Thunder - now 790FX-GD70 LEDs but no POST

So some significant lightening came through yesterday morning. Last night the wife mentions the computer is down.
Symptoms:
manually turning off PS & back on - get green MB power light
press case power button - nothing
press MB power button :
north bridge phase LED - LIT
CPU phase LEDs - 1-4 LIT
RAM phase LEDs - 1,2 LIT
system phase LEDs - 1,2 LIT
HDD status LED - LIT
fan starts spinning
then :
MB power - LIT
RAM phase LEDs - 1,2 LIT
No POST
must reset the power supply (OFF/ON) before I can do it all again. MB reset button does nothing.
System Specs:
OCZ 700MXSP power supply
AMD Phenom II x4 955
MSI 790FX-GD70
Radeon 5830 (currently removed)
G.SKILL [Performance] DDR3 PC3-12800 2x2G
OCZ Agility 3 SSD
Western Digital 1600 HDD
Seagate Barracuda 1200 HDD
CD/DVD RW
Any other specific tests that can verify it's time to replace the MB/CPU? If either is gone it's time to upgrade.
Thanks for another set of eyes!

Sounds bad if it worked and then stopped. Try the board outside case on a non-conductive surface with basic components (cpu/cooler, vga, one stick of ram, psu). If no help reseat cpu and cooler. If still no help try a different psu or vga if available.

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790FX-GD70 First build, no post out of box. (FF)

Hello, I've read a few threads on the 790FX-GD70 and FF led read outs. I've included direct links to newegg.com for closer inspection:
Mobo: MSI 790FX-GD70 AM3
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 125W
Memory: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600
Video: SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X 100269VXL Radeon HD 4890
PSU: Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power ATX12V Ver.2.2
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB
The state of the board is FF and the status lights are as follows:
Sys Phase: 2/2
CPU_Phase: 1/5
DDR: 2/2
MB Status: FF
So far, I have tried with one stick of memory DIMM 1 only and with no memory as well. I have re set the processor once with the same results. I have tried with a seperate GeForce 7300 video card I have that I am sure works just fine. The LED's and fans are all powered correctly. I have carefully checked each power cord to make sure that it's not a user error. I had a good and experienced friend with me to make sure I didn't skip any basic steps. I am in the progress of opening a ticket with MSI technical support and I plan on purchasing an Corsair DDR3 stick to test with. I have a bad feeling that it could be the processor but I wanted an expert opinion. Thanks in advanced & Merry Christmas.

Quote from: Mamluk on 27-December-09, 14:23:08
Just to confirm: you are not getting ANY CPU phase lights when you power-up? Note that there are 4 CPU phase-lights. The top one is the NB phase light. If you are getting none, then look at your CPU and/or PSU CPU connector. Not sure why RAM should affect this at all.
Well, there are 5 LED's total, so that was my bad. I meant the first bracket (CPU phase 1) is lighting up. It does not make it past that stage. The 3 other lights are not powered on. I have had the optical drive disconnected this whole time but found that when it was connected, it did not open. For now, I'll just leave it disconnected... Anyways, I wasn't sure how RAM would affect this, but it was worth a shot.

Questions about OC and upgrading my 790FX-GD70

Hey Guys,
So Ive had this board for a while now (790FX-GD70) and am looking to throw some new parts on it, I want to throw the 1100T CPU on there (Unless MSI wisens up and enables AM3+ like they did for other boards) and was to throw in some 1600 or 1800 ram, Ive got a couple concerns though.
1. Ive never updated the bios on thsi board (I think its 3.04), frankly Im not a huge fan of doing it and avoid it unless I absolutely have to, will I need to update the bios to throw in a thuban?
2. The boards specs say that the board supports 1600/1800 member but only OC'd, so that means I need to OC the FSB right? But Im not sure how much overclocking this boards FSB can actually handle, if Im not mistaken for 1600 it will need to be 2400-2600 and even higher for 1800 memory. Can the board handle it? Will I have some major FSB heat issues?
2a. What do I need to overclock? Do I need to increase the bus speed or the fsb multiplier? What voltage do I need to set for the FSB at thoes speeds?
2b. Bus speed affects cpu clock as wel ldoesnt it? so if I boost the bus then do I have to throttle back the multiplier?
My goal is to have the 1100t running at around 4gz and the memory will either be 1600 or 1800, it depends what I find with good timings at a decent price.
Thanks guys!

The Guide will come in handy. I have an 790FX-GD70 that I have done plenty of OC settings with my original Phenom II X3 720BE, and now my X6 1090T.
Overclocking is a trial and error project. When you get a better understanding about the effects of Overclocking you will learn that it's about stability with an overclock, and not setting records. Well.. unless record setting is a part you want to play with. Stability.. there are programs to test you overclock. Many of them, some available here in downloads. Prime, Futuremark, OCCT.. choices to help you test for stability. Play safe, step by step.. that way you avoid damaging your system. There are a lot of Overclock examples on the net. Search the board and overclock. The board is now a couple of years old.. but it was a hot.. overclock board. You can find it even with your CPU as examples to learn from.
Here's one for you.. you'll learn! You stated 1600-1800 memory speeds. OK, it's an overclock. But, the question is? Do you get a gain? Is 1800 really quicker than 1333? The number is bigger. 1600, or 1800 is bigger than 1333, or 1066. So, it must mean it's better and faster, right? Well.... if you compare reads and writes between 1333 and 1600 the gain is little or none. There are different CPU crunch uses. Like burning video or playing a game. Different demands, different setting results. The AM3 CPU is made for 1333. In some Overclocks because of timings... 1066 could offers quicker results than 1600. It's trial and tests. Not just CPU but Memory and more make an Overclock. Welcome to Overclocking. It's fun and done within limits... you will get more out of what you have. Me.. my best Overclock to date? Results I see from my 790FX-GD70? I have run 3.8 stable... and my SSD's are a better OC than tweaking my speeds. Both together... I have amid OC and am very happy.
Good Luck

790FX-GD70 won't POST - 3 beeps & diagnostic LED "2e"

Hi,
After a second or two of rapidly displaying various hex values, the POST_LED stops at "2e" (not documented in manual; can't find on MSI support site) and the system issues 3 beeps (1 long and 2 short, also not documented in manual or online for AMI BIOS, which I assume from pictures in manual is what this mobo has on it).
My configuration is as follows:
Motherboard: 790FX-GD70 (model MS-7577)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz Socket AM3
Memory: 2x (8GB total) OCZ 4GB KIT (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600Mhz PC3 12800 REAPER SERIES DUAL CHANNEL KIT (7-7-7-24)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146059
Video: Inno3D GTX260 216 Core 896MB DDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E (I know it's SLI, not CrossFire, but I'm only going to be using the one card)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152386
Hard Drives: 2x Western Digital WD3000HLFS VelociRaptor 300GB Hard Drive SATAII 16MB Cache 10000rpm
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149435
Optical Drive: LiteOn 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer & Ram + Lightscribe IDE
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126226
PSU: 500W EarthWatts PSU
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128045
Obviously the CPU is good since I'm getting *some* POST activity and beeps, but I'm afraid I don't have any other video cards, memory, or PSU I can swap out to compare against. The previous poster (linked below) said he had swapped out many components and still had the same problem, though.
Any ideas, anyone? I'd be happy to further diagnose the problem myself if someone could point me towards a complete list of diagnostic LED values and meanings, and BIOS beep codes and meanings.
Cheers,
Philip the Duck
Previous post with same problem:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=127265.0

Quote from: Stu on 02-August-09, 20:41:23
yannifb,
Please keep discussion of your own problem in your own topic, do not hijack others'!
In order to find out the real cause, it is generally a good method to make comparisons with partially different configurations, as yannifb did. Therefore, I see his post as a useful contribution rather than hijacking, and I hope I am allowed to say so in this forum, even to a Global Administrator. Bootup failure with the 790FX-GD70 with various graphic cards and PSUs (which might very well have a COMMON cause) is now being discussed in different threads, which makes it more difficult to follow the discussion and to compare and analyse the phenomena.
My own PSU is a Corsair HX1000W, which is undoubtedly strong enough and even recommended expressly by AMD for the Radeon 4890. Nevertheless, bootup fails with the configuration given in my signature. (I hope I'm not guilty of another "hijacking" attempt. I believe we need some consolidation on this whole subject.)

790FX-GD70 not POSTing no debug code all LEDs on

Hi
I have had my 790FX-GD70 for almost the past 2 years and it has given me no real problems. But yesterday whilst playing Fallen Earth, my computer froze so I gave it a restart and it froze during windows start up. At this point I opened my case and watched the debug display and this time it froze during post, can't remember the debug code it froze on. I tried restarting a few more time and it would freezes at different points during post. At this point I remove it from its case and start barebones testing it. If I left it for a time I could get into the bios and go to the hardware monitoring page and look a the tempter of the CPU for it froze. There it reported that the tempter was 34C. Stopped testing it last night and when I turned it one this morning it would not even start to post. When I turn it on all the LEDs on the board turn on even the overclocking LED and the overclocking switch also turns and to turn off the system I have to do a hard switch off and UPS.
I have tried it with a different UPS with no effect, tried a different graphics card with no effect. Also tried with different RAM and no RAM no effect.
Computer secs:
MB: MSi 790FX-GD70
CPU: AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 Black Edition
UPS: Antec TRUEPOWER Quattro 850 watt
RAM: Corsair XMS3 4Gig DDR3 can not remember the speed.
GPU: MSI AMD Radeon R6950 twin Frozr 2
CPU Heat Sink: Cooler Mater Hyper N520
Any help would be great.

Quote from: Svet on 06-May-12, 02:30:14
try with another video card then
Also done that to no effect, currently I don't have a spare CPU that will work on my motherboard. I was hoping that some one has had this problem before because I have never seen my computer start up with all the LEDs on as it starts up. Also the hard drive LED is on constantly even when there is no hard drive plug in.

My 790fx GD70 had approx 3 years of perfect operation, now the HDD led is red :(

Hey everyone I'm new to the msi forums here, but I built a gaming rig about 3 years ago and its been running fantastic ever since.
Ive been looking to buy an Radeon 7950 and finally decided on the HIS 7950 IceQ boost clock from newegg for 299.
So I opened up the case just to make 100% sure that I had the necessary 2- 6 pin power connectors, which I did . I did this while the pc was on (I know dont shoot me!) I didn't touch anything on board just a few wires from the psu to look at the connectors, an my hand slighty bushed the side intake fan, no stoppage or anything like that.
When I looked up after I put the couple wires back I had no display, no keyboard or mouse, and the red HDD led was lit above the mobo power button :( :(.
Ive checked all connections and they seems to be fine, my brother has the same board in his rig, so ill take a pic of his and double check mine just to be totally sure.
The pc powers up with either the case or mobo buttons, all fans (cpu, psu, case, gpu) power up and run normally. All lights are blue that I can see, except for the red HDD led, no display, keyboard, or mouse. Also I cant power the system down by holding down either case or mobo buttons, only by switching the psu off.
After reading up on this forum and a couple others ive come to a couple possible conclusions:
Either something came unplugged which ive some how missed, my mobo has shorted somehow after approx 3 years of perfect operation, or my psu has blown.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for me? Has anyone seen something like this happen before?
The tough thing is this pc is currently used for music recording through pro tools and was about to become the main media display pc at my church, after the purchase of the new video card, so having it down meant no music recording today at church :( :(
System Specs:
AMD phenom II x4 955
MSI 790fx gd70
Asus Radeon 5750
Mushkin Redline 1600mhz 4x2
Crucial SSD 120gb
Seagate 150gb HDD
Western Digital 1tb HDD (pro tools session storage)
LG CD/DVD RW
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give!
By the way I wrote all that on my phone! Lol

Thanks for all the help so far you guys!! Ok so i spent some more time on it and did what you both suggested. Reseated the ram, 2 sticks of 4 gb 1600 mushkin, made sure that all satas were seated properly on both the mobo and HDD sides, and checked all power connections to the board. After that i cleared cmos, and pulled the battery just to be sure. I checked the case pwr and reset connections on the front of the case and at the mobo, and everything seems to match my brothers board connections (went and took a few pics of his). I also moved my gpu up to the top slot of the mobo so i could see the little led screen on the mobo better.
So i fired her back up, and the dang red light was still on :-(. Also the little led screen isnt post anything at all, no numbers or letters are showing. I believe my brothers read 42 when i was taking pics of his rig (must be the code for all-is-well lol).
My psu is an 850 watt Xion. For + 12v1 and +12v2 its 18A for +12v3 and +12v4 it reads 20A and 22A respectively.
I dont see xions around much anymore, did they go out of business or something?
So do you guys think its probably the mobo since its not giving a display at the little led screen? Did it just happen to blow when i had the side panel off, could i have done something without touching the board to cause this? Maybe handling the wires? Could it possibly be the psu?
It looks like i may be in for an earlier mobo and cpu upgrade then i had originally planned :-P
Oh also my case is a full tower Azza, im not sure of the model, but its always had great cooling! (But i dont overclock lol)
Thanks so much again!

790FX-GD70 Won't Post

I bought the 790FX-GD70 in January and I'm just now finishing the build (don't ask).
I waited to buy the CPU until last, so I got the X6 1090T. The current BIOS is 7577 1.0 and I have every intention of updating it to 1.C as soon as I can get to the BIOS, but no luck there. I have it bare bones right now and out of the case. Parts list:
790FX-GD70 BIOS ver 1.0 (I know, I need to update ASAP)
Phenom II X6 1090T
Corsair H50 CPU Cooler
Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3 1033MHz (in first slot closest to CPU. The box says AMD Phenom II right on it. Grrr...)
Corsair 850HX Power Supply
It's right here in front of me out of the case, lying on my desk.
The problem is, it won't post. This is what I get:
FF,d1,d2,d3,d5,d6,08, then it resets, FF,d1,d2,d3,d5,d6,08, reset, etc. etc.
All the CPU phase LEDs light, memory LEDs light, and the hard drive LED lights right before the board resets.
Any help would be awesome. I'm lost. Thanks.

what vga you have?
have you tried to boot with barabone setup and mainboard out of the pc case?
tried >>Clear CMOS Guide<< too?
power cable for the cpu is connected?
have you tried to reseat the cpu too and check for bent pins?

790FX-GD70, upgrade bios to 1.7 and now raid 5 hangs.

Here are my system specs:
mobo: 790fx-gd70
cpu: quad 955 at stock
ram: gskill trident 6gb of ddr3-1600 8-8-8-21
video: xfx 4850/512 in CF
on j-micron: 2x 320g wd3200jb western digitals for raid 0 (scratch disk)
on amd raid: 4x500gb in raid 5 (data), 2x73g raid 0 (boot)
So back when I was running bios 1.4 everything works fine. I tested it and it works fine up to 1.6. So the system did work.
About two months ago, one of the 500g drives takes a poop. I send it off to rma, I get a new one back. I install it and tell the raid it is a hotspare. The raid rebuilds and life goes on. Then one month ago I try to upgrade to 1.7 so I can run windows 7. No luck. The bios hangs on the amd raid, but if I pull that hotspare/rebuild drive, it works. Call tech support. They give me 1.8beta. I try it, board cooks. No post. Rma the board. I get the board back, drop the bios back to 1.6, install xp, everything works. Jump to 1.7, same issue. Then I delete the raid config, and build a 3x500 without the problem drive. Everything works. Win7 screams, life goes on.
I tested the drive with data life guard, no problems. no smart errors. nothing. I write zeros to the drive in hopes it is a bad partition table or something. No luck.
Western digital and I agree that the problem is not the drive. The drive works fine when you downgrade the bios. Works fine with 1.7 if you turn off the raid and map it as ide.
What have I not thought of?

Fredirk: Scratch....I guess it is a reference to the old photoshop days when you would use a separate disk to hold the swap file and the files you were editing separate from the boot drive. I run torrents, irc, vmware, and keep raw dv there. The raid 5 is for anything I want to save, so it is not to much of a waste. Disks fail. I used to run seagate, but after sending back three 1tb drives to RMA I gave up on them. I transfer over 4tb per month over the internet, so that is a lot of disk io.
Hans: The tech support at MSI told me it was needed when I called them after seven would not install the first time on 1.4 (what mine shipped with). It wouldn't be the first time they were wrong. If it works for you the question is: Do you run raid? How is our setup different? 32bit or 64bit? Does your raptor run off the jmicron or the sb750? What is your mode: ide, raid, ahci?

790FX-GD70 - FREEZES ON POST CODE "08"

Hi
I have just made a new build on a new 790FX-GD70 winki board - on initial start up it's freezing on the POST code "08". Nothing is showing up on the screen at all. Apprently this means:
08
Initializes the CPU. The BAT test is being done on KBC. Program the keyboard controller command byte is being done after Auto detection of KB/MS using AMI KB-5.
(according to http://www.ami.com/support/doc/AMIBIOS8_Checkpoint_and_Beep_Code_List_PUB.pdf)
The trouble is i just don't know what that means I should do - without anything on screen to go by!
My system is
MBD: 790FX-GD70
CPU: PHENOM II X3 720 2.8GHZ BLACK SKT AM3 7.5MB 95W PIB
RAM: 2gb from: Corsair Dominator XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600C9D Twin3X (TW3X4G1600C9D)
GRAPHICS CARD: SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON HD 4770 512MB GDDR5 TV-OUT/DUAL DVI HDMI PCI-EXPRESS - RETAIL
PSU: 650W BeQuiet Dark Power Pro Modular PSU BN073
Any help or ideas would be really great as i'm totally at a loss.....!?

Quote from: Henry on 07-September-09, 18:24:45
... What PSU model and amps for +12V rail(s)...

790FX-GD70 LAN Problems

Hello all;
I recently purchased a bunch of components on NCIX, and assembled the computer together, and everything is working extremely well - minus the LAN connections. I've never seen the LEDs light up, and all I'm ever getting in the windows properties is a network cable unplugged message in the adapter settings. I HAVE read the other postings on this board and don't think I have been helped.
I am running Windows 7 (64bit)
790FX-GD70 w/ Phenom II 955 (3.2GHz)
2x4GB Mushkin Stiletto 16000 (1333) DDR3 Ram (Upper end but not overclocked)
2x1GB Asus EAH5450 Silent Video Cards in Software Crossfire (Works great and have had no issues)
ModXStream 700w PS
Antec 900 Case (with all fans so it has adequate cooling)
I also have set up two RAID 0s (may have been overkill) But I have two SataII 250GB hard drives for the OS drive (allows me to upgrade to a SSD in future) and 2 2TB Green Drives for Data, Movies, Music, etc.
ANYWAY, everything was installed and working perfectly, but have got no response from the LAN, so a wireless stick was installed on the front bus.
I've only ever used the drivers from the site, but MAY have originally installed the disc drivers for the MOBO.
I have tried turning off the LAN in BIOS, uninstalling and reinstalling and returning on the LAN (along with doing the above with and without the cable installed) in every order and with every driver I could find. (The one on the site didn't work- so I tried MSI's Liveupdate and it found a different one - tried installing and running THAT one with the above - nothing). I've received no response from the LAN and even less from the MSI help/email system.
I've tried everything I can think of except:
a) I will try the above mentioned in SafeMode
b) I searched for these elusive REALTEK drivers that saved someone else, but I don't appear to be able to access them and viewing just the information I'd need to sign up for
c) I may try stripping all drivers off and retrying with the LAN off (in bios) since it was ON during windows install, but I've uninstalled every lan driver and deleted the device only to reinstall with the (newest MSI) drivers before turning it on SOO many times it makes my head hurt.
OH, also the cable is CAT6 (50ft) and worked screamingly well for the last computer I had hooked up here, so there should be zero issues with firewalls or router/modem configurations (though I've looked)
I've included everything I can think of, any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to move a few TB of data off a main computer to mine, and it's taking a lifetime through the wireless. Thanks for any help/comments you can offer.

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Alright - Thanks to all readers so far - I've been trying to diagnose this problem for some time and put in a lot of time yesterday to no positive result.
Because I was on a computer all day, I was able to do updates with what I was thinking, and different things as they came up - but they weren't always legible/comprehensible so I will try to explain everything better and condensed for any new readers.
New Computer Parts:
790FX-GD70 w/ Phenom II 955 (3.2GHz)
2x4GB Mushkin Stiletto 16000 (1333) DDR3 Ram (Upper end but not overclocked)
2x1GB Asus EAH5450 Silent Video Cards in Software Crossfire (Works great and have had no issues)
ModXStream 700w PSU
Antec 900 Case (with all fans so it has adequate cooling - Temp always <45C)
Windows 7 (64bit)
Original Installation:
Had no issues, but installed off the supplied CDs, then updated to the MSI mobo drivers.
I had the smaller drives running on Raid Array 1 (boot) so I can in future upgrade to a SSD and the two Larger drives as Raid Array 2 for a nice and large music/games/iso/Video drive
I originally tried screwing with it a bit, some reinstalls, then got fed up thinking the MSI email thing will solve it and started installing games, norton and the like. This lead to comment about additional uninstalls disabling norton, windows and anything I could find - This was not ORIGINALLY an issue, but came to be in later installations (Sorry for the confusion).
This computer originally had dual screens, but has now been upgraded to a Plasma Widescreen (it was my plan to have this as a media/gaming computer)
Through all driver installations, I've found the LAN LEDs light up in Startup, Windows goes to its loading screen, then to a blank screen (juuust before windows finishes loading) and then to windows - On the blank screen the LEDs turn off and stay off for the remainder of the PC being on. This is ALSO the case at the router. Light is on until windows hits and remains off.
Therefore I tried every possible combination of uninstalling the router driver, turning the LAN off in BIOS, installing with and without the LAN plugged in, enabling in BIOS, and then booting windows (with and without the LAN plugged in).
Prior to this build, there was a computer in the same case, on a much, much older board that utilized the cable and everything went extremely smoothly (Win7 64 bit).
Nothing has been OCd, and there are no strange settings that I can see on the BIOS (though I will post my BIOS settings shortly).
Other installation options have been using the installation wizard in and out of safemode, using the "silent install" in and out of safe mode, and once agaion all installation have been done with and without disabling the LAN in the BIOS and reenabling it after.
What shows up is under the Network Adapters is:
"Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller"
"Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller #2"
(This board has 2 Gigabit Ports and yes I've always been trying both)
Both say they're working correctly, installed with the most recent drivers, and despite my error in one post, say 7.41.216.2011 (a 2/16/2011 update-most recent)
It also says (on both) that a cable is just missing, but it has been recently used on a different system and I can see the lights on the PC and router.
In the mobo manual the LEDS can be explained as such:
L-Yellow-Off -LAN not established
-On S.S -LAN link established
-On pulse -Communicating with another computer on the LAN
R-Green-Off -10Mbit/s
-On -100Mbit/s
-Orange-On- -1000Mbit/s
So I am getting a pulsing Yellow and an Orange (on) meaning a thinking Gigabit connection, good. -> Until Windows Loads
Now, during windows installation ( I believe this is typical) it doesn't pick up the BIOS-configured RAID array as a drive until you install the driver (in the windows setup). So I had to do that on every installation, until it picks up the drive, and installation resumes. I do not know if the same conflict exists with Ubuntu, but it sure appears that that is the case as it will not pick up the hard drives. After booting linux, the PC will not re recognize the harddrives until a COLD boot is performed (not recognizing the drives on reset had me a little freaked out for a bit).
Back to linux, I tried my version of 10.10, the admin's version, and an above listed ~8.2 Golden Heron??? Version of Ubuntu. When BOTH the v10s were loaded, it appeared to be loading just fine, with the Ubuntu logo and progress bar/balls, then the black screen, and then it wouldn't come back. The start up sound would activate, but I could not receive any visual. I originally thought this MAY have had something to do with the fact that I'm using a Plasma TV through the HDMI connection, but if the load up screen showed up, I can't understand why it would flake out.
Anyway, to cover all bases, I then tried the v8 cd, and it booted (with a fair share of ugly flickering pre load). No hard drives, but it DID allow me to check out the Connections - and it picked out the same thing, same name, same location, cable missing and couldn't get it to work.
Now at this point a question was asked about my PSU as drives were "falling out" so I supplied specs:
OCZ ModXStream-Pro 700W
I thought that should have been more than ample for this set up, but I will check the Specs...
OCZ700MXSP
10A
Output
+3.3,25A
+5.0,25A
+12V1,25A
+12V2,25A
-12V,0.3A
+5Vsb,2.5A
+3.3V&+5V150W
+12VCombined,552W
Total Output, 700W
So I shouldn't have an issue with 4 drives, 1 DVD, and 2 sticks of ram.
At this point, I was getting tired and frustrated and tried some more Safe mode possibilities and Reinstalls, and in my frustration/orvertiredness I pulled off all ATI drivers that I thought MAY be conflicting (to install LAN FIRST) such as a RAID controller (stupid) and the Crossfire drivers (thought maybe PCI bus was overloaded or in conflict if the LAN is on the same bus? - I was overtired) Anyway, thinking I could get back into windows safe mode was a little optimistic and I had to settle for Windows repair (oh joy) and I COULDNT get the raid drivers to be recognized again - Found out later that the USB drive I was using to move drivers with had some issues with corruption..ANYWAY in the windows repair/select driver window I plugged in a 500G external and did the ol' Ctrl C Ctrl P and copied everything I needed on the raid array and blanked it to reinstall windows.
Now silly sleep deprived me couldnt get the main ATI driver to load (corrupt files and didn't realize at the time) and the ATI mobo driver didn't install, so I used the CD, but then I was just replicating the above test,as I installed the LAN drivers post ATI Mobo drivers (still don't know why I did that). Redownloaded newest drivers onto the external, and went to bed.
Anyway, on to today, reblanked the drive, installed windows WITH LAN OFF in BIOS, installed Windows again, installed LAN and reenabled in BIOS to the same results. Did a repair installation, with it enabled and plugged in, same results.
Post ANY installation, as soon as the LAN is enabled (if it isn't already) a message pops in the bottom right saying Drivers were installed correctly.
If it is installed with LAN off, a message pops up saying "The Realtek Network Controller was not found. If Deep Sleep Mode is enabled Please Plug the Cable."
But once, the LAN is enabled, on Windows boot it once again says it was installed correctly, but doesn't have a cable.
Right now I'm sitting with a computer with a fresh Win 7-64 install and LAN drivers, and I will try installing the mobo drivers and reinstalling the LAN again (if nothing works) but I'm fresh out of ideas. I'll see what I can hammer out in Linux too, but it appears so far that we're getting the same results (connected but no cable).
Anyway thanks for reading my novel, and once again, any help would be appreciated.
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790FX-GD70 not Booting, FF code

Hello, new to the forum... I signed up on here because I am having a rather difficult time with my MSI motherboard; I haven't been able to find any help elsewhere. I put together a machine using the MSI 790FX-GD70 socket AM3 board (not winki ed.) and a Phenom-II X6, the 1090T. Here is the full configuration:
AMD Phenom-II X6 - 1090T @ 3.2Ghz
MSI 790FX-GD70, latest BIOS
2x4GB (8GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 RAM
ATI FirePro V5700 512MB (2x) *these do not require aux power
500w Corsair CX500 power supply 80+ cert.
500GB HDD, 7200rpm
DVD burner
This setup was working fine when I first assembled it around a month ago, but since the motherboard has been giving me the "FF" code and will not POST. The only way I can get the board to POST and boot the OS is to clear the CMOS and strike F2 to load defaults. I am able to enter and access the BIOS (and update it) but if I change or save any settings the motherboard will not POST and will display FF code again. If I clear the CMOS and strike F2 the board will POST, boot Windows, and work just fine without crashing--but if I restart the computer or shut it down properly the same thing occurs and I must clear CMOS again in order for it to work. This is very frustrating...
At this point I have switched CMOS batteries, tried a different PSU, taken one of the graphics cards out, and used only a single stick of RAM. I have also tried a different 1333mhz module and flashed the BIOS to the latest version without error. Nothing has fixed the problem and I am getting the hint that the board could be toast. When I power on the board, the FF code displays, the HDD LED flashes once, and then the FF code quickly returns and it hangs with no video to the monitor. All of the board's other LEDs are ON but nothing happens until the CMOS is cleared. This is very bizarre to me and I've never had a board that just stopped working. I am not trying to OC anything (dial is disabled and OFF) and all of the other hardware tests good. The computer has worked perfectly fine before so I can't guess as to why it has suddenly become problematic. It still works, but only after clearing CMOS and using F2.
I would greatly appreciate any help with this as I am out of ideas... thanks in advance for any support.

I think you are of the mistaken impression that we are MSI. This is a user to user forum and run by users like you--not MSI employees. We are all volunteers including the Mods and the Admin. None are paid or work for MSI. There are a few MSI employees that come in here but they do not read the forums very often and post even more rarely. M-Flash and Live Update are official MSI products. The MSI HQ Forum Flasher is a product of these forums, specifically Svet and tested by the other Mods--the USB Forum Flasher is not part of MSI. The flasher though only supports MSI products and was designed as such. The issue with LU and M-flash is, one, LU flashes within the Windows environment and that is a very dangerous practice, and two, M-flash has the ability to flash your BIOS with any file---you could well end up with your BIOS flashed with a document or Mp3 file. Originally, the forum flasher was developed as a very safe means of flashing the BIOS and to avoid the issues using LU. It is also far safer than using M-Flash as the forum flasher has many checks and safety measures built in.

790FX-GD70 + unlocked 720BE + Nvidia Drivers = Failed boot?

Good evening folks! Been quite a while since I last played in these forums (the rig in my sig is 3+ years old, and long gone.... ), but it's great to see that the tradition of a helpful community seems to have continued on in my absence.
I've didn't have any luck with a search for previous posts on the issue I'm having, but if it's a common issue and I missed a post or faq I'd be happy for a link.
So now to the meat......
I recently returned from the darkside and purchased my first AMD system since AMD dropped S939. I decided on the 790FX-GD70 paired with a 720be and some OCZ ram. Everything on the board seems to be working fine, but I ran into a snag when I loaded the 1.52 beta bios in order to unlock the 4'th core.
The core unlocks fine, and XP completes the initial load (scroll bar), but hangs on a black screen just before getting to the logon page. I immediately suspected a problem loading the vid drivers, and removed the nvidia drivers. The stock XP vid drivers allowed me to boot into windows normally which verified my original suspicions (CPU-Z confirms 4 cores). Re-installing the latest drivers causes windows to hang at the same place, and this doesn't happen without ACC unlocking the 4'th core.
Any ideas?
My current hardware is:
790FX-GD70
720BE
OCZ 1600 DDR3
Sparkle GTX275 Plus

Quote from: miles4 on 02-August-09, 10:24:56
I won't post passwords to MSI FTP, but Tony over at OCZ was good enough to post the the bios updates: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59825
Cool!!! Thanks a lot for the link, not only did I get the bios file, but it also put me in the right area to check out Tony's suggested settings on this board for my memory.
edit: It might be a week or so by the time I get around to playing with this (I have other committments with the board that can be satisfied by OCing just the 3 cores for now), but I will report back if I have any luck with the 153 bios, or if an older set of drivers makes the difference.

790FX GD70 STUCK ON FF

MSI 790FX GD70 BIOS 1.7 AND 1.10
OCZ AMD BLACK 1600 MHZ 2X2GB
PC POWER AND COOLING 750W
AMD 965 125W C3
ZALMAN 9700
WD 640GB BLACK
SAPPHIRE 5870 2GB VAPOR X
Okay,I need help,newbuild ,hooked everything up,hit power button,fans on case and card spin,all the leds on board light up 2 of the leds,my lcd poster is stuck on ff.RMA'Dmotherboard,msi said m/b was fine and updated the bios to 1.10 from 1.7,hooked up still doing the same thing,rma'd cpu,still does same,rma,d memory,still same,tried psu in another computer works fine,gpu works fine,tried clearing cmos,took mb out of case with only cpu ,fan ,memory ,gpu,8 pin and 24 pin attached,still stuck on ff,any suggestions??

Quote from: Fredrik on 24-June-10, 02:19:44
Processor problem most likely.
0 Unplug power cable, wait a little, and only then clear CMOS.
1 How did you go about seating the processor?
2 And check and recheck, please, all power connections meant for the motherboard/processor.
3 You do not absolutely need a graphics card to only POST. Without it you wont see much on-screen, but POST it might.
Suspicious mind... What happened to the previous system? Still live and kicking?
Unpluged power cable,hit clear cmos multipletimes,took battery out over night,jumped pins manually,all of this on old a new board
pulled socket lever back,lined up arrows on cpu and socket,dropped in smoothly, closed lever,felt secure,applied mx2paste ,mounted fancpu
I have connected 8 pin and 24 pin mb power connectors,gpu connectors,fans ,hd,optic drive,cpu fan,i got all my parts for this build about 3 months ago,ive proably spent at least 50hours trying to get this sob to work,ive rmad about every part ,even brought to a local computer shop,these morons told me my motherboard and cpu arent compatible,i told them it was with the newer bios,he suggested me to buy an i7 and intel board,i told him to f-off.anyway new build still playing on my p4 2.8ht 2 gb pc3200 ati 850 pro agp,just so frustrated spending all this money on a bad ass computer,all this money on rma ing parts back to vendors,waiting for parts to come back,and it doing the same thing,ive alredy rmad my cpu once,some gut reason makes me think this mother board is stll bad,i e-mailed msi support asking if i could send my mb,cpu,and ram to see if they can get it to post,been 4 business still no reply back,dont really no what to do

Windows 7 refuses to detect eSATA drive! (790FX-GD70 mobo)

I just built a new computer using Windows 7 64-bit. Here's the component config for it:
MSI 790FX-GD70
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
XFX Radeon HD 5850 Black Edition
OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)
Seagate Barracuda LP ST31500541AS 1.5TB 5900 RPM 32MB Cache
My problem is that I can't hot swap my eSATA drive which is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache in a Rosewill RX-358-S external enclosure. Yes, I realize my hard drives are backwards...I purchased the 7200 RPM a while ago and have been using it externally. I've been fortunate enough to not have it die on me (they get horrible reviews) and couldn't resist ordering another 1.5TB Seagate when it was on sale. I haven't noticed the newer one that ended up in my system is only 5900 RPM until now - didn't even realize it was 5900 RPM when I purchased it. It actually dropped my Windows Experience Index to 5.9 because of it - the next lowest thing is the processor at 7.4 (which seems low to me when it's a 3.5 GHZ quad-core). Oh well, it's just not worth messing around with an active partition and another massive hard drive that's already 95% full of crap to make it a bit more "proper".
Being unable to hot swap was the first problem. It would only detect the drive when it was plugged in prior to booting. Now I just noticed it doesn't seem to detect it all because I no longer get a drive icon for it in Windows Explorer where as I previously did. I tried enabling AHCI in the BIOS. I didn't install Windows with it enabled which appears to be a problem with XP but I figure Windows 7 would be able to update it on its own by now - I did get a driver update message in the task bar after enabling it on the next boot. If I plug it into the rear eSATA port as opposed to the external port my case provides it gets detected in the POST process on a new screen (which is a total waste of 5-10 seconds waiting for it to advance - so much for enabling quick post). If I use the case's eSATA extension that is connected to a motherboard SATA port it doesn't even get detected during the boot process.
I don't know if this is a motherboard issue or a Windows 7 issue, or both. It seems so weird that the eSATA drive used to get detected at least. Now it's just nothing. I really miss that faithful old XP. I never used Vista but if 7 is an improvement over it Vista must have been hell. Explorer and Gadgets are constantly crashing on my computer. Windows Gagdgets will routinely crash within 30 seconds of reaching the desktop. I can't even use MSI's Live Update feature. After running it I get a message saying the service isn't enabled! Please tell me I'm not the only one experiencing these ridiculous issues, and please help me with my eSATA problem because I'm at my wit's end!

Quote from: Henry on 21-February-10, 13:57:33
Yup, RAM marketed expressly for Intel i7 & X58 3 channel rigs is not what you should buy for 2 channel AMD rigs. Get some made for AMD dual channel rigs. 1/2 of your problems are probably caused by that.
I thought that Designed specifically for the Intel X58 chipset / Core i7 was just some marketing thing and all that really mattered was RAM pin type supported by the mobo.
Does the motherboard have the 2 blue and 2 black RAM slots because of that? When I first saw them I thought one group was for DDR2 and the other group for DDR3 but I figured there's no way they could put only 2 RAM slots on a board like this. That should have been my clue they meant something more.
Now could I also just get the same exact spec 2 GB stick to fill out the other slot, or is there something that makes this specific for Intel on the technical side of things? For example, could I replace it with this two piece package with the same RAM specs even though it says it's Compatible with Dual Channel Intel Core i5 & i7 CPU for P55 chipset motherboard or is there an AMD type RAM I need?

SOLVED:MSI 790FX-GD70 Freezing probelms?

I recently bought the msi 790fx-gd70 board, along with a amd athlon 2 x2 240 cpu, and 1 stick of kingston hyper x ddr3 1600 2gb ram, now my problem is that the computer keeps halting/freezing at random. I may get 10 minutes without a freeze or it may freeze on boot. I know that the cpu is supported, the bios is at v1.4 and according to the cpu support list, that is fine. Now on the other hand the memory isnt, the code for my memory is KHX1600C9D3/2G. Now i have seen that other kingston memory is supported, eg. the KHX1600C9D3K3/2G. Has it somthing to do with my mem been single channel as opposed to dual channel. 1 stick vs 2. i cant work it out, so that why i posted here, in hope that someone could shed some light
My full system specs are as follows.
AMD ATHLON 2 X2 240
KIGSTON HYPER X 2GB DDR3 1600 CL9 DIMM
MSI 790FX-GD70 MOTHERBOARD
RADEON HD3870 512MB GPU
RAPTOR HDD 150GB
CORSAIR HX620W PSU

Ok back again..lol. After changing a few bits of hardware that i could (graphics card, hdd) (Just thought i would try everything possible before rma'n the ram) I was still plauged by the rebooting, but... i was faced with a
" hypertransport sync flood error" at boot. Which threw me rite of course, now after doing a bit of google'n i found a few people have had this problem with certain msi and asus boards. But what does this mean is wrong, does it still indicate a ram issue or is it now a bios/mb issue? Im so close to rma'n the whole lot and going back to my old rig (at least it worked) I will only rma the ram if i am 100% sure it will fix my problem, no point in wasting money if it wont solve anything.

Thunder - now 790FX-GD70 LEDs but no POST

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