P965 Platinum Power Connections

I am building a new system with a P965 Platinum, Core 2 Duo E6700 and MSI NX8800GTS video card. On the board there is power connector, JPWR2, which is an 8 pin connector with 4 of the pins covered with tape. My PS (Antec NEOHE 550) has both a 4 and a 8 pin cable. Why are 4 pins of JPWR2 coverd and should I use the 8 pin cable? Also the JPWR3 connector says it is for the graphics card but the NX8800GTS has a 6 pin connector on the card. Do I need to put power to both JPWR3 and the graphics card?

Quote from: gbjbany on 31-December-06, 00:34:09
I have a related question. The JPWR3 connector is a molex plug. Can i just use one of my molex 4 pin power cables or does it need to be the 4 pin 12v connector with an adaptor ?
I have a geforce 7600gt oc and it doesnt have a power connector, So im not even sure i need JPWR3, i found in a web review that it is only neccesary if running 2 video cards, but that was not confirmed from any other source.
Appreciate the help.
"Can i just use one of my molex 4 pin power cables"
yep, no need any adapters. grab one free from the PSU and connect it.

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MSI P965 Platinum - power loss

1. Product Type: MSI P965 Platinum Series
2. BIOS version: AMIBIOS(C) 2006 American Megatrends, Inc. A7238IMS V1.2 110806
3. External VGA Type: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS 256MB
4. CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 1.86GHz
5. Memory Type: Kingston 1024MB
6. Power Supply Type: Chieftec 550W
7. Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2, Ver. 2002
My main problem is permanent losing of power from mainboard when I shutdown my PC.
I noticed that devices such as Scanner and CardReader turn off, everytime when I shutdown PC, instead of staying in Stand By.
I think that it is not OK and that MSI P965 Platinum mainboard doesn’t work properly?! Also, I can't power on the system with keyboard or mouse,
even these options exist.
Thank you in advance for your consideration!

elgasoni,
please allow me to tell you what I know about PC and this power management thingy
1. no WOL (wake on LAN), no Wake on USB, no Wake on PS2
--> there should be no LED blink on your system while it is OFF, but your power supply still supplying 5V_stby to your board.
2. with WOL, no Wake on USB/PS2
--> no LED blink on your keyboard/mouse too, but your LAN port may still blink if you hooked your LAN cable up to a powered router. Again, your PSU is only supplying 5V_stby to your board and the LAN is consuming it.
3. with WOL, with Wake on USB/PS2
--> there may be LED on your keyboard/mouse, depending on your keyboard/mouse design. Your LAN port surely blink as condition stated in (2). Same thing, PSU only supplying 5V_stby.
4. The "S3" suspend mode.
--> This mode has to be exit from Windows by selecting "standby" and your BIOS must enable it to suspend to S3. The LED will behave the same as in (3), in addition that your RAM is still powered, refreshed to keep its content. If you remove your RAM stick, your system will not be wake up anymore.
--> If you wake up the system, your system will take you directly less than a second to the Windows to the logon screen with your previous sessionis still active in the background.
5. "S4" hibernate mode.
---> the LED behavior will be like (1), (2) or (3), depending on where you set your system to be.
---> When you wake up the system, it takes a few seconds (could be 10 seconds or more, depending on your RAM size) for your HDD to fetch in the previous RAM image back to your RAM.
So, which behavior you are having right now?
And now, the potential problem --. LED blink, but no wake up event support, LAN, mouse, keyboard all can't wake up the system, but they are still consuming power. Yup, this could be a HARDWARE problem, or could be solved by BIOS.
Are you having this problem?

P965 Platinum - Power LED Doesnt blink on Standby?

Hi -- I have a P965 Platinum board, running Vista Ultimate. I am running 1.5B3 of the BIOS, and when I put the system in standby, the power light doesn't blink or otherwise indicate that the system is in standby.
Can anyone else verify whether or not that is working or not?
Thanks.
Rick

The reply from MSI Tech SUpport was as follows, which I didnt buy because I had an Asus P4T-E in the same case and that blinked the LED for standby --- and I sincerely doubt the header is no good since the LED lights fine when powered up:
MSI Tech. 05/12/2007 Then it is either problem with the LED on the chassis or on the header.
Rick

Msi P45 Platinum Power Connections ? Clarification please.

Hi, I'm asking does anybody know weather the ATX 12V power connector on the p45 for the CPU, can be used with all 8 pins as 4 of them have a plastic cover over them, is it safe to remove the cover and insert a 8 pin supply to them?
Also JPWR1 12V connection to PCIEX16 Graphics card, can that also be used safely with a card inserted that has an 8 pin power connection allready powering the graphics card?
Does the above two make a difference if you have ATX 24 PIN Or ATX 20 PIN, or can all be plugged in safely with no risk of damage to the board, i.e ATX 24 PIN To Motherboard and ATX 12V CPU 8 pin power connector and JPWR1 connected as well
All of this is in the manual page 2-9 but there is no clarification to what can and should be connected.

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Hi, I'm asking does anybody know weather the ATX 12V power connector on the p45 for the CPU, can be used with all 8 pins as 4 of them have a plastic cover over them, is it safe to remove the cover and insert a 8 pin supply to them?
If you PSU has an 8-Pin-+12V-connector for CPU power, remove the plastic cover and plug it in. [The cover is to avoid confusion, if a PSU is used that only has one 4-Pin +12V-Plug.]
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Also JPWR1 12V connection to PCIEX16 Graphics card, can that also be used safely with a card inserted that has an 8 pin power connection allready powering the graphics card?
Yes.
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Does the above two make a difference if you have ATX 24 PIN Or ATX 20 PIN, or can all be plugged in safely with no risk of damage to the board, i.e ATX 24 PIN To Motherboard and ATX 12V CPU 8 pin power connector and JPWR1 connected as well
Yes.
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All of this is in the manual page 2-9 but there is no clarification to what can and should be connected.
All power connectors are listed in the manual. The manual does not tell you to skip any connectors, does it?

New Build with P965 Platinum - fan connections

Question on the PWRFAN1 fan connection: Can I plug any fan into this? I was thinking of using it for the Video Card fan connection. I'm starting the build and was thinking about doing away with the Zalman cooler fan control as well as not pulling fan power from the PCI-E Power connection. There is also a Northbridge fan connection that's not being used. Can I use this one?

Well, here is the problem. The Zalman VF900 fan that I installed onto the video card has a different plug than the card. So I either hace to change the plug or plug it in somewhere else. The Zalman has the standard 3 pin fan connector, so I figure I could plug it into the Northbridge fan connection or directly to one of the PS power connections. Just want to make sure this would be a problem. Still would like to know that the PWRFAN1 connection is for as it's not indicated in the manual.

P965 PLATINUM / REALTEK network adapter connectivity problem

hi,
I cannot connect my PC with my laptop using a crossover ethernet cable. All of the crossover cables I have tested operate as expected when used to connect other computers. A fact that complicates things more is that the connection status is indicated as "connected" in the network connections window but no packets are received at all.
My configuration:
MSI P965 PLATINUM (flashed with v1.2 BIOS)
OS: Windows XP PRO SP2
REALTEK driver version: 5.654.721.2006
Network IP, mask and gateway are manually assigned.
Note1: The network adapter works totally fine when connected with my router using a straight UTP cable.
Note2: My brother's PC (which has exactly the same configuration as mine) has the same problem.
Thanks in advance

Thank you all for your tips.
Please note that network file sharing is enabled. If I use my ADSL router as a gateway (it is 192.168.1.1 as you can see in the ipconfig commands output) the computers do communicate.
Problems arise when I use a crossover or straight cable to connect directly my desktop and laptop. Some things I have tried:
- I have disabled the firewalls on all computers.
- If I ping the localhost (127.0.0.1) I get packet replies. However, when I ping the other host I get timeouts.
- I have set the connection speed manually from the device manager to 100mbit/full. Still no good.. :(
P965 PLATINUM (DESKTOP PC)
Code: [Select]
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : desktop
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-17-EF-3B-04
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
ACER ASPIRE 1403 (LAPTOP)
Code: [Select]
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : laptop
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-02-3F-B1-F7-89
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.99
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Is there any utility to check my network adapters? It is a VERY weird situation, because on both adapters the green light is constantly ON, and the orange flashes from time to time. I assume this means that on hardware level everything is fine. Moreover, I cannot believe that there is a firewall/AV that interferes, because even if I shut them down, I still can't ping the other host.
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P965 Platinum/Realtek RTL8111 Connectivity Problems

I have a P965 Platinum that has the on board Realtek RTL8111. I have had it since Dec '06. I have the latest Win Xp. Driver 5.658.814.2006. From the beginning I have had connectivity problems. I have stripped the motherboard of all non-essential components and I have installed XP multiple times.
Almost every time I boot up, and windows comes up, I get a Limited or No Connectivity error. Notice I said 'almost' every time. Sometimes I get connected right away. I thought it might be a loose cord, and noticed that the left LED on the back of the LAN jack was blinking. Which according to the manual means that it is talking. I wiggled the cable around to see if it was a bad connection, nothing. Then I replaced it and I connected. Unfortunately when rebooted, it wasn't connected again. After trial and error, I soon realized that by unplugging and re plugging the cable back in I could eventually get it to connect, which it eventually did every time. Bad connection right? Now here is the weird part, if I disable and enable the local area connection under Network Connections in windows enough times eventually it connects! Here is exactly what I do: First I disable it and then enable it again. If it takes more than a couple of seconds trying to connect, I know it will fail. So I keep doing it until it works. I thought it was a BIOS or driver issue and being such a new board I thought I should just wait. No other computer of mine has this problem.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

Quote from: Puffnstuff on 25-April-07, 10:09:14
Have you tried using another cable to rule out the possibility that your cable is bad?
Yes, I tried a new cable. Same effect. Now of my other computers have problems with the cable or connection.
Quote from: HenryW on 25-April-07, 10:09:23
Have you tried the updated Realtek drivers from MSI (5.664.0205.2007)? Dated 2007-04-20
HERE
Yes, I tried those drivers which are also on the Realtek website. The funny thing is that it connected the first time! Unfortunately when I tried it again (reboot and restart) it did not connect. So the driver upgrade did not fix the problem.

Power problems... P965 Platinum

So I updated my system with new motherboard and CPU.
Case: Sonata Antec II Piano with Smartpower 2.0 450W
Motherboard: P965 Platinum
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600
MEM: 1x 1GB 800MHz
I was short of money that's why I only bought certain new parts.
After installing the mobo and CPU, I plugged in the main power cord to the PSU and switched the power on from PSU (but not from the power button on the case) and the case and cpu fan started spinning and the DVD-drive can be opened and closed. Now this is weird as the computer is not on yet. When I do press the power button, the leds indicates that the system is on but nothing happens (the fans and dvd-drive are still working). So I think there is bad cabling etc.
I tried re-installing everything but the same thing happens again. Now I have only the CPU + heat sink, graphics card (geforce 7300), RAM and the D-bracket installed.
The cabling goes like this:
the 24-pin power is plugged to JPWR1
the 4-pin power is plugged to JPWR2
the 4-pin power is plugged to JPWR3
the reset switch, power switch and hdd led are plugged in to JFP1
the speaker and power led is plugged into JFP2
the D-Bracket is plugged into JDB1
So does anyone have ideas why the fans start spinning when I switch the power on from the PSU switch? Have I missed something I need to do in order to make the system work? I've done everything exactly like the manuals tells me to do (I'm writing this from school, so I do not have access to the system, hopefully I remember the cabling correctly).
thx

> hmm.... did you save the BIOS settings before?
Nope, I'm not able to save the BIOS Settings at all. No matter what the settings are (Defaults, modified,...), After saving the settings, the computer just won't boot. I need to clear CMOS in order to get back into BIOS after saving the settings.
I think this might be caused by the fact that it saves the FSB to 266MHz (1066MHz) (during boot it displays the message that "266mhz system bus processor is not supported <....> System will use reduced 133MHz bus instead.) So after saving the settings (and FSB to 266MHz), the system is unable to boot. I cannot change the value to 133MHz from BIOS (this is what I tried, so that I would be able to test if the FSB setting is the one that makes it impossible to boot after saving BIOS settings), it can be only between 200-500MHz.
I'll test more powerful / other PSU in couple of days, MSI's support suggested that. Hopefully that will solve the problem.

P965 Platinum has power but not for long - newbie error?

I press the power button and the PSU and CPU fan spin up for a second then shut right down. No beeping or anything. I removed all other components - mobo outside of case w/ 24-pin power, CPU power and CPU fan plugged in. Same result with or without RAM, with or without graphics card. D Bracket briefly shows all 4 lights when power is supplied. What's up? I'm a total newbie to assembling computers - what am I doing wrong?
I tried removing the CPU power and when I do that the PSU fan (and light) comes alive and stays alive when I press power. So it seems PSU is good.
- MSI P965 Platinum
- Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo
- Cooler Master 550W PSU
- Mushkin 2GB (2x1GB) EM2-6400 5-5-5-12 DDR2-800
- EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
- ASUS SATA optical drive
- Western Digital SATA HDD

Quote from: NovJoe on 01-May-07, 22:49:02
Yes, you should see a 4 / 8 pin connector near the CPU bracket area where you can plug the molex connector to. Change tha 8 pin out for the 4 pin connector.
Why change the 8 pin out for a 4 pin?
Make sure CPU is seated properly. Try with vid card and 1 stick of ram only. I would suggest motherboard out of the case but you say you are doing that.
The manual on this Power Supply indicates the following which can help you decide which connectors to use: (http://www.coolermaster.com/installation_manual/Manual_550W_SLI.pdf)
P1 - ATX Connector - 12v1
P2 - 8 pin Connector - 12v2
P3 - 4 Pin connector - 12v2
P4 - 6 pin pcie connector - 12v1
P5 - 6 pin pcie connector - 12v2
P6-P8 - SATA Connectors - 12v3
P9 - P14 - Molex Connectors - 12v1
P15 - Floppy COnnector - 12v1

P965 Platinum, Vista, and Raid

I spent a good couple of hours skimming the boards yesterday trying to set up my two new 320 SATAII hard drives in a RAID array. I ran into a ton of trouble, but then finally figured out part/all of my problem and got things working. I figure this information will be helpful for anyone who is trying to do the same. I'll post the most useful links I found at the end of this post as well...
heres what i'm working with:
MSI P965 Platinum
2gb OCZ DDR2 800MHZ 2 dimm kit
36.7 WD Raptor SATAII (as system drive)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
Sapphire X1650 PRO 512MB PCI-Express
Antec TruePower TRIO 650 650W Power Supply
promise technology ultra ata 133 tx2 (the source of a ton of trouble)
originally i had vista ultimate x64 installed on a 36.7 gb raptor that was performing ok (once i did the extremetech suggested reghacks for lowdiskspace and 8.3ntfsfilenames), but not as well as my friends new computer with a blazing fast 500 gb stripe.
my bios was configured as such:
on board raid controller: ide
on chip ata devices -> sata 1 config: enhanced
...configure sata 1 as: ide
...sata 2 configuration: enabled
i shut down the computer, and changed
on chip ata devices -> configure sata 1 as: raid
then i was able to get into the raid setup with Ctrl + I, and set up my array. Here's where I ran into my first problem. I figured I wanted a raid 0 because I don't care soooo much about my data being lost, and i have never had a hard drive die on me (knock on wood) in the past 8 years (guardian angel). So setting up my array was working fine, except for i hadn't anticipated that i would have to choose an ideal strip size. The board suggests 128k, but after much deliberation I decided since I wanted the speed benefit for my OS and programs, I wanted 32k strip size; but having a 640 stripe for just the OS and programs seems huge, so out of curiosity I tried setting up two raid arrays (both across the same drives). The first was a 100gb raid 0 with a 32k strip size and the second was a 496.2 raid 0 with a 128k strip size. This worked fine, but then I got to thinking... can I set up the 100 gb array as a mirror? If so, then I get the best of both worlds since I can secure all my OS/settings/programs/documents, but I'll have a super fast (respectively) 400 gb drive for ephemeral memory and expendable data (replaceable stuff like ripped dvds, downloaded music and programs, downloaded anything...). This would all be at the expense of 100 gb which certainly seems worth it at this case because I wouldn't have to worry about the possibility of losing all my data like everyone seems to cry about all over the internet when talking about raid stripes. So i set it up, this worked fine... next step boot into vist ultimate and start installation.
Here proved my most annoying step, as my first problem occurred when I couldn't find the dvd/cd drive in the boot sequence menu. I saw the usb card reader drives, my raid arrays, and my raptor... but no dvd/cd drive (of which I had two connected). After scouring the web about that darned Jmicron chip, it appeared as if the bios cannot see the PATA drives on this board and I would have to try pressing F8 at the jmicron bios screen. THIS IS COMPLETE MISINFORMATION.
As stupid as it is, the real problem is that the boot sequence only displays 6 (i think it's 6) bootable media, and if you have anything else it just doesn't show it. This gave me the impression that the bios was unaware of my cd/dvd drives connected to the IDE controller. As soon as I unplugged my card reader, the dvd/cd drives appeared in the boot sequence... thank gawd because...
i had tried plugging my dvd/cd drives into the promise ata controller (which i already know lacks a vista 64bit compatible driver), which actually allowed me to boot into the vista setup whereupon I was asked (I did NOT have to press F6, even though everyone seems to think they have to) to install the driver for the dvd/cd controller (I assumed and was right that it was asking for the promise ata controller driver). I put the most recent drivers from their website on a usb stick, plugged it in, and the driver worked and then setup was able to see my dvd/cd drives (which is weird because how did I get to that point if it couldn't?).
Then setup said it couldn't find any drives, so I figured the problem was with the driver for the ICH8R intel raid controller. I downloaded drivers from MSI's website, intel's, and a bunch of others, and NONE of them worked. Setup would install the drivers, but it still could not see any hard drives attached to it. I'm not sure what caused this problem, but my best guess is that it had to do with the promise card being plugged in.
I gave up on that and figured I'd try something else, maybe the promise card was causing the problem. So I tried changing the ports that all my sata drives are plugged into. The two new 320's were on 0 and 2, and I also had a drive on 3 4 and 5. I read somewhere that intel had some array issues on 0 1 and 2, so I tried setting my 320's on 4 and 5 and moved my other drives around it. This is also when I had the idea to remove my card reader and pull out the ultra ata 133 tx2 card.
I was able then to see the dvd/cdrom in the boot sequence, put it first, and boot into vista setup. VISTA ULTIMATE DID NOT ASK ME FOR ANY DRIVERS AT THIS POINT. I'm not sure if it was the sata ports I had my drives plugged into or not, but at this point vista setup saw all my drives and I chose the 100 gb array and installation went smoothly.
Excellent… now I just have to install photoshop and see if it loads in 4 seconds like on my friends new computer with the stripe. If not, then I'll probably just cry.
Hopefully I've covered enough of the keywords in this description that anyone who has this problem will easily find this page. Remember:
JMICRON IDE DEVICES CAN BE SEEN BY THE BIOS
VISTA SETUP DOES NOT NEED ANY ADDITIONAL DRIVERS TO INTERACT WITH THE RAID CONTROLLER
SORRY IF THIS WAS A TON OF INFORMATION BUT AFTER ALL THE TIME I SPENT TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT I FEEL LIKE NO ONE HAD POSTED A FULL BLOWN SOLUTION
Hope this was helpful

I have the very same issue except two things. When I try to see why it will not load the Array I find that the first drive (Maxtor 6V160E0) is red and considered to be bad. Did you happen to notice if your system showed the same thing?
I have moved the drives around and it still corrupts the Maxtor 6V160E0. I have not tried to move them to the end of the SATA connections. I will try that and see what happens.
Other thing was the JMicron would see my NEC DVDRW, but thought it was a ACSI and it would only read at 12X. It even stated that in the OS. I then was told by the Techs that they have not had alot of luck with NEC drives. So, I purchased a LiteOn SATA II DVDRW, connected it to the JMicron SATA connector and it came alive. I then found it to turn out worthless DVD's and CD's. Not even that Drive would read them after burning. I got so ticked about the JMicron I just shut it off in the BIOS. I hooked up the drive to the #4 port and whala, no more problems with burn. Now it reads, writes, and re-writes at the stated speeds (also I needed to update the firmware twice since I purchase the drive. The MS updates did something to it and the new firmware fixed it.). I have never been able to get a drive to work correctly on the JMicron no matter who made it.
I sure hope that MSI has scraped any board that will ever use that controller. JMircon is not my friend!
I am going to get 2 more SATA II drives and try this without having to backup all my data.

No IDE device detected on p965 Platinum

Hi, I have a p965 platinum and I get the others parts for my new pc (cpu, ram and vga) first, I have to update o the last bios v1.6 to can work with the 1333 bus of the cpu (e675) I update and start ok, but now, I have to install a system, but no detect dvd or hard disk conected to IDE, I was try with a lot of combination of configuration on sata, raid, ide, enchande, disable, etc. but can't fix it. I was read a lot of people with problem like this, or umda on dvd and fix with a bios update. I been update to the last bios, but problem still no fix....any idea?...I'm looking to install windows via network, but one tiime I have windows, I need dvd anyway, so need to fix this problem

My suggestion is to start from scratch:
Unplug main A/C power connector from PSU, hit power-on button a few times to drain capacitors and Clear CMOS. After restarting load Optimizes defaults in BIOS and make sure the JMicron controller is set to RAID:
Integrated Peripherals --> Onboard RAID Controller --> IDE
Make sure that the IDE devices connected to the JMicron controller are jumpered correctly as Master and Slave.
If that does not solve your problem, I suggest you use a SATA HDD and connect it to one of the Intel SATA Ports. The JMicron controller is a tricky thing and seems to be picky with drives sometimes (especially if two drives (HDD+opt. drive) are hooked up to the IDE port.

P965 platinum wont turn on

E6600
965p Platinum
Antec Sonata II case (with 450W TruePower 2.0)
2GB OCZ gold PC6400 ram 5-5-5-15
WD25000KS 250 GB 16mb cache hdd SATA 2
ok so ive connecte all my parts up into my case with all the molex connector connected and the 8 pin 12 v connector connected with the older 4pin connector. when i turn on the computer the fans all start spinning and then about 2 seconds later they all sop and the power led goes out and then they all come back on again and then 2 seconds later turn of again and it keeps going on in this loop until ti turn the psu off. iver tried reconnecting all the power leads, removing the hdd and the video card (to insure itsnot a lack of power) and chaniging the slots the rams in (was orininally in slots 1 and 3). also the dled shows RRGG when the fans spin if thats any help.
any ideas

well i sent it back to the place i bought t from for a replacement and now basically(bar lasts a bit longer beofre restarting an dled is diff) same thing is happening with the replacement mobo ... what i wrote to msy support:
1.Product Type: P965 Platinum
2.BIOS version: unsure as unable to post (so original)
3.External VGA Type: nVidia 7900gs
4.CPU Type: core2 e6600
5.Memory Type: 2 gig pc6400 OCZ Gold 5-5-5-12
6.Power Supply Type:Antec Trupower 450w
7.Operating System:none
8.Problem Description:
when i turn on the computer it starts up for about 4 - 7 secs and then will turn it self of, and then as soon as the fans have nearly stopped it will start again and then do the same thing over and over again until i turn off the power on the psu. the lights on the dled will be GGRR for half a second and then will go RRRR until just before it stops and then be GGRR agin until it stops (split second). i had a similar problem when i first installed everything but the dled always stayed GGRR and it would be about 2 seconds before it stopped instead of around 5 seconds. then returned the unit and as soon as i recieved the replacement this has happened.
ohh and i think its prolly not the ram cause it still ha[[ened even if i removed the ram .. got no other ddr2 ram to test with tho unfortunatly

P965 Platinum and Realtek RTL8111B problem

I have a dual boot setup on my computer: Windows XP and Fedora 7 Linux.
After booting Windows XP I will have to COMPLETELY UNPLUG the power supply from my computer before booting to Fedora 7 Linux. The reason: If I simply reboot or turn off the computer (simply turning off does not remove the power from the mainboard), then the Realtek RTL8111B onboard LAN is left in a state which prevents Fedora 7 Linux from being able to use the LAN. Fedora simply reports the LAN is not available. The solution, which I find unacceptable, is to completely turn off the Realtek RTL8111B on the P965 Platinum and use an old Realtek 8129 PCI network board.
A better solution would be for the MSI BIOS to reset all of the Realtek RTL8111B LAN chipset's bits to a valid state so that Fedora 7 Linux would be able to properly recognize and use the onboard LAN.
Again, if I COMPLETELY UNPLUG my computer's power supply Fedora 7 Linux always finds and uses the onboard LAN. It is only after using Windows XP and rebooting to Fedora 7 Linux without completely unplugging the power supply first that there is a problem. This would seem to indicate the MSI BIOS is not resetting the Realtek RTL8111B onboard LAN chipset to a clean state when it initializes the system upon booting.
I am using MSI P965 Platinum BIOS version 1.4
John

Uhm, I'm having exactly the same issue under linux.
The router's led will stay off and it looks like there was no network cable connected (Realtek Ethernet controllers are insmod'ed and everything looks fine).
The only thing I haven't tried is unplugging the power supply's cable ... weird.
I'm also upset about this problem >:(
MSI P965 Platinum - BIOS v1.4

MSI Newbie - P965 Platinum SATA Recommendation

Hi folks. Just finished building a brand new machine from scratch and need some recommendations. First time dealing with SATA stuff and not familiar with it. This is what I have:
1.Product Type: MSI Motherboard - P965 Platinum (MS-7238-010)
2.BIOS version: 1.3.x
3.External VGA Type: MSI ATI Radeon RX1650XT-T2D256E (MS-V073-02S)
4.CPU Type: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 (6600)
5.Memory Type: 2x1GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (latencies 4-4-4-12 Voltage: 2.1v Frequency:800MHz)
6.Power Supply Type: Ultra-V Series 500w PS
7.Operating System: Going to install Windows Vista
8:Hard Drive: One 500GB Maxtor SATA-II drive currently connected to SATA7
So here are the questions:
1) What is the different between SATA7 and the rest SATA1-6
2) Should I leave my 500GB drive connected to SATA7? What is the best-practice? I am thinking of creating a RAID5 in the future that's why I left SATA1-SATA6 open.
3) What do I need to do in the BIOS?
4) Any other recommendation of hardware and BIOS setup?
Thanks in advance.

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1) What is the different between SATA7 and the rest SATA1-6
SATA-Port 7 belongs to the JMicron-Chipset, SATA-Ports 1-6 to the Intel ICH8R-Chipset. It is important to know that in order to be able to choose the right drivers.
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2) Should I leave my 500GB drive connected to SATA7? What is the best-practice? I am thinking of creating a RAID5 in the future that's why I left SATA1-SATA6 open.
RAID 5 should be possible with that Hard Drive hooked up to one of the ICH8R-Ports, even though it is not part of the Array. If it is hooked up to SATA-Port seven, it cannot be part of the ICH8R-based RAID.
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3) What do I need to do in the BIOS?
The relevant Option for those devices that are associated with the JMicron-Chipset/Controller (IDE-Port, SATA-Port 7) is
"Integrated Peripherals --> Onboard RAID Controller". For Intel-ICH8R-Raid it should be set to IDE or even DISABLED, if no drives are attached to either SATA7 or the IDE-Port.
For optimal configuration concerning ICH8R-devices (RAID and non-RAID) check manual on page 3-14.
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4) Any other recommendation of hardware and BIOS setup?
That depends on what you plan to do and on the actual hardware hooked up to the board.

P965 Platinum fails at being Crossfire Certified!

Just another topic about the problems with the P965 Platinum. I have had two cards in my PC for awhile now. I made a major mistake in thinking that a board that is certified for Crossfire would actually do as advertised. I also made another mistake when thinking that a card that uses software to perform the Crossfire would not need my attention. Boy was I way wrong about all of it. The P965 Platinum and Crossfire are not work (with my dual X1600 Pro's). I thought maybe I just made bad choice in cards and the performance sucked. That was not correct, the X1600 is actually a very good card (but the X800 AGP out performs it hands down).
I have submitted it to ATI and MSI. ATI is trying to tell me that I need to change my Power Supply out with one that has more wattage. LOL, I am sorry! My Xion PSU puts out 44a on the 12v line and Crossfire only requires 38a. Also, ATI stated that not all boards will work with all Crossfire cards. The tech told me that the X1950 would work since it uses individual card power and external monitor connections (not software) to achieve Crossfire.
I had read another post from back in January. Seems no one has even tried this before (with regards to P965 and X1600). So I am now a official ginny pig for MSI. They put a certification on the board that really may only apply to a hand full of cards and not the lower priced high performance cards.
If someone has been succesful at getting this setup to work, please post. MSI takes 2 to 3 days to ever respond to a ticket and I would really like it to be resolved sooner. I know that is a wish in one hand kind of thing.

I think I agree with you. So, I purchased a Intel D975XBX2 and am very happy so far with the results. Vista X64 was a breeze to install on this board and It was up and running in less then an hour. Since I have had so many issues with MSI, P965 Platinum (ScrapMetal should be its name) I decided to give another company a try. Since I still have a 865PE Platinum that runs great I will still be around. Seems like ASUS boards have also had major issues with the P965. I will chalk that one up to a mistake I can walk away from.

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