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Hello welcome to the forum,
nForce3 isn't supported in Vista.
And this is the wrong section of the forum to ask for Vista drivers, see the Vista Section.
Change the power profile to minimal, that should enable C'n'Q. If it doesn't, get the driver from from AMD.

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K8N diamond Vista drivers?

Please could someone tell me where are the vista drivers for the above board? i cant find any ont the MSI website exept for Marvell lan. I'm more worried about the amd cool & quiet, and Silicon raid drivers.
Any help would be very much appreciated
Thanx

Hello welcome to the forum,
nForce3 isn't supported in Vista.
And this is the wrong section of the forum to ask for Vista drivers, see the Vista Section.
Change the power profile to minimal, that should enable C'n'Q. If it doesn't, get the driver from from AMD.

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Quote from: Tiresmoke on 28-January-07, 21:09:36
Who knows. We don't as this is only a user to user forum and no one from MSI is reading this... You could always use the service link at the top of the forum and ask MSI what they are going to release however past experience says they won't share that info with you. They simply don't release info on what they are going to release, instead they just release it when it is ready.
I used the service link after you post and until now i didnt had anything back

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https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=93129.0
Yep the thread is long winded and a bit bizar in places if you were not in on the original conversation.
However it does give a load of info to work with if you have a Diamond board. We discuss parts, Overclocking and various other topics of interest.
Some say we should publish that thread to put some poor slobs in colledge to sleep.
Enjoy.

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Zone^55 Live,
Remember that every time you change the FSB you effect the HT, Core and Memory clocks.
The amount you effect the is determined buy the multipliers you have setup.
In addition, the are no fixed frequency parameters on the Diamond Plus and many paramter are in volved.
So, the days of over-clock a system just meant turning up the FSB clock and maybe twicking the memory timing parameters are gone.
Over-clocking and system now is not just over-clocking, its system prefomance tuning.
EDIT:On your last post I do not have the information to answer that it would take the specification and data sheets on all the components of you system and many hours of study. You have got yourself into a system, that to turn it to its maximum performance you are going to have to know how each subsystem works, inter acts with the other subsystems to be able to turn it correctly to the maximum preformace and ypu many not get the same performace out of two system made up of the exact same components. Because this system push the components to edge of there capabilities. So, if the conponents are all +/- 5% you same system may preform 10% better or 10% worse than some one elses.
One more thing in your screen shorts your HT Data Paths are set 8/8 change them to 16/16, that will help system preformace as much as increasing FSB.
Roger
When submitting a problem, include a complete list of your system components; include part numbers, all Power Supply Voltages, and their output ratings. It is almost impossible to estimate what your problem is without knowing something about it.

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Quote from: Sealance on 14-May-06, 22:30:32
We had a unit do the same thing that you are talking about here. I found after two days of test that it was the Heatsink. It had the grease but it was not seated just right. When I redid the Heat sink the issue went away. I had to clean them both and then surface the Heatsink with 600 grt paper.
When I put it back together it worked fine.
I can't say that this is it, what is wrong with yours but it does and is doing the same things that we had going on with us.
You might check this and see. Because it would not boot no matter what we did. And it will heat up and trip out in a second.
And this is after the machine had run playing games for a week or so. I thinkt he Heat sink warped from the heat. I have never seen one do this before but I guess it could happen. Any way it fixed ours.
Do You mean the CPU heatsink, or GPU heatsink? -
By the way, who wants to guess if I was blessed or not - and if buying a new $150+ PSU really helped
Please, any more help would be great

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*** I don't want to open another topic so I'll post here ***
Can anyone please recommend a 2x1GB kit compatible with MS-7220 and runs in at least DDR-500 mode?
I'm about to complete my rig and I don't know what RAM to buy.
My options are:
*** GSkill F1-4000BIU2-2GBHV PC4000 3-3-2-8 (Dual Channel) 2048MB kit (2x1024MB) dual channel pack *** NOT in my country
*** GSkill F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ PC4000(DDR500) 3-4-4-8 (Dual channel) Samsung / 2048MB kit (2x1024MB) dual channel pack
*** Corsair TWINX2048-4000PT 2048 MB DDR / 500 MHz / 3-4-4-8
*** Corsair TWINX2048-4400PRO 2048 MB DDR / 550 MHz / 3-4-4-8
I heard that there are some problems with the BIOS on MS-7220. Will I be able to run the memory at DDR-500? On what BIOS version?
Thanks!

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Hi again Have been trying to beat that 2.8ghz, but no luck... i have tried the following
--> 250x11x4x1.528v = 2,75ghz , htt:1000mhz , ram ddr500 (works stable & fine) the htt is maybe too high though.. works better if lower
--> 280x10x3x1.528v = 2,80ghz , htt:840mhz , ram ddr466 (The best result) (only the ram is slow
--> 290x10x3x1.528 = 2,90ghz , htt:870mhz , ram ddr482 (the cpu starts to need a lot more JUICE)
--> 300x9x3x1.528 = 2,70ghz , htt:900mhz , ram DDR500 (actually ddr488, i dont know why..) (very good,but the ram isnt ddr500..)
--> 305x9x3x1.528 = 2,75ghz , htt 915mhz , ram DDR508 (closer to ddr500) (seems to be the miracle point where everything works awesome)
So the 2,80ghz would be the best cpu overclock, but i cant get the htt & ram to work at their best with that....

MSI K8N Diamond Plus - Guide to my first week

OK, not a newb here, but been around the block quite a bit. MSI K8N Diamond Plus is my 5th A64 mobo (ECS K8M800, my daily undestroyed computer, K8T800, my 12 year olds gamer, Asus A8V Deluxe, first 939 system, Abit AN8 SLI, first SLI gamer, and now the MSI Diamond Plus). Had the KDP (K8N Diamond Plus) for more than a week now, and here's what I've learned.
This is state of the art again, and we have no one to blame but ourselves for the pain this causes us when we upgrade like lunatics
And as usual, the drivers and BIOS are al Dente (i.e. not cooked enought yet, a little raw)
MSI is also oddly silent on this system, which is wierd, as they are a large company, and specifically cater to enthusiasts. But their BIOS guys are MIA. Hopefully this will not be forever. Asus, ABIT, DFI, Epox are always fast with fixes
The board is a nice design, with everything basically accessible, as much as any other board. Lots of purposeful components, not too many dumb frills. No tooty fruity colors, but rather practical parts.
The new 2 piece NForce chipset is fine, and the MSI guys gave us a decent, but funky cooler. It gets a little warm to the touch when you pound on it with Prime95, or Quake4, but other than that it is fine
The manual has a zillion typos, and fortunately for us in this forum, we have shared what we've learned. The translation from Chinese to English leaves quite a bit to be desired, and hopefully, MSI will learn from Asus and Abit and get a better translation service. In 2006 this is just plain stupid, especially with a $225 board
As usual, the mobo supplied tweaker utilities are just aweful. They look like a hallucination from a Hunter S Thompson book, and they work about as well. Core center is a sad state of affairs, and the rest of them just burrow their way into your otherwise stable system and cause it to have poor behavior. And therefore as usual, the BIOS is the best way, if slowest, to tweak this bundle of parts
Which brings us to the BIOS. IMHO, the worst one I've seen on a high end board. ZERO explanation for half the settings (this is not strange in and of itself, BIOS is still a black art, but in a tweakers board, we should have some basic explanation )
There seem to be adequate settings in the BIOS for all sorts of doodads and gizmos, but who the heck knows what half of them are. Roger points out rightfully, that we now need to "Tune" across all these different intermediary bus structures and test. But with the lack of info from either NVidia, MSI or anyone else for that matter, its kinda hard to know where to start.
The board is clearly sensitive, which is a result of it being high strung. This is no different than any "first out" product I've ever bought. Most take 2 or 3 turns of the crank to get totally stable and forgiving. This one hated my OCZ platinum EL 2Gb kit memory, and it brought out the worst in one of the SLI based EVGA 7800 GT COs. These components worked in the Abit AN8 SLI (although not always great), but the MSI has ZERO tolerance for even the slightest pertubation from the memory. It was BSOD city until I removed both of these components by process of elimination that took probably 100 hours
Once I removed the bad components, and replaced the memory with Geil Ultra X 2x512 2-2-2-5, it worked great, ran Prime95 for 10 hours with no errors, and seems reasonably stable. I've RMA-d the bad 7800GT CO back to EVGA, and will report back on how SLI behaves when I get the new one (cross shipped of course, I haveno patience )
I also now need to replace the 2Gb RAM kit with something that the board will tolerate. I may RMA the 2Gb kit back to OCZ and try another one, but I dunno. I love OCZ but I have a bad feeling about this, even though they have great!!! support. I may try OCZ PC4000 or the RAM that Roger successfully used.
I did upgrade to the 1.16 BIOS, and found that some new things were added, as well as voltage control in Cell was a little better, but registration of changes in voltage is still a disaster. I adjusted a bunch of times, it didn't register, and I ended up smoking a new A64 3700+ Diego with 1.95 volts, even though the BIOS claimed it was 1.53. I had to rebot to see what was going on. The Thermalright XP-90 kept the proc from melting down through the earth
Finally, I hope this board attracts more people, and therefore more tweakers that can figure out all these gadgets and settings. Everyone flocked to the Asus X16 SLI product, which is too bad, as this one needs lots o' folks to hack it up for us to figure out what is going on.
The on board Creative audio sounds lousy to my ears, and I will replace it with an Audigy 2ZS gamer that I had in the Abit. It just sounds better, but hopefully the drivers will not trash my newly stable system. Creative scares me, they scare me alot.
I've been able to get the CPU up to 2.4Ghz, with a .5 volt bump to the CPU and 2.9 volts into the Geil memory. So far, so stable, no smoke coming out yet
I hope this info is somewhat valuable to someone on this board. I will post details of all changes that I make, as others are doing, so we can at least take care of ourselves with this thing.

Quote from: nanohead on 15-February-06, 01:17:10
Which brings us to the BIOS. IMHO, the worst one I've seen on a high end board. ZERO explanation for half the settings (this is not strange in and of itself, BIOS is still a black art, but in a tweakers board, we should have some basic explanation )
There seem to be adequate settings in the BIOS for all sorts of doodads and gizmos, but who the heck knows what half of them are. Roger points out rightfully, that we now need to "Tune" across all these different intermediary bus structures and test. But with the lack of info from either NVidia, MSI or anyone else for that matter, its kinda hard to know where to start.
first of all, i do think that all the settings in the BIOS have an explanation in the manual, even if it's a basic one. if that explanation doesn't tell you everything in detail, is because if you do need a detailed explanation of the settings, you probably shouldn't be messing around with those settings.
Quote from: nanohead on 15-February-06, 01:17:10
I did upgrade to the 1.16 BIOS, and found that some new things were added, as well as voltage control in Cell was a little better, but registration of changes in voltage is still a disaster. I adjusted a bunch of times, it didn't register, and I ended up smoking a new A64 3700+ Diego with 1.95 volts, even though the BIOS claimed it was 1.53. I had to rebot to see what was going on. The Thermalright XP-90 kept the proc from melting down through the earth.
wanna tell me how did you get 1.95V on that mobo?
Quote from: nanohead on 15-February-06, 01:17:10
I've been able to get the CPU up to 2.4Ghz, with a .5 volt bump to the CPU and 2.9 volts into the Geil memory. So far, so stable, no smoke coming out yet
a 0.5V bump? again, you must be joking. maybe 0.05V.

MSI K8N Diamond hangs on startup

Without having changed anything (neither hardware nor software), the computer now hangs on every bootup.
It only get to the MSI Diamond logo screen (with Graphic memory passed and memory check stated in the background)
I cant even press DEL to enter BIOS menu or F11 to enter startup menu.
The computer has worked like a charm for 6 months since I installed it, so this current problem is really strange.
Windows XP Pro SP2
MSI K8N Diamond (Award Bios)
XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra
2048MB PC3500 RAM
250GB SATA Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 7200RPM (Master boot)
250GB ATA Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM
Creative Soundblaster XFI Fatal1ty FPS
Logitech MX510
Logitech UltraX Flat Keyboard

My PSU is a Hiper Type-R 480W (sufficient for my usage at least)
The problem seems to be in the USB handling, since it randomly decides to fullfill the startup after I've disconnected/reconnected some of the USB devices;
My USB devices are;
Wacom Intuos2 (Tablet)
M-Audio Oxygen-8 (Midi keyboard)
These USB ports and devices never caused any problems before though. And since the startup shouldn't care about USB, it's damn strange that it just hangs without any error what so ever.
DXDiag;
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System Information
Time of this report: 3/6/2006, 14:57:44
Machine name: SYNTHETI-7C3D19
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: Swedish (Regional Setting: Swedish)
System Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
System Model: MS-7100
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Page File: 295MB used, 2621MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
DxDiag Notes
DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Music Tab: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.
Network Tab: No problems found.
Disk & DVD/CD-ROM Drives
Drive: C:
Free Space: 130.5 GB
Total Space: 238.5 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: HDS722525VLSA80
Drive: G:
Free Space: 25.3 GB
Total Space: 238.5 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: ST3250823A
Drive: D:
Model: SONY DVD-ROM DDU1613
Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 5.01.2600.2180 (Swedish), 8/3/2004 20:59:54, 49536 bytes
Drive: F:
Model: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A
Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 5.01.2600.2180 (Swedish), 8/3/2004 20:59:54, 49536 bytes
Drive: H:
Model: Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 5.01.2600.2180 (Swedish), 8/3/2004 20:59:54, 49536 bytes

No signal - MSI K8N Diamond

Hello, I have a K8N Diamond motherboard which I've had for about 4 months. I tried to set it up a while ago but I remember it not working, anyway I tried again this morning but I'm getting the same problem. After I install everything and start up the PC I get a "no signal" on my monitor. The fans start up, and all the led's come on but nothing else seems to be happening. There is no problem with the graphics card, soundcard, hard drive, ram, power supply or any of the cd drives as I am using them all now on a different pc. I am thinking it is either the cpu which is also 4 months old, bought at the same time as the motherboard, or a fault with the actual motherboard?
MSI K8N Diamond nForce 4 SLI ATX Motherboard
Radeon 9800 XT Graphics card
M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 Soundcard
Bestec 250 watt Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160 GB Harddrive
AMD 64 Athlon 3500 Socket 939 2.2 GHZ Processor
1536 MB Ram
I know the power supply needs upgrading to around 450 watt but i'm sure that shouldnt cause this problem?
Any ideas?
Thanks, adam.

Quote from: Stick on 09-March-06, 16:24:27
dude, 250W power supply? i think this is the lowest one i've seen on the forum. no wonder your rig is not powering up. go get yourself a good PSU, something with more than 25A on the 12V rail. the Tagan 480 looks like a favorite amongst the users.
haha i know. i had a 400 watt but it blew so i've been using this since. I'll head out and get a new one today and see if that does the trick. thanks

Soundblaster Audigy on MSI K8N Diamond Plus, Sound Linked? vs Audigy2 ZS?

Had a couple of quick questions regarding the Soundblaster Audigy onboard chip on my MSI K8N Diamond Plus. I have the audio connected to a front panel, and when I try and change the Right or Left speaker volume balance in Windows (by going to volume control and dragging the balance slider right or left), the volume slider goes down and the balance slider snaps back to center. As in my previous post, I had some damage to my front panel connector pins and wanted to make sure this wasn't a hardware issue requiring a replacement of the board.
Also, I have a Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS card from my previous system, and I was wondering if it added anything the onboard Soundblaster chip doesn't provide. I was thinking of installing it, but if the onboard audio does everything the card would, I'd rather just use the onboard solution.
Thanks.

Quote from: syar2003 on 21-August-06, 06:59:38
Onboard creative is just live24 marketed as Audigy SE
live 24bit is an audigy SE striped down of some features.

MSI K8N Diamond - Front Audio Header Mic problem

Hello,
I'm Alex Dias Teixeira from the netherlands
About 3 months ago I assembled my own computer, but yesterday is tried to install my Fronpanel that is on my case. Not without problem.
I connected all pins as said in he manuals, and replaced the two jumpers with the pins, no problems so far. The problem is that my microphone is not working properly in my frontpanel.
Its seems to work but when I record my sound in Windows Soundrecorder I get a flatline but can hear my sound I recorded... in MSNmessenger and Windows Speech hardware test my sound is POOR( bad and soft sound ). I have no clue anymore ... anything is connected properly :(
Mainboard: MSI K8N Diamond    Manual page 34
Case:    Thermaltake Soprano VB1000BWS Manual
Mainboard    Case
PIN SIGNAL DESCRIPTION PIN
1 AUD_MIC Front panel microphone input signal ----------------------- MIC_In
2 AUD_GND Ground used by analog audio circuits ------------------------ Ground
3 AUD_MIC_BIAS Microphone power --------------------------------------------- MIC_VCC
4 AUD_VCC Filtered +5V used by analog audio circuits
5 AUD_FPOUT_R Right channel audio signal to front panel --------------------- EAR_R
6 AUD_RET_R Right channel audio signal return from front panel ---------- Return_R
7 HP_ON Reserved for future use to control headphone amplifier
8 KEY No pin
9 AUD_FPOUT_L Left channel audio signal to front panel ----------------------- EAR_L
10 AUD_RET_L Left channel audio signal return from front panel ------------ Return_L
I hope this is all the info ya'll need and are willing to help me.
Thanks in advance
Alex Dias Teixeira

Check the manual, but if you use the microphone plug-in in the back on the motherboard, you might disable microphone input
to the front case header panel. I believe if you use the microphone in the back, it disables microphone input from the front. Also be sure to check the multimedia/sound settings near the clock to make sure you don't have anything muted in advanced tabs found.

MSI K8N Diamond is AMD X2 Compatible?

Hi,
As you will have gathered, I am enquiring about if the MSI K8N Diamond supports AMD dual core CPU's?
Thanks!

Make sure that if you manually flashed your BIOS, reboot a couple of times in different manner so that the motherboard properly detects your dualcore configuration.
I do not know if this happens to Diamond range but it does happen on mine whereby sometimes at different startup methods (for the BIOS of course) it only detects one CPU even though it says on the CPU ID that its X2 (obviously dualcore). Refer to my sig if you don't know about my motherboard

MSI K8N Diamond Plus Question

Will the ThermalRight XP-90C Heatsink and 92mm fan work with this board? Thermalright's web site does not say anyything but I can't help but wounder if it will fit with that fanless cooler on the MOBO.
Thanks

Quote from: nanohead on 15-February-06, 00:23:59
I've got an XP-90 installed and there is plenty of room. Plenty of airflow also. I'm at a constant 31-36 celsius, so no worries on the CPU. This cooler is large, I had it on an Asus A8V deluxe, an Abit AN8 SLI and now on the MSI K8N Diamond Plus, and its basically located on the same place regardless of mobo, so I wouldnt worry too much about it.
I did'nt mean that it has a massive effect on the temps, although comparing your rig to my last (AN8 Ultra, 3700 @ 2.7) my temps never went above 32'c idle and 44'c loaded!!
I meant that the airflow in my case struggles a little because the exhaust fan is right next to the hs and I cannot operate it the other way round due to my ram hs being so bloody large <damn you Corsair!!>
Sorry if I caused confusion!!

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