MOVED: p965 Neo 2 board can't recognise samsung writemaster DVD writer

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Quote from: cyli
Just bought a P965 Neo 2 motherboard.
Connected harddisk to SATA cable and EIDE cable to samsung writemaster DVD writer. Not sure why BIOS can't detect the writemaster drive but can detect harddisk?
Quote from: Misha
Just bought the board. Installed it. will not boot from win xp or any other bootable cd rom. help
The Intel 965 (and 975) chipset does NOT support IDE/PATA.
For this reason, each mainboards manufacturer is using a 3rd party IDE controller.
In this case (P965 Neo2) MSI is using Marvell 88SE6111.
Any PATA device is not recognized in the first boot phase. You have to wait for the 2nd one (post-boot) in order to see it.
Check out your bootable devices (and their order) in BIOS: the CDROM option means SATA optical device, not PATA CDROM.
To select the PATA optical drive, search for something like ... DVD-RAM in those options.
cheers

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I am attempting to replace the Panasonic/Matsu****a UJDA750 combo drive with a LiteOn SOSW-852S DVD writer. The LiteOn is CSEL, and is not recognized by the Portege A100. I've tried changing it to Master/Slave/CSEL and Inverse CSEL using E2MS_WIN_SOSW-852S.exe (in an Acer Travelmate 220, which sees every configuration), but the Portege A100 still doesn't recognize the LiteOn.
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Quote from: Pioneer1976 on 08-December-06, 03:33:52
I did't do that. I don't want to boot from the RAID. I want to boot from a single S-ATA Drive attached to ICH8. I just want to have the RAID available in Windows as second drive.
EDIT: I just tried that and moved the Bootable addon-card to the first position. But the Controller-BIOS still doesn't show.
Regards, Pioneer.
I read about this problem earlier. Some PCIe SATA raid controller did just boot on this mobo. I know that much that in the "hdd boot priority" he didint get any hdds to see from this controller and put option "bootable addon card" to first one. No boot.
He changed to pci contoller -> ok. Maybe pcie problem, maybe not.
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Also if you get another raid contoller, i would suggest u to check somewhere someone claiming it works on this board.
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It recognizes that I pluged something into the microphone jack but can't get the microne to work.
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When I go into the mixer settings I can't adjust adjust any of the inputs - cd, mic, line etc. Although it shows places for a sliding volume adjusters but doesn't show a slider to be able to adjust the volumes of the inputs.
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I just bought a new intel Core-duo CPU and I'm having problems booting and installing XP.
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cpu: intel core duo 2.13Mh
board: MSI p965 neo-f
ram: 2x512Mb Mushkin em2 pc2-5300
dvd: samsung on IDE as master
hd: barracuda 7200.10 320Gb on sata3 or 4 ...
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I have the MSI P965 Neo-F board, and need to setup the sata ports to AHCI or enhanced mode, but don't see this options as in previous MSI boards.
Some boards from anther's builders using the same chipset (ICH8) have these options.
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Quote from: Arup on 16-October-06, 09:54:51
ICH8 has no RAID so P965 Neo only does RAID through the 3rd party JMicron controler.
Same problem here. It is not just about RAID but AHCI, for NCQ, but more importantly for ESATA hotplug.
2 years later still no BIOS it seems (I have most recent 1.11). MSI still advertises with "enhanced AHCI" for this board even, (see bullet list under Intel® ICH8 Chipset):
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=P965_Neo-F&class=mb

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I recently built a new system:
MSI P965 NEO
C2D E6400
Gigabyte GeForce 7900GT
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MOVED: Sell it or not? P965 Neo-F

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Quote from: fendic on 04-April-07, 07:06:04
Hey guys,
Having been using this MSI P965 Neo Mobo for 3 monthes, I am now thinking selling it.
So many guys report they OC E6300 to more than 3G, but mine stays at 2.23G @ 320MHz.
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I need your suggestion on this issue: should I sell and replace it with an asus or gigabyte mobo?
of course I will buy faster memories for Overclocking.
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