SATA hard drive problems with k8n neo4 plat

Helo , I am hoping someone can help me with this. I have read Fafner's thread on installing a sata hard drive on the neo4 mb but the only utility program I found on wd site is called " lifeguard11 for windows". Is this the right utility to use to partion my hard drive? I burned it to a cd and and my computer will post but will not boot from that cd. I have followed the instructions that came with the mb and used the floppys at F6 but it won't countinue to install windows after that.
Also I'm not sure how to enable sata in the bios. Do I go to integrated peripherals/sata devices config. and at the top of the screen it say's RAID Enable. Do I enable that and then enable sata1 raid? I am only using one hard drive. Thanks for help you can give.
k8n neo4 plat/bios v6.00 pg
amd 3800+
western digital 74GD Raptor
evga 6600gt
light-on cdr
floppy drive
ocz modstream 520 p/s
highspeedpc test bench

Quote from: roller on 27-March-06, 08:33:35
Helo , I am hoping someone can help me with this. I have read Fafner's thread on installing a sata hard drive on the neo4 mb but the only utility program I found on wd site is called " lifeguard11 for windows". Is this the right utility to use to partion my hard drive? I burned it to a cd and and my computer will post but will not boot from that cd. I have followed the instructions that came with the mb and used the floppys at F6 but it won't countinue to install windows after that.
Also I'm not sure how to enable sata in the bios. Do I go to integrated peripherals/sata devices config. and at the top of the screen it say's RAID Enable. Do I enable that and then enable sata1 raid? I am only using one hard drive. Thanks for help you can give.
k8n neo4 plat/bios v6.00 pg
amd 3800+
western digital 74GD Raptor
evga 6600gt
light-on cdr
floppy drive
ocz modstream 520 p/s
highspeedpc test bench
My system is similar to yours, if your just using the one Raptor you don't need any special drivers, your mother board will detect the Raptor with out any special settings. I hooked my Raptor up to SATA 1 (look on pg 2-2 of your book for the location) If your only planing on installing one operating system on your hard drive, such as windows XP pro, Windows will format and partition the drive for you.
If your having problems booting from a CD make sure you change the boot order in the BIOS (under advanced bios features pg. 3-8 of your manual) so that CD is before HD. For example, mine is set up for: First boot device = Floppy drive, Second boot device = CD Rom, Third boot device = hard drive, and etcetera. if your using more than one hard drive such as an IDE drive make sure you set the "hard disk boot priority" on the same page to the hard drive you want to boot from.
Once that is done put your Windows CD in the CD drive and reboot, Windows will guide you through the rest.

Similar Messages

  • Hard Drive Problems - MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum

    Hi All,
    Seem to be having some wierd problems with HDDs on the above motherboard.  I have two WD Caviar SE drives (1x160gb 1x120gb) and a single IBM 60GXP 40gb.  I have an Abit "Serriell" PATA to SATA converter. 
    I keep having bootup problems, whereby I'll reboot the machine, without changing actual boot menu settings, or anything like that, and it'll restart and tell me Boot Record Not Found - Insert System Disk (its not exactly this, but means the same thing).
    This is rather odd I think - it would appear the motherboard is having problems deciding what to boot off.  I have my devices arranged as such:
    PATA:
    IDE Channel 1 Master - Nec 3510A DVD Writer
    IDE Channel 1 Slave - Liteon DVD Drive
    IDE Channel 2 Master - 160GB WD Caviar SE - BOOT DRIVE with Windows XP SP2
    IDE Channel 2 Slave - 40GB IBM GXP
    SATA:
    IDE Channel 3 Master - Nothing
    IDE Channel 4 Master - 120GB WD Caviar SE
    All Other Channels - Nothing
    Now, I installed MBM5 on WindowsXP.  Went to reboot - Boot Record not found.  Rebooted having told the bios there was no drive on the SATA controller.  Same thing.
    Then removed the 40GXP.  Booted into windows fine.
    Its been doing this to me on and off for no reason all weekend now and its getting a little tiring!
    Also, the board takes atleast 5 minutes to actually get around to booting windows (it appears to take AGES checking all the hard drives).
    I'm really stumped now, anyone got any ideas?
    Thanks
    Joe

    Quote from: JoeF on 20-February-05, 02:55:02
    PATA:
    IDE Channel 1 Master - Nec 3510A DVD Writer
    IDE Channel 1 Slave - Liteon DVD Drive
    IDE Channel 2 Master - 160GB WD Caviar SE - BOOT DRIVE with Windows XP SP2
    IDE Channel 2 Slave - 40GB IBM GXP
    SATA:
    IDE Channel 3 Master - Nothing
    IDE Channel 4 Master - 120GB WD Caviar SE
    All Other Channels - Nothing
    Well... According to your list above, the Caviar isn't "on top", it's in THIRD place....

  • Hard drive problem with HP Pavillion dv7-4180us

    Hard drive problem with my HP Pavillion dv7-4180us. Using Windows 7.
    Boots up sometimes and very slow.
    Appreciate any help.

    Have you booted into the BIOS or Diagnostics Tool to run the Hard Drive Test?

  • Installing a second SATA hard drive - Problems booting

    Hi,
    I currently have one Maxtor 160GB SATA hard drive in my system with my operating system installed. I have another identical hard drive that I'm attempting to install now, into the second of five available SATA ports on my MSI P965 Neo motherboard.
    When I plug in the second hard drive, though, Windows will not boot. It gets to the Windows logo screen with the progress animation, but before even the animation can begin, it stops and the screen freezes. This does not fix itself with waiting.
    My boot priorities are set to: DVD-ROM, CD-RW, hard risk. The hard disk priorities are also as they should be to my knowledge - although it can be tricky because when ordering, both disks have the same name. I have tried with either one on top of the list, and you cannot remove a drive from the list alltogether.
    The SATA cable is in perfect condition. My BIOS is up-to-date.
    When I plug the hard drive in when the system is already running, Windows will detect it and files can be written/read flawlessly. As soon as I restart, however, I run into the same issue.
    The first HDD, with the OS on it, is in SATA 1, the second HDD is in SATA 4. Ports 3, 6, and 7 are unused.
    I'm out of ideas at this point, I don't see any other options that need to be changed.
    I'd appreciate any input you can offer - thanks in advance!

    I would debug this drive you are talking about which clears off all data and partitions information. Take out the good drive and leave in the dodgy one. Boot to a floppy with this dell win95 boot disc.
    http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R19775&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=19601
    When at the A: prompt: type debug and enter, you get a (-) prompt and then enter the following script exactly:
    F 200 L1000 0 (enter)
    A CS:100       (enter)
    xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301  (enter)
    xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200  (enter)
    xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1     (enter)
    xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80   (enter)
    xxx:010C INT 13    (enter)
    xxxx:010E INT 20   (enter)
    xxxx:0110             (enter)
    g                        (enter)
    q                         (enter)
    restart your system.
    Now you can put back in your first drive as well, boot up into windows and use the disc manager to repartition and format.
    Old school! If you are still having problems I would replace the drive.

  • Having hard drive problems with 2011 macbook pro

    Hey all,
    I am having some hard drive issues with a 2011 Macbook Pro running OS X Mavericks.
    How it happened: I was browsing the web when suddenly I got the spinny-wheel-of-death.  The spinny wheel of death stuck around for much longer than usual, and eventually my computer wouldn't even respond to mouse input (the mouse wouldn't move).  Nothing worked, so I did a hard reset of my computer.  When I rebooted the machine, it took me into "Recovery Disk Mode".
    Here are the diagnostics that I've done: In "Recovery Disk Mode", I have the option to use the Disk Utility, which I have done.  My main volume, called "Macintosh HD" is grayed out - and not mountable.  When I run "first aid" on it, it is not able to verify the disk because of an "Invalid B-tree node size".  It then tells me to repair the disk.  I have tried repairing the disk, but it fails - and that is not entirely unexpected because all of the forum posts that I have read up until now say that Disk Utility cannot repair this specific type of error.
    3rd party software I have tried: Based on the forum posts that I have read, Disk Warrior is especially capable at fixing this kind of error, so I went to my local computer shop, purchased the software, and booted into it.  Disk Warrior did not recognize my drive, and did not even show it in the list of available options.
    Other things I have tried: I purchased a Seagate external drive, and I tried to use Disk Utility to copy the contents from my MBP's hard drive over to the external drive, but when I do so, "Disk Utility" tells me that "Recovery partition restores can only be done on GPT partition maps."  I have also had it give me another error message where it says it "cannot verify source - error 254". 
    Additionally, I have seen around the internet that many people try using "fsck" to fix this issue, but I haven't been able to find a good explanation of the proper steps when using "fsck", nor how to specify to the "fsck" program that I want it to fix my "Macintosh HD" volume.  I've opened up the terminal, and gone into the "/dev/" folder, but I don't know which item in that folder, or any other folder, would properly lead down the path to my "Macintosh HD" volume.  Also, the man pages seem to be of little help here.
    One option I would like to try, but I have not been able to, is to try putting my MBP into Target Disk Mode, and see if my desktop machine (a Dell) can see it.  The problem here is that my Dell only has USB ports - no Firewire, and obviously no Thunderbolt ports.  I would need to find a way to plug my MBP into my Dell while it is in Target Disk Mode, but from what I can tell, that's impossible if I don't have a Firewire or Thunderbolt port on my Dell.
    So, now having explained everything I have tried, can y'all give me any advice on how I can recover my drive without completely repartitioning it?  Although most of my important data and files are located on cloud services, there are definitely some files on the drive that I don't have backed up, and I would like to recover the drive without losing those files.  What suggestions can you give me?  Thanks!

    Yes, BUT...
    ... there are many problems that are really easy to eliminate by replacing the Hard drive, including ones that have nothing to do with actual Drive Hardware failure. These include corrupted install of Mac OS X, its EFI partition, clobbered partition tables, or the appearance of Bad Blocks in a critical area.
    Any of these problems can sometimes be eliminated by re-initializing the entire drive and writing Zeroes, and re-installing from scratch. The trouble is, this process takes hours to complete, and is not guaranteed to be successful -- you may still need a new drive after all that effort.
    I learned from my Plumber that consumers have no appetite for solutions that might work, and detest return visits for any related problems whatsoever. You or your friend may have had your drive replaced, not because it actually failed, but because the situation was troublesome, and the provider thought you would not tolerate anything less than a crisp, complete fix on the first attempt. And based on the cost of technician time, it may have even been cheaper that way.

  • 2.5" SATA hard drive enclosure with USB2 & Firewire

    Hi all,
    I was wondering if anyone knows of any computer hardware sellers that have hard disk enclosures for 2.5" SATA drives that has both USB2 and FireWire connections? I've looked around local stores, to no avail. So I'm expanding my search to be worldwide.
    Thanks.
    Cheers,
    Diego

    Hey Diego,
    I've bought all my enclosures (5) through ebay. I find all the best option here for a good price. Here are some possibilities
    http://search.ebay.com/2-5-sata-hard-drive-enclosureW0QQtrksidZm37QQbsZSearchQQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenu mZ1QQfposZ90041QQfromZR10QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsabfmtsZ1QQsacatZQ2d1 QQsadisZ200QQsaobfmtsZinsifQQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsatitleZ2Q2e5Q22Q20sataQ20hard Q20driveQ20enclosureQQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZunknown
    Good luck.

  • Samsung hard drive problems with mid 2009 Macbook Pro

    Arghh, this is driving me mad. 
    I'd like to know if anyone has installed a Samsung HM641JI SATA II hard drive into a mid 2009 Macbook Pro (mine is a 2.8Ghz) and, if so, how they managed it. The drive is 640GB. These are the steps I've taken:
    1. Swap out the stock drive for the Samsung
    2. Boot from a USB drive which contains a mirror of my system
    3. When the system identified the new disk, I formatted it with 2 partitions (GUID table, HFS journaled)
    4. Reboot
    5. System is very slow. Boots from USB but can't use keyboard to login
    6. Switch off and try again
    7. Remove Samsung drive
    8. Reboot from USB (works perfectly)
    9. Downgrade firmware to 1.6
    10. Replace samsung drive and try again
    11. System boots from USB
    12. Verify that drive is running at 1.5Ghz
    13. Disk utility and system profiler both crash
    14. Disk unmounts by itself and other random weirdness
    15. Remove Samsung drive
    I've read endless reports about the firmware in this model of Macbook Pro and its issues with SATA II but struggling to find anything current and specific. Two questions:
    a. Is there anythign I can do to get this drive to play nicely?
    b. What drive should I get if the answer to a is no?
    As a bit of background.. my system began playing up last week with lots of spinning beach balls resulting in forced switch offs. Booting from a mirror on a USB drive works perfectly so I concluded that the drive was on its way out. A drive test utility confirmed this. I'm now wondering if it really was the drive or the cable or the logic board.
    Any advice appreciated.
    Cheers
    //A

    I'm coming around to the idea that this might be a problem with the SATA cable rather than the drive.
    I currently have the stock drive (Hitachi) back in the macbook. It mounted for a while and was then ejected when I tried writing data to it. System profiler reports that "There was an error while scanning for Serial-ATA devices."
    I was able to mount the same drive in a USB enclosure this afternoon without any problems. Right now, I seem to be having issues with both the Samsung drive and the Hitachi drive - I wasn't suspicious of thr latter because I thought it was failing.
    I found one or two accounts of other people having similar problems that were resolved with a new sata cable.
    How does a cable fail? Could this be my problem?
    Cheers
    //A

  • Hard drive problems with 975X Platinum edition

    Hi guys.
    I was wondering if you could help.
    I recently upgraded my pc after the power supply was shot on my old one, I decided it was time I did a big update anyway, as it was using non pci express etc.
    I plumped for the 975X Platinum complete with Samsung DVD writer, nividia 8800GTX and two Western Digital SATA II drive, a 250GB for my 'C' drive and a 500GB for my 'D' drive.
    Everything went in fine, install Vista Premium perfectly, I copied across my documents I'd backed up onto an external drive onto the 'D' drive no problems...however, after downloading some Vista updates, I went to do a reboot, and it hung during POST.
    After much frustration the D-thingy lights were showing it was halting during the IDE Controller initialisation.  By a process of elimination, I discovered the bios won't get through POST while the 500GB 'D' is connected.
    I've checked that it's not the SATA cable, the power cable, the SATA socket on the motherboard...but it just will not start up with that drive hooked up.  However, if I starting Vista without the 'D' connected, then connect it while it's running (yes, I know I shouldn't really do this), do a scan for new hardware, the drive starts up mounts itself as 'D' and works happy as anything.
    Could you tell me if there's some configuration I have wrong in the BIOS, or is this just simply a faulty hard drive???  As far as I know I have everything set up in BIOS correctly, such as having SATA set to IDE and not RAID etc...but I guess I could have missed something.
    Any help you can offer would be much appreciate...before I decide to just send the hard drive back and hope it is that, and not something I'm overlooking.

    Sorry, yeah, I got a little carried away and excited.
    The problem I noticed using the Western Digital tool was that it was seeing both the drives as the 'C' drive, so obviously on booting with them both connected, it was getting into a mess.
    I have no idea if I should have done this in the first place, but, when I put it all together, on the main board, there appears to be one SATA connector that's set on it's own, under the others.  I'd used that for the DVD writer and placed the hard drive ones all together.  So I just swapped the 'C' hard drive into the lone connection, and put the DVD Writer and 'D' drive into the ones that are clumped together.  It seemed to boot up fine, then using the Western Digital tool again, set up the 'D' drive.
    I've had no problems since.
    I always thought that SATA was just plug it in, and it sorts itself out...so dunno if I should have done that in the first place.  I'm still getting used to the newer stuff...I've made do with none PCI Express and IDE for ages now.
    It must have been me setting it up wrong in the first place I guess. 

  • Vista Sound problems with K8N Neo4 SLI Platinum

    I wonder if anyone have gotten the sound to work under 32-Bit Vista RC1 (build 5600) on the K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI (MS-7100)? Installation of the, by MSI, provided XP driver (Creative_audio_32-64bit.zip) seam to work, and the device looks installed in Device Manager, but still no sound... Also, the icon for volume control in the icon trey detects that there is no sound card installed.
    Anyone with a similar problem? Any solutions? Suggestions?
    Thanks in advance!
    Br
    Daniel

    Thanks!
    I did try one of these drivers before without success. Now when I tried the old driver from nov 2005 it worked!
    Drivers are found here:
    (http://se.europe.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?MainCategory=1&nRegionFK=&nCountryFK=&nLanguageFK=&sOSName=Windows+Vista+32-bit&region=3&Product_Name=Live%21+24-bit&Product_ID=10315&modelnumber=&driverlang=1033&OS=26&drivertype=1&x=17&y=9)

  • X850XT video problem, with K8N NEO4-F

    OK have any of you, had or heard of this problem,
    I just picked up a sapphire X850XT PCI E video card,
    But when I install it, there is blue and red lines going through everything,
    This shows up as soon as the computer post’s, so it’s not a driver problem,
    Some times it looks fine, then if I try to benchmark the card, with 3Dmark06,
    It gets through some of it, and then it gets the lines problem,
    I looked around to see if it might have been a compatibility problem,
    But I don’t see anything any where, so I’m assuming it’s a bad video card,
    But before I send it back thought I would ask about it,
    Specs,
    K8N NEO4-F
    Athlon 64 4000
    1gig ram
    500watt dual rail PSU  (all the voltages are normal)

    PSU is a antec 500 watt
    the card does this right at post, so it's not the drivers,
    I have reset it more then I can count, I think it's the card,
    when I put this 5300 back in it's fine,

  • MOVED: Problem with K8N Neo4 Platinum and Vista Ultimate

    This topic has been moved to Vista problems.
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=110040.0

    Set the Maxtor hard drive to be a Sata I instead of Sata II hard drive with a jumper.  Also make certain that the Sata controllers in Integrated Peripherals-IDE Devices Configuration are enabled.

  • Hard drive problem with Pavillion DV9722EG notebook

    I have the a.m. notebook with a single 250GB hard drive installed, and there is an empty slot for a second hard drive.
    I tried to install a second hard drive, but the hard drive is not recognised in any way in BIOS... the BIOS is the latest version from here:
     http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-69499-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3668082&os=2093&lang=en
    I really would need to install a second hard drive... and if anyone knows how to solve this problem, I would really appreciate any hint!

    Sorry to say you are not alone in your problems:
    Other thread
    I have not actually tried to put a second drive in a dv9000 but based on other threads there are people who have success with it. I recall one guy had two hard drives and only one of the two would work in the second slot. Others have completely failed to get a second drive working as you can see above. I own a dv7 and have had no issues installing a second drive in it. 

  • External Hard Drive problems with iTunes and iPod

    I recently purchased a 320 gig external hard drive for my computer, hoping in part to load my iTunes library onto it. Obviously I'd have much more room on disc than my actual iPod, so I was going to manually manage my music (an option I didn't have selected on my iPod before).
    I followed all the online help topics which have all been helpful so far. I organized my music files, changed my directory, consolidated my library, and now everything is on the external hard drive and is working just fine.
    The problem comes when I connect my iPod. iTunes barely even seems to recognize my iPod all of a sudden, saying that it has been corrupted and needs to be restored. When I try restoring it, nothing happens, and I can't seem to do a thing about it through iTunes. Of course, there's actually nothing wrong with the iPod at all, since it still works fine and plays music exactly the same as before. It simply won't update or do anything at all when hooked up to my computer.
    I know this has something to do with the new hard drive, since everything was just fine a few hours ago, I just can't figure out why I can't get my iPod to sync all of a sudden. Like I said, my iPod is working fine otherwise, iTunes is playing music through the external hard drive without any issues, and I haven't touched any files other than music files (I haven't even deleted them off my original hard drive yet, so all the original fines remain unchanged, even though I switched the directory).
    To the best of my knowledge, all my software is up to date, and the iPod is a 30 gig photo. Any ideas?
    pc   Windows XP  

    Yeah, I gave the new drive the letter Z, so there shouldn't have been any conflicts there. I also tried your other suggestion, and while the computer recognized my external hard drive, it didn't seem to make any difference once I plugged in the iPod again.
    I've been wrestling with this for days now. I've tried changing the drive letters for both the external hard drive and my iPod several times (but no matter what, the iPod always seems to take F when it's unplugged and then plugged back in). I've tried restoring the iPod on multiple occasions. I've tried reinstalling all my USB drivers. I've consolidated my music library on several occasions (I now have two identical libraries on my external hard drive), yet annoyingly, iTunes seems to keep switching file paths away from the external hard drive and back to their original locations on the C drive. I'm trying to free up internal hard drive space, not house 30 gigs of media on it. That's what this new external hard drive is for.
    Somehow, I was able to get them both to be recognized at the same time, but it never lasts long. I'll start iTunes with the external hard drive disconnected, plug in my iPod, wait for the iPod screen to come up in iTunes, then plug my external hard drive back in. Then, I can miraculously start to transfer music back onto my iPod, but iTunes doesn't seem to want this to happen for some reason, and will usually cut off the transfer. So far I've managed to put three whole songs on my iPod.
    So now I'm trying to do two things. One, the same as before, get my computer and iTunes to recognize both my iPod and my external hard dive at the same time. And two, get iTunes to stop changing the file paths back to the C drive. These files are already on my external hard drive and don't need to change.
    (As a side note, I should comment on how helpful people are on this discussion board. The Apple representitives I called on several occasions seemed totally unwilling to help, acting more like pushy salesmen than anything, while people here seem to be much more friendly and knowledgeable. Just thought it needed to be said.)
    pc Windows XP

  • Lacie 250GB hard drive problem with Aperature

    I have ran out of space on my G5 so attached a Lacie 250GB hard drive. However this immediately started causing errors on the program. It would create a grey box in the middle of the screen whenever I tried to import anything and would cause other problems that would force me to have to restart the computer. Do you know why it does this and how I can stop it? I am desparate for space right now!

    First check with Disk Utility that the external drive doen't have any error.
    If the external HD is USB or Firewire 400 I wouldn't copy the whole Library to it because will slow thing down as it's slower than the internal drive.
    Instead of copying the whole Library move files that you don't need at the moment by referencing them to the external Library. Select the images in the browser and go to File/Relocate Masters.

  • Raid0 problem with K8N NEO4 F1

    I have had some strange problems recently after running with complete stability for a couple of months.
    1. On booting up in the morning Windows XP Pro has failed to load. Only a MBR repair or image backup worked.
    2. Problems with Raid on boot occurred with 1. No array warning and only one disk showing up after deleting array.
    I have :-
    1. Run Memtest from Dos with no errors.
    2. Run WDDIAG on both disks with no errors
    3. Checked temperatures. All less than 45
    4. Checked power voltages etc - all good
    5. Re-flashed the bios from DOS.
    6. First thing I did was turn off overclocking btw.
    I have changed to RAID1 mirrored drives and things have been absolutely stable for a week. I even have the impression that the system is running faster!I have all the latest drivers installed. My feeling is that this is a bios or chip related problem though there are stories of XP fouling up the MBR when at the 137GB limit, I don't think these apply.
    Any comments would be appreciated.
    Thanks

    Meditek,
    First would like to go over your CD boot problem, because this totally a BIOS problem and Windows and its drivers not in the picture.  Therefore, I would like to make sure the BIOS running correctly and stably, before we get look at startup or running of Windows has problem.  BIOS Has problem Windows is going to have problems.
    The drive boot sequence; If you have a drive boot sequence of (1) Floppy Drive (2) CD Drive (3) Hard Drive and you have no disks in the floppy or CD drive the BIOS should not hang on the Floppy or CD Drive if the is not disk in them or should I give any type of air message.
    What I am getting from reading between the lines in your messages is that whenever you need to boot from a drive you are manually placing list in the boot priority less.  Please inform me, if I am wrong?
    I would like you to set your boot priority list like the one I listed above, that (1) Floppy Drive (2) CD Drive (3) Hard Drive.  If the is any other devices list place them after the Hard Drive.  Then go to your list of hard drive and insure the drive/Array with Window in stalled on it is first on the list, this tell the BIOS and Windows It is the Windows Boot device.
    Next, the CMOS Backup Battery, 2.89V is on the edge of being weak and we need to Totally Eliminate it as a problem.  I just took batteries of old motherboard that have been setting on the self for three to five years that read to same or higher.  So, get a new replacement battery the measures 2.950 or better.  Your current battery if you were having not problem I would you could still use it, but have a new on hand.
    A new battery will measure over 3 volts.
    Now, like take a look at the BIOS MOS reset procedure you are using.  I myself and others I have been in communications with have been having problems with procedure listed the Manual not completely clearing the CMOS Memory.  Leaving trash in some of the BIOS parameters, some of which are not even list so you do not your have completed a good total clearing of the BIOS and this alone can lead to some real weird problem that are imposable to trace to a cause.  Another MSI Form member gave me this procedure.  This procedure insures the there is no power let in the system to defeat your attempt to clear the clear the BIOS parameters.
    (1)   Unplug the AC Plug cord from the computer.
    (2)   Remove the Battery.  If your like me and has always struggled with get the little battery out when buried behind and under cables in between I/O cards.  Get a small pair of needle nose priers and press the two metal tabs together that make up the retaining clip.  Now this first time you do this it will surprise you, because if there is nothing it its way the spring contact behind it will pop it out with enough force to send it flying.  If you power supply is mounted in the bottom of your case, put paper over the grill, because if the battery goes in there you are in for at lest 12 pack day.
    (3)   With power, unplugged and the battery remove press the BIOS clear button and the Power switch and holed them for twenty to thirty seconds.
    (4)   Then, let the system set for as long as you have patience, at lest thirty minutes.
    (5)   Again, press the BIOS clear button and the Power switch and holed them for twenty to thirty seconds.
    (6)   Reinstall the battery and plug the power back in.
    (7)   Boot the system to the BIOS to BIOS Default Values, Save and Exit.
    (8)   Reboot to BIOS Setup Routine and Set all Bios parameters to the normal system operating parameters, save and exit.
    Note: Do not setup your system for any over-clocking, but check you memory default setting to insure the BIOS is setting them correctly.  Mine sets the default memory voltage to below the manufactures spec.
    (9)   Reboot the system to the BIOS setup routine, YES again, rechecks that all of you normal system operating parameters save and exit.
    (10)    Check and insure there are no disks in the Floppy or the CD, if there are remove them.
    (11)    Now when the system reboots it should not hang on the floppy or CD and the should be no error messages unless Windows itself has problem startup.
    Now, when you have all that done, reply and let me know how you system is operating.
    And that all for today, my communication center between my right and left brain is about a tenth the of normal and this has been working it on over load for about of about two hours, so time for med’s and a nap.
    Roger
    When submitting a problem, include a complete list of your system components; include part numbers, all Power Supply Voltages, and their output ratings.  It is almost impossible to estimate what your problem is without knowing something about it. 

Maybe you are looking for