P6N SLI with Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Crashes on OS installation

Hello everybody,
I have a mobo P6N SLI (MS-7350) and an Intel QX6850 that aparently works fine and pass all test with PC-Check, but when I try to install the OS (Win 7 or Win XP) it freezes.
I will state step by step all the info of what I had and I have done for better understanding. I hope anybody can give me a clue of what is not working well.
-first, mobo was working fine with a Pentium D 940, RAM 4 GB 800MHz, and Graphics XFX GeForce 9500 GT 512MB. Windows XP installation was sucessfull. Windows 7 installation was NOT successful at this point. I guess the old bios was not good enough for Windows 7.
- Intel QX6850 was installed. Win 7 and WinXP installation NOT successful. It freezes during install. CPU speed show 2.0 GHz whet it should be 3.0 GHz. (opss, I should have updated the bios....)
- Old Pentium D 940 Installed back. Bios was updated to latest available. Win 7 and Win XP installation successfull. I guess with the new bios Win 7 was good to install.
- Intel QX6850 was installed back. Win 7 and WinXP installation still NOT successful. It still freezes during install. Nevertheless, CPU info is correct this time.
- Test ran with PC-Check. All test passed correctly. There is just one thing that caught my attention. The MP Symmetry test was not available for Core 1. The other cores 2, 3 and 4 passed the MP symmetry test. Every other test incluiding RAM and HD passed.
Any clues?? Does anyone know if it is normal that CORE 1 has no MP Symmetry available. Does anyone have an idea why OS installation crashes with this CPU?? Should I smash the QX6850

Remove your processor and check the socket grid for bent pins/wires.

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I had my two sticks of RAM in DIMM 1 and DIMM 3 as the manual said. I then took these out and put them in DIMM 2 and 4. Works perfectly now.
Damn MSI's memory slot color-coding! ...
Ok, just so we're all talking about the same thing, when I look at my (Platinum version) manual, on page 2-7, it's titled "Memory" at the top and has images below there showing 3 alternate configurations for memory. If you look closely at the lables on the right-hand side of the images, the slots are labeled:
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and ideas?
A great one.
Don't use MSI's utilities. Anyone here will tell you that.

P6N SLI Platinum mobo with hard drive/sata crashes

i've experienced a (now recurring) problem with my hardware over the past several months. i've come home from work twice now, once about 2 months ago, the other just today to find my computer stuck at the windows xp loading screen. if i tried to reboot the system, it would hang at that point, until i disconnected the offending drive/sata channel (i had 3 hard drives in my system, 1 150gb drive with operating system, ect, and 2 500gb drives for storage (mp3s, video, ect). i've narrowed the problem down to either the motherboard or the sata cables (i don't have spare cables to test with), as the hard drives work perfectly in an external usb enclosure. any ideas of what could be wrong?
basic system stats:
msi P6N SLI platinum motherboard
intel core 2 duo E6600 2.4ghz processor
crucial ballistix DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 2 gb SDRAM
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS video card
western digital raptor 150gb 10k rpm SATA hard drive
western digital caviar 500gb 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750w power supply

in brief,
1- if you have one memory it should be in slot 1, closest to cpu, if two X 1Gb then they should be in one and three.
2- do you know what is virtual memory if so have you made adjustment or not.
3- you have freeze due to wrong bios setting till we get a good picture of your bios difficult to pin point the mistake, so use either a digi cam or web cam and take shoots of your bios then we can pin point the mistakes

P6N SLI Platinum crashes from cold boot

Intel Core 2 Duo E6420, 2.13GHz, 1,066FSB, 4MB
Zalman CNPS9500-AT Intel LGA775 Aero Flower Cooler
MSI P6N SLI Platinum
Neste ECS 6001 600 watts PSU (3.3V/24A, +5V/30A, +5VSB/3A, +12V1/18A, +12V2/18A, +12V3/18A, +12V4/18A, -12V/0.5A)
2 x 1GB Crucial PC2-5300 Non ECC CL5
XFX GeForce 8600GTS 256MB DDR3 PCIe (PV-T84G-UDF3)
1 x Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200rpm, S300, 16MB SATA (system disk)
3 x Western Digital Caviar 500GB 7200rpm, S300, 16MB SATA (data disks)
BIOS – 1.1 updated to 1.5, default settings (I'm not overclocking)
Windows XP SP2 OEM
I installed the above system last summer and have been having problems ever since. Initially the video signal dropped after booting so I replaced the graphics card. This didn’t work so I replaced the MOBO. All was OK for a while then the system started crashing for no apparent reason but would usually be OK for a while after re-booting. Then it failed to boot into Windows at all. I checked the BIOS and noticed that the Smart Fan setting in the H/W Monitor had disabled itself somehow (I had set it to be enabled with a target temperature of 40OC). I re-enabled the setting and was able to boot into Windows OK. However it still crashes every time from a cold boot (the CPU fan comes on full speed for a few seconds then the computer just shuts down). After a few re-boots it settles down and seems to be fine.
I’m assuming the problem is something to do with CPU temperature but in the BIOS H/W monitor the system and CPU temperatures are never above 30 to 35OC. As the system seems to be perfectly stable once it’s been re-booted a few times it doesn’t seem that the CPU is actually overheating. I’ve tried setting the CPU target temperature higher (say to 60 OC) but still get the same cold boot crash. Note that the MSI Dual Core Centre utility in Windows shows the same CPU and system temperatures as the BIOS monitor (although the GPU temperature is much higher at 60 OC).
Any suggestions for solving this would be much appreciated.

I'm not familiar with your brand of ps. Have you tested the rails while the system is running using a digital voltage meter?

Core 2 Quad Q8400 Problem (P6N SLI Platinum) [FIXED]

Hello, I recently bought an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 with the understanding that my P6N SLI Platinum will support Yorkfield cores, given I have the latest BIOS. I updated my BIOS to 1.6, yet it just hangs on the MSI screen and will not POST. I just want to know if I indeed do have the latest BIOS, and if so, if there's anything I or MSI can do to remedy this problem. I really don't have enough money for a new mobo or CPU, and I'm going to be extremely irritated if I just wasted $170 on this... Thanks in advance.

Quote from: alj on 10-November-10, 19:27:09
I'm here for help and complain, no msi is not supposed to know what will be intel releases, but i think they can fix the problem by releasing a new bios or simply put on the boxes models when writing that it support this or that technology
if you searched a little on msi.com you would have ended up here:
www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodcpu2&prod_no=1140&maincat_no=1
here it says what CPU 's the board can run.
so MSI does say, what you can use, but it doesnt say on the box, cause it changes all the time, so they keep an online list.
and no, they cant write a new BIOS, its a chipset limitation from the NVIDIA chipset that cant be overcome by BIOS update unfortunatly.
I would go for a cheap P45 board, they can almost run all s775 CPU's and its newer then the P6N.

MSI P55 GD80 compatible with Intel COre i7 Extreme 965

hye there, i just wanted to know is the new p55 GD80 fits with intel core i7 extreme 965??..
as far as i concern, p55 mobo compatible with any i5 or i7 board, is that true.?

The p55 stands for the chipset , so it's a p55 chipset and no x58 chipset ,.
The p55 is only compatible with cori i5 and core i7 starting with 8... ( 860 , 870) it support only dual channel memory and not triple like the core i7 9... (920 , 940 , 950 965 ,975).
The core i5 and core i7 860 ,870 has the pci-e controller integrated so you have only 1x16 or 2x 8x8 or 1x8 and 2x4 for triple sli in sli or crossfire. The core i7 9.... with x58 chipset have 2x 16 pci-e or 1x16 and 2x8 for triple sli , so for highend multi gpu's the x58 has a advantage and it has triple channel memory , but it is a small advantage.
See here the socket it support and if it has hyper-treathing or not.
The core i5 750 has no hyper-treathing the core i 7 does, no matter what socket ( 1156 or 1366)
Model      LGA socket    Core/Thread    Clock    Turbo boost    L3 cache    TDP    Price
45nm
Bloomfield
Core i7 975    1366    4/8         3.33      3.60      8    130    999
Core i7 950    1366      4/8      3.06      3.46      8    130    562
Core i7 920    1366      4/8      2.66      2.93      8    130    284
45nm
Lynnfield
Core i7 870    1156     4/8      2.93      3.60      8    95    562
Core i7 860    1156      4/8      2.80      3.46      8    95    284
Core i 870s      1156      4/8      2.80      3.46      8    82    337
Core i5 750    1156      4/4      2.66      3.20      8    95    196
Core i5 750s    1156      4/4      2.66      3.20      8    82    259
32nm
Clarkdale
Core i5 670    1156      2/4      3.46      3.73      4    73    284
Core i5 661    1156      2/4      3.33      3.60      4    73    196
Core i5 660    1156      2/4      3.33      3.60      4    73    196
Core i5 650    1156      2/4      3.20      3.40      4    73    176
Core i5 540    1156      2/4      3.06      none      4    73    143
Core i5 530    1156      2/4      2.93      none      4    73    123
Pentium G9650    1156      2/2      2.80      none      4    73    8.
Base line if you want a core i7 Bloomfield =920 ,940 , 950 , 975 or 965 you need a x58 chipset based motherboard.= socket 1366 = triple channel memory DDR3
core i5 Lynnfield (4cores)750 /750s= p55 chipset = NO hyper-treathing=socket 1156=dual channel memory DDR3
Core i7 Lynnfield (4 cores) 860 , 870 = p55 chipset = Hyper-treathing = socket 1156.=dual channel memory DDR3
Core i5 clarkdale (2cores)= p55 chipset = Hyper-treathing = socket 1156.=dual channel memory DDR3
All have turbo mode except the Core i5 540, Core i5 530 , Pentium G9650.
Hope this will help.

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