K9N2 SLI Platinum BIOS Flashing.

I have a new K9N2 SLI Platinum and as yet no processor. The best deals look like they are for the Phenom 8xxx series of triple core machines, but they are only supported by BIOS 3.2 (or later). My board is of course at 3.1. The question is whether the board will run enough to be able to flash the BIOS to the new version using an unsupported processor or do I need to have a supported one ? If it is the latter I think I will go for a fast X2 rather than a triple or quad core, I don't for the most part run more than 2 processes that consume a lot of resources.
Thanks
Jim

You'll need a 1.4Mb floppy drive to flash the BIOS.
Go ahead and get an AMD 9850 BE or 9950.
(Personally I'd get the AMD 9850 BE and OC it to 2.6 Mhz - cheaper than the 9950)
I built my rig with AMD 9850 BE - booted the first time it was fed power.
But, being the "good tech", I had downloaded the latest of everything from MSI support site,
and saved to Floppy and flash drive.
(The CD you get with the M/B does NOT have the latest BIOS/Drivers)
The very FIRST thing I did was update the BIOS to version: 3.2
After that, just load your OS and install the drivers.
Good Luck.
-Neut.

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K9N2 SLI Platinum Bios 3.4 Same old bugs

after waiting ages for another "Offical" bios to be released MSI released bios version 3.4 which still defaults the Phenom 940BE vcore to 1.8volts, auto STILL defaults to 1.375 volts after asking many times for 1.350v option which is default for these chips. thanks MSI for completely ignoring us.

thats very interesting news cjc, im sure theres deffo something not right with these k9n2 sli when resetting bios some seem to have problems others dont.
on this board when i update bios i update bios, shut system down ,pull power lead from psu wait about 30 seconds then press the reset button.
ive also tried load of different ways , loading optimized defaults and resetting etc,etc.
maybe you have 1.3500v because yours is deluxe edition maybe, and mine is platinum edition, the 1.8v thing is deffo not what i am doing tho as there are loads of reports online about this issue even posts on this forum about it (until they are locked).
other than that the board is perfect very stable.

K9N2 SLI Platinum BIOS v3.4 - Not compatible with DDR2 1066??

So... I've been going through OCZ Tech Support for about a month now.
I have a set of DDR1066 PC2-8500 Dual Channel ram. When I first installed it, and set it to run at 1066, I had nothing but problems and went through OCZ's tech support, went through a bunch of trouble shooting, and got an RMA on the set.
I sent it back to OCZ and it has been replaced with a new set, and I am still having problems getting this new set, to run at 1066 without it crashing constantly.
OCZ is now telling me that, since this is now two different sets of the same RAM, that is not working and refusing to run at 1066; but runs fine at 800... OCZ is now telling me that there is likely a problem with the BIOS on my Mobo not properly supporting 1066 Ram?? I'm running the latest BIOS of v3.4.
Is this possible?
I think I've read that other people are using this Mobo, with the same BIOS, and are having no problems with their DDR2 1066, correct?
Problem I am having is when I set my BIOS to run my ram at 1:2.66 for 1066; then try to run things like Crysis, Far Cry, SPORE, Second Life, etc... then the system constantly crashes. Everything else seems to run fine, Windows runs fine, internet browser runs fine, can watch TV, watch Movies and all this and never have problems.
But when I try to run a game; it constantly crashes but ONLY when I have the ram set to run at 1066.

Hello Bas.
I've tried all slots.
I'll repeat here, what I last posted on OCZ Forums in my latest thread there...
Ok.
For starters; through all the testing, the following settings never changed.
DRAM Timing Mode set to BOTH
Bank Interleaving set to AUTO
tRTP, tWR, tRRD, tWTR all set to AUTO.
1T/2T Memory Timing is set to 2T
DCT Unganged Mode is Enabled.
SLI-Ready Memory is Disabled.
NOW. The changes that were Tested.
Both Sticks in Dimm slots 1 and 2.
I've changed DRAM Voltage to v2.10 as advised. Still crashing.
Tried changing it to v2.20 next. Still crashing.
Changed it back to v2.10; and then set CAS, tRCD, tRP,tRAS and tRC to 5-5-5-18-27. Still crashing.
Left timings as previously set, changed to v2.20; still crashing.
NEXT.
Moved both sticks into dimm slots 3 and 4.
Left timings as previously set, changed to v2.10. Still crashing.
Changed to v2.20. Still crashing.
Changed to v2.00. Still crashing.
NEXT.
Left Timings as previously set. Voltage set to v2.10.
Removed 1 Stick from Slot 4; left 1 stick in Slot 3. Still crashing.
Switched sticks in Slot 3; Still crashing.
Removed stick from slot 3, placed same stick into Slot 1. Still Crashing.
Lastly...
Reset all settings to Default/Auto, set RAM back to 800mhz.
No more crashing.
At this point I do not know what else to do, and OCZ is telling me it is a problem with the BIOS that I am using. This is the SECOND set, of this same ram.
OCZ2RPR10664GK - http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_8500_reaper_hpc_4gb_edition
Here's my latest thread on their Support Forums - http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54291

K9N2 SLI Platinum + Bios v3.6 = sad sad sad turbomach5

Been awhile :D Anyho I have a MAJOR problem. Updated the bios from 3.5 to 3.6. Rebooted, cleared the BIOS settings, set things right. Started the computer and everything seemed fine until it just turned off. Now I thought it was because I just plugged my iPhone up. I started it up and checked the BIOS settings. I noticed (oh btw my processor is the Phenom II X4 940BE) the voltage wasn't set to auto anymore. Instead it was set....to....1.8v! I tried to change it but it kept shutting down the computer. Now everytime I turn it on, all 4 groups of the DLED are red. I tried resetting the CMOS and replace the CPU with my old Athlon 64 X2 4200+ but still does the same thing: Starts up but DLED is all red, saying the processor is damaged.
Could it actually be the motherboard? Right now I'm using my mother's computer (with a MSI motherboard :D).

Can you get into the bios before it shuts down?
I figured it out how to fix the problem.
1. go into the bios
2. load Fail-safe defaults asap
3. Save & Exit setup asap before the computer shuts down
4. go back into the bios < cell menu, and the cpu voltage should go back to auto.

K9N2 Sli Platinum + SSD OCZ Vertex 3 = Slow Speed Problem [PARTIALLY SOLVED]

Hey folks,
I have a problem with my new SSD. I only get sequential reads of 140MB/s and writes of 114MB/s.
I think it is a driver related issue. I once got faster SATA2-like speeds but cannot reproduce the system settings again... Everything back to SATA1-like speeds after reboot.
First my pc specs:
MSI K9N2 Sli Platinum, BIOS v3.9
- 6 SATAII ports by nForce 750a SLI
- 2 ESATA (External-SATA) ports (back panel) by JMB363
- Supports storage and data transfers at up to 3 Gb/s
AMD Phenom II 965 Black
Patriot PV224G8500ELKB Viper II Series DDR2 4GB (2 x 2GB, CL5 PC-8500/1066MHz)
SSD SATAIII OCZ Vertex 3, 120GB, FW v2.11
LG Internal BlueRay BH10LS30
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I only get very slow speeds with the SSD. I tried so many things that I am getting very frustrated now, I am even thinking about getting a new board and ram just to get the SSD up to speed...
1)
I installed Win7 first with all the default settings in Windows Setup from DVD. Default "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" driver was "Standard AHCI1.0 Serial ATA Controller".
SSD was connected to SATA1-port, On-Chip Sata Controller AHCI enabled in BIOS, Extra RAID/IDE Controller disabled.
All fine, but whichever benchmark I used (AS SSD, HD Tune Pro, Atto Disk Benchmark, CrystalDiskMark; other tools used: DriveControllerInfo, AIDA64/Everest, CrystalDiskInfo ) I got e.g. 140MB/s Read and 114MB/s Write sequentially (CrystalDiskmark, similar with random data AND only zeros ).
Trim working (it seems) with AHCI driver. I also changed to nvstor64 driver (nforce driver setup 15.56), with is marginally faster but not what you would expect from a SATAIII drive on SATAII controller.
2)
I installed Win7 using "diskpart" (Shift-F10) during disk setup, setting a cluster size of 64k instead of default. No real change.
3)
After reinstall of Win7 x64 (again...), I changed from SATA1 port to SATA6 port, also enabled Extra Raid/IDE controller set to AHCI as well.
Nothing changed. With all settings to default in Windows (ahci default driver), I then manually updated the ahci to nvstore64 driver in Device Management, rebooted.
Then a minute later after reboot I got the following Sequential speeds with CrystalDiskMark:
273MB/s read and 137MB/s write (random data) + 274MB/s read and 220MB/s write (with zeros) !!!
While I ran this benchmark Windows came up with a message: "You must restart your computer to apply these changes - Restart Now/Restart Later".
After the previos reboot, when I changed manually from AHCI to NVSTORE, I had changed nothing in the current session, apart from running CrystalDiskMark.
I did reboot and I was back to the slow SSD speeds again = 140/114 MB/s...
4)
I have tried every possible combination of mainboard SATA ports, drivers changing with nvidia setup/manually, deleting and disabling controllers (incl BSOD and startup repair :D ), chaning bios settings around, but I just cannot get back the faster speeds
There is never any change in speed, whether I use ahci or nvstore64, whichever benchmark I use, whether random or zeros...
5)
Could the SSD be broken, something internally preventing it from faster speeds (with this one random exception)?
Could it be that my K9N2 SataPorts only allows for / reduced to SATA1 speeds?
Am I missing something with the driver setup?
Do I need additional drivers for the extra JMicron Controller when using SataPorts 5/6 ?
I have no other mainboard to test this with...
Please guys, I am going to jump out of the window if I can't fix it... :(
Thanks, Mike

Hey guys - problem 'solved':
I tested the OCZ SSD Vertex 3 120GB with following sata3 controller card http://www.lycom.com.tw/PE-115H.htm.
The card itself works immediately (needs at least PCIe x4 slot, will work slower otherwise but still faster than the OCZ SSD @sata1 with nvidia chipset).
There is some raid setup, doesn't apply to me, the boot even with the card is really only a few seconds longer and not annoying at all. Windows (7 x64) needed a driver, supplied on CD (which is cheap and making noise like h**l). The card works w/o the driver but doesn't harm to install it...
Also, just to clarify, this sata controller card did not need any specific setup at all. Just put it in, plug in sata cable (I use akasa sata3-rated), maybe change boot device in BIOS (I didn't even have to), done - booting Windows as usual.
Benchmark CDM with sata controller card Lycom PE-115H:
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3845/cdmpe115hahci0x00.png
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/7549/cdmpe115hahcirand.png
Speed is much better than before with nvidia chipset 750a SLI controller: sata1 (sata2 whenever it randomly worked):
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/505/cdmahci0x0.png
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6258/cdmahci0x0sata6contnv64.png
Final thoughts:
Well, I am happy with the SSD speed now (PCIe limited to 5Gbps). However, I had to spent quite some time to get it working on my sata2-cabable mainboard. Finally, I had to buy a extra controller card to get it working reliably at speeds faster than sata1. There is hardly any useful information on why this problem occurs with (older) nvidia chipsets and OCZ (sata3) SSDs. I still think that OCZ must know about this problem, but regards this issue as low priority, while at the same time not planning on giving up on sales to people with nvidia chipsets. Maybe OCZ should just make a big sticker on the box the drives come in with something like "Does/Might not work with nvidia chipsets, please use third-party sata controller card or different SSD manufacturer". But then none of these potential customers would buy OCZ SSDs...
I will keep the sata3 controller, anyway handy to have, but return the OCZ Vertex 3 120GB and replace it with a SSD from a different manufacturer (Corsair Force GT, Patriot and OWC are not that great to get around here). The benchmarks for most people will not achieve the maximum advertised OCZ speeds anyway, so why not go with a brand that allows for some plug'n'play with some customer support.
Hope this post helps others like me with their nvidia chipset + sata1 speed problem
Cheers, Mike

K9N2 SLI Platinum raid setup after bios flash

Hi
I'm building a new system based on K9N2 SLI Platinum. Apart from a new 80 GB sys. HDD everything else is reuse from another MB (MSI K9N Platinum).
Here is what is puzling me: Before trying to install WinXP i flashed the bios to 3.2 because of the included updates to the raid bios. Flashing went well, however in my setup I want the 80 GB HDD to be non-raid and the two 320 GB HDD to be raid1. I've set this up in bios so that only channel 5 and 6 is enabled for raid and would expect that the 80 GB HDD (channel 1) would show up as a normal sata HDD when starting up. But it doesn't - it is listed as 0.0 xxxx after the "press F10 to enter raid setup" message?
This is strange because I had the same HDD setup on my old MSI K9N Platinum and there the 80 GB sata HDD was shown as a "normal" disk and not as a "appendix" to the raid list.
Because of this I have problems installing WinXP on the 80 GB HDD
Any suggestions?

Hi BOSSKILLER
Thanks for your quick response.
Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 12-August-08, 00:14:44
Well, leave the 80GB only and install XP over it.
Then connect other two HDD's and enable RAID for them.
Unfortunately this didn't help. As soon as I installed the Windows nVidia RAID SW it prompted med that it had registered the 80 GB disk as a new disk that wasn't a member of any RAID. This happened everytime Windows XP was started.
The trick was to add the 80 GB disk as a Spanned disk using the nVidia RAID BIOS setup utility. Install Windows XP (again) and the Windows nVidia RAID SW and setup RAID 1 on the other two sata disk.
I don't think this is a great setup but it works. I hope that MSI will fix this issue in a later BIOS upgrade. It would be nice if the enabled/disabled for sata RAID setting actually worked.

New K9N2 SLI Platinum isn't booting into BIOS

So i just built a new system with an MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum, and installation went by with a breeze. However, after supplying power, and turning the system on for the first time I'm met with absolutely nothing.
I'm not the most advanced in this category, and I've certainly never experienced the likes of this ever. I've gone through the hardware configuration a thousand times, and I'd know if it were that.
I was wondering if anybody knew a few tricks to get this new board to boot. I'm suspecting it's probably something small and obvious I wouldn't ever think of.
But yeah, any help would be much appreciated.
Current System:
Mobo: MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9850 (black edition)/stock cooler
RAM: Corsair Dominator 2x2048Mb 1066Mhz DDR2
GPU: PNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GTX
HDD1: Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10K RPM
HDD2: Seagate Barracude 1.5TB 7200RPM
No operating systems yet (which is kind of impossible since I can't even set the boot order without the BIOS loading.) But I plan to run XP Pro alongside Gentoo.

All fans are spinning fine, I'll get the PSU info later, I took it from an old system I built before my last deployment. It's an 850 watt (single 12 volt rail) system, not sure the exact specs on it anymore.
I do believe though, that I've managed to knock something loose as it keeps beeping repeatedly now when it boots. Before it was absolute silence on boot. (which is weird because i don't actually remember installing the speaker?)
Oh, the DVD drive is from another system too, and pretty old, but it opens, and functions.
I also swapped between onboard video, and the graphics card to see if it was maybe the graphics card and still nothing.
Though I have to use a DVI converter with the graphics card (which is pretty lame for a 200+ dollar graphics card to have two DVI ports and an SVID port, but no HDMI port.)
Anyway, I originally tried to boot with my 1080P television connected into the HDMI DVI* port for the mobo.
Keep good language in a forum!
Now if I can just figure out what was wrong in the first place eh?
It seems the reset button allowed it to boot into the BIOS, but a regular boot wont?
Edit: Still wont boot into BIOS or POST though, I'm met with a blinking line that's been there for over 10 minutes now.

K9N2 SLI Platinum: USB mouse works, other USB devices iffy or not at all.

I have a K9N2 SLI Platinum running now, and lately it's become rather flakey on me. Windows Mobile device center cut out on me last month when I tried to update the phone software, which I guess should have been the first clue. I notice that the flash drives I connect aren't showing up, and the new Ipod I bought last week doesn't show up at all, either.
Symptoms include:
1. When I connect my HTC Excalibur up, Windows 7 realizes this is a phone, and starts up or installs Windows Mobile Device Center for me. However, midway through installing the actual device, it stops and tells me the device is disconnected. The phone is plugged in, and I've been afraid to touch it during this process. On rare occasions, the phone actually is detected and installed, somewhere in the next dozen connections it reverts back to the drawing board, though.
2. I have a bunch of flash drives that never show up on the computer now. At least one of them showed up in the past, and transferred files just fine. When I plug them in, I don't get the new device connected noise, and they don't show up in the System screen.
3. I've managed to completely kill the batteries of two separate Ipods. (Which actually worked out for me when they let me upgrade the new nano to a new classic). It doesn't detect that anything is attached to the USB line. Doesn't matter if I hook it up in disk mode, run "the 5Rs" or what, these little buggers starve to death on the line.
4. Throughout all of these situations, two devices work no matter which rear USB slots I hook them to: the Microsoft Mouse, and my HP PSC 2700 printer. So long as I don't pull them out while the machine is running, I don't have to do anything special to get Windows 7 to find and use them. Unplugging the printer will get the device disconnected noise, but does not free up any resources to detect anything else attached.
5. The front two USB slots don't work at all. I don't think they've ever worked for me, so I'll deal with that mess sometime later. Turning the computer off, unplugging these, and restarting with just the 4 rear slots enabled does not help the problem.
What I've tried so far:
1. Reinstalling Windows 7 after formatting the partition.
2. Reinstalling the Nvidia nforce drivers from Nvidia's site using my board/processor specs.
3. Reinstalling the software that normally detects these devices: Itunes, Windows MDC, etc.
4. I've attempted to uninstall the USB drivers, but as the mouse connects here, that's been forcing a hard restart instead of shutting Windows7 down as normal. On restart, mouse is reinstalled but problem remains.
5. I've tried disabling Legacy USB drivers in the BIOS. No dice.
6. I can't get a BIOS flash to work from the Live Update tools, (perhaps for the better), and the USB sticks aren't working to flash from one of those. (Granted I can still boot and I'm otherwise stable).
All I can think of is that maybe prior to reinstallation I pulled off something with CCleaner that I actually needed, but the reinstallation should have fixed that if it was a registry error.

I'm sorry, I need to be a bit clearer, apparently. The devices on the list were not plugged in at the same time. Instead, I decided to see which if any devices would work by plugging them in one at a time. The printer was plugged in for all of them, as was the mouse, then I repeated the one at a time process with both the printer and the mouse unplugged to see if anything new happened. Results were posted line by line on the list above.
Now then, I have managed to get my hands on an x86 version of Windows 7. Surprise, surprise, it works. Phone not only detects, but also installs. When I plug in a Sandisk Cruiser, Windows 7 finds it, powers it up, installs drivers and assigns it a drive letter within about 5 seconds. I haven't gotten around to installing the iTunes yet and getting the iPod running, but I suspect it'll work if everything else is showing up now. Thus far, the only thing that hasn't worked when installed is the Logitec Gamepad, but then again I just plugged this one in to satisfy my curiousity. There are probably some drivers I need if I want to actually play games with it.
While this seems like it would solve the issue, the problem remains that I bought the board so I could eventually upgrade the RAM well beyond the 2GB I have installed. Since x86 seems to only go up to 3GB, that's going to kind of defeat my purpose there. Also, I've only got 30 days on this install, then I'm back to square one where I have to either use my x64 license/disc to get a legal, crippled copy going, or reinstall another x86 build. Pretty sure copy protection will start kicking in soon on that.
Any Ideas?

K9N2 SLI platinum - another problem w/ Phenom II

I decided to upgrade my K9N2 SLI Platinum from Phenom 9850BE to Phenom II 940 3.0GHz. I switched the CPUs but I didn't update the bios from 3.2 to 3.3. When I powered up the bios 3.2 system with the Phenom II it posted and booted but then blue screened. I restarted and went into the bios settings and checked the hardware monitor and it showed the CPU temperature at 80C! I looked at the voltage and this bios was giving the Phenom II 1.8 volts. I immediately shut down and felt the CPU sink and it was quite warm after only 60 seconds or so. That wasn't a stock heatsink either - it was a CNPS9700 with AS5 - a lot of copper to heat up.
It seems that the 3.2 bios, if it didn't recognize the CPU, should not have set the VCORE to the maximum of 1.8 volts and continue to run.
Also, I replaced the Phenom II with a sempron to upgrade the bios and had a problem after successfully flashing 3.3. I spent the weekend back and forth with MSI support and they sent a beta bios 3.3.3 that did work. My problem with 3.3 was that the machine would freeze before POST with the Group 2 LED flashing green/red.
I'm waiting for a new CPU and wondering if I should also RMA the motherboard. How come so many people seem to have flashed 3.3 with no problem but mine didn't work?
# CPU: worked: 9850BE with 4 2Gb sticks of CORSAIR DOMINATOR 1066 (worked at 1066 all four)
burned up by bios version 3.2 Phenom II 940
used to flash bios: Sempron 1800
# Motherboard model: K9N2 SLI Platnium
# Video card: MSI 8800GTS
# Hard drive(s) Seagate SATA 80Gb
# No other cards.
# Operating system: win32 XP
# Power Supply: New ANTEC Neoblue 650W.
Will

Quote from: hifi239 on 04-February-09, 00:37:10
Thanks for all the information. As I said, I have the MB working on a spare Sempron and I am waiting for a new 940, but here are some facts I'm still curious about:
1. With a plain vanilla Sempron 3400+ and a plain vanilla one stick of slow memory my K9N2 SLI Platinum will not boot correctly with bios 3.3, even after resetting cmos, unplugging, etc. MSI tech had to send me 3.3B3. Anyone know why that would be. Is there something wrong or different about my MB compared with everyone else that has 3.3? What bug in 3.3 is fixed with 3.3B3?
The sempron should boot correctly. (3.3Beta3 is a pre-3.30)
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2. I'm sorry but I think that with 3.2 or 3.3 or 3.3B3, before flashing, after flashing, with cmos reset, with cmos not reset, the bios should never put the red maximum 1.8 volts on a CPU it doesn't recognize. I never set that parameter. It is a bios bug for it to switch up to 1.8 Vcore. I had the 9850BE at Auto (about 1.1V I think).
You need 3.30 and after reset the cmos.
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3. "I doubt it burned the CPU" Really? The max case temp for 940 is 60C. Mine got to 80C. That's not good, even if it does still work. Fortunately I purchased from NE who will RMA it.
I doubt yours even got 80C as you where using the wrong BIOS...did you measure it with a digital temp-meter?
Did you burn your fingers on the heatsink?
It's not the first time a CPU temp is being read wrong in the BIOS.
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4. digit123abc said "i have the same board and 940BE, 3.3 sets the cpu voltage to 1.8volts even after bios reset and loading defaults" So, when I get the new 940, with 3.3B3 am I really going to have to rush into the bios and change the 1.8Volts to auto before I burn that CPU also? If so, that's a bad bios bug.
A BIOS default is Vcore at Auto, never seen anything else....not a BIOS-bug but he didn't reset the cmos after flashing.
And again 3.3Beta3 is older then 3.30 that is release version.
Same as with Windows7 Beta....thats prior to Windows7 Release.

K9N2 SLI Platinum shows all green, but no video output

Ok, here goes - I hope you guys can help me...
I built a new setup last night, using the following components:
AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition 2.5 Ghz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core
K9N2 SLI Platinum
OCZ Reaper HPC 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (2 x 2GB)
eVGA GeForce 9800 GTX (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready
Seagate IDE Hard Drive 120GB (not sure of model)
Windows XP Home Edition SP2 installed
Antec Earthwatts 650 - voltages follow:
Min Max
+5V 0.2A 25.0A ±5％
+12V1 0.5A 22.0A ±5％
+12V2 0.5A 22.0A ±5％
+12V3 0.5A 25.0A ±5％
-12V 0 A 0.5A ±10％
+5VSB 0 A 2.5A ±5％
+3.3V 0.1A 25.0A ±5％
I build the board, mount all components, then power on - board LEDs cycle through pattern, then land on all green. There is no video output at all during this process. I tried the PCI-E card, the onboard DVI, the onboard DVI without the video card installed.
During boot, I hear a beep that may be a long (sounds like a faint "power on" beep), and then two fainter beeps in quick succession. They don't seem to be in connection with one another.
During the boot, there is also little to no activity from the hard drive. The board reaches all green, then I hear the CPU fan spin faster, and the hard drive activates, then the board flashes to all red, and the reboot sequence begins again.
I've tried removing memory, seating just one stick, and swapping out for a second stick. The fact that the board reaches all green makes me think that everything is seated properly and functioning, but the fact that there is no video output (hence no way to access BIOS) is obviously troubling, plus the incapability of booting.
Questions - the 8-pin ATX power connection had a cover over four of the eight pins - why is that there? I connected an eight pin to the connector, should I have left the cover in place and just used a four?
I realize that using an older hard drive from a previous build is not the best idea, but I'm hoping it shouldn't be a factor this early in the boot process.
I have not flashed the CMOS yet - would that have any effect on the boot process? Again, getting to all green is promising, but the subsequent return to all red is... not.
I've looked through the forum as best I could, but didn't see any issue where the board got to all green, and then backtracked when starting up.
Any help you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated...

Hello!
Don't worry about the hard disk for now. You will need a new installation of Windows, but that would be next step.
9850 needs the latest BIOS version. http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=prodcpu2&prod_no=1443&maincat_no=1
Use the MSI forum tool. https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=116721.0 Impossible of course! Ask the store to update BIOS for you, or find an earlier, simpler compatible processor friend.
The single beep is a power-good signal. The two fainter ones are probably USB things attached.

K9n2 sli platinum will only boot/post when running single channel

Hey
I am having problems with the rig when i want memory to run Dual channel.
I have tried all bios settings (or at least i think so) and all memory slot combination (or at least i think so) without any luck.
When i put 2 sticks in dimm 1+2 I get nothing but a black screen.
When I then turn my pc off, putting 1 stick in dimm 1 it will boot and I get the message: DQS training failed on previous boot.
Mainboard: MSI K9N2 Sli platinum
CPU: AMD 5600X2 Windsor 2x1mb cache
HD: have tried with WD 250gb and hitachi 160gb sata2
Psu: Have tried with OCZ 500W and corsair 620W
Memory: Have tried with kingston pc5400 and Adata pc6400 both 1gb sticks
GFX: Have tried with GF8800GTS, ATI 1800XT and GF8500GT
CPU cooler: CM Gemini2
Motherboard have BIOS 3.1 ( so there should be no problem with running the cpu)
everything except for mainboard have been testet with other gear and is working 100%
Memory passed memtest with no errors.
Some facts
1 stick in dimm 1 = boot/post single channel
1 stick in dimm 2 = black screen.
1 stick in dimm 3 = boot/post single channel
1 stick in dimm 4 = black screen
1 stick in dimm 1 + 2 = black screen.
1 stick in dimm 1 + 3 = boot/post single channel
1 stck in dimm 2 + 4 black screen
1 stckk in dimm 3 + 4 black screen.
1 stick in 1 + 4 = Boot/postor black screen..cant remember but for sure not dual.
1 stick in 2 + 3 = boot/post or black screen..cant remember but for sure not dual
I have tried:
manual timming settings, both recommended and lower timmings.
Auto timmings
More volt to memory
More volt to cpu
Tried 800, 667, 553 and 400mhz
Tried sli memory disabled and enabled
Changing cpu ratio
Tried T2 and T1
Have tried load default settings
load optimized settings
everything on auto
well, that’s just about it and don’t know what to try next.
So if anybody have some input I would really appreciate it.
Regards
Jesper

Have you done that?:
Quote from: Stu on 13-September-09, 02:54:40
Have you tried taking the board out of the case and setting up outside on a flat anti-static surface? Maybe there is something shorting the back of the board where the DIMM slot is.
If no change:
Leave just one memory stick in 1st DIMM close to CPU socket,
ensure that system is stable the flash to the latest BIOS ==>
http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1443
You can >>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<
Once done re-test.

Random Lockups K9N2 SLI Platinum

Hey guys, Ive been dealing with a very annoying issue with a random Windows lockup, when I mean lockup its a press the reset button lockup. At first I thought it was a faulty Hard Drive, I replaced that with a Fresh reload of Windows 7 64 Bit. This issue has been going on for a few months, even before the Hard Drive going bad.. Some days/weeks I can play games without a problem, the lockups only occur within the first 5 to 10 minutes of playing, If I make it past that I am good to go.. In the last week I ran Memtest86 v4.0 and 3dMark Vantage, I got no errors or lockup's on either test.
Right after I ran the 3dMark Test I checked the temp in the bios here is what I found CPU Temp 111 F and System Temp 84 F, Im sure this is higher when Im gaming
I have been also getting this error in the event viewer on a lockup:
Component: AMD Northbridge
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: HyperTransport Watchdog Timeout Error
Processor ID: 0
Here is my PC build, Ive been thinking about getting a new case that vents the heat from the top, I think this case I have is storing a lot of heat, the case itself gets very hot while playing games, I have 4 120mm fans running to. I was orginally running SLI with the 9800GT, I rebooted one day and one of the cards went, I sent both back to PNY and got 2 new ones but only put one back in since the heat was just to bad, I have a spare card now.
COOLER MASTER Elite 330 RC-330-KKN1-GP Black SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom 9950 Agena 2.6GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor Model HD995ZXAGHBOX
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power
PNY VCG981024GXEB-FLB GeForce 9800 GT Hybrid Power 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks

Quote from: GavinMS1 on 25-February-10, 08:17:04
Sounds exactly like the problem I was having when I upgraded to an AM3 965 Phenom-II from an AM2 6000+ and 800MHz DDR2 6GB to 1100MHz DDR2 @1066 8GB all at the same time. All I can suggest is to make sure your motherboard chipset drivers are current. Right now for 750a SLI Nforce the current driver from NVidia is SMBUS Driver (v4.74) WHQL, SMU Driver (v1.71) WHQL. That is in the v15.49 download from the NVidia website. Also make sure your video card drivers are also current. v196.21 WHQL is the latest from the NVidia website for windows 7 64 bit for 9 series cards. another thing you could try is updating you BIOS to the latets version for K9N2 Sli Platinum, it is v3.6. In this website at the top you should see a link to down load the FORUM FLASHER tool made by Svet (Hopefully he posts a reply to this as well, he would most likely be able to help you out more with this). There is also an info page containing instructions on how to use it somewhere on this website as well.
Im pretty good for keeping drivers updated, to double check I downloaded the Nvidia tool to check for updated drivers, says everything is up to date.. I havent updated the bios, Ive done it in the past on other machines and Im always a little scared to do it
I downloaded SpeedFan, here are some temps sitting idle, Im not sure what the temps should be, what do you guys think?
CPU: 163F
Remote Temp: 234F
Temp: 166F
Temp1: 97F
Temp2: 84F
Temp3: 205F
HD0: 100F
Core: 105F

MSI K9N2 Sli Platinum with 1090t Problem

If anyone can figure this out, they will help me alot.
I updated my bios from 3.8 to 3.9. and it didnt anything
Light indicator.
http://imageshack.us/f/691/bioch.jpg/
While mine is
Group4. Led 4
   Led 5 Blinking between eachother (red light)
Group3. Led 6 Red
   Led 7 off
Group2. Led 8 Off
   Led 9 Green
Group1. Led 10 Red
   Led 11 Off
My Conclusion is that the lights are messed.
I have both yellow and Green light at the bottom of my motherboard.
In the instructions it says
Green light means the computer is powered on
Yellow means computer is standby.
The yellow light is on 24/7 even if the computer is off
The green light is on when i turn the computer (which is right)
I installed DualCoreCenter From MSI and it causes bsod.
The computer was working fine until I ran Prime95. It shutdown. And than it shutdown twice a starting windows screen. It worked fine after a while, but it shutdown again now. I dont wonna turn it on again.
My problem is somewhat similar to this persons.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=126143.0
I previously had q9400 with asus p5qlpro. I didnt know how to reinstall the os. the only thing i had to was reinstall nvidia drivers for the 9600 gso.

Quote from: impossibledone on 11-August-11, 09:41:47
Recently installed a 1090T on N9N2 Diamond and did testing on K9N2 SLI Platinum. All good after I flashed to 2.8 (the correct BIOS for that CPU). I Had the same problem with CPU sticking to heatsink, It was not caused by heat, I suspect the socket is weak. I just carefully pried it off.
Did I miss something? How did everyone jump on the CPU cooler without knowing what sort of case it's installed in/# of fans/what size fans, etc...?
did you have the same problem with different bios?

K9N2 Sli Platinum after thought

HI and new to the forums.
This is what I have
AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition
K9N2 Sli Platinum board
9800 GTX BFG Geforce 512 MB
OCZ Stealth Xtreme PSU 600 Watt
OCZ Platinum Memory 4 gigs, 2 gigs per stick 1066
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500AAKS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 for System Builders - OEM
Just installed basic on the board and booted, everything was going fine then i installed the vid card, and when I did, i didn't hook up both pci express power cords to the card and i started up and got a message not sure of exactlly what it said but came to the effect of not enough power to card and had to shut down so damage wouldn't be done to the motherboard, so i clicked ok and shut down, removed the card off the board and then turned system back on and wouldn't boot, stuck on MSI screen, go to post and wouldn't do anything. I did research, and tried booting with 1 stick of memory and got it to do that a few times, then it went back to not starting. So i thiough maybe the memory was bad, went out to fry's real quick bought 2 gigs of Ballistix memory 1066 speed and still nothing. Talked with MSI tech support was told to flash bios,wasn't on the current version, clear the cmos, did all that maybe got it 2 start 1 more time then nothing. Now i've RMA'd the board and memory and waiting on new, is there something I did wrong? Thanks for any replies

Quote from: Scooter71 on 14-January-09, 07:50:13
But system does power up, figured if power supply went out it either works or it doesn't
No, that's wrong info. PSU can goes down by different ways.
Quote from: Scooter71 on 14-January-09, 06:19:50
Hey, I did that and wouldn't come back up into operation system. Did all the ram swapping and got it to boot a time or two then nothing. So i sent back the motherboard and ram for RMA, which newegg was able to do for me
Also wanted to add, by hooking up card wrong, that seems to be the start of the problem of screwing up the system, just wondering..
Eh... I've told you to check cables, you have staring to RMA and RMA the wrong parts...
Problem is in the PSU or in the VGA, not in RAM or in the mainboard.
"Talked with MSI tech support was told to flash bios,wasn't on the current version, clear the cmos, did all that maybe got it 2 start 1 more time then nothing."
That's another not accurate advice.

MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum - No Mem Voltage Settings?

I recently bought an MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum; along with a Phenom II 940 Black Edition and a set of OCZ Reaper 4gb PC8500/1066 DDR2.
I had, for awhile read that this motherboard was a great board and an excellent buy.
However, I can't seem to find a way to adjust the DRAM Voltage settings. I can change and adjust the memory timings, but not the voltage settings.
CPUz shows that my RAM is running at 1.8volts but it requires 2.1v! It also shows that all the mem timings are different from what they're set at in the BIOS.
Is there a way to unlock the Mem Voltage settings on this Motherboard?
If not, I may have to RMA it and get something else.

Don't have every bit of that info in front of my at the moment, but I can say, and show, where links are available...
AMD Phenom II 940 BE (Deneb)
MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum w/ BIOS v3.4
OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Reaper HPC 4GB Edition (OCZ2RPR10664GK)
EVGA Geforce 8800GT 512DDR3 x2/SLI w/Driver v180.08
Creative X-Fi Platinum - (Not installed at present, all software/drivers removed during troubleshooting)
Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EACS 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
ENERMAX Liberty ELT500AWT 500W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Logitech LX700 Keyboard/Mouse Combo - no longer available/not listed in products/could only find Logitechs original press release on it - Logitechs provided "set point" software is installed.
Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB 2.0
Sony DVD-ROM IDE
NEC DVD RW IDE
The X-Fi Card, the two 8800GT's, and the Enermax PS' and both DVD drives, are carried over from my former system. All the rest were new, upgrade parts with a fresh and clean install of WinXP Pro w/SP3... Creative also came out with some new Drivers for that X-Fi sometime in 2008. I do not remember the Driver version or the exact date they were released, but I have tried them.
Also, I have tried rolling back the Geforce drivers back through several prior versions and ran tests with those as well, always with the same result.
I'll be removing one of the 8800GT's later on tonight when I get the chance and see what happens there.
One thing I noticed last night, is that the Mobo's Hybrid SLI is enabled with the OnBoard Video Port. I can not disable the Onboard, unless the Hybrid is disabled first. The cursor just skips over the listing for OnBoard when the Hybrid is enabled which is understandable.
However, when Hybrid is disabled and the settings saved, and system rebooted... its gets up to the WinXP Splash Screen then flashes a blue screen and automatically reboots and does this in a loop; until Hybrid is re-enabled.
At present, DRAM is manual configured in BIOS for 5.5.5.18 timings, and 2.20 voltage; as per manufacturer specs. CPU, is manually set at v1.350; which became available after re-flashing BIOS last night, and re-clearing CMOS.
Currently running system with the OnBoard Realtek Audio, using drivers from provided MSI CD.
Problems experience thus far...
Far Cry 2
Locks Ups/stuck in audio loop - often within 5 - 15 mins gameplay
Sometimes garbled Video; Alt Tabbing to Desktop and back into game clears this.
no error codes provided in Event Viewer
Crysis & Crysis Warhead
Locks up, often within 5 - 15 mins gameplay; usually locked up with a constant high pitch "Eeeeee" noise from speakers.
no error codes provided in Event Viewer
Unreal Tournament 3
Refuses to load any game maps, crashes to desktop
no error codes provided in Event Viewer
Second Life
Crashes to Desktop within 10 - 20 minutes
no error codes provided in Event Viewer
SPORE
Locks up within 5 - 15 minutes
no error codes provided in Event Viewer
Can browse internet for hours with no problems, no errors.
Can watch TV on my Hauppauge WinTV2000 USB PVR for hours, with no errors.
Can watch DVD's on any DVD software, for hours, with no errors.
Will try running Memtext86+ again tonight when I get home.

K9N2 SLI Platinum BIOS Flashing.

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