Socket 754 K8N Neo Platinum

Guys I need your help.... dudes it's been a rough night. Last night I ran the MSI Update program and it found a new BIOS for my Socket 754 MSI-7030 MSI K8N Neo Platinum. So I installed 1.90 and rebooted, well tried to. The shutdown was ok and the reboot consisted of the drive lights going on, drives whirring, and then going off. That was it.
I reset, the same thing happened; I cycled the power the same thing happened. I went to bed deciding I would crawl around looking for the CMOS reset jumpers in the morning. I couldn't sleep so I got my pocket PC and did some searching and found some similar problems on the web.
I got up and hard reset the BIOS. It started and I could get as far as the BIOS but not boot Windoze. I reset BIOS to defaults, no joy. I turned some extras off like USB storage support, no joy. Eventually I remembered someone on the forums saying that he changed his memory to 333 bus speed from 400 and it boots for him (he also has Corsair memory). So I did this and now I am booted into WINDOWS!
I tried to flash the BIOS to the 1.50 version (I have no floppy drive so I use the MSI version of Winflash) it errored half way through :-( So I tried to run the updater and try to install 1.90 again so that the reboot wont bork my PC with half a BIOS. The flash is very slow then I get a verify error at 2%.
I am now worried, very worried. I don't want to shutdown the PC
Heeeellllppp!!!!
Fairy
Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz 512k/
2x512Mb Corsair 3200XL/MSI K8N Platinum/
XFX 6800GT/Audigy 2 ZS/
Diamondmax 10 SATA 300Gb 16Mb Cache/Diamondplus 9 SATA 160Gb 8Mb Cache/
Sharp LL-172G-B 17" TFT

Hi
Sorry to hear that you rebooted, but this can hopefully be a good thing for us two guys stuck with our systems on...
Can you please try a bios rescue floppy disc? As far as I have read, this is simply just a bootable DOS disk with the award
flash utility and the MSI bios added to the autoexec.bat file. Apparently the bootblock in your bios will try to boot your
floppy disk, and will run the flash command in the autoexec.bat file and will flash the bios. You wont be able to see anything
on screen, but you should see the floppy disk reading.
Official details of how to do this are in this forum sticky:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=81017.0
It has links to bootable floppy images, and links to procedures.
Please let us know if this worked, and the exact procedure you used, we would be very grateful
Jooppy

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Quote from: rubengomes on 14-January-07, 22:00:09
thanks for the reply... butt it still does not work...
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Sorry the Bad English

Here are the instructions to reflash the BIOS for your K8 Neo. I am currently running ver.1.4 with little problems. My only snafu is the LED for my optical mouse stays lit even when system is off, however I have no RAID, Ethernet, onboard sound, or SATA drives. I have just a simple basic system, and I don't overclock. My board is the K8 Neo Platinum socket 754, with an AMD64 3000+. YOU MUST HAVE A FLOPPY DRIVE CONNECTED TO SYSTEM FOR THESE INSTRUCTIONS TO WORK!.
Flashing BIOS on K8 Neo per MSI. READ ALL instructions before starting.
1.Check your BIOS for flashing protection and disable it.
2. Know your board model#. a. Open case and find model# on the board between the PCI slots, or b., boot system and at first DOS screen you will see 'W7030ver1.4122101'. This means you have a MSI model 7030 motherboard with BIOS version 1.4 issued on 12/21/01.
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5.Create a boot floppy. For XP, at Desktop double click My Computer, right click floppy drive, click Format to format the disk, then click 'Create MS-DOS Boot Disk'.
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8. At A:\ prompt type in the following,
C:\ (enter)
cd\TEST(enter)
awdfl833c(space)w7030nms.130
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9. Reboot when prompted. It shouldn't take more than 10 seconds to update the BIOS.

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K8N Neo Platinum
BIOS Type Award® BIOS File Sizes 311KB
Version 1.5 Update date 2005-1-21
Update Description - Support Matrox G450 AGP card.
- Update CPU ID.
- Support FX-55.
- Support Sempron CPU 1800+ GHz.
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Quote
Originally posted by Supershanks
Guess MSI don't know their own boards
K8N Neo Platinum
May be theirs an "Optional adapter" somewhere
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Ouuchh!! Hown uninstall my old drives 5.03 ?
After installing 5.10 I will not have problems with my all drives (Ati 9600 xt /soundblaster live ) ?
My problem is the system is very very slow. and my old cpu (athlon 2.0 msi k4 ultra -512 mb) was faster than my new AMD Athlon64 Processor 3200+ Newcastle -Msi K8n Neo Platinum -512 mb)
I suppose the problem is my a memory
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Module Name   SMT-OF-AMERICA
Module Size   256 MB (1 rows, 4 banks)
Module Type   Unbuffered
Memory Type   DDR SDRAM
Memory Speed   PC2700 (166 MHz)
Module Width   64 bit
Module Voltage   SSTL 2.5
Error Detection Method   None
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Memory Timings
@ 166 MHz   2.5-3-3-7 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
@ 133 MHz   2.0-3-3-6 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
DIMM 2
Memory Module Properties
Module Name   SpecTek
Module Size   256 MB (1 rows, 4 banks)
Module Type   Unbuffered
Memory Type   DDR SDRAM
Memory Speed   PC2700 (166 MHz)
Module Width   64 bit
Module Voltage   SSTL 2.5
Error Detection Method   None
Refresh Rate   Reduced (7.8 us)
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@ 166 MHz   2.5-3-3-7 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
@ 100 MHz   2.0-2-2-5 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Sorry for my English

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