K8N Neo2 nforce3 and Promise RAID boot problems

Using MSI K8N Neo2 with the nForce3 chipset and the Promise SX4100 SATA RAID5 controller...
On post the system displays the following 2 messages and does not initialize the RAID card, also newest bios v1.B does not show anything other than "bootable add in cards" under boot priority.
"WARNING: have option ROM can not be invoke: Vendor ID(10DEh), Device ID(00DFh)"
"WARNING: have option ROM can not be invoke: Vendor ID(105Ah), Device ID(6624h)"
i think the last message is the RAID controller because the system only displayed the first one until i inserted the SX4100 card.
any help appreciated
thanks
kris

datascan,
This thread should answer your question. Pay particular attention to posts made by syar2003: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=87736.0
Good luck,

Similar Messages

  • K8N Neo2-FX and Promise Ultra133 TX2 problem

    Hello there,
    I got a couple of Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE controllers that i want to use on my K8N Neo2-FX. However, when i try to boot windows, the system either hangs or just reboots, unless i disconnect the drivers from the Promise card(s). What can be wrong? Is it some kind of IRQ conflict? It all works perfectly in Linux, but Windows refuses to boot it. The installer won't start either if i got drives connected to the card. It boots however if i have the card connected, but no drivers connected to it.
    I would imagine this is some kind of BIOS issue, but i haven't found anything about it anywhere.

    Well, You´ve already got one link.......
    http://www.swjka.com/neo2/view_thread.php?fid=39&tid=150
    Other links for Neo2 Platinum :
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=59711.0
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=84865.msg606175#msg606175
    http://www.msi.sploitz.com/
    About Neo2 Platinum bios works with Neo2-F or Neo2-FX - I can´t say.
    Basically it´s the same bios and chipset for Platinum and F model.
    Official 1.B bios name is for all three models.
    It will be on your own risk, unless you google around or search the forum for some info about it.

  • MSI K8N NEO2 FX and WIN64 RAID DISC ???

    Hello.
    Where can I get the files that are need to install Win XP Proff 64 bit on my RAID array?
    Thank you guys !
    Chris

    Extract this nvidia archive and use the driver files in the
    ...\nForce_6.25_WinXP64_international\IDE\WinXP folder on a floppy (not the raid tool folder)
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp64_6.25.html
    Depending on the version of your boards nvraid bios version use either 6.25(nvraid bios any version) or 6.67(nvraid bios 4.84 or newer)
    Make driver disk from winxp64_6.25 for to use on a nforce3 chipset is a safe bet.
    Other versions doesn't work right in textbased setup w/F6 .

  • K8N Neo2-F and x64 Raid

    Hi,
    Are there any known Nvidia3 Raid drivers for this mobo and x64? If not, is software RAID supported with x64 and this mobo? I'm trying to at least get the software RAID going, but I never get the option to mirror in disk management. I'm using two SATA Hitachi 160 GB HD's on SATA 3 and 4.
    Thanks,
    Matt

    You should be able to download the drivers from here http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp64_6.25.html then just extract the ones you need and put them on a floppy.
    Good Luck
    Jeremy

  • MOVED: K8N Neo2 - WinXP and Raid driver problem

    This topic has been moved to AMD64 nVidia Based board.
    K8N Neo2 - WinXP and Raid driver problem

    Quote from: SillySider03 on 18-June-05, 22:18:50
    Try This.
    Yes it worked... I did it a bunch of mins ago, ty a lot anyway 

  • K8N NEO2 PLATINUM ATA-133 Raid ?

    Hello,
         My question is, is it possible to setup an Ata-133 raid on the K8N NEO2 PLATINUM (as the main boot drive). Currently I have 2 ata-133 drives and I want to upgrade to this board. I looked at the PDF manual and read the forums, but people usally talk about thier Sata drives.
         If it is possible to have only a Ata-133 raid setup. How/what is the best way to set it up since there is only a primary and secondary ATA connection on the motherboard.  Setup a master / slave on the primary 1 slot ? or put them on thier own channel ?  Note, I read somewhere that optical drives ( cdroms,...) may have a problem if they share the channel with a harddrive that is raided. So thats my dilema.
      Thanks in advanced,
                Jim

    Quote from: crossmax03 on 02-August-05, 20:58:06
    jim,
    did you ever get the RAID setup to work with the IDE drives?
    i was trying to connect 2 ata100 drives on the IDE2 or IDE3 ports and the bios will not seem to detect them at all,
    but the RAID controller DOES detect them.
    however, it will try to boot from the master drive but restarts at the windows XP splash screen, every time.
    -brian
    Right. If we connect two IDE HDDs on one IDE1 or IDE 2 (as Master & Slave), and plan to set up RAID.Take IDE1 for example, as long as we set up Integrated Peripherals-->Onboard Device-->RAID Config-->IDE Primary Master&Secondary RAID-->Enabled, Save&exit setup; enter RAID bios to set RAID mode, all things would be ok. But if we want to install OS in this RAID, we must press F6 install RAID driver at the beginning of OS installation. If we only use them as normal storage, OS is in other HDD, we should install RAID driver in OS.
    Besides, the two HDDs could not appear in Standard CMOS Features any more, which appear in RAID BIOS.

  • K8N Neo2-F and Floppy

    Hi All,
    Just install a new mobo (K8N Neo2-F) and all is good, but I want to update the bios to fix the USB 2.0 problems. I just ordered a new Sony floppy drive and installed it. When I turn on the computer the green light stays on the floppy and it never gets detected (WinXP x64). I checked the power and it's in right and the cable is installed correctly. I did notice that the floppy connector on the mobo is missing pins. Is this by design on this board? Also, I tried booting from a usb floppy to no avail. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks for your help.
    Matt

    floppy cable always missing some pins but make sure that pin 1 (red) is on the correct side (see instructions that came with the floppy).  You may need to enable FDC (floppy drive controller) in bios.  You may need to enable USB boot in bios also if that is what you want to use, but this could create other issues I think.  Good luck.   

  • K7N2G-ILSR raid boot problem

    Hi,
    I have an msi  K7N2G-ILSR mobo and am having boot problems on the raid system.
    Everything worked fine (raid 0 set up sata) and would boot fine, the bios had to be set up to look for other boot devices in order for the system to boot with raid drives.
    Problem occurred when I added an ide card to give me 2 more ide channels. Still fine if I only connect cd roms to new card but as soon as I connect a hard drive it appears the msi board stops looking for the raid drives as a boot device, because I get the message NIVIDIA Boot Agen PXE-2.0(build 082 v1.82)
    Copyright......................(info)
    Copyright......................(info)
    CLIENT MAC ADDR 00 10 DC E1 4C AD GUID:
    FFFFFFFFFF..-FFF..-FFFFFF... etc.
    PXE-53: No boot filename received.
    PXE-MOF: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent
    DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
    It seams there needs to be a bios update as when you scroll through boot options (first, second & third) in advanced setup there is no choice for raid. Therefore the only way to boot from raid is to choose “look for other boot devices” and that is OK until you add a second ide card with hard drive on.
    I have version 1.6 bios (latest on msi`s site)
    Any idears on how to get round this ?

    Hi Raven,
    For your info windows xp will support any number of ide channels (upto the number of spare pci slots you have).
    I have another computer that has 2 extra ide cards in and has 2 dvd`s (on seprate channels) & 6 hard drives as well as raid hard drive set up. Windows is not confused and supports all devices and has done for the last few months ! This mobo has boot from raid in its bios so has no problems on boot up. The reason I need so many ide channels is simply I do video work and need loads of storage space so until I can buy 800gb hard drives for a reasnable price I am stuck with having to buy 200gb drives.
    As I said it looks like either a bios update from msi or I`m going to have to buy a new mobo.
    Regards.

  • New K8N NEO2 PLAT. and SC-939 3200+ help needed...

    Hello,
    I have just upgraded my system with K8N Neo2 Plat. and sc-939 3200+ A64 Cpu.
    There are several issues I need to resolve which are:
    1- Although I change from BIOS the settings for AGP to 4x8x and enable fast writes, I still cant see them turned on from the Catalyst Control Center. Everything is greyed out what can I do? They all used to be on and agp was 8x with my K7N2 Delta board....
    2- Although I installed the original drivers from the MSI CD, I couldn't get one of the network prts to install. Realtek installed OK. But other one is defined by the device manager as standart network adapter. What can I do?
    3- I am brand new to A64 system so I do not know what setting to use from BIOS can you help me out, for instance there are values for HT such as x3 x4 x5  mine is set to x5? what is this? should  I enable cool and quiet, I am not intended to do overclocking. Can you give me some tips for best performance?
    My best regards.

    Make sure your bios is up to date: version 1.5. Look at the sticky threads and use the information to enable hidden bios features. Disable ATI/NV speedup in the bios. Uninstall your drivers and reinstall. If the information is still greyed out, download the free version of Sandra here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/ and check the module under video system information. This will tell you if fast writes are enabled and your AGP setting. Leave the HT(hyper-transport) set to 5X unless you plan on oc'ing, if you do oc then may find you'll need to reduce it to 4X or 3X. Try downloading the latest driver for your network from the MSI website. Right click the device in device manager and select update, select specific location then "don't look...I'll choose", direct it to the file where you've unpacked the correct driver and then update.

  • K8N Neo2 - WinXP and Raid driver problem

    I've K8n Neo2 Platinum version.
    Tried to build up an array. But I cannot load the Nvidia storage controller (from floppy with F6 key) cause this file makes windows installer freeze after loaded all drivers (black screen with blinking underscore). What could I do? I've tried all solutions here with no luck at all

    Quote from: SillySider03 on 18-June-05, 22:18:50
    Try This.
    Yes it worked... I did it a bunch of mins ago, ty a lot anyway 

  • K8N Neo2 Platinum ed. XP Boot freese problem !!!

     After the bios post screen, when the xp logo disappered, it's freese 2-3 minutes. XP starts normally and full functionally after the freese. I have no stability problem.
     I have install XPSP2 ( SP2 embedded XP cd. Created autostremer) Install all latest drivers and bios update (1.B0)
     I've use only one hdd, no raid array. I've try the bios settings optimized. Guided like this documents FAQ
    Specially thanks for your interest
    K8N Neo2 Platinum ed nforce3 ultra
    AMD64 Athlon venice 3000+
    sata1 Samsung HD080HJ SATA 80Gb
    ide1 LG-DVD writter
    MSI Geforce FX5200 AGP
    2*256 Kingston DDR
    No FDD
    A4Tech keyboard and mouse PS2
    CPU-Z Report CPUZ

    Check eventviewer for drivers/sw thats fails to load .
    Other than that most boot delay problems are related to bad IDE (master/slave) configuration or cables .

  • Few question above the k8n neo2 platinum and raid

    hi
    i have for now intel 3.4ghz and asus p4c800dlux and 4 sata drives :
    2x36giga wd 10000 raptors in raid 0 (connected to the on board promise sata controller)
    2x200giga wd 7200 jd sata that (connected to on bard sata ports)
    i order a athlon fx-55 and k8n neo2 platinum for a oc (a have 2x512 corsiar pc4000pro and hydro cool 200 ) and its look that its going to be problem  
    "SATA ports 1+2 will not maintain a lock and you can and will corrupt hard drives placed on these channels if you raise the HTT above 220mhz."  
    http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=ge...890&articID=228
    so im in a problem, if i wont to do nice oc (and i will) i need to leave sata ports 1 and 2 not connected and buy a sata-pci controller for my 2x200giga , im right ?
    in that case i need to connect the raptors in raid 0 in the sata 3-4 prots (near the agp) but:
    the raid on the noe2 is "NV RAID (Software)" it means that there is no a controller like promise and the cpu need to replace the controller work, so its doing a lower performance.  

    If you had 4 huge drives I would be more sympathetic. To me every board is a compromise, resulting in me having to abandon something I might have done previoulsy. In you case ditch the two 36gb drives, and slum it with the 200gb drives. Remember that "overclocking" is not a right. There will be many users oblivious of the SATA 1/2 overclocking problems running 4 sata drives in RAID without a problem.

  • Reboot problem with MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and 250 GB SATA HDD

    I'm having a "reboot" problem with my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum. After turning my system on it will run without any problems, until I reboot. After a reboot it will always hang after the initial windows-bootscreen. The HDD-light will remain on. If, instead of going into Windows XP SP2, I try to enter the BIOS after a reboot (DEL) the system will also hang (blank screen with blinking cursor).
    It started doing this after I installed the Maxtor 250 GB SATA disk. Before, I didn't have problems rebooting. If I disconnect the Maxtor drive I can reboot and enter BIOS and Windows each and every time. Reconnecting the Maxtor 250 GB SATA drive will return the reboot problem. I always have to use the power swith to get a working system again. It's not enough to do a hard reset (this has the same effect as rebooting).
    Here are the details of my system:
    MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (BIOS 1.B)
    Athlon 64 3200+ (Winchester, 2 Ghz, 512 KB cache, stepping DH-D0)
    2 x Kingston KVR400X64C25/512, 512 MB, DDR, PC3200 (2,5-3-3-8 T1)
    Asus Radeon AX800 Pro (256 MB)
    PSU Antec Sonata 380W
    HDD Maxtor 80Gb ATA (6Y080P0, Pri Master)
    HDD Seagate 250Gb SATA (ST3200822AS)
    HDD Maxtor 250Gb SATA (6V250F0 - jumpered in SATA150 mode, the mobo wouldn't work with the drive in SATA300-mode)
    Aopen COM5232/AAH Pro CD-Writer ATA (Sec Master)
    BenQ DW1640 DVD-Writer ATA (Sec Slave)
    P.S. The NVidia IDE-drivers are NOT installed. System is not overclocked.

    Thank you for all the replies. Upgrading to the latest Nvidia IDE-drivers did not fix my problem. Moving to other SATA-ports did not help either. Upgrading the mobo's BIOS is not really an option (I'm using one version before the most recent and there isn't anything in the fixlist of the latest BIOS).
    Now I've contacted Maxtor for (hopefully) a new firmware.
    Quote from: rogueUK on 31-July-06, 16:55:42
    insego please use the SEARCH BUTTON
    I did use the search function to find other people with similar problems. The reason I started a topic of my own was because of the text you get while joining:
    Quote
    Do not hijack another persons topic. If you have a similar problem, start your own thread anyway.
    Maybe in retrospect I should first have tried the solutions in other topics.

  • Problem with K8N neo2 plat. and ram

    Hello everyone
    Recently I had 2*512mo of PC3200 ( double side ),  they hold all approximately 235mhz has 2.5/3/3/8 1T (tested separately)
    But, when I puts them into dual they are stable under memtest always with 235 2.5/3/3/8 1T but are unstable under Windows,  under xp they are stable until 207mhz maximum whereas they hold much higher under memtest 
    If I want to be stable A 235mhz under Windows it is necessary that I put them in 2T but y' has an enormous loss of perf 
    I tested different bios (1.37mod, 1.4 official, 1.41mod, 1.5 official, 1.8r3mod, 1.9 official and 1.B4mod) and always the same problem I also tested on port 1 and 3 (near to the CPU) and 2 and 4 but there it is still worse
    Here if you have suggestion they are the welcomes
    In advance thank you 
    Config
    K8N neo2 platinium
    Winchester 3200+
    2*512mo chip infinéon
    PS: sorry for my bad english 

    Hello, thanks for your answer
    My ram is Apacer value here but in ship infineon
    My power supply is a LC power 550w
    My video card is an ATI 9600xt sapphire
    The HTT/LDT is of 3x for a FSB of 235mhz ( ram synchro )
    I have also tested  desynchronized ram to 166 ( cpu stable: 283*8.5, ram: 218mhz ) but I have always this problem
    Thanks

  • MS-7025 MoBo (K8N Neo2 Platinum) and RAID 5

    Hi-
    I would like to use this Motherboard to make a home data server with a terabyte or more of storage, and build a new gaming machine, which is its current use. . Will this MoBo support RAID 5? I think it uses the NForce 3 Ultra chipset, and the docs that I have read so far say that SOME MoBos with this chipset support RAID 5, and "some do not"-- it says to check with the vendor for the specific board.
    If RAID 5 is not supported, could I get it by buying an add-on card?
    Right now the board has 1 Gb of RAM.
    Would a server benefit from more RAM than this (Say, another GB-- for 2 Gb total?)...  I'm thinking that, for a server, more than a Gb  of RAM may not improve performance, but I'm not sure.
    Thank You!
    Best,
    Walter.

    I have looked again at my Neo2 (nf3) and Neo4 (nf4) but both show only:
    NV RAID (Software)
    • Support up to 4 SATA & 4 ATA133 Hard drives 
    - RAID 0 or 1, 0+1, JBOD is supported 
    - RAID function work w/ATA133 + SATA H/D
    Don't see any reference to RAID 5. You could buy a SATA RAID 5 PCI card and use it, just disable all nVidia RAID in the BIOS, but I would look at the RAID 0+1 using 4 disks first. I would use a dedicated IDE boot disk for the OS.
    What OS are you planning to use for the server?  Vista or Windows Server would need 2gb but XP should be okay with 1gb unless you plan to serve loads of music / video, as HD speed plus memory is more important than CPU speed/power.

Maybe you are looking for