SOLVED: K9A2 CF bios 1.9

Guys,
NOTE THIS: There seem to be many problems with the K9A2 CF board and bios version 1.9. There are many reports about the board not wanting to POST with an usb-device connected.
Our advice is to not flash the board to bios version 1.9. We are currently in contact with MSI to see what's going on.
For those of you experiencing this, flash the board back to version 1.8 and follow this thread to get the latest information about this. We'll inform you all as soon as possible.
Credits go to KRomeleoN, who warned about this earlier.
Best regards,
Hans,
MSI HQ Forum Team

SOLUTION: Anyone having trouble with this board/bios combination, please post a bios replacement request to me or one of the other moderators. We will then provide you with information on how to obtain an updated bios.
After flashing, disconnect AC power and clear cmos!, >>Clear CMOS Guide<<
Thank you.

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K9A2 Platinum bios 1.4 or 1.5 Promise RAID fail Boot.

Ok I have BIOS version 1.3 running fine. I want to upgrade to a bios that officially support the phenom and its power usage. So back in may I try to upgrade to bios 1.4. No good the machine will not boot the RAID set that contains window XP. :( Reverted back. Contacted support. Not much help... a few weeks pass. Contact support again they send me bios version 1.51. Same issue. Reverted back to 1.3. Recently I tried the final release of 1.5 with the same issue.
Anyone out there using a phenom on the K9A2 and booting with the Promise RAID controller in a striped 0 set ? How did you get it to work with the current bios version. Tech support 'claims' they have no problem with the bios and that they have tested it with the promise controller booting to XP.
Thanks,
Jon Harrell

Considering the very large files that regularly run through the system and the extra cpus that windows inefficiently uses I doubt a software controller would impact the performance gains significantly. The units we have prep large format presentations and regularly handle very large files. Bandwidth is key. If this was the average desktop or even a web server yes 1 drive would most definitely be faster. But that would be a different subject.
Although now we might just be considering scraping the whole MSI created mess, and purchasing a hardware solution like that of the quad sata raid in our server.
But for now:
Does any one know the perfect combination?
e.g. Promise driver 1.1.1030.47 !work with Bios 1.50 (promise 2.8.1030.0032)
Thanks,
jh

K9A2 Platinum BIOS, are there any hard drive size limitations ?

I have a K9A2 Platinum system with version 1.10 of the AMI BIOS. Recently trying to re-initialize a Linux grub /boot partition which is near the end of my 2 TB hard drive I received the message:
"Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS"
I see nothing in the AMI BIOS limiting the number of cylinders on any of my hard disks. Is there some setting in the BIOS I should be changing to fix this problem or is this just a legacy grub limitation ?

Quote from: Svet on 29-May-14, 21:44:37
Up to 2TB should be fine,
about the error, check here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327989
Thanks but the link provided no help.

MSI K9A2 CF - Bios A7388AMS.1A2 - HELP ME!!!

My pc work in 100% on bios 1.8 and I'm update bios to A7388AMS.1A2. Please tell me what i must do to recovery 1.8. I see black screen and Leds on front side computer don't work. I'm don't head any voice(beep) and my computer don't start without unpluged usb device. This is AMI bios.
My computer:
MSI K9A2 CF
AMD Phenom x4 920
Asus Hd4830 512 mb
Patriot 2x1gb 800MHz 5-5-5-12
Seagate 160 GB sata
Keyboard and Mouse: USB

I was going to install and try them. My biggest problem is with the fact that MSI is currently misrepresenting their product by merging the V1 with the V2 CPU support list completely. Didn't you see what I said about the CPU support list and my calls to MSI tech support regarding the sudden 125W CPU support? Perhaps you can explain why this was done and enlighten me as to why MSI employees have stated that they are in fact supported? I'd call them right now, ask yet again, and probably get the same answer, but, it's Saturday.
Could you also explain why if there are such obvious issues with these BIOS versions (no USB support? only 1 DIMM support?) that they are still listed at all. Even worse is the fact that 1.9 is active within the Live Update database. That, to me, is an obvious oversight and borders on blatant incompetence. And yes, I am frustrated and venting some of that... I apologize.
In my case, even with one of these CPUs installed using 1.8, there would be no power to OC either one. The only reason I purchased them both was because of what MSI told me about 125W support, and these aren't even close to that. I might be able to take the 7850 to 3.0Ghz or the Callisto to 3.3 if I were to also under-volt them, but that's not always successful. I suppose I should be happy I at least get a little more speed along with some L3 cache using one of these, but I am not. I truly wish I had known this before I wasted money on a CPU I'll never see perform to it's full potential.
Again, I apologize for seeming so obviously disgruntled. I hope you can understand why I feel this way.

SOLVED: K9A2 Platinuim= Unexpected shutdowns on medium load.

Hello guys!
This is my first message, I'm from argentina, and I regret this first is a cry for help.
I've unexpected shutdowns on my system, (specs on the signature), and it happens when I use heavy open GL apps, like SecondLife (at maximum quality settings), Quake 4 (idem).
It works wonderfully for a while and then BANG! shutdown, so so down, I've to actully turn off the PSU switch and then on again to be able to boot.
At first I thought it was a temperature issue, but no, my system rarely go more than 50C even with the CPU at it's very full capacity (try a render on blender) for a long time.
This is also strange, because I can have my CPU at 100% on each core for 5 hours and everything's peachy, BUT I play Quake 4 and 30 minutes or so later the computer shuts down.
I read in the forum it could be also a weak PSU, and according to my numbers mine is extremely weak, so that explanation could be consistent with the demand of extra power the GPU needs on games.
I visit the Nvidia forum and the only post remotely similar to my problem talks about the mother (k9a2).
So the question is: Besides the obvious need of a better PSU... do I need to check something else?
Oh!! one additional fact: playing games my Graphics board never climb to more than 60C
Yes it's hot, but the default threshold for slowing the GPU down is 100C so I guess it's ok.
Any ideas?
Thank you very much in advance and excuse my crappy english
Edit: Issue solved see below.

"So the question is: Besides the obvious need of a better PSU... do I need to check something else?"
No, its the PSU for sure
"Any ideas?"
Go for normal, modern and better PSU
For Good PSU suggestions and more info:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=112039.msg836246#msg836246
Some of those will be great choose:
CORSAIR 450VX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139003
CORSAIR 550VX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139004
Corsair 650TX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005
Corsair 750TX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006
Add on to read:
>>> PSU's---2 x 12v---The Dual Rail Myth <<<
>>> Is your problem caused by your PSU? <<<

[SOLVED] Telling my BIOS/HD which partition to boot (GPT)

I had Ubuntu dual booting with Mac OS X via grub2 on a GPT drive well. That worked fine except that it was Ubuntu and while I love Ubuntu for many reasons, I do not love Ubuntu for productive development (apt...headers...name mangling...ok I'm not going to rant).
I installed arch via live-usb net install like this:
Boot of live usb
Run parted
--Delete Ubuntu partition
--Make a 32MB ext2 partition (#4)
--Make a 6GB swap partition (#5)
--Make a 15GB ext4 partition (#6) (wasnt sure if ext4 was ok for root but... i just went for it!)
--Make a 250GB ext4 partition (#7)
Run arch setup
--In the choose blocks/config er whatever section I set the partitions as follows:
----4 -> /boot
----6 -> /
----7 -> /home
Install packages
Configure
--SKIP bootloader
Exit setup
Run the following:
$ mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
$ chroot /mnt bash
$ # dhcpcd and stuff to get online
$ pacman -Sy grub2
$ # Edit my grub.cfg (basically just copied the ubuntu one except replaced ubuntu's entry with arch's entry)
$ reboot
Get everyone's favorite message: Verifying dmi pool data...
Reboot into the archlinux live usb and try the following
$ parted
$ set 1 boot off
$ set 4 boot on
$ quit
$ reboot
Back to: Verifying dmi pool data...
While I'm not certain that Ubuntu wasn't doing something automagically to make gpt work smoothly for me this seems to my (not-very-knowledgeable) self like a reasonable approach, and thus my theory is that somehow the wrong partition is being attempted to be booted by my bios. If it were at least trying to run the partition with grub I would suspect some sort of error message, not just hanging at "Verifying dmi pool data..." This theory has made me realize that while I thought I sort of understood the bios->bootload hand off I, embarrassingly enough, have no idea how the boot partition is determined. I think the bios just hands off to the HD, and the HD chooses which boot partition, but maybe the BIOS goes straight to a given partition? Yup, no idea, hahah.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. While I do of course have everything backed up the mac os x partition is 800GB and is using ~700, so restoring it would not only be a pain, but also potentially unreliable so I would much prefer advice that does not involve deleting/overwriting/reinstalling os x.
Reinstalling Arch is no biggie (after all I've never booted successfully into this install;p).
Last edited by drostin77 (2009-12-04 12:50:21)

Why GRUB2? Grub2 is still a bit experimental, probably have better luck with regular grub.
I had read that regular grub did not play nice with GPT, and that in fact installing it may corrupt the partition table so I did not try it. If this information is incorrect I would love to use it to at least get my system up and running, let me know.
In your post, I don't see where you ran "grub-install". Just installing the GRUB package does not install a "bootloader", per se.
I'd recommend reading the GRUB2 wiki article carefully, or as Gen2ly says, use GRUB "legacy".
Thanks! Ya... I did read that wiki, uh forgot to updated post when I tried grub install but: grub-install hangs when run after chrooting and nothing happens. I swapped to another virtual terminal and checked out the process, it was doing nothing. So...
Ubuntu 9.10 uses grub2, so I booted an ubuntu 9.10 live usb, mounted my /boot partition (sda4) to /mnt/boot ran
$ grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
Rebooting now got me past "Verifying dmi pool data"
The grub menu was all messed up (only 1 option though I had 5 entries), and booting informed me that I need to load the kernel first, but I suspect this may just be a problem in my grub.cfg. I had to head in to work though (Japan time) before I could poke around, but for now I'd say I'm no longer "stuck" (uh, maybe ;p). Thanks for all the help!
I'll be seeing if I can get my grub.cfg setup happily (or better yet set it up automagically from a live cd ) tonight. Will set this so [SOLVED] and explain if I can.

K9A2 CF BIOS update -- system freezes

hi,
just new here hopefully someone could help..
just bought recently MSI K9A2 CF mobo to pair up with my 5000+ BE, am havin a dillema regarding its chipset reading it read as RD780..is this should be 790x?right?
so what i did i updated its bios to beta 1.22 as suggested by MSI technical group after successfully updating my BIOS, upon booting up, windows suddenly freezes up..so after all the troubleshooting i finnaly gave up, i re-installed my system again..re-installed drivers system and after restarting there it goes again it freezes up...

Quote from: Russ_xp on 27-December-07, 18:18:23
@Madfaze20 - just make sure that any bios you get is for correct MB - CF is 7388 vs Platinum is 7376.
@Sake - do you have a beta bios for K9A2 CF-F ?
thanks ill keep that in mind, there is 1.21 on their ftp site
Quote from: Sake on 27-December-07, 19:14:03
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=112568.0
Thx to bosskiller in above topic.
Here is BIOS 121 for K9A2 CF-F that should remove message "PS/2 Mouse not found" for those who need.
Use it at own risk.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=112568.0;attach=3726
BTW Also running a 5000+ Black Editon in a K9A2CF-F. With Kingston 2x 1GB DDR2 800 ValueRAM running stabil from day one.
so were running the same setup, so how's your OC?

K9A2 Platinum BIOS - Beating a Dead Horse?

I heard a rumor (posted on the AMD processor forums in one of my posts) that MSI has stopped adding to the K9A2 Platinum (V1 board) BIOS. They will not be adding a selective disable to the TLB bug, they will not be adding a northbridge multiplier setting. Any truth to this horrible rumor? My support request with MSI to add a northbridge multiplier so I can actually get my memory speed up where it is rated was met with the likes of "we probably won't be doing that". Is BIOS 1.3 going to be the last one? I don't really WANT to go back to BIOS P.0E just so I can unlock the northbridge multiplier. It has a bunch of other issues with memory. This board is priced quite low considering... I wonder if they ended up losing money on it and decided to stop supporting the V1 board?

Quote from: exidous on 29-February-08, 19:03:18
I would probably consider not being able to turn the TLB errata fix off a problem. Going from the original BIOS (v1.0 I think) to 1.3 lowered my computers performance by about 10%ish. This includes FPS in games and all 3DMark scores.
Now it could be something totally different causing the lowered performance as I do not know when MSI added the "fix". I never run virtualization programs so the fix does only harm in terms of performance.
I did ask MSI about the posibility to disable TLB fix in BIOS and this what they answered:
Quote
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thanks for contacting MSI Technical Support.
We will make a specifal Customer BIOS version for you.In this BIOS you can Enable and Disable the TLB errata fix(Add this Option for you).Please wait some days.If we complete it and we will contact you ASAP.
Best wishes
MSI Technical Support Team
And today they sent:
Quote
Please download the Customer BIOS version(A7376ACI.101 which add the item of TLB) from MSI User FTP.
Here is the link:
ftp://ftp.msi.com.tw/BIOS/7376/

Are there any MSI K9A2 Platinum Bios version with better V-core adjust?

Hi everyone
I wonder if anyone knows if there are some bios version to MSI K9A2 Platinum there they have change the V-core settings. I think it´s very big step between the different V-core setting.
In my bios (v.1.3) i have this settings at V-core. Auto=1.32v (AMD 5000+ BE) then 1.36, 1.39, 1.44, 1.49, 1.51. etc.
So, if anyone knows if there are som bios version that have better options to the V-core settings i would be grateful

Quote from: AaronYuri on 05-April-08, 18:33:22
Moved it here, as you don't overvolt a chip to run it at stock.
Okay. I´m sorry if i post it wrong. I have change my profil now

[Solved] Converting from BIOS+Grub1+MBR to UEFI+Grub2+GPT

Hello community,
my motherboard has an annoying bug, the POST sometimes taking over 20 seconds. Now I noticed that my motherboard is actually in the BIOS legacy mode, while UEFI mode is available. So I'd like to switch to UEFI in the hope that the BIOS bug won't appear there. I've read through several Wiki pages and forum posts, but still don't really know how to proceed.
The current setup is: The motherboard is in BIOS legacy mode, an HDD and an SSD are connected. The HDD contains just a big data partition while the SSD contains /, /home and swap. Grub1 is installed in the MBR of the SSD.
As far as I have understood from the Wiki, I need to change the partition table to GPT before switching to UEFI. According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GP … MBR_to_GPT it is even possible without data loss. Since I need to free 1MiB at the end of the partition table, I'd need to boot some Live-USB and perform all the operations from there. So my first question is: If I change to GPT from Live-USB, will Grub1 still be able to boot the system afterwards?
Second thing is, I've noticed that Grub1 is neither present in the repos, nor in the AUR any more. So if I uninstall it and something goes wrong, how to get Grub1 back?
Thanks for any help,
Photon
Last edited by PhotonX (2013-03-01 12:09:16)

PhotonX wrote:my motherboard has an annoying bug, the POST sometimes taking over 20 seconds. Now I noticed that my motherboard is actually in the BIOS legacy mode, while UEFI mode is available. So I'd like to switch to UEFI in the hope that the BIOS bug won't appear there. I've read through several Wiki pages and forum posts, but still don't really know how to proceed.
Try a live-medium that starts in UEFI-mode. The easiest way would be using the latest Ubuntu. If you've switched your BIOS from legacy boot to UEFI first, Ubuntu should detect this and start in UEFI mode. So you could check if it solves your POST problem.
If you want to try it with the latest Arch-ISO just follow the wiki for creating a UEFI bootable usb device. After booting this device, check if it really has booted in UEFI-mode
PhotonX wrote:Second thing is, I've noticed that Grub1 is neither present in the repos, nor in the AUR any more. So if I uninstall it and something goes wrong, how to get Grub1 back?
You can't (unless you are using an old Mac) . If you want UEFI and Grub, use grub-efi-x86_64.

[ solved] K8MM-ILSR Bios 3.8 how to force AGP 4X Mode ?

Hi all,
like a lot of people, I've some problems with my 9600 radeon and my mainboard.
Using games usually end with a freezing black screen.
I've updated my system (ATI drivers, VIA drivers et.c), checked for PSU, temperatures and disabled fastwrite without success.
My brand new mainboard was shipped with a bios version 3.8 wich is not availlable on the MSI site.
I would love to try to set the AGP mode to 4X except that when plugging my 9600, The only setting is AUTO, when plugging my old 7500 the setting goes to 4X.
Does anyone know if there is a vay to overide the AUTO setting or if an older version of BIOS support it ( 3.7 ?).
Thanks for your feedback.
Edit : I've forced AGP 4X in Catalyst Control Center and now it works fine even if this option is not availlable in the BIOS.

Hi all,
like a lot of people, I've some problems with my 9600 radeon and my mainboard.
Using games usually end with a freezing black screen.
I've updated my system (ATI drivers, VIA drivers et.c), checked for PSU, temperatures and disabled fastwrite without success.
My brand new mainboard was shipped with a bios version 3.8 wich is not availlable on the MSI site.
I would love to try to set the AGP mode to 4X except that when plugging my 9600, The only setting is AUTO, when plugging my old 7500 the setting goes to 4X.
Does anyone know if there is a vay to overide the AUTO setting or if an older version of BIOS support it ( 3.7 ?).
Thanks for your feedback.
Edit : I've forced AGP 4X in Catalyst Control Center and now it works fine even if this option is not availlable in the BIOS.

MOVED: K9A2-CF bios

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Modding Corner.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=124019.0

Quote from: Hans on 11-June-09, 15:36:46
Okay people, I'm going to put an end to the discussion here, because I need some information, not a discussion. It seems there is a slight problem with the 1.9 bios and MSI is working on it.
Now, I need the following information:
- what devices are connected when there is a POST problem?
- Please provide brandname / model number exactly.
- Also, do provide any circumstance under which the board will post with devices connected, like some RAM being pulled / reinstalled.
I will forward this info to the MSI bios engeneering team.
No more discussion please, just plain info, nothing more.
Thank you.
I think it is now a problem with usb legacy. here is my usb devices:
Mouse: Microsoft Explorer Wireless Bluetrack
Keyboard: Fellowes Wireless Antibacterial Microban
Webcam: Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX
ReadyBoost Drive: Patriot 4GB Flash Drive
Miscellaneous: Bluetooth USB Adapter, Transcend Card Reader, Blackberry Storm Dock
with usb legacy enabled, they all cause the system to fail.

K9A2 CF BIOS 1.22

Anyone tried it?
Does it have the "PS/2 mouse not found error" or is this the first official BIOS that does not give this error? (aparth form beta v1.21 BIOS)
BTW beta 1.21 runs absolutely great. So this BIOS would only give me an official BIOS instead of beta

Quote from: Sake on 06-January-08, 02:47:30
Anyone tried it?
Does it have the "PS/2 mouse not found error" or is this the first official BIOS that does not give this error? (aparth form beta v1.21 BIOS)
BTW beta 1.21 runs absolutely great. So this BIOS would only give me an official BIOS instead of beta
yep they are fix now with 1.2v...works great for me...

MOVED: K9A2 Platinum BIOS - Beating a Dead Horse?

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Modding Corner.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=115083.0

Quote from: exidous on 29-February-08, 19:03:18
I would probably consider not being able to turn the TLB errata fix off a problem. Going from the original BIOS (v1.0 I think) to 1.3 lowered my computers performance by about 10%ish. This includes FPS in games and all 3DMark scores.
Now it could be something totally different causing the lowered performance as I do not know when MSI added the "fix". I never run virtualization programs so the fix does only harm in terms of performance.
I did ask MSI about the posibility to disable TLB fix in BIOS and this what they answered:
Quote
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thanks for contacting MSI Technical Support.
We will make a specifal Customer BIOS version for you.In this BIOS you can Enable and Disable the TLB errata fix(Add this Option for you).Please wait some days.If we complete it and we will contact you ASAP.
Best wishes
MSI Technical Support Team
And today they sent:
Quote
Please download the Customer BIOS version(A7376ACI.101 which add the item of TLB) from MSI User FTP.
Here is the link:
ftp://ftp.msi.com.tw/BIOS/7376/

MOVED: K9A2 Platinum Bios Update

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Modding Corner.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=120503.0

Quote from: baconboy169 on 05-October-08, 03:54:21
I was just wondering if anyone has any info if MSI will make a more robust bios after 1.5 that will support overclocking of CPU voltages. As it is I can only get 2.8 GHZ on my phenom 9850 because of the inability to up CPU voltages.My friend has the newest ASUS board which has a much better bios and he's been able to overclock his 9850 to 3.36 stable with almost identical hardware to mine.
If you are refering to the newest 790GX boards: they will simply overclock the CPU higher than a 790FX board will, because of the ACC (Advanced Clock Calibration) function of the new SB750 southbridge. Not really a matter of BIOS options, but a matter of a newer chipset...
You would probably match the results of the new ASUS board using the new MSI board, the DKA790GX Platinum for example...

SOLVED: K9A2 CF bios 1.9

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