Problem with p4n diamond

Hi i just finished my first computer with this mother board and when i went to turn the power on the first time it would not start except for a few second and then it would shut off. Tech suport refered to my proccessor via website to check proper instalation. I checked and it was proper and then i tryed to ask if this was a bios problem and I was asked to pay 10$ for a new bios. msi has already sent me a bios chip when i asked that my revision one would not fucntion with my pentium d 830. is there anything else that can be the culprite with or without being "kindly refered".
thanks
p4n diamond sli
pentium d 830
gforce 6200 grapics card 128mb
true power 2.0 sli 550W
2X1 gb g skill memory 533 mhz

I figured out why the other drive partions werent showing. turns out the windows i installed (windows xp pro 64) hides the non partiond drives and make it so you have to go into administrative options to format so that they are viewable. as far as i can see the computer up and running . Happy days

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All sorts of problems with P4N Diamond

Hello all
I am trying to get my P4N diamond motherboard to work and I am starting to get pretty p****d off with it. I have built many systems before and on the whole they work fine pretty much straight away.
The first few times I tried to boot the syetem up I got a series of low and high beeps from the board and I couldn't even get into the BIOS set up screen. After unplugging USB devices and network ect I finall ymanaged to get into the BIOS. If I leave my printer plugged in (USB) I get a beep from the system speaker every now and then.
I then tried booting to windows. I have 2 windows builds on my hard drives - both of them crash when I try to boot into them, I have tried safe mode.
I then decided that I would install a fresh copy of windows (even though I only did this about a week ago). I put my windows CD in (XP media centre) and try to go through the normal set up procedure. I I try to repair the current installation or install a new copy it crashes each time it examines the discs.
I then load the drivers that came with the MB as the wondows installer is booting up - I load 3, 2 form one disc and 1 from the other. Now when I try to install a new copy it hangs on please wait.
I have a 400W power supply this one, 2 IDE CD drives, one IDE hard disk (secondary) and 1 SATA Hard drive. FOr most of what I was trying above I had the IDE drive disconnected and was jsut trying to get it to work with the SATA drive.
I think this is something to do with Raid drivers (even though I don't want a RAID array) but I don't know how to fix it.
I was hoping to have this all workign for tomorrow morning. Now I am goign to have to use my slow old laptop for work instead.
I REALLY hope someone can help me with this.

I might have a little bit of insight for you on your problems.
1. Beeps from your P4N:
You should get one beep for every USB device you have connected to your system.
2. Windows crashes when installing:
Make sure that you have NO USB devices connected, if have USB mouse or keyboard, get old ones for initial install and then once windows is running connect them, also you can get adapters. Also make sure that you only have ONE stick of RAM in when installing. If you have two, wait till you have windows up and running to install the other. Make sure that you have NO scratches on the back of the CD.
3. Diamond Clue CODE no good.
Call MSI on this, you are not the only one.
When building a new computer you should always build bare bones to make sure that you can boot with no errors. Its really not needed to have your printer hooked up the first time you are going to boot up your new computer, these are the type on things that cause conflicts. I would try to get things running bare bones here...that means the mininum. Try one hard drive...then work your way up. If you dont want RAID it should be easier for you, make sure that you have the jumper settings right on all drives. ALSO it would help if you would create a sig line (see mine below) with all your hardware. Make sure that you incluse your PSU 12v...you have a dual rail 15 and 14. It will help the mods help you.
GL and post back with ?'s

NForce 3: Problems with Maxtor Diamond Max 10 16MB Cache?

I heard that the NForce 3 chipset does have problems with these hard drives.
Could anyone tell me more about it? I'd like to get 2 of these 250GB drives for my system, replacing my older 80GB Diamond Max 9 discs.
Do these discs run normally, or won't they?

I'm using the first port nearest the CPU which comes up in the BIOS as Master 5 - as far as I can work out these are the Nvidia ones.
I've disabled the second IDE chain in the BIOS but it worked before that.
I did build the machine when pissed (not a great idea) so my memory of the steps taken is a little hazy.
I partitioned the disk with a Windows ME floppy before trying to install XP - this turned to be a bad idea as either XP or the board didn't want to recognise it.
Wiped partitions and partitioned it from the XP CD- fine.
Added second disk after install.

Windows lockup problems with P6N Diamond

MSI P6N Diamond nForce 680i SLI Socket 775 motherboard
Seagate ST3250410AS 250 GB SATA hard drive
LITEON LH-20A1L-06 20X SATA DVD Burner
EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTS Superclocked PCI Express video card
OCZ OCZ2TA1000VX22GK PC2-8000 Titanium Alpha VX2 Dual Channel Memory (2 x 1GB)
Windows XP Pro SP2
I have been having lots of problems with Windows XP just locking up on me. It has happened 3 times now, and I am tiring of re-building my PC from scratch. Every time, it works for a while, and then, just locks up one day.
At this point, I've removed my partition, rebuilt it, reformatted and re-installed windows. I'm currently running the AMI v1.3 bios. I've loaded the latest nVidia drivers (9.53 driver package). I've loaded the latest graphic drivers from EVGA (169.02_XP32).
I've read lots of posts in various forums about issues with SATA settings on nVidia systems, but I can't seem to find a post that is clear about the best settings. They mentioned disabling command queuing, using/not using SiL drivers, etc. Can anyone offer any insight that might help me straighten out my system? I am close to tossing it out a window.

Not quite sure how to answer, but here is the dump from cpuz:
Chipset
Northbridge        NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI SPP rev. A2
Southbridge        NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCP rev. A2
Graphic Interface     PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width     x16
PCI-E Max Link Width   x16
Memory Type       DDR2
Memory Size        2048 MBytes
Channels        Dual
Memory Frequency   400.1 MHz (2:3)
CAS#           4.0
RAS# to CAS#      4
RAS# Precharge      4
Cycle Time (tRAS)   15
Bank Cycle Time (tRC)   22
Command Rate      2T
Memory SPD
DIMM #1
General
Memory type      DDR2
Module format      Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID)   OCZ (7F7F7F7FB0000000)
Size         1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth      PC2-6400 (400 MHz)
Part number      OCZ2TA1000VX21G
Attributes
Number of banks      2
Data width      64 bits
Correction      None
Nominal Voltage      1.80 Volts
EPP         no
XMP         no
Timings table
Frequency (MHz)      270   333   400
CAS#           3.0     4.0 5.0
RAS# to CAS# delay   4   5   5
RAS# Precharge        4     5     5
TRAS           10 13 15
TRC           15 18 22
DIMM #2
General
Memory type      DDR2
Module format      Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID)   OCZ (7F7F7F7FB0000000)
Size         1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth      PC2-6400 (400 MHz)
Part number      OCZ2TA1000VX21G
Attributes
Number of banks      2
Data width      64 bits
Correction      None
Nominal Voltage      1.80 Volts
EPP         no
XMP         no
Timings table
Frequency (MHz)      270   333   400
CAS#           3.0     4.0     5.0
RAS# to CAS# delay   4   5   5
RAS# Precharge        4     5     5
TRAS           10     13     15
TRC           15 18 22

Problem with K9N DIAMOND at boot

Hello,
I've a problem with my mainboard K9N Diamon.
I've this configuration :
K9N Diamond
Athlon X2 6000+ with Zalman 9700NT
2x1go DDR 2 PC2 6400 at 800Mhz Corsair DOMINATOR
Thermaltake Thoughpower 700W
Case Thermaltake Kandalf VA9000BWS
GeForce 7600GT Msi
2x 320go WD HDD
Dvd burn LG H42L
So, When I plug the power cable, the pc turn on, but 3sec later it stop. I push the power button, nothink.
I change the alimentation, with a 350w enermax, 500w PFC, 500w thermaltake, nothink.
The D-Bracket tell me no infomation, at the shutdown after 3sec, the led are different at the last boot. Impossible to identify the problem.
I test a 4200+ with 2x512mo DDR2 PC2 6400 at 800mhz corsair XMS2 and NX 6200 msi, but no change. When I plug the power cable it start, and 2 3 sec later it stop.
I reset the bios, with this method :
Code: [Select]
1.Shut Down the PC.
2.Unplug the Power Supply from the AC outlet and unplug the cord from the back of the Power Supply.
3.If your Power Supply has an On/Off switch on the back of it turn it Off.
4.Ground yourself and your PC.
5.Remove all DDR2 DIMMs
6.Remove the following power connectors on your mainboard:
*JPWR1 - ATX 24-pin Power Connector
*JPW1 - ATX 12V Power Connector
*JPWR2 - ATX 12V Power Connector
7.Clear CMOS.
8.Reattached power connectors in Step 6 above.
9.Place a DDR2 DIMM in DIMM3 (the slot closest to the CPU).
10.Plug AC cord into Power Supply and AC outlet.
11.If your Power Supply has an On/Off switch on the back of it turn it back On.
12.Boot the PC.
But no result.
I test the CPU, graphic card and memory on other PC, It work fine.
So, I think the mainboard is broken, I see problem like mine, but it's different here.
I'm for MSI, I've all pc with this material, and all of my friend / custommer, but here I'm disappointed.
This is an problem with a production series default ? I dunno.
So I I'am for MSI, and I think I'v bad luck in this moment !
Sorry for my english, i come from Corsica ^^

Thanks again for your answer and Help.
I've trid to start with just : Athlon 6000+ / 512mo DDR2 .
The system start, 2sec later stop. for restart with power button its impossible. I change the power button with reset button, same problem.
I test with an screw driver, the system start when I plug power supply, and after 2 3second stop. I test to start with screw driver, I similar... but 10sec later, after short reset, hdd led, its start, for 2 3 sec ! LOL. To restart again, I did short reset, hdd, led, hdd, reset, power, reset, .......... and at one moment its star 2 3 sec !!! Dor restart I do it again. LOL.
It's very strange. When its want , it start ! U_u
So tomorrow, I contact my supplier to change the mainboard ^^ !
I think its the only solution !
Thank again for your help, If you have many idea, I take that again :p
See you soon

Stability Problems with P7N Diamond Continues

Big bummer. I've had this system since April, took a month to get it working as the first board I ordered was bad, this one seems to be a bum board. I've came here and a few other places, but help has been kind of hard to find.
Here's what I got:
MSI P7N Diamond
Intel QX9650
2x 2GB mushkin DDR2 1066 (XP2-8500) Timings: 5-5-5-15 2T
I have 4 HD's: all are seagate baracudas: 250, 500, 750, 1TB
MSI NX8600GT1GEZ
At this point overclocking is out of the question. All I want is a reliable PC that runs to its specifcations. RMA-ing this board is a last resort as often enough the RMA boards aren't worth a crap anyway, dont know if this is just the case with lower-end boards, but I hate having to wait, and I'm really ticked about the whole thing.
The computer reboots at random, I've found "more stable" configurations, but usually the machine will not stay running for more than 24 hours without a reboot. The most stable configurations are with the official 1.2 BIOS, setting the NB to 1.250 v, CPU Volt: Auto, SB: Auto, DRAM: 2.10, and I have manually set the memory timings: CL: 5, trcd: 5, trp: 5, tras: 15, and Command Rate: 2T. The FSB Speed: 1333, and the DRAM Speed: 1066. Temps are normal, and range from about 100 F at idle, and 120 F load on the CPU.
The voltage on the CPU is on the high side on Auto, the QX9650 can run on as little as .98 v at stock and this board is giving it 1.23 v on auto. The board also tries to set the timings on the memory to 7-7-7-24, which I feel has something to do with it.
I'm not an overclocker, I don't know what all these voltages do, I've only changed settings that have either been reccomended or have a warning setting (ie turn red).
I'll try a beta BIOS if one is available, but I was unaware that this board doesn't fully support the 45-nm CPU's.
There is NOTHING wrong with any of the hardware (except the board perhaps), I've tried other memory, PSU, even RMA the CPU, does the same thing. Everything has been tested, every possibility I can imagine, this problem has been haunting this system for months, and I'm almost to the point of buying a cheap as board that has some credibility that my hardware will work.
This is my most critical computer, I do everything on it, but I didn't buy a $300 motherboard to have these problems, or find that my CPU scores half of what it should when it is running stock, everything on this board is below stock, benchmarks are way below what they should be.
I'm up for some ideas, suggestions, if needed, I'll RMA the board, but it the return board does the same thing, I've lost all my faith in MSI. My last system had a P4M900M2 and it kicked butt, and it's a $50 board! Go figure these boards are worse than imported cars.

Quote from: NovJoe on 27-September-08, 12:40:17
By means of instability, can you describe the symptons of events that happen?
Can I have a list of the PSU models and RAMs models which you have tested?
Have you try the hardware on another board? If you have done so, what are the results?
I have not tried any of my hardware on this board, I have tried other memory on this board, this is the only board I have avialable to me that support LGA775 so I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place on that. The memory I tired, couldn't tell you the exact model, but it was Apacer DDR2 800, and was listed under this board as tested memory, i do remember that much- if that helps any.
As far as overclocking, I was told that overclocking my rig would make it stable, which i feel in this case is a little more than bumping the FSB eitherway. But no this happens under "stock" settings. Orginally with the 1.0 BIOS the machine would sometimes give me a multitude of BSOD, CLOCK_INTERRUPT (A clock inttrupt was not recieved in a timely manner on a secondary processor), DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
Only way to get the machine to run "stable" is to severely underclock, with the FSB at 1137 and DRAM at 1034.
Other things. Benchmarks (SiSoft Sandra Lite 2007)
CPU: Drystone: 39000 MIPS / Whetstone: 28000 MFLOPS
Memory: 7 GB/sec (1066 with correct timings)
Both appear to be under par, CPU particularly, and in the event of tinkering, only see a jump in performance when adjusting the multiplier from 9 to 10.5, which isn't stable, stable enough to run a benchmark. So I'm not sure where the problem is.
This might help, the original thread from back in June.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=117779.0

Problems with P7N Diamond

Very Sorry if i upset you!
MSI P7N Diamond Ver: 1.1 with Bios 1.3
2x1 Gb Corsair xms2 PC2 6400 tested and works on same board but not this one.
2x500Gb Samsung F1
Win XP Pro SP3
cannot update bios to 1.4 from 1.3
Tried USB method, CD, Floppy even safe mode command prompt.....disabled everything but the drives with bios files( usb,cd,floppy) but it still it finds the disabled Hardisk and boots into windows.
Memory will not work in Dual channel...sometimes it boots but nothing on screen.
Single channel boots most times but after trying USB or CD method it sometimes does not boot into windows.
Tried online too but only comes up with 1.3 bios
MSI support is none existent or impossible to get any sense out of them...after repeating my name and email address several times over the telephone i am still not sure if they understood.
I have filled in the online report system 3 times over the last two weeks but no reply and nothing active in box although it says report complete after submitting.
Have tried all the ways stated on updating bios.
I have updated many bios's on various boards, ASUS, ASrock, Aopen, Biostar etc no problems! Even modded bios on Asus boards.

Quote from: stooper on 04-September-09, 06:04:06
Against my better judgment, I'm going to reply to this. By your own admission, the motherboard was functioning fine in single channel mode. Your issue only occurred under attempts to operate in dual channel mode. Considering the real world benefits of dual channel memory are arguably negligible, one could remark it's such a minor technical detail, that nobody need b infatuated over it.
Indeed, again by your own admission, the problems were resolved after you disassembled and reassembled the system with different cables. Since your arrival, you've been quick to hijack other threads, spew frustration and venom over your issue, and vent agitation against the trouble and bother with all this crap you've had to endure. Yet, all along, it seems there really was no defect at all on MSI's part.
You've taken the time to customize your profile avatar with a nice Leeds United animation, but can't be trifled to actually learn about how your equipment operates and how to troubleshoot and optimize it. So it's so long and farewell and thanks for nothing, hmph! That's quite a remarkable attitude.
Good luck with your future Asus adventures. Perhaps you'll be more satisfied with that choice, perhaps not. My sense is people with unhappy, wretched personalities will have the odds against them.
Oh, and please don't fool yourself that you have so much more of a life to live and real work to get done than anyone else here. You know nothing about the forum members here, but your demeanor reveals the type of life you have. I, for one, don't envy you one bit.
Take a look at reviews of this Motherboard you will see that most people come to the same opinion as myself.
As for poor support it seems it is a bit hit and miss where ever you go. Some get good support some bad all from the same company.
I have a nice life living in the English countryside with lots of friends, a dog, three cats and nice girlfriend of many years. A massive garden full of fruit trees, fields full of horses both front and back and good neighbours.
Thanks for your good wishes and have a nice week-end your self.

Problem with p7n diamond please help

i have a new p7n diamond
i connect the power supply plugs, hard drives, video card(n260gtx new too), etc
when i push the power button the processor cooling fan run but the pc do nothing
don't gave me any beep from a bad connection
nothing
it just don't start
other thing
when i plug the video card power, the video card cooling fan don't start yet
please help!
basic from my PC
intel core 2 quad
2 hard drive 500gb
4g ddr
n260gtx 896mg

Dadilo, you have gone to some length but sadly no positive result, but at least you have cleared some of the ifs and buts. i have looked at your mobo bios even so it says it supports your cpu q6600 it seems there has been a few updates (see links, particularly please pay attention to the pointer in pictures). you have these options left to you.
1- put the pc on it's side and take the 240 volt plug out (no power what so ever) and clear the way from any cables etc.. and remove the mobo battery with a Small screw driver (push the clip to one side the battery pups out) and hold it in your Palm for ten second or so then put it back and put everything back make sure the single memory is firmly in place so is the graphic card. then connect the power and all cables etc the power the pc.
2-your last option before you give up is try another cpu on the mobo preferably core 2 duo rather than quad and if you get it working your next move is to update the bios and i do not know how good you are in updating bios???. if none of these works then sadly the mobo is faulty in my opinion but i may be wrong :
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http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff177/kourosh22/?action=view&current=ScreenShot038.jpg
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MOVED: Problem with p7n diamond please help

This topic has been moved to Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad boards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=122454.0

Dadilo, you have gone to some length but sadly no positive result, but at least you have cleared some of the ifs and buts. i have looked at your mobo bios even so it says it supports your cpu q6600 it seems there has been a few updates (see links, particularly please pay attention to the pointer in pictures). you have these options left to you.
1- put the pc on it's side and take the 240 volt plug out (no power what so ever) and clear the way from any cables etc.. and remove the mobo battery with a Small screw driver (push the clip to one side the battery pups out) and hold it in your Palm for ten second or so then put it back and put everything back make sure the single memory is firmly in place so is the graphic card. then connect the power and all cables etc the power the pc.
2-your last option before you give up is try another cpu on the mobo preferably core 2 duo rather than quad and if you get it working your next move is to update the bios and i do not know how good you are in updating bios???. if none of these works then sadly the mobo is faulty in my opinion but i may be wrong :
http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff177/kourosh22/?action=view&current=ScreenShot037.jpg
http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff177/kourosh22/?action=view&current=ScreenShot038.jpg
http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff177/kourosh22/?action=view&current=ScreenShot039.jpg

P4N Diamond and Pentium D problem

Hi,
Have just bought the P4N Diamond motherboard, and a Pentim D 830 processor.
When switching on the status led shows four red lights. According to the manual this means that the processor is defective.
Have taken the processor in and out many times, but no luck.
Any other ideas ? Any assembly errors I could have made ?

IJRC, For your set up do the following:
The best way to get your system up to make sure that you have BIOS version 1.3 and up. Any BIOS version before this will not see the Pentium D. If you dont have this BIOS or are not sure it might be best if you call MSI and have them send you out a BIOS chip with the updated BIOS version on it.
-Make sure that you only install windows with one stick of RAM
-Do not connect any USB devices untill windows is up and running.
-Your MOBO takes alot of power, so make sure that you have a quality PSU as well as it having plenty of amps on the 12v rail. (As per the P4N manual p.10, 450watts and atleast 20amps on the 12v rail is recommended for system staibility.)
-Drivers for me were not that much of a problem except for my monitor, but my GPU sees it for what it is and thats what matters. Ofcourse if you dont have the internet up and running getting drivers might be a problem.
- As long as your follow these steps you should be fine with installing windows 64x. To be safe just download the Marval Lan Eathernet Drivers and burn them to a cd before you start your build. That way you can access the internet to download 64x drivers. For the most part you shouldnt have a problem getting drivers...if you have an hp printer you will have a problem though.
GL and write back if you have problems...i think that i have been through them all with this MOBO and the Pentium D. However with the help from this fourm i think that i have everything under control.

[nVidia Series] P4N Diamond raid problem

i have a P4N diamond motherboard with a 3 ghz cpu on. I have setted up a raid 5 with 4 drives on the nvidia raid controller. on the sillicon raid controller i want to have to have 2 sata disks striped. In the sillicon bios for the raid i have configured those 2 drives for raid0 and i get 1 logical drive which i also can see from the bios. My problem is then that when i boot up the computer and begin the installation of windows xp ( and give it the sillicon driver with the F6 button ) then i get 2 logical disks on the sillicon controller instead of my striped raid0 drive.
What do i do wrong? everything looks right for me in the bios. Raid is enabled and the serial ata ports are enabled. Help please
- Jesper H

problem fixed by using the right silicon driver. the orginal diskette driver can not be used. you need to make a diskette with the raid version of the silicon driver.

[nVidia Series] Problems with boot time for p4n sli

I have spent a couple of hours digging trying to find out some information.
I bought the p4n sli (not diamond) and everything seems to work fine, BUT the boot time is very long. It seems to try to access the dvd drive for 30 to 45 seconds and then it will boot. Once it starts to boot I get 4 error code beeps and one that sounds as if it would be the normal everything is good beep (the fifth beep is always different and usually in the middle of the four same tone beeps).
I have a intel 630 cpu, a nvidia 6800gt vid card, one gig of corsair dual channel memory and 1 gig of geil dual channel memory (I get the same errors without the different memory), I have a 450 thermaltake psu, a maxtor 120 gig sata drive and a 160 gig ide drive.
I have no problems with anything once the computer is booted up. It just takes a lot longer to even start to boot than I have seen with modern computers.
The beep codes thread stated that
4 beeps - Timer not operational - bad motherboard
5 beeps - Processor error - bad processor
Would I still be able to run this computer if either of these was true? I would love any advice. I do not want to burn up anything.

Quote from: hcoshawn on 11-January-06, 05:21:01
hey LtDano38,
Im sure that the beeps that you are hearing are on account of the amount of USB devices that you have hooked up. You should get one for every device, the low tone one that you hear is the bios beep saying that everything is normal. The USB beeps should come before the different tone one at the end.
As for the boot time, i would try a different cd-row to see if it does the same. Also is the drive IDE or SATA?
GL and post back.
ok, I do have four usb devices, a flight stick, a nostromo, and usb mouse and keyboard, I have one ide hd, one sata hd and an ide dvd. I tried slaving the dvd off of the hd and with it by itself on the other ide channel. My os is on the ide hd. One last question, can I use anymore abbreviations?

[nVidia Series] P4N Diamond (Nforce4 Intel Edition) Problems

I hope some of you have the P4N Diamond motherboard. I recently picked this up at $250 from Newegg. Quick ship. I've never been more depressed about a new flagship product. Maybe you can help.
It shipped with bios 1.00 dated 04/26/05. I'm using it with a 530J, X700 Pro, Promise FasTrack sx4000lite RAID5 setup, and PDP PC2-5600+XBLK (2x512 dual channel kit).
With the 1.00 bios, I could not make any adjustments to DDR2 speed or to voltages for DDR2 or CPU.
I asked MSI for help. I got a 1.10 bios revision (apparently beta).
With the 1.10 bios, I could now adjust the voltages, but my DDR2 speed is still locked in the 800FSB/533DDR2 ratio. The only way I can change the memory speeds is to change the FSB (QDR) speed and the DDR2 speed changes in that ratio (as if it is set to "linked" in the bios). This only works when it is set to "manual" for speed control. If it's set to auto, I can't change anything. If it's set to linked, I can change the FSB (but not DDR2 although I can see it). I can select DDR2, but if I press +/- to change the values while in manual mode, the screen just flashes and no values change.
I'm pretty upset, because hardwarezone received a test product directly from MSI and they verify their board WILL INDEED allow for independent FSB and Memory settings. They have not yet confirmed the BIOS revision they were sent. The *only* reason I bought this board was to take advantage of the incredibly overclockable DDR2 memory I've purchased (rated to 710mhz@4-3-3-12-1) and because it's the first board I've ever seen advertised to set fsb and memory clock speeds completely independently. MSI even claims they hit 910/933mhz with this board in testing with Corsair memory (which my PDP memory outperforms on all other reviews, ie tomshardware roundup).
It gets worse. Newegg apparently isn't getting any RMA support from MSI, as they've set a policy of *returned for exchange of same make/model only* on this product and will not give me a refund (even with a restocking fee). So, I'm holding a $250 motherboard that is effectively no better than the $100 Asus P5GDC Deluxe I replaced with it (I don't plan to SLI in the immediate future, but somehow I don't expect that to work as advertised either since hardwarezone didn't bother to test it).
All I've heard from MSI fanboys is how great MSI is and how overpriced Abit and Asus are.. so I decided to give MSI a try (the first time I've done that since the days of the first athlon boards they made).
Tell me I've not been fooled by marketting lies into buying a board that does not offer the functionality it's reported to have. Someone has to have this working... please help me.
Also, I'd be at the diamond member forums, except.. GUESS WHAT!? The diamond membership card included with the P4N Diamond doesn't work there. :( Boo.
Newegg and MSI have thus far hung me out to dry. Maybe you guys can help me.

Thanks for the replies. I've already tried everything mentioned. I absolutely cannot change the DDR2 speed at all. The only way to get the value in the DDR2 speed field to change is by setting the overclock method to manual and changing the FSB(QDR) speed, which updates the DDR2 speed field automatically in the 800:533 ratio.
Am I really expected to be patient when review sites receive cherry picked goods to review that have significantly more functionality than the consumer board I purchased, which is effectively lying to consumers (like myself) to get the $240 price of the board? I'm not angry with anyone here, of course. I'm just trying to verify that the problems I'm experiencing are affecting other non-review site owners of the board, so I'll know wether or not I ever want to trust an MSI review again.

P4N diamond sata problem

Hi
I got a big problem with my P4N diamond motherboard, my problem is the nvidia sata controller, when I connect a sata drive in slot 1- 4 the system hangs with a black screen just before windows boots, if I turn on raid the system boots with no problem, but I don’t wanna have raid, I have tried different sata harddisks with the same problem, so I know that is not the drive that is the problem and also if I put the drive in slot 5-6 ( Silicon image controller ) the system boots with no problem
So my question is how do I setup my system right or is there something wrong with the controller
Thanx

All drivers is installed, and I cant boot with cd-rom or anyting when the harddisk is set to nvraid controller and the nvraid is disable, if I enable nvraid and enable all 4 sata drives and disable pata on the drives the system boots with no problem, but as I don’t want my drives raided, so I got a problem I think there is something wrong with the controller ?
I have tried segate, Maxtor and wd drives but the same thing happens

P4N Diamond startup problems

I've had problems with my P4N Diamond-based PC since I built it a couple of months ago. Through excellent help from this forum I eventually resolved the main problem - I was using Maxtor 300GB drives which (due to their staggered spin-up) were incompatible with the Nvidia drive controller.
OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS:
1) Since before then though most boot-ups were taking longer than they should and I traced the problem via the event viewer, which reports disk errors and suggests replacing the drive. I have tested 5 drives in total (3 different models) and I always get the same error. I am 99% confident that the reported disk errors are actually motherboard related and I am suspecting that I either need to change the BIOS or the mobo.
But, changing the mobo is my very last resort and I can't see that changing the BIOS from 1.30 to 1.40 will improve anything (and may introduce new issues?) as there appear to only be updates to the Silicon disk controller.
2) Am getting 4 beeps (in total) on startup - (1-2-1) beeps once, pauses, then beeps twice, pauses, then 1 low tone beep. I have checked the BIOS beep codes page, but am confused about what my beeps mean?
3) PC wouldn't shut down last night, so I had to do hard shut-down. This morning it took 20 minutes to start up! This problem appears to be linked to problem 1.
4) My PSU blew (a couple of weeks ago) and I recently got a replacement. Enermax assured me that it wouldn't have harmed the other PC components. The problems above were occuring before the old PSU died, but I am unsure whether this could be linked to any of the above issues.
All previous burn-in tests, memtests and hard disk checks have all come back clear. I think that the starting point is for me to understand what the beeps mean and to see if resolving the beep problems stops the other issues.

nwheeler,
Well i spent 2 and half hours stright looking for BIOS beep codes for our motherbaord. But the only thing that i found was the same information that is on here. The P4N has different toned beeps, i know that my hearing is not messsed up. I think that i made a pretty exsustive search for it so im still stumped. I even tried the Diamond Forums (there are not that many posts there). You can check that out here: http://diamondclub.msi.com.tw/eng/
There is one silver lining though. I came across a post on another forum board saying that you might get one beep for every USB device you have pluged into your machine. So do a count and see if that has something to do with your mixed code.
In my case i hear the one beep before the BIOS flash screen, from my search that first beep says that everything is fine. But after that i get a high beep followed up a few seconds later by a lower toned beep. As for USB devices i have 2 pluged into my machine...the first being a USB mouse, and the second being a Joystic. Later when i get home today im going to try unpluging them to see if i get a different beep process. Ill let you know what i find out.
GL

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