K8N NEO4 wont boot

hi,i have been given a pc that wont boot,the motherboard as far as i can gather is an msi K8N NEO4 MS-7125 N1996(thats all the info i can see on the motherboard) . 4 gig of ram not sure about the graphics card/pentium/hard drive because i havnt seen the machine working as yet.as soon as the machine is plugged in and power on plug socket is switched on i get a blue led flashing on the front panel and nothing else,i even get the light flashing when the psu power button is in the off position.i havnt tried unplugging everything from the mb yet,i just wondered if any of you guys knew what the flashing led was about? thanks

Quote from: Henry on 17-February-12, 13:11:59
"...board is relatively recent."
If you think 7 years as "relatively recent" that is. That's plenty of time for caps in PSU & MB to go bad, especially in PSU and not knowing what the original owner had, bad PSU is a good possibility for damaging MB.
Original was a Corsair 400 apparently.
It depends how you interprete "relatively". All my stuff is older than that so to me it's recent.

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Quote from: Henry on 17-February-12, 13:11:59
"...board is relatively recent."
If you think 7 years as "relatively recent" that is. That's plenty of time for caps in PSU & MB to go bad, especially in PSU and not knowing what the original owner had, bad PSU is a good possibility for damaging MB.
Original was a Corsair 400 apparently.
It depends how you interprete "relatively". All my stuff is older than that so to me it's recent.

MSI K8N Neo4-F booting issues

Ok, well I'm a n00b and this is only my second build. When I first put everything together, the system started right up and I was able to reboot no problem to upgrade the OS etc. However when I gave it to my parents, it started having some problems booting. Sometimes it boots up right away (if it's been off for a while)...however if you restart it, the fans run, but nothing happens for several minutes. Then all of the sudden it beeps and starts booting like nothing is wrong! So while it's sitting there doing nothing, I checked the D-bracket and it looks like it's sitting on the processor initialization:
MSI K8N Neo4-F running Bios version is 1.9 - the only setting I changed was removing the logo
Windows 2000 SP3 which I updated to 4
AMD 64 3700 +
Power Supply - Antec smart power 2.0 500 watts
liteon DVD burner - IDE primary master
a single 250 GB SATA seagate hard drive which is partitioned into 2- IDE 3rd master
2 sticks of 1 GB Cosair Value Select
ASUS EN6200TC256 - Geforce 6200TC 64MB 256MB PCIe
I did try reading through the forums first. I'm not sure if I should clear the CMOS or flash the bios. At this point I guess I kind of lack the confidence to make a decision due to lack of experience and the fact that it's not my computer I'm messing with. So guys, can you help a girl out? Any advice is much appreciated

Quote from: bjk1 on 27-March-06, 22:22:19
Hello Jewels,
have a look at this thread: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=80294.0
Maybe, it's the solution to your problem.
Bye.
Your link to the other thread was enlightening. A couple of things. My father did install a card reader. However, I'm unable to find those particular settings in the bios. My father also has logitech's mx3000 wireless keyboard and mouse hooked up. I unhooked the little reciever it came with and hooked up a standard keyboard and mouse, and what do you know, it boots fine. Which explains why I had no jproblems when I set the computer up initially. I'm sure he's going to want me to find a way to use them though.

K8N Neo4-FX Boot Issue

Hey all,
Im new to this forum so forgive me if I do not address my problem to you in the correct fashion.
Im running Windows XP Pro SP2 on a K8N Neo4-FX board with the NVidia Geforce 6600 GT and an AMD 64 3600+.
I have this issue were when I boot for the first time in the day, my computer locks up when trying to load into Windows, it does not load any Icons but you can see the desktop. After a reboot, in an attempt to get into Windows again, it now locks up on the Motherboard bootscreen for a random amount of time, usually atleast 3 minutes. I disabled the boot screen so that it would show me what its trying to load behind the Motherboard boot screen and it gets stuck on trying to load/check the harddrives. Eventually it realises there all there and boots into Windows without issue. It usually requires 2 reboots before you can get into Windows. Now If I Boot up for the first time in the day and leave the computer at the login screen of Windows for about 5 to 8 minutes and then attempt to login and boot Windows, it hass no drama's. Interesting huh? It gets better.
I believe a secondary issue is tied into this as well. Once Windows is booted and I try to watch any type of media, all I get is a blank outline of where the video should be playing, sound working and playing correctly. This effects all media except Movies (.mov) which work on all occasions. No matter how many times you reboot, it does not allow you to watch any media, only hear it. However if you shutdown and boot again all media works without issue.
Now ill give you a minute to soak that in...
My original thought was, "Dodgy install of Windows", so I formatted and reinstalled a COMPLETELY NEW installation, even differant OS(to XP Pro from Home Ed) and I still have the same issues.
This leads me to the conclusion that the Board/Card is faulty. However if any of you experts or any other people can shed any light or similar experiences on this, it would be much appreciated!
Thank you,
If you want anymore info MSG me.
Sadist

Quote from: Sadist on 06-August-06, 23:00:40
Hey all,
Im new to this forum so forgive me if I do not address my problem to you in the correct fashion.
Im running Windows XP Pro SP2 on a K8N Neo4-FX board with the NVidia Geforce 6600 GT and an AMD 64 3600+.
I have this issue were when I boot for the first time in the day, my computer locks up when trying to load into Windows, it does not load any Icons but you can see the desktop. After a reboot, in an attempt to get into Windows again, it now locks up on the Motherboard bootscreen for a random amount of time, usually atleast 3 minutes. I disabled the boot screen so that it would show me what its trying to load behind the Motherboard boot screen and it gets stuck on trying to load/check the harddrives. Eventually it realises there all there and boots into Windows without issue. It usually requires 2 reboots before you can get into Windows. Now If I Boot up for the first time in the day and leave the computer at the login screen of Windows for about 5 to 8 minutes and then attempt to login and boot Windows, it hass no drama's. Interesting huh? It gets better.
I believe a secondary issue is tied into this as well. Once Windows is booted and I try to watch any type of media, all I get is a blank outline of where the video should be playing, sound working and playing correctly. This effects all media except Movies (.mov) which work on all occasions. No matter how many times you reboot, it does not allow you to watch any media, only hear it. However if you shutdown and boot again all media works without issue.
Now ill give you a minute to soak that in...
My original thought was, "Dodgy install of Windows", so I formatted and reinstalled a COMPLETELY NEW installation, even differant OS(to XP Pro from Home Ed) and I still have the same issues.
This leads me to the conclusion that the Board/Card is faulty. However if any of you experts or any other people can shed any light or similar experiences on this, it would be much appreciated!
Thank you,
If you want anymore info MSG me.
Sadist
The problem is most likely with your HardDrives not the MB...

K8N Neo4 Plat. boot delay with Canon MP390

Hi everyone!
My problem is the following:
My K8N Neo4 Plat. based computer got a huge delay (5mins!) on POST at boot (right after CPU name listing) when my Canon MP390 multifuntion USB printer is connected. I already know its caused by a conflict between the printer's card reader and the mobo, something maybe related to the mobo trying to boot on the card reader. Could be something else, but for now that's the only explanation i could find.
I red all post here concerning USB boot problems (or delays) and tried everything i could and red without results
Things that have been done (and much more!) :
- Flashed to latest v1.5 BIOS
- Disabled booting to other devices in BIOS leaving only floppy, cdrom and HD as bootable devices
- Disabled support for USB KB/storage devices in BIOS
- Unplugged Mitsumi floppy/cardreader combo drive (USB internal)
- Unplugged front panel USB and D-Bracket2
- 2 days of various tests with other computers, printers, psu, USB devices I had in store
I'm about to give up on this one! .. Anyone got ideas other than buying a new multifuntion printer? Could it be a defective mobo?
Thanks!
Rivendell
Computer specs are:
Athlon64 4000+, MSI K8N Neo4 Plat.
2x512MB PC3200 (OCZ 1GB KIT PN: OCZ4001024PDC-K)
Sapphire X850XT PCI-E 256MB, WD Raptor 74GB SATA
Thermaltake Silent Power 480w PSU, NEC 16X DVD-+RW
Mitsumi floppy/cardreader combo drive (unplugged for testing purpose)

It might be related with BIOS. The BIOS 1.65 seems to resolve the quick boot issue. You can get it from MSI to try it.

Neo4 Wont boot.. no screen..HELP

Sighh.. I just recieved my new ram today and i still have the same problems =/ the bracket stalls on 3 red lights and 1 green light.. = memory problem. I have tried just 1 stick of ram.. dual.. every combination you can do..cleared cmos.. still wont boot up.. The motherboard is on my table out of the case with just RAM and CPU.. and D-Bracket LED shows LEDs 1 and 4 orange for a second, , then it goes to the memory error sequence (3 red LEDs, 1 green LED). All of the connected fans are spinning, including the CPU heatsink fan.. I think its the motherboard fault.. because ive tried 3 different ram sticks with this motherboard.. still the same problem.
Ive also took out the RAM and VID CARD and resetted my cmos.. and when i power it up, the dbracket said im missing memory.. so i reseted my cmos and added the ram in.. and it still saids im missing memory =/ but ive tried 3 different ram sticks.. and its still the same.
please help

I think you may have a bad board. You got this from Newegg right? Make an inquiry for an rma. The board shouldn't need any mysterious methods in getting it to POST. You've went the distance in trying to get this up and running. As long as you haven't tried to get your system up and running without having a hs/fan on the processor, I strongly lean toward you having gotten a bad board. It happens.

K8n neo4 wont post after chipset heatsink replacement.

After I replaced the heatsink fan on the NB(it died recently) the machine wont post. I built it the first time, and everything is hooked up like it was before, never had any booting issues. The D-bracket gets up to the "Bios Sign On" and stays there. The screen is at the "Platinum" logo display, and neither tab nor delete get a rsponse. ANy ideas on what I did that is sticking me?

I have followed through several checklists on troubleshooting for the board(cmos battery removeal, starting up and adding one component at a time{this is where i found the no beep alarms for missing parts}, barebones start up and all tje like, and still its a no-go. I dont get any warning beeps listed for the bios, just one short beep on powerup like the board has done sence day1. The lights on the d-bracket say the same thing, Bios Sign On, I'm at a total loss, and it looks like I'm going to end up replacing the board.

K8N Neo4 wont run 4 gig of DDR400 Posts at 2.5

I currently run 2 PC3200 G Skill Dual Channel 2-3-2-5 In my board at 2.7 V no Problems
I tried to install a OCZ Platinum PC3200 Dual Channel 2-3-2-5 2.6 to 2.8 V in conjunction with the G Skill
I know that MSI states the Ram will clock down to 333 in a 4 gig Dual channel setup. But it boots to 200 and reads like 2.5 gig?
I set all of the timing on the bios to auto, but no change. I am not overclocked
Surly I dont have to pair all of the ram alike form the same vendor?

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 10-January-09, 07:56:56
"MSI Radeon 3870X2 OC "
That's normal, read here for details: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=108883.0
Sweet that explains it
So my 1 gig Video card has quartered off part of the resources.
I Have the ram running stable at 2.7 volts 400 MHZ at 2-3-2-5
Everything seems real smooth so far. Even the Little bit of extra ram seems to have improved some performance
Thanks BOSSKILLER for all of the help
I learn something new everyday

K8N Neo4 Platinum boots only with CMOS reset

This is my first build (and perhaps my last). The system ran without error for two weeks but the BIOS recognized only 2.88 GB rather than the 4 GB which are in the DIMM slots. I removed the power cord, put on an anti-static strap and reseated two of the 1 GB sticks. Since that time it will not boot without a CMOS reset. (But the BIOS recognizes 3.9 GB on most of my boots. On my last one, it was back to 2.88 GB).
Here's my booting process:
Remove power cord and switch PSU off.
Put on wrist strap and depress CMOS reset button on board for ten seconds.
Insert power cord and switch PSU on.
At this point the system boots normally without my depressing the normal power switch at the front of the case! And it runs without error once it boots.
I can reboot the system from the operating system without problems. When I shutdown (power off), depressing the normal power switch has no effect and I have to boot with the CMOS reset process above.
Memtest86 shows no memory errors. A similar thread with Neo2's suggested setting ht = 4x but that didn't help in my case. I also let the BIOS load optimized defaults but that didn't fix things either. I'm open to whatever suggestions you can make! (If my signature with my system configuration doesn't appear, I'll post it in a followup.)

Quote from: blazing storm on 03-June-05, 05:52:21
Looks like a Memory/Motherboard problem but I've never heard of it before or a low powered power supply could stop it recognising the 4GB so may be worth borrowing a more powerful one to test and see.. all out of ideas on this now
You were right. I borrowed a Rosewill RE501-BLK 3.3v@28a, 5v@30a, 12v@34a, 500W and now I don't have to reset the CMOS to boot! The case power switch still doesn't work--I have to turn off the PSU and turn it on again to boot--but others in this thread have suggested improper wiring of the switch which I'll check out. But I certainly can live with this since the PSU power switch is at least external to the case (as opposed to the CMOS reset switch). Now I'll go to the PSU thread to pick out a new PSU.
The BIOS on repeated boots recognizes the memory as about 3.7 GB (and Linux at about 3.4 GB, but I suppose that there are "good" reasons that OS's give a different number than BIOS's) and I can live with that, also, since, in an earlier post in this thread, I quoted MSI's "warning" that I could only expect 3+ GB to be recognized by the BIOS if I filled all 4 DIMMs with 1 GB sticks. But I think my 1.52beta MS-7125 BIOS also contributed to this increase. (My v. 1.3 BIOS recognized only 2.88 GB.)
I'm happy and thank all who contributed suggestions to this thread. Now I need to configure the software, a task that I know at least something about.

K8N Neo4 Auto Boots

I have uninstalled Digicell, and all Power On options in BIOS are disabled, yet my system continues to auto boot about 3-5 minutes after shutdown. I have no idea where else to look to resolve this....thanks in advance for any help.

Quote from: syar2003 on 24-July-06, 22:39:27
It's the wake on lan properties in the config of network adapter .
Right click the network connection to bring up properties.Press the configure button and then goto the advanced tab.
Unckech all that have "Wake" in it's name
Thanks! Under wake up capabilities, Magic Packet and Pattern Match were chosen. I changed that to none and it seems to have stopped the booting. I am using the Marvell adapter

K8N Neo4 initial boot after shutdown lockup problem

First, I would like to thank everyone on this board for helping me solve all but one of the many issues I had getting my system up and running over the past three days, and you didn't even know it! I found many problems similar to mine but I don't believe any exactly like it:
I can shut down my system normally however when I boot up it hangs just prior to the windows initiation screen where you get your mouse curser. I do a cold boot from there and it posts until I get to the screen for a safe restart or normal restart etc., I hit normal restart and it finishes the boot just fine. It does this consistantly, outside of this my system has been rock solid for the past couple days, I built it Wednesday.
Its almost as though it is forcing me to go through the safe restart process even though I had a clean shutdown.
So far with no effect:
I increased my memory voltage to 2.8V, this helpd my old system with post problems and solved one on this board. (RAM running at 2.8 for 10 months with no problems on my old system)
Disconnected the IDE HD drives (I boot to the SATA 1/2 raid)
Changed my boot order all around
Disabled my unused SATA 5/6 (SiS)
Reloaded windows XP with the IDE drives disconnected
Disconnected and removed the printer driver
Anthing else? Ideas?

Antec Trupower 550 2.0, dual 12V rails @ 19 amps, Still had the problem with several drives disconnected. Bummed, I can,t figure it out...I think I will go to a line by line post to see exactly where its hanging. I may have mis-stated, I don't think it clears the SATA raid load on the first try.

K8N Neo4 - Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk

Hello !
Up an runnung with my new MoBo - for details se below, thats good. But...
No matter how I change my BIOS settings, at startup I got the same message:
Boot from CD : Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter
When doing so, the PC is booting OK.
Quit annoying, so glad for any hint !
Greetings / Jan Björk

Thanks TheBigMan for your welcome message !
Glad the join the Forum, it´s great knowledgebase !
I´ve gone through the BIOS settings you are referring to. They are like this: (And have been so all the time)
1:st Boot device [Harddisk]
Hard Disk Priority [SCSI:0 Nvidia Mirror 115.03G]
So there must be something else, thanks anyhow !
I also wonder from where this message, "Boot from CD..etc", is coming, is it really from the BIOS ?
Greetings / Jan Björk

New K8N NEO4 Platinum (non SLi) wont leave boot screen???

I just went out and purchased:
AMD Athlon 3000+
K8N NEO4 Platinum
Some standard case with a 450w power suply
On the +12v it says I have 18a
And Im using some things from my old PC:
(PCI) ATI Radeon 9200se (CrapTastic!)
Maxtor 40Gig (not Sata)
1x Samsung PC2700 DDR 512mb RAM
This is my first PC build and I ran into a couple of problems:
I have tried 3 different PS/2 keyboards(2 older and 1 newer) and none of them work. It shows the Platinum screen and then goes to a different screen that says "Keyboard error or not plugged in"
So I try my USB keyboard that I got about a year ago and the lights flash on the kb when I first start up but.....once I get to the Platinum screen the keyboard becomes unresponsive and I cant move off the Platinum Screen into BIOS or anything.
PLEASE HELP!

Well I went out and purchased a USB to PS/2 adapter and plugged it in with the USB keyboard that would light up but still not work and......................... STILL DID NOT WORK!
Im going on 2 weeks now with no Counter-Strike:Source and im goin nuts
Quote from: ck5134 on 07-September-05, 03:12:50
Grimster i agree totaly with jeanguy, you need around 25-30amps min on these boards, so try a mates psu.
Do I really need more than 18a with my system? How much money (ballpark) in US dollars do you think a adequate PSU for my rig would cost???
I am really thinking of just takeing it back and getting it replaced with the same mobo and see if that works.

K8n neo4 platinum recognized HDD, no boot

there are two sata hard drives in this system, the main drive (which is connected sata1) houses the operating system while the drive plugged into sata2 is a large storage drive. bios recognizes both of these drives, and my boot sequence is floppy-hdd-cdrom with the hdd sequence being maindrive-storage drive. for some reason whenever i attempt to boot it goes through post fine but before it begins loading windows i get "boot from cd:" followed by "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter."
i have already made sure that the settings in bios are proper, any help would be appreciated seeing as msi's support request form seems to have an error in the page.
for the record:
k8n neo4 platinum
(2) 1gb pc3200 Corsair memory
Ati x1650pro
80gb sata hdd
120gb sata hdd
generic cd burner/dvdrom/floppy

If you change ur MB whitout formatin' C:// You wont be able to starwindows normally , that msg is normal and restartin too if you're using the same partition onto another MB, you've two options 1st_> backup data from "main HD" to "second HD" and format the first HD or reinstall windows on main partition, for that-> insert win xp boot CD, set up bios from booting from CD DRIVE and then when blue installation screen shows several options select "fix previous Windows xp installation" and that's... The only bad thing of that is that you might also reinstall some programs and thirt party software and you'll spend a lot of space (and performance) in "Temporaly files" from the old previous OS installation, I recommend u choose FORMAT ur main HD, Good luck

K8N NEO4 Platinum cold boot problem with 165 opteron?

I have this board and have a cold boot problem with my opteron. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Its starting to get very anooying.
K8N NEO4 Platinum
165 opty dual core
2X1GB Ballistix PC4000
160GB sata2
7800GTX
X-Fi platinum
600 watt seasonic PSU

Well I am running them at the rated speed of 250 and the rated timings of 3-4-4-10 on the rated 2.8 volts. Ballistix have been known to die quickly when you throw to many volts at them for some reason. I dont get the cold boot problem with the OCZ. Once I finally get it to boot with the Ballistix it works just fine but the next morning I play hell to get it to boot again. I dont even get the main screen to let me get into bios. It just stays black. I have done all kinds of stress testing and ran memtest with no problems. I am really at a loss here.

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