MSI P4N SLI E -F

Hi all,
I've recently purchased a new Msi p4n sli xe -f mobo (no idea what the f stands for) for my new setup and i've already run into a problem.
After building up my machine and turning it on the leds on the backplate do the usual flashing and then it sits there with leds 1,3 & 4 on red and 2 on green. I've checked in the user manual which says it's a memory problem so today i went to PC World and bought a single 512 strip of ddr2 533 to test this out.
I installed the new memory but the same problem persists, does anyone have any idea's?
I've used a standard PCI graphics card to allow me to setup the bios and windows before i buy an 8800gtx card but haven't been able to do anything because of the problems i've described.
The rest of my setup is:
Msi P4N SLI E -F Mobo
3Ghz Intel Pentium 4 Processor 530J
(Now) 1.5Gb ddr2 533mhz ram 2xKingston 1xPny
250Gb Western Digital Sata 2 HD
Liteon SHW-16H5S-15C Light Scribe 16x DVD+ - RW
600W power supply
Anyone?

Quote from: NovJoe on 31-January-07, 21:10:17
Try booting with only the following hardwares:
CPU + HSF
Mainboard
1 x RAM each time swapping out upon posting failure
PSU
Low end GPU
Feedback the results and I'll try to verify what is the best alternative you can do.
To clear CMOS with jumper can be easily achieved by taking the mainboard's battery out for 5 - 10 secs and placing it back in place.
Ok, i've done that and i get the same problem no matter what i try.
The gpu is as minimal as it can get, it's a pci (not express) graphics card based on the early nvidia chips that i borrowed from a friend and it works ok because he tested when i was at his prior to me installing it into my machine.
A maxi gamer cougar or something like that. i know it was an nvidia card anyway.
I've tried contacting Msi through their technical support email and i got an automated reply saying that they were dealing with a number of other cases and that they would reply as soon as they could...........that was over a week ago now.

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Does anyone else have a P4N SLI? Or maybe you might just know anyway...
Everytime I boot the PC, before the BIOS POST even starts theres a long wait (insanely long, compared to other PCs and mobos I've had and used) around 45 sec to a minute, where nothing is shown on the monitor and the DVD and CD drives are constantly read (even though theres nothing inside em). Then the BIOS post comes and the rest of the whole process is fast as I could wish for....
Is that normal with the P4N SLI or maybe even with nForce motherboards?
If not, any ideas what it could be? (I tried stripping my pc down to barebones, minimal RAM, no extra cards, 1 hdd and 1 cd drive (and even without the cd drive) yet still it takes the same amount of time...)
Please help...
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Do you mean
1GB, 512MB, 1GB, 512MB?
Sorry, ya thats what i meant, 2 GB was a mistake. Its 1 GB, 512, 1, 512.
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As stated before. Remove the 512meg sticks. To run properly, all sticks should be the same. Reason is due to timings and voltages. Also try to up the voltages to the cpu.
I removed the 512 sticks before, like I said, and I'm just running with the 2 x 1GB sticks, it hasnt had any positive effect on the long wait before POST. The voltage for the RAM is 1.8v right now as according to the BIOS, is that the correct value?
Did I mention that during this long wait my monitor is in sleep mode, then 1 short beep is heard, the lights on my keyboard reset as is usual on any PC and the BIOS does its POST (if i pause after the keyboard lights, its usually auto-detecting my HDDs, and optical drives). It's strange because during that long wait nothing is happening other than my cd drive and dvd drive intermittently flashing and my HDD light is constantly on....
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A little embarrassed that I didn't figure it out earlier, but I tried several things, realized I had turned off the LAN chip in the BIOS and forgot to turn it back on after installing the second time.
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Lesson learned: stress inhibits cognitive function.

Where are the p4n sli thermistor diodes?

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hi guys.
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i've had this p4n sli for 1 month now and the only problem i had wasn't the motherboards fault. it works fine. i can rip a dvd while running winamp, hammering google earth and copernic w/ ie. nice and smooth . i think i'll keep it.

i shot a tech question regarding this to msi support and got a response within 15 minutes as follows ........
Dear Customer,
The location of the diode are located near the IO Ports on the mb.
Sincerely,
Technical Support Team
Technical Support Division
MSI Computer Corp.
that's close enough for me.

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Hi
My new mobo died after 4 days out of the box and I could use some advice as I'm going to have to figure out what to return to the online company that I purchased it from. Could it be the processor?
I put together a:
MSI P4N SLI mobo with a 3ghz Celeron and 512mb chunk of Geil 667 RAM with a 480 watt Mutant Mods PSU. Yes, the RAM is in the correct slot.
After 4 days (24 hours a day) of operating fine, yesterday I was talking on Skype and my machine went cold, lights out.
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Argh!!!!

hcoshawn, I think you just solved the problem.....I'll wait it out and see what happens
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I'm just going to let it run for awhile and see if it shuts down again, but she is purring like a kitten now..
Any ideas why it would work for 4 days without this connector and then just stop working? I think it could be that I installed the nVidia drivers for the board on that 4th day and that initiated a call for more power from the board....not sure.
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I did a stress test using BurnInTest and everything passed including the memory.
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Quote from: Maesus on 12-June-06, 20:45:38
When it hang, meaning you see nothing on the screen? This sounds like ... hmm... your 3.2GHz P4, is it a Northwood or Prescott or Cedarmill?
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P4n sli

Hi all, I recently bought a p4n sli off ebay, I built it up with a p4 640 cpu, 1 gig of 667 ram and a 7600gs vid card. Firstly, while searching the MSI site I was unable to find this exact board, it's the board with only 1 lan connection and the "sli" board between the 2 pci-e slots, anyway i turned it on and the cpu fan spun up and the hdd spun up but no output to the monitor and no beeps. I have a celeron 331 cpu spare, and after some mucking around and getting nowhere I decided to put the 640 back in my old pc and in my haste to build up the MSI board i had thrown my little cpu cover away so i had nowhere to put the celeron cpu so I put it in the MSI board really just to put it somewhere while i went searching thru the bin. Before I had a chance to raid the bin I wanted to get my pc back online and decided to do a search and see if I could find anyone else having probs too. Any to cut a longer story shorter, I decided to turn on the MSI again with the celeron in it and BINGO it came to life.
I still dont understand why the 640 wont run in it but even with the celeron in it it's faster than it was in my old pc. Can anyone offer any ideas on what my problem is and which board I have? Thanks in advance

Quote from: NovJoe on 26-April-07, 20:55:53
So the P640 runs in your old PC?
Yes the old pc has a gigabyte board in it but only runs with ddr1 ram. On the taskmanager it shows the 640 as having 2 cpu's, I I don't know why tho.
Cheers

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Ok Im new to DDR2 but this just seems like something is not right. Ok so I have the P4N SLI-FI Intel Edition Mobo. Flashed to newest bios as of 01/23/06 Ok so the ram comes up in bios as ddr2-667 but when I boot to windows it clocks down to 333mhz effective clock and 167mhz real clock, giving me a 5300 bandwidth( checked with everest ultimate edition). Also this ram is Corsair Value Ram rated at 667 ddr2 pc5300. I am running a 1gb dual channel kit I had bought from newegg. I looked on the internet elseware and found somthings about speed ratings and such but nothing that tells me straight up if 5300 should be my bandwidth, I have 14 years of computer experiance and common sense tells me that my bandwidth should be 10.6gb. Again ddr2 is completly new to me. Also I have read that pc5400 solves some problems in other boards not sure what they ment by problems but I was thinking maybe I bought the wrong ram, also on msi's website I checked the pdf file for supported ram and again I did NOT see the ram I had purchased but that means almost nothing as they leftout alot of major brands of ddr2-667 and other speeds aswell.
I am really pissed off at this point. I can tell my system is slow, boot up times are longer then my Amd XP3200+
Also another problem I am having is that the Nvidia GbE Lan is not working at all. Checked the bios and its turned on still no go. I had to put a Lan card in to even get online. This is not as important as the first problem but still annoying.
Thanks for your time.
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System Specs:
P4N SLI-FI Intel Edition
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1gb Corsair DDR2-667 Dual Channel Kit
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Soundblaster Audigy LS

I mean it sounded kind of like it was correct but, in windows I expected something to say ddr2 667 and all the programs I am running label it as ddr2 333
Even my everest ultimate 2006 and sisoft sandra say its ddr2 333, the benchmarks that do come with those programs show other peoples ram running at ddr2 667
Also the comp just seems slow windows loads in 5 bars (the thing at the bottom when booting) and then another 30 secs after that.
My other comp an AthlonXP 3200+, 512 ddr400 DC, 40gb ide hdd, 9600xt) loads windows in 1.5 bars and instant to desktop with older technology.
The games dont seem to be loading fast at all either. Basically I am very dissapointed in the performance of ddr2-667 its not faster than ddr400 by any means and if its the board then im really heated because this board should fly, funny how I read reviews on the board before I buy it and they said it was all good, then I find more in depth reviews that really say this board is below average.
Could it be possible that ddr2 5400 would be a better choice because the board cant support ddr2 5300?
Again thanks for your help guys im just dissapointed in the performance, sucks after spending $450+ and the video card is the only on par piece I've gotten.

P4N-SLI support Pentium D 805 Smithfield core or not???

Regarding the subject above and after i refering to MSI official website, I still wonder the P4N-SLI mobo support the Pentium D 805 2.66 GHz Smithfield CPU or not cause the CPU support list on MSI website shown that it's still under testing. P4N Diamond support this particular CPU and is that P4N-SLI possible support this CPU too?

Quote from: Maesus on 27-August-06, 02:06:05
The reason of "not" supporting 805 is some features such as EIST will not be available for P4N chipset. Multipler if 805 is 20x, with EIST, it will drop back to 14x, giving 1.86Ghz, very good for thermal/temperature and save power. This feature is not suported by P4N, so all the features inside the CPU will not be fully supported as well. I think, that's the problem why MSI hesitate to make the CPU as "supported".
805D does not support EIST nor does it support HT. This can be seen here. Only the 9xx series did and the earlier series (B1) had it disabled due to stability issues. So EIST should not have been a problem with my 940D as it is a B1 stepping. The only problem would have then been simply the 65mm fab which I don't think was an issue at all with the NF4 chipset. The B1 stepping would have had a coding same as the 8xx series which also did not support EIST. The following should spell out what I was ranting on about.
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The Pentium D processor supports Intel's EM64T technology, the XD Bit and like most current Pentium 4s, uses the LGA775 form factor on an 800 MT/s bus. The only motherboards guaranteed to work with the Pentium D (and Extreme Edition) are those based on the 945, 955, and 975 series of chipsets, as well as the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition and ATI Radeon Xpress. The Pentium D 820 will not work with the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition due to some power design issues, though they were rectified for the X16 version of the chipset (which the P4NSLI chipset is). Motherboards based on the 915 and 925 series of chipsets will not work at all, as the chipsets do not have support for more than one processor core (a result of Intel trying to prevent motherboard manufacturers from making Xeon motherboards with the chipsets, as happened with the 875P). The 865 and 875 series chipsets do have multiprocessor support. Motherboards based on those chipsets may be Pentium D compatible so long as the manufacturer provides an appropriate BIOS update
So with this is becomes quite apparent that MSI simply had to make a few changes with the bios to recognize the fact that the B1 stepping did not support EIST and the 9xx series would have worked. But rather they simply chose to lump all the steppings together and not support any with the board. This is what ticked me off. Show them facts and they simply ignore it and then tell you that it's being phased out and no more will be done with it. What a crock.

[nVidia Series] is it MSI P4N Diamond compatible with Gigabyte 3D1 (Dual Core 66GT)

yesterday i juz got a Gigabyte 3D1 graphic card..so i wanna know..is it MSI P4N Diamond compatible with this graphic card?
thanx

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The problem is, this card was only intended to ever be used on that motherboard. It may work in single GPU mode on other boards, but results will vary on other SLI boards.
This line is from the referenced article. It seems to imply that card is intended to be used with the Gigabyte board.

Why does MSI P4N have no support for Intel Preslor and Asus Nforce 4 does??

Well as you've probably guessed it im new to the forums (howdy all ). I currently own a MSI P4N diamond motherboard and quite frankly i most dissapointed with what has been called (by too many reviewers) a great board.
First off i see very little changes taking place with each bios update, of which does not seem to happen regularly at all. (lets face it no board is perfect especially the Nforce 4 range from MSI for Intel CPU's).
Secondly overclocking a Pentium D 830, which i may add should be capable of overclocking very well on an Intel Nforce board, can barley reach 3.4 Ghz (i know its mobo issue as the CPU is water cooled and overclocks to way beyond 3.7 on an 955X board).
Thirdly the North bridge fan was poorly stuck on my motherboard in that on installing my motherboard into my case it popped off like the lid of a pringles tub by a slight movement of my hand .
And last but least... why does the MSI P4N diamond motherboard not support Intels latest 65nm CPU's when ASUS's and Gigabyte's Nforce 4 motherboards work well with the Pentium D and the 65nm range of Intel CPU's. Upon also reading about the next gen of Intel CPU's the Conroe, the 975X motherboards will support the future CPU via a bios update and it has been said that the same is likely to happen for the Nforce 4 range... however once again due to the lack of support for the MSI P4N diamond by MSI i believe all of us owners of this pathetic (an over statement really but its going to be that way if MSI keeps this up) over hyped motherboard will get a simple NO in the CPU support table for the next gen range of CPU's.

Where did you get the information regarding the MSI P4N diamond's release date?
Are you in the United Kingdom? As it was released at the same time as the other Nforce 4 boards here (i was on the edge of my seat waiting for the Nforce boards to be released on overclockers.co.uk for sale) In the end though i bought my mothreboard in October, which is a good few weeks after release.
Is there any kind of SLI 32 on MSI's plans? this is what worries me as they have made a move in the 975X department but have not made any further developmentes in the Nforce range for Intel, which to the average joe kind of indicates loss of intrest in this field from the company.
I am overall pleased with my motherboard, when using a single core CPU, as overclocking was a sheer joy, but as soon as the dual core CPU went in the mothreboard behaves like a drunk man coming from a pub. I am aware that the Nforce 4 chipsets struggle with the dual core CPU's but surely Nvidia were informed by Intel about the dual core CPU's being released in the future.

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Hi from France
I've try to upgrade my computer all day long, and still have no solution about this..
Mainboard: MSI K8N-SLI
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Quote from: eagle78 on 01-January-07, 07:58:35
First of all
HAPPY NEW YEAR (in France, it's done)
And for my computer, all is allright now
Like a silly boy, I've connected too much things in the beginning (USB Hub I've forgot not to plug)..
And so without that, computer boots well, CPU is seeing good, RAM is OK and all the drives..
Some problems with my OS (XP and SP2), but as somebody says above, I needed to "repair" it, and all is good now
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first,i'm french, so excuse my bad english(i try to do my best!)
so, the problem is that i don't have any USB working on my K9N SLI Platinium with my Athlon X2 3800+!(anywhere,all other devices works => lan, sound, storage..)
the "controlleur de bus USB" (sorry, it's french!) doesn't appear in the "Administrator of ring roads(peripherals) " (thanks reverso^^)!!!!
i've read somewhere that K8N have had a similar problem,(now there is a patch) is this the same problem???
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Help with ram slots on MSI P7N SLI PLATINUM

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MSI P7N SLI PLATINUM (MS-7380)
bios version: 1.3v
Q6600 quard core 2.66GHz
Zotac modded 9800GTX+ amped version
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500 watt (absolute) power supply (taken form an old HP workstation)
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Its been almost 1 & 1/2 years since i bought this rig, and from first month itself i have been having problem with the ram. The problem is not with the sticks, its with the ram slots. There are different things that happen. Sometimes when i boot my system:
1) either, it wont start, i.e. no boot screen.
2) It will load upto windows startup screen, crash and restart in an infinite loop.
3) It will load windows, then crash after sometime.
4) If i run any memory diagnostic, it will give errors.
At these times, i take out my 2 ram sticks, tinker with them, place them in different combination of ram slots, try push them in, in a certain way, keep trying until it yields and it boots up again ( generally a process of 1/2 an hr to an hr). After this my system will work fine ( no errors on any memory diagnostic) and boot properly for a week or 2, maybe even a month, but then again the same problem happens. I know for sure that there is no problem with my dimms (have checked them in other system and they work fine), its something to do with ram slots, or memory bus-controller structure.
Recently the problem happened again, though my tinkering didn't help. My system only boots up if i place any of the ram sticks in the 3rd slot (the 1st orange one). It wont work for any other slot and neither will it work if i place both of the sticks together. I have tried resetting my bios as well cmos settings, but it has not helped. My mb is still in warranty, but if i give it for repair, it will be gone for a good month or so, which doesn't go well with me. If someone has any suggestions, or a way out, it will be highly appreciated. Please help!

Quote from: nellinil on 10-July-10, 10:27:51
yes the psu has a single +12v rail with 21A rating, but somehow i don't feel the problem is because of it. When my system successfully boots, it works properly. I can play or work on high performance softwares for any number of hours without fail, which ought not to happen if the psu is bad.
Hmm, you are ignoring the possibility that your PSU is "flaky" (that's a technical term)!!!! You've never had any gizmo where "sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't work"?
If you don't want to buy a new PSU then at least beg-borrow-steal another one and see if your symptoms change.

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