K8N Neo4 Platinum - Is Hardware Virtualization supported?

K8N Neo4 Platinum - Is Hardware Virtualization supported? If so, where can I find the setting in the BIOS.

Nevermind, discovered Socket 939 processors do not have/support AMD-V.

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X2 3800+ (E6) support for the K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI

Hi everyone:
I have decided to purchase the K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (MS-7100-020) and I ready placed the order. However, I wonder if it supports the AMD X2 3800+ (E6 Version) CPU? The reason I asked the question because I found the following table from the Taiwan MSI web site which shows that X2 3800+ E6 is undertesting.
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=641&kind=1
Thank you for any replies.

Mine worked, ran for 2 weeks already at stock, tried & ran to 2.2GHz on stock HSF with no problem.
Using X2 3800+ E6, MSI K8N PLI Platinum mobo, 3.7 bios & Inno3D 7800GTX single latest nvidia 78 drivers, 2x512MB DDR400 CL2.5 Kingston Ram, Hitachi T7K250 Sata 250GB HDD, NEC ND-3530A Benq 1640, , Silverstone Zeus 650W PSU
At first I have this concern too, but tried it anyway.
See my screenshots for your info.

K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI memory incompatibility

Sorry if it is an duplicated post, but i'm in a hurry and can't find nothing about this subject.
I'm sure i'm not the first to have this problem.
My memory (Samsung DDR 400Mhz - 512Mb) does not work on my MB. Though a friend of mine has a generic type 256 and it works just fine. With my memory the computer doesn't turn on, and start that beeping thing...
I hope you guys won't worry about bad english (I'm brazilian).
Thanks.

Hi again,
Well, if your RAM works fine on that computer, you can do some things to clear things up between your RAM and your Mainboard. You will need your friend's RAM once more to do this, as yours refuses to work yet:
1. First of all, and I know it seems a little dumb, make sure your RAM is installed correctly. As you may know by now, DDR RAM only fits in one way. If installed correcly, you should barely see the gold contacts of your RAM.
2. Try to find out if your RAM is supported by your K8N Neo4 Platium, by reading the Test Report :
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_trp_detail.php?UID=637
If SAMSUNG memory is listed there, it will appear as "SEC". Please note however, that many memory manufacturers use SAMSUNG chips for their memory sticks, so it may be a memory stick made by Kingston, Corsair, GoldenRAM, Spectek, etc. or even be a Generic Brand.
3. If you have not updated your K8N Neo4 Platium BIOS yet, this could be a good time to do it. Be sure to:
* Find, download and use ONLY the correct BIOS for your mainboard. For that look for it by using two IDs: The Mainboard Model (K8N Neo4 Platium ) and the mainboard Model Number (MS-????). You will find these numbers between the PCI slots of your mainboard, write them exactly as they appear there and then look for a BIOS update for that specific model.
* Prepare, in a NEW floppy disk, a BIOS rescue disk, just in case something go wrong during the process. To do so, please read : http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm
* Be sure to disable any BIOS WRITE PROCTECT function your board may have. It could be a hardware protection (via jumper) or a software protection (via BIOS)
If its a hardware protection, set your jumper to WRITE ENABLE. If a software protection, set the BIOS WRITE PROTECT feature to DISABLED. If you can't find this feature, or don't know where are they located, please check your mainboard manual for it, and follow the instructions to disable the BIOS WRITE Protection, before attempting to flash the new BIOS.
* Run the BIOS update from a DOS prompt if possible. For that, use a NEW floppy disk, as old disks may just fail in the middle of the operation and you may end with a useless mainboard.
* Do not power off or reset your PC during this process or you may also end with a useless mainboard.
* If you can connect your computer to a working UPS before attemping to flash the new BIOS, it would be great, as it will continue to supply power to your computer in the remote event of a power failure (Blackout or "Apagon" in spanish)
* VERY IMPORTANT : Let the process to FINISH by itself. It may take a while, but please do not reset or power off your PC. Just power of or reset your computer ONLY when the Flash Utility directs you to do so.
4. Once you have flashed the most recent BIOS to your K8N Neo4 Platinum mainboard, try your memory again. It may work now. If it doesn't then you could be right about some incompatibility between your RAM and your mainboard.
For now this is all I can suggest you. It doesn't appears to be a Power Supply Unit (PSU) related problem as your mainboard works well with your friend's RAM.
Well I hope this helps a little.
Good luck!

Memory Controller not available - K8N NEO4 Platinum Ultra

Hi Experts!
I have typical problem in my PC. I need reply only from experts. Newbies please excuse.
My system displays the following info in POST.
VENDOR / DEVICE CLASS DESCRIPTION IRQ
===================================
10DE 005E 0580 Memory Controller NA
If anyone can correctly PIN POINTEDLY identify why this is displayed, it will be much helpful
As such I face no difficulty with my system. But this message very much annoys me.
Thanks.
My PSU Details:
400W. +12V 20Ampere. (This is the maximum I could afford in our indian PC environment.)
AMD 3000+ Winchester 90nm. CPU.
K8N NEO4 Platinum Ultra Mother Board.
512 MB Hynix PC3200 Memory. (2*256)
80GB Western Digital.
Ordinary PCI VGA 2mb card.
Samsung CDROM.

There is no driver for memory controller with A64 (nforce3/4) as stated earlier .
You see this in the memctrl.inf for UDP 5.10 , driver pack for nforce 3 and backwards down to nforce 1 .
Memctrl is only added to the 5.10 package for backward support to nf2 and lower as this is a unified driver package and
the memory controller is at chipset level on the motherboard that resides in the external northbridge on nf2 chipsets and lower .
What you see is just a vendor/machine id description and is just as it should be .
Code: [Select]
; nvmemctl.INF
; Copyright (c) 2001-2002, NVIDIA
; Version 1.00
[Version]
Signature="$WINDOWS NT$"
Class=System
ClassGuid={4D36E97D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Provider=%NVIDIA%
CatalogFile=nvmemctl.cat
DriverVer = 04/27/2004, 4.4.0
[ControlFlags]
ExcludeFromSelect=*
[Manufacturer]
%NVIDIA_MFG%=NVIDIA_SYS
[SourceDisksFiles]
[NVIDIA_SYS]
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AA.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AA
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AB.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AB
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AC.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AC
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AD.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AD
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA&REV_C1.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA&REV_C1
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB&REV_C1.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB&REV_C1
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EC
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01ED.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01ED
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EE.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EE
%PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EF.DeviceDesc% = NO_DRV, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EF
; Do-nothing section used to avoid "Unknown hardware" installation prompts.
[NO_DRV]
Include=machine.inf
Needs=NO_DRV
[NO_DRV.Services]
Include=machine.inf
Needs=NO_DRV.Services
[NO_DRV.HW]
Include=machine.inf
Needs=NO_DRV.HW
[Strings]
SystemClassName = "System devices"
NVIDIA = "NVIDIA"
NVIDIA_MFG = "NVIDIA"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AA.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce 220/230 Memory Controller (DDR)"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AB.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce 415/420/430 Memory Controller (DDR)"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AC.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce 220/230/415/420/430 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01AD.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce 220/230/415/420/430 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EA&REV_C1.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 400 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EB&REV_C1.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EC.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01ED.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EE.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01EF.DeviceDesc="NVIDIA nForce2 Memory Controller"

K8N Neo4 Platinum with 90nm San Diego 4000+

Hello everyone,
My first post here. Tomorrow I'm purchasing a K8N Neo4 Platinum MB (non SLI) and have requested the retail seller to get me a 90nm San Diego 4000+ instead of the older 130nm Clawhammer 4000+. Now, after reading through this forum it appears there may be a compatibility issue with the San Diego chip. Should I change to the Clawhammer or go ahead with the San Diego. I don't plan on OCing for a couple of months. What should I do?
Thanks!

Quote from: JJWOLD on 21-May-05, 19:55:22
Tom899
I just fired up my K8n Neo4/sli with a 4000 rev.e chip last night, Bios is showing 3.0 and working like it should. Have it hooked to a Enermax 535 watt and One Evga 6800gt pci-e with the second card still in the box, I want to give it a good update and test before I bring the second card online, Cpu running at 35c with the side of under a Thermalright xp 90C Heatsink fan blowing down, want to test it fan blowing up next. Good luck it's a nice chip.
JJWOLD, thanks for the update, good news for me. I picked up the board last night, the rest of the stuff should be here next week. I'm going to load it with WinXP 64, which I know has limited driver support but I have three other computers so I'll just take it very slow on additional hardware and software installations. I may even use the integrated sound for now. By the way, did your board come with the 1394 cable and bracket?
Thanks!

K8N Neo4 Platinum Battery Keep Dying

I built the system that is shown below about 4 months ago and so far I had to replace the motherboard battery 5 times. When the battery is dead, I cannot boot into Windows XP (even after pressing hardware reset button on motherboard). Only after replacing the battery, the system works fine. In my old systems, used to be able to boot with no battery, just had to reset BIOS settings.
I've no idea what's causing this problem. MSI support is not responding to my emails. I've the lastest BIOS installed and checked the batteries with volt meter to confirm that they're dead. Any guidance would be greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Athlon 64 3200+
GeIL Value Memory PC3200 1GB x 2
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
MSI GeForce 6600GT
Hitachi T7K250 SATA II HardDrive
OCZ 450W ModStream Powersupply

You are not alone:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=84120.0

Windows 98SE & K8N Neo4 Platinum

I have just tried loading Windows 98SE on a K8N Neo4 Platinum based system - don't laugh, it was an experiment and worked (sort of . . .). I failed with Windows 3.11 !
I put a single 512Mb PC3200 stick on the motherboard and Windows 98SE appears to have loaded although the "Add new hardware wizard" is having fun . Following installation, it takes forever and a day to boot - I guess because it is trying to make sense of all these strange devices ?
Does anyone know where I might find NVIDIA nForce4 System Drivers for Windows 98SE ? They seem only to be available for Win2k/XP & Win XP 64 bit.

you may need this unofficial service pack to solve compatible http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html
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# 256-color tray icons.
# Better Notepad: MetaPad 3.5 (Optional).
# Optimized swap file usage (Optional).
# Better WDM and USB support.
# Adaptec ASPI 4.60.1021 drivers (Optional).
# Windows Scripting Host 5.6.
# DCOM98 1.3.
# OLE Automation Libraries 2.40.4522.
# Dial-Up Networking 1.4.
# Microsoft Installer 2.0.
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# Updates JET 3.5 files to JET 3.5 SP3.
# Supports 98lite 4.7.
# Windows 2000/ME desktop icons.
# Windows 2000 color scheme (Optional).
# Supports custom "Program Files" directory.
# Shows attributes column in details view on the Windows Explorer.
# Semi-slipstreaming support.
# Some tweaks (Optional).

K8N Neo4 Platinum: SiI 3114 Raid 5 is anyone doing it?

I've scoured the internet google, yahoo, etc. I can't find one single review of anyone using the SiI 3114 chip for raid 5. I want to put 4 sata drives on the SiI 3114 controller in raid 5 but I am concerned about performance. See, I am putting together a home media server and these drives will be written to often and read from constantly - 24/7. Originally I wanted to get a hardware raid 5 controller however I ran into a few problems. There are no current mobos that support PCI-x (if you're not aware PCI-e and PCI-x are not the same thing) and sataII/PCI-e/any current technologies. This is a problem because all hardware raid 5 cards use PCI-x. Sticking them in a standard PCI slot will kill performance and is pretty useless. There is one exception which is the Areca cards but they are all over $500 (actually closer to $1000) and thats overkill for a home server.
So all I would really like to know is if anyone has experieince with, seen a review, knows a friend - anything - that can tell me how bad the performance of raid 5 on the SiI 3114 (the 2nd sata controller on the K8N Neo4 Platinum) is. I am quite anxious as I have spent almost 2 weeks looking for all this info. I know the SiI 3114 is a software solution, so I am not expecting anything amazing spped-wise, but I do need it to perform smoothly. I will be putting an AMD64 3500+ with a gig of crucial ram (2 512mb sticks) in this box and there will be no overclocking.
Someone please enlighten me? Thanks alot!

Sorry but I can only assume you are reffering to the SLI board which only has 2 ports. The non-sli version has 4 ports.
See here: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8N_Neo4_Platinum&class=mb.
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Silicon Image's SATARAID5 supports another 4 SATA ports(SATA5-8). Transfer rate is up to 150MB/s
- RAID 0 or 1, RAID5, RAID10, and JBOD groups are supported
- Support up to 4 SATA devices connected to a single controller
I've been struggling with a way to get raid 5 on an nforce4 chipset for almost 2 weeks. So I've done my homework though I am not a tech expert by any means. Actually, this has been a thorn in my side till I discovered this new MSI board. I understand that more PCI-e raid 5 cards will be comming to market this quarter but, I assume, they will probably fall in the Areca's price range. So I'm hopping MSI has come to my rescue :D. Otherwise I have to buy an old technology operon board (no sataII, no pci-e, no anything current) and server hardware is totally out of my technical experience so I would like to avoid that if possible. Also, if I didn't mention it, what I want to do is use raid 5 with this chip with all 4 ports (4x250gb sata drives). Thanks!

How are some guys running an Athlon 3800+ X2 chip on the K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI?

I see many people running an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ X2 Dual Core proccessor on a K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI board, but mine dosen't work. I don't get any signal to my monitor (don't know if this is the cause). MSI says the 3800+X2 dosen't support the SLI board, but many people got it to work. Any one know how?

Mine working fine, but on cold boot, sometime it hang on me. I have changed 3 PSU to get it stable, from Coolermaster 450W, Be Quiet 520W to Silverstone 650W, ambient 25C, CPU 30C, Proc 37C.
Bios 3.7 the one they are still testing.
Have you check you PSU rails volt., disable CnQ,....
So far stable, multiple programs at once with no significant drop in responseness & speed, Half Life 2, P2P downloading x2, IE x 3, encode DVD at the same time.

K8N Neo4 Platinum (PCB 1.0) and AMD 64 3800+ X2

Help!
I have a K8N Neo4 Platinum (PCB 1.0) and it had an AMD 64 3200+ single core CPU.
Now I've upgraded to an AMD 64 3800+ X2 dual core but the BIOS and MS Vista are seeing only the one core.
The BIOS is at the latest version - 1.D.
Whats' going on?
Hitch.

Quote from: hitchhiker on 20-April-07, 08:44:57
This motherboard does support the X2 CPU right?
It's listed as supported on the MSI website but has nayone else got both cores running on it?
Hitch.
Yes it does support X2
Did you clear cmos with power cable disconnected from psu?
Look at my signature for link to proper method.

BSOD's on my x64 K8N Neo4 Platinum based PC, Any ideas what's wrong? Help!

Over the past few month I've been getting BSOD's. There is no real pattern to their occurence and it's not something which is constantly happening (It happened around 5 times in the past 2 months), but I've really grown to hate them. You see, after getting one what has happened in the past is that when I go to restart my pc after getting a BSOD, I find I need to re-install my whole OS! What happens is that after booting (which oddly enough doesn't work well after a BSOD, It freezes on the boot screen and I need to restart several times), a black screen appears telling me that certain files in the C:Windows\ direcotory are corrupt or missing.
So the real problem is that the BSOD's cause me to re-install my whole OS. One will happen, then it will be ok, I turn the system on, log into windows, then it might happen again, after which I'll need to re-install. The files that go missing are always different too, and when I run scan-disk (after plugging in my main drive into another computer) it finds corrupt files and deletes them.
At first I thought it was Azureus (p2p client) which was causing the problems because it seemed to happen when I was runing that. I stopped using it, and the BSOD's still occured...sometimes randomly when browsing...etc. I figured that since files got deleted and corrpupted, it must be a problem withthe Hard Drive....So I bought a new one, and I've still had the BSOD error (although files haven't been deleted yet).
So yeah, I really need to solve this problem as it is taking away from my productivity and causing me to re-install far too often. I will post the BSOD info as well as my system info below (and a screen shot):
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MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION
*** STOP: 0x0000009c (0x0000000000000004,0xFFFFF80000113BC0, 0x00000000B2000000, 0x0000000000070F0F)
I looked that up on the net, and it seems the first part seems to indicate, or at least COULD indicate overheating. I checked CPU and System temps and they seem acceptable.
I am running Windows XP x64 Edition with the following hardware (please note that all of the hardware drivers I'm using are written for x64, MSI is so good:)). I have had this PC before it started having these problems, it could be related to using x64 I guess, but the error doesn't show that does it?
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AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0 GHz Socket 939 (Venice Core) w/ stock heatsink/fan
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum S-939 nForce4 Ultra
OCZ PC-3200 DDR400 Premier Series 1GB (2x512MB) Dual Channel Kit CAS 2.5
Ati Radeon x800xl 256MB gddr3, PCI-E
LG 17" L1720B LCD monitor 16ms, 1280x1024
Western Digital Caviar 120GB SATA
Western Digital Caviar SATA II (WD1600JS) 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer
Western Digital Caviar SATA II (WD2500KS) 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Buffer
Pioneer DVR-109 DVD-RW
Pioneer DVR-110D DVD-RW
Antec Sonata II Mid tower ATX black power supply 450 Watt ( ATX12V 2.01 )
Creative I-Trigue 2.1 L3450 speakers
Sony 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
Microsoft multimedia keyboard and Microsoft optical mouse (PS/2)
My OS and drivers are fully updated. As for my BIOS I've been running the version I'm using now forquite some time and I believe it is version 1.5. Also in another bad turn of events, my northbridge fan seems to be on its way out of this world (this just happned so I don't think its related to the BSOD). I haven't been able to find a replacement, and since its not spinning very fast, and sometimes stops...It's causing the heatsink to get quite hot. I need to get a new one, and I can't find them anywhere...I wonder if thats covered under warranty... I looked into getting a different heatsink, but my Graphics card is so colse to this heatsink, that theres no room for a bigger one at all.
Do you think this problem is motherboard related, I cannot understand what the technical info the BSOD gives me means, can anybody understand it? I don't think its my HD's, or Ram, or CPU...could it be a motherboard problem? And if so, its under 1 year old, can I get an RMA?
Thanks for the help in advance.

At one time I had a weak 450w psu that had only 18a on the 12v rail. When I overclocked my cpu and gpu, I was getting bsod's every once in a while and couldnt figure it out until I read a similar post like yours on this forum. I decided to upgrade my psu and havent had that problem since.
Power supplies can be deceiving. I now have a 480w psu but its has 30a on the 12v rail. So what we need to know is the ratings of your psu (see my sig) just to see if your psu is the culprit. Just my 2 cents.

New build: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum + maxtor 300gb = problem?

Got these 2 products included in a order:
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939)
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 300GB
While checking up on the MB on the MSI site, I noticed a version of the bios (1.2) that says 'support for 300gb maxtor drives'
That's the same HD one I have coming with my order >.<
If the MB I get hasn't got that version of the bios already installed will I have trouble installing the drive?!
I downloaded the bios and it says in the readme not to install it from a floppy disk, so I guess you need a system up and running to make that update in the 1st place. No Idea how to go about this, if the need arises.

Quote from: Supershanks on 19-May-05, 21:45:00
Hi drjugears,
Welcome to the forum.
Many people are runnimg ok anyway as dope says.
But it's not an issue you can update the bios via floppy b4 connecting the maxtor.
See Flashing the BIOS for Users using NON FAT file system This is a guide written by msi. Strictly speaking if you folow the instructions you aren't flashing from a floppy the actual update is done on a virtual drive in memory.
if you need a floppy boot disc see Why no floppy for bios flash?
luck with build
Thanks very much for the welcome and info.
Unfortunately I'll have to wait a while to see...I installed everything....but need some adapter for the 6pin connecter on the ATI card. The power supply came with some 8 pin one. So I need a 4 to 6 pin adapter. Doubt If I'll find one local, so will probably have to wait until monday now to try it out.

Firewire/1394 devices are not auto-detected with k8n neo4 platinum

I am unable to detect firewire/1394 devices to my PC through my K8N Neo4 Platinum. That is, I plug in the device through the firewire port and windows doesn't detect that a device has been plugged in.
I have tried:
-2 firewire devices, both are Canon digital camcorders (ZR10 and ZR25MC)
-2 different firewire cables
-reinstalling windows, got all windows updates except
(Microsoft Base Smart Card Cryptographic Service Provider Package: x86 (KB909520))
-patch from microsoft, discussed here
(https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=81749.0)
-both firewire devices using both cables connect just fine to a test computer
-both my computer and the test computer have Windows XP Pro SP2
Windows doesn't make the noise "bah-dum" that it has detected a device, nor does it display the dialog that gives me options of what programs to use. Once in a while, if I leave it connected for a while and come back, windows will eventually find it...or windows might bog down and get really slow. It speeds up again instantly once I unplug the firewire device. Strange, I know. Also there are NO conflicts in device manager.
Could it be?:
-bios misconfiguration
-need to use an older chipset driver (i am using most recent from nvidia.com)
-onboard audio or front audio needs to be disabled
-the k8n neo4 platinum simply has connection problems with some firewire devices
(i hope not)
Bob

Built2Last: (good questions!)
I tried your suggestion by removing PCI cards and made FURTHER progress. I found out that my firewire card, the Syba NEC1394-P3, has some compatibility issues with my other PCI cards. I found this out because:
1. it worked fine after I placed it in a non-comm (orange) slot and removed my soundcard (X-Fi) and Belkin wireless modem, and
2. a tech support representative from Syba told me that that particular firewire card has compatibility issues
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Also, SD-NEC-4F is our older model firewire card.
Our new firewire card (SD-PCI-4F) is using VIA VT6306 chipset and no customer complain about any installation issue so far.
If the SD-NEC-4F still giving you trouble, I'll suggest you to return it and exchange for the SD-PCI-4F firewire card.
At least he is honest and wants to help, so I remain impartial towards Syba.
So I figured out the firewire card, but not the onboard firewire. Ok, but check this out! When the Syba card was working, I could plug in BOTH the external hard drive AND either of the Canon camcorders to the Syba firewire card. Windows all three devices just fine. Again, the onboard firewire would ONLY detect JUST the external hard drive, but would not detect either of the Canon camcorders. It seems as though the ball again is knocked back into MSI's court on this issue. Any ideas?
syar2003:
As for drivers, I checked for drivers for: onboard firewire, add-in firewire card, and Canon camcorders.
-I cannot find where there is an MSI firewire driver for my onboard firewire port. I originally guess that it was part of my chipset driver installer, but the README doesn't say anything about it. It is also not an additional download on MSI's website. But since it detects an external hard drive I figure I must already have it.
-The add-in firewire card does not have drivers. I repeat, they do not exist. The manual and Syba's website both state that drivers for the card are included all versions of Windows back to Windows 98.
-Canon's website has a driver/software download page but it also appears that drivers do not exist for the Canon camcorders.
Yes the camcorder is set to VCR mode.
Yes the IEEE1394 is correctly installed, since external hard drive connects okay.
I tried two DV cables and both are connected fine.
The camcorders do not support USB as far as I can see, and if they do, I'm not using it.

K8N Neo4 Platinum

I purchased this board in May of 2005 and I am looking to upgrade the processor.
The MSI web site specs say that the board is X2 ready but doesn't state what processors it supports. What X2 processors does it support?
The web specs also state that the board supports up to a 4000+ processor. Has this changed and does it now support faster processors that are not shown on the web specs?
MrNeil

MrNeil,
Did you look here?
K8N Neo4 Platinum CPU Support Status
Take Care,
Richard

RMA'ed K8N Neo4 Platinum board, no sound on the new board's output

Hi Folks,
I just got back the replacement for the K8N Neo4 Platinum boad I sent in a month ago. The good news -- my mirrored RAID array came back up and my WinXP/SP2 setup looks fine. The bad news -- my front speaker output doesn't put out any sound. My Amplified 2.1 speaker set was plugged into my older machine and working fine, and I just swapped the speaker cable into the green output plug on my MB, and no sounds comes out. Sounds was working on the previous MB which I sent in for RMA, so the software on my HDD's should have been set correctly to generate sounds on the new MB.
First, any suggestions on how to get the sound outputs working? Second, any pointers on how to diagnose what's going on? Should I be seeing "Realtek '97" (or something like that) for the playback and recording devices, for instance?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Clark

Couple of things come to mind. Power on the system and head on' over to the bios. Ensure the audio onboard is actually turned on...or if the board they sent you had it disabled.
Check the Device manager for any "!" in yellow next to anything in the audio dept. (windows control panel/system/hardware...yadda yadda....) If the onboard audio is turned 'on' and windows is seeing it? You'll have a heading for AC '97 listed, and also under sound effects options in the control panel it should be listed. If it's listed as working 'ok'? I seem to remember a set of jumpers on the motherboard for audio output. In the manual it's listing as follows:
"If you don't want to connect the front audio header, pins 5&6, 9&10 have to be jumpered in order to have signal output directed to the rear audio ports. Otherwise the line-out connector on the back panel will not function" That's out of my manual regarding JAUD1 connector. And I have the Neo4 K8N board.
Best of luck!
S-

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