MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Ultra Socket 939

[dafoomie]

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Anyone tried an Opty 165 on this board yet?

Thats exactly what I was thinking... Might pull the trigger on this, and a $159 Opteron 165, if people have decent experiences overclocking this.

 

[blackrain]

Did this come with an i/o shield?

Edit: Nevermind...it says that the package includes an i/o shield. Didn't notice that.

 

[kenton]

Yes, it came with an I/O sheild

 

[llamajizz]

I think I got screwed by geeks again... installed everything and when powered on, didn't seem to respond at all; tested the psu and it's fine. And ironically, about 4 years ago I bought an MSI board from geeks and it was doa.. They did give me a much better abit kg7-raid in return, but it took them nearly two months to do it.

Geeks still is a pretty good site, as long as I'm not ordering an MSI motherboard.

 

[Zap]

Test it outside the case. It may be shorting out on something.

 

[kenton]

Press the CMOS Reset button (button instead of jumpers = FTW)

 

[gwynethgh]

I got a Rev 2 version board Saturday but I cannot find a manual on the web for this version. I did download the Rev 1 manual. Anyone have a link to the Rev 2 manual?

Thanx

ps Hope to do setup this weekend if I have time and my PCIe vidio card shows up.

 

[vadp]

This board is PCB 1.0 Rev 2.0
The manual you've downloaded is for PCB 1.0 which is a correct one for this board.
There is no such a thing as PCB 2.0

 

[gwynethgh]

Thanx

 

[monkeypox8]

anyone else having trouble with s3 sleep? I'm getting a BSOD upon wakeup.

 

[jhill1977]

Is anyone else having issues with optical drives on the secondary IDE port.?? I cannot get either one of my optical drives (Plextor PX-716A and AOpen DUW1608/AAR) to be recognized. I tried both drives alone and with all possible jumper combinations (master/slave/cable select)..but no go. I also tried swapping out IDE cables, and reverting to the past 3 or 4 BIOS revisions, but no luck. With the optical drives on the secondary ide port, they aren't recognized @ POST, but the do show up in Windows Explorer and the device manager, but like Kenton mentioned above..I too am unable to boot from either optical drive. Hard drives work fine on IDE 2..but not ATAPI drives. Both drives optical drives show up just fine on IDE 1 at POST and in WIndows..

~ Justin

Originally posted by: kenton
I got my motherboard today and was very happy with packaging. First thing I did was flash the BIOS using a DR-DOS CD and then swapping over to my BIOS files CD. No problems!

Vista RC2 would not install with a CDRW set to master and a DVD-ROM set to slave on IDE2. I set the DVD-ROM to master and CD-RW to slave and it installed perfectly. No, I did not put my Vista DVD into my CDRW drive. Just letting you know.

I've yet to overclock because I'm waiting on my 2x1GB Ultra DDR400 and I'll be swapping my A64 3400+ Venice for a DC Opty or X2 soon.

 

[imported_maildude]

No problems here with a samsung dvd burner on IDE 2 set as master. Only drive installed.

 

[kenton]

I should say that I did not have problems with the secondary IDE channel, as it works perfect

I had problems installing Vista RC2's DVD with my DVD-ROM set to IDE2-Slave, once I moved it to IDE2-Master with my CDRW as IDE2-Slave it installed fine.

Also, I should note I had no problems installing XP Pro SP2 using my CDRW as IDE2-Master

 

[Bozo Galora]

its been advised dozens of times before in gen hard, but if you do have atapi probs, dont install nforce IDE-SATA drivers, only MS from XP SP2 install, or do driver rollback (IDE busmaster)

or one could try a 80 strand cable, even if not needed
or manually setting UDMA 2 in bios for drives, not auto
make sure "use dma if avail" is set (or greyed out and set) in disk manager for that channel

Just a quick few thoughts

Edit: The deal still seems good, they must have a bunch of these things.

 

[wayne1935]

A couple of days ago I noted that the mainboard I received doesn't have JFP2 Front Panel Connector that is needed for my case speaker and Power On LED. A previous MSI board (7025), which is essentially the same board but with an AGP slot has a JFP1 and a JFP2 connector and the 7125 manual shows 2 connector blocks.

I don't see or hear any kind of onboard piezo speaker/buzzer.

Do any of you guys that purchased this Geek board have the second connector block? If not, how did you connect your case speaker?

Wayne

 

[parkerlewis]

Originally posted by: wayne1935
A couple of days ago I noted that the mainboard I received doesn't have JFP2 Front Panel Connector that is needed for my case speaker and Power On LED. A previous MSI board (7025), which is essentially the same board but with an AGP slot has a JFP1 and a JFP2 connector and the 7125 manual shows 2 connector blocks.

I don't see or hear any kind of onboard piezo speaker/buzzer.

Do any of you guys that purchased this Geek board have the second connector block? If not, how did you connect your case speaker?

Wayne

Yeah, I noticed the same thing, and I don't think there's any way to connect the PC speaker without that connector block. No big loss in my opinion, but the lack of a power LED was annoying.

I solved that problem by cutting my 3-pin power led connector down the middle with a pair of scissors and then plugging the two wires into the 2 pins on the connector block, works like a charm.

 

[mangust]

Originally posted by: wayne1935
A couple of days ago I noted that the mainboard I received doesn't have JFP2 Front Panel Connector that is needed for my case speaker and Power On LED.
Do any of you guys that purchased this Geek board have the second connector block? If not, how did you connect your case speaker?

You're correct, the OEM board is missing JFP2. While there is no speaker connector, the power LED connector is available on JFP1.

 

[Lurker1]

I may go ahead and order this, as it appears to still be going. Need a PCIe graphics card deal to pop up now - where's the 8800s for < $300

 

[NuKe9]

How would this board compare to the DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 SLI-D board for $70. I'm torn between the two, would like to overclock my FX-55. Is the DFI really that picky about RAM? I have mixed sticks right now, same speed but different chips.

Thanks!

 

[blckgrffn]

1 worked great, ordered 3 more yesterday

Christmas gifts for my dad, sister, and an MCE box for them too... Thank heavens for cheap A64's!

Nat

 

[LeonarD26]

Glad to see this is still going on... Glad I could help everyone out...

I still haven't put my new machine together.. got my Opy165, but I need a video card too... need a good deal. Should be one any day now (as I've been saying for 2 weeks now )

 

[vadp]

Video Cards are a hot holiday present item.
You might want to wait untill Jan.

 

[Lurker1]

Actually - the 8800s hitting full-stride soon should drop the prices on several others. ATI is supposedly coming out with their DX10 cards soon as well, so existing PCIe cards should come down to where I can buy a "throw-away" decent card.

 

[LeonarD26]

I hope you're right Lurker. A deal on a 7600gt, 7900gs or x1950 is what I'm hoping for.... we'll see.

 

[asuka10456]

will these work with opty's without a bios update?