K9A2 Platinum - ATI4890 - Ocasionaly no Signal on startup, no post bios HELP plz

Hi. I'm having some weird issues, it has only happened tree times in 2 months, no signal is displayed, monitor remains in standby mode. Then I hard reset it, and then every thing works fine. I have a MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard with an AMD Phenom II 940 BE, all powered by a CoolerMaster Silent Pro 600w PSU. I haven't updated my motherboard bios yet, nor the vga bios.
Driver is Catalyst 9.5 for Vista x64, it shows my 4890 like "HD 4800 Series". The card is conected via DVI to a DELL s2409W 24'' lcd.
When it happens it does not show any video signal in my monitor, not even bios info, the monitor remains in STANDBY mode, i don't think drivers can cause that.
The card power supply is connected through two PCI-E 6+2 Pins conectors directly to the PSU.
I haven't updated my motherboard bios, this i could do, i know there are new updates for my motherboard. I have no floppy though, is there any way to update the bios via flash or making a booting CD?
Also, i have 2x OCZ 2gb memory stick running at 1066 in slots 3 and 4, this could be a issue??
Its a weid issue really, i can use the system normaly without problems right now, but this is still making me wonder whats was wrong those 3 times since i couldnt see any errors, cause there was no video.
I hope you can help out here, thank you.

Just came from work, and happened again, no signal, I couldnt hear the windows logon sound, so the bios is not posting.
I'd updated my signature with my system specs.
Also i cheked out my bios version with CPU-Z: V1.5
Also heres my PSU specs
It should be working fine with the card, it has 40A on the +12v line.
I'm using the 3 and 4 memory slot from the board in dual channel, I'm gonna change it to the 1 and 2, to see what happens...
Lastly, would you guys recomend me to upgrade the bios?

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K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376) S3 not waking from suspend on BIOS ver 1.b

Hello, I’m new to posting on this forum, so if I commit a faux pas, yell at me and I’ll go shoot myself.
The Problem: System will NOT awaken from S3 standby. System DOES awaken from S1 standby.
The History: Problem began after updating BIOS from Ver. 1.5 (7376v15) to Ver. 1.b (7376v1b) to provide CPU support for “AMD Phenom II X6 1090T”. (Previous CPU was AMD Phenom X4 9850) Prior to BIOS to Ver. 1.b update, S3 standby worked just fine.
System appears to awaken (HDD spin up, etc) but the display doesn't rise and shine. My guess is the adapter doesn't get powered on.
My Thoughts: This problem appears similar to the S3 problem in BIOS ver. 1.4 which was resolved in BIOS ver. 1.5.
No other problems have been noticed as a result of the BIOS update or the CPU upgrade.
I suspect BIOS incompatibility with NVIDA Vid adapter in as much as K9A2 has had similar problem before. And apparently the K9N2 currently has a similar problem which has been acknowledged by MSI.
All thoughts appreciated . . . .
BTW – Only other concern I have with the 1090T is how to wipe the grin off my face.
Thanks for listening.

Bas,
Well Sir, as I indicated in my initial post: "System appears to awaken (HDD spin up, etc) but the display doesn't rise and shine. My guess is the adapter doesn't get powered on."
To elaborate: From all appearances, the PC goes into S3 suspend state just the way it has for a couple of years now. That is to say, the HDDs spin down, the fans turn off, the lan light stops blinking, the router for this PC turns yellow from green meaning it is no longer active, the monitor blanks to black and then powers down.
When I try to resume from the apparent S3 suspend state by pressing the ctrl-space keys; the system, case, and cpu fans start spinning, the HDDs spin up, the lan light starts blinking, the router light for this PC turns from yellow to green, and the monitor powers up -
BUT IT REMAINS BLANK, BLACK, DEAD, AS IN NOTHING DISPLAYED ON IT
And that, Sir, is the problem, at least from my perspective.
Merry Christmas, Alfie

K9A2 Platinum BIOS, are there any hard drive size limitations ?

I have a K9A2 Platinum system with version 1.10 of the AMI BIOS. Recently trying to re-initialize a Linux grub /boot partition which is near the end of my 2 TB hard drive I received the message:
"Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS"
I see nothing in the AMI BIOS limiting the number of cylinders on any of my hard disks. Is there some setting in the BIOS I should be changing to fix this problem or is this just a legacy grub limitation ?

Quote from: Svet on 29-May-14, 21:44:37
Up to 2TB should be fine,
about the error, check here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327989
Thanks but the link provided no help.

OpenGL games fps going down after install Windows on RAID 0 on K9A2 Platinum

Hello .
Description of problem :
The problem was showed right after installations Windows on RAID 0.
When I had one HDD, the problem was not.
The problem was showed on both integrated RAID controllers (both on SB600 and on Promise T3).
When I play games (just games in OpenGL!!! for example conter-strike 1.6, Quake3, on Direct3D such problem is not present), and simultaneously I copy (or other users on FTP:)) a plenty of small files, game frames per second going down.
If to stop copying in current of minute, frames per seconds goung up.
If in 2-3 minutes, will help only restart game.
Processor type: "AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Brisbane)"
Motherboard: "MSI K9A2 Platinum, AMD® 790FX and SB600 (+ Promise T3) Chipset, AMI BIOS v1.3"
RAM: "Samsung 1GB 800MHz DDR2 Non-ECC"
HDD: 2x in RAID 0: "Samsung HD501LJ 500GB 7200rpm 16MB with NCQ Serial ATA II-300"
Video: "XpertVision NVidia 8800GT 512Mb"
Power supply: "FSP ATX-400PNR 400W ATX 12V v 2.01 20+4 pin passive PFC 12cm fan Noise Killer"
Operating System:
Windows 2003 server 32bit
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
I have established last version Dual Core Optimizer.
Tried to clean in boot.ini a key /usepmtimer and reboot has helped nothing.
The similar problem was on absolutely another motherboard (Biostar nForce570SLI) and hdd (Hitachi 80GB) with the same processor and Windows. But , installation Dual Сore Optimizer and a key/userpmtimer has helped.
What reasons of a problem?
How to eliminate a problem?
In advance thanks for the answer.

Oops, missed the PSU....
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But why when copying to stop in 3-4 minutes, game fps not going up.
In fact after copying files system resources are not used, also reading and writing from a disk does not occur.
I understand that at copying Soft-RAID use some system resources. But when system resources not use game fps not going up.
Will help only restart game!!!
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The problem was showed right after installations Windows on RAID 0.
When I had one HDD, the problem was not.
See that? You went from single disk to RAID and then the problem started...... I guess it's not very hard to conclude that one is related to the other. Just try to use single disk again an and see what happens.
Then: did you have two disks installed before going to RAID-0? Or did you add one disk for that? If so, then your PSU may be the troublemaker, not providing enough juice to feed all devices.
About your English: it is fine, don't worry. We do not mind, as long as it looks like English and we can understand it and as long as there's no MSN-crap in it... so, you are doing fine.

Is new MSI K9A2 Platinum DOA?

Bought a new MSI K9A2 Platinum Version 1 MOBO off eBay, installed with spacers between board and case and installed my current hardware. Power came on but, pc would not post. Monitor kept showing no signal, power and HD LED came on for 1 to 2 seconds and Green and White LEDs on MB came on and stayed on. So I cleared CMOS, took out one video card and NIC so was pretty much down to bare minimum, one video card, one stick ram, CPU, HD (SATA) and MOBO but, still suffered same issue. Is MOBO DOA?
Existing Hardware from my PC:
Antec Neopower 500 (500 watts) power supply
AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (3.02 GHz) (Windsor, 90nm, AM2 (940))
Cooler Master Aquagate Viva CPU Liquid Cooling System
2 x 1 GB RAM Mushkin: (XP2-8500, Part Number: 996535)
1066MHz Latency: 5-5-4-12 Parity: Unbuffered
Voltage: 2.2-2.35V Pins: 240
Module: 128Mx64 Chip: 64x8
2 X ATI Radeon 1950 GT running in Crossfire mode (installed both cards in dark blue ports)
Fujitsu 300 GB HD SATA
Sony DVD RW
Bigfoot NIC model: Killer M1
ATX Case with 4 X 90 MM Case fans
Initially thought could be the video cards but, owner's guide and MSI Tech Support state that K9A2 can support up to 16X, so I assume that also means it support PCIe 1.0 as well as PCIe 2.0.
Have read on MSI forum that power could be the issue but, tend to believe if I take it down to bare minimum (CPU, CPU Cooler, 1 Stick of Ram, 1 Video Card, HD (SATA), 2 X 90mm case fans and MOBO) that it should have booted up at the point.
Link to new board, MSI K9A2 Platinum, specs: http://us.msi.com/product/p_spec.asp...tinum&class=mb
Link to MOBO owner's guide on MSI, http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=do...1&prod_no=1332
Any help or ideas?
Thanks in advance

Boombox,
Good morning and thanks for putting my concerns to rest, like I said before, I have to upgrade a part at time. Next piece is AMD Phenom II X4 955 (hopefully gets here NLT Tuesday) with RAM I purchased last month and did not want to fry them first time I boot up the system. Plus I am on Day 2 since switch out of my K9A and still no issues
Also I must weigh in on MSI's RMA process, overall the process is pretty smooth, my issue is with the replacement MOBO. Guess after they tested my old MOBO (NEW OUT OF THE BOX), they had to replace it. Replacement board was USED (assuming until failure by previous owner) and had some "Cosmetic issues", 1. Copper Cooling tube is slightly crushed not sure what that does to air flow and 2. Half of the IDE pins were bent, I can't see thing in front of me, so I had to take a digital picture of IDE plug and blow up so I could see which way to bend them back. Figure there would be some sort of QC before return but, guess not......
Assuming since it all relates to this post, once I install CPU and RAM will let those that have taken time out of their day to help me, know what my latest status is. Again Thanks to all of you, hopefully I can pay back your help in the future.

MSI K9A2 Platinum No Video

I run a computer repair service out of my home here in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I get an average of 3-4 repair jobs a week. Also buying broken computers to repair and resell. Recently I got a job to repair an MSI PC. The customer had acquired the computer from her ex husband. Her complaint was that the computer was randomly loosing video. My first thought was that the graphics card was going bad. (Also MSI). Upon receiving the computer it was clear that it was not taken care of as it was full of dust and pet hair, and overheating was most likely issue. (shes a dog groomer lol). After a through cleaning plugged everything in and sure enough...no video, everything running as it should be, all fans, all lights on motherboard lit up. I pulled the video card out, put it in another computer, video came on, so i ruled out this as the problem. Tried running with just one RAM stick close to the CPU, nothing, pulled the battery, replaced, video was back, put it all back together and it was running fine. I advised her that the motherboard was on its last leg, in the meantime she had contacted her ex husband, he agreed as the system was over 7yrs old. He would be coming up to bring the rest of her things and would bring her a new motherboard. The new one being an MSI 970A-643. Also with an AMD FX Black Ed. CPU, and 4 sticks of 4gb Corsair XMS 3. But not a new power supply. So installed all of this, the power lead to the CPU was short by 4 pins, so decided to try it that way as it was all she had. On powering up, no video! Then thinking back remembered this issue. So I pulled a power supply from one of my gaming systems. This one had a matching lead. Now everything worked fine. So for payment aside from the original $50 I got for going over it and cleaning it out, I accepted the left over parts. The motherboard, ram, power supply, cpu, and cpu cooler.
I know this is turning into a long story :(
Here is why I decided to post here...I have this K9A2 Platinum motherboard. My thought is that it has a bad capacitor near the PCI slots as the graphics card did not work on any of them. But after searching for them have had no luck in finding them. Is there a way to order a set for this motherboard from the factory? This will be my first attempt at repairing a motherboard, and have been waiting for just this type of situation to try.
Looking at sets for other motherboards I see my investment as being around $20, to me a small price to pay for the satisfaction of knowing I can bring a bad board back to life, and a small price also for the experience gained. And if all else fails, I can pull the CPU and get another board.
Also before attempting this I am not lost on the fact that it could have been the power supply after all, but my POST card did give these error codes when I was in my first round with it...
No.1 code 00
Control to Int 19
boot loader
No.2 Code: 00
(same)
Signal error
Check PCU & Power Box
RST: Invalid
IRDY: Invalid
FRAM: Invalid
At time had yellow light under the graphics card, a green light above it and a white light above it if this helps.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I am no expert by any means, I am an HVAC Tech, turned self made computer repair person, and I have never had a customer not get their computer back not working. I never over charge and always get them back within 2 days tops.
I have read that maybe the PCI slots are bad, can find nothing about changing them or the parts to do this.

To begin with this was moved to wrong section of forum, this belongs in either 'Retired' section or 'AMD' section not Intel C2D/Q.
As for caps see badcaps.com ( http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=2 ) for replacement for online ordering of them, they have been supplying these items for quite a few years or get what you need from a local store if available, you will not get any MSI factory cap kits as they do not offer such repair items for sale.
My advice would be assemble components and test with a known good PSU and if it runs OK then you know it was the PSU that went belly up. It could be that due to age and bad PSU some caps may be bad but that could be seen easy enough just by close examination of them. badcaps has plenty of pictures for comparison of good vs bad caps.
What brand and model is the PSU in question?

The Phenom K9A2 Platinum Cold Boot Loop with Vista 64-Bit

I've posted about this before and I think others have as well. I will describe it again.
You power up the machine, it POSTS successfully and starts loading Vista 64-Bit. You get the green progress bar and see a bunch of disk activity. The screen flickers for a second as the kernel kicks in. Instead of a pointer you are greeted with "NO SIGNAL" and the machine POSTS again!
I've seen this on 2 different K9A2 Platinum boards with 3 different CPUs: 9500, 9600, and now 9850BE.
I did some debugging last night to isolate it but I don't have a complete answer, I do have some extremely interesting news to report. I have Vista 64-bit on my Promise SAS drives in RAID-0. I have XP 64-bit on an IDE drive on the PATA port. When I experience the "cold boot loop"
as described, I go into the BIOS and switch the primary boot to XP 64-bit. I let the system boot, which is always does successfully. Then I restart the computer and use the BIOS to boot off the Promise RAID. Vista 64-bit always (in 7 out of 7 tries) boots the first time no problems
if I first boot XP 64-bit then try booting Vista. Furthermore if I use a tool like AMD Overdrive to push the CPU, voltage, or memory to a high enough speed to freeze the computer, I can cause the cold boot loop in 7 out of 7 attempts as well. Once the cold boot loop begins, the computer rarely boots (if I leave it for ***HOURS*** sometimes it will boot into Vista, after 100 attempts or something).
I'm not entirely sure what this means. It sounds like there's a sticky bit somewhere, and who knows where, that is causing the issue. I would think not in the CPU itself, although I guess that is possible, when I switched from the 9600 to the 9850BE and powered up, I was stuck in the cold boot loop so I think I can discount the CPU. That really just leaves the BIOS in my opinion. Anybody have any interesting comments
about this?

I experienced similar problems this weekend with my rig.
I have two WD Raptor drives, 150GB on the promise controller and SATA DVD on SB600. If I started Vista, it would boot, show POST screen, then I would see the initial Windows green bar, but after a minute with lots of disk activity then the system would reboot.
Next, I would then be promoted to start windows normally, or start with the last known good configuration, sometimes this worked, sometime it did not. This happended for a while, until I managed to install all of the optional and recommended Vista 64bit OS patches and an updated promise raid driver.
Once these were installed, my system had no boot problems at all, so I would make sure your promise driver is up to date and that all the Vista 64bit OS patches, updates etc are installed.

Give me solution , MSI K9A2 Platinum

my motherboard MSI K9A2 Platinum it seeem die after i flashed 3 times continuosly without restarting the pc dont ask me why i do it, i am just was crazy that day .the program called "afuwin" lastest version. i flashed it with the last bios 1.4 (A7376AMS.140) ,afuwin seem detect only .rom files but i think this is no matter and i process to flash A7376AMS.140 , the original one is version 1.1, after i restart my pc , there is no video signal just a black screen , mouse and keyboard is no working, but fan gpu,cpu it seem working. i try to clear cmos by take out the battery and change jumper to clear cmos for 2 min , and nothing. my board is rev 00 when i saw it with cpuz, if that can help..... . but definitelly i think my board is dead. after clearing cmos i also search some information, and there is a trick for ami bios to recover after bad flash or corrupted flash, is by floopy you must copy an oficial msi bios and change it to AMIBOOT.ROM copy it to floopy and boot the pc with the floopy, but is not working for me becuase my floopy seem not read anything and i dont see anthing with my monitor, really desesperated

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 24-April-08, 05:06:18
Have you removed power cord from the PSU?
yes i have, also i have put the PSU to 0 and take cable out from the wall.
by the way , when the mother boar is running there is a green light in the middle i suppose that is normal??

MSI K9A2 Platinum Phenom 9550 slow as hell

hi guyz
i just recently put 2gether a new rig at long last, not as grand as some i've seen on AMDzone but its a good start. i was using an old Athlon XP which is far too slow to run pinnacle 12 (video editing s/w) hence the new upgrade. after purchasing the phenom 9550 i was expecting to fly, i mean compared to my Athlon who wldn't. i stuck with XP although i play games vista is too system hungrey so i've heard. anywayz after getting my rig up installing the latest sp3, m/b drivers, bios upgrade the whole works, the performance was almost the same as my Athlon which really freak me out. i splash so much on the new rig n got my old Athlon back
i've chk on AMDzone n haven't really got any sold solution. i've email to AMD n they replied telling me all the things a newbee wld get confused on. even during boot up is slow, i remove all those fancy interface (graphics) stop all those unwanted staff in services n startup is very minimal. when i start pinnacle for example its real slow. i saw on youtube a guy who showedoff his 9550 n it was flying nothing like mine. i wld appreciate if any wld has any suggestion as to what might b my problem...
my rig
MSI K9A2 Platinum (recommended by AMD)
phenom 9550 x4
seagate 500GB HDD sata
EVGA 8800 GTX 768MB graphic card
Crucial Ballistix DDR2-PC26400 (800) x 4
700 PSU

Quote from: Sm3K3R on 05-February-09, 23:21:47
prince_terry ,this was my first impression too, in the first month.
After i installed all drivers in the proper order ,after i assured the RAM is in dual channel ,after i have put the SATA HDD at SATA 1 specs (to make the computer boot up faster ),after i updated to latest BIOS -es ( the video and mobo) ,the computer started to be what it should have been.
Make sure you have good drivers for the SB 600 ( if your HDD is conected to its SATA ports) ,in XP SP 3 you should use older drivers ,that are not available on the MSI website at this moment (there were available somewhere in the 2008 spring-summer).The package available now doesnt have the PATA drivers(IDE emulation) and this may show poor performance for the drive in games(choppyness).
On the other hand the 9550 is inferior, in my opinion ,to a X2 6400+.Sure 6400+ is only dual core ,but there is a lot of software that doesnt know what a quad is.
Also make sure you disable Cool and Quiet in BIOS options and HPET option (recomended OFF for XP) and in On Chip SATA BIOS section under Integrated Peripherals make sure PCI IDE Busmaster option is on (a legacy option that will speed up Windows installation for ex.).
Also a poor PSU with low voltages may lead to same poor performance,check the voltages (with a digital multimeter) and make sure they are in spec.
do u hv any good location for the SB600 that i can download from. all my bio update r from MSI website. C&Q has been disable will look into the rest n let u knw the outcome. thanks

PROBLEM RAID K9A2 Platinum

hello,
I have a problem for the raid on my msi k9a2 platinum.
currently, I have 2 SATA hard drives, on first (samsung 750 GB) I have vista ultimate 64 installed, and on second (maxtor 200 GB) I have games. in the bios I see "Raid: Ide" and when I met "Raid: Raid" blue screen at startup vista.
thanks
phenom 9600 Be
MSI K9A2 platinum
Sapphyre 3870 hd toxic
2 x 1g 1066 Mhz Kingmax
Samsung 750 Go & maxtor 200 Go
2 x HPw2207h

Why are you trying to run a single drive in RAID mode? Sounds logical that Windows would Blue Screen, you have no RAID array. Just keep it running at IDE mode, should be fine...
PCI latency should be set as low as possible, though I doubt you will notice any difference between the 64 and 32 settings. This setting mostly applies when you have add in cards that need to hold the PCI bus longer than default...

K9A2 Platinum v2

This K9A2 Platinum v2 of mine has a lot of wierd issues.
-The board never been 100% stable during a week under XP SP2 or under SP 3 (like my KT3Ultra2).I always had to try different drivers for the video,mobo,sound and different timings for my ram modules.
-My Geil Ultra(golden plated) DDR 800Mhz with 4-4-4-12 at 2.1V ,timings specified on the sticker ,never worked properly though Memtest and Prime 95 tests passed without problems.They werent stable with BIOS 1.2 not even at a lower frequency.The modules are reported by Everest with the name DDR 800 4-4-4(without the 12 like on the sticker).Acording to the web reviews this modules should of worked at 3-3-3-9 2.2V\2.3V without problems not to say about 4-4-4-12.
-To be able to boot under 60 seconds i had to put the hard drive to SATA I.
-My USB Logitech G5 laser mouse(last revision) had some kind of lag while entering games,more preciselly there was a delay of 20 seconds before the sensitivity tweaked in the mouse utility was available like it had to grow from 0 to the disired value during those 20 seconds or so.This lag was eliminated when the hard drive was lowered to SATA I transfer speed.
-The sound loop lock ups while gaming cooled down when i was using Forceware 175.16 but not totally.This happened with the onboard audio and with the X-fi too.
-2 days ago i updated the BIOS 1.2 to 1.5 with the hope of having a more stable system under XP SP 3(once i updated to SP 3 i got some blue screens so i considered that maybe is really needed an update).The update went smooth but after the update i wanted to install a "new" SONY floppy drive,i installed it using the cable supplied by MSI.At boot i observed that the Floppy unit led was ON ,light that normally is on when a floppydisk is inserted and used.The floppy drive was recognized by Windows but every time a floopy disk was inserted a message with no disk inserted appeared.I thought then that there is something wrong with Windows so i tested a workable bootable disk and the system refused it though using the F11 boot menu.Then installed the Floopy disk into the old computer thinking that the drive is defective.KT3Ultra 2 worked properly with the drive no problems what so ever and the light was working only when diskette inserted.The standby voltage doesnt apply here the led is of when computer is off.
-Then, with BIOS 1.5 observed that in the BIOS when trying to set tRAS manually to 12(with the 1.2 BIOS it worked) , Memset ,CPU Z and Everst were reporting always a value of X+2(if i set 14 in BIOS the value read by the info programs was 16).A similar behaviour for tRAS was not observed with BIOS 1.2 but it was observed with another timing more insignifiant that i dont remember that one at this moment.
-When clearing the CMOS i observed another undocumented thing(along with leds under the ram modules), near the Clear Cmos jumper(between the Cmos jumper and the Fintek chip) there are 2 terminals of another jumper,what is that for?The manual is silent.
-At this moment ,with BIOS 1.5(without the unnecesarelly floppy) with Windows XP SP3 and with timings 4-4-4-18 the board seems stable but my questions is if this board is defective ,or if this model is prone to engeenering flaws or I just hit into some BIOS incompatibilities with the components i bought?

Check the SPD with CPU-z, AMD's use the JEDEC timings.
EPP timings are only suiteable for Intel's with nVidia chipsets, you can not use them with AMD as the path is too short.
All your problems can be explained by this.
I'm very sorry, but I care less about the numbers on the stick, I only care about the number IN the stick.
Else post the SPD programmed timings, I bet that the timings written on the stick are EPP and NOT JEDEC.
This is NOT a motherboard problem as the memory controller is INSIDE the CPU and not like Intel in the chipset.
Many people make this mistake and try to set too tight timings, with unstable/slow results.
The ATI board is better and faster board then the nVidia, even that, it still uses the JEDEC timings as the CPU can't use EPP.
As for the floppy, complain to Microsoft please, they don't allow non-floppy install (if you don't slipstream), has nothing to do with MSI or any board at all.

Memory/Processor upgrade for my K9A2 Platinum V1 board

Hello everyone. I am considering jumping up to a Phenom II x4 940 and 8GB 4 x 2GB sticks of the following memory....
1. Geil Black Dragon GB28GB6400C5QC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144074
2. Geil Black Dragon GB28GB6400C4QC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144240
3. G.SKill F2-6400CL5Q-8GBPQ.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231151
4. G.Skill F2-8800CL5Q-8GBPI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231195
5. Or just getting a second set of Corsair XMS2 (TWIN2X4096-6400C5) for a total of 8GB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184
I would just get a 2nd set of corsair memory.... but if I get a quad kit I know I am getting 4 matching modules ( Or at least should ). Instead of memory manufactured a year ago or longer (for original set) and up to this year (for 2nd set). I don't want problems between same type of memory using different chip sets. Oh btw, I would really prefer PC2 8500 or so.
Anyone out there had or have any of these combinations. Or is there other memory that you would recommend instead. Overclockability is a plus.
Oh ya I have also thought about upgrading motherboard as well and get something with the 790X or 790FX/SB750 chip sets instead of the 790FX/SB600. But not quite sure what to get on that end either.
My system specs are below.

Anyone of the above should work fine. I would consider Mushkin XP2-8500 modules, but with 4 x 2 GB modules you will probably have bad overclockability with any memory.
If you have a K9A2 Platinum now, it's not really useful upgrading to a 790FX + SB750 board. Granted, SATA and USB performance should be a bit better with the SB750 and it has RAID 5 support. For the rest, you will not notice the difference...

I tried MSI. K9A2 Platinum Support issues.

Do not buy MSI.... Buyer beware.
I have the MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard. Now the board runs fine. However I find it very hard to take this company seriously anymore.
6 months ago I tried Flashing the Bios for a CPU upgrade I wanted. MSI's website boasts its mother boards that have 64 bit capabilities. However if you use a 64bit OS. Namely Windows XP or Windows Vista. You are in big trouble. The Live updater doesn't work with it. Not at all. Install it and it gives you errors that it will not launch.
Now any one that has flashed a bios before will say. "Okay I will do it manually." (Or if you don't know what your doing don't touch the Bios) So you download the Image file you need. Launch your boot disk from the A: Drive and well you can't access the Image file you have placed on your C: drive because hey it doesn't recognize Sata. So pray you have an old IDE laying around or you will have to load it to a cd. Oh but, hey again you have sata still doesn't see it. So usually you load it onto the disk. No big deal right? Well now on their readme it warns against Flashing from a floppy or CD (If you don't understand what I meant I am saying they warn against having the flash file on the boot disk Floppy or CD). So because of this I called MSI and had them walk me through the process because I wanted to be sure I am doing this right. I have done it many times before but for some reason it's a fricking process now. So we made a CD booted and ran it like you would off the A: drive everything went smoothly and then it froze. at 60% into the flash it froze so the guy tells me just reboot. I warn him that if I reboot the Motherboard is junk. He insists it should be fine. I reboot and as expected nothing happens because it was a bad flash.
So they say just send it back they give me an RMA number I remove the board package it and take pictures of its condition. I say again I took pictures. (The reason I did this is if you look at the reviews of this board on Tiger Direct there is complaints of them getting the board and claiming it is damaged. They email you a picture and claim it something you did. they then send it back to you.)
So I send it out. Wouldn't you guess they say it's Damaged they send me some nice pics in an email. So I send my pics of the board in the condition I sent it. There is no damage on the board they can see. They now claim it's the shippers fault. Shipper insists package arrived in great condition. MSI still refuses to help even though they know I sent them the board in great condition.So MSI is very poor in taking care of it's customers through RMA
So I send it back to Cyberpower. I explain to them what happened and they replaced the board free of charge and flashed it to current specs at the time. Bios Version 1.4. Now I work with computers. Part of my work is seeing the ease of how user friendly things are like Bios updates. How new processors perform. So now I was stuck in a dilemma 6 months after the first Now I need Bios version 1.6 installed. Well this time I took it to geek squad. They said it shouldn't take long and I waited in the store 3 hours and watched this person pull their hair out. All the normal ways of flashing the Bios don't work yet again. He goes to use the Live Updater and again 64 bit systems not supported. So he is baffled because why would a company that supports a 64 bit Processor not support the OS. Good question. Now I see more of the geek squad coming over all them ask it's not MSI is it. They get their answer and sigh. Now what they thought was a 15 minute procedure turns into me having to leave the system for a night.
The next day It is completed. What did they have to do? They installed a IDE drive booted from a floppy and loaded off the drive with the Flash file. Having to take the PC apart taking out Cd roms and running the ide via my CD rom IDE. Now I know a lot of you are going to say they didn't know what they where doing and I am telling you They did everything I did which is what MSI walked me through and hit the same road blocks. during the Reboot one of the guys wanted to try MSI live updater 3 and some how it worked..
So I called MSI today and asked them if they now support 64 bit OS with their instant updater. The answer was no. They stated they still do not support that. I checked my Bios version and some how it did worked. Who knows maybe they did it when they had all the other stuff out and apart and I just didn't notice. But MSI is Claiming the contrary. So I am happy that I have the update. However knowing that I am going to need to update again I now have come to the conclusion that MSI is not a user friendly board in fact it took 4 people at geek squad some of whom I know and see do flashes all the time and they had trouble. I do flashes all the time and I have trouble.
The bottom line here is MSI needs to hop on board with what they offer. Everyone is going to the 64 bit OS mainly because of RAM. They want to run Crysis, Farcry 2, Mass effect, and have the fastest processors available. They want the best video cards Available. But if your manufacturer Builds 64 bit based motherboards that are suppose to support the AM2 Platform then you would think that they would at least have an updater capapable of working with those systems. Now it's not impossible to make something like this work, Nor is it hard. There are other manufacturers who do have easier ways to flash than MSI.
Playstation 3 does firmware update all the time over the net. What is a firmware update? to put it simply it is a Bios flash to update how the machine works with newer software or to take advantage of existing technoligy in the PS3. Which is put simply just a computer. If a company that makes these systems can't even get a live updater to work or does not have the ability to walk you over how to do the flash the flash over the phone correctly why waste your time and money with a lazy company. I have an Asus machine that flashes.
Take this however you want. It could be taken as venting or a warning. Hopefully the MSI forum admin will forward these concerns to MSI before he bans me.

I am not here to argue but, the fact that you as an administrator can sit here and say there is no money in 64 bit obviously are speaking from a point of view of Bias.
Walk into any Bestbuy, call any Dell call center, Call CyberpowerPC.com, or call Microsoft. These are the systems that are in demand.
Best buy states that there 64 Bit OS based computers are flying off the shelves. and that 90 percent of the computers they now carry are 64 bit installed with Vista. In approxomatly 11 months windows will only be making Vista and the New windows 7 in 64 bit. It doesn't matter what you think it does. It matters what the market is demanding. There is tons of money in this and if MSI doesn't get on board soon they are gonna lose to competitors that do.
Where would we be if we stuck with 8 bit? What would have happended to the gaming industry if Sega never came out with their 16 bit platform?
Mention MSI to any geek squad guy and they just laugh and say go Asus. Sure you may not value their opinion. But the public who take it to them cause they don't understand computers does.They even say They(Geek squad) are easier to maintain with processor updates with some one who has experience that means something too. Sure I know to use the Utilities now because of these forums which I am thankful for. However: I represent those who are not capable and computer literate and the idea here that we should let them fend for themselves is preposterous.
Plus the fact that you don't use 32 bit software does not speak for those of us that do. There is 64 bit software out there. If your going to sit here and represent MSI. First you need some suggestions and you don't have to take em.
First off answer questions with out the criticism to the 64 bit OS. Just try and help the people regardless of your opinion.
Secondly you need to lose this idea that there is no market for 64bit software. There is. Trust me I report to people who want to see what is in demand. 64 bit is in great demand (Mainly because of ram and yes people don't realize that there really never going to use it. However; The market is pushing this so when it does come out and they do start using it there won't be a mad rush to update everything again.)
Last... Maybe you should get on this company as well. This may be a user forum but, to be honest I am here criticizing them as on many other sites so they can hopefully get word that there are many people aside from me who are complaining about there support and they can improve it. MSI has some great innovations but they need to make sure they support all the new hardware and software that goes along with being in this type of business. Criticism helps drive us as Human, as companies to do better.
However I do value you and your opinion and will even be submitting a report of this forum and how helpful it is to those who are not so good with the computer or just starting out doing it on their own. You can lock this if ya like. Please don't take offense either as I think you have some knowledge that is really worth sharing to many others. I have seen some of your other posts after your replies and you definitely have some great input. Thanks for letting me debate with you.

I have a MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard. Bios version 1.8 overclocking

I have a MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard. Bios version 1.8
AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0 GHZ that I have over clocked to (17.5) 3.4Ghz
However anytime I go over that to say multiplyer set to 18 (3.5 ghz) it still runs but crashes when running high end games. I know I have to go in an adjust voltages. However, in the cell menu I can't access the CPU voltage areas I hit enter but nothing happens. It tells me Grey is defualt, White is stable and red is the obvious not recommended setting, but again I can't access it. Is there something I need to disable before I mess with the voltages?
I know that doing any of this could fry the chip I have liquid cooling pretty much this idles at 28 deg Celcuis, that is with it over clocked so I know I have som room and know I should only up the vltage slightly. I just need to know how to do it.
I also wanted to adjust the FSB from the current 200 to 270 which I was told is possible with this board and also that is where it should run stable. Again I just need to know how to access these things in the Bios. If its a bios issue I can update to the next one,1.9, but did not see the need to do so. Anyways any help is greatly appreciated. I am familar with overclocking just not with this motherboard. Any user who uses MSI who could offer assitance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Windows 7 64bit Proffesional.
AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0Ghz (OC to 3.4)
Liquid cooling
MSI K9A2 Platinum Bios release 1.8
6 GB of DDR2 (800) Memory
2GB Radeon 4870 X2 FO
Power supply= 850 watts

Use the keyboard number pad + or - keys.

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