MSI K8T Neo 2- Doesnt boot to windows

Hello Guys,
Just want to ask what to do here. I just got this Mobo K8T Neo2, and I have this WINDOWS boot problem.
Troubleshooted:
1. Hard Disk: The HDD 160gb SATA Seagate Baracuda 7200rpm, was checked to another unit, NO BLUE SCREEN problem encountered, it smoothly log into windows.
2. Memory: bought this brand new 1gb Geil DDR400 PC 3200
3. Video Card: Upgraded my old video card into this new one- 256mb FX5600
What do other things should i do to know what the problem is?
Thanks....
Here are the Specs of my Unit:
CPU: AMD 64 3200
Mobo: K8T Neo2 V1.X G52-M6702E1
Memory: 1gb Geil DDR400 PC 3200
Video Card: 256mb FX5600
HDD: 160gb SATA Seagate Baracuda 7200rpm
OS: Windows XP service Pack2
PSU: 550watts HEC

Are you able to see the harddisk the bios?
Does the system boot from cd/dvd drive?
Are you able to install windows?
I don't know how well you know computers but you cannot just swap a pre installed hard drive to another system.

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I just got the MSI K8T Neo, once it passes the splash screen, RAID, etc. It will just restart.
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Muskin Blue 3200
Radeon 9800 Pro
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How to install a fresh copy of windows xp with sp2 on a msi k8t neo

My specifications:
CPU: AMD ATHLON 64 - 3000MHZ
MOTHERBOARD: MSI K8T NEO
RAM: CRUCIAL MICRON 1024MB DDR
HDD: WD 120GB ( C: 60GB, D: 60GB )
HDD: SEAGATE 4GB ( E: 4GB )
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primary slave NONE
secondary master CDR DVD-RW
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and last HDD 120GB on primary raid ( on drive C: and D: )
NONE on secondary
I have 2 floppy disks: on the first one it says G72-PRSA060, Promise 376/378 Driver, Disk 1 of 1
on the second one it says G72-VASA040, VIA SATA RAID Driver, For VT6420/VT8237, Disk 1 of 1
Can please someone tell me how to install a fresh copy of windows xp on my computer from scratch? All I know that I have to press F6 at some time and insert one of the disks but I don't know which one. And I don't know when to insert a second disk.
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Yeah. I remember when I had that board. I found the best SATA ports were the Promise ones, but...
What do you think, Tiresmoke? You had the same board too if I'm not mistaken.

MSI K8T-NEO won't post from a cold boot

Alrighty here is my strange problem. I have my system connected to a surge protector powerstip. When I power my machine down I also shut off the powerstrip which cuts wall power off from the machine. When I turn the power back on the and then fire up the computer every single time it will not POST on the first try. The drive lights cd-roms come on but the HD's never start. So I hold the power button in for 6 seconds, then hit it a second time, and it boots every time. Shutting down and restarting is no problem, so long as the power is never disconnected from the system.
Here is my configuration
MSI K8T NEO Bios version 1.2
Athlon 64 3200+ not overclocked
1 512meg stick of Geil Ultra PC3200 slot 1
1 512meg stick of Coarsair XMS3200 slot 2
memory is running at 333mhz 2-3-3-7 all setting are set to auto
Radeon 9500 in the AGP slot
Sound Blaster Audigy
Promise 100 TX4 Raid controller
2 WD 80 gig SE HD's connected to promise controller
1 Pioneer PD-115 16X DVD drive
1 Liteon 411-s I believe 4x DVD Writer
1 Zip Drive
Using AMD boxed CPU fan
Powered by an Antec true 430 +3.3V 28A +5V 36A +12V 20A
According to core center +3.3 is at 3.31V, +5V is at 5.03V, +12V is at 11.76V
So anyway its prime stable etc. But when ever the system has been powered off, and unplugged the first time I power on it always fails to post with the d-link indicator lights indicating a CPU failure. Hold down the power button and it reboots. Power the machine off, but don't disconnect wall power powers back on just fine.
This is strange, since I use the surge protector to turn off speakers, etc! Its also annoying, I used to have a MSI K7D-L Master 2xXP CPU's with the same hardware witht eh exception of the Geil RAM, and of course cpu, and mobo and never had any problems with a cold boot. any suggestions?

Yeah I tried having only one stick of ram in the machine, and it hangs on a cold boot when its been unplugged/or powersupply switched off. Reboot again and no problems. I tried just having the geil installed, and the corsair stick installed same problem. I have ordered a second Geil Ultra PC3200 stick so I'll have matched sticks and will be able to run at 400mhz FSB. The lack of a manual memory speed setting overide in the bios is frustrating. Yes I know the speed is more or less set by the CPU but there must be some override mechinism if you can slow it down....
I have also tried with just a video card installed, and one stick of ram to see if the problem would go away. No GO. One thing to mention is I had a Radeon 9700pro that I got from new egg refurbed that I had to send back becasue the card would not power on when the system was booted, unless you disconnected the power lead got the warning message, and then powered off and reconnected the power lead. Possibly this card may have damaged something else? OR the mobo was bad and damaged the card? The mobo was new, the ram (geil), CPU, and 9700pro were all refurbs. Everything else was from a previous dual processor system and was working fine.
Both of the Western digitals are set as masters and each are on their own seperate ide channels. The Promise FastTrack100 TX4, has 4 IDE channels and the HD's are connect to channel 1 and channel 2 on the FastTrack controller.
Specifically what happens is if the power has been off, I turn the power on, hit the power button. Lights come on, the cd-rom drives lights start blinking, fans come on, and I hear this kinda of poping sound out of the speakers like the kind of sound you get when you first power on the machine but it happens a second time about 2 seconds after powering on the machine, and it just sits in this kind of hung up state, hitting the reset button does nothing. Then I power off power back on and it POSTS, and back to normal. So long as the system is never disconnected from the power source while it is off, it will power back on the first time. This is really strange I've never had a system do this before. I'm beginning to wonder if I just have a bad/faulty board and ought to RMA it?

MSI k8t neo booting issue

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MSI K8T NEO FIS2R
Antec 400w PS
2x Corsair 512mb Valueram
Samsung 160GB SATA
Gainward 5700FX Ultra 128mb Golden sample
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i think thats everything... anyways
i have an odd problem. When i first turned it on, the HD was on the Promise Controller. tried installing XP, hit F6, ect, setup would not recognize HD. so i put it on the Via, disabled the promise, installed XP. computer reboots, POST's, blank screen.
tried several times, but each time after the Bios and raid stuff, i get a blank screen. now, if i try and reinstall XP, it hangs on the "Setup is checking your hardware configuration..." and just stays there. any ideas?

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Originally posted by Nevyn
well, its 18A actually. after a while, i tried aa IDE HD, same problem. then after even more fiddling, i got it too boot. it seems it refuses to get past POST if there is anything connected too USB. and if i plug in a usb mouse after, it just doesn't work. also, the D-led thingy was NOT lighting up during boot. and guesses?
18 is the minimum of what people recommend, but you should be ok.
In BIOS make sure emulation and legacy USB are disable, and set USB ports to 8.
Ian

Msi k8t neo fis2r problems part 3

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most of the time it loads up and i boot to the windows xp cd and i install the drivers for sata and then when it reaches the point of copying the files it will give me a bsod and say that there is a problem with the irql driver and then force me to shut the pc down..
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ergo the need for a big psu..
the combined total ratting on a psu is not the max number that the psu is rated, that is surge value.. so a 500 may only hold 400 sustained , and that will drop as the machine heats up, so in the end your 500 may onlyy pull 366 @50'c...

MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R - help please :(

When i first got this board + my Athlon 64bit 3200+ I just left everything in bios at default, and counter-strike bullet registration was amazing, the FSB clock said 133, (no i did not imagine this as ive had two of these boards and they both said 133fsb when i went to bios).... one day my p.c wouldnt boot up, i did a series of tests and couldnt find what was wrong, i eventaully reset cmos and still it would not boot up properly. So i got a new harddrive and that seemed to solve the problem, only this time when i went to bios instead of the FSB saying 100-280, it said 190-280, now counter-strike bullet reg has totally gone and plays like , oh sure good frames per second but it doesnt feel instant, i want 133fsb back quite desperately, i was hoping one of you kind people could tell me if theres fsb jumpers on my board or how i can get 133fsb back, wont let me below 190 at the moment :(
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MSI K8T NEO FIS2R No VGA help plz!

Hi, ive just purchased a new athlon 3000 64 cpu retail and an msi k8t neo fis2r motherboard, the specs and problem are below but plz bare in mind i am a system builder for the last 3 years i have tried alot of things to solve this.
MSI K8T NEO FIS2R MOBO
AMD 3000 64 RETAIL CPU
AMD RETAIL HSF
1024MB DDR333 SAMSUNG RAM
120 GIG WD HD
GALAXY GLACIER GEFORCE 6800 GT 256MB
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ic3man1999.

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athlon 64 3000+
512mb mushkin special 2-2-2 ram (i will change the timings to the recommended slightly delayed timings but i have to actually get into the bios to make this possible)
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Msi K8T Neo-FIS2R built in 1394 shows up but doesn't work?

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What bios version are you on?The latest on the site was supposed to fix this problem-the 1.6-but dunno if it did or not,flash it to latest then have a look.

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When I boot my computer I get a message invalid boot.ini then it says c:\windows and windows starts normaly. What I don't understand is why do I get invalid boot.ini Anyone knos how to fix this?

I'm sorry for no specs. Here you go
MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R
AMD 64 3000+
2X 512MB 400MHz Ceon CL=2,5
HDD 120GB WD
HDD 4GB SEAGATE
CDR DVD-RW NEC ND3520
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primary master CDR DVD-RW
primary slave NONE
secondary master CDR SONY
secondary slave HDD 4GB
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[Athlon64] MSI K8T NEO-V : incompatibility with ATI RADEON 9800 PRO

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I read all the subjets on this forum about Radeon problems with MSI K8T NEO motherboard. Most of the peple can't use their graphic card in all situations.
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-AMD-64 3200
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-ATI RADEON 9800 PRO
-1 Go DDRAM (2x512 in single channel)
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I tried all the drivers (the new and the old drivers). Even if all are updated, it freeze.
There are no BIOS update for my motherboard. I saw that some people had BIOS update for compatibility with some Radeon cards ...
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You have an older viod card and that does not eat much 12v but if you upgrade the most likely peice will be the vid card. You could go through this whole thing all over again if you are not careful to plan for that now with a new PSU purchase.
If the computer shop gives you a bunch of bull about power needs havbe them stop by the forum and we can help set them straight on this. There is more than enough data from MSI and historical data here that suggests that 16a on the 12v rail is certainly not enough. Hey I am not trying to sell you anything. I am just trying to help you get it right. The computer shop is the one trying to sell you something we just feel they are selling the wrong junk.

FAQ for MSI K8T NEO

Is there a FAQ for the MSI K8T NEO motherboard?
About 3 years ago I build a computer using the ABIT KT7Raid Mbd.
Although I had the ABIT manuals I found that wasn't enough to guide
me thru setting up the board, installing the OS, and downloading
all the correct drivers. Fortunately there was a very extensive FAQ
(written by Paul Howland) that had all this information and more.
I just bought a MSI K8T with a Athlon 64-3000 CPU and I am in
the same boat. I have the MSI manual but it doesn't lead me thru
the steps for installing WinXP and making sure I've got all the
latest drivers. Is there such a FAQ, or has it gotten so easy that
a FAQ is no longer required? (Like maybe WinXP already has all
the drivers required?)
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thats about it really...
everything else is on the CD, then you can use live update to get the latest drivers and bios.

[Athlon64] TV tuner problems on MSI k8t neo

Hello,
I used TV@nywhere Master. Since beginning it worked.
After graphic card reclamation (MSI GeForce 6800 LE) I tried another graphic cards (at first Legend 64 [1 MB, PCI], later Riva TNT 2 vanta [16 MB, AGP], GeForce 5600 VIVO [128 MB, AGP]). With this Legend graphic card at first my PC beeps for a while, but Windows XP started (even without graphic drivers). I tried another graphic cards (with correct graphic drivers), but since then there was no video on my TV tuner (channels were recognized, sound was possible to hear, but only black screen). I got new GeForce 6800 LE card, but the problem was the same also with this card.
I reinstalled windows XP several times, but always with the same behavior.
Maybe similar as it is mentioned here:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=27537.msg158205#msg158205 (TV@nywhere Master sound but only black picture.)
I tested TV tuner at my friend's PC and it worked, so TV tuner is not broken.
So I bought new TV tuner card (Sapphire theatrix 550), but this card was not even detected under Windows device manager.
When I tried to install ATI drivers, I got BSOD and my PC was restarted.
(there was no problem at my friend's PC [athlon xp 2200, nforce 2 chipset])
Is it problem with PCI slots of my motherboard?
My system:
MSI k8t neo (k8t800 chipset)
Athlon 64-3000+
512 MB DDR
MSI GeForce 6800 LE
Windows XP SP2

Just to note:
there was also problem with network (not detected).
Reclamation was necessary.
There was no similar problem with returned motheboard.

MSI K8T Neo - Video switch off, sound glitches

Hi
First post, and im hoping someone can PLEASE help me.
Im currently using the following:
MSI K8T Neo FISR-2 Mobo (pretty sure thats it)
64 AMD 3200+
512 DDR @ 333
2 IDE HDs
GEXCUBE 9600XT etc etc
Now problem 1) I use my computer for work alot, i.e I use Microsoft word, and im typing away getting alot of work done when all of a sudden, blank screen, it acts like i havent touched anything and just powered down the monitor, but no matter what i do i cant get it back up and thus i have to reboot. (This occurs after around 15 odd minutes of work on word)
-Ive tried everything i can think of, updated whatever, even taken to computer places and they have no idea, rebooted CMOS, havent update BIOS cause im scared but if you got any ideas let me know
Problem 2) not as bad as the first but my sound, using onboard AC97 and Logitech Z640s i have this weird static shitty background scrathcy noise which is annoying, and i cant get it cleared up.
-Tried updating drivers etc, sounds not maxed out, even get the sound when i switch off the speakers and plug in my headphonse so...
If you can help on either of these things please either reply here or email me on [email protected]
THANKYOU!!!

For ATI related monitor signal loss issues, check here:
Rage3D forum direct link
I personally have a AIW9600Pro and haven't experience the aforementioned problems, so I don't know what to add, but I'm sure these folks at Rage3D forums can help. It's already upto 15 pages, so there must be some useful info in there...
For statics, I find that by turning off Mic Gain (or sometimes called Mic Boost) from your Windows Volume control sometimes does the trick. If you use extension cables, you might want to check for interference, too.
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