Z87-G45 won't reboot?

Hello all!
I recently finish my build, and upon initial testing my MSI board booted into BIOS. Without changing anything, I turned it off and went to dinner. Upon returning, I plugged in my cd drive and hdd to try and get an OS and now I have no output. I tried reseating the video card, moving the hdmi input directly to the motherboard, unplugging the other components and USB stuff....nothing. I even tried taking the mother board battery out and putting it back in after 10 minutes out of desperation.
Is there anything I'm missing here or is my motherboard mysteriously shot?

Try the card in the second slot, if that is of no help, flash the bios to the most recent release and retest.
>> BIOSes<<
If still no help, try the card in another computer or another card in your computer to verify where the problem lies.

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I built my machine 16 months ago. i was told MSI all the way when building if can as great quality components.
I got an i7 4770k, 8gb ram, msi lightning 780, msi z87 g45 gaming board.
Never once overclocked a single thing, didnt need to as it stood strong against the games I play.
I was playing elder scrolls few days ago when all of sudden a got a reboot of the machine, the 780 fans went crazy full, the lightning logo showing green as normal but it wouldn't load past bios screen. I could enter bios no problem. But nothing seemed to get past bios splash. I tried the 780 in a second machine, same issue but now no video at all, fans on full, logo lit up green, moniter wont even see its connected to anything.
I tried loading from onboard video on my machine without 780 connected. Same thing, cant get past bios splash just reboots self. I have tried flashing bios to 1.9, tried reinstalling windows, it finishes windows installation reboots and bios cycle again.
Took to a pc repair they don't know whats wrong they checked psu, memory tested for 17 hours, totally stumped.
This rig has never been overclocked once ok, never overheated as always made sure was cool and clean inside case.
Needless to say I am extremely unhappy and disappointed with MSI. I have made several machines over the years and never once seen this, I bought the card for £380 and the motherboard £130. I expected it to last longer than the cheaper machines I built. Not both MSI components crashing out in 16 months.
Does anyone know anything else I can try to salvage any of this?

I don't have a second cpu to try.
The thing is in the bios it shows the cpu, the ram, hard drive etc ok. I can even install windows from disk, but at end windows does a reboot then I get stuck at bios splash cycle. When I took the pc to repair store they advised did the memtest and other things, they managed to get a windows installed after several bsod and clearing cmos as last effort and then they managed to get windows going but they were quite honest and said they don't really know if fluke or not. They tested all they could and believe it a software issue possibly with board, now issue is back again.
My PSU is 850W, they tested it and said its fine and no issues with it.

Z87-g45 won't detect video card

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Quote from: XrBob on 29-December-13, 14:23:50
1. The computer runs fine through the onboard video, I'm using it right now to type this. Is it possible that the computer runs fine even with a bent pin? Is it easy to tell if I have a bent pin?
yes it may run fine if a pin that connects to the PCI-E connector is bent! you need to remove the cooler and CPU and look in the underlying socket with a Bright light and a magnifier to see if they are all strait and in line! with each other from a few angles like from above and then at a 45 degree angle to make sure they all look exactly the same!
Quote from: XrBob on 29-December-13, 14:23:50
3. Does that mean having the motherboard just hanging outside the case?
put the board on a piece of plain cardboard or wood (to prevent shorting) on a table and plug up the power and so on and see if it posts there (most builders do that before they put it in a case or place it on the motherboard box itself)!

Z87-g45 can't reboot and cant't shutdown

well , when shutdown the machine in the OS the monitor will be turned off and I heard of disc stop running. BUT the board was still running all the fan is running include the fan of the graphic card
So any suggestions?

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MSI Z87-G45 reboot issue

I build a gaming system based on a MSI Z87-G45 motherboard. Everyting is working fine with windows 8.1.
I can boot, shutdown, suspend, ... but i can't reboot. When I reboot, from os or from bios, my screens go to black and the fans continue spinning. The computer do not reboot. Never. I have to press the power button for 4s, and the once more in order to manualy reboot.
I'm running the 1.9 bios with stock settings. All my drivers are up-to-date (dowloaded from the product support page). I think that the problem is bios related since I can't reboot properly from it. Oh yes. I've got the A2 code.
I tried different settings like to set the wake options from os and so but it didn't work.
And I've got a RM750 psu and i'm not drawing so much power out of it.
Any ideas?

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Can't reboot (Z87-G45 Gaming)

I have a rather strange problem and am hoping someone from MSI might have a few suggestions.
I recently upgraded my rig with a new mobo and cpu. I went with a gigabyte Z87-d3h and immediately noticed that my pc would not reboot, it just sits there with a black screen although I do hear the hard drive doing something. My old AMD computer had worked fine with the components I kept, namely the ram, PSU and graphics card. So I came to the conclusion that the motherboard was faulty and sent it back.
I decided to try a different brand and went for the MSI-Z87-g45-gaming. Sadly I have exactly the same problem which was rather baffling.
Some more details about the behaviour:
- If I unplug the graphics card, and just use onboard vga, it DOES reboot fine.
- When using the graphics card, it does actually reboot normally some of the time, I would say about 20%.
- the behaviour is the same whether I am in windows or rebooting from the BIOS
- I was using bios 1.4 and I saw that 1.5 had an updated graphics output driver. Excitedly I updated to 1.5 and indeed it rebooted fine a couple times, but then reverted to old behaviour
Are there any BIOS settings I could try to see if i can fix this?
details of my pc:
600w OCZ PSU
MSI-Z87-G45 gaming
i5-4670k cpu
gigabyte HD7970 ghz edition
12GB corsair vengeance ram
1x Hdd
1x SSD

Upon the non win8.1 updates being finished, i booted into the bios and reset all the settings to default. So far it has been restarting without any problems for windows setup stuff, which is a good sign as when i was installing just the base win8, it had to restart and got locked up in that black screen. Ill have to narrow down what in the bios triggers the issue, but i believe that it is something to do with fastboot as nothing else really makes sense. Worst case its the OCGenie button, or OCing the ram that was doing it, but im not sure if you were doing those so that may or may not be a similar thing that you are doing.

Z87-G45 all USB ports stop working until I reboot

Hello everybody, This is my first post on these forums due to this problem, and I hope some people can help me out.
In February, I purchased myself a Z87-G45 motherboard along with all the other components needed to build a gaming PC, the build went brilliantly considering it was my first time!
About 3 months into my new build I started having problems with my PC, especially my USBs directly connected to the motherboard and the ones at the front of my PC as well, I have a back lit
keyboard and mouse and the lights started flickering erratically like it was being connected and disconnected extremely quickly, then after about 10 seconds of it doing that, they both stop working.
The lights on my mouse completely go out as if it had being disconnected but the keyboards lights are still on, but none of the keys work.
Sometimes I can do a 6 hour gaming session with my mouse or keyboard not playing up at all, but other times it happens within 5 minutes of booting up my PC!
My PSU failed at one point, and when I used a lower power PSU until my replacement came, none of these issues occurred.
I really want to get to the bottom of this because I cannot game while my peripherals are cutting out mid game!
My specs are:
Intel Haswell i7-4770k Processor
MSI G87-G45 motherboard
Nvidia GTX 780 Graphics card
AX860 Corsair 860Watt PSU
Seagate 3TB Barracuda HDD
Sandisk 128GB SSD
16GB Vengeance Pro Black 1866MHz CL9 Memory
Windows 7

Can you download CPU-Z. Then check the Mainboard Tab in CPU-Z and check the what revision your Southbridge is.
I may be wrong but the USB disconnect after sleep was an inherent bug of the Intel C1 chipset which was corrected in C2. The initial boards all had C1.
It may be that yours is just faulty to the point that it started loosing the USB connection even though its not coming out of sleepmode.
Do check and let us know.
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My PSU failed at one point, and when I used a lower power PSU until my replacement came, none of these issues occurred.
Sorry I missed this part in the initial read.
If that is the case, then it is also possible that you may have a defective PSU. The only way to confirm that is to run with another PSU for an extended period to ascertain if that is a consistent occurrence. If it doesn't happen, well then you know for sure it is PSU related. Also recheck all your connections from the PSU (especially the 24 pin connector)
Are your USB connections on the front panel or are you using the onboard USB connectors on the back?

Z87 G45 Onboard Video

Hi.
Recently I got a system with z87 g45 mainboard, xfx r9 290 graphics card.
When enabling onboard video, and installing VirtuMVP everything seemed fine.
Played a few games and noticed it was giving more of a performance hit then boosting it.
Updated drivers, still the same. Plugged in other monitor to onboard to see if it was working and second desktop displayed fine.
Restarted, checked bios, unplugged second monitor. And then VirtuMVP failed to load, saying gpu not configured.
Rebooted few times, checked device manager, everything looked fine. Plugged in other monitor 'no signal'
tried disabling, uninstalling drivers. redoing. yet still getting 'no signal' when I go to check it (and VirtuMVP won't load)
Even tried monitor that is plugged into r9 290. Nothing on either DVI or HDMI. Just no signal (tho it detects that it's plugged in)
Updated bios. No vga drivers listed in live update, any idea why this is happening?
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Well it's still playing a subtle level through the fronts, it's tolerable for most music, but you can play anything like dubstep or anything with heavy bass, hopefully they will find a fix for this.

Z87-G45 overclock not adjusting ratio

I have the Z87-G45 mobo with an i5 4670k
I finally got around to setting my overclock on my board. It runs stably for at least 2 hours on Prime95 @ 4.4 ghz w/ 1.210v.
Now, even though my PC runs fantastically at full load, it's at idle when it just dies. I don't get BSOD or freeze, PC just reboots and tells me OC settings have failed. Now I know that my overclock is fine. After some digging around, I notice that my multiplier seems to be locked at 44 (base clock 100mhz) but the voltages still fluctuate. So my CPU seems to be running at 4.4 around the clock despite having adaptive mode selected in BIOS. I don't have an option to even turn off EIST with an overclock on this board.
I loaded default settings with EIST enabled at 3.4 ghz and watched the multiplier properly working using the program CPU-z. So multiplier does seem to be working, just not when I'm overclocking.
What am I missing here? Why won't the multiplier work when I'm overclocking? I have EIST enabled, and have only adjusted the CPU ratio, ring ratio, CPU core voltage, and ring voltage. I've also adjusted the fan speeds for temps but other than that I've touched nothing else. What am I missing?
Thank you in advance!

Thanks for the quick reply and suggestions. I did already have those settings tweaked and was still having issues.
For posterity, after hours of tweaking every possible thing in BIOS, I found the answer. It wasn't even in BIOS. In control panel > power options, under advanced, there was a processor power management setting that locked the minimum value to 100%. Lowered that down to 40% and voila, working multiplier. I have NO idea why it was still working under default values in BIOS as I haven't touched the Windows power settings since I installed windows. But hey it's working now and as of yet, I have no crashes while my system is in idle.
Hours in BIOS and I didn't even have to leave Windows to fix the problem.

Z87-G45 Gaming not able to install Win7 x64 with Samsung 840 EVO

I have a brand new:
i5 4570
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
250GB Samsung 840 EVO
1x 8GB Corsair ValueRam DDR3 1600
I got everything hooked up properly, but I am not able to install Win7 x64 through an USB pen drive (Kingston Datatravel 32GB USB3) I have a proper official and Legit MSDN ISO, formatted by the Win7 USB tool from MS itself.
Note that i do not have an optical device (DVD) installed so I cannot use it 'the old way'.
Bios settings are okay, everything is recognized
USB Legacy - Kingston Datatraveler
HDD Legacy - Samsung 840 EVO
Win7 setup loads properly; but before I can select the Harddrive / SSD to install Win7 on I get prompted that additional (3rd party) drivers are needed to proceed. The volume is not recognized. This happens 9 out of 10 times. In the 10% cases I do get the option to format the SSD and/or create partitions. However, installation fails after all, cannot load or find file ...
What I've tried so far:
Switch out the SATA cables and power cables
Switch through the various SATA ports on the MB 1 through 6
Tried UEFI and UEFI/Legacy (UEFI doesn't seem to work at all)
Update UEFI to V 1.50
All the above result in the case mentioned.
I have succesfully installed the SSD in an other PC, using the same pen drive and ISO and it worked like a charme, thus ruling out that the SSD, pen drive or image is corrupt.
Even when I switched out the SSD after Win7 setup has succesfully copied, unpacked and installed all the files (doing this on the other machine where it works like a charm). Then switching it to the MSI Z87...it fails; starting the setup procedure right from the start, like nothing was ever written on the SSD...
Finally i turned to Win8, and guess what, it installed without any glitches on the MSI Z87
What am I missing here, I would really want to install Win7 instead of Win8
Forgot to enable / disable something in the UEFI? I really don't know, google doesn't give much information on this specific problem (SSD is recognized properly by the BIOS / UEFI as far as I can tell)
The only thing I have not tried out so far is updating the Samsung SSD firmware to the 1.0 version which has been release 3 days ago...
Any clues, tips, hunches??

Quote from: Bernhard on 25-October-13, 18:33:41
Did you disable Secure Boot in the BIOS? If not, then Win7 won't load.
Hmmm not sure, thanks for the reply, will have to look into that later today!
I didn't change it from the default setting I think, unless it is part of the Win8 features in the UEFI. All where disabled by default, and I kept them disabled.
Where is Secure Boot listed in the UEFI, and any idea wether it is enabled by default?
::EDIT::
Found it in some screenshots, I cannot recall from the top of my head wether it was enabled or disabled, allthough my gutt feeling says it already is disabled.
http://cdn.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2013-05-31/09-MSI_SnapShot_23.gif
http://cdn.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2013-05-31/10-MSI_SnapShot_24.gif
Nice overview of the entire UEFI btw: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Motherboards/MSI-Z87-GD65-Gaming-Motherboard-Review/BIOS-Features-continued

Killer network settings on Z87-G45

Anyone is having problems imputing the Internet Provider Speed in the Killer Network Manager using decimals?
For the life of me, every time I put either 2.5 or 2,5 and hit apply, it turns into 25 Mbps. Only option is to use whole numbers like 2 or 3 Mbps. Using the latest driver found on MSI's Z87-G45 board website, 1.0.30.1003 for the network drive.

The best decision is to remove Killer suite and just using the pure driver. Use the >>Bigfoot Network cleaner tool x64<< to remove current Killer driver and reboot. Install >>this<< driver instead.

Case Badge for Z87 - G45 Gaming

A month ago , I purchased an MSI Z87 - G45 from my local computer store here in PH. The first board had problems like unable install USB drivers, unable to install Killer LAN, and doesn't include a case badge. I had the board replaced after a day and issues like USB and killer lan have been resolved but, the replacement board doesn't have a case badge again. I asked the store personnel if other MSI boards have it, they found none even in the Z87 -GD65 board. I've seen a lot of unboxings in youtube that the Z87 - G45 mobo included a gaming dragon case badge. The question is, can I still get an official case badge directly from MSI?

You won't get it here, as MSI does not participate on this forum. I would contact the customer service email for the country where you reside. I had a missing badge as well, and was able to get it shipped from MSI directly.

Z87-G45 Windows 7 (+XP) Boot/Install Failure

Hello,
I recently upgraded my PC with a new MSI Z87-G45 mainboard, processor, 8GB memory, and an MSI video card. I kept my old HDD drives (4x 320GB Western Difgital SATA drives), case, a recently-purchased PSU, etc.
Two of the drives contain my old Windows XP install, in a RAID0 config. This will not boot since switching to the new mobo, presumably due to the lack of AHCI drivers. So, I tried installing Windows 7 on the other drives, first in a RAID1 mirrored drive, then I de-linked them to try to boot as a single drive. Windows 7 begins to boot, then hangs on the Starting Windows screen and never completely loads. Booting from CD to Repair the installation similarly hangs with no respinse.
The mobo is set up in RAID mode. This is the mode it was in when I installed Windows. Switching to IDE or AHCI mode causes the system to reboot almost immediately.
I guess what I would like to know is:
What settings do I need on the mainboard in order for Windows 7 to install properly (not that I feel like another 4 hour installation ordeal)? I currently am using SATA in RAID mode, boot order DVD then HD, all others disabled, and Legacy + UEFI.
Do I need to install the drivers from the included driver disk, and if so how do I do that if the machine cannot boot? The installation procedure does not ask for any 3rd party drivers like XP etc used to.
And frankly, if the system can read from the disk just fine to boot to a certain point, why should it even have this issue? Don;t need an answer to that, it's just frustrating.
Details:
MSI Z87-G45 1150RT mainboard
MSI R7 ATI 260X video card
Intel Core i5 4570 3.2G CPU, stock HS
Team 1600HC DDR5 DIMM
600W Corsair PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you.

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How will I run Memtest from the USB without a shell or Explorer, etc.? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I built my last machine 7 years ago (XP).
prepare and USB key with memtest details are at:
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
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Yes. SP1 is integrated.
have you tried to install OS from the USB key?
maybe the dvd disk can't be read due disk itself or due optical drive and cause some issue.
what is your current bios version too?

Problem regarding Z87-G45 and graphics card

Hey guys, I upgraded my PC yesterday and only kept the graphics card from my old one because it was pretty decent. PC now looks like this:
MB: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
CPU: i7 - 4770K
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600 Mhz (2x8GB)
PSU: bequiet! Straight Power E9 600W
and my trusty ASUS Geforce GTX 660 Ti
So basically I installed a copy of Windows 7 on my new SSD, installed the Drivers that came with the MB, and proceeded to download the new nvidia drivers because my graphics card was only being recognized as "standard vga video card". When I rebooted the system my PC froze at the Windows Logo and then rebooted itself over and over, getting stuck at the windows logo. Some times I got onto the desktop, could even open my browser etc. but that only lasted for a couple of seconds. Safe Mode was working fine though and it recognized the card and drivers. So I googled a bit, tried the card in my old PC and it was working fine.I tried my old GTX 260 but that gave my screen a very red-ish tone. Then I set up Windows again and installed every single chipset driver and MB driver, using mainly the MSI Live Update without my card in the system. It's running on the CPU's GPU atm. Then I plugged in my 660 Ti and didn't even get sth on screen this time. Now I've unplugged it again and am using the CPU graphic engine.
I'm kinda lost by now, I really don't know what else to try and I haven't found a solution I haven't tried on google.
So I wanted to try my luck with you guys: Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing some distinct BIOS features? Or is my MB/graphics card dying on me? And out of those options, which is the most likely?
Anyways, any help is much appreciated.

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Well, I tried my luck once again - didn't work out too well. At least I know it can't be the graphics card 'cause that one is working fine here on my old PC.
But thenagain "compatibility" is a thing.
Any Samsung SSD's dont have SandForce, that i know of
Dosent your BIOS have update software in it? .. that what i used on main (MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming) and will use in dase on foward when i have it as i dont trust OS's.
What happend ? ...well youl luck run out but how?
Did you try different GPU drivers and they did disable your screen?
You see BIOS but not OS or what? ...
Edit: if that so then try other storage then your SSD for the os. just to get it out of picture...
You dont need to "validate" it for test so dont!!!! just set it to get validation later via manual or what ever els it says.
Edit 2: What if you brack the BD cake and insert that VGA to secend PCI-e x16 slot?
Edit 3: Samsung 840 have new FW too. So see if yours have one.
... i need to update one of my "non Pro Samsung 840" to be present in system, that had other drives in RAID...

Default MSI Z87-G45 Lan/Usb Help needed.

Hello,
So yesterday i massively upgraded my pc with the following components:
MSI Z87-G45
Intel Core i5-4670K
GeForce GTX 780 3GB (Classified)
and kept my old Ram (Gskill ripjaw ddr3 3x4gb) ,Hd's PSU. and i am using windows 8.1
The main problems i am having are as follows:
1. I am unable to get the usb ports to recognize most things i plug in. This included a USB flash drive and a wireless network stick.
2. I am unable to install any Lan items from the mobo factory disc. The option to install the LAN drivers are greyed out on the disc menu, and when i search for them they will not install. Now i've found them online and downloaded them to a Usb Drive, but i can't use that because the USB drive won't be recognized by windows.
Any help on these issues would be so greatly appreciated, i am getting terribly frustrated and don't know what to do.
I have checked the Bios and it appears to be current, i have also reset the Mobo battery at the request of MSI.

have you done a new fresh OS installation after mainboard change?

Z87-G45 won't reboot?

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