MSI A88X-G45 motherboard question

Will this motherboard be compatible with windows vista 64-bit?

Yes. Vista has just been forgotten as even XP is listed.

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Other CPU options for A88X-G45 motherboard

I am working on a new AMD build which includes the new A88X-G45 motherboard. I would like to use the new AMD Athlon X4 860K Quad Core, but see no info about it's compatibility with the A88X-G45. Also would like to know what coolers would work best for clearing the memory. The memory I plan to use is the G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000). Two of the towers I am considering have a 158mm cooler clearance
Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Hi,
About the new Athlon: it might work as it's still Athlon. However BIOS update might be required. Best if you ask MSI if BIOS will help it:
>>How to contact MSI.<<
My advice is that you look for different brand of RAM. GSkill are not working best with MSI boards, and there is big chance you will experience issues. I suggest Corsair, Crucial or HyperX. Apart from that, 2133Mhz won't give you any performance boost compared to much cheaper 1333Mhz RAM.
For memory clearance: I suggest you pick some low profile RAM and it will be a good way to go. Unless you have a window in the case and want to see it nicely, then some low profile cooler should be good. Can't say which one, as many are big enough to cover at least 1 RAM slot. Therefore low profile RAM would fit it most.

MSI A88X-G45 bios error code 36

Hello All,
I have new Motherboard and working all good update windows 8.1 and later say MSI Live Update
that my motherboard old version.
And most update to 1.4 i have yes update 1.4 and succesfull than reboot.
Blackscreen en i see code say bios error 36 and i search book say CPU Inilization what is problem?.
MSI A88X-G45
AMD A10 5800k
MSI R9 280x
2x 4GB DDR3 XMS3 1333mhz
or
1x 4GB DDR Kingston 4GB 1333mhz (test)
2x 1TB WD Black
1x DVD Rom
1x Thermtalke
I have Clearmos, Battermos, Jumpermos and say bios error 36 how can i back bios 1.0 that work for my CPU and 1.4 not work for my CPU ..
you see i have 2 memory Corsiar and Kingston i have test on DIM 1 and 2 or 2 and 4 work all good
only that say error code 36 and i have another corsiar say that error 67 that problem memory and i have back kingston memory and now good only say now error code 36
Thanks sorry for my bad english and i mis dutch forum not more there.
Greets
Sebastiaan

SVET,
Thanks i having there clear cmos, battery, button clears and power on and say bios code 36.
i have cpu delete and now cooler pasta on motherboard and insert cpu and power on
say bios code 36
i have another memory stick
1st Corsiar 4GB say bios code 54
than another memory
Corsiar 4GB say bios 84
than another memory
Kingston 4GB say bios code 36
see here video
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo4u2zfmsizu5qh/2014-12-20%2016.17.57.mp4?dl=0
Thanks

MSI A88X-G45 GAMING code 11

I got my new setup back in May of this year. Haven't had any issues except just today. While browsing the internet and playing Runescape getting ready to play some Dota2. When my screen kind of went all pixel'ated like all different colors then shut down.
It won't even start now. I can't even force it to post by unplugging everything except cpu/fan and one stick of ram. It won't even post and it displays 11 on the digit display on the board. After looking in the manual that came with it. It says it is a Early CPU initialization. I have no idea what that means.
I had my friend who knows more about hardware come over and look at it. And he said it is most likely a motherboard issue.
So what do you guys think? If it is a motherboard issue how do i send the board back.
Motherboard: MSI A88X-G45 GAMING
Processor: AMD A10-6800K Richland 4.1GHz (4.4GHz Turbo)

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I got my new setup back in May of this year. Haven't had any issues except just today. While browsing the internet and playing Runescape getting ready to play some Dota2. When my screen kind of went all pixel'ated like all different colors then shut down.
It won't even start now. I can't even force it to post by unplugging everything except cpu/fan and one stick of ram. It won't even post and it displays 11 on the digit display on the board.
with this description & history:
try with different video card i suspect that your "VGA: XFX Double Dissipation R7-260X-CDF4 Radeon R7 260X 2GB"
got some failure

Works: MSI Z77MA-G45 Motherboard

Just dropping a note to say that the MSI Z77MA-G45 motherboard with UEFI works perfectly under Arch. Initial installation was a little bit painful because I was installing from a USB drive that was not booted in UEFI mode. By following this guide and the installation guide, I managed to install refind, which got me into Arch, then I just repeated the GRUB2 installation steps to complete my install.
Systemd is a little weird and will definitely take some time to get used to, but I really like the new 100% manual installation method, along with the improved Arch bootstrapping and chroot'ing scripts. Very happy to see that this is still the same (but better!) distro that I used 6 years ago.

Using it along an AMD card is quite useless and therefor results maybe wrong. Try the 210 alone in the other slot. Also please list system specs: >>Posting Guide<<

MSI 870-G45 Motherboard - Can it fit two MSI GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB Cards?

MSI 870-G45 Motherboard - Can it fit two MSI GeForce GTX 550 Ti Cyclone II 1GB Cards?
I'm planning to buy a MSI 870-G45 ATX AM3 Motherboard and two MSI GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB Cards, in order to run multiple monitors.
However my concern is that the cards might not fit into the motherboard.
So could someone please tell me if those two cards will fit into the motherboard?

It means that an x16 PCI-E video card will only get x4 lanes instead of x16 when used in that slot.
http://eu.msi.com/product/mb/870-G45.html#/?div=Detail
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Slots
• 1 PCI Express 2.0 slot with x16 operation (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant)
• 1 PCI Express 2.0 slot with x4 operation (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant)
• 1 PCI EXpress x1 slot
• 3 PCI slots, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface.

MSI A88X-G45 Gaming + 16GB G.Skill TridentX 2x8GB 2400mhz... Memory Missing...

Hello,
Im having a problem that i don´t know if it is CPU related or Board related...
I have today recieved the new memories...
The Gskill Trident X 2x8GB 2400mhz 1.65v 10-12-12-31.
So in total is 16gb of ram.
I putted on the board powered up... System recognized memory alterations and ask me to go to bios.
So far so good...
I went on bios an choosed the XMP on the board that correctly detected the timmings and voltage.
Saved and reseted.
I then entered again in bios and started to notice that only 8GB of my 16GB are visible to the system...
The board detect BOTH dimms, and even in board explorer they are marked on the slots, but i don´t understand where is the rest of the memory...
The board is an MSI A88X-G45 Gaming and im using the last bios 1.5.
I went to windows, and in CPU-ID it detects the 16gb of memory, but on task manager it says i only have 8gb available...
I can´t make any sense of this contraditory information...
Can anyone help me????
I have putted the memory on the recomended slot positions (2 and 4)
Please check pictures bellow...
Thanks in advance...
Best Regards,
LPC

Hello!
Well thanks for your interest and reply´s...
Responding...
I have allready done some clear cmos to no avail...
Also this is a KIT of 2. Its paired and its fully functional dimms (i have tested them solo).
This is the memory kit i have purchased...
Now i have some photos i have taken from the POST and inside of the BIOS.
There is a lot of information so bear with me on this please:
After a enter windows i run some aplications to show what i get here...
So.... whats going on here....
Best Regards,
LPC

(msi z77a-g45 motherboard) A disk read error occurring

For the msi z77a-g45 Motherboard
I'm getting the "a disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del to restart" error when booting in my new build.
I have recently switched out my 4gb stick of g.skill ripjaws ram for 4x2 gb sticks of 1333mhz ram. I have not done anything besides this and i just started getting this error. I tried each ram stick individually and they boot but i get the error. I tried the 2 and 4 dims and still get the error. I tried re-seating the sata and data cables to my optical drive and hd.
The only thing i can think of is that i was installing a windows update just before i left to go change the ram so if that could be an issue please let me know.
Thanks.

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MSI A88x G45 Gaming Motherboard

Hello..
I would like to ask why did MSI revert the power phase of this board to a much lower 4+2 power phase?
on CES launch it is said that it was an 8+2 power phase..
Also does this mother board has 3 slot pcie 3.0 x16 configuration??? and not the traditional 2 slot pcie 3.0 x16 and 1 slot pcie 2.0 x16??

you have to ask MSI for the phase question
For the PCIE part, I checked the msi web and saw below info.
- PCI_E2 supports PCIe 3.0 x16 speed*
- PCI_E5 supports PCIe 3.0 x8 speed*
- PCI_E6 supports PCIe 2.0 x4 speed
• 3 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots**
* Only FM2+ processors can support PCIe 3.0
In short, only PCI_E2/PCIE_E5 support PCIE 3.0 x16 if you use FM2+ CPU

MSI Z97 G45 Motherboard (CPU / RAM PROBLEM)

Hey guys! I recently built my first PC and need some help! I'll list my setup before elaborating.
Case = NZXT H440 Black/Red
MOBO = MSI Z97 G45
CPU = i7 4790k
RAM = TridentX 2400 (16GB)
PSU = Corsair AX 760 Platinum
GPU = MSI GTX 970
SSD = Samsung Pro 850
Okay so basically after I finished the build and fired it up everything worked GREAT! But, I realized the DRAM was only running at 1333 mhz by default. I did a little research and read that you're suppose to enable XMP Profile 1 on this MSI MOBO in order to achieve the 2400 mhz this memory offers - so that's what I did! However, this caused the CPU to overheat! Apparently XMP overclocks the CPU as well? Bad! I'm on stock cooling. It took me forever to figure out that it was the XMP that was causing the overheating too.
How can I achieve 2400 mhz WITHOUT overclocking the CPU and frying my PC? Why do I have to overclock at all? The ram is sold as 2400 and suppose to be compatible with my motherboard, processor, etc.
Please help!

Quote from: badboy2k on 11-March-15, 18:36:20
Memory speed is down to how your computers CPU's Memory controller handles the higher frequancy and if the CPU sees that the IMC is suddenly loosing a hold it will boost up the Voltage on the IMC (More voltage = More Heat) its a total shot in the dark that any CPU can use above its listed memory speed without needing more voltage to be stable!
your CPU's IMC will be overtaxed by running at 2400 so the voltage is increased to use that as the speed is at 150% what the IMC was rated at (1333/1600Mhz)
for your 4790k
Memory Specifications
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type)    32 GB
Memory Types    DDR3 1333/1600
Max # of Memory Channels    2
Max Memory Bandwidth    25.6 GB/s
ECC Memory Supported ‡ No
if i was you its always a good idea to get a aftermarket cooler as the intel stock ones are very poor and are just barely enougth so the best thing to do is get a better one (e.g. a Coolermaster Hyper 212) that has a higher cooling capacity for not that much money!
that ram is putting 150% its design load on the IMC so it will be generating more heat then it was meant for so you need better cooling if your running those high OC memory sticks!
So what happens if I turn up the frequency to 2400 mhz without using the XMP profiles? Will the CPU still overclock? I know the memory needs more voltage at higher frequency, but what about CPU? Sorry I'm new to all this it's a lot to take in.

MSI A88X-G45 Dual mode graphics help

Greetings I bought the A88X-G45 GAMING AC edition with an AMD 7850k APU, the Radeon gamer series 2133 DDR3 and the Sapphire R7 250 2GB
I would love to enable this amazing Dual mode that AMD so proudly shows but i get issues. and yes i googled myself to dealth before coming here.
First of all there is like NO Tutorials anywhere usefull to the MSI brand on how to dual mode your graphics. Heres is what i have done.
(1st) i watched this
(2nd) I installed the card and put my HDMI into the Cards output like shown. When i turned on the computer i got a windows 8 unsigned device error and had the choice to disable the support or run set up.. well you get one choice in the end cause it loops over till you disable windows 8 support.
(3) set the output to IGD and selected dual mode with a 2GB shared memory. save and reboot i also put my HDMI to the onboard output just like the video after reboot the computer shows the boot screen then the rotating circle as windows loads. Then Nothing a black screen. The computer is running but no display. just a black screen there must be a signal going to the monitor as there is no "NO Signal Detected" popping up it's just a black screen nothing more.
So i restarted the computer went to advanced settings and put the output to (PEG) saved and restarted the computer and all i got was "No Signal Detected" on my monitor so after after a while i rebooted the computer and put my HDMI to the card this time. All was good the computer boots and windows loads onscreen. I installed AMD Catatlyst 14.4 and it shows a dual mode option but says for best results i should use the primary graphics port. and the green arrow points to my APU but every time i try all i get is a black screen.
So MSI why do you not have proper detailed instructions on how to make this work. Thanks

I tried MSI R7 250 2GD3 OC and the dual graphic works when output from on-board VGA.
Did you set share memory as default setting?
I set it as default but did not see any issue.
Hope it is helpful info.

MSI N210-512D2 Vid card doesn't display graphics with MSI z77ma-g45 motherboard

New Motherboard: MSI z77ma-g45
New Card: N210-512D2
Does not display graphics.
I stick a HIS Radeon HD 5450 in the MB and its fine. I stick the N210-512D2 in a old dell and it's fine.
Whats making the N210-512D2 Card incompatable with z77ma-g45 motherboard?

Using it along an AMD card is quite useless and therefor results maybe wrong. Try the 210 alone in the other slot. Also please list system specs: >>Posting Guide<<

Bios update Fail on MSI A88X-G45

Hello and sorry im in the wrong part but desperatly need help.
Ok did update first one with msi updater in windows and yes it bricked my machine.
now have put bios old one before update on usb, cleared coms by battery and button,inserted in black usb on back and taken grfx,HD,CDrom out oh and left one strip of mem in turned machine on and hey it went to F2 but still black screen canot get signal on monitor have read and tryed most things with no luck so am asking here for help please
and again sorry for puting it in wrong place
AMD AMD Kaveri 7850K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU
8GIG XMS3 RAM CORSAIR
I TB HD
POWERCOLOR R9270 2GIG
SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY
MSI A88-G45 MB
LG 23MP65 MOINTOR
LOGITECH G11 KEY BOARD
CS550 CORSAIR PS

Also try with the latest bios file on the stick you tried to flash: http://www.msi.com/support/mb/A88X-G45-GAMING.html#down-bios
Use vga connection for display as hdmi might not work well on early post level.
If still no luck you will have to rma the board.

My new MSI Z77A-G45 Gaming question

Hello MSI forums ,
I'm building a gaming system for my son. The MB i picked was the MSI Z77A-G45 Gaming and it just arrived from newegg. Just a quick question.
The MB arrived w/ out shrink wrap and the MB itself seems to be slightly warped or curved. Is this normal? I purchased a MSI Z77A-GD65 a few months ago for myself and I can't remember if it had shrink-wrap on it or not but I'm sure I didn't see any warping on the GD65.
Anyway, over the last two months I've build two complete systems all from newegg and i haven't had one issue, so good luck for me so far.
thanks!

Not even a security flap or tab seal on any of mine, so no shrink wrap I can recall. Slight curve should pose no problem once it is tightened down in the case.

MSI Z77A-G45 Motherboard Overclocking/BIOS help!

Hello everybody
I've been having quite a bit of trouble with my MB/BIOS being unable to push the OC beyond 38/3.8GHZ and the RAM won't go further than 1600MHZ.. Now i was able to do this before (Had a stable 4.4GHZ with 2133MHZ RAM speed.. i'm not quite sure what's stopped me from being able to OC more than these stated values, however in ClickBIOS i can OC higher than i can in the BIOS menu on startup itself but the settings don't apply correctly
I have a I5-3570k CPU, MSI Z77A-G45 MB, Crucial Ballistix Elite 2x4GB 1600MHZ, MSI 560ti GTX
Screenshots:
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http:// i148.photobucket.com/albums/s11/TerroR-LazarouS/MSI_SnapShot_01 .png
http:// i148.photobucket.com/albums/s11/TerroR-LazarouS/MSI_SnapShot .png

One thread is enough: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=180369.msg1297816#msg1297816
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