Three K8N Neo Platinum Solutions

Hi All,
With the help of lots of good information from this forum, I just got my new K8N Neo Platinum running nice and stable (and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it continues) and I figured I'd share what I learned.  Maybe it will help you too.
Maxtor 16 MB Cache Hard Drives - didn't work, no matter what I tried.  I returned them and purchased a pair of Western Digital 200 GB SATA drives with 8 MB caches and they're running in RAID 1 just fine.  The Maxtors were very fast, but that doesn't matter if they aren't reliable.
PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse - bad news.  Just plugging the keyboard into the PS/2 keyboard port would shut down the machine and it would even pout for awhile before it would boot again.  Plugging the keyboard into the PS/2 mouse port worked, but I still had stability problems.  The solution was a Belkin PS/2-to-USB adapter from CompUSA.  I plugged both the keyboard and the mouse into the adapter and the adapter into a single USB port and everybody was happy.  Note - other PS/2-to-USB adapters didn't work, but the Belkin did.
Antec Sonata Case - wiring problem.  The pin arrangement on the cable from the USB port on the front of the case doesn't match the pin arrangement on the USB headers on the motherboard.  Plug it in and both USB headers stop working, which means the USB ports on your D-Bracket don't work if you have it plugged into the other USB header.  The solution is to unplug pin 10 on the Sonata USB cable.  Just use a knife to lift the little black tab on the connector and pull the wire to pin 10 out.  Plug the cable back in and both USB headers will work.  Feel free to call Antec Tech Support to verify this.  They know all about it.
Well, that's all.  Hope this helped.  Good luck.
Cheers,
Dave

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Rafterman,
How DID you manage to use an Antec PSU w/ a 64 board? I've seen all kinds of "horror stories" in a lot of forums about that combo.
What horror stories are you talking about?  What combo?
Hmmm.... they must have fixed it. There was lot lot of reports in different forums about Antec PSUs & 64 boards "not playing nice" together.  It had something to do with an incompatable "power good" signal that was unique to Antec PSUs. It had been going on for several months....
Looks like Antec dealt with the issue.
I hadn't heard a thing about that.  I just bought an Antec Sonata with a 380W PSU and plugged it into my K8N Neo.  Fortunately, it worked fine.

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    I've recently received a K8N Neo Platinum MB with a Athlon 64 3000+ processor, and the combination is constantly producing extremely high processor temperatures!? For example, around 62C in idle while the PC cover is open, and over 70C with the cover closed   Seems as if there's no software processor cooling at all, even at processor ocupancy close to 0%.
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    from msi:
    Thank you for contacting MSI Technical Support.
    The temperature you mention is acceptable. Please don't worry about it. But we'll forward these information to our relevant department and have them check this issue. We'll let you know once we have some findings and figure out the solution.
    Thanks for your supporting MSI product. We're sorry for any inconvenience caused. Please feel free to let us know if you still have any further issues or inquires.
    Best regards,
    MSI Technical Support
    -----Original Message-----
    From:
    Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:29 PM
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: temperature report too high - data
    Dear MSI Support,
    I recently received my K8N Neo Platinum NF3 250GB and AMD64 3400+ and am seeing high temperatures reported by core center and motherboard monitor bm5 - in the region of 45C idle (same as reported case temperature which seems very high also), and up to 70C and above under sustained 100% load. Cool and quiet is not enabled, neither is DOT. BIOS reports 45C idle temps - I cannot view direct bios temperature readings under load. Cooler is Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu running at full speed.
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  • K8N Neo Platinum Mysterious Power off

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    Quote from: EdwinGF on 23-September-05, 04:51:49
    Hi,
    It looks indeed as a PSU problem. I had a similar problem with an MSI KT3 Ultra ARU. In that particular case, the PSU,
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    Quote from: EdwinGF on 23-September-05, 04:51:49
    ...The symptoms were the same you're having on your K8N Neo Platinum. Once we tried with a more decent and powerful
    PSU, a Cooler Master® RealPower 550 PSU we use for testing purposes only. The computer didn't shut of again during a
    3 Day Continous Test, we conduct for such problems...
    yeah my PC never lasts over 1 day and that has only happened once.
    Quote from: EdwinGF on 23-September-05, 04:51:49
    After that, we installed a new CoolerMaster® RealPower 550 PSU, on that computer , and tested the computer again for three
    more days. Since then that computer has never shut down without warning.
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    * If so, does it do the same thing?
    not yet but i definitely will now.  *sigh* i as hoping this would be something non-expensive. baa
    let you know tomorrow or the next day...
    Quote from: EdwinGF on 23-September-05, 04:51:49
    If not, give it a try, in most cases it may solve the problem. If the problem persist, please come back and let us know.
    By the way, one more thing: Is your RAM ok ?, Have you mixed different speed sticks ?
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    nope nope both sticks are the same. i am planning to switch out the memory for my high performance OCZ sticks but i didn't want them to get damaged in the cross fire. i have done some extensive memory tests for these sticks that i have had in there now and they come clean every time. more in a day or so. thanks again,
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  • K8N Neo Platinum not working

    Hi guys,
    I finally tired of my old PC and decided to go for a new AMD64+ system. I ordered these components:
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    Originally posted by RexB
    bump.  Hi gcb, welcome You'll soon get an answer from a K8N Neo Plat owner. In meantime, pls post your full stats in your sig {add a sig to your "profile"}. Help us help you.
    Done  
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    Originally posted by Jasonxxx
    If you could tell us you entire system specs....That means everything and how you have it installed and setup...
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    Originally posted by NewNeo
    What you describe is how my so-called "cold-boot" problem began. Eventually, I was able to get a boot, but subsequently, anytime the PC was powered-off and left off for a few minutes, then powered-on, the PC would behave in exactly the same way you describe here.
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    Nice to hear it helped .
    Flashing between different bios generations sometimes needs a full flash with bootbloack/dmi/and reset during/after flash (not only awflxxx biosrom and enter ) 
    this because they are sometimes completly reworked .
    I always use the full commandline option also with the /f switch and it's never given me probles switching between very old and very new versions .
    Some don't like to reflash the bootblock though , but sometimes it should be , as it has changed trough some versions .
    Same goes for winflash , always markes bootblock/dmi/update all/and cmos reset .
    The nice thing about winflash is if the flash goes wrong it's just to kill it through taskmanager and try over until you get a successfull flash .
    As long as you don't shut down or restart your computer it's working even with the mainblock erased .
    Experienced this myself today , when trying 1.9b6mod for neo2 .
    Mainblock was erased and new programming stopped at 22% .
    So i downloaded from internet another winflash version (1.0.0.1) and was able to reprogram back to 1.8R2mod by tictac .
    For the 64bits I had the same problems while testing/running it with the beta version back in january (not tried XP64 with the newest retail version and newest nvidia xp64 drivers) .
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    Have the sata ports set at "sata dma enabled" in bios .
    It's also different depending on which sata ports you are using .
    Sata port 1/2 is connected to the nv-chipset though the chip-link to the marvell extrenal PHY for the drives
    and port 3/4 use the internal integrated nvidia PHY .
    So you can have different results depending on if you create the array on port 1/2 or port 3/4 .

  • Any problem with Gainward 6800GT & K8N Neo Platinum? (sock754)

    Hi all! I want to buy the k8n neo p., was reading this review:
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    "One of the problem we encountered was the transistor positioning near the AGP slot. With extremely lengthy AGP cards, one of the capacitors located in that area may obstruct certain components on the graphics card. As such, users with large graphics cards might want to first test the installation of a graphics card before purchasing this motherboard."
    I have a Gainward 6800GT Powerpack Ultra/2400 Golden Sample, the red model with double red fans, visible here http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gainward-ultra2400.html
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    Originally posted by ozzimark
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