K8N SLi Platinum USB keyboard boot issues

Hello, I have a K8N SLi Platinum connected via an Aten US221 USB switch (http://www.aten-usa.com/?product&cat=804&Item=US221) and a Kensington USB hub to a Logitech MX518 mouse and a Logitech multimedia pro keyboard. I use this to connect the same two input devices to two computers and toggle. Previously I used a keyboard to each, with a Dell PS/2 used on the MSI motherboard.
The problem is that the MSI motherboard fails to detect the keyboard every other boot or so. It doesn't matter if I unplug the Aten switch, the USB hub or even connect it directly to the USB root hub. The only thing that solves it to restart the MSI computer over and over until it decides to start working. And I need the keyboard since I have a bootloader (GRUB) that I select which OS to boot with. The switch and keyboard works without a hitch on an older Dell computer which is also connected in tandem.
Since I need both mouse and keyboard on a single wire I cannot use a USB-to-PS/2 connector. I've found several posts here which suggests this motherboard is buggy, if that's the case shouldn't MSI issue some sort of BIOS patch?
Sincerely, Martin "xarragon" Persson

Might work.
I don't like the inconsistency you describe: working sometimes and after a lot of reboots. Would you say your system parts, please. Troubleshooting this in your end must include finding a situation where it never works, and when it always work. For example, if you don't have the mouse connected at all, if you don't use the hub, etc.
Not saying motherboards can't be damaged, specially port end, but the hub thing is a more likely culprit.

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K8N SLI Platinum Won't boot...

Hello!
Yesterday i got my computer parts, i slowly assemblied it and read all the instructions.
The parts was:
MSI K8N SLI Platinum
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz Socket 939 (Boxed)
Asus GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 2xDVI-I
Corsair TWINX Xpert 3200C2 DDR 1024MBC
Tagan 420W PSU(I didn't get any info from the reseller about me needing atleast 450W, but it booted so im happy)
Samsung SpinPoint P120S 250GB SATA2.
It booted and i was happy, i installed all drivers from the cds and installed a game and it ran smooth.
I looked up on nvidia.com and saw that there was a newer driver for my graphics card so i downloaded them and got asked to reboot my computer and so i did.
But it didnt get any further than the re, since it didn't boot up...
All the fans are running in the computer, the memory display started and displayed info.
The screen was dead and by pressing numlock repeatedly on my keyboard i noticed it didn't work either.
I've tried to change spot on both the SATA disc and the Graphics Card. I've tried to reset cmos by holding the button.
And now im out of ideas
Thanks in advance /Hugge

Quote from: SAB on 17-September-05, 19:44:06
If you have your D-Bracket connected, what light pattern is it displaying!? Also, recheck your physical SATA connectors, as they have a tendency to back out.
I had it at first, but when i moved my gfx-card i removed it.. Should i connect it again?
Edit: Ok now i saw what use it has, i will connect it and i'll be back in a few..

K8N Neo Platinum USB Keyboard Question

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I just fixed my machine so the USB Keyboard and mouse work properly. I have a MSI K8N Neo Platinum (BIOS 1.4 8/27/04) and an Antec Sonata case. When assembled, the two front USB ports and the two D-Bracket 2 USB ports were not working. Also, I was unable to access the BIOS with the USB keyboard (worked fine with a PS/2, though). The four USB ports on the Motherboard were not enabled until after WINXPPRO(SP2) started to load (NUMLOCK light and optical mouse would light), preventing me from accessing the BIOS.
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Cheers,
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K8N Neo Platinum USB Keyboard

Hi, finally got my motherboard functioning yesterday One strange thing though, when booting the system, could not enter the bios setup since the keyboard was not functioning (it's a keyboard with USB connector). I attached a keyboard with PS/2 connecter to the pc and checked the bios, thinking that USB was still disabled (which it wasn't). I restarted the system with the usb keyboard attached to it and XP came up without any problems, keyboard functional and all (It's a logitech keyboard).
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Is this a known problem to somebody and if so, is there a way to resolve this?
Thanks for your assistance

Thank you all for the replies to my post. I got this hunch that it might have to do with the way the Logitech wireless keyboard interacts with the startup sequence. So I decided to use a conversion switch PS/2 -> USB onto the normal PS/2 keyboard connection and it worked!. Apparently the boot sequence doesn't like a wireless keyboard

K8N SLI Platinum - lockup at boot, caused by USB hub?

Hi.
Updated my bios today as well as enabled 'Cool 'n Quiet'. This caused lockups in Win XP, forcing me to hit the reset button.
After the second reboot the computer refused to boot. According to the D-bracket it stopped at 'BIOS Sign On'.
I followed the troubleshooting guide and ended up here: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=75712.msg533104#msg533104
Although the steps taken in the thread above didn't help, one poster mentioned that removing all USB devices could help.
My keyboard is connected to a USB hub in my monitor, when I removed this the comp started up fine, as well as when connecting the keyboard directly to the computer.
Just wanted to pass on my experiences, maybe can help somebody down the line.
Best regards
/Richard

hi nullmind,
have been 1 or 2 pps had problems with usb hubs, Glad u got sorted will add a link to this thread.
cheers.

K8N Neo2 Platinum USB Flash Boot?

I have a Transcend 1 GB JetFlash USB stick thingy. It came with a utility to make it bootable. I used that along with a Win XP startup disk. I then went into my bios and made USB-ZIP the first boot device. But no go. It just boots off the hard drive into Windows everytime.
I then used F11 at startup to get into the boot menu and tried to boot from USB-ZIP that way. No go.
As part of the text that scrolls by during startup I see JetFlash listed, so I think the bios is recognizing the stick...it just doesn't think it's bootable I guess.
I searched these fine forums and saw the sticky about using the HP utility. I used that to format my stick both with a Win XP startup disk and a Win ME startup disk. Same result.
Any ideas on what I am missing?
Thanks!

Quote from: MGP on 23-February-06, 11:30:27
Did you clear CMOS after flashing your BIOS?
Yes....I will try my stick on another machine just to make sure I really have made it bootable.

Missing USB connectors on K8N SLI Platinum

I recently ordered the K8N SLI Platinum, but when it arrived the board didn't match up with the picture you can see here:
http://www.msicomputer.co.uk/Products.aspx?product_id=703525&cat_id=77
http://www.msicomputer.co.uk/Images/Products/ProductImages/LargeImage/7100Platinum.jpg
The yellow plastic surrounds that support the JUSB1, JUSB2 and JUSB3 USB connector pins on the motherboard are missing. The connectors I'm talking about are the three smaller yellow blocks you can see lined up in a row. This fault seems to make it far too likely that the pins will snap at some point in the future (lack of support), or that the USB cables may be attached incorrectly (no keying). Has anyone else experienced this problem? Can anyone tell me how best to proceed to resolve this issue?

As mentioned, you'd be hard pressed to plug them in the wrong way, but if they are separate, you'd still have to sort them out anyway.
They look purty 'n all but it is nothing to worry about. It's not like there is a lot of movement in your case.
So you're saying that the connectors are just the standard jumper blocks like the pic below?
This does not surprise me, since I am in the PCB industry so I see things like this happen all the time. Not to make excuses or try to minimize it but sometimes, for one reason or another there could be a shortage of parts based on avalability from the part vendor. Perhaps even there might have been a defect in a shipment of connectors.
It really is nothing to be concerned about, I'd be bummed, but not enough to go through the hassle of returning the board based on that.
As for aicjofs comment about building boards years ago and it being a new thing, is true, I still see the old style on other boards still.

Very slow USB on K8N SLI Platinum & Windows XP SP2

Hi!
I.e. deleting a folder with small 6000 files (all together they have ~50MB) from USB device lasts according to Windows about 100 minutes.
I've got K8N SLI Platinum with BIOS version 3.70, Windows XP SP2 with all updates and some recent nVidia nForce driver (however I'm not sure which version exactly).
In "Device manager" it looks like the USB driver is from Microsoft from year 2001. Are there some new drivers or something that can help to increase USB performance?
Thanks in advance

Usb's as stick say can't be compared to drives attached to a ide controller.
But you can check to make sure it's running at 2.0 speed like this.
If you look in device manager - on the view on menu - select "view devices by connection" .
Then expand the tree down to USB Enhanced (EHCI) and see if the "disk" is attected to this controller.
If it is you running usb2.0.
Here you see Verbatim Stor'n Go Usb 2.0 thumbdrive attached to the Standard Enhanced EHCI Controller (Usb 2.0)
The other circle shows a bluetooth device runnings as usb 1.1 and attached to the Standard OHCD Controller (Usb 1.1)
An other thing that slows it down is that cache is disabled ("optimized for quick removal") .

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

[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.

MSI K8N SLI Platinum vs 1.5TB Western Digital

Hi Everyone,
I have recently been having some issues with my K8N SLI platinum and hoping I could get some help on resolving the issue.
For the past 2 years i have been running the machine with multiple SATA drives (160GB{boot} and 300GB) and have now tried to add an additional 1.5TB WD and have encountered some problems. If i put my 1.5TB into a USB enclosure and then connect it to my machine it is recognized perfectly and I am able to write and read from the drive, However if i put it into my machine as a secondary HDD my computer fails to boot.
First when i put the drive in my computer no longer boots to windows. It gets to post and loads the drives (including the new drive) and then wont go any further. PC seems to stall and wont allow me to get to the BIOS.
I boot up the machine without the drive connected and go into the BIOS and then reconnect the drive. If i do a HDD Scan on SATA3 then the drive will be recognized (however capacity is only 136GB).
My first thoughts were that it was a bios related issue so I have updated the Bios to the latest (3.C according to LiveUpdate) and am still having the same issue. Im not really sure where to go from now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
Tim

Hello! Please say what your system looks like. Include what PSU you are using.
Try a different cable.
Jumper the disk to SATA 1.
Try the disk in a different system.

2nd K8N SLi Platinum motherboard just died

Hope somebody else has experienced this - now on my 3rd board. A bit about my system:
Msi K8N SLi Platinum motherboard
2 x Seagate Barracuda ST3200822AS 200Gb Hard disk
Antec PSU True Blue 480w
1 x AMD (Winchester) Athlon 64bit 3200+ CPU
OCZ Dual Channel Kit 2x512MB DDR400 Ram
128MB Gigabyte GV NX66T128VP Graphics Card
Running MCE 2005
I built my first system running Media Center 2005 a few months back. Very stable. Used to put it into S3 sleep mode each evening and wake up the next day. Never any problems. CPU temp ran about 47degC. Never did anything stressful on it, no games just watched tv with a tuner card and played mp3s.
One day it wouldn't wake up, wouldn't post, no beeps nothing. cpu fan spun briefly (2 secs) and died. I stripped it down to bare essentials (1 stick ram, cpu). Tested PSU - fine. Tried out of case, again no joy, so I RMAed. Put it down to a bad board.
So I installed the new board - it worked fine. Must have been a bad board. Great! It ran for another month and the same thing happened, it just would wake up one day! Now I'm worried, am I doing something wrong with these boards, are they getting too hot? How come they fail when they are switched off? Is it a bios thing? - I tried resetting the Cmos, no joy there.
Any way that I can update the bios when they are in this state?
Any ideas - cheers Richard

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.
Ntdetect.com: It detects whether the APM BIOS is present before booting the operating system, determines whether Windows 2000 can use it, and reports the results of detection in the registry.
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.
There will be a set of keys there named 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. Each of them will have value entries named Component Information, Configuration Data, Identifier, and so on. Find the key whose Identifier entry == "APM". The "Configuration Data" entry of that key will contain the data on APM found and reported by Ntdetect.com. If the key is absent, then APM was not found. The contents of this value entry are reported in sdk\inc\ntapmsdk.h.
Running Apmstat.exe -v will dump this structure, for machines where it's relevant. For machines where it's not relevant (multiprocessors, not x86, not halx86, ACPI is on, and so on), Apmstat.exe will report that.
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.

K8N SLI Platinum - CD-TRAY auto opening on Each computer restart, reboot

I've flasher my K8N SLI Platinum Bios to the last one and now on each reboot my CD-tray open itself anyone has the same problem ? I don't understand please Help

Quote from: douglasp on 02-May-05, 18:51:33
I've flasher my K8N SLI Platinum Bios to the last one and now on each reboot my CD-tray open itself anyone has the same problem ? I don't understand please Help
Kinda sounds like what happens to my 2 machines (a Mac & PC) that share a monitor, USB keyboard & USB printer through a KVM switch....
On occasion the the Mac's CD tray will pop open on it's own while it's booting if the PC is already on. Someone on the Apple formus told me it was a spurious "nonsense" command generated through the USB connection of the switch while it's trying to "sync up".
While it's a little irritating, it's nothing to worry about.

Can't open BIOs Set-up, K8N SLI Platinum, after re-flash

I used the USB Bio flash tool from the forum to re-flash the BIOs on my K8N SLI Platinum board to the latest BIOS from the MSI site, specs below.
After the re-flash, which seemed to go okay, I cleared the CMOS (turned off and unplugged computer, pushed the clear cmos button for about a minute), and re-booted.
I get a checksum error, no floppy found. I don't have a floppy drive in any case. But then I am unable to enter the bios. Pushing delete at boot gets me a screen that's blank, save for a cursor in the upper left corner. I can't enter anything from there, ESC key doesn't do anything. So I have to reboot.
I can get to the POST screen and pressing F1 allows the system to start and get to Windows, which seems to run okay. System shows that the new BIOS is installed. I just can't get into it to re-set to default settings.
If I turn off the computer, I get the checksum error again and in Windows clock and date have to be reset. But if I just reboot I just have to go through the no floppy found, then push f1 to get back to windows which has retained settings.
I tried doing the flash procedure again and got same result. I haven't tried flashing back to the old BIOs yet. MSI's site only lists the most recent BIOs, my preference would be to try a different one, but not as old as the 2005 version that was on there.
Hopefully someone can tell me something obvious that I'm missing here.
Rick
Windows XP Professionnel
Version   5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Nu 2600
Motherboard K8N SLI Platinum, with Nvidia nForce 4 SLI chipset
Model   MS-7100
Typ   X86-based PC
AMD 64 3500+ ~2211 Mhz
BIOS/Date   Phoenix Technologies, LTD V 3.12, 10/27/2008
Version SMBIOS   2.3
4,096.00 Mo RAM

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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
Best check with CPU-Z how they are running
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It may now be possible to put something faster in there, but I don't know that for sure. But the 4000+ should improve performance a bit.
Such old CPU's can't be found easy in present days, also its not good investing to invest in old stuffs.
You want W7 and such, changing to the best CPU wont improve much the performance in overall..
Soon or later you have to change it, then this and eventually "newest" CPU which you gonna get will became useless.

K8N-SLI Platinum strange behaviour

Hi there
Apart from the northbridge making a weird noise sometimes when the motherboard is on it's side (i.e. tower case standing upright), the motherboard started behaving strangely on saturday
first the computer refused to find my network, always assigning a local ip, so i tried rebooting the router a few times, and then checked my other computer which is connected to the router fine
then i tried to play a game and noticed the sound had gone, and then the game kept quitting barely after i started it so i gave that up
then, after i had to move the mouse between this one and another computer, the usb ports (all of them, no matter whether through pci card or on motherboard, the mouse stopped working
throughout all of this i rebooted many times.
i finally gave up in the evening, and the next morning on a whim i turned the computer on and everything was fine, what's going on?!?! is this linked to the northbridge at all? i've monitored all the fans and temps and all are normal and running constantly ( cpu never above 40c)
is the motherboard losing it, or maybe the power supply (all voltages seem normal too...)
my spec
Amd 64 3000+ venice
MSI K8N-SLI Platinum
2x512mb Geil Ram
1xSata 250gig western digital hard disk drive
1x Xfx 6600GT 256mb
480w Tagen power supply (can't remember which off had, not the 2force one, the other cheap one, it's modular tho)
i was going to take the motherboard back, but now it's working fine i'm sure they wont accept it
please help
thank you in advance
Reaps

Possible suggestions are as follows: Although the manual states that your power supply should be 450w or above i think that with your PSU your fairly border line. Remember that your psu will only draw the power that it requires and as soon as you start putting 256 Mb graphics cards and upgrading to more ram it is using even more resources and can cause your system to have all sorts of dramas and Re-boots.With your network connection problems this could be due to either network problems in your area which BT or your telephone provider can help you with or as i have recently found out.. too many net work connections that may conflict with each other.Go to your controll panel,Network and internet connections then network connections you should have your broadband or dial up connection listed. If you have more than one connection listed and for instance you dont use LAN (local area connection) Networking then you will have to uninstall this connection and disable all Lan options from the Bios i.e nVidia Mac LAN, nVidia Mac LAN ROM, Marvell Gigabit LAN, Marvell Gibyte rom.A possible other prob may be to disable your IEEE 1394 connection from the bios as i had similar problems to yours but am now okay. I am not saying any of these are related directly to your problems however they are possibilities which you may like to try. Please note also that your USB problems can be solved by using the latest Bios update (which i personally have never had any problems with) but may be risky if you have no idea how to flash your bios. My advice on this would be to read the moderators (Bas..i think) instructions as to how to do this or as he suggests unistall all your motherboards usb drivers that were installed from the disk provided by your Motherboard Manafacturer, Re-boot and let windows re-install its own USB drivers which certainly worked for me.
Q-TEC 650W PSU
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU
MSI K8N SLI Platinum N-Force4 MOB
2x 512Mb Hynix DDR 400 RAM Modules(Single)
Gainforce GeForce 7800 GT
Samsung 120 GB SATA

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