K9A2 CF Sata HDD BOOT Problem
Hello all.
Got this nice MB yesterday, and everything got running without problem.
Today, a few hours back, my computer shut itself down, and after that
it wont boot with ANY Sata HDD. The computer boots up, you get a 1-2 second
glimpse at the BIOS data, then the computer shuts down.
I don't have any problem with my sata burner. With that my computer boots up OK.
I have tried to flash the BIOS from 1.2 to 1.6, and still the same problem.
Beside the Sata HDD trouble, everything else is working flawlessly.
>>> Is your problem caused by your PSU? <<<
Good PSU suggestion:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=112039.msg836246#msg836246
>>> PSU's---2 x 12v---The Dual Rail Myth <<<
Check CPU cooling system too.
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English (auto-detected) » EnglishSOLUTION:
The problem I described above stemmed from the fact that I had been unable to install W7 without using the legacy option. (The W7 installation would freeze at the first screen.) That created the boot incompatibilities between W8.1 and W7because I had
to use legacy for the latter but not for the former.
It turned out that the USB ports were the basic problem. The Windows 7 installation program doesn't recognize USB 3.0 ports. Unfortunately, the A08 BIOS in the XPS 8700 -Special Edition (as of late Dec. 2014) has only 3 options for enabling/disabling
the USB ports: Front, Top, Back. The back panel has a mix of USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports and I needed a 2.0 port for the mouse and keyboard to work. However, disabling the Front and Top USB ports was sufficient. The W7 install no longer froze.
So, from my W8 installation, I wiped out the SATA drive, changed it back to GPT, partitioned it, disabled the Front and Top USB ports in the BIOS and booted from the W7 DVD. The installation went fine. After installing the network driver, downloaded
previously, and updating W7, I installed the USB 3.0 drivers and then re-enabled the Top and Front in the BIOS.
So, now the EasyBCD boot options work just fine. Both drives are GPT. No legacy options.
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Undocumented(?) boot problem sata
I have a strange problem while booting of my sata drive. When i first press the power on button BIOS can't find a valid bootsector if i press reset after this message the computer will boot and give no errors and run without any stability issues. If i need to restart my computer from within Windows XP no error message is given while passing BIOS and no problem occure. I use the promise ID0 which detects my sata drive no problem.
I suspect that the problem lies with the selection of the bootsequeance in the BIOS SETUP. the setting there i use is:
1 floppy or dvd-drive
2 BBS (raid) sata 378... this could be the problem because i don not use raid but there aren't any other boot devices with sata avalible.
i tried using the via controler but that did not use.
any help would be welcomSebbie,
Sounds like bios is trying to read disk before it is up to speed. There are settings in disk properties pages to slow down access.
However, if you use boot sequence , Floppy, CD, BB - SATA, enable other boot devices, and enable floppy seek, it may have same effect.
jocko -
I just put my computer together, and I am trying to install Windows XP pro. I only have a SATA HDD and would like for the computer to put the master boot record on this drive. As of now, every time I try to install XP it tells me that it cannot locate a hard drive. I assume that it is expecting an IDE HDD. Is there any way that I can use the SATA HDD to boot up my computer, or will I have to just buy an IDE HDD.
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can I boot off the SATA HDD
I just put my computer together, and I am trying to install Windows XP pro. I only have a SATA HDD and would like for the computer to put the master boot record on this drive. As of now, every time I try to install XP it tells me that it cannot locate a hard drive. I assume that it is expecting an IDE HDD. Is there any way that I can use the SATA HDD to boot up my computer, or will I have to just buy an IDE HDD.
Yes, you can boot off the SATA drive. You will, however, have to 1st enable the SATA capability in the BIOS. Upon startup, get into the BIOS (usually press "F6" on startup), then step through the BIOS screens and you will see a place where you enable various IDE drives. You need to enable the SATA functionality. Instructions (albeit vague) will also be in your MB owners manual.
Good luck.
Scott
PS After you've formatted the SATA Drive & installed Win XP, you will need to again enter the BIOS and setup the BIOS to boot form the SATA drive. Right now, you are correctly booting off the CD to install Win-XP. -
I have 1 SATA drive on a K9A Platinum mobo. When I boot (WIN XP) about 1 time out of 3, I get a message that says "not a system disk. Hit any key to reboot". I have to power cycle or hit the alt/ctl/del keys before it will correctly boot. I have the latest bios (1.4)(also did same thing with 1.3). I am running only 1 SATA HDD and 1 IDE CD burner. No raid drivers installed.
ALWAYS try another cable. All it takes is a tiny, not even completely through, invisable to the naked eye, under the casing break in a strand to give you a headache. It could even be a cheap cable, or one that doesn't quite meet spec and got past QA, maybe it's leaking or receiving EMI. Who knows. Just try another cable!
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K9A2 Platinum Cold Boot problem
Hi, recently I have encounter this problem on my K9A2 Platinum that didn't occur before, where after powered off for a few hours, when booting up, there is power to the system but the system won't boot (i.e. no POST or anything). The reset button on my chassis also won't work at that time. And after pressing the power button to shutdown, it won't power up again until I've turn off the mains and wait until the power LED on the mobo to turn off and turning on the mains again.
After that, my system would be able to boot successfully, but the bios clock will be slow by a few hours. E.g. current time 9am, bios time 5am. I've tried flashing the bios to the latest version and resetting the bios settings doesnt help at all.
Can anyone plz help me?
My current rig config is
K9A2 Platinum w/ phenom 9500
6gb kingston ddr2 1066mhz
PowerColor HD3870
Xonar Essence STX
Coolermaster RPP 750w
Thanks a lot in advance.Quote from: Henry on 23-March-10, 07:29:17
Did your problem start after you added this mixed batch of RAM? When did you add RAM to what you had 2 years ago? AMD works best when only 2 sticks are used and you have messed that up by adding 2 more sticks of different RAM. Does it work OK if you remove two of the sticks?
Not really, I had the mixed batch of ram for almost 8 months without any problems. And the cold boot problem does not happen everytime. I've just tried booting up without any issues this time round. I would see if the problem occurs again and test it with a new cmos battery. -
Hello,
I seem to be having trouble with my SATA drives. I had a Seagate 7200.11 320gb SATA hdd installed already (using the cable that came with the motherboard), and it worked fine. I purchased a Seagate 7200.11 500GB SATA drive on Monday, and have had nothing but problems since.
XP is installed on the old drive, Vista on the new one.
I have purchased another SATA cable besides the one that came in the Seagate box as well.
Here's what I have tried:
Old cable on old drive: boots fine
New cable on Old drive: BSOD (0x0000007B stop error)
Third cable on Old drive: BSOD (0x0000007B stop error)
Old cable on old drive and new cable on new drive: BSOD (0x0000007B stop error)
Old cable on old drive and third cable on new drive: BSOD (0x0000007B stop error)
Old cable on new drive: boots fine
New cable on new drive: hangs (no bluescreen in vista?)
Third cable on new drive: boots, but takes forever to do so.
Third cable on new drive and Old cable on old drive: boots, but takes forever to do so (and old drive is not recognized by Vista)
Is it possible that I got two bad cables? any suggestions?
System specs:
k9a2 CF motherboard
Athlon 64x2 5200+ 65W
1x 320gb seagate 7200.11
1x 500gb seagate 7200.11
PNY 9600GT video
2x2gb OCZ ddr2-800 RAM
Corsair single rail 450W PS (recommended by this forum)
EDIT: The drives are running in IDE mode. When I tried running in RAID mode, vista didn't recognize any drives at all (using the RAID drivers off MSI site).Motherboard drivers well installed, for Vista and XP?
The new cable doesn't seem to work very well at all.
If you ever cloned or imaged one of the installations over from another disk you know what is the problem, I think: Boot sector of the hard disk doesn't work. -
MSI x48c platinum - does not detect SATA HDDs
I am having some problems with a pc build with motherboard not detecting SATA HDDs (MIS x48c Platinum).
I believe I have exhausted all other avenues, and I would appreciate some help if I have missed something obvious.
(details of other components are listed at end of mail).
When I built pc using these components, and went into BIOS settings, the SATA HDD's were not detected. I tried changing BIOS settings, but no difference if SATA, AHCI, or IDE settings.
I removed the HDDs and successfully tested them in another machine (also formatted them while had them istalled in other pc).
IDE optial drives are detected. I have tried to boot with these disconnected to ensure no isues with both IDE and SATA drives connected, but this did not resolve issues.
I have also tried connecting HDD to different onboard SATA ports, and connecting just one drive with no success.
Resetting BIOS defaults, and using clear CMOS reset did not resolve issues either.
Sometimes on boot, it takes a few attempts to boot correctly, and on these occassions I receive an error message "Warning !!! The previous performance of overclocking is failed, and the system is restored to the default settings, Press any key except "DEL" to enter setup ......." I haven't tried to set any over clocking.
I read about a number of issues on MSI forum related to SATA drives which were resolved by BIOS upgrade (mobo was shipped with v.7.0 released 20 March 08). I managed to install an old IDE HDD and flash BIOS, but still no resolution of issues detecting SATA drives (BIOS V.7.2 released 29 July 08).
I've tried everything I can think of at this stage. Is there anything else I should try, or is there something wrong with this motherboard?
Spec:
Motherboard:
343949 MSI X48C Platinum, X48, Socket-775,
DDR2/DDR3, ATX, GbLAN, 2xPCI-Ex(2.0)x1
Other components in build:
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
Graphics Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB
HDD 2 x Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB
RAM 4GB (2x2GB) GeIL DDR3 1333MHz Value Dual Channel (7-7-7-24) PC3-10660
PSU 700W X-Power ATX SLI PSU
ODD DVD & CDR drives from an old pc - IDE connections.i just remember i had once similar problem with a sata driver. the issue is this you can not adjust everything in bios in one go and expect mobo to know about it. what i mean is this for instance you disable the raid then you save it and exit and then when it reboot you go back to bios and reset another another parameter, you save and exit and on reboot you go back to bios and reset another parameter. i got round the prob that way and it worked and mobo saw the sata HDD. give this a shoot good luck and finally make sure raid is disabled
this is what i would do
1- make sure the jumper setting on your IDE Hdd is correct (Y may have to try this twice as there are two different setting on jumper setting for Master)
2- connect the sata HDD
3-click on power
4-go to bios and disable raid save exit
5-on reboot go back to bios
6--on first option click on it then you should see all devices that can be seen by mobo if you do not see sata HDD you have to click on enable for the auto to see the device once it sees the device save and exit. REMEMBER THE JUMPER SETTING ON IDE HDD CAN CAUSE PROB . SO try the other jumper setting for master, repeat this procedure once more hopefully you get it right -
MSI X48C Platinum booting problems
Hello all,
First of all, I tried using the searchfunction multiple times and didn't find anything helpful.
So I hope you guys can try and help me with this problem since it's a real pain in the ass.
I built a new setup using:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300
OCZ Reaper PC3 10666 DDR3 2x2GB
OCZ ModXtream Pro 600W
WD 80GB SATA HDD
XFX 9800GTX+
The system booted fine until it got to the POST-screen with the MSI logo. I googled and figured that the Q8300 was not supported and I had to update the BIOS.
With that being said, I got a replacement CPU (C2D E6600) and tried to boot the system. But I gave me and beep-errorcode; 2 short beeps 6 long beeps, no videosignal
I thought it was either the RAM, videocard or the CPU,
so I replaced the RAM with; DDR2 RAM (Kingston KVR800D2N6/2G)/OCZ PC2 8500 1GB (using the Turbocards for DDR2)
the videocard with: ATI HD 5470
and the CPU with a Pentium 6 630
How many times I tried swapping components, it didn't really matter. The system would still give me these cursed 2 shorts beeps and 6 long beeps.
What I've tried so far;
Clearing the CMOS using: https://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/how-to-clear-the-cmos
Removing the CMOS battery
Switching between hardwarecomponents as stated above
Reseating the same memory multiple times
In short:
Errorbeep-code: 2 short beeps and 6 long beeps, no videosignal
Really hope you guys can help me,
Thanks.Confirm that you tested your Power Supply in another system.
Have you tested the MB outside the case, just resting on a non-conductive surface. -
[Other 865 Series] 865PE Neo3-F (SATA and PATA problems),please help,thx
Hi
I have MSI 865PE Neo3-F mainboard and I have a few little problems with Neo.
My first:
I have HDD Maxtor DiamondMax10 300GB,16MB cache,SATA.When I was installing Windows,(widows setup) it shows that HDD has only 131GB.BIOS shows 251GB.what does it mean?Not supported HDD or only 130GB for one partition?
My second:
I want to connect also P-ATA HDD,but BIOS don´t see him.
What would be IDE settings in BIOS and also jumper settings on PATA HDD and DVD when I want use:
SATA as Primary Master (system disk)
PATA as Secondary Master
DVD-ATA IDE as Secondary Slave
My last:
What I should installing when I want to use all advantages of SATA HDD and what would be BIOS settings?
PLEASE HELP IT IS URGENTLY,CAUSE I HAVE TO WORK TO MY SCHOOL
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
Thank youAt the first thank you for your reply.
Yes it works.
Sorry I didn´t post my OS.My OS is XP (with SP2,now).
Configuration:
P4 Prescott 540J 3.2GHz,FSB800MHz,HT (enabled)
MSI 865PE Neo3-F
2x APACER 512MB DDR400 (Dual channel,slot 1 and 3)
ASUS FX5700 256MB
Maxtor DiamondMax10 300GB,16MB cache,7200rpm
DVD-RW Plextor 716AK
After installing Service Pack 2 windows shows that HDD has 300GB,but I created two partitions before (C:\ [30GB] and D:\ [100GB] in windows setup) and now (after install SP2 E:\ [170GB]) one partition in Windows.Problem how do I put together last two partitions (D:\ and E:\) to one partition?
so if I right understand after this settings in BIOS:
Native Mode
ATA Configuration - PATA only (or SATA-only)
SATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA channel selection - both
and what about another two options in this menu?what are the settings?(somtehing about 1st channel and so on)
connections looks like that:
on IDE ATA100 cable from IDE1 will be connect HDD ATA100 as Master and DVD as slave?
on SATA cable from SATA1 will be connect HDD SATA?
How system knows which one from two Masters HDD is System disk?from Boot menu?
Is some page on the web where can I find closer explain of IDE (SATA) settings for MB MSI?
Sorry for questions,but I am working at the first time with SATA disk -
Sorry, but another boot problem
I am sorry to ask this question but I have read all of the recent posts on boot problems and followed all instructions but I am still having a problem. It passes the POST then gives the Boot Failure, insert boot disk into drive A message. The only thing I have not done is install a new bios. I have only got one SATA HDD, one CD Writer and floppy.
I have plugged the HD into SATA1 and the CD into IDE1, during the boot sequence it see the CD as Primary Master1 and the HDD as Third IDE Master.
During the POST it passes memory test and can detect both the HDD and CD and floppy.
I have set the HDD settings as follows:
Native Mode
ATA Config= S-ATA only
S-ATA keep enabled = Yes
P-ATA keep enabled = Yes
P-ATA Channel Selection = Both
Combined Mode = S-ATA 1st channel
S-ATA ports definition = P0-1st/P1-2nd
Also I have set the Boot sequence as follows:
1st boot = CD
2nd boot = HDD
3rd boot = floppy
I have built this PC only in the last few days and there is no operating system yet, it has the following specs:
BIOS A6728IMS 3.5 020504
865PE Neo2
Pentium 4 2.40aGhz
2 x 256 Kingston 400Mhz PC3200
128MB Excalibur RADEON 9200 8xAGP
Seagate 80Gb S-ATA HDD
LiteOn 52x CD Writer
PSU: 3.3v 28A, 5v 32A, 12v 16A (350W)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
ThanksThanks, its good to know that I seem to have set it up ok but when I try to boot from the cd (Windows Server 2003) it still says there is a boot failure please insert disk into drive A???
Adam
BIOS A6728IMS 3.5 020504
865PE Neo2
Pentium 4 2.40aGhz
2 x 256 Kingston 400Mhz PC3200
128MB Excalibur RADEON 9200 8xAGP
Seagate 80Gb S-ATA HDD
LiteOn 52x CD Writer
PSU: 3.3v 28A, 5v 32A, 12v 16A (350W)
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