K8N Neo2 Platinium. Very unstable

I'm about to give up on this board..
No matter what timings I use, it keeps crashing to BSOD in Farcry and 3Dmark2003 Demo.
Sometimes the system will hang when trying to detect IDE slots (booting).
Also I get the Audigy2 "gameport can't find irq error" although this is the only PCI card I have and I've tried all slots. I have also disabled sound, firewire, LPT1, and COM port in bios, so there should be plenty of IRQ's!?
Updated bios to 1.2 - NO LUCK
Tried 3 different chipset drivers - NO LUCK
Tried 3 different display drivers - NO LUCK
Updated Audigy2 drivers - NO LUCK
My Samsung PC3200 RAM is 100% stable on 2 other motherboards.
Any suggestions for stable settings or fixes are appreciated.
Hardware:
Neo2 Platinium Socket939
AMD64 3500+ Newcastle
2x512 MB Samsung PC3200 (slot 3&4)
Geforce 6800GT
Audigy2
WD Raptor 37.4 GB
WD 80 GB SE
Plextor 12A
Enermax 350 Watt PSU
I heard so much good about MSI, but I guess I should have sticked with ABIT

I Flashed to BIOS 1.2Build3 without much improvement.
Then I unplugged the 80 GB harddisk, the Plextor DVDR and some fans.
Now everything was fine.. So I guess it must be a power issue.
This was what I could squeeze out of my system:
AGP Fastwrite - ON
Memory Timing - 1T
CAS# Latency - 2.5
RAS# to CAS# - 3
Min RAS# Time - 7
Row Precharge - 3
High Performance - Active
Agressive timing - Enabled
Dynamic Overclock - Sergent
HT Frequency - 5x
CPU Volt - 1.65
Mem Volt - 2.65
AGP Volt - 1.65
I'm quite satisfied with this, because my Samsung RAM are not expensive stuff.
My problem with "Audigy2 Gameport" still remains, but I don't use this.
System:
New install of: XP Pro - SP2 slipstreamed
NForce 5.10
BIOS 1.2Build3
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
3500+ Newcastle
2x512 MB Samsung PC3200 (dual mode)
Geforce 6800GT - ForceWare 65.76
Audigy2
WD Raptor 37.4 GB (System Disk)
WD 80 GB SE
Plextor 12A DVDR
Enermax 350Watts - Soon to be replaced (99% sure of this is the troublemaker)
I am now testing with a benchmark tool for Farcry. This seems to stress my system to the max and will show no mercy on faulty hardware/weak PSU.
I use these settings:
Resolution: 1600×1200
Ultra quality option, Direct3D renderer
Level: Pier, demo: 1.tmd
Pixel shader: model 3.0
Antialising: 6×
Anisotrophic filtering: 16×
I think I will get the Antec TruePower 480 or 550, or maybe the new Neopower?
Just looked at the specs for Neo and it seems like it's weaker than the Truepower's!?
Any suggestions to a good PSU? Antec is my first choice, but I'm a bit uncertain with the new NeoPower

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Dual DDR problem with K8N Neo2 Platinium.

Hi all,
I have a new K8N Neo2 Platinium since last week. My configuration is : AMD 64 Venice 3000+, 2 x 256 MB Kingston Value RAM (KVR400X64C25/256) 160GB Seagate SATA, MSI FX5700 VTD 256MB etc...
The problem is I cannot work them in dual DDR mode! But they works in single mode very good. I know that my RAM pairs are not in vendor list! But I love my RAMs..They are CL2.5 and I think they are valuable...
So what can I do?

Deathstalker , lots of value kinston ram is qualified .
Just take a look at NF4 testreport:
http://www.msi.com.tw/html/products/mainboard/testreport_pdf/7125/memory.pdf
And what you say about value ram vs non jedec spec OC ram is often quite the opposite as valueram follows the jedec spec
and is a more "hit" than miss with most motherboards contra what OC ram is .
Dxvideo , make sure you use memory slot 1+2 as said, also try booting to bios with one stick and save cas as 3.0
then install second module . Se if it helps with looser cas value .They also follow jedec SSTL 2.5v standard
but is verified by vendor -/+ 0.25v so you can also set voltage manually to 2.6v (or more) to help them out .
If it worked in dual chl on NF2 doesn't neccesary mean they will on A64 system as this memory controller is more picky than
the external memory controller on NF2 boards.

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 platinium and plextor 716SA - Serial-ATA

Is anyone using a the msi k8n neo2 platinum with a plextor 716sa dual layer dvd burner? if so how do you like the dvd burner? and Do you have any problems with it working with your computer? and can you boot from that dvd burner if you need to reinstall windows xp?

Hi mate
I am trying to use this same drive on my K8N Diamond mobo. It's having none of it.

The best 939 socket board -K8N NEO2 Platinium

Hi
I just red the test results for 939 socket boards, at least MSI made it!! They are the best this time. So guys hurry to get it-I will.
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2128&p=19

Very nice boards...Got chipset cooler I see! Not Inexpensive!

Dynamic Overclocking in K8N Neo2 Platinium

Dynamic Overclocking even in newest 1.4 BIOS version is useless.
Even if i choose Private option (1% auto o/c) my system is hanging (restart needed ).
I know Dynamic Overclocking function is for n00b, i use manual o'c always but if MSI put it to the mobo function it should works

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Originally posted by aduh
Dynamic Overclocking even in newest 1.4 BIOS version is useless.
Even if i choose Private option (1% auto o/c) my system is hanging (restart needed ).
I know Dynamic Overclocking function is for n00b, i use manual o'c always but if MSI put it to the mobo function it should works
p.s. i'v strong cooling system (5 fans) and 35 temp on CPU ..., i'v strong power supply - Antec NeoPower 480 W

K8n Neo2 Platinium + Amd64 + Gainward 6800 GT = Stutter

Let me explain, i have a 3500+ amd64 processor, 2 sticks of 512 crosair pc3200 ddr combined with a Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS (rest of the specs are in the subject heading) and i am suffering from minor stutters in games that are constant and don't seem to go away. So far my computer seems to beable to handle the Source engine the best even with the save/sound stutters, Pro evo 4 and Toca 2 perfectly but having said that on the otherhand ut2004 suffers from minor stuters every 5-10 secs as well as n4speed underground 2 demo and thief 3. To me this is unaccceptable and i am trying my best to get to the bottom of this issue. Its not major stutters but minor constant ones that AREN't textures loading in as this stuters remain throughout the entirity of the gaming session. So far i have tried the follwoing -
AGP Aperture size and settled with 128
Disabled fastwrites (saw improvement with this setting off)
Messed with PCI Latency tool (biggest improvement with source engine by setting sb and graphics card to 64)
Tried many many drivers to no avail (using proper method to uninstall and install drivers)
Turned off all programs including anti-virus software and firewall
Defragmentation many many times.
Trying different swap file sizes and even putting the swap file on different partitions.
Removing one sitick of the ram
unhooking second dvd drive
Putting soundcard on different PCI slots
I am sure i have tried more but i am close to admitting defeat and buying a new mobo or ATI card. I really need this solved because it is taking up alot of my spare time as i am determined to solve this one as i spent near a grand on this kit and as the saying goes "i'm not a happy bunny" Please, some advice would be appreciated. Is it possible that all this comes down to this mobo or should i be pointing at the graphics card?

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Originally posted by dacull
I think i might know part of your problem
Your graphics card is too fast for ut2004, did you turn vsync on in your ut2004.ini ?
Ensure that all entries in your C:\ut2004\system\ut2004.ini file that have UseVSync are set to true.
UseVSync=True
otherwise you will get screen tearing and stuttering. (Ut2004 is the best game ever written in my opinion)
the other thing is to install the nvidia sound drivers.. the realtek ones pull 5-10% peak CPU. I can help you with that if you want
The AGP bus speed i asked if you locked because if you have Dynamic overclocking set in the BIOS it will at peak times overclock your CPU and if you dont have the AGP bus locked your gfx card will get overclocked at the same time.
Make sure Dynamic overclocking is set off (DOT)
AGP bus frequency should be 67mhz to lock
Set your AGP appeture to 256 (I found this works best)
Hope these help somewhat.. most micro stutter issues on networked games are actually caused by faulty network drivers. Make sure you use the Nvidia LAN output not the realtek one. The nvidia one is MUCH faster. Ensure your drivers are you to date.
Using 67.03 is the best option for forceware right now so you have that covered.
When you run 3d benchmarks do you get stuttering in them also?
All the best
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Originally posted by okcpu
"what is your agp voltage and your agp bus speed, have you locked the bus?"
Sorry i don't know much about this, everything is default, i have never messed with any of those settings. Under the bios the ram runs at 200 at dual speed. Doesn't the amd 64 run at 400 fsb? How would i check this?
Changed speed to fixed with Expertool, 10 for 3d and 60 for 2d. Computer is making less noise now, or graphics card i should say, just off to try out ut2004.
IF you start ut2004 onslaught (crossfire) under instant action and run about for a while and run to the middle flag point where all the action is you will notice stutters every 5-10 seconds maybe even more frequent. Wee stuters that last no more than a quarter of a second maybe.
Sorry for taking so long to respond...i'll be in all day today adn i am going to work at this issue. First off my Graphics card has shot up to 60 degrees while i am doing nothing but browsing so i have put back fan control back to dynamic and also changed my core speed back down to 350 because to changed to 400 for some reason as well as memory which was at 1100. No idea how this happened at all and concerns me but i have changed it back to 350/1000 and hit apply so all is well although im confused as to why my card is running hotter now. Also my HD has now started to lag abit when i am browsing folders (this does not effect games performance in anyway) so i am beginning to wonder if this may be my sata drive causing game issues as well but then that doesn't explain why some games work flawless.
Ok now to answer some of your questions. I always have Vysnc enabled in all games unless i HAVE to change it, aka need for speed underground 2, so that eliminates that. I am going to go into the bios now to check the few settings you mentioned. I'll report back.
Benchmarks i will have to check. I am sure i didn't get stutters but then its hard to tell when you have vysnc off. I'll try again later today.

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

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.

Very serious issue with MSI K8N Neo2-FX: need urgent help!

Hi! I am facing the following problems:
1. 3D Mark 05 demo, COD2 single player and Half Life 2 become semi-frozen.
2. The audio loops, and audio & video go out of sync.
3.VPU Recover/Infinite loop issue DOES NOT kick in.
4. The semi frozen game responds poorly to mouse movement.
Note: All redundant processes and programs in Windows XP are closed. My system specs:
Athlon 64 3000+ E6
256 mb ddr333 kingston valueram + 256 mb ddr400 kingston valueram=512 mb ddr333 total memory running in dual channel mode @ 2.5-3-3-7 (RAM is OK, worked fine on my previous system)
MSI K8N Neo2-FX bios version 1.B0(latest) chipset: nforce 3 250gb http://www.msi.com.tw/program/produc...il.php?UID=649
gigabyte radeon 9600XT BIOS Part Number BK-ATI VER008.015.058.000 (Card stable at 1.6 V AGP, 1.5 V gave me VPU Recover; Card ran fine on my previous system)
Realtek ALC 850 onboard audio
Antec SL 450 450 watt PSU (new, voltages ok) latest drivers/bios/firmware for everything Windows XP Pro SP2 + all updates. Please help.

Quote from: Richard on 03-May-06, 08:40:18
bhanja_trinanjan,
If you can get 2.3.3.6 Mushkin, OCZ, or Corsair, then you would be the set.
PC-3200 or higher would be the way to go. If you ever plan on overclocking, then PC-4000 is the best option.
Take Care,
Richard
Thanks for your help. I am trying to locate Corsair dealers in Kolkata(My hometown). Are there any known issues with the K8N Neo 2 FX? I bought this motherboard just a few days back and I am facing so many problems.
Does this motherboard undervolt the AGP and RAM slots? Will I have to increase AGP and DDR voltage to make my system stable? Doesn't the raising of these voltages shorten the life of the video card and ram modules? I want to buy Corsair/OCZ/Mushkin. But in case it's unavailable, will Kingston RAM lead to an unstable system?

K8N Neo2 + Opteron unstable vcore

Have one small concern re vcore on an Opteron 146& k8n neo2 plat. The vcore is increased manually by 5.5% in BIOS.
The readout with CPU-z is a steady cycle of 1.466-1.495V, corecenter 1.46-1.49V.
How are your overclocked systems doing re this? Do you have a steady reading?
Reason I ask, trying to figure out if my PSU or motherboard is giving this, or is it some feature of the CPU+mobo.

ok thanks. I guess I have been seeing this all along and was not too concerned as everything was stable. Now I have this CAB1E 0614MPMW which seem to be a bit demanding on vcore@OC(though I expected it not to be) so was thinking the PSU was a bit weak.

K8N Neo2 + Maxtor DiamondMax 10 (SATA) problems!

hello.
i wanted to know, if anyone knows a working solution for the problem that the nforce3 chipset / nvidia sata controller / mobo bios or just (some?) k8n neo2 mobos causes the system to freeze while booting when a maxtor diamondmax 10 is installed?
for anyone who still has problems: a temporary solution for 1-drive-users is to plug the drive to the sata4 port (right between the agp and the cpu socket), instead of plugging it to sata1, which would be the correct procedure under ordinary circumstances though.
i found out that my own system was highly unstable as long as i connected the drive to one of the first two sata ports. the other ones worked better. is the problem limited to sata 1/2 on everyone's board? if not, it would be RMA-able.
but there is another thing besides the instability of these expensive pieces of trash (sorry, no other hard drive and mobo has given me a harder time yet!) that bothers me more:
why is my maxtor diamondmax 10 6b300s0 so noisy? on idle it runs very smooth and is quiet, but under heavy load it almost roars as loud as my old u2w-scsi drives i had back in 1995. could it be that windows or the sata controller does not turn on the cache?
i hope, somebody can share his experience.
wan-hi

I've got the neo2 and 2 Diamondmax 10 Maxtors in RAID1. I've had loads of trouble as well... Today is my first day without a freeze and hard reboot needed. I started building (slowly mind you) about 3 weeks ago.
If this is actually stable now, perhaps you can try a similar setup. All these steps had frequent hangs and re-attempts.. I got through in the end tho. (Doesn't instill confidence that you have a stable build tho!!)
I have the 2 drives on SATA 3,4
All SATA BIOS settings are enabled (inc port 1,2 settings)
I used the 2 RAID drivers on the supplied floppy disk (same revisions as on the website currently)
I installed WinXP with service Pack 1 built in (is that what people mean when they say a streamlined XP install?)
After updating all the motherboard drivers etc, I installed Service Pack 2. With SP2 I had frequent unrepeatable hangs, but cpu burn type programs and games wouldn't trigger it.
Only office type work/browsing seemed to kill it.
I switched to a USB mouse from PS2, and that seemed to help.
Last thing I tried was uninstalling SP2 and it's lasted all day now. Longest strtech previously was 3,4 hours of intermittent use.
I agree with you about the noisy Maxtors though.. I had a Seagate Barracuda before and that was really silent. These don't whine at all but clatter when seeking.
Apparently with the Diamondmax 9's you could use a Maxtor utility to quieten (slow) the seeks, and a IBM/Hitachi util also worked.
I can't get either to work cos the 10's are SATA only drives. Maxtor util only works with IDE (or perhaps SATA non RAID), and IBM just fails to see them.. shame. I think the Maxtor util might work with some other, older SATA controllers... have to track someone down with a compatible setup who doesn't mind me carving up their machine. Actually haven't tried adjusting when the drives aren't RAIDed.. hmmm.
jon

[K8N Neo2 Platinum] BSOD - have had enough of them!

My first K8N Neo2 was a DAO - no current to the PCI slots. Got a new one as replacement, seemed to work fine. "Seemed", indeed.
I've had plenty of sudden resets and BSODs.
I've seen:
STOP 0x000000FC (no error or driver named)
STOP 0x000000EA in ATI2DVAG
STOP 0x00000050, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA in win32k.sys (also saw some 0x00000050 without the PAGE_FAULT error or driver name)
STOP 0x0000008E
Just yesterday I had two BSODs, just when surfing the internet.
System - Athlon 64 3200+ (boxed), Tagan 380W PSU with 22A on the +12V rail, ATi Radeon X800 Pro, Creative Labs Audigy 2ZS, Promise Ultra133TX2, 3x Maxtor 7200rpm HD, 2x GEiL 512mb PC3500 DDR-RAM (running at PC3200), Lite-On DVD+RW and Lite-On CD+RW.
Please note that my videocard, PCI cards and harddrives worked perfectly in my previous system (Soltek SL-75FRN2-L, nForce2 Ultra400 chipset with a Enermax 350W PSU). I've already tried running without the PCI cards.
Voltages very near to specs, according to Corecenter -- 3.33V on the +3.3V rail, 5.05V on the +5V rail and 11.96V on the +12V rail. That's at this specific moment, under high stress (due to encoding a DVD to XVid).
Memtest86+ : 30 passes, no errors.
3DMark 2005: one full benchmark pass, no errors or graphical artifacts.
Seti@Home: can run for days without any problems.
I have noticed reproducable problems: encoding a DVD to XVid with GordianKnot and encoding DVD9 to DVD5 with DVD Rebuilder. Both resulted in me waking up and finding the login screen of Windows XP (SP2, latest Athlon 64 CPU driver, latest drivers for everything else).
What could be causing this?
Currently I'm running the system with only one stick of RAM, to determine if it's some kind of dual-channel problem or if Memtest86+ somehow didn't find an error while actually something was wrong...
I should note that somewhere in the past week my floppy drive controller must have died, it was working last week and not anymore at the moment. It's recognized by Windows, but no matter which floppydrive I attach it won't work. I've also tried swapping floppy drive cables and even the powerconnector. All of no avail.
So what's most likely to be the problem? Faulty motherboard? Faulty PSU? Faulty videocard? Or perhaps even a faulty CPU?

Quote from: WaltC on 21-February-05, 21:29:11
My first (and only) K8N Neo2P has consistently worked well from the start--with the exception of some blue-screen STOP and MACHINE CHECK errors which I no longer have any problem with after doing a couple of things:
(1) At first I couldn't even boot into WinXP (locked up every time with a MACHINE CHECK BSOD) unless I entered the bios and turned off UDMA in the IDE config and set everything connected to the onboard IDE to PIO4 manually. After that, I could boot into Windows without error--but of course without UDMA which was unsatisfactory, too.
(2) Next thing I did was to update the firmware in both my optical drives after being reminded about the need to look at that by Glenn, a moderator in this forum. Well, that fixed the UDMA bootup problem I'd been having as all of my drives would correctly boot as UDMA devices with IDE bios config set to "auto," and I could at last correctly boot into WinXP without error. But then I noticed another problem...
(3)For some reason, about 60% of the time while booting the optical drive attached to IDE 1 as slave was not being detected by the bios as anything except "NONE", and so when Windows would detect it in software at boot it would automatically incorrectly configure it as a PIO4 drive. Fixing that problem was easy once I'd guessed the cause--replacing the orange MSI IDE cable that came with the board with another UDMA IDE cable immediately and permanently solved the detection problem I'd been having with the slave IDE optical drive.
Of course, now I wonder if the entire IDE configuration problems I'd had weren't caused by the faulty orange rounded MSI IDE cable that shipped with my motherboard--such that possibly all I need have done from the start was replace the IDE cable... But, of course, it didn't hurt to update my optical drive firmware anyway.
Anyway--after these steps I've had no more trouble with the Neo2P in any capacity. Your solution may not lie here, but I thought you should know about mine in case it might help you sort this out.
Thanks for your reply. However, I haven't used MSI's cables at all. I used the ones from my previous system...
Besides, I haven't had any issues with detection of the IDE-devices.
Edit: Update - I'm currently running with only one DIMM (in slot 1) instead of two DIMMs (slot 1 and 2, also tried slot 3 and 4). An encode from DVD to XVid would cause a reset previously, now with only one DIMM the encode completed succesfully.
By no means is this a 100% assurance that the RAM was causing the problems, but it sure looks like it. This night I'll try an encode from DVD9 to DVD5 using DVD Rebuilder, previously that wouldn't complete succesfully either. If it does now, I'm quite sure the RAM was causing the problems.

Need help with k8n neo2 platinum

I've just installed a new k8n neo2 platinum s939 board with a venice core 3200+ cpu the htt is 2000 and multiplier 10x.
I've gone to the core cell menu and set the htt to 4x (seemed to be this at default) and the max mem clock at 166 (more about this in a moment), the fsb will go quite easily up to 250mhz even 255mhz, but when I try 260 Mhz the machine when it reboots shows the initial slash screen but then goes to a blank screen with the cursor flashing in the top left hand corner, I can't even get back into the bios setup without clearing the cmos.
The odd thing is that the adjust cpu vid is showing a voltage of 1.50 and not 1.40 or startup.
Anyway with the fsb at 250mhz the bios screen is showing the Current ddr clock at 208 mhz ( not the max memclock setting of 166) the memory in the motherboard ( a crucial 512meg ddr333 single stick) seems to perform OK according to memtest which shows no errors after 2 cycles.
Any attempt to get to 260mhz fsb appears to fail even by upping the cpu vid to 1.525v unless i adjust the cpu voltage setting which by default is set to (by cpu vid) to +3.3%. Doing this enables me to get to fsb 260mhz but the memtest fails ( even when I set the max memclock to 133, which shows my current ddr speed at 174mhz, well below the 208mhz which appeared stable with the fsb at 250mhz?)
So firstly why are there two cpu voltage settings in the bios when my manual only shows 1 (there is no mention of this cpu vid setting?
How is it that my memory is stable at 208mhz with a fsb of 255mhz but unstable at 174mhz with the fsb set at 260mhz?
Why does the memory clock lock not appear to be working, the memory should be fixed at 166mhz but infact increases with fsb?
I have bios revision 1.5.
Please help as I am not familiar with the bios settings for this nforce 3 chipset, they seem rather odd to me. I'm sure my venice core 3200+ cpu can get beyond 250mhz fsb, I have another pc with a venice core 3000+ cpu which runs quite happily at 270mhz fsb.
PS I've tried reducing the htt to 3x but the same thing happens.

OK further feed back, I can get to over 260mhz fsb but the system is not stable the memory runs OK with mem test but I have problems with prime95.
I had to up the cpu core voltage to 1.53v to get to 260mhz using the cpu voltage setting in the bios and setting a 5% increase. increasing the cpu vid setting to 1.55v did not seem to do anything at all the core voltage was still at 1.43v.
I upped the mem voltage to 2.6v from 2.5 but still could not get the system to be stable, it may be that the memory is holding the system back but I don't want to pay for better memory at the moment. Unless anyone has got any other ideas it looks like I may be forced to settle with 250mhz, well still a 500mhz increase maybe not that bad. I've now to try 3d benchmarking using my radeon 9600xt and 3dmark 03.

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