K8n SLI Platinum can't get OS to boot

Linked over from https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=97317.0
Greetings - This is linked from the above thread and I was advised to come here to see if anyone could sheed some light on this...
System is:-
AMD64 3500+
1gb of Corsair Low latency 2-2-2-5
2 barracuda 300gb hard drives
K8N SLI Platinum mo-bo (now sadly running in single card mode...)
PSU - Hiper HPU-4S525
NX6600GT TD128E (Newer version)
Forceware - Nvidia Version: 84.21.
Problem is - I have two versions of the 6600GT and the older one will work without a problem - either in SLI or in single card mode but the newer one causes the machine to hang at OS boot - I have tried booting with the card in slot two (running in SLI mode) with the card in slot 1 (running in non-sli mode) and with the newer card in slot 1 (running in SLI) but still the same result - Is it the card, my PCU or a mo-bo problem?!?!
Any advice/help Greatly appreciated!

What motherboard BIOS version are you running? The original?
A newer version might help: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=641&kind=1

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I'd also like the RAM to run at at least 333, rather than the 200 something it runs at with this BIOS.
Check this with CPU-Z at "memory tab" ==> http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
BIOS post screen info can be incorrect., or current older BIOS by 200MHz it may means 400DDR In all cases its cosmetics,
the way of showing real of effective freq. can be changed in future version.
Also with four sticks it should be shown as either 333 or 166, not 200 or 400
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Hello,
I have started the PC as per usual. Pushed the power button... nothing. Then again... nothing. Then I swithed off from the switch near the mains entry. and switched on... PC started however I get nothing on the screen. No beeps.
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Quote from: Bas on 19-January-09, 00:17:28
Put a stick of memory in there of el-cheapo brand.
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This mobo is good but its false advertisment to call it overclock friendly.
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Quote from: ALFA on 25-April-05, 10:09:30
This mobo is good but its false advertisment to call it overclock friendly.
People are having problems getting ther FSB over 220 and this is a overclocking mobo.
MSI K8N SLI PLATINUM (really disappointed over the mobo)
POINT OF VIEW GEFORCE 6800ULTRA @450/1300 (Really good)
Crusial ballistiX PC4000 (Great memory)
Aspire 520watt 35amp (strong as hell)
Dear Friend don't get angry too quickly. I also have a socket 939 Athlon 3000+ Winchester. In start MSI K8N SLI Platinum was not allowing me to OC more than 220FSB in BIOS. Although in Windows I can OC it to 2.16 GHZ with NVidia NTune. It's 240FSB. You are facing the same problem that I was facing. Its 219MHZ Bug for Winchester CPUs.
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I read somewhere that USA models dont require it, as its not mentioned on the USA site. Well my one will most probably be from Taiwan.....
Is there a check, through which I can confirm whether the motherboard my local hardware store is selling, requires a -5V pin supply or not???
lastly, is that a specific model number, from which onwards, the requirement is no longer needed ????
thanx in advance

I agree with SAB only because mine has been rock solid for quite some time. If I could afford it, I would have purchased SAB's PC Power & Cooling 510 model.
The only other model that seems to have the -5v rail are the OCZ psu. However, I have noticed a lot of users with tagan's and have yet to see someone complain about this psu. Im running the 12v rail as a single rail at 30a...you can experiment with the dual rails and it will adjust to the need of your mobo up to 20a on each rail but then the other rail gets only 10a (at least I think thats how it works).
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So I think Im right at the sweet spot with the 12v@30a and its also flexible enough to switch to a dual rail system if I need that feature in the future. Tagan does make a 530w and 580w psu too, but they are not as quiet and you only get 2 more amps on the 12v rail as you go up the line. Just my 2 cents.

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MSI K8N SLI PLATINUM NOT OVERCLOCK FRIENDLY AS PROMISED

Quote from: ALFA on 25-April-05, 10:09:30
This mobo is good but its false advertisment to call it overclock friendly.
People are having problems getting ther FSB over 220 and this is a overclocking mobo.
MSI K8N SLI PLATINUM (really disappointed over the mobo)
POINT OF VIEW GEFORCE 6800ULTRA @450/1300 (Really good)
Crusial ballistiX PC4000 (Great memory)
Aspire 520watt 35amp (strong as hell)
Dear Friend don't get angry too quickly. I also have a socket 939 Athlon 3000+ Winchester. In start MSI K8N SLI Platinum was not allowing me to OC more than 220FSB in BIOS. Although in Windows I can OC it to 2.16 GHZ with NVidia NTune. It's 240FSB. You are facing the same problem that I was facing. Its 219MHZ Bug for Winchester CPUs.
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Well for a start you could search the forum as this problem is now well known. I'm not getting at you but I know how frustraing it is wanting someone to respond with an answer, and you don't have to wait if the problem has already been discussed!
The problem is that MSI decided to specify that the 24 pin supply must have -5v to support the creative chip. This is in contradiction to atx 2.2, and other PSU specs for 24pin supplys, which say the pin in question is NC (no connection).
What you need is a dual standard 20/24 pin supply.
Theres is a FAQ about this on the diamond forum, but I'm not sure if unregistered Platinum SLI users can read them anymore!
According to the FAQ MSI are promising US diamond users the chance to RMA their diamond boards when modified boards whcih don't require the -5v supply are availble. This isn't much use to us european Platinum SLI users.
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richardwilshire...here is a list of many potential non-compliant APM features you may want to look at, and note that these are carry-overs from Windows 2000, the foundation of WinXP:
Key APM Components and What They Do
APM BIOS: Placed in ROM or flash by the OEM. Does most of the real work of powering the system on and off. The operating system can call the BIOS, and it either works or it doesn't; its operation is opaque to the operating system. The APM BIOS must be turned on using the BIOS setup utility for APM to work. If the APM BIOS is unstable, it may be necessary to turn the APM BIOS off using the BIOS setup utility, in addition to turning off Windows 2000 APM support. The APM BIOS should be configured such that timeouts are either turned off or set for the longest period possible, so that the operating system can control timeouts instead of the APM BIOS.
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NtLdr: Restarts APM upon resume from hibernate, if APM was active before hibernation.
Ntapm.sys: A Windows 2000 driver that hooks the system and the APM BIOS together. It includes certain system operations for dispatch to the APM BIOS, and it polls APM BIOS events and status. Note than when the APM BIOS presents an event (such as suspend or power off), Ntapm.sys catches this, and then issues an NtInitiatePowerAction call, which tells the operating system to respond appropriately. At the end, the Windows 2000 power manager calls into the HAL, which calls back into Ntapm.sys, which calls the APM BIOS. In this process, almost all operating system and driver power code is the same between APM and ACPI.
Hal.dll: Windows 2000 APM support works only with Halx86, which is the only HAL to have the hooks needed to call into Ntapm.sys. It's also the only HAL relevant to important APM machines in the market.
Apmbatt.sys: This emulates a battery unit so the system battery status code can work.
Power Applet: The Control Panel applet that allows the user to enable or disable APM support on a computer. This is the only supported way to turn operating system APM support on or off.
Biosinfo.inf: Windows 2000 file that lists machines on the Autoenable APM list and the Disable APM list, and also lists the BIOS detection sequences used to match them.
Key Elements in the Registry
Ntdetect Reporting. The data about APM that is discovered by Ntdetect.com is reported in the registry using a Multi-function adapter (MFA) entry in the system description of the hardware tree. To find this, look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ hardware\ description\ system\ multifunctionadapter.
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Biosinfo vs. Machine-Specific Info. The results of machine-specific detection versus Biosinfo.inf are stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ BIOSInfo\ APM. If the "Attributes" value is 1, the machine's APM BIOS is "known good" and the machine is on the Autoenable APM list. If the value 2, the machine's APM BIOS is "known bad" and the machine is on the Disable APM list. Otherwise, the machine is neutral.
Running apmstat will report whether the APM BIOS is known to be good, known to be bad, or is neutral.
HAL Reporting. If the HAL is Halx86.dll, the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ ApmLegalHal will have a value entry present with data of 1.
Running apmstat will report if this is not the case.
ACPI Reporting. If the machine is an ACPI machine, there will be a services entry for ACPI under (HKLM\System\currentcontrolset\services\ACPI) with value Start == 0. This is telling the system to load and run Acpi.sys at phase 0. If this is not present, the machine is not being run as an ACPI machine, even if, perhaps, it should be.
Running apmstat will report a machine as an ACPI machine if it sees Acpi.sys has Start == 0.
UI Elements
Power Applet APM Tab. The Control Panel includes a Power applet. If the APM is installed at all (enabled or disabled), there will be an APM tab in this applet. You can turn APM on and off by checking the box in this tab. This is the only recommended and supported way to do that. Turning APM on is an on-the-fly Plug and Play action; turning it off requires a reboot. If the tab is absent, it's an ACPI machine, an APM Disabled machine, or the machine simply doesn't have APM.
Standby on Shutdown Menu. If APM is turned on, there will be a Standby entry under the Shutdown option when the user presses CTRL+ALT+DEL. There may also be a Hibernate entry, which is a separate function. (Hibernate can work even if neither APM nor ACPI are present.) Standby under APM has the same use as under ACPI.
Battery Status Icon. If the battery display is turned on in the Control Panel Power applet, there will be a Battery Status icon on the system tray, which works about the same as for ACPI. Note that an APM machine always reports a single composite battery, regardless of how many are present or what the machine reports. (Windows 2000 uses the unified/composite number, because this is thought to be more reliable on a wide range of APM BIOSes, and is simpler.)
Power Button. On most APM machines, the power button, a sleep button, or the like, can suspend the machine (place on standby). Most require the power button to resume, though at least one will come back with a keyboard touch. Windows 2000 APM does not support custom power buttons.
Tools
Apmstat.exe: As of Windows 2000 RC1, Apmstat.exe is included in the support directory on the Windows 2000 product CD. Support personnel and expert users can run this utility to determine status.
BIOS Setup Utility. Essentially all APM machines will have some sort of machine setup/configuration screen, usually accessed at boot by pressing ESC, DEL, F1, F2, or F10. Support personnel and expert users may be able to improve system behavior by changing or disabling APM options.
Note: Be warned that some APM BIOSes will turn themselves off if all timers are disabled. In this case, it's best to set all timers to some long timeout value.
APM BIOS and Kernel Debugger. Some APM BIOSes will refuse to suspend if the kernel debugger is active on one of the system COM ports.
Event log. If an APM_SETPOWER call fails (that is, a standby/suspend fails at the APM BIOS interface), then Ntapm.sys will write a record into the system event log, with data reporting that this happened and whatever error code the APM BIOS returned. This information is sometimes useful if a machine is refusing to suspend because of activity on some port that isn't obvious to the user.
NOTES:
• APM support is not allowed on server products. This means that the APM tab will not appear and that there is no APM support in Windows 2000 Advanced Server or in Windows 2000 Datacenter.
• APM will not hook up the standby vector on machines that do not have batteries. This means that on machines that do not have batteries, standby will not appear as an option on the Shutdown list, and will not be available as an operation.
• Hibernate is independent of APM or ACPI; hibernate can be used on machines that do not have either APM or ACPI.
• To get the battery status icon, you must turn it on with the Power applet in the control panel.
• To get hibernate, you must turn it on with the Power applet in the control panel.
Suggestions for Problem Resolution
The following provides guidelines for support personnel or expert users who are troubleshooting APM support on a system running Windows 2000.
1.
Make sure the user has APM turned on, hibernate turned on, and the battery icon turned on.
2.
Make sure that APM BIOS screen blanking is turned off. This will often make the system seem to behave badly when problem is only that the screen is black. (Use a screen saver of BLANK to get the right effect.)
3.
Run Apmstat.exe. Its output will often make the issue obvious (trying to run APM on a multiple-processor machine, for example).
4.
If the machine is a desktop, it will rarely run APM well, but you can get 90 percent of the value by using hibernate, which does not require either APM or ACPI to work.
5. If Windows 2000 APM has been turned off, and the machine is still not stable, try turning off the APM BIOS itself in the machine's setup screen.
6.
Some machines will work better with Windows 2000 APM turned on, because this puts the operating system more in sync with the system's APM BIOS.

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Hi there,
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So if anyone knows how to get an old PCI-card running in that board, please help me
[ApoC]

Well,
"f***ing up" the OS is not a problem, i got a GHOST of my perfectly fresh & clean OS.
I have disabled:
both SATA-Controllers (still running on good old ATA Samsung SpinPoint P80)
the FireWire-Controller (which is shown in Windows anyways )
I changed the videocard from PCI 2 to PCI 1, with the only result that it shares IRQ with the OnBoard-Soundblaster in slot1.
In slot2 it gets an exclusive IRQ. The problem is, i can't even see what resources are making trouble since Windows doesn't
show any information in the cards resource-infos but that it ain't working (say what?)
*sigh*
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Edith says:
I remember problems with the APIC-Mode on many nForce-2 Boards. Could this still be a problem? Any infos on that matter yet?

PCI Express, K8N SLI Platinum.

Hello everybody.
Is there anybody out there who has tried this setup och similar.
I'm about to get this MB K8N SLI Platinum with Dual PCI Express 16 slots.
The first will be occupied by a standard ATI PC-express 16X Grafic card
The Second will be occupied by the PCI Express 4X Promise Supertrak EX8350 8-Channel RAID.
My Questions are these.
1. Have anybody tried a similar setup.
2. Will the Promisecard downclock to 1X while on the second PCI-X slot
I will build a 2 TB Raid 5 on this controller but unsure if the MSI can do it.
PCI-Express 16 should be backward(downward) compatible but i have read that some motherboards only use 1X when it's not a graphic board and this is a 4X card.
Many thanks in advance.

Hi,
AFAIK it's not possible. You can only use the second PCIExpress as x1(for other devices) or x8 (for GC)
Right !?
wpr

[Resolved] No boot with K8N sli Platinum & AMD 64 X2 3800+

Hye,
I've received these new stuff last night (everything is good until here) :
- Antec Sonata II 450W
- MB MSI K8N SLI Platinum
- Proc. AMD 64 X2 3800+
- GC Sapphire X800 XL 256Mo
I've assembled all and turned it on... No bip... but all the fans are turning... and the screen says "No signal" and becomes black ( and me )
Can someone help me? Please?
On the MSI site, I also found this :
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=641&kind=1
Maybe the proc. and the Motherboard are not compatible? Has someone already tried this combinaison (MB+Proc.)?
My Thanks in advance.

Quote from: darinn on 12-November-05, 03:22:08
I will ask the sellers if they can update the Mobo for me.
But with the last version of the bios, will the mobo accept the dual-core with this proc. AMD 64 X2 3800+?
And if it's not possible I'll change the mobo.
Thanks .................................. again.
Pretty much any SLI motherboard supports the X2 3800. MSI is just really pathetic sometimes. So, I had the Abit AN8 SLI before and their latest BIOS (17) supports all X2 CPUs. But Im sure most other brands support them too.

K8n SLI Platinum can't get OS to boot

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