P35 Platinum boot error !!!

Hello,
now, When I reboots my system, I get the following message: Waning !!!!! The previous performance of overclocking is failed, and the system is restored to the defaults setting; press any keyexcept "DEL" to enter SETUP........
I have not configured for overclocking my mainboard, why this message appears it?
Thx
"MSI P35 Platinum"
"MSI 8800 GTS 320 OC"

Yes, I flashed to version 1.4, but this is not new . I flashed my bios about one month ago and my problem is since Friday ...

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Hi FlyveKristoffel,
Had same problems with my P45D3 Platinum, including no- or bad initialisation of my videocard. Checked at the website of producer of my memorymodules for the optimal settings and found that the units were in fact overclocked and needed voltage setting of 1.8V instead of 1.5 and so on.
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Updated the BIOS to version 1.4 and are very happy with the results.
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P35 Platinum boot problem

ok so this motherboard has been running for around 3 months with no problems. Motherboard boots up it POSTS and then freezes when the windows logo comes up. Now I have tried and installed a fresh install of xp and the same problems occurs. Only way i can get to windows is that after it freezes i shut it down by pressing the power button and then it restarts and would now go to windows.
my current specs are:
intel e6850
corsair 4gbx1
Antec 650watts psu
XFX 8500GT
Western digital 250GB hard drive
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Hello rvdsts,
try with one stick of RAM only and see if there is any change in boot-up behaviour.
Which BIOS-Version are you currently using?
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has been running for around 3 months with no problems
Did you change anything in your hardware configuration or did you change BIOS Settings or flash to a different BIOS-Version at any point?

P35 PLATINUM BOOT PROBLEMS

Had all sorts of problems with this but the final answer was to swap the RAM from Corsair XMS2 to OCZ - everything now seems fine!!

Did you memtest corsair memory?
Did you have corsair memory set at 2.1V?
What are your full system spex?

P35 Platinum stuck with 008D error in boot with newly added OCZ Fatal1ty rams

Hi,
I was using 2x1 GB 800 MHZ OCZ vista performance rams without any problem. I just bought 2x1 OCZ Fatal1ty 1066 MHZ rams. In the specification of my P35 Platinum mainboard it tells that it supports 1066 (OC).
I don't want of course to run all my rams at 1066 MHZ. I just want to run all of them at 800 MHZ.
However, when I placed all 4 rams in every combinotion on the slots, computer boots but it stuck after the boot screen and there is "008D" in the rightdown corner.
Interestingly when I just put Fatality rams (2GB) computer doesn't boot! Only 1xvista perf. Mhz 1xFatal1ty or 1xvista perf. Mhz 1xFatal1ty works but stuck at after the boot screen.
I tried to enter 5-5-5-15 values and tried to adjust memory voltage to 2.1 V as told in the new ram's specification but doesn't affect. What is your solution? Since new rams do not work among themselves, are they broken or my board doesn't support them?

If I'm not wrong, your post sounds to me that you are trying to mix the OCZ Vista and OCZ Fatal1ty RAMs on the same board.
This is highly not recommended as both RAMs are very different in most aspects (Speed, latencies, voltage and made).
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P35 Platinum ... Initializing Floppy Drive Controller ?? (Wont Boot)

Hi all
I have built a new comp for someone who wants reliability so i choose to go Platinum, but ... i cant make it boot.
It wont even show ANYTHING on the screen (tried the vga in both Pci-e 16x just in case i was dumb enough lol) the boot "procces" stops with the Status leds showing:
4) Green
3) Green
2) RED
1) Green
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Initializing Floppy Drive Controller.
This will initialize floppy drive and controller.
And i dont even have a floppy
Well as the problem persisted i removed EVERYTHING from the motherboard
now i left:
-Mother
-Processor
-Memory
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-PSU
And thats it. Let me tell you all the things i tried:
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-Plug only necesary things
-Taking off the battery and replacing it (and went back to the "original")
-Tried different connectors just in case it was the PSU (i really dont think so)
-Tried different memory stick/s.
And well, thats all i think, half of this i did it with the mother in the case, and re-did all the list with the moter OUTSIDE the case. Can anybody help me ??
I guess is a BIOS problem, as i readed in another post (yeah used search first xD) but the only guy who could solve the problem was flashing the bios, but i cant even see a word on the screen, is it possible to flash the bios in my condition ??
The specs now:
Intel C2D E4500
MSI P35 PLATINUM
2x1Gb (or 1x1gb, tried single sticks as well) OCZ DDR2 667mhz (and tried also with generic "titan" memory at 800mhz, does not change anything)
Gigabyte 8400GS
POWERCOOLER PS-500 SS PSU
AFAIK i have more than enough to make this boot, but well ... you know
Thanks in advance, i tried to give all details possible, in 2 days ill go to RMA if i cant make it work, but i would like give it a try, who knows
EDIT: my english sucks really bad, forgive me !!
EDIT2: Forgot to add !! when i remove the VGA the motherboard DOES the "VGA ERROR BEEP" and the leds are in the correct combination for VGA ERROR ... so i guess processor works and ram too (both OCZ and generic), if one of these fails then it wont make any sound, m i wrong ??

ITS ALIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, to be honest, i dont know what it really was but tried 2 things:
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SOOOOOOOOOOOO THEEEEEEEEN ... (shoot me in the head for this) i unplugged the video and keyboard from the KVM switch (could THIS be the problem ?? i used it wit hundreds of computers and never gave me prblems before ??? ??? ???) and plugged the cables directly and now its alive !!!
THANKS !! :D :D :D :D :D
One last thing !!
Do you recommend me to upgrade the BIOS ?? the board always did a "false boot" then starts normally, i readed it was some "hardware checking" feature, its that true or its totally useless ??
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I had everything running on windows 7 fine until 2 days ago. I installed Live Update from MSI website. I was about to install driver updates for my motherboard, but the bios update went instead. my pc tried to restart after the bios update installed, but it failed. would not post and would only see black screen.
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P35 Platinum won't boot

Hi all.
My specs are :
C2D E6850 3.0Ghz
p35 Platinum Motherboard v1.1 ( Bios Version 1.3 )
Corsair 620W HX V2 Series Modular PSU
Creative S/B Audigy SE 7.1 OEM
Patriot 4GB PC2-6400 C5 Extreme Performance (2x2GB) [PDC24G6400ELK] Latency : 5-5-5-15 [2.0v]
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NEC Optiarc 18x DVD-RW RAM SATA Black
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1)
1 boot. auto restart after 2 seconds after starting to boot
2 boot ( RRGR ) - reboot
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2) When in bios it shows that CPU clock is 1.8Ghz but it should be 3.0Ghz
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My config:
MB: P35 platinum ver. 1.2
BIOS: Unknown
PROCESSOR: Intel Quadcore Q6600 G0
RAM: Patriot Extreme Performance DDR2 PC800 2x2Gb (total of 4Gb in 2 slots)
PSU: Corsair 620HX (620W)
CASE: Antec SOLO
Noctua NH12F
FANS: 1 x Nexus 120mm fan, 2 x Nexus 92 mm fans
HD: 2 x WD raptor 74Gb
VIDEO: PNY Quadro Fx570
Now I have the same identical problem....
New configuration, assembled by myself.
Plugged only processor and thermal unit, PSU, video, fans.
Connections motherboard-PSU: ATX 24 pin (main power to motherboard), ATX 12V 8 pin (CPU power), ATX 12V 4 pin (PCI express X16 power)
Jumper setting of FSB leaved by default (200. Other values avaiable: 266, 333).
I DID NOT PRESS the CLEAR CMOS BUTTON.
1st PHASE (maybe due to not press the CLEAR CMOS???)
1st boot: a series of autorebooting for a while.
After that a message of wrong overclock settings, but at least i was able to enter on BIOS.
ISSUES:
Under "System information" i noticed a correct identification of CPU model and number BUT under "CPU frequency" a wrong CPU speed (1,80 GHz instead of 2,4) AND under "Usage memory" something like 3Gb instead of my 4Gb.
So i cleared the CMOS by pressing "CLEAR CMOS BUTTON" on the P35.
2nd PHASE
Reboot...
Loaded the BIOS.
Now the Processor frequency is correct.
But when i opened the BIOS "CELL menu" -> "Advance DRAM configuration", and made some changes on DRAM latency (according to the values suggested by my DDR2 manufacturer, Patriot) the BIOS froze up.
Waited for a long while...but at the end I rebooted.
After reboot...PROBLEM WITH MEMORY: the PC just freeze on "Memory Detection Test" (LED sequence: red, red, green, red), so no chance to modify anything (no video, no keyboard, nothing...).
I tried to clear the CMOS again, but nothing.
I tried to unplug the motherboard battery, but nothing.
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I'm quite scared....Did I kill my DDR2?????
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MS 7345 - P35 Platinum won't boot

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My P35 Platinum probably died last night. First sign of a trouble was when system hanged on WIN7 booting screen. After reset the system hanged on first screen where it shows SATA discs connected. After turning off there is no more reaction to the power button.
The only sign of life coming from MB is the standby light (red LED3 from manual) flashing. If I remember correctly this should be on, not flashing. After day of browsing/searching I can't find anything like this.
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I am having a problem with my WD drives on my P35 Platinum motherboard. Simply, if I power down my PC neither drive is recognised when I boot up again. Usually I have to open the PC, reseat the SATA cables (this may be a red herring) and then when restarted the drives are recognised again.
A simple restart from within Windows (warm boot) works every time.
I would have suspected a cabling connection problem, except that I have tried other cables and also the fact that it is both drives every time, rather than one, other or both randomly.
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The disks themselves are plugged into SATA3 & SATA4, whilst my Pioneer DVD Writer is plugged into SATA5.
I have the latest BIOS installed but cannot remember the version number off the top of the head, my full hardware spec is in my sig and the 160GB drive is my system disk.
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CoolerMaster 700W REAL POWER PRO MODULAR PSU (RS-700-ASAA-A1)
I would suggest not to use a CoolerMaster REAL POWER PSU for your P35 Platinum. There are known compatibility issues with these devices:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=114534.0
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not being able to power on with the Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750w PSU. After I push the power button, it will light up for a second and the fans will spin, but it just doesn't power up. I am able to power it on with some generic 500w PSU and my girlfriend's Silverstone 850w PSU, but it always fails to power up when I plug the Cooler Master PSU in.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=113573.0
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System powers on for a split second, then powers off. System will boot with another power supply, just not this one.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=113573.0
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Just FYI though, it appears (by some comments on Newegg.com) that there is some compatibility issue between my CoolerMaster Real Power Pro 750W and the P35 Neo2-FR motherboard. The power supply worked fine by itself, and the motherboard ended up working fine with a different power supply (Antec Neopower 650 Blue).
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=115623.msg869170#msg869170
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with 700w cooler master psu system wont boot or post, fan start about 3 sec then quit
no beeps, no leds.
with others psu's EVEN CHEAP 450W OR 500W system post FINE!!!
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=115623.msg869170#msg869170
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We had the same (ground) issues with Real Power Pro 550W, 650W and 750W.
In fact all of them are based on the same "hardware"
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=115623.msg869135#msg869135
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They suspect a ground issue, but also have been reported several 12V rail "abnormal behaviours".
http://forum.coolermaster.com/viewtopic.php?p=79607
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MSI P35 Neo2-FR not compatible with Real Power 750W

P35 Platinum Memory/Boot Issues

Cpu: e6300 core 2 duo
Motherboard: MSI P35 Platinum
Memory: Generic? hynix chips pc4200 (can get a pic of the stick if you want) 2x 512
Vid Card: ati x1600 pcie
Hard drive: 250gb sata
PSU: Xclio stablepower 500w
When I start the computer, the normal boot reboot sequence starts and eventually the LEDs stop at RRGR. The memory I'm using is from an oldish hp pavilion a1642x http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00787158&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3304173# who's mobo went out. I'd like to know if maybe theres something wrong that I'm doing or if both sticks happen to be bad or something else that I'm missing? I've tried different combinations of slots/sticks and tried manually setting the fsb with the JB1 and JB2 jumpers. Someone said the 1.3 bios was picky about ram but I'm not sure how to check what bios version it is since I cant get that far =p

Hello sinthetica,
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Memory: Generic? hynix chips pc4200
DDR2-533 (PC-4200) modules are not officially supported on this mainboard:
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Main Memory
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P35 Platinum: I have to press the power button multiple times to start

Hello fellow MSI customers,
as written in the subject, I have a problem with starting my PC. When I press the power button, the computer powers on, but there is no output to the screen. In fact, my LCD stays in standby mode. I can hear the fans running, so something is going on. According to the LEDs on the mainboard, it is a memory problem.
Now I turn the computer off, using the power button (have to hold it for a few seconds). When off, I start again and everything runs as it should.
After starting, I ran memtest86 multiple times without any errors. I ran a few games, compiled some programs, installed Vista 64bit, Linux, all without any crashes or hangups. It is just the starting that makes problems. After booting it is very stable.
Seeing that it could be a memory problem, I brought another pair of memory, just to be sure. I couldn't reproduce the problem on that day! Any type of memory I put in (the one before, or the newly brought home) the computer always started on the press of the button. So I thought, OK, maybe they were not seated correctly. But, alas, two days later it is again only starting by pressing the power button three times.
What I tried:
1. Boot using only 1 piece of memory stick
2. Boot using only 1 piece of memory, but different one
3. Use another pair of memory <- worked, but on that day it also worked using my original memory
4. Disconnected everything except graphics card, to make sure it is not a power supply issue (minimized power usage)
5. Tried all of the above with a different processor
6. Used another power supply
Any other ideas?
Here are my specs:
MSI P35 platinum
Core2 Q6600
Nvidia 7900GT
4GB V-Data DDR2 800MHz <--- I think this is the problem, any experiences?
Enermax Liberty 400W
a few other things (HDDs, XFi, DVD-RW)
By the way, how can I boot from an external DVD-RW? It doesn't show in the menu when I press F11 (boot menu).
Thank you for any help, muro
And just to let a bit of steam off:
1. I had major problems with the RAID controller (not MSI fault, rather intel) - I put two disks into a RAID 0, then RAID 1 and they always failed after a few boots - member missing on both disks. I was getting angry, so I put them as normal (non RAID) disks and everything is fine since, although no RAID.
2. Installing anything except windows with an IDE DVD-RW is very hard. It took me ages until I got Ubuntu booting (there are guides on the net, google is your friend), and much longer to get grub (boot loader) working. Long story short - if you have multiple disks, use the Linux disk as the bootable, do NOT put grub on the disk where Vista is installed.
3. I have no idea, how to update the BIOS, if I had to. I'm using 1.1 that came on the board. I use 64bit Vista and Linux, none of which is supported to upgrade the BIOS. Any hints how to do it (if I needed to)?

Hello,
now today is the day I've finally received my replacement board. The good news first - it DOES work! Yepeeee!
Now some more information:
The jmicron controller seems to be missing - a screen with something about "Marvel" is shown before the intel raid screen. However, it is only visible for a fraction of second, so I cannot read it. I think it detects my IDE DVD-RW so I'm quite certain it's the replacement for jmicron. I won't miss it - it took me ages to install Linux with the jmicron controller.
The problem where I had to restart the computer sometimes because it didn't even post (RAM error) is gone. It boots just fine now.
I had an extremely long first post - about a minute, but after that it boots very fast now.
anyway, regarding some questions around here - the manual states MSI recommends using an 350W power supply. My 400W is more than enough. Please note - it is an Enermax, not one bundled with a cheap case. My cheap RAM sticks also work very well now. I did try them on different boards before, so now I know I just had a faulty board.
In the end, I can only say this: This is my 3rd board already and it's the first one that works well. As the hardware changed, I presume there were major issues with this board that lead them to make a new revision. What is strange, though, is that the revision is still 1.1, as were my previous two. I pity everybody who had the same problems as I did, but I can now say that I'm very happy about the board now.
Cheers, muro

P35 Platinum Problem

Update:
Have not got standard memory yet so tried other options...
Replaced floppy drive with one that I verified was working, but no change so floppy drive is ok. Another possibility ruled out.
Reseated memory, floppy cable, graphics card multiple times, no result.
Changed FSB jumper to 333 setting, no result. Changes back to 200, result!!! Booted to bios config multiple times. Some times I got 4 red leds though, in which case the system stopped and rebooted. Then booted to bios again. I decided to try again to reflash the bios to 1.1 using ctrl-home keys. This time it worked. Verified bios is now v1.1.
Started getting cmos errors though. The bios gave me the option to reset to default values, when booting. I did this, and rebooted. The system stopped working again then, showing two green lights, two red. :(
I reset the FSB jumpers to 333, turn system on/off, switched back to 200. Again, I found I could now boot to bios again.
This is as far as I have got. Havenot been able to boot to OS yet. Any advice appreciated.
Starting to think this is not just a bios issue.... :(
-Laurence
Hardware:
MSI P35 Platinum, P35, Socket-775, DDR2
Crucial DDR2 BallistiX PC8500 2048MB CL5
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Gainward GeForce 8600GT 256MB GDDR3
2 x Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 500GB

Update:
Before my last post, I had previously flashed the bios back to the original bios which originally worked for me (1.1, the version which came with the machine, got it from the web site), but I ended up with the same problems. Last thing I did that night, was flash the bios to 1.4b... bios, but seeming same problems reproduced.
I was ready to return the motherboard on Saturday but curiosity got to me so I decided to follow Bosskillers advice and try out some other memory. Not that I doubted Bosskiller but this meant I had to bite the bullet and go buy some vanilla memory. Another 128 euros less in my pocket, after replacing my PSU also
Before installing the memory, i decided to try to again boot the PC (using bios 1.4b... beta) with the high perf memory. Didn't work the first couple of times, then it did! OS booted even, first time in a week. Occasionally (30% of boots) I got the four red lights followed on the next boot by an error messages highlighted in red saying the previous overclocking settings prevented the machine from booting, did I want to keep current settings or reset them. In each case, I kept the setting and simply rebooted.
I then noticed I had not switch the FSB jumper to the 266 setting. Not sure if this matters, as I though bios automatically detects / sets the correct FSB setting in any case. This seemed to improve matters a little.
I then changed the memory, and things improved further. I am now able to boot most of the time, only seeing the 4 red lights when I cold boot the machine after it has not been used for a while (this happens 100% of the time). While running, it seems stable. If i do mess about a little, and constantly hit the reset or main power switch on/off every 10 secs, I will occasionally see the four red lights, or 1G1R2G so I avoid this
Will run the memtest tools you suggested. I am not convinced the high perf memory is bad yet. Will try out some more tests on it at a later date though. The cold boot issue sort of suggests a PSU issue to me but I am unsure. In any case, my Antec power PSU is not in yet , but will install when I get it and hope it resolves the residual issues.
Much appreciate all the help from folk, especially Bosskiller. It has been interesting, I have learned quite a bit I believe.

P35 Platinum bad?

I bought that thing last week and I've been fighting with it since then and I just surrendered tonight! I uninstalled everything, put it back in the box and returning it to the store tomorrow. I manage to boot when I installed it, but I had to reset the bios and reconfigure the bios everytime I shut down the pc. Then I started troubleshooting it by testing different timings and different voltage. Nothing worked. Tried a few different BIOS version still no go. Then in the last 2 days, I couldn't get it to post with any RAM I had.
All of the ram has been tested stick by stick in every slot reseting the BIOS every time (did it a few times with every stick in every slot just to make sure). With different timing and voltage when I could get in the bios...
I tried these RAM sticks :
OCZ : 4 sticks of OCZ6671024ELDGE-K : 4-4-4-8 667 512MB
OCZ : 2 sticks of OCZ2G8002G : 5-5-5-15 800 1gb (not sure about the part number...)
Crucial : Billistix 2 sticks of BL1286AA804 : 4-4-4-12 800 1GB
Crucial : Rendition 1 stick of RM646AA667 : 5-5-5-15 667 512mb (Not sure about timings, but that must be it... Cheap 667 ram as suggested on this forum to get the thing going!)
I also tried with 2 different power supplies :
Antec NeoHE 500W (actually tested with 2 of these)
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610 EPS12V
Did I miss something? I think it's a good board and I just have the bad one in the batch! What do you guys think?
I tried everything I could think of, In the casing out of the casing nothing but the board power supply and RAM.
When I managed to get it to boot and I could install Vista, it rebooted 2 times by itself 1 time I had a BSOD while I was working on it the other time, it rebooted during the night.
And the LEDs where always saying the same thing GGRG (Memory error).
I was running it with a C2D E6850. And most of the time when it posted, it was setting my CPU to 9x200 giving 1800 instead of 9x333 to give 3000... I didn't have access to another cpu so I didn't test if the cpu was good or bad... But my guess is that the board has a problem.

I returned the MB to the store and found another one. These are hard to find in my area, I don't know why! Everything is running good. It works a lot better than the 1st one...
I couldn't find another P35 so yesterday I bought an Asus P5K which had a problem with the drive controller, could'nt install vista on my hard drive... Contacted Asus and they told me I got a bad board! So I managed to find another P35 platinum not too far from where I live.
The only problem I have is if I turn off the computer and disconnect the power cable, I get an overclock failed message the next time I boot the computer... I don't know if I'm the only one with this problem...

Pls help! I cleared CMOS now I've lost RAID: P35 platinum

Hi all,
Last night I had a problem with my PC not reading a CD. I read on another forum that it may be a problem with my CD drive not being recognised and it recommended pressing the 'clear CMOS' button then rebooting the system.
However, I have now lost RAID. It boots fine on one drive but lists the other as simply another drive. I went back into the BIOS and re-activated RAID, but when I do this the operating system fails to boot and gives me an error message saying:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<windows root> system32\config\system
I have backed everything up while the machine is good, but would dearly not want to have to re-install everything again!
Is there any way I can recover it to the way it was before?
I did a search a found this thread, not entirely sure if it's the same problem:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=35930.0
Cheers,
Zap
Details of my system:
Mobo: MSI P35 Platinum 1333MHZ FSB, Processor: Intel Q6600 2.4GHZ, 4GB ram, HDD: 2 x 500GB Samsung in RAID (mirrored)
Operating System:XP SP3

Ok guys, here are the further details: (BTW triangle, it's RAID1).
In the BIOS here are some of the settings i've applied:
On chip ATA devices:
PCI IDE busmaster = Enabled
RAID mode = RAID
The boot sequence is set to:
1. CD ROM
2. One of the HDD's (2 are listed as being available)
3. Disabled
Now, it boots OK to the Intel Storage Manager page. If I press CTRL-I to open the configuration utility I get the following details:
RAID 1
ID = 0
Name = Volume 0
Status = Normal
Bootable = Yes
So if I exit, it goes to attempt to boot XP. However before I get any sign of life from XP I get this error message:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows setup using the original setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.
Now if I set RAID mode = IDE in the BIOS the system will boot normally on one HDD. At the moment I can open explorer and see that the 2 HDDs are listed as Local Disc (C:) and Local Disc (E:)'.
I checked the SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM on both the HDD's and found a difference in the file size between the two- I'm guessing because I'm currently using one disc and ignoring the other.
SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM file sizes:
Local Disc (C:) = 40.9MB (41.1MB size on disc)
Local Disc (E:) = 40.6MB (40.8MB size on disc)
So I assume because the two files don't match XP treats them as being corrupt when in RAID 1 mode.
Can I simply copy the SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM file from one disc to the other? What about the other items on the disc that don't match considering that other files have changed aside from this one?
Should I attempt to copy the entire C drive to the E drive....?????
Thanks again guys,
Cheers Zap.

P35 Platinum boot error !!!

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