*** Official MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nForce4 Ultra chipset) Thread ***

[pharaownage]

Any thoughts?

Time for a new Windows install. Many times flashing BIOS will ****** Windows.

 

[Natnek]

Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble running my new board in dual channel mode. The pair of sticks worked fine in dual channel in my old motherboard, but when I set them up in this board (one green, one purple) the computer won't post - I get a long beep and the screen remains blank. I've tried both combos of dual channel slots, but they'll only work when they're in single channel mode (both green slots).

Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks!

 

[warbean]

Has anyone tried this with an Arctic Freezer Pro 64 in a regular case?

Does anyone know if the fan on the cpu cooler needs to be reversed? I am running my hand on the back of it and I don't feel the air being drawn out towards the exhaust...I'm afraid it's going to the front...

 

[z21218]

Will the onboard RAID controller work with 2 PATA drives to do RAID 0 or 1? Thanks.
Edit: I read the manual but the wording sounds more like the NVRAID will work for 1PATA + SATA and the Silicon Image controller will only work with SATA drives...

 

[SkaarjMaster]

Kid Vicious, next time you need to replace a NB fan get one of those Iceberq fans instead.

 

[SittingBull]

Hi,

I have an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboard and have a question. I want to add another gig of ram to
the two 512 sticks I already have in it. Will this board still operate in dual channel
mode if I have four 512 sticks in it? Does it ratchet the memory speed down to 333 MHz
from its current 400 MHz? I read a review of this board on Hard [OC] and they said the
board refused to boot when filled with four 512 sticks of ram.

Also, I have bios version 1.B0. Should I upgrade to the latest bios and is there any
advantages in the new bios?

Any insights are welcomed
--
Todd

 

[trainmaster5]

Running 4 sticks of Crucial 512 in Dual channel mode with no hiccups, w/ latest bios.

 

[GundamW]

Hey guys,
Here is the situation:
I want to upgrade my current AMD 64 3500+ to a X2 4600/4800+ and my current mother (MSI K8N Neo4/Platinum SLI) doesn't not support the X2 processor until a BIOS update. I also have Acronis True Image 9.0 installed for backing up my main harddrive (SATA).

So I went to the MSI site, downloaded the latest BIOS (MS7100 v3.A), and tried to update the BIOS. I followed the instruction and the update went fine. When I rebooted the machine and tried to boot to WindowsXP Pro, I got an error. The error appears right after the "Press F10 to go to Acronis restore manager" line (or something like that) in the DOS/black screen. The error message said it can't find a boot partition and something about MBR error. And it asked for disk with an OS. I pressed a key and then it printed out some garbage characters.

I double checked the settings in the new BIOS and everthing seems to be in place like before. I rebooted again and the same error showed up. Luckily, I backed up the old/original BIOS and put in back into place. It rebooted fine and went into Windows like nothing happened.

Anyone have encountered the same problem like mine before? Or had anyone updated their motherboards BIOS with Acronis True Image 9 installed in their system?
Or am I screwed and am stuck with my current processor?

Need help. Thanks.

 

[tvdang7]

Hi guys i just got this board up and running . im having the winchester problem right now. im at 230 fsb cant go any higher right now in bios. Voltage is like 1.58 . i can go 275 in clockgen tho. can some one help me out or is there no fix still.

cpu is amd 3000 winchester
bio is 1.D used winflash since the floppy stuff is confusing (i miss abit ).
mem is 133 divider.
HT is at 3x

thanks for any help.

 

[slayek]

Hummm...thats pretty odd tvdang7. With mem divider set at 133, you shuld be able to hit 275 and up FSB, at least thats what I saw with my 3000 Venice. Quick question, was that 275 stable with clockgen? And what kinda PSU you are using with this mobo?

 

[puma1824]

Originally posted by: GundamW
Hey guys,
Here is the situation:
I want to upgrade my current AMD 64 3500+ to a X2 4600/4800+ and my current mother (MSI K8N Neo4/Platinum SLI) doesn't not support the X2 processor until a BIOS update. I also have Acronis True Image 9.0 installed for backing up my main harddrive (SATA).

So I went to the MSI site, downloaded the latest BIOS (MS7100 v3.A), and tried to update the BIOS. I followed the instruction and the update went fine. When I rebooted the machine and tried to boot to WindowsXP Pro, I got an error. The error appears right after the "Press F10 to go to Acronis restore manager" line (or something like that) in the DOS/black screen. The error message said it can't find a boot partition and something about MBR error. And it asked for disk with an OS. I pressed a key and then it printed out some garbage characters.

I double checked the settings in the new BIOS and everthing seems to be in place like before. I rebooted again and the same error showed up. Luckily, I backed up the old/original BIOS and put in back into place. It rebooted fine and went into Windows like nothing happened.

Anyone have encountered the same problem like mine before? Or had anyone updated their motherboards BIOS with Acronis True Image 9 installed in their system?
Or am I screwed and am stuck with my current processor?

Need help. Thanks.

Any luck getting a X2 working with the Neo4 Plat?

 

[cardiac]

Just picked one of these up from geeks. Went together flawlessly with an AMD 64 3400 Venice core. A question I have is: Where in the BIOS is the "Cell Menu"? It is nowhere to be found in the BIOS. I have PCB ver 2.0 if it matters......

Thanks,

Bob

 

[cardiac]

Figured out that I had to flash the BIOS to a newer version in order for the Cell Menu to show up.......

Bob

 

[francofumo]

My system wont boot(is it my ultra ram?)
Just how important is it to get 'supported ram'?

I'm running a system with:

K8n neo4 ms7125 ver 2.0
AMD FX-55 processor
2 sticks of Ultra 1Gb DDR 400mhz ram
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 250GB Serial ATA II
and some old POS videocard from diamond
Ultra ATX 400 Watt power supply

When I put it all together and tried to start her up, all I got was a brief flash from the power LED.

I discovered that Ultra ram is not listed as a supported type of ram, but I'd heard nothing but good things about ram compatibility.

Can anyone give me some educated guess as to where I should start trying to solve my problem?

Thanks

 

[francofumo]

well, Ultra 400mhz ddr ram seems to work with the motherboard. My problem was a combination of three things.
1) The manual depiction of the position for the power/reset switch didn't match up too well to the reality of my board. I found the right spots for the power/reset wires and ignored the power LED wire.
2) My processor may not have been seated firmly.
3) My power supply (which I got for free after rebate) has a switch on the back where '-' means on and 'o' means off.

I'm partitioning my hardrive right now.

 

[nefariouscaine]

I'm trying to find out from someone thats used this board with some of the different bios that have been released for it. currently I have the newest version released but I've seen old screen shots from reviews of this board back in 05 and they tend to display more memory dividers than I'm getting - pretty sure its only showing me 100/133/166/200 and up but I'm at a stop point with my ram running at 171 (with 2-3-2-5 t1 timings) as my cpu doesn't really want to oc much more - currently running 2.4 stable - I'm getting ready to do some more adjusting after having to reset the bios as it didn't like my timings at 166 divider. but if an older bios has a 150 divider hiding in it some place I'd love to use that. if any one knows something (and still looks at this old thread) please PM me

 

[phantomgrave]

Hey everyone, I have one quick question about ram on this board, I currently have 2x512MB of Corsair ValueSelect ram and I want to add another gig, a pal of mine is selling his 1x1GB stick cheap...
So I wanted to ask would there be a problem with me having my 2x512MB stick and a 1x1GB stick in my system at the same time?

Thanks ~phantomgrave

 

[darbius]

Hi guys,

I had a quick question. I currently have 2x512mb of the Corsair XMS DDR-400 (PC3200) RAM on my mobo and I was thinking of buying another 2gb of ram to upgrade it to 3gb total. As long as I have the memory sticks paired correctly (the 512's together and the 1gb's together) is there any reason I can't run 3GB of RAM on this mobo? Another guy on this forum had suggested that there might be an issue with assymetrical memory on some of the older AMD slot mobo's. If there's no reason the mobo couldn't do that, that would be great.

He also suggested that some of the older AMD processors might have trouble running a 3 gig configuration. I am currently using a AMD Athlon 64 3200MHz.

Basically, given the mobo and the processor, could I run 2x512mb and 2x1gb? Thanks!

 

[thinlizzie]

Okay, maybe someone in here has some sort of a brilliant idea before I chuck this board in the trash.

I got one of these from ZZF recently, the K8N Neo4 F (not the platinum), and here is what I've got running on it:

XP 4000+ San Diego
2x 1gb OCZ High Performabce RAM
PSU is an OCZ 850watt
evga 8800gtx

With this config everything spins up, but nothing displays on the monitor out of either port on the vid card

When I change the card out for an ancient voodoo3 PCI card I can post fine, get into the BOIS fine, but I get a quick BSOD just after the XP splash screen, then it attempts to reboot again. Same thing no matter if I boot from an IDE or a SATA drive.

I flashed the BIOS up to 1D, and I get the same result.

Any ideas would be great. I have no other PCI-E vid cards to try, so this is it.

 

[Dantzig]

Northbridge fan failure seems to be a common problem. Mine started making loud noises a couple weeks ago. It got so loud that my girlfriend was having difficulty sleeping so I just yanked the power to it. No problems so far but I'm ordering the Vantec as a replacement.

 

[Tlkki]

This board has caused me A LOT of headaches! It shouldnt have been released in the first place.

Now the NF4 sata ports are faulty, and I can use MAX 2 HDDs and even that is risky, bcos itll BSOD if i attach too many devices to the sata ports.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: thinlizzie
Okay, maybe someone in here has some sort of a brilliant idea before I chuck this board in the trash.

I got one of these from ZZF recently, the K8N Neo4 F (not the platinum), and here is what I've got running on it:

XP 4000+ San Diego
2x 1gb OCZ High Performabce RAM
PSU is an OCZ 850watt
evga 8800gtx

With this config everything spins up, but nothing displays on the monitor out of either port on the vid card

When I change the card out for an ancient voodoo3 PCI card I can post fine, get into the BOIS fine, but I get a quick BSOD just after the XP splash screen, then it attempts to reboot again. Same thing no matter if I boot from an IDE or a SATA drive.

I flashed the BIOS up to 1D, and I get the same result.

Any ideas would be great. I have no other PCI-E vid cards to try, so this is it.

Which PCB rev do you have? I just recently purchased an MSI K8N Neo4-F rev 3.0 board from CompUSA, and it shipped with the most recent BIOS, 5.3.

After spending some time working with it and attempting to OC my Opteron 165, I think I can say that this mobo is a piece of junk from an overclocking perspective. The BIOS sucks, and it has a very serious bug - when booting, it acts as though the HTT multi is set to one higher than what was selected in BIOS. Dropping the HTT multi to 4x, still led me to a FSB wall at 220Mhz, which is far too low, and certainly not a limitation of the CPU. After further experimentation, I managed to get it to boot at higher FSBs, by dropping the HTT multi further, to 3x. That's good until about 250FSB (should have been good at 4x HTT multi, in a real working board), and then needed to drop down futher. However, in this board, the list of HTT multis is crippled, with only 2.5x, 3x, 4x, and 5x. No 2x or 1x selection as in my Biostar NF4 board. With 2.5x HTT multi and FSB of 275, I started giving up, because the BIOS started getting flaky (missing menu items!), and it said "detecting RAID array" during POST and would hang, even with RAID disabled in BIOS. Note also that when booted into Windows, CPU-Z will show the HTT multi as the one selected in BIOS. The anomaly only exists when booting. My Biostar NF4 board will easily do up to 300FSB, which is the limit of the BIOS. The board likely could do more. This MSI board will only really do 250-260FSB, which is crap. The Opteron 165 needs 300FSB just to hit 2.7Ghz.

 

[N3ro]

I have MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum PCB ver 1.

When i connect an ultra 400w 24 pin into my motherboard the chipset & cpu fan turn on. However when i connect the 4 pin 12V for the cpu i get this repeating 1 beep. Is this a memory problem or CPU.


This is my power supply
http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_de...s.php?cPath=59&pPath=369&productID=370


My RAM
2X PNY 512 MB



Edit: Ok i let it beep for 4 minutes while i had a PNY 512mb ram, cpu (AMD 64 3500+) & heatsink(Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro) installed.. after 4 min the cpu does not even feel warm... guess it's dead.

 

[oraclemalachi]

I have a MSI K8N Neo4 Ver. 1 mb and have upgraded just about everything else except my video card. And now, I'm looking to upgrade my video card from my old 6800GT to a new 8800GTS. so I was wondering if anyone had any issues with the chipset fan getting in the way of when installing the large 8800GTS card? Due to money issues, I'm going with this card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130082

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

[Zim]

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