MSI P6N SLI board, trouble again

Well bought a new Adaptec 31205 raid card and a few Sas drives.
Strange enough the card is NOT seen by the board. Furthermore i cannot alter the bios of the board, nor the card gets detected.
Drives spindle, card is powered on, cursor stays at the left side of the screen.
Any suggestions for this problem are more then welcome.
Had to reinstall the Dell Scsi card and drives.
thanks,
Swa

ok, i give the info i got:
MSI P6N SLI board:
Intel extreme 6800 3 ghz duo processor
4 gb 800 mhz memory PC6400 Transend
Club 3d Radeon X1600 512 mb video card
Adaptec 31205 Raid controller with 256 mb cache
5 Cheetah T10 15k 300 gb drives
Right now Dell Perc4e controller (Scsi) in a PCI-E port (8 lanes) with 3 15k Scsi drives of 36 gb in Raid 5.
Board works with the Perc4E.
As said, drives spindle, lights on card are ok, no bios, not of the motherboard, not of the Adaptec.
Thanks,
Swa

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Hiya flobelix
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MSI P6N-SLI Platinum Multi-gpu enabling

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MSI p6n SLI-FI

Just a question. How come the board supports 45nm core 2 cpus like e8500 and not 45nm quad core like q9400?

http://aberrantech.com/?p=284
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https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=123486.msg932471#msg932471
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1.Product Type: MSI P6N SLI-FI
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TS,
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Henry,
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Hi,one day I was playing game on my computer,after some time MSI dualcore center notify me that your CPU tempreture got high and shutdown your system.then I shutdown my computer.after few seconds I restart my computer then I saw that no display on my monitor and no beep sound from MSI p6n sli v2 board.I have done all processes like change ram,rest CPU and fan,VGA card and PSU but no luck.I got only all fans were spin,all led on like green and Orange and also keyboard three led lit for a while.
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Quote from: roman9 on 16-November-12, 14:43:39
Hi,one day I was playing game on my computer,after some time MSI dualcore center notify me that your CPU tempreture got high and shutdown your system.then I shutdown my computer.after few seconds I restart my computer then I saw that no display on my monitor and no beep sound from MSI p6n sli v2 board.I have done all processes like change ram,rest CPU and fan,VGA card and PSU but no luck.I got only all fans were spin,all led on like green and Orange and also keyboard three led lit for a while.
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Hey guys im new to the site and I need your help! :(
I am trying to get passed 3262.5 Mhz (just got it up to 3.32ghz) preferably 3.6Ghz but every time I try to raise the FSB from 1500Mhz and up it halts and I have to reset the bios. Any help is greatly appreciated. Specs Below.
MSI P6N Sli Platinum Bios v1.7 + E8400 (067A/DA07)
2 X 1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer pc2 8500
BIOS Temps/Volts
CPU Vcore - 1.168V
3.3V - 3.344V
5V - 4.961V
12V - 12.05V
5V - 5.016V
Bios Settings
Execute Bit Support - Disabled
Set Limit CPUID - Disabled
C1E - Disabled
Spread Spectrum - Disabled (ALL)
DOT Control - Disabled
EIST - Disabled
System Clock Mode - Manual
FSB Clock - 1600Mhz
Memory clock 1066
Ratio - 9
PCI-E Frequency - 100
CPU Voltage - 0.1000V
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SB Voltage - 1.50
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5-5-5-15
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CMD - 2T
Idle Temp - 34
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As I already said:
Quote from: flobelix on 29-January-13, 23:58:02
No, that won't work as that requires a UEFI bios and GPT format which is both not possible with your old board just supporting classic bios. You won't be able to access the entire drive space which makes a (costly) 3TB HDD quite useless.
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