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?

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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

K8N Neo2 Platinum USB problem

I just got this board a little bit ago and love it but non of the USBs work. I plugged my joystick in which worked for a bit till I unplugged it but now it just comes up as unknown device. I have also tried to connect my mp3 player and gamepad but nothing except and windows message of unknown device. Also the usb ports that you connect to the board wont work or my front usbs. Now non of these devices needed drivers on my last pc so im lost. Iv tried to install the usb drivers from the cd but it only works with sp1.

I don't know whether to laugh at this or scratch my head about all the times I get shocked by static electricty in the wintertime. Does anybody believe this?
"Static Issues
The product is good for the price, but it's got some really frustrating issues that only MS tech support knows about, but I wanted to let you all know. I called tech support 'cause I wanted to return what I thought was a bad joystick. When I talked to Evan, he told me that the base causes some USB static issues. He suggested that you place it on something anti-static like a mousepad. (I am gonna try an anti-static bag like you get when you buy computer hardware)"
If your computer stops recognizing it...
unplug the joystick.
Shut your computer down.
Disconnect your computer's power source.
Plug your stoystick in and out a few times then leave it plugged in.
Reconnect the Computer's power.
Restart your computer.
That should release the static charge.
From Chris Rathbun, December 16, 2002
Later, Conrad
PS....my Air Conditioner got knocked out two years ago by a static electric shock when I touched the thermostat. Had to replace the electronic heat/defrost control circuit board.

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.

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
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I forgot that DR STU....always follow the DR's orders Malkovic.
GL

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 strange power problem ...

My specs:
K8N Neo2 Platinium / Athlon64 3500+/ Antec Neo Power 480W/ 6800GT Winfast/ 2 x 512 MB Kingston HyperX PC3200
Everything works good but i have one strange problem with my comp ...
When i turn off system and then i will turn off power supply (Antec Neo Power 480W) my comp is unplugged (no power).
Then when i turn on power supply (switch on Antec Neo Power 480W) immediately my comp start to live ! But ! There is no system booting ! Only what happen is fans on CPU, mobo, Graphick card and other fans starts working, my neon lights start flashing etc ...
Then when i push start button system starts booting ...
The problem is seriuos, coz when i turn off my comp and then in the night they turn of the power and then they turn on the power in my home my comp will start to live ! Fans start to works, neons starts to light etc !
I'm sure i have correct plugged every wires to my mobo ( i'v check few times with an intstruction).
What the problem ?

i called .after stateing my issue i was quickly told to rma the psu. :biggthumbsdown:i called again dreading not haveing the use of my computer for more than a day .and was told this is an issue with abit av8 mobos and msi neo plat. 2.there tech team was currently testing this issue.i was told wo email [email protected] with system specs and issue.i was also told
there was no reports of hardware failure caused by our issue. :undecided:that was monday and no reply yet.the support person told me that this was a circuitry standard that was used on the 2 different mobo. i love the power supply.i hope this issue[i know its small]is resolved easily.ive always used antecs products and never had any kind of problems.i still recomend them as well as msi.

MSI k8n Neo2 Platinium Stutter Problem

Hi
2 weeks ago I upgrade my system from AMD2500+ to AMD64 3000. And problems started. My first MOBO was k8t NEo2. I gave it back because of stutter. Everybody said that was PSU problem and I changed my PSU to TAGAN 480W and MOBO to MSI k8n Neo2 Platinium.
After a Fresh winXP install, SP2, nforce drivers and nvidia drivers. I test the system with Flight Simulator 9 and stutter is there
I tried lots of things. Uninstalled all pci cards. checked irqs, used pci latency tool no success.
Any ideas?

Quote from: buakbay on 26-March-05, 23:40:27
Hi
2 weeks ago I upgrade my system from AMD2500+ to AMD64 3000. And problems started. My first MOBO was k8t NEo2. I gave it back because of stutter. Everybody said that was PSU problem and I changed my PSU to TAGAN 480W and MOBO to MSI k8n Neo2 Platinium.
After a Fresh winXP install, SP2, nforce drivers and nvidia drivers. I test the system with Flight Simulator 9 and stutter is there
I tried lots of things. Uninstalled all pci cards. checked irqs, used pci latency tool no success.
Any ideas?
turn off any virus checker for a start
Theres a heck of alot of things that can cause stuttering..
turn off agp fast writes, turn off cool and quiet, turn off dynamic overclocking, ensure up to date gfx and platform drivers, ensure you are not overheating, what temps have you got on cpu and gfx?
do not run corecenter or any other background app that might have bugs in it, check the cpu usage of all running tasks, something might be spiking and causing stutter.
what drivers are you running with (list all)
is it only when playing networked or standalone too? what directx have you got installed? have you run memtest86 and checked your memory? are you overclocking at all? are you overclocking too much?
what are your benchmark scores for 3dmark 03? do they compare to others with similar spec?

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum RAM problem

My spec:
AMD64 3000+ Venice
1gb RAM Elixir
1 x Maxtor 120gb IDE
1 x Maxtor 200gb SATA
1 x Maxtor 200gb IDE
ATI Radeon x800 pro 256mb
I have a K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard, the problem is that when I try to add in another 512mb stick the system won't even boot up. I have tried other brands and amounts but still to no avail.
I boot the system up and the monitor won't even switch on, but if I take out the 512 stick it works fine.
Any ideas?

Not quite.
Use the color codes .
If you have matched sticks in density (size) and timings (spd data) you can run dual channel.
This means having one stick in memory channel 1 ( green ) and another in memory channel2 (purple )
Theese are physically wired next to eachother on the motherboard , from cpu and upwards..
You can not do that , with that mismatched modules the cpu can't initialize it's memory controller .
So your only choice is to run two modules with single memory channel config .
Use the colorcodes to make sure you use signgle memory channel config (since you have mismatched sticks and the A64 memory controller cant run those in dual mode)
So your choice is to use either both green slots or both of the purple ones .
Place the one module with the higest cas rating (slowest) in the green slot with the lowest slot number (marked on the board) .
And the other stick on the green slot that remains .

MSI K8N Neo2 and USB 2.0

Does this MB have USB 2.0? When I plug in my iPod it says that the device could run faster if I plugged it into a USB 2.0 port. How do I fix this? Thanks
Chris

Gadgets,
Before you update your BIOS please do following:
1- Insure that you do not have older legacy USB peripherals (V 1.X) plugged in next to your Ipod 2.0 USB connection. Pluging in a USB 1.x connector next to a USB 2.0 connector can drag all transfers to the lowest USB 1.x transfer rate.
2- Do not guess at your USB transfwer rate. Download Sandra Lite 2005 (SR3) from Sisoftware here (it's free): http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=177
once you done so install it and use the File System Benchmark program to find out exactly what your Ipod USB connection is achieving in MB/s. A USB 2.0 connection should give you a 32 or greater MB/s transfer rate.
3- Don't MESS with your BIOS UNTIL YOU are absolutely sure of the procedures to follow. Here is some reference links:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=76897.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=81017.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=84865.msg606175#msg606175
If you decide to Flash your BIOS I recommend that you consider the one that I am using if you have an MSI K8N Neo2 (See my signature block):
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=88244.msg633087#msg633087
Good luck,

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.

K8N Neo2 Hang Boot Problem

First of all here is my configuration
Athlon64 3500+ sk939
MSI K8N Neo2
2x512Mb DDR400 VData
Asus V9999GT (Geforce6800GT)
WD Raptor 72Gb 10k SATA
Maxtor 200Gb SATA
I have two different type of problems:
1. Sometimes the boot hang up in "Detecting IDE driver" section after the DVDRW detection (probably when is looking for SATA storage unit)
2. WindowsXP boot stuck for 5-10 min with black screen and next boot up normaly
I've tryied a LOT of different bios settings, XP driver combination... it looks like that the second issue happens more frequently after nForce chipset driver installtion, but surely i cannot ignore them!
Anyone can help me?

Are you using Nvidia IDE or Microsoft IDE driver ?
Nvidia IDE give some people problems - Test uninstall / install Nforce driver and uncheck Nvidia IDE.
Also be sure that all your IDE devices are healthy.
If nothing else of the "ordinarie" solutions helps.....
Remove any high powered case-fans that are connected directly to the MoBo´s 3-pin connector and connect them to the PSU 4-pin molex.
This happened to me once - Hang on IDE detection / long time before booting XP - Removed a Titan 120mm case-fan from
Mobo 3-pin - Booted perfectly.

MOVED: MSI K8N Neo2 and USB 2.0

This topic has been moved to AMD64 nVidia Based board.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=93620.0

Gadgets,
Before you update your BIOS please do following:
1- Insure that you do not have older legacy USB peripherals (V 1.X) plugged in next to your Ipod 2.0 USB connection. Pluging in a USB 1.x connector next to a USB 2.0 connector can drag all transfers to the lowest USB 1.x transfer rate.
2- Do not guess at your USB transfwer rate. Download Sandra Lite 2005 (SR3) from Sisoftware here (it's free): http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=177
once you done so install it and use the File System Benchmark program to find out exactly what your Ipod USB connection is achieving in MB/s. A USB 2.0 connection should give you a 32 or greater MB/s transfer rate.
3- Don't MESS with your BIOS UNTIL YOU are absolutely sure of the procedures to follow. Here is some reference links:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=76897.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=81017.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=84865.msg606175#msg606175
If you decide to Flash your BIOS I recommend that you consider the one that I am using if you have an MSI K8N Neo2 (See my signature block):
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=88244.msg633087#msg633087
Good luck,

MOVED: K8N Neo2 Platinum overclocking problem

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Modding Corner.
K8N Neo2 Platinum overclocking problem

Quote from: Sharp on 24-April-05, 06:04:48
Hello,
In the BIOS you must set the FSB:DRAM ratio to 1:1.
Set the HTT (hypertransport Ratio to x4)
Set the CPU ratio to x4 (just too see if it will work.)
Set the FSB to 250Mhz
Set the Vcore to 1.45v.
Set the memory timings to SPD (or default values for DDR500)
Set the memory voltage to 2.7v, 2.75v or 2.8v.
Save and exit
Then let it boot from the memtest bootdisk.
Use memtest to see if it is ok, test for a long time, over 1 hour.
http://www.memtest.org/download/1.55.1/memtest86+-1.55.1.floppy.zip
Tight timings and high FSB is even better
I have the same problem I can go as high as fsb 219 without tweaking anything but the FSB. My system is about the same only my ram is ddr 400 so what should my mem volt and timg should be set to?

MSi K8N Neo2 platinum: Power problem?

Hello everybody, I'm from vietnam
I have bought a K8N Neo2 Platinum with AMD3000+ (venice, E6) + PSU Acbel 300W (I thibk that it' enough, because I just use this machine for everyday co). But I have a bug:
I shutdown my PC, but I don't disconnect it from the electricity, then, i can start it again.
I shutdown my PC, but I disconnect it from the electricity, then, i cannot start it again- the system starts, the fans move, but just that. i have to clear CMOS, then, the PC can run normal.
I have flash BIOS to the newest (V1.B), but it can;t help!
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i think you need a new PSU.

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