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Quote from: htdcj7 on 17-July-12, 06:47:37
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You're not the 1st nor will you be the last to do so. Glad to see you found the problem before the expense of returning and/or needing buy other parts.

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MOVED: MSI 990fxa-gd65 new build won't boot or post

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Hi,
Post S/N of the motherboard and we are able to tell you (roughly) which BIOS version it has.
What if you try without graphics card?
Did you try to clear CMOS? --> >>Clear CMOS Guide<<
If it needs updating, you will either need:
-Supported CPU by current BIOS
-SPI programmer (some IT services has one)

MOVED: msi 990fxa-gd80 running 2133mhz

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i don,t know if anyone is interested but i have a msi 990fxa-gd80 running 2133mhz ram @1600mhz with no oc at all cpu is a 1100t bios 11.4
Some will be interested. But it needs to be made crystal clear that 1600 RAM speed is 'OVERCLOCKING' plain & simple with your particular CPU specifications for the integrated memory controller. Running 1600, that's great! Here's another 'but', the RAM you have is 'rated' 2133, but I guarantee the chips on them are far from 2133. Most likely overvolted 1333's, or 'maybe' 1600's. Have a look at CPUID's CPU-Z SPD Tab & look at the Max. Bandwidth line.
We are all happy that it is working at 1600 for you. The RAM you have may work well for others too. I guess that was the original purpose of this thread? Seems it's done it's job then.
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please look at earlier posts Henry says different again to what you and bas are saying i think there need to be some sort of general consenses on this would you say
Making issue out of admins & mods having a difference in their take on CPU IMC native RAM speed support is not cool. I am sure Henry had the brand new native supported 1600 RAM bulldozer CPU's in mind in his reply, & didn't intentionally try to misinform anyone.

MSI 990fxa-gd65 new build won't boot or post

Hi, any help with this issue would be most appreciated
I have just built a new system spec below:
MSI 990fxa-gd65
AMD FX8350
2 x 4GB Hyper X fury DDR3 1866Mhz RAM
MSI GTX960 Graphics card
1TB WD HDD
Corsair HX1000w (recovered from an older machine and in full working order)
Unit powers ok, all fans are running, HD, Graphics card fans run and lights up DVD drive spins up OK too.
Motherboard has two cpu phase lights lit. There is no post beeps or video out.
I've tried it with a single stick of memory and a different lower spec video card but nothing seems to work. Some posts are suggesting the CPU may not be supported with the MoBo's current version of bios so questions are:
How can I find out the bios version and if it is compatible as it doesn't reach the bios screen?
If it needs updating how do you update it?

Hi,
Post S/N of the motherboard and we are able to tell you (roughly) which BIOS version it has.
What if you try without graphics card?
Did you try to clear CMOS? --> >>Clear CMOS Guide<<
If it needs updating, you will either need:
-Supported CPU by current BIOS
-SPI programmer (some IT services has one)

990FXA GD80 new build

Hello All:
I have put together an AMD FX 4300 with a Zahlman HSF and the 990FXA GD80. Using 4 known good Corsair XMS3 8GB RAM sticks and an HIS Radeon R9 290 video card the result does not post. In an attempt to eliminate any problems, I have removed the hard drive and all other devices. I have swapped out PSUs with no luck. Upon power-on all fans spin, all MB leds light, and the debug read out shows 8_ immediately without going through any other numbers. It the just sits there in that state until I cut the power.
Does any one have some suggestion as to how I can get this to work?

I had a similar experience last night. First off, MSI RMA'd my GD80 with no problems and it went very quickly. I also RMA'd a Seasonic PSU the same day and still have not heard back from them. Thank you MSI.
Anyway, I got the GD80 back and was bringing it up to speed with a 9590. Got 4.7 stable and went for 4.8. I use IBT AVX for stress testing and had just started a run when POP it went dead like flipping a switch. I reset the bios and got nothing. Well all the lights and fans turned on and the LED showed a FF code.
The lights were on but nobody was home. The FF code means it is going to post and is Fully Functional. Unless it does not post. The it means Fully Fracked.
A search of FF code found one person with a bad PSU, one with a bad motherboard, and one with a bad CPU. I have just replaced the motherboard and PSU, so dropped an 8350 in there.
It runs perfectly. My 9590 popped.
I hope this helps you find your problem.

MOVED: MSI 990FXA-GD80 Bios upgrade

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No. I recommend using the newest available BIOS on this board. Windows 8 has features that require newer BIOS on some boards for full functionality.
Flash away.

MOVED: MSI 990FXA-GD80 V2 BIOS Settings

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MOVED: MSI 990FXA-gd80 fx8350 overclock fail 1.45v max

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Have you tried clear CMOS?

MOVED: MSI 990FXA-GD80 voltage control over 1.44V for the CPU FX-8320

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MOVED: MSI 990FXA-GD80 need answer please to this CPU issue

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Quote from: DaLoona on 10-March-12, 17:35:38
Thats a bold statement. I know lots of people who have got FX cpu's running on MSI boards without issues. Did you do research, contact people, do you have sources?? Did you ever inform MSI of your problems??
DaLoona, I've been going through a lot of forums lately, since a month or so, after what I faced; just to identify the source. And I've not seen a post in forums of other board manufacturers, that read such high notoriety. So, it is just my assumption, from all that bits of information that I found.
And as far as reporting MSI: I just had this one MSI board, over the eight year period of me-having-a-system. And perhaps, I have been, more than just lucky that a simple BIOS update fixed my problem.
Take this guy (https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=152134.0), for example, and this (https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=157307.0).
Here I'm not talking about any particular series of processor. I'm just trying to find the source-of-error.
Quote from: jnrjim67 on 10-March-12, 21:06:41
...not with the FX as its not working but with x4 I had has burnt out and I mean burnt near the 8 pin CPU head, its burnt through the board to the back...
It may have been the FX that might have overpowered the system, and after regular usage with the x4, the board fried.
It was a long time ago, I heard from one of my friends that the golden lines on the PCB do also act in a similar manner to fuses in other regular appliances.
And I've blown up the fuses in my house plenty of times, to say that it is always easy to break a stressed object.
Quote from: jnrjim67 on 10-March-12, 21:06:41
As for the FX-8120 tried it on anothert branded Mobo and its dead
Was this other board equipped to initiate the FX?

MSI 990FXA-GD80 V2 BIOS Settings

I recently just put together my first new system. It consists of the MSI 990FXA-GD80 V2 board. Lots of reading to find that most of the "other" board owners of different brands, that start wiyh A, and G seem to rant and rave about how good their boards are, and how horrible MSI boards are. Through all of my reading though, there seems to be a whole lot more complaints about how this doesn't work, can't get it to do this, etc,etc, and not nearly as many as those with MSI boards. Thus, why I purchased it, and absolutely love it! I have an AMD 980 BE, Mushkin 1600 Ridgeback 1.5v @ 7-7-7-18-24, Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240 gig SSD, Coolermaster V8 cooler,all in a Coolermaster 922 HAF case. Currently clocked at 4.1gigs, 24hr Prime stable. My question is if anyone knows, or has info on all the settings on voltages in this BIOS so that I can get a better understanding of what they all are and do,and where they should be set. I don't think I did to bad on my very first overclock, but Iwant more, for the bragging rights, you know. Any help would be appreciated.

Quote from: stw1911 on 04-January-13, 08:40:53
Funny you say overclock.net I stumbled upon that site quite some time ago. Now I'm sticking my hands in places that they should not be in, just to find a few more pennies to put into my rig. I knew nothing about computers before I saw that site, and now I am on it almost every day just reading and learning. My first and only computer before this one that I have just built was an old Gateway that I literally resurected from the junk yard with the help of a friend, put a new hard drive and OS in, and had my very first computer. It was an Intel Pentium 1.5 ghz POS. As I said before, I still need a good graphics card to temporarily complete my build, and some more knowledge to tweak it out, then I will start with the bling. Overclock.net got me good!! I don't think I did too bad on my first ever overclock of 4.1, using just multi and cpu and cpu/nb voltages, but there are a lot more than just those in the bios, like SB volt, CPU PLL volt, NB volt,HT Link volt, DDR Ref volt CPU DDR PHY volt, NB PCI-E volt, and DDR VTT volt. I am trying to get an understanding of what these do, and where a good setting for these is so I can tweak the sh** out of this thing without burnung up the board and processor. This is why I came to this forum to ask these questions, because it is an MSI owners forum. This is an awesome board, and I want to make it pi** all over the A and G boards with the same type of equiptment. I truly think it can, just need a little more knowledge to do it.
Since you're a beginner I think you should stick to the defaults with the voltages - you can probably bump up the multiplier safely a little bit without needing to touch the voltages. Unless you plan on doing water cooling or anything like that you really don't need to touch the voltages. Auto works fine. I had my Phenom X4 965 BE OC'd to 3.8Gz just by bumping up the multiplier and it was very stable. You don't want to fry your MB by setting the wrong voltages and its not something you really need to do as the gains aren't really there. (again unless you're doing active phase cooling or something hardcore like that) but thats really reserved for the true geeks like me. Not to mention I really doubt you'll even need to over clock at all unless you reallllllllly want to...
As for graphics cards, I have and LOVE my Evga GTX680... I have the 2GB but theres a 4gb model out now which can handle higher texture fill rates and resolutions... but its expensive $550 or so.... good luck!

MSI 990FXA-GD80 / MSI Radeon ATI HD 7870 Hawk / Phanteks combo.

Hi
I am in the process of building a new system but have, potentially, run into some problems.
The motherboard I am looking to buy is the “MSI 990FXA-GD80” and the graphics card is the “MSI Radeon ATI HD 7870 Hawk”, processor FX-8350.
Now to my question/possible problem.
I am looking to buy a third party cooler from Phanteks, the “Phanteks PH-TC14P-RD”.
I know that it will be a tight fit between the cooler and the graphics card normally, and since the Hawk has the “GPU reactor” (which builds the height of the card) my concern is that it would interfer with the Phanteks making it impossible for me to install the video card using the Phanteks.
I was wondering if this combo would work or not, prior to registering here I Googled searched like crazy but came up with nothing.
I would really appreciate some help.
Best regards.
Eric

Since that board has two PCI-E slots with 16 lanes you wouldn't have to use the first slot so reactor is not the real issue. The VRM cooler of the board could be more troublesome as the cooler has two towers and two fans.
However I found somone listing a combo with the cooler and a 990FXA-GD65 which should have a vrm cooler of the same height.
http://hardware.forumsee.com/a/m/s/p12-31595-036007--first-overclock-questions-and-concerns.html
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/990FXA-GD65.html

MSI 990fxa-gd80 PROBLEMS

Never in my life I have seen a more unstable motherboard....
Here is my configuration (the system is new, assembled yesterday):
Cpu: AMD FX 8350
MB: MSI 990fxa-gd80 (bios verison:13.2)
Memory: Corsair vengeance 8x2GB 1866
SSD: OCZ vector 128 GB
Power: Seasonic 850 Bronze
System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64
I need some help with the following problems if there is someone kind enough to help me:
1. after a minute or 2 bios freezes (I think I managed to solve this by setting the correct speed for ddram; initially it's 1333 and I set it to 1866)
2. Now the windows sees the 16 GB of ram but only uses 8 GB: 16.0 GB (7.95 GB usable); If I set the memory speed to 1333, the windows uses all memory but the computer resets after a few minutes in windows and the bios freezes the same. And after reset it doesn't boot anymore... I have to clear CMOS to make it boot again
3. sometimes after a freeze, I reset and all kinds of artifacts appear on the screen, and the system is not booting
Does someone have any idea about these problems ? Have anybody experienced something like this ?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Quote from: DSpawn on 04-September-13, 21:24:51
Memory: Corsair vengeance 8x2GB 1866
Are you sure? All my 990FXA-GD80-Boards have only four DDR3-Slots, not eight...
What happens, when you run the system with only one RAM-module? Check the one module first and the second module later.

MSI 990FXA GD80 audio help

Hello I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before but i was hoping anyone with a MSI 990FXA GD80 could help me out please, i am having audio problems with my new motherboard when play a video or some music if i open msi control centre or scan for hardware changes in device manager i get terrible sound distortion, i think its happening because my bios is being scanned but this is the first motherboard its happened to me on, could anyone else with a MSI 990FXA GD80 play a video or some music and scan for hardware changes in device manger while its playing to see if it happens to you, thank you for any help.
p.s i am using the latest v11.5 bios and on-board audio, my CPU is overclocked to 4GHz but it still happens on default settings, thanks again.

Quote from: BR4DDERS on 30-September-11, 09:57:21
Hello i have finally fixed my audio problem i use a wireless usb adapter for the internet so i disabled the onboard LAN controller in bios, i disabled it before i even installed windows so i didn't have any drivers for it,
anyway i have it enabled now my overclocks applied an no audio problems what soever. Uncleblitz check to see if you have you're onboard LAN controller disabled.
thanks for all the help guys
[update]
I just tried control center and it still does it, i checked it by scanning for new hardware in device manager because it was quicker to open it doesn't do it there anymore just in control center, so its half fixed
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MSI 990FXA-GD80 updated POST code "99"

I started my computer up last night after 3 months of using it and now it is posting a 99 code when I start the computer. I can't get to bios or boot. Keyboards will not work (both PS2 and USB). BIOS was completely up to date for nearly 3 weeks.
This morning, to no avail, I tried a new power supply.
At this point I have tried all of the following:
-Disconnecting HHD (SATA and POWER)
-Disconnecting Opitical Drive (SATA and POWER)
-DISCONNECTING ALL F-PANEL (PWR SW, PWR LED, HDD LED, RESET SW)
-Disconnecting the USB and HD AUDIO
-Disconnecting ALL fans.
-Mounting and remounting the motherboard
-Mounting and remounting the CPU
-Attempting to use a new video card
-Attempting to use a new power supply
-Placing MOBO on a different surface
-Reseting the CMOS via the on board button and removing the battery
-Using only 1 stick of ram to boot
-New PSU
Basically I am booting the PC with the power button on the MOBO and the only things connected are the 8 pin MOBO power, the CPU, 1 stick of ram, and 1 of 2 different working video cards.
After doing all of those things, the MOBO stills post code "99" on the screen and on the MOBO itself. Additionally, keyboard does not work. Furthermore, I cannot access my BIOS or boot screen.
The original video card and the replacement video card both work on another PC therefore they are not the problem.
Thus, at this point, I have narrowed the malfunction down to either the following two components:
-Motherboard
-CPU (which I doubt, but do not have a AM3+ mobo on hand) or another AM3/AM3+ processor
Any suggestions or advice are more than welcome and needed.
I am considering RMAing the motherboard...

Quote from: xmad on 19-July-12, 03:06:34
Hopefully the cpu isn't the problem, wish there was a way for you to test it out. A computer shop perhaps?
Just to be clear, you removed the mobo from the case with just a cpu, cooler, 1 stick ram & psu and don't hear the no vga beep?
I see you already tried a new psu.
Hope you get it right soon, good luck I think you are right it's either the cpu or mobo.
Yes. The GPU is working fine I tested it in another computer. I installed another working GPU, it did the same "99" post.
Unfortuneately, there are 2 PC shops close by. 1 of them is a "mom and pop" type place that really doesn't get too deep in to technical aspects and doesn't care much for AMD products. The second is a shop that only carries very low end products as well as some i3 type proccessors and mobos.
Thus, since none of the computer stores give a flip about AMD, I am out of luck in that aspect. I have quite a few AM3 boards laying around, but that does me no good with this Zambezi.
On a side note, I decided to remove the processor. The processor and the heatsink became merged together. What I mean when I say they became merged is that the thermal paste become basically a superglue between the heatsink and the processor (the FX-4170 naturally runs hot, thus, AMD has included an upgraded heatsink in it with better thermal paste). Anyhow, in order to remove the thing I could only get the mounting lever about a little over half way up. Therefore, on the back row, the pins bent a little (I would say there were making somewhere between a 80-85 degree angle orthogonal to the board). I took a credit card and a screw driver and straightend the pins, stuck it back in, still posted the same thing.
Last but not least, I read over the mobo specifications and realized that it was backwards compatible. The MSI 990FXA-GD80 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard supports the following CPU types/sockets:
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FX / Phenom II / Athlon II / Sempron 100 Series
I realized I had a (working) AMD CPU HDZ955FBGMBOX Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz AM3 125W Retail, thus, I mounted it on the MOBO... SAME CODE POSTED...
It must be the motherboard.

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