Modem problems on 875P Neo

Hi,
I recently upgraded from a P4 1.4 on an ASUS maotherboard to a P4 3Ghz on an 875P Neo. I have an ASUS V8460 Video card and a Creative SBLive! 5.1 with an Intel 56Kbps PCI HaM modem. Other than the modem everything seems to be working fine. My net connection is really pathetic though. I get disconnected every 2 minutes with random errors.
I have a feeling, enabling Hyperthreading is causing this problem.
Has anyone else faced anything of this sort?
Does anyone know of any modem that works with the above settings? I don't want to disable HT, 'coz it really makes a difference while video editing.
Any help will be appreciated

I heared of HT bothering 56K modems.
You can try another PCI slot and updating drivers befor seeing about HT.

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Ms-6758 (v1.x) RAID problem ICH5R 875P Neo

I have trouble with MSI ms-6758 (v1.x) serial number is: MSI 875PNEO-FISR
My system was worked fine since more than 8 months ago... but now: No video, no sound, nothing. The only way is reinstalling the processor, then boot, succesfully but wen the system is off.... again.. i need to reinstall the processsor (unplug and plug)
The system configuration is:
2 Seagate serial ATA 120 GB
2 DDR 400 MHz x 512MB (I was changed by two DDR 400 Mhz x 256 MB)
A New presscott ready case with accurate power supply (changed yesterday)
ATI All in wonder radeon 9600 XT 128 MB (changed by Nvidia 440 AGP 8x 64 MB)
Intel pentium 4 3.2 GHz HT (changed in apr 4)
My question is:
If i change this board for RMA my current RAID 0 (intel RAID ser1 and ser2) can work in the new board? The new BIOS can recognize this?
Thanks so much

You PSU isn't good enough to support your system. Read the guides below and you'll have a better idea.
Power Supply Guide P4 Neo Unofficial Guide Moan Guide

Major Problems with 875P Neo-FIS2R

Current Issue:
Upgraded to BIOS 1.6, waited for it to return to the C: prompt. Did a CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart, went through setup to make my 3Ware RAID controller the boot device. No other changes from default. Booted, it would get 1/2 way to booting Windows XP and then reboot itself (1st time I have seen that). So I powered it off (at the PS), waited 30s, powered it back on. Nothing, nada, ne rien. No the board won't even power on. I checked the PS, I am getting a +5V DC from the second power pin from the right on the bottom and +5V at the power switch jumper. The network LED is also lit.
Previous problems:
The board shipped with BIOS 1.2. It would intermittently freeze up, sometimes right after WinXP loaded, sometimes the next day. Then it just decided not to go beyond the BIOS splash page. At first I could power off, wait an hour, then it would boot, but after a couple of times it wouldn't boot at all and just hung with the MSI logo on.
I removed one stick of my Corsair Value Select 512MB PC3200 memory (VS512MB400) from slot 3 and left the other in slot 1. This allowed it to boot, I had done a CMOS reset earlier in attempts to fix the booting issue so I chose to use the default BIOS settings. I then upgraded to BIOS 1.6, see above for details on what happened.
Note: all settings were at default, no overclocking attempts, no alterations to memory power settings, etc.
Specs:
Antec SmartPower 400w (Brand new as old Antec TruePower fried)
MSI motherboard
2xVS512MB400 Corsair Value Select PC3200
3Ware 7500-4 ATA RAID Controller
4 100GB WD Caviar ATA 7200rpm drives in RAID 10
ATI Radeon VE AGP w/1DVI 1VGA
I am using the Firewire and USB brackets
Antec tower case w/2 rear fans, 1 front fan, 1 side fan
Igloo 4310 P4 fan
Toshiba SD-4102 DVD/CDRW
APC 700VA Backups pro
Any help is greatly appreciated

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Originally posted by tAle*
Try clearing the cmos so that you can get back into the BIOS
Then increase the voltage of your RAM to 2.70V for PC3200 and the change memory clock fromm \"auto\" to 400
Tell me if this works 8)
tAle*
No sorry doesn't work.
As I wrote a view posts back, the bord doesn't start when the bios hasn't been reset.
This morning a completely stripped my PC, got the board out en connected only a floppy drive, but the board just won't start.
I have check if it could be the PSU but it works fine.
So a little summery:
* Board only starts after a CMOS CLEAR
* Power button works (tested it)
* PSU works (tested it)
* BIOS settings are right (Vdram @ 2.7, etc)
Any ideas?

875P Neo FiSR (PCB 2.0)

Hi, I have this mobo with a prescott installed on it. Unfortunately this mobo doen'st support any vcore changes trough the bios. I allready flashed it to the latest bios (3.6) with no effect. The only way i'm able to adjust the vcore settings is through corecenter, but I rather do it through the bios.
I read this old topic over at ocforums where some guy named Dcasole claimed to have solved the problem:
MSI 875p NEO FISR no vcore adjustment for prescott?
In his post he refers to an older topic from this forum:
Workaround to unlock Vcore
Unfortunately this topic he refers to is allready off this forum. So if theres anyone that could give me the solution pls share it! (or Dcasole if youre reading this pls let me know how to fix this.)
All help appreciated.

Nick, download " Core Center " and use it to adjust your Vcore but use the bios for other adjustments( FSB) as it will be much more stable ( Core Center is to buggy for me to use for overclocking)
As Del states becareful when changing this value as the prescott employs what is known as Dynamic VID which means that the chip will vary the vcore according to the load that is placed upon it in an effort to control the heat
Also before changing it make sure you have a cooling solution as raising my VID .4 raised my temps 10 degrees C
But be forewarned !If you were to set your vcore at the high limit of what your chip can handle , Dymanic VID could push it over the edge
Read about why MSI chose to lock the VCore down in our boards here
Prescott Dangerous Tweeks
And some more on Dynamic VID
Dynamic VID
Hope this helps
Dave
PS - I am running at 3.59 stable ( 2.8E) with the stock VCore of 1.36 , Don't be quick to raise it till you see what you have at the stock level

[875P Neo] Random crashes

I got various problems with
875P Neo-FISR (PCB 2.0)
1G Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PRO
ASUS 8420 (or 8240 don't really remember now) Ti4200
Creative SBLive! Value - need it because of gaming port.
All have latest drivers. The system runs at "setup defaults" all the performance related stuff set to "slow", no overclocking either. I've also noticed if I disable Hyper Threading the errors come out twice as fast.
win98 problems: I experience strange "out of memory errors" when running mechwarrior 4 mercenaries over internet (connected to the DLink LAN router). It crashes randomly after 4 - 10 minutes of the game. At some stage I got to a point when I could play for about 1 hour straight without crashes. I zipped that windows configuration and decided to try different video drivers, since then it fails every time.
w2k problems: random crashes occured couple of times:
I was doing windows file search on both network and local drive, at some point it's just rebooted without warning.
Second crash was when I was running antivirus software: heavy access to FAT partition. Though it's not the virus since the rest of the drives show no viruses.
I'm trying to find some decent overall testing utilities so I can reproduce the problem 100% and get it replaced or something. Can you recommend anything?

Hi borg,
You posted similar in another thread.......please follow what I have said and check the link.......
You will NOT have problems.....
I have tested both win98se and winME upto 1.5Gb Mem and no problems!!! Gaming is super fast!!!
Have also used RAMDISK software......but had problems under win2K and NT......so not advised...
Win98 has yet to be beat AS the best gaming Platform yet!!!! I say though Doom under DOS 6.22 is better than Doom under Win 95, 98, etc....
Del

Problem with S-ATA optical drive(MSI 875P Neo)

Ahoy MSIers,
I am in a most dire situation, and before I go to spend money on some computer-tech guy to solve my problem, I thought maybe you could help me.
*My PC specs:
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood C 2800Mhz
MSI 875P Neo
A-DATA 512Mb RAM DDR 400 * 2(1024)
PowerColor Radeon 9800Pro
Western Digital Hard Drive 80Gb 8Mb buffer P-ATA
Pioneer DVR-212D S-ATA (The main issue here)
Bios - AMIBIOS - VERSION 3.31a
Windows XP Pro - SP2
Until 2 days ago I owned an MSI CD(P-ATA) burner which was virtually dead.
2 days ago, It died completely, So I decided that I will not just replace a CD burner for a CD burner... no! I will buy myself a new shiny DVD burner!
So I bought myself a Pioneer DVR-212D(S-ATA) and I went on with installing it.
I plugged the Serial Power Cable from the PSU to the drive, and connected the drive and the S-ATA port on my M-Board with a serial-ata cable.
I booted up, and found that the device was nowhere to be found although power is being transferred to it(the drive opens and closes when pressing it's eject button).
I searched the net and found that I was supposed to "enable" S-ATA in my BIOS.
Tried that, yet every setting I tried besides the default setting gives makes the computer freeze for a few minutes at the MSI logo and then a "friendly" error massage appears, usually it's something like
"4th master drive ATAPI incompatible" ( the number changes, I haven't got a clue why).
Searched the net a bit more and found almost nothing... most s-ata "problems" were about booting from a s-ata hard drive....
I am getting desperate, So in order to maximize the chances of me getting help solving this issue, I took a few pictures of the BIOS and the inside of my case... maybe it will help, I dunno.
Here are some pics:
The S-ATA cable connected to the Mother-Board
Back of the DVD burner with the S-ATA cable attached
BIOS - standard CMOS features
BIOS - Integrated Peripherals
On-Chip IDE configuration
P.S
I have a DVD ROM(Toshiba, nothing special) and I would of course occasionally like to burn Dvds/Cd's from my DVD ROM to my DVD burner. However, seeing as the DVD burner is S-ATA, there is no physical connection what so ever between the two drives(unlike in P-ATA connection where each cable has 3 "connections", 2 for drives(hard or optical) and one for the Motherboard) I really don't know how I can "achieve" this.

A friend of my father's, whose occupation is a computer technician toke a look at the PC and bios settings today.
WE tried EVERYTHING and It still wouldn't work so we concluded that the problem is probably in the hardware.
There were two possible "suspects" here - The Mother Board(specificially the S-ATA controller/ports on it) or the drive itself.
We connected the drive to my sister's computer and it worked like a charm.
So the answer was clear - something was wrong with the board.
I replaced my S-ATA drive for an IDE drive, and all is well.
Well
that's the end of that story

875P NEO - Strange problem with SATA non RAID on Promise 20378

Hello,
After replacing an IDE harddisk suddenly my S-ATA drive connected to the Promise 387 controller can not be found anymore.
When booting it says: No devices found, BIOS not installed. I got the the advice to disable S-ATA in the BIOS, but then no S-ATA drive will work ofcourse.
So here is my situation:
- MSI 875P Neo-FISR (PCB 2.0) mainboard with A6758 BIOS version
BIOS settings:
Integrated Peripherals:
- On board Promise IDE = as S-ATA
On Chip IDE configuration:
- P-ATA only
- S-ATA keep enabled = NO (wouldn't know what this means)
- P-ATA channel selection = Both (if set otherwise it will not recognize the second IDE
controller, strange!)
- S-ATA ports defintion: P0-4th/ P1-3rd (standard setting)
- Config as RAID = NO
Also I have the Promise 1.0.1.29 drivers installed within XP, I know that MSI says 378_55 is the latest, but when installing a clean XP these drivers did not work at all, so I installed the old ones.Within XP it is recognized btw as being a "WinXP Promise SATA378 IDE controller"
What I am wondering now is:
Is it true the Promise controll controls the 3rd IDE controller as well as the S-ATA HDD? And if so can someone please tell what would be the correct settings in the BIOS when having 2 IDE HDD's connnected to the third IDE controller and 1 S-ATA disk on the Promise controller? Because the strange thing only 1 IDE HDD is recognized by XP, the other IDE HDD and S-ATA not.
Ok, I hope I was a little bit clear, I'm really desperate , so I hope you can help me out !!

Not sure what the problem is.
Like I said, all the settings in Integrated Peripherals>>On-Chip IDE Config should only affect the Intel controller(IDE1&2,Serial1&2)
The only interaction you have with the Promise controller(IDE3,Serial3&4) is through Integrated Peripherals>>Promise Controller(As SATA, As Raid, Disabled). You can also select a drive connected to the Promise as a boot device from Bios>>Advanced Features>>Boot Device Select.
I would take a step back and start over a little more slowly.
My assumption so far is that you have WinXP installed on a drive on the Intel controller and that it is booting/functioning properly.
You are trying to install 2 IDE and 1 SATA drives on the Promise controller.
1- In Device Manager, right-click on the Promise 378 controller and select uninstall. If you know for sure that the "Raid Consolel SCSI Processor Device" is from a driver you installed for the Promise controller, uninstall that too. Otherwise leave it alone.
2- Shutdown/Unplug power and disconnect all 3 drives from the Promise controller.
3- Plugin power/Boot to the Bios and set the Promise controller to "disabled". Also make sure Intel "On-Chip IDE Config" menu "Config SATA As Raid" option is set to "NO"
4- Save and reboot to WinXP. There should be no Bios errors and the Promise entries in Device Manager should be gone.
5- Shutdown/Unplug Power and reconnect 1 drive(the SATA to Serial3 for simplicity) Power + data cables!
6- Plugin power/boot to Bios and set Promise controller to "As SATA"
7- Save and reboot. You should see the drive name briefly after the initial post screen if you've disabled the MSI splash screen.
8- WinXP should say something about finding a new SCSI device. If not just see if it's in Device manager and right-click>>"Install Drivers" and point it to the driver folder from before and install the "WinXP Promise SATA378 (tm) IDE Controller Driver". Not the Fastrack ones for raid.
9- Now after another reboot if the SATA drive isn't visible from Windows Explorer, try the diskmgmt.msc utility again.
10- If all this works, try adding 1 of the IDE drives by shutting down again, installing the HDD and checking the Disk Manager. If the drives are already partitioned/formatted you wouldn't need to use Disk Manager. Repeat with the 3rd drive.
If this doesn't work, let me know which step you got to and the problem encountered.

[875p Neo FIS2R(PCB 1.0)] BIOS/OS ramtiming problems

First off, hello to you all. This is my first time here since I recently bought an MSI board.
On too the problem;
I have the following RAM modules http://www.geilusa.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=26 , and set into the BIOS SPD off and the timings to 3-4-4-8, and the DDR voltage to 2.6.
Everything works okay, except, SiSoft Sandra and CPU-Z say my RAM modules run at CL2.5 instead of the CL3 I configured in the BIOS.
If I turn on SPD, the modules will be configured to CL2.5 and the rest the same timing. Now I can get into this, since I'm basicly are underclocking these modules atm, so SPD might think 2.5 are better setting for running under 400, but still strikes me odd that whatever I set into the BIOS RAM timing, CPU-Z and Sandra report different timing then what I do in the BIOS.
If I calculate it rightly, underclocking these modules on 400MHz instead of 533 will result in 2.5-6-3-3 timings on 400MHz and 3-8-4-4 on 533. The setting 2.5-6-3-3 works aswell and stable, same as 2-6-3-3, since they 3.5ns modules I didn't have any problems with my timings. Except, that sandra/cpu-z just give not the right timings according to my BIOS.
All dynamic overclock settings in BIOS are set to off/slow.
I'm not trying to overclock just yet, although I did some testing, but setting only DDR RAM frequency's to 500-533 will make the system not even start.
With only FSB OC'ing to 230 on a P4 3.2 I can run stable with my system, anything above willl have odd results, as in, onboard gigabyte network adaptor disappearing, not able to boot from internal promise raid, or core center reporting it doesn't support my mobo! But, that is my 3.2 GHz CPU that is clocked too high then.
Just want to make sure, that whatever I set into BIOS will carry over to the booted system, before I activly will OC.
System spec;
P4 3.2GHz
4x GL5124200DC (Geil)
875P Neo FISR2(PCB 1.0) BIOS v2.0

All right, then I probably don't have to worry about that, thank you for clearing that up.
Nevermind the rest of t he text, I found that AGP 3.0 Univeral mode just runs at 1.5v, which both the mobo + card use atm.
--- obsolete question --
Another question though, it might be related aswell.
I'm using an ATI RADEON 9800XT in this motherboard, that according to ATI will use 0.8volts when in 8x/4x AGP or 1.5 at 4x. Thing is, CoreCenter still reports the AGP voltage as 1.5 while the card is running on a 8x AGP bus (where it should be 0.8v). Is this another quirk where things are not displayed correctly?
Bit concerned here, because having used this card in a previous board, I notice that in this board that the card outputs a stronger signal to the same monitor, resulting in a brighter display. Meaning black is not real black but more a kind of grey, which might be the result of the card running at too high a voltage in 8x mode.
-- obsolete question --

875P Neo FIS2R DRAMM / Boot Problems

After having significant difficulties with my new machine
I thought it may be helpful to others to know how I fixed the Mother Board problems. I have the following configuration:
875P Neo-FISR
P4 3.02 GHz 478P 800fsb
Two Geil PC 3200 400MHz 500mb DDR’s at positions 1 & 3
( CAS 2 6-3-3 1T; 2.6-2.9 V)
Two Seagate 120 Gb 7200rpm SATA drives on Promise Raid 0
Generic Cd Reader
Pioneer DVD Writer DVRA05
ATI 9700 Pro
Aquarius Liquid Cooler
Enermax Fan Monitor
( Addictions are bad )
Open all the boxes and put everything together. Boots up once and then starts active unstable.
Clear the CMOS and then it fails to post at all.
No monitor at all.
Looking at this web site I thought that putting the Aquarius Fan on the SFAN 1 slot may not be playing with CoreCell Chip well. Switched to the Enermax and it boots. Remains very unstable. Reading an email here I changed the DDR voltage to 2.7. System stable but I can’t get the Promise RAID to engage.
Looked at another email ( Thanks Mr. K. Keenan)
and set the BIOS as follows:
Frequency / Voltage Control:
CPU Ratio Selection: Locked
Dram Frequency : AUTO
Spread Spectrum : DISABLED
Adj. CPU BUS Clock: 230
DDR Clock: 460
Adj. AGP/PCI Clock: 67.1/33.50
CPU Vcore Adjust: YES
CPU Vcore: 1.5750V
DDR Power Voltage: 2.70 ( KK suggested 2.65)
AGP Power Voltage : 1.75
Everything stabilized.
Start adjusting the Promise RAID settings (following M. Johnson’s advice)
as follows in the BIOS:
ON CHIP IDE Configuration
ON Chip ATA Operate Mode: Native Mode
ATA Configuration : S-ATA Only
P-ATA Keep Enabled : YES
P-ATA Channel Select : BOTH
S-ATA Ports Definition: PO-1st/P1-2nd
Configure S-ATA as Raid : YES
Back to
INTEGRATED PHERIPHERALS
ONBOARD Promise IDE: as RAID
Run Windows 2000 prof and it finds the array but can’t format ( ???)
Tried formating with Millenium Boot disk ( Bad move).
Windows ME won’t let Win 2000 boot.
Clear CMOS and then the system dies.
Spent days trying to get at least the monitor to fire with no luck.
Reread web site and picked up on the Low Latency Memory issues noted
in a note ( Thanks Mr. K. Keenan again). Put in some Kingston cas2.5
333 DDR’s at 1 & 3 positions.
Fires up immediately.
Windows 2000 boots and loads. Totally stable.
Never to be one that leaves well enough alone…
Set the BIOS under
ADVANCED CHIP FEATURES as follows:
Under dram Timing Setting:
Configure DRAM Timing by SPD : Disabled
Cas Latency: 2
RAS # Precharge 3
RAS # to CAS# Delay: 3
Precharge Delay: 6
Burst Length : 8
AGP Aperture Size: 128 MB
Shut down and replaced the 1GB ( 2 x 500) Geil DDR 400’s.
Rock stable and faster.
Evidently when you clear the CMOS, the board resets
the DDR Power Voltage to 2.50 which is too low for
some of the faster DDR SDRAM’s. Unless you put
slower chips in you can’t adjust the bios to a higher voltage.
I would love to know why MSI did that.
Hope this trail helps somebody else.
Best RBC

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Originally posted by Undergrid
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Evidently when you clear the CMOS, the board resets
the DDR Power Voltage to 2.50 which is too low for
some of the faster DDR SDRAM’s. Unless you put
slower chips in you can’t adjust the bios to a higher voltage.
I would love to know why MSI did that.
Simply, when you use the jumpers to reset the BIOS all the settings, including the voltages, get reset to the default. The default power setting for RAM is 2.5v, and I would assume that its difficult to find RAM that doesn't run at that voltage at least well enough to get into the BIOS. What use would the jumper reset be if it only selectivly reset settings?
Hi all,
The system will reset the performance to Slow and the DDR ram timing to default by just 4 unsuccessful boot up.
Meaning just press reset button for about 4 times and the system will boot with the default setting for the performance and RAM Timing.
So I do not need to do jumper reseting or open the CPU casing.
Cheers.

875P Neo-FIS2R boot problem

Hello,
Just built a new machine with the following parts. Sometimes it boots fine, but mostly when you turn it on nothing happens, no beeps, no visual, no nothing. Also, once in awhile it takes 15 - 20 seconds before it beeps and visuals come on screen. It's using bios version 1.2 with all default settings by shorting out jumpers. (It gives different voltage settings when reset by jumpers vrs utility.) Once it boots it runs fine, even though memory timings are 2-4-4-6 SPD instead of 2-2-2-6 SPD that my memory modules are suppose to be. However when I manually change to 2-2-2-6 the bios shows that but CPU-Z still shows 2-4-4-6, thats a different story though which a bios update would probally fix. Right now all I want is for it to boot consistently, every time. Ive tried a different power switch and a different power supply. Neither helped and this is driving me crazy, somebody please assist or post any information you might feel would help.
Intel Pentium 4 2.4CGHz Processor 800MHz FSB
MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R
Corsair 512MB PC-3200/400MHz DDR Ram (TWINX512-3200LL)
ASUS GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB 8X (V9280 TD)
Integrated six channel audio on motherboard
Western Digital 80GB 7,200RPM 8MB Cache (WD800JB)
LITE-ON 16x/48x DVD/CD-ROM Drive (XJ-HD165H)
LITE-ON 52x24x52 CD-RW Drive (LTR-52246S)
TEAC 3.5" Floppy Drive
Black Raidmax Case with 350W Power Supply (278WB)
CTX Executive 19" TrueFlat 1600x1200 (EX950F)
Windows XP Home Edition Full Install
Nice black and silver multimedia keyboard
Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical
Intel 56K V.90/V.92 PCI Data, Fax, Speakerphone

Hey,
I have /had same problem with Neo 875 and corsair TWINX512-3200LL and bios V1.2 It has something to do with mem settings and/or Vdimm voltage. At this moment it boots fine but I can't explain way. It seems that this kind of memory is very sensitive for the Vdimm voltage. 2.5V is to low and some systems refuse to post. (see the bios 1.4 flash problems) Must user use 2.6v; 2.65v or 2.7v. Check out if you can find a stable setting. Bios v1.2 uses default SPD settings. you can't change them. Although after bios reset (removed battery) I get some different values with cpu-z. 2-2-2-6 I don't understand why I get those values in CPU-Z. I don't believe that my system is running with those settings. I think it's running with default bios 1.2 settings 2,5-4-4-6 but who knows?
A lot of users had dead MOBO's when they flashed to v1.4. The reason isn't found. Some moderators say the didn't wait for the DOS prompt after flashing (Could be) Some users can confirm they did. Maybe it has to do with the corsair memory. If you do a search you will find a lot of usefull information (bios v1.4 and/or MOBO hangs on keyboard initialisation)

875P-Neo FIS2R v1.0 BIOS Problems

Purchased PC in June w/875P-Neo w/1ea. 80G SATA, 2ea. 200G ATA-133 w/SATA Adapters as RAID 0, Windows Server 2003, NVidia TNT 32M AGP Video, Floppy, and Pioneer DVD-RW, using 2G Kingston DDR 400 Dual-Channel RAM. PC in Box with 7 Case fans, and P4-2.8GHz 800FSB w/CNPS-7000 Copper Flower CPU Fan/HS.
Once or twice per week W2K3 would lock up with basic desktop but no taskbar and no keyboard or mouse function (arrow moved, but that's all). Tried all software and BIOS settings I could think of to no avail. Downloaded and installed v1.6 from MSI and all seemed OK but as I was going through BIOS checking/changing settings as required my video would start jumping and dashes and underlines would appear randomly on screen. Problem would get worse the longer I was in the BIOS setup. I could not get W2K3 to boot after v1.6 so tried the recover process. This appeared to work until I tried the re-boot after getting the 4 beeps. Now all that happens is the BIOS wants to continuously recover from floppy beeping 4 times every time. If I remove the floppy it would keep looking at the floppy drive forever, beeping once every now and then.
I returned the PC to where I purchased it and they replaced the mainboard which seemed OK. I had the tech flash the BIOS before bringing it home with 1.6. After I got it home, I began getting the same behavior as before the recover process on the first MB (above). I decided to see if I could get the system to take BIOS v1.4 since I have another computer with that version that is stable. It worked! So far the PC seems OK with v1.4 except I wanted some of the features in the new versions.
What is going on with v1.6? Have others had probems with this BIOS version? Is v1.5 safe?
BTW, I used the RAM Disk method of updating the BIOS everytime except during the recovery attempt.
Thanks,
UProsper

Actually everything is brand new as of June and all components are matched. The Video is a 4X AGP (1.5v) and has worked fine before the v1.6 BIOS. The tech that installed my replacement MB told me the BIOS version in the MB originally was v1.2, but I didn't actually see the screen from the original BIOS before it was updated. What's strange is two boards behaved the same with v1.6. I did get the new MB to settle down with v1.4 and I have another computer with the 875P-Neo and v1.4 working fine.
Either v1.6 has issues or there is something unique about my configuration that it has problems with. I don't dare update my other computer (that is configured differently) to find out. I really want some input from someone at MSI or someone who has experienced similar results with v1.6 and this board. I am hoping there is something with 1.6 that will be fixed in the next release.
Thanks,
Steve

875P NEO-FIS2R no boot with memory problems

I just got a NEO FIS2R board, a P4 2.6C, and two 512MB sticks of OCZ PC3200 Premier DDR. I installed the board and connected only my hard drive, video card (GeForce4 Ti4200), both sticks of memory, and CPU (on a 300W PSU). At first, the board would eventually make it to the "booting OS" stage, after spending a little time on "initializing video" (normal) and "assigning ISA" or something like that (don't know what that is, since the board has no ISA slot). Unfortunately, although my monitor's light changed from yellow to green, meaning it was getting a signal, the screen remained blank. I gave it a few minutes and finally turned off the computer. After reseating the video card and memory and disconnecting the hard drive, the same problem occurred. Finally, I took out one of the sticks. After this, the computer hung on that ISA thing for about ten seconds, and then went back to "detecting memory" and gave a 2-1 error beep. I switched between the two OCZ sticks and also two sticks slow generic PC2100 memory that I had in my old computer and I know work fine. Eventually the computer stopped pausing at the ISA stage and went to the memory detection after only a second or so. Since the video was obviously acting strange, I disconnected the video card so the computer contained only CPU and memory. The bootup sequence was the same, except that in place of the single beep during video intialization, it gave me a 2-8 error code. Finally, I took the board out of my case and laid it flat on the wooden table and tried again. Still no boot. I also cleared CMOS several times throughout this procedure, so that shouldn't be the problem.
Can anyone figure out what's going on here? It's especially confusing to me that the computer booted all the way (sans video) at first, then started having memory problems, and that the system passes the initial memory test but then goes back to it after that ISA thing (this is all according to the D-Bracket).

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On the compatability list, it says
"Kingston KVR400X64C25/512
W942508BH-5 (Winbond)"
Since the memory I am looking at is CL2, does that mean it might not be compatible after all?
If you're wondering whether the Kingston HyperX RAM you're looking at is the same as the Kingston RAM you've found on the compatibililty list, the answer is NO. The RAM from the list that you're referring to has a model number that starts with "KVR", which stands for "Kingston Value RAM". HyperX RAM has model numbers that start with the letters "KHX".
You might also note that there is no listing for any of the HyperX stuff on that compatibility chart. However, I have seen posts from several people on this forum who seem to be using HyperX RAM with no problem. I suspect that MSI hasn't updated that list in awhile, because there are no listings for many of the newer PC 3500, 3700, and 4000 RAM models.
I personally went 512mb (2x256) of OCZ PC3200EL DDR RAM, it is listed as 'OCZ (PN- OCZ400256EL ) PN- OCZ400256EL' on the compatibility chart. I had plenty of problems trying to run a set of Corsair TwinX 3200PCT ver. 1.2 on my 875P NEO board, and I settled them by switching over to the OCZ RAM only because it was listed. While it wasn't my first choice I'm pretty happy with it because so far it's been running stable at CAS 2,2,3,6, with the voltage at 2.65.

875P NEO FIS2R problems with booting at power-up

Having problems with booting at power-up.
Recently, with no apparent modification to system - at power up the system will often not boot. About 80% of time systems seems to go into a loop with CD/DVD drive light blinking a few times, then the floppy drive light comes on and can hear the FDD run – within 30 seconds or so, this process starts over again. Power switch LED is on and HDD LED is on (continuously). All fans are running (power supply fan, case fan, CPU fan and Intel Canterwood 875 fan ).
Monitor power on light is in power save mode (amber) when system does not boot. When boot is successful the monitor power light turns green immediately.
After pressing the reset button several times (varies between pressing reset button 1 time to 30 or more times) system will then boot OK or go into set up.
Once running there is no apparent problem.
This mainboard comes with D Bracket containing 2 USB 2.0 ports, and 4 diagnostics LEDs - when boot problem occurs the diagnostic LEDs, give a code that in the MSI mainboard manual states “Initializing Keyboard Controller” and diagnostic LEDs stays in this mode until via reset button provides a successful boot and start up.
Have reseated all connectors.
SYSTEM
Mainboard – MSI 875P Neo FIS2R (MSI 6758)
BIOS – AMI v1.8 (has not been updated)
CPU – Intel P4 2.6 GHz - system bus 800 MHz 512 KB L2 Cache
Memory – 1.5 gb (2 x 256 mb and 2 x 512mb)
Power Supply – Antec 380 watt
HDD – IED WD 160 GB and IED WD 40 GB
Video Card – ATI Radeon 9600 (128 RAM)
Operating System – MS Windows XP Pro (sp2)

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 17-May-08, 03:34:12
Have you done >>Clear CMOS Guide<<?
Cleared CMOS - no change same problem. Also, re-seated all connectors at same time.
Quote from: Wonkanoby on 17-May-08, 09:06:54
have you just added the second wd drive
are they jumpered right
jumperless if alone on ide
jumpered master /slave if two on it
No, second 40GB HDD was installed months before this issue started and is jumpered as slave drive. Also, no other additional hardware installed for several months before issue.

MSI 875P NEO FIS2R AGP problems

I have just purchased an MSI 875P NEO FIS2R motherboard and there is a sticker covering the AGP slot which says "Please use only 1.5V AGP cards to avoid pernament damage to this mainboard". However, on the website it says here http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=434
"One AGP slot supports 8x/4x at 0.8V (AGP 3.0) or 4x at 1.5V
(3.3V is not supported)." I want to use 8x agp @ 0.8v and the website says this ok but the sticker on the AGP slot on the motherboard says only 1.5V. Is this a mistake on the website or on the Motherboard and is it possible for me to use 8x AGP @ 0.8V without damaging the motherboard?
I want to use an ATI radeon 9800pro.
Anybody using 8x agp @ 0.8V and have they have any problems?

Assaf IS THE MAN!! His answers are NEVER WRONG.. WORRY NO MORE about the voltage...

[875P Neo Series] problems powering up when sata on ich5r is enabled

Hello, there is a problem on my 875 neo fis2r motherboard.
In the "integrated peripherals"-->"on chip ide" section on the bios (v2.4), when i leave the option "sata keep enabled" to yes, i have problems on system power up.
I switch on my computer and there might be half a minute or more until i here the "beep" on the motherboard and boot from my HD.
Could anybody know what is wrong?
Thanks in advance for your help
Mobo: MSI 875P NEO-FIS2R
CPU: Intel P4 Northwood 3.0Ghz, 800FSB, 512KB L2 Cache
RAM: 1x512mb kingston PC3200 CL2.5
HDD: 1x160Gb Maxtor 8mb 7,200RPM S-ATA
Optical: 1x Plextor 716a, 1x Plexwriter Premium, 1xPlextor 116A
Floppy: Mitsumi MTM43W 1.44MB 3.5in
Display: ATI Radeon 9800XT 256mb
Sound: Soundmax digital audio
Case: ANTEC Performance Plus Series PlusView1000AMG
Power : Antec TruePower 550
Fans: 4x 80mm
Display : LG Flatron F700P

Hey Grigo,
For that set up, I would recommend trying the following settings:
On Chip Operate Mode: Native
ATA Configuration: S-ATA Only
SATA Keep enabled : Yes
PATA Keep enabled : Yes
That's how I set up my old 875P without trouble when I installed a pair of drives in RAID 0. In your sig I don't see two drives, so I'm not sure what else to provide. (whether you are building a new comp or upgrading to RAID 0 etc)
For further reference, have a look at Vango's guide to RAID setup here: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=38845.0

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