P35 Platinum & Geil 6400 ultra

Dear.
I have:
C2Q6600
P35 Platinum
Ati 3870
2x160gb sata
1x optical
tv tuner
PS: Asus 430W
I bay Geil pc-6400 ultra 4 4 4 12 but its works on 5 5 5 18 (everest)
will put him in bios ver. 1.6 on 4 4 4 12 its some time crash
if you want to help me please send answer and i change voltage for ddr in bios its imposibile ( i dont nou)
Sory for poor eanglish
Greats from Croatia!

It better to check the product page for the model he is using. The recommended voltage for 4-4-4-12 may vary between different models. Of course, 2.1V is a very common voltage for 800MHz/CL4 but it is better to check first to make sure there is no mistake.
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the timings of this model is set to 5-5-5-18 by the manufacturer for compatibility purpose.
Actually, 5-5-5-18 are the JEDEC standard timings for DDR2-800 MHz in general to make sure they are able to work at default DDR2 operating voltage (1.8V +/- 0.1V).

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Problem OC P35 Platinum + 8GB of CL4 memory with Q6600

Hi all!
I just lost that 1000 words post from power outage, so bear with me if I'm more direct to the point.
System:
P35 Platinum BIOS 1.9B1 (Vcore:1.375V, VTT: 1.30V, NB:1.550V, SB: 1.8V) 417MHz FSB x 8 = 3336MHz
Q6600 G0 2.4GHz @ 3.336GHz (42*C idle 68*C load)
OCZ Memory (OCZ2RPR800C44GK x 2 : AKA CL4 HPC Reapers) PC2-6400 @ 800MHz (4-4-4-15) OC @ 960MHz (5-5-5-18) VDimm: 2.2V
Geforce 8800GT 512 MB DDR3 (680MHz/1800MHz/1050MHz)
OS: Vista Ultimate x64
I try to push those memory sticks to 1000MHz. To do this, 2 ways I know: up FSB to 500MHz with 1:1 ratio or change ratio to 5:6 + up FSB to 417MHz. I tried both and here are the results:
Test the CPU OC = FSB: 417MHz x 8 = 3336MHz & RAM 834MHz (1:1) = 24 hours prime95 stable (small FFT)
Test the memory = FSB: 417MHz x 7 = 2919MHz & RAM 1000MHz ratio 1:1.2 = 24 hours memtest86+ v2.01 AND 24 hours prime95 stable (blend test)
Test them together = FSB: 417MHz x 8 = 3336MHz & RAM 1000MHz ratio 1:1.2 = memtest86+ stable (20 hours) but not prime95 stable. At those settings, SuperPI 32M would finish only 50% of the time (not exact in round)
I tried upping NB to 1.6V (Afraid to fry it), tried upping VTT FSB (What does that do...) to 1.4V-1.45V : no luck.
I know that below 1.55V my 8GB setup is unstable (crashed prime blend test at 18 hours...)
The other option is now trying with higher FSB. All those tests were done with 1.9B1 BIOS. At 500MHz FSB, the board wouldn't even POST. I then flashed the BIOS to 1.9B2 with success! I can now POST and boot with 500MHz FSB! I cannot load windows though which leaves me short of my goal. I tried some more conservative speed (470MHz FSB) and succeeded in loading Vista. Had a hard time thought, at that FSB speed, Vista was crawling and CPU and memory benches in Everest were about 50% lower than last stable benches. Something was wrong.
I was then wondering ways to boot Vista with 500MHz stable or make my two stable overclocks work together...
I read a post from someone stating that MSI told him to use performance BIOS P09 because OCing 8GB was easier with that BIOS. I did so. I could not boot in Vista (without OC, at default settings) because of nvidia driver (was able to boot in safe mode). I also read in that thread that BIOS P09 had problems with G92 videocards... I wish I could read German (or danish, not sure) because (save the thread I mentioned) the only forums talking about performance BIOS are German MSI forums...
I also read that BIOS after 1.3 are not good for OCing because of bad voltage regulation. I would flash back to 1.3
but the Q6600 Kentsfield is not supported before 1.6.
So I'm asking help at the same time from this board and User mod BIOS, was not sure to which board my thread would belong.
Thank you for you suggestions and/or advices concerning performance BIOS.
Jerome
P.S. Oh yeah! I also set my hardware OC settings jumpers to 333MHz which supposedly increase FSB stability... phew... I thought I would be direct to the point....
Edited:corrected typos

Quote from: solidgear on 19-January-08, 08:26:06
oops, u should have bought better memory, teach u for messing with manufacturers specs. No sympathy here
Well, it seems that the CS4 settings where exactly the rated speed for the GEIL Ultra Dual Channel modules, it's just that the (100% safe) pre-programmed SPD speeds are slower than the official rated timings. GEIL tells about that with all of their newer products, so timings I entered where not illegal for the modules.

P35 platinum, memory and videocard questions

Hi folks.
I recently had a problem with an Asus P5K board in the sense that it doesn't allow use of 8gb of ram (despite saying it does) when you use 4x 2gb sticks. I want to replace this board with a P35 platinum but first I want to make sure my geil 8gb kit (4x 2gb DDR2 6400 sticks) will work (I'll be runnnig windows xp x64).
Also I have an XFX Geforce 8800 Ultra which has quite a big cooler, I read in some reviews of the board that the southbridge heatsink is too high for cards with big coolers like that to fit neatly. My question is will it still work? Can I screw the card in or do I have to live in fear of it plummetting out of the slot?
Thanks in advance for your answers.

I've tried 4 x 2GB OCZ DDR2 memory sticks. P35 Platinum detects 8GB main memory but shows usage memory as only 4GB out of 8GB. I've emailed MSI helpline if they can help out.
Quote from: BSFWhite on 05-July-07, 22:05:13
Hi folks.
I recently had a problem with an Asus P5K board in the sense that it doesn't allow use of 8gb of ram (despite saying it does) when you use 4x 2gb sticks. I want to replace this board with a P35 platinum but first I want to make sure my geil 8gb kit (4x 2gb DDR2 6400 sticks) will work (I'll be runnnig windows xp x64).
Also I have an XFX Geforce 8800 Ultra which has quite a big cooler, I read in some reviews of the board that the southbridge heatsink is too high for cards with big coolers like that to fit neatly. My question is will it still work? Can I screw the card in or do I have to live in fear of it plummetting out of the slot?
Thanks in advance for your answers.

P35 Platinum rebooting problem

Hello,
I have just registered at MSI Forums, as i have quite strange problem with my PC and i need help :azn:
My specs:
Motherboard : MSI P35 Platinum, bios ver1.9
CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 coolde with Thermalright Ultra 120a + Zalman 120mm fan
Memory: Mushkin XP2-6400 2 GB CL4-4-3-10
VGA : Inno3D 8800gts 512 with Accelero s2 rev2 + 2 Silverstone 90mm fans
HDD : Seagate 160GB SATA
Optical : Liteon DVDRW LDW-851S
PSU : Tagan TG430-U22 (i am running it at 'combined rails' mode, which has 28A rating for the 12v rail-information from the sticker)
I also have 3 120mm fans mounted in case
I have Windows XP SP2 installed
I took attempt to overclock my cpu and memory, and i managed to get 3.4ghz for cpu and 972mhz for memory (486FSB ; CPU Multipliter 7 ; RAM timings 5,5,5,15 ; RAM voltage 2,0v ; CPU voltage 1.4125v ; VTT FSB voltage AUTO ; NB voltage 1.45v ; SB I/O power 1.8v ; SB core power 1.15v), i am able to run Orthos Blend test (stressing cpu and memory) for about 8 hours (so it's pretty stable I think)
So, let's get to the point:
I am able to run my PC flawlessly all day long, but when i try to turn it on next day, it keeps rebooting itself for few minutes (it turns for about 10 seconds but the screen stays black, then it turns off and turns on again.....LEDS keep showing red/red/green/red indicating memory problem) and finally boots with 'overclocking failed' information.............i get to the bios, change ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, save settings (or not save..it doesn't matter at all) and then it boots and loads Windows no problem.......... what the heck is wrong?? Is it memory problem? Or maybe PSU? (I was using it in my previous PC)
Any suggestions ? :azn:
Thanks in advance

Avoid that one, instead go for:
Quote from: Frankenputer on 20-September-08, 02:03:41
I would recommend the Corsair VX550 or TX650.
or 750TX

Faulty MSI Intel P35 Platinum motherboard

Hi i am building new pc but i seem to have problem with MSI Motherboard.
My PC Specs as follows:
Ocz Game Xstream 600w Power Supply
MSI Intel P35 Platinum motherboard
Intel E6750 Processor
MSI Nvidia 8800GT NX 512mb ddr
Geil Ultra DDR2 2.0GB PC6400 Dual Channel memory kit (2 x 1GB) 800MHz (4-4-4-12) +Aluminium heat spreader
500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II 300 7200rpm 16mb cache Hard Drive oem
COOLERMASTER case
Now i put everything in place and connect the power supply to the motherboard, however it wouldn't start. I know many of you will say PSU is faulty but its not, i already been on OCZ forums and i have done all the tests including jump start and it works 100%. However when i take off 2 - 4 pin CPU1 and CPU2 connector from motherboard, The pc starts but no sceen, when i put them on the pc won't start. I took it to PC repair shop to have all parts tested, they said motherboard is not working. Did any1else had a same problem, if not please help me resolve this issue. THanks.

I had a problem with my original P35 where the CPU fan control didn't work. Fan would spin, but it never registered speed. CPU would get to 70c at idle. Got a replacement MB and fan speed registered and temp was at about 30c @ idle.
RMA the motherboard. Depending on where you got it from you'll be up and running in 10 days.
OH!!!! VERY IMPORTANT. Do NOT reuse the heatsink compound which is now on the CPU and the heatsink. Scrape it off both, use Isopropyl Alcohol to clean the residue off both. After you get your new MB, apply NEW compound to the top of the CPU. Then seat the heatsink on.

Problem installing MSI P35 Platinum & MSI NX8600GT & windows XP

Hi all,
I just bought my MSI P35 platinum mobo and MSI NX8600GT graphics card.
Was trying to install XP on it. During installation, got the following error message :
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this appears again, follow these steps:
Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the Stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver updates. Try changing video adapters.
Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.
Technical Information:
*** Stop : 0X0000007E (0XC0000005, 0XF748E0BF, 0XF78DA208, 0XF78D9F08)
*** pci.sys - Address F748E0BF base at F7487000, DateStamp 3b7d855c
Then it just freezes there. Any ideas how I can resolve this ? Please help
Thanks ...

Quote from: NovJoe on 07-February-08, 00:17:44
Please post your full system specs and PSU specs amps.
Moan Guide
my system specs
Intel Pentium 4 - Intel E8200, LGA775 2.66GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 1333 Mhz FSB, 45nm
MSI P35 Platinum
3 x 1GB DDR2 Kingston 6400 CL5 800MHz
320GB Seagate SATA HDD
MSI NX8600GT 256MB
Windows XP Pro
PSU : I-CUTE ATX-450W/P4
The HDD was detected correctly in BIOS, memory also detected, Graphics card seems ok (how I can tell ?)
rgds

MSI P35 Platinum - No fans so no additional Cooling Needed?

Hello,
With the idea of supporting a quiet but powerful system, I had intended to buy the MSI 875X Platinum, but I just saw the new passively cooled MSI P35 Platinum. Can I really get by using the MSI P35 Platinum with no fans or additional cooling, running:
-Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe Processor 2.4GHz, 1066FSB
-4GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 DDR2-800
-MSI GeForce 8600 GTS NX8600GTS-T2D256EZ-HD Video Card
-Zalman ZM600-HP HeatPipe Cooled 600w PSU
I won't be overclocking; I'd just like an updated, quiet system with power to spare; will be used for photoshop.
Any other comments? Thx.
Scott

Quote from: jsmartin22 on 10-June-07, 22:12:51
Good suggestion; I was unaware of the SilenX Fans, but I reviewed and get the idea--they are excellent for low noise applications, and this is exactly what I want! Thx.
Scott
For those who don't know the Antec P180/P182 has the PSU in a separate chamber at the bottom of the case so it can chuck the cpu's heat straight out of two 120mm fans in top and rear. There is also a 3rd 120mm fan in lower chamber blowing onto the PSU. All three Antec fans are fitted with HI-Med-Low switches. I find Low to be good.
120mm fans push a decent amount of air on low RPM and are much quieter than 90mm.
There is room to fit two more of your own fans on the Upper HD cage. One to draw air in from the front of the case and one that blows straight on the graphics card. If you use both at once it creates a wind tunnel but means you cannot use it for hard drives. Although you could just fit the front fan and have it blow across your HD. I have my disks in the lower chamber to keep their heat away from the motherboard, and have done the wind tunnel option.
If I could change one thing I would have bought slower RPM or adjustable extra fans because they are louder than the built in Antec fans.
Hope this makes sense lol.
To be honest, you don't really need the extra fans if silence is more important, but my room is very warm and I plan to overclock.

Cannot get out of standby - P35 Platinum

Hello everyone,
I recently build myself a new rig, featuring a nice and shiny new P35 Platinum board. Here are the system specs:
MSI P35 Platinum - BIOS version 1.4
OCZ GameXStream SLI/Active 600W
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz overclocked to 2.88 (FSB 320)
2x 1GB 1066Mhz PC-8500 Kingston HyperX RAM (5-5-5-15) no overclock there
2x Seagate Barracuda 320GB in RAID 0
Sapphire Radeon HD2900XT, 512M etc etc
Some IDE NEC DVD+/-RW Drive
Here comes the problem. I put my system on standby, and down it went. I restarted it once, booted into Windows Vista Home Premium, 32bit without a problem. Then I turned it off again and went away for a few hours. I came back, started the machine and... nothing. At least not on the screen: it tells me that it's not receiving a signal. All the fans are spinning, and I hear a normal, single post beeb. I opened the case, and saw led3 was constantly shining. I don't know if this was the case before the problem turned up, I never bothered to look at it. The status leds on the board have shown me varying stuff, I got all greens once, and I believe it booted to windows on that occasion. I also got it green-red-red-green once, but that pattern didn't come back. I tried to clear cmos with the button, system powered down etc etc (which didn't help), and now I'm getting green-green-red-green (searching for a floppy drive), and it's not booting to windows anymore. Which seems logical after clearing cmos, because in standard bios settings, the Intel RAID controller is disabled, so it can't find Windows anymore And now the big question... how on earth can I reset the board so that it doesn't think its standby anymore, without any display support? It seems unlikely there's a defect in the graphics card or the psu doesn't supply enough juice; the rig ran just fine the other day (also on heavy gaming/video processing).
Please help me out, o great MSI forum experts
Juul

It's really strange. On one hand, the status leds indicate the system boots normally, it even booted into Vista once (heard the vista starting sound), but on the other hand, there's NOTHING on the display. Everything seems to work just fine, except for the fact that I'm not seeing anything before the problem arose, I booted several times with the memory installed. I experienced absolutely no problems at all. I also tried to boot with only one stick, didn't solve the problem. But I will try it with a 6400 stick. I just wish I'd never ever put the stupid thing on standby. I'm thinking of an S1 / S3 problem myself. Is it possible the videocard still thinks the entire system is on S3 standby and therefore refuses to output anything to the screen? I didn't adjust any of the settings in the power management section of the bios when I still had visual access to it, by the way.

P35 Platinum - will not POST

Hi all,
PC has been stable for nearly 2 years now. Problem started after a clean install of Vista 64-bit, while installing updates (had software problems, so clean install).
After one set of updates the PC hung while trying to shut down Windows for a restart - sat at the shutting down screen for a couple of hours.
Eventually I shut down by holding the power button.
On restart I wanted to enter Safe mode, so was trying to hit F1, but the machine seemed to be stuck on the logo screen - F1 doing nothing, Del doing nothing, tab doing nothing, so I restarted the PC again.
On reboot this time the fans span up, then immediately machine went into a reboot loop, every 3 seconds or so.
Checked diagnostic LEDs - first RRRR, then machine rebooted and gave RRGR - memory test, then reboot to RRRR, RRGR, etc.
I reset CMOS and dumped all but one RAM chip - still no post, blank screen etc, but now the diag LEDs go to RRGG (decompressing BIOS to RAM), and nothing else happens except I get a single beep every 10 seconds or so.
I've tried changing the single RAM chip, tried in different RAM slots, changed the PSU, but still the same.
Any advice please?
Thanks all
Specs:-
MSI P35 Platinum
Intel E6750
Tried 2 x Hiper TypeR 580W PSUs
Tried with 1 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix 6400 and 1 x 512MB Corsair XMS2 6400 RAM (tried two different chips of each type, 1 at a time) (previously stable with 3 x Ballistix + 1 x Corsair)
1 x Western Digital Caviar 250GB HDD
1 x XFX 8800GTS 320MB video card

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I almost certainly flashed to the latest BIOS when building the PC (September 2007)
When it September? Do you remember that? There were some serious issues with memory compatibility in BIOS v1.3 (released in July 2007) which were finally fixed in v1.5 (2007-09-28)). If you are using v1.3 or v1.4 your current problem may have to do with that memory bug. The symptoms were precisely the same and it sometimes happened that everything ran perfectly fine until the problem was triggered by a certain event. The solution was ususally to install a DDR2-667 memory stick and then update the BIOS to the latest version.
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At this stage I'm thinking either the CPU or the motherboard is dead...
Not necessarely. Try a DDR2-667 memory stick (an old but functional 256MByte stick would be enough) and see if that changes anything. If it does not, please hook up an internal floppy drive to the board and a PS/2 keyboard and follow this procedure using the latest BIOS Release:
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/BIOS_AMI_Recovery.asp

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]
500GB Seagate/Maxtor SATA2 16MB
MSI GeForce 8800GTX 768MB PCI-E OC
NEC Optiarc 18x DVD-RW RAM SATA Black
List of problems :
1)
1 boot. auto restart after 2 seconds after starting to boot
2 boot ( RRGR ) - reboot
3 boot -> message that overclocking failed and fail-safe default settings loaded and I'm able to use bios or all stays just like in the second boot till the end of the times ( untill you turn off the PSU and turn it again -> then go to boot one )
2) When in bios it shows that CPU clock is 1.8Ghz but it should be 3.0Ghz
3) It cant find a HDD but it's plugged into us usual and in bios I can see it but when it starting to boot it can't resolve the HDD.
Any ideas ? Thanks

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.
I tried with putting only one DDR2 module, but nothing.
Right now i can not try another memory module (I hope that tomorrow a friend of mine can borrow me one, so i can make some tests).
BUT FOR THE MOMENT....ANY IDEA???
I'm quite scared....Did I kill my DDR2?????
Or it's an issue with the brand PATRIOT???? (On the forum i read a lot of issues between P35 and memory modules made by Patriot!).
If so, can we hope in a BIOS upgrade that will fix the problem?
HELP ME...

P35 platinum strange pauses

Hello,
I just bought an 8800gt. The issue I'm facing is one of the weirdest I have seen in my time spent with computers. I can play Crysis non stop, and everything is perfect. No overheating, I can OC the hell out of card (670 / 2000) and no problem crop ups. However as soon as I exit and run another game (or 3d mark) after some time (within first 5 minutes) extreme stutter begins. Game pauses for about 30-45 seconds, but computer doesn't crash, if I hit alt-tab and come back issue resolves immediately but repeats itself in a matter of minutes. Strangest part is the game could be a heavy title such as Crysis or light one such as Baldur's Gate 2, it doesn't matter.
Problem began after upgrading to a 8800gt from x1900xt. These issues happen in clean formatted Windows (both X32 and X64 versions) and definitely hardware related. Tried many drivers etc. I guess it's not the card cause as I said I can run heavy titles for many hours, the problem doesn't rear its head unless I quit and run another game -or same game-.
My full specs:
Axle 8800gt - fan at %70 with RivaTuner
Q6600 at stock (2.4 ghz) (is my PSU enough? Please check PSU specs below)
GEIL 4 gb Ram (4x 1gb) DDR2 800 at 4-4-4-12 (tried taking out sticks, no help here)
MSI P35 Platinum BIOS v1.6 (I have suspicions here - PCI Express compatibility?)
Seagate 400GB SATA & Seagate 300GB SATA
PATA DVD-ROM & DVD Writer
Silverstone Zeus 650W - http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_spec.php?pno=st65zf&area=usa
I use DVI to VGA converter. Tried all driver revisions. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
One more question, can anyone tell me if I should plug 12V motherboard PCI Express power cord, I have tried both (6 pin is connected of course) but does it make any difference when 6 pin cable is connected?

It kinda sounds like a software issue but I'm not sure beacuse you said that this happens even after a fresh install. I does sound like some process doesn't get shutdown properly when you exit out of a game and when you start something else up with that process still running it causes problems.
The only thing I can think to try would see if maybe there is a patch or update to the games or something.
It could be a hardware problem (they can cause some really strange problems sometimes). Don't know where to start though. I would guess the video card or possibly power supply.
For your power supply question you should plug in all three connectors to the board for best stability. The 24 pin & the 8 pin (I think you can use 4 pin here as well) & regular 4 pin molex. And of course the 6 pin to the video card. I think this setup can provide the most power to your system.

P35 Platinum MB and raidproblems

.Product Type: Mainboard P35 Platinum
2.BIOS version: 1.1
3.External VGA Type: Ati radeon 1600
4.CPU Type: Intel Core 2 Duo 6600
5.Memory Type: DDR2 pc2 6400 2 x 1 GB
6.Power Supply Type: 410W
7.Operating System: NA
8.Problem Description:
When I activate Raid 10 I can't use CD drive. I have tested IDE CD and SATA CD drives. If I activate from bios External IDE the the RAID bios doesn't show at boot . If I deactivate External IDE from bios, Raid bios is accessible and raid drives are ok, but I can't use Cd drives. With an older bios version 1.0 I can use both raid and CD drives, but I can't build raid 10 drive, only raid 1 or raid 0 drives.

Hi as the provider didn't have the Matrox at first he installed temporarely an Nvidia 8800GTS card. This has been replaced since. The RAID array just crashed yesterday and Windows XP pro has just shown me the big blue screen, since then nothing. It is KO.
I really wonder if I will ever work with MSI again. My client is really p...off!
Tell me if you already experienced this type of problem.
Thanks to all.

OC results P35 Platinum Q6600

Just, FYI my OC results on my Vista64 system
- P35 Platinum MB Bios V1.8
- Q6600 running at 3.2 Ghz (8x multiplier, speedstep off)
- Zalman 9700NT cooler
- FSB 400 Mhz
- Mem GEIL 4x1GB 4-4-4-12 at 800 Mhz @ at 2.1 V
- Vcore 1.375
- NB 1.45
- Nexus Caterpillar (silent) case
Idle CPU temp is 38-39 C / max temp still unknown :-)
System perfectly stable, the perf difference with the stock speeds is huge.

Got that with Artic Cooler HS (kind of noisy/crappy)...
40°C idle, 68°C 66 hours prime95 load without errors.
Question: How can you know it's stable without running prime/orthos?
8GB of Oced memory from 800MHz to 960MHz at 5-5-5-18.
Effective Vcore is 1.320V, you?
Video card is OCed as well.
BIOS 1.9B1.
Have good day!

P35 Platinum & P35 Neo2 Series

beta BIOS for P35 Platinum & P35 Neo2 Series(MS-7345, PCB 1.1) ver V1.4B3:
BIOS Sign-on message: A7345IMS V1.4B3 083107 (Date: 08/31/2007)
Attachment name: P35 Platinum and P35 Neo2 Series 1.4B3.zip
Make and ensure PC is stable before proceed. flash BIOS from USB key, by using our Tool(easy & safe way to flash):
MSI Forum HQ USB Flashing Tool
Use Beta or Modded BIOSes at own risk!
Feeback are Welcome!!! Thanks!!

Quote from: Jack the Newbie on 25-September-07, 04:00:50
A new BETA has just surfaced in the German MSI Forum: A7235IMS.151 (09/21/07).
For anyone interested, here is a Link to the BIOS (use at your own risk!):
http://msi-forum.de/thread.php?threadid=31968&threadview=1&hilight=&hilightuser=0&page=3#post281405
Changelog will follow shortly. The admin did not find the time yet.
The changelog did not follow that shortly after all, but it goes like this:
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Fix some DDR can not boot issue
There seems to be a new beta (1.5b2) around. Unfortunately I don't have a link to it, but here is the changelog:
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Fix Smart FAN Fail from S3 wake up issue
Here it the Link to BIOS 1.52 BETA. The BIOS was just uploaded. Use it at your own risk!!
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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 & Geil 6400 ultra

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