MOVED: P67A-G45 Windows 8 Overclock Speedstep Issues

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Quote from: celltech on 24-October-12, 21:13:49
So my bad...there is an Intel Turbo Mode setting under the OC tab. It was enabled and I tried to disable it. No change...
So then I started turning off C1E and C-State stuff. That only made it worse. According to CPU-Z the CPU was getting full voltage all the time. At least with C1E/C-States enabled the voltages will back off with no load on the CPU.
The Win 8 Task Manager is very strange. It is showing the frequency bouncing around 3.3-4.2 while CPU-Z shows it hard locked at 4.2 I am not sure what the Task Manager is using for its calculations. But even the Task Manager hard locked at 4.2 with everything disabled.
I have the same board (P67A-G45) and I am having the same problem. When I set the multiplier in the BIOS, the CPU will bounce between 3.3GHz and whatever I set the multiplier to. I am running the V1.18 BIOS. With Windows 7, I could set the multiplier to whatever I wanted, enable C-States, and the CPU would throttle down to 16x without any issue or any interaction from me.
You can use ThrottleStop to check the multiplier more accurately then CPU-Z. Also in ThrottleStop, you can click "Set Multiplier" -> "Power Saver" -> "Turn On" and the CPU will run like a champ at 16x multiplier, so its definitely possible. This 16x get reported in CPU-Z and in the Windows Task Manager as well. Once you disable Power Saver, its back to 33x + multiplier land.
I hope a solution to this will be found, seems really silly to install a new OS and have CPU multiplier issues...

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P67A-G45 Windows 8 Overclock Speedstep Issues

I just upgraded my setup from Windows 7 to 8. I have my i5-2500K overclocked to 4.2GHz. In Win 7 I could see Speedstep/EIST working fine and it would throttle down to 1.6GHz when things were not busy.
Now with Win 8 it stays at 4.2 no matter what. The multiplier never seems to drop down. If I set it back to the normal 33 things are fine. If I start it at 33 and then use MSI Control Center to raise the multi it works fine. But if I boot it with the CPU already at 42 it just stays at max speed.
I am at all the latest BIOS and software versions.
Any ideas???

Quote from: celltech on 24-October-12, 21:13:49
So my bad...there is an Intel Turbo Mode setting under the OC tab. It was enabled and I tried to disable it. No change...
So then I started turning off C1E and C-State stuff. That only made it worse. According to CPU-Z the CPU was getting full voltage all the time. At least with C1E/C-States enabled the voltages will back off with no load on the CPU.
The Win 8 Task Manager is very strange. It is showing the frequency bouncing around 3.3-4.2 while CPU-Z shows it hard locked at 4.2 I am not sure what the Task Manager is using for its calculations. But even the Task Manager hard locked at 4.2 with everything disabled.
I have the same board (P67A-G45) and I am having the same problem. When I set the multiplier in the BIOS, the CPU will bounce between 3.3GHz and whatever I set the multiplier to. I am running the V1.18 BIOS. With Windows 7, I could set the multiplier to whatever I wanted, enable C-States, and the CPU would throttle down to 16x without any issue or any interaction from me.
You can use ThrottleStop to check the multiplier more accurately then CPU-Z. Also in ThrottleStop, you can click "Set Multiplier" -> "Power Saver" -> "Turn On" and the CPU will run like a champ at 16x multiplier, so its definitely possible. This 16x get reported in CPU-Z and in the Windows Task Manager as well. Once you disable Power Saver, its back to 33x + multiplier land.
I hope a solution to this will be found, seems really silly to install a new OS and have CPU multiplier issues...

MOVED: P67A-GD65 B3 Overclocked In Bios But Not In Windows?

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Nothing wrong with a solid 3.8. In the days of the P7N Diamond, I would have tried a cartwheel with a handstand finish to get a stable 3.8.

MOVED: P45 Platinum Vcore and SpeedStep issues

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I'm fully aware of the difference on EIST and C1E.
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The issue I had with EIST was that I had to clear CMOS in order to actually get it disabled (just booting to BIOS and setting it to disabled changed nothing what so ever).
If EIST is disabled and C1E is enabled, the multiplier is still reduced when the system is IDLE. You did not say anything about C1E in your first post and even in you reply you have not told us if you made sure if C1E was disabled as well. As I said before, since in effect, C1E does the same thing as EIST (multiplier and VCore adjustment), even if EIST was disabled, you probably thought it was still working, but what you saw working was not EIST but C1E. Clearing CMOS did not solve an "EIST-is-still-working-even-though-it-is-disabled-problem", but actually only forced C1E to be set to disabled by default. The bottom line is, there never was a problem in the first place.
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Bottom line: The BIOS allows for adjustment of the Vcore, only it does not seem to be happening. The simple question is: why?
What have I missed?
What you are decribing is a know problem with BIOS v1.4. It was fixed right after it became obvious. All newer BETA BIOS Releases do not have this problem (1.5b1-1.5b6).

MOVED: P67A-C43 (B3) mother board issues continually reseting itself/not loading Win 7

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amd 64=12a @12V
ati 9800=7.5~10.5a @12V (assuming 90~125 watts) a max load,
a 9600 ir nvida 5200 used far less power
so your already at 18a with no fan,s no hd, no cd,no dvd ,no mobo chipset , no mem, no sound..etc
If you exclude the motherboard, memory, etc like you did there, the amd 64 draws 7.2A @ 12V.
90~125W for an ATI 9800?! [irony]Are you working for a PSU manufacturer or what?[/irony] That's just absurd.
Go read this post to get a feel for the actual power consumption: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?postid=297061&sid=#post297061

Overclocking issues with p67a-g45

I am unable to get a decent manual overclock with this board. The OC GENIE overclock is about the best stable OC I can get which is only 4.2ghz and this processor should reach much higher. Anyways here are my specs:
i7-2700k
2 x 4gb G Skill 1866 9-10-9-28
Gigabyte HD6850 OC
2 x Vertex 3 SSDs in raid 0
700 watt PSU
Thermaltake Frio CPU cooler
P67A-G45 Mobo
I've got the newest version of the Bios-5.3 which I've been unable to find much documentation or guides for. Any help would be appreciated!

Basing on experience, the latest bios are only best used when running Ivy Bridge cpu. With my i5 2500K before, I didn't have any issues overclocking it at 4.3ghz [Auto V] using official 1.J0 Bios until I upgraded to 4.xx bios. I couldn't overclock it at all. I went back to Bios 1.J0, problem solved. Since your using Sandy Bridge cpu, I suggest you do the same. I am using P67a-GD65 which is simply an older brother of your board.
Btw, my settings when I was running i5 2500K. Hope it helps, good luck!
EUP 2013          [Disabled]
CPU Base Frequency [10kHz]     [10000]
Adjust CPU Ratio     [33]
Adjust CPU Ratio in OS    [Disabled]
Internal PLL Overvoltage   [Auto]
EIST        [Enabled]
Intel Turbo Boost     [Enabled]
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P)   [Disabled]
DRAM Frequency         [DDR3-1866MHz]
DRAM Timing Mode      [Link]
DRAM Configuration      2T-10-11-10-30
Spread Spectrum     [Disabled]
VDroop Control        [Low VDroop]
CPU Core Voltage     [Auto]
CPU I/O Voltage     [Auto]
DRAM Voltage        [1.507 V]
System Agent Voltage(SA)   [Auto]
CPU PLL Voltage         [Auto]
DDR_VREF_CA_A         [Auto]
DDR_VREF_CA_B         [Auto]
DDR_VREF_DA_A         [Auto]
DDR_VREF_DA_B         [Auto]
PCH 1.05         [Auto]
CPU Features
Active Processor Cores      [All]
Limit CPUID Maximum      [Disabled]
Execute Disable Bit      [Enabled]
Intel Virtualisation Tech   [Disabled]
Intel VT-D Tech         [Disabled]
Power Technology      [Custom]
C1E Support         [Disabled]
Overspeed Protection      [Disabled]
Intel C-State         [Enabled]
Package C State Limit      [Auto]
Long Duration Power Limit (W) 200
Long Duration Maintained (s)     2500
Short Duration Power Limit (W) 250
Primary Plane Turbo Power Limit (W) 250
1-Core Ratio Limit      43
2-Core Ratio Limit      43
3-Core Ratio Limit      43
4-Core Ratio Limit      43

MSI P67A-G45 Issue: Computer boots seconds after Shutdown or Sleep mode

Current Build:
MSI P67A-G45 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I52500K
XFX HD-677X-ZNFC Radeon HD 6770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL
Thermaltake TR2 RX 750W Bronze W0382RU ATX 12V v2.3 / EPS 12V v2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Running Windows 7 64 bit Professional
Problem: Within days of building computer in January the computer started to automatically reboot seconds after shutdown or entering sleep mode.
Attempted Fixes:
-Total re-install of Windows + BIOS
-Updated BIOS via LiveUpdate
-Rolled back to initial BIOS that came with MB
-Changed between registry option of "PowerdownAfterShutdown" between "0" and "1"
-Disabled Wake-Up Events in BIOS
-Changed to OS controlled Wake-Up events
-Changed "Restore after AC Power Loss" to off in BIOS
-Ordered a new PSU, replaced PSU
Regardless the fix, if I try to shutdown - the computer reboots within a few seconds. If I try to put it in sleep mode, it boots right back up. The only way to get the computer to shut off is by manually turning off the PSU.
I've seen that there have been frequent power-cycle issues with this particular motherboard in comments on newegg.com, just wondering if this issue has been encountered and if there is a fix available?

Quote from: Bernhard on 17-February-12, 00:10:35
Is this with no case wire connections to any of the headers? i.e. if you start it by shorting the on/off pin headers with a screwdriver tip.
Yeah, as shown here.
http://www.computer-how-to-guide.com/motherboard-troubleshooting/motherboard-post-test-how-to/
Shorted on with flathead, boots up fine. After flipping off the PSU to turn it off and then flipping the PSU back on, the dang thing waits a few seconds and boots right back up. No short required. At this point I think a ghost might be living in my computer.

MSI P67A-G45 (B3) issues

Hey everyone I apologize in advance if this is long an rambling, but lack of sleep sucks .
Need a lil help before I get to drastic and decide to end my PC's life. Up till around 12:00 pm est yesterday my PC was working great, then my new Corsair H80i came in and I decided to do some very late spring cleaning(disassembled and dusted entire thing with canned air.), then cleaned off the old tg from the cpu re-seated and started installing the rest of the components. When it powered the problem occurred. It didn't come on an go off in a loop as I have read in other post, it came on an stayed on but the issue is I'm not seeing any indication of activity on the HDD (it is powered up) nor is there a video signal. It has the cpu power phase led's on the board and only one of those is coming on instead of all four. From reading the manual there wasn't much indication on what one light meant. Another quirk i noticed is that when it powered on my keyboard's led come on an quickly go back off an stay off till I turned the pc off an then back on. I did try the following:
Removed an powered on using one stick of mem, then tried with no mem installed. Still one cpu phase light both times.
Powered on with out HDD, still one light.
Removed all components including mobo from case and checked stand-off mounts..looks fine.
Performed a CMOS reset, still one light.
Pulled the vid card, again the same.
At this point I'm running out of patience. I know I probably haven't tried everything, but I'm at a loss for what to do next. I just wish there was better clarification on those cpu power phase led's in the manual. As i said before it only lights up one and that's it and there is nothing I can find that explains what that means, if it means anything and don't forget there is no vid signal so I have no clue to what if anything is going on during POST.
System specs:
MSI P67A-G45 (B3)
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1333
EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB
CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge
Corsair H80i cpu cooler

Quote from: Bernhard on 12-July-14, 19:27:02
Do you now have the MB out of the case? i.e. did you test it outside the case placing it on a non conducting surface?
Did you ensure all your power cables are properly plugged back in. i.e. the 24pin and also the CPU power plug.
You mounted a new cooler, did you ensure that you didn't put undue pressure on the CPU thereby bending some CPU socket pins?
Did you recheck the RAM slots for any lodged foreign matter?
Did you check your power cables feeding the HDD?
Can you test with another PSU?
Did you do CMOS clear with battery removed?
I did not try it out of the case. I will definitely give that a shot.
I double checked all my power cables
The cooler used thumb screws and I just hand tightened them. I will check again to see if anything happened to the pins, couldn't hurt.
I didn't notice anything in the RAM slots but again I should double check.
The power cable feeding to the HDD are seated snugly and I did pull an re-seat to make sure.
I sure wish i had a spare PSU. Guess i learned my lesson to have a back-up on hand just in case.
I did not clear the CMOS with the battery out, instead I used the button that was located on the back panel.
I appreciate the recommendations and will try out the ones that i can do. As far as the PSU I'll have to make some calls but that sounds like a good idea to try. It may be awhile till I can try anything, but as soon as I do and see any results I will let you know. Thank you for the feedback.

MSI P67A-G45 (B3) SLI issue.

My friend recently purchased a second GTX 460 SE to use in SLI. I installed it in his computer today and could not get SLI to function. Operating system is windows 7. I flashed the bios with the latest version as well as installed the latest drivers for the motherboard. Tried reseating the graphics cards and the SLI bridge multiple times. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Nvidia drivers multiple times, each time using driver sweeper after the uninstall. I have read that this board does support SLI if you have all the drivers updated. Anyone have any ideas?
Edit: Forgot to add that both the cards do work. I can switch the monitor between them and they work fine. The nvidia control pannel and device manager show 2 cards but not in SLI.

Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz
MSI P67A-G45 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard (The bios version was the latest version from live update cant tell you exact version as im not at his house)
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-4GBXL
EVGA 01G-P3-1366-TR GeForce GTX 460 SE (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
TRENDnet TEW-623PI Wireless N Adapter IEEE 802.11b/g/n 32-Bit PCI Rev. 2.1/2.2/2.3 Up to 300Mbps Wireless Data Rates 64/128-bit WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
Rosewill Xtreme Series RX850-S-B 850W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91, SLI Ready CrossFire Ready, Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply

MSI p67A G45 memory issue

Link just for kicks:http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P67A-G45--B3-.html
(ram for reference as well:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104239)
So initially when I purchased the board I failed to recognize that my ram's voltage was too high (1.65 V) and rated 1600 rather than the native 1333, 1.5 V
I still have an additional 8 GB of 1600 1.65 v Ram and I'd like to at least put 1 more stick in, which if I understand right, should still be achievable (as I understand the 4th stick is what puts the voltage level too high for the board to handle without entering bios and manually changing voltage/timing/etc of ram)
My current ram is set up in DIMM 1 and 3
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
If I were to add 1 more stick, would I then move the dual channel to 1 and 2, and the 3rd stick into DIMM 3?
xxxxxxx
Thanks for the help!

Quote from: Nv1sion on 21-August-12, 04:59:27
Ok, I just realized xmp was not enabled all this time, but before I go and try to install my second set of dual channel ram (I have 2 sets of 4gb x 2, only one 4gbx2 set in use right now) I want to confirm that everything is a-ok. I just enabled xmp and ran cpuid and it is showing my DRAM Frequency at 798.3 MHZ (which is obviously very close to 1600 when doubled). I'm not a computer whiz by any means, so my guess is that because the memory is dual channel that's why it appears with that frequency in cpu-id but clocked at 1600 in the bios?
Thanks for all your help - appreciate it!.
Everything is working fine now! Feels good to have that memory in the machine running, after sitting around 8 months. The issue must have been that xmp was disabled by default upon installation of the new ram, and this caused problems? Not really sure, in any case it is 100 % working with xmp enabled, and clocked @ 1600 mhz with 1.65 v.
Many thanks to all your help in solving this issue for me.
Hope you all have a great day!

P67A-G45 (B3) Bootup Issues

I'm stuck at a black screen with a 98 at the bottom-right of the screen and a repetition of beeps. This motherboard has been working perfectly for the past half year and the problems have just started to occur after I dusted out my computer last week. I ended up spending 4 days cleaning out my computer since I've had a busy week and I went at it slowly. I'm pretty sure everything is put back in correctly since there actually is an output on my screen but I have no clue why my computer's hanging on startup. Any inputs anyone?
Specs:
Mobo: P67a-G45 (B3) in case you missed the topic title
CPU: i7 2600
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
G.SKILL Value Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBNT
GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6850
PSU: Kingwin 1000W
2 TB Seagate Green Drive
I don't do any overclocking or changes on the bios.

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RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
G.SKILL Value Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBNT
Recommend to remove one or the other. Recipe for failure mixing kits often even from the same manufacturer and part numbers. Why it worked for half a year? Who knows. Best off if 16GB is required, to purchase a matched kit. If I was going to take a chance on another kit to try and match up, it would be the Corsair.

Overclocking p67a-g45

Hello, everyone,
I'm just assembled my new 2500k/p67a-g45 system, and I was looking forward to attempting OCing for the first time. According to all the guides, I should change the CPU voltage but there is no option to change it in the BIOS. Does anyone have this MB, and could they possibly point me to a solution? The BIOS version is latest - 1.E0. Thanks!

In a situation that a mainboard has no other option than the Auto (default) setting for CPU V., & a BIOS update is not offered to enable such a feature, then all one can do is OC to the highest multi that can be set that it will remain stable under load.

MSI P67A-G45 (B3) teperatures

Hello,
SpeedFan shows 3 temperatures - Temp1, Temp2 and Temp3 (no specific labels).
Temp1 matches to CPU temperature from MSI Control Center and Temp3 matches to System temperature. They are OK.
But does anybody know what can be Temp2? Chipset?
The problem is that this temperature is really high: 125 deg C after 30 minutes of playing Crysis. It doesn’t look good to me...
Thanks for any help!
K.
Components:
- Intel Core i5-2500K (no overclock)
- ADATA XPG Gaming Series V2 8GB (kit 2x 4GB) 1600 MHz
- Gigabyte HD 4870 512MB
- Corsair TX650 650W
- Antec Three Hundred Ultimate Gamer Case, 2 x fan (in and out)

Quote from: don_Karlos on 06-April-11, 04:06:42
Hello,
SpeedFan shows 3 temperatures - Temp1, Temp2 and Temp3 (no specific labels).
Temp1 matches to CPU temperature from MSI Control Center and Temp3 matches to System temperature. They are OK.
But does anybody know what can be Temp2? Chipset?
The problem is that this temperature is really high: 125 deg C after 30 minutes of playing Crysis. It doesn’t look good to me...
Thanks for any help!
K.
Hello folks, I just replaced an MSI P43-C51 LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard, with an MSI P67A-G45 (B3) and an I5 2500k, running everything at default settings, the p-43 board gave me good service but one day, I turn the computer on and it didn't do anything, since LGA 775 boards are getting hard to find I went ahead and got the P-67, the issue I have is the same high temperature on TMPIN02, before I took the heatsink off the temp was getting up to 203c I couldn't believe the board didn't fail at that time, I went ahead and remove all 3 heatsinks (the ones around the CPU socket also) and inspected for thermal grease, well I noticed that it looked like chewing gum and that it was solidified and that there was very little coverage on the actual chip. I went ahead and cleaned the old stuff and used Arctic Cooling paste I keep in my tool bag, put it all together and fire it up the NB temp drop to (idle) 50c which is a lot better under load it goes up to 65-70c I have moved the video card to the second pci-e slot to see if more air will flow in the NB area but then 3 of the 4 SATA connectors are covered up by it, I also adjusted the rmps of the front fan (200mm) but is not making a big difference, so I'm really happier with the results but not entirely happy, my brother is going on his 3rd motherboard (MSI) first one would not boot, second one no video output to monitor I'm not sure if I want to consider MSI products in the near future. I have been a loyal MSI customer for many years. I would appreciated any comments to this post I know is a little old.

P67A-G45 B3 ultra slow POST on reboot, stuck at B4

So I've scanned the forums a bit and haven't found much in the way of help on this issue, so here goes. I have the MSI P67A-G45 B3 mobo with a Logitech M310 wireless mouse and a Logitech K120 keyboard plugged in. Whenever I reboot the machine from Windows or from the reset switch, completely randomly, the mobo takes FOREVER to POST. It will sit at a black screen with a "B4" in the lower right hand corner for anywhere between 1 and 10 full minutes, then switch to another number (99 maybe? can't remember), sit there for 1 to 3 minutes, then finally it will POST. After POST, it will come to the Loading Windows (Windows 7) screen, at which point it "freezes" (won't play the "floating Window pieces") for another 30 seconds, then finally it will play the animation and load into Windows.
I'm trying it right now and it has been sitting at B4 for 10 minutes so far.
I've flashed the BIOS to 1.D, the latest BIOS release, but the issue still persists.
In all my time building custom PC's, I have never run into an issue where a POST randomly takes so long to complete. What exactly is this B4 code and why is it taking so darn long to POST? Does it have something to do with UEFI? Something is seems very wrong to me if the mobo won't POST in the same amount of time every boot.
Here is my system configuration:
P67A-G45 B3
i7-2600
Corsair TX650M PSU
Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
MSI Geforce GTX 550 Ti
Any help would be appreciated.

Okay, I definitely found the problem. I had forgotten that my Rosewill 74-in-1 card reader plugs into a USB header. I removed it and have rebooted the machine about 10 times now without one single issue.
So the card reader is the issue, but the person I am building this rig for needs that reader. How can I get this thing to work without the mobo hanging every time it is rebooted?

Is BIOS 1.B the latest one for P67A-G45 (B3)?

is BIOS 1.B the latest one for P67A-G45 (B3)?
do i only need that one? can i skip the other ones?
also, can you recommend me some settings i should change in bios? im getting my pc very soon... (im not overclocking and dont know anything like it)
have ordered:
MSI P67A-G45 REV B3
750GB Western Digital Caviar Blue
Intel Core i7 2600K 3,4GHz
OCZ SSD Vertex3 120GB MAX IOPS
Fractal Design Define R3, Titanium
Samsung SH-222AB, SATA Black OEM
Corsair HX 750W 80+
Corsair 8GB (2x4096MB) CL9 1600Mhz VENGEANCE BLUE
PNY GTX 580
4 case fans

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where in the manual says that? cant find it.
Excerpt from manual;
Important
DDR3 memory modules are not interchangeable with DDR2, and the DDR3 standard
is not backwards compatible. You should always install DDR3 memory modules in
the DDR3 DIMM slots.
In Dual-Channel mode, make sure that you install memory modules of the same type
and density in different channel DIMM slots.
To ensure a successful system boot-up, always insert the memory modules into the
DIMM1 first.
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does this mobo even support 1600mhz ram without overclock? i choosed it because i was told it could i mean, if i put 1600mhz rams, will it be that speed directly or must i change some settings first? if so, which settings?
The thought process is not quite correct. The mainboard specifications say it will support up to 2133 OC right? It is the CPU IMC that only natively supports DDR3 1333 speed. Anything over 1333 is overclocking pure & simple. If the RAM is 'properly' programmed, it should default & work without having to change any settings.

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