios Error
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CPU Ratio settings
AMD64 CPOU's have a lock on CPU ratios which varies according to the specification of the chip. therefore the multiplier available in your bios stops at the max multiplier allowed by amd for your cpu.
As an example i'm running a 3200 754 which has a maximum muliplier of 11 so that is the max i see in bios.
this guide may help Bios Guide

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