What About K9A2 Platinum Motherboard ?

Hi all
I am new here ..
I cant speak English very will .. anyway I have K9A2 Platinum Motherboard :
but it doesn't support Phenom II X6 :( What is the solution ?
This is list of motherboard support the new processor :
http://event.msi.com/mb/amd/6core/
Thank you

The bios works on the system i have ,but i cant test a X6 at least not for now ,no money for upgrades available.
I ve flashed it with MSI HQ version V and everything looks ok.
Observations:
After the bios update,at the first start with the new BIOS i was offered to press F1 to set -up.
Entered BIOS loaded Failsafe ,but in the settings there were 2 strange things that only an older user of the board is able to know if it s right considering version 1 of the mobo and BIOS updates.
-the Promise RAID controller turn OFF /ON BIOS option was not present
-the fourth PCI-E 2 speed connector option was not present
The bios looked at first boot as a bios intended for version 2 of the motherboard ,in version 2 of the mobo ,that i ve owned ,this 2 options were not present.
After loading defaults, saving settings and restart (the second after the update) the bios looked normal with all the options 1A had ,the upper 2 option beeing back in the menues.
Few months ago ,when i updated from 1.2 bios to 1.A BIOS i wasnt able to enter BIOS at first boot with 1A ,the board locking up needing a reset ,so after the update turn off the machine and make sure you do a MANUAL CMOS CLEAR. so you dont need to enter BIOS 2 times.Maybe the BIOS needs at first boot to initialize the Promise ROM who knows.
Conclusion :BIOS 1B doesnt seem to brake for me anything that worked with 1A.It simply adds an updated AGESA.Having in mind that at the BIOS update info the X6 is not showed off ,its just a simple AGESA update specified,we can say that the support for X6 is unofficial so use your X6 but shhh

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Get another mouse. I bought a Razer Copperhead a few years ago, and had similar troubles on several different boards. I just use cheap generic mice again now, they just work.
QFT
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I tried MSI. K9A2 Platinum Support issues.

Do not buy MSI.... Buyer beware.
I have the MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard. Now the board runs fine. However I find it very hard to take this company seriously anymore.
6 months ago I tried Flashing the Bios for a CPU upgrade I wanted. MSI's website boasts its mother boards that have 64 bit capabilities. However if you use a 64bit OS. Namely Windows XP or Windows Vista. You are in big trouble. The Live updater doesn't work with it. Not at all. Install it and it gives you errors that it will not launch.
Now any one that has flashed a bios before will say. "Okay I will do it manually." (Or if you don't know what your doing don't touch the Bios) So you download the Image file you need. Launch your boot disk from the A: Drive and well you can't access the Image file you have placed on your C: drive because hey it doesn't recognize Sata. So pray you have an old IDE laying around or you will have to load it to a cd. Oh but, hey again you have sata still doesn't see it. So usually you load it onto the disk. No big deal right? Well now on their readme it warns against Flashing from a floppy or CD (If you don't understand what I meant I am saying they warn against having the flash file on the boot disk Floppy or CD). So because of this I called MSI and had them walk me through the process because I wanted to be sure I am doing this right. I have done it many times before but for some reason it's a fricking process now. So we made a CD booted and ran it like you would off the A: drive everything went smoothly and then it froze. at 60% into the flash it froze so the guy tells me just reboot. I warn him that if I reboot the Motherboard is junk. He insists it should be fine. I reboot and as expected nothing happens because it was a bad flash.
So they say just send it back they give me an RMA number I remove the board package it and take pictures of its condition. I say again I took pictures. (The reason I did this is if you look at the reviews of this board on Tiger Direct there is complaints of them getting the board and claiming it is damaged. They email you a picture and claim it something you did. they then send it back to you.)
So I send it out. Wouldn't you guess they say it's Damaged they send me some nice pics in an email. So I send my pics of the board in the condition I sent it. There is no damage on the board they can see. They now claim it's the shippers fault. Shipper insists package arrived in great condition. MSI still refuses to help even though they know I sent them the board in great condition.So MSI is very poor in taking care of it's customers through RMA
So I send it back to Cyberpower. I explain to them what happened and they replaced the board free of charge and flashed it to current specs at the time. Bios Version 1.4. Now I work with computers. Part of my work is seeing the ease of how user friendly things are like Bios updates. How new processors perform. So now I was stuck in a dilemma 6 months after the first Now I need Bios version 1.6 installed. Well this time I took it to geek squad. They said it shouldn't take long and I waited in the store 3 hours and watched this person pull their hair out. All the normal ways of flashing the Bios don't work yet again. He goes to use the Live Updater and again 64 bit systems not supported. So he is baffled because why would a company that supports a 64 bit Processor not support the OS. Good question. Now I see more of the geek squad coming over all them ask it's not MSI is it. They get their answer and sigh. Now what they thought was a 15 minute procedure turns into me having to leave the system for a night.
The next day It is completed. What did they have to do? They installed a IDE drive booted from a floppy and loaded off the drive with the Flash file. Having to take the PC apart taking out Cd roms and running the ide via my CD rom IDE. Now I know a lot of you are going to say they didn't know what they where doing and I am telling you They did everything I did which is what MSI walked me through and hit the same road blocks. during the Reboot one of the guys wanted to try MSI live updater 3 and some how it worked..
So I called MSI today and asked them if they now support 64 bit OS with their instant updater. The answer was no. They stated they still do not support that. I checked my Bios version and some how it did worked. Who knows maybe they did it when they had all the other stuff out and apart and I just didn't notice. But MSI is Claiming the contrary. So I am happy that I have the update. However knowing that I am going to need to update again I now have come to the conclusion that MSI is not a user friendly board in fact it took 4 people at geek squad some of whom I know and see do flashes all the time and they had trouble. I do flashes all the time and I have trouble.
The bottom line here is MSI needs to hop on board with what they offer. Everyone is going to the 64 bit OS mainly because of RAM. They want to run Crysis, Farcry 2, Mass effect, and have the fastest processors available. They want the best video cards Available. But if your manufacturer Builds 64 bit based motherboards that are suppose to support the AM2 Platform then you would think that they would at least have an updater capapable of working with those systems. Now it's not impossible to make something like this work, Nor is it hard. There are other manufacturers who do have easier ways to flash than MSI.
Playstation 3 does firmware update all the time over the net. What is a firmware update? to put it simply it is a Bios flash to update how the machine works with newer software or to take advantage of existing technoligy in the PS3. Which is put simply just a computer. If a company that makes these systems can't even get a live updater to work or does not have the ability to walk you over how to do the flash the flash over the phone correctly why waste your time and money with a lazy company. I have an Asus machine that flashes.
Take this however you want. It could be taken as venting or a warning. Hopefully the MSI forum admin will forward these concerns to MSI before he bans me.

I am not here to argue but, the fact that you as an administrator can sit here and say there is no money in 64 bit obviously are speaking from a point of view of Bias.
Walk into any Bestbuy, call any Dell call center, Call CyberpowerPC.com, or call Microsoft. These are the systems that are in demand.
Best buy states that there 64 Bit OS based computers are flying off the shelves. and that 90 percent of the computers they now carry are 64 bit installed with Vista. In approxomatly 11 months windows will only be making Vista and the New windows 7 in 64 bit. It doesn't matter what you think it does. It matters what the market is demanding. There is tons of money in this and if MSI doesn't get on board soon they are gonna lose to competitors that do.
Where would we be if we stuck with 8 bit? What would have happended to the gaming industry if Sega never came out with their 16 bit platform?
Mention MSI to any geek squad guy and they just laugh and say go Asus. Sure you may not value their opinion. But the public who take it to them cause they don't understand computers does.They even say They(Geek squad) are easier to maintain with processor updates with some one who has experience that means something too. Sure I know to use the Utilities now because of these forums which I am thankful for. However: I represent those who are not capable and computer literate and the idea here that we should let them fend for themselves is preposterous.
Plus the fact that you don't use 32 bit software does not speak for those of us that do. There is 64 bit software out there. If your going to sit here and represent MSI. First you need some suggestions and you don't have to take em.
First off answer questions with out the criticism to the 64 bit OS. Just try and help the people regardless of your opinion.
Secondly you need to lose this idea that there is no market for 64bit software. There is. Trust me I report to people who want to see what is in demand. 64 bit is in great demand (Mainly because of ram and yes people don't realize that there really never going to use it. However; The market is pushing this so when it does come out and they do start using it there won't be a mad rush to update everything again.)
Last... Maybe you should get on this company as well. This may be a user forum but, to be honest I am here criticizing them as on many other sites so they can hopefully get word that there are many people aside from me who are complaining about there support and they can improve it. MSI has some great innovations but they need to make sure they support all the new hardware and software that goes along with being in this type of business. Criticism helps drive us as Human, as companies to do better.
However I do value you and your opinion and will even be submitting a report of this forum and how helpful it is to those who are not so good with the computer or just starting out doing it on their own. You can lock this if ya like. Please don't take offense either as I think you have some knowledge that is really worth sharing to many others. I have seen some of your other posts after your replies and you definitely have some great input. Thanks for letting me debate with you.

MSI K9A2 Platinum No Video

I run a computer repair service out of my home here in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I get an average of 3-4 repair jobs a week. Also buying broken computers to repair and resell. Recently I got a job to repair an MSI PC. The customer had acquired the computer from her ex husband. Her complaint was that the computer was randomly loosing video. My first thought was that the graphics card was going bad. (Also MSI). Upon receiving the computer it was clear that it was not taken care of as it was full of dust and pet hair, and overheating was most likely issue. (shes a dog groomer lol). After a through cleaning plugged everything in and sure enough...no video, everything running as it should be, all fans, all lights on motherboard lit up. I pulled the video card out, put it in another computer, video came on, so i ruled out this as the problem. Tried running with just one RAM stick close to the CPU, nothing, pulled the battery, replaced, video was back, put it all back together and it was running fine. I advised her that the motherboard was on its last leg, in the meantime she had contacted her ex husband, he agreed as the system was over 7yrs old. He would be coming up to bring the rest of her things and would bring her a new motherboard. The new one being an MSI 970A-643. Also with an AMD FX Black Ed. CPU, and 4 sticks of 4gb Corsair XMS 3. But not a new power supply. So installed all of this, the power lead to the CPU was short by 4 pins, so decided to try it that way as it was all she had. On powering up, no video! Then thinking back remembered this issue. So I pulled a power supply from one of my gaming systems. This one had a matching lead. Now everything worked fine. So for payment aside from the original $50 I got for going over it and cleaning it out, I accepted the left over parts. The motherboard, ram, power supply, cpu, and cpu cooler.
I know this is turning into a long story :(
Here is why I decided to post here...I have this K9A2 Platinum motherboard. My thought is that it has a bad capacitor near the PCI slots as the graphics card did not work on any of them. But after searching for them have had no luck in finding them. Is there a way to order a set for this motherboard from the factory? This will be my first attempt at repairing a motherboard, and have been waiting for just this type of situation to try.
Looking at sets for other motherboards I see my investment as being around $20, to me a small price to pay for the satisfaction of knowing I can bring a bad board back to life, and a small price also for the experience gained. And if all else fails, I can pull the CPU and get another board.
Also before attempting this I am not lost on the fact that it could have been the power supply after all, but my POST card did give these error codes when I was in my first round with it...
No.1 code 00
Control to Int 19
boot loader
No.2 Code: 00
(same)
Signal error
Check PCU & Power Box
RST: Invalid
IRDY: Invalid
FRAM: Invalid
At time had yellow light under the graphics card, a green light above it and a white light above it if this helps.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I am no expert by any means, I am an HVAC Tech, turned self made computer repair person, and I have never had a customer not get their computer back not working. I never over charge and always get them back within 2 days tops.
I have read that maybe the PCI slots are bad, can find nothing about changing them or the parts to do this.

To begin with this was moved to wrong section of forum, this belongs in either 'Retired' section or 'AMD' section not Intel C2D/Q.
As for caps see badcaps.com ( http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=2 ) for replacement for online ordering of them, they have been supplying these items for quite a few years or get what you need from a local store if available, you will not get any MSI factory cap kits as they do not offer such repair items for sale.
My advice would be assemble components and test with a known good PSU and if it runs OK then you know it was the PSU that went belly up. It could be that due to age and bad PSU some caps may be bad but that could be seen easy enough just by close examination of them. badcaps has plenty of pictures for comparison of good vs bad caps.
What brand and model is the PSU in question?

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Hi. I'm having some weird issues, it has only happened tree times in 2 months, no signal is displayed, monitor remains in standby mode. Then I hard reset it, and then every thing works fine. I have a MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard with an AMD Phenom II 940 BE, all powered by a CoolerMaster Silent Pro 600w PSU. I haven't updated my motherboard bios yet, nor the vga bios.
Driver is Catalyst 9.5 for Vista x64, it shows my 4890 like "HD 4800 Series". The card is conected via DVI to a DELL s2409W 24'' lcd.
When it happens it does not show any video signal in my monitor, not even bios info, the monitor remains in STANDBY mode, i don't think drivers can cause that.
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Its a weid issue really, i can use the system normaly without problems right now, but this is still making me wonder whats was wrong those 3 times since i couldnt see any errors, cause there was no video.
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I think it will work just fine but I am double checking before I spend the money.
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The last question I have is: In order to ensure proper operation of the dual channel ram, (I have read the book, still confused a bit), I must install the ram with one stick in the first slot nearest the CPU and the other in the first slot of the opposite color? In this case Green/Orange slots.
Mainboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum 790FX
CPU: Athlon X2 Kuma 7750 AM2+ 2.7Ghz Processor
CPU-Cooler: Factory Supplied
RAM: 4GB (2X2GB) G Skill F2-8500CL5D-4GBPI DDR2-1066 Dual Channel
GPU: AMD790FX
VIDEO: PowerColor HD4830 512MB GDDR3
HDD: 2 Velociraptor 150 10000 rpm drives WD1500HLFS
DVD: ASUS DRW-22B1LT SATA Drive
Floppy: YES
Power Supply: CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready
OS: Windows XP Pro SP1 (Updated to SP3)

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What is the best card I can use for my MSI K9A2 CF Motherboard

I have been trying to read some threads, but I cannot find out any info on what would be the best card for my MSI K9a2 CF ver 1 motherboard. I would like to up grade but I don't want to buy a new system.
I was thinking about the an Nvidia 460GT 768mb
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Quote from: scottyb70 on 20-November-10, 23:21:53
My question is my Corsair has only one 12v rail at 60 amps. The MSI says it requires two. I don't think my powersupply would be able to handle this card?
That refers to 2 PCIe 6 pin power connectors not +12V rails on the PSU.
TX750W~PCI-Express Connector, 4 x 6+2-Pin

Question about the k9a2 platinum sata

on the k9a2, i notice 6 sata ports but i only see 4 on the bios post. i haven't tried the fastbuild utility yet but will it allow you to put 6 hdd's in raid 0?

quad:
nah, gaming, benchies, hd video, movie, music. most of which will be backed up and even if i lost it most of which can be re-downloaded easily. also most of the media will also be on the upcoming htpc too. and once the cash comes in, i plan on taking the next step in storage and build a NAS PC. on top of that, the music is also on my laptop so there is a decent data redundancy going there.
wd raptors are very reliable drives, even more so if you use additional cooling for them. 4 of the 6 hdd's came out of that other machine i posted on here with the k9a platinum 580x system. they have been running for over a year.
again i appreciate the ultra smokin fast responses and i will continue to use msi products as long as they continue to make hardware to fulfull my needs. (hint: a sb750 k9a2 platinum with the sata ports relocated and on the same controller would be nice )
Bas:
speed? i definately notice decreased load times on games with raid 0. i have never tried nor looked into sas so i cannnot say anything about it. usually i associate SCSI with expensive so that has kept me away from it.
i'll play, how much are these drives a piece?
i'll be honest, i am curious about the external raid controllers. however the expense cannot be justified at the moment. Perhaps later once they make a board with more than 4 pcie slots or i get another x2 card. i have been really thinking about ssd's for my next upgrade, i hear they are fast but not practical yet.

K9A2 Platinum v2

This K9A2 Platinum v2 of mine has a lot of wierd issues.
-The board never been 100% stable during a week under XP SP2 or under SP 3 (like my KT3Ultra2).I always had to try different drivers for the video,mobo,sound and different timings for my ram modules.
-My Geil Ultra(golden plated) DDR 800Mhz with 4-4-4-12 at 2.1V ,timings specified on the sticker ,never worked properly though Memtest and Prime 95 tests passed without problems.They werent stable with BIOS 1.2 not even at a lower frequency.The modules are reported by Everest with the name DDR 800 4-4-4(without the 12 like on the sticker).Acording to the web reviews this modules should of worked at 3-3-3-9 2.2V\2.3V without problems not to say about 4-4-4-12.
-To be able to boot under 60 seconds i had to put the hard drive to SATA I.
-My USB Logitech G5 laser mouse(last revision) had some kind of lag while entering games,more preciselly there was a delay of 20 seconds before the sensitivity tweaked in the mouse utility was available like it had to grow from 0 to the disired value during those 20 seconds or so.This lag was eliminated when the hard drive was lowered to SATA I transfer speed.
-The sound loop lock ups while gaming cooled down when i was using Forceware 175.16 but not totally.This happened with the onboard audio and with the X-fi too.
-2 days ago i updated the BIOS 1.2 to 1.5 with the hope of having a more stable system under XP SP 3(once i updated to SP 3 i got some blue screens so i considered that maybe is really needed an update).The update went smooth but after the update i wanted to install a "new" SONY floppy drive,i installed it using the cable supplied by MSI.At boot i observed that the Floppy unit led was ON ,light that normally is on when a floppydisk is inserted and used.The floppy drive was recognized by Windows but every time a floopy disk was inserted a message with no disk inserted appeared.I thought then that there is something wrong with Windows so i tested a workable bootable disk and the system refused it though using the F11 boot menu.Then installed the Floopy disk into the old computer thinking that the drive is defective.KT3Ultra 2 worked properly with the drive no problems what so ever and the light was working only when diskette inserted.The standby voltage doesnt apply here the led is of when computer is off.
-Then, with BIOS 1.5 observed that in the BIOS when trying to set tRAS manually to 12(with the 1.2 BIOS it worked) , Memset ,CPU Z and Everst were reporting always a value of X+2(if i set 14 in BIOS the value read by the info programs was 16).A similar behaviour for tRAS was not observed with BIOS 1.2 but it was observed with another timing more insignifiant that i dont remember that one at this moment.
-When clearing the CMOS i observed another undocumented thing(along with leds under the ram modules), near the Clear Cmos jumper(between the Cmos jumper and the Fintek chip) there are 2 terminals of another jumper,what is that for?The manual is silent.
-At this moment ,with BIOS 1.5(without the unnecesarelly floppy) with Windows XP SP3 and with timings 4-4-4-18 the board seems stable but my questions is if this board is defective ,or if this model is prone to engeenering flaws or I just hit into some BIOS incompatibilities with the components i bought?

Check the SPD with CPU-z, AMD's use the JEDEC timings.
EPP timings are only suiteable for Intel's with nVidia chipsets, you can not use them with AMD as the path is too short.
All your problems can be explained by this.
I'm very sorry, but I care less about the numbers on the stick, I only care about the number IN the stick.
Else post the SPD programmed timings, I bet that the timings written on the stick are EPP and NOT JEDEC.
This is NOT a motherboard problem as the memory controller is INSIDE the CPU and not like Intel in the chipset.
Many people make this mistake and try to set too tight timings, with unstable/slow results.
The ATI board is better and faster board then the nVidia, even that, it still uses the JEDEC timings as the CPU can't use EPP.
As for the floppy, complain to Microsoft please, they don't allow non-floppy install (if you don't slipstream), has nothing to do with MSI or any board at all.

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