I recently had my PC upgraded. I have now an MSI K8M Neo-V motherboard with
an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor and 1,5 Gb of memory. My soundcard is a SB
Audigy LS.
My videocard is a Creative (ATI) Radeon 9800 XT.

I'm planning on buying a system with the following components:
Athlon 64 939 pin 3000+
K8T Neo2-F
4x 256MB -Crucial DDR PC3200 CL3 non-ecc, unbuffered

I built this system a couple of weeks ago, have the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
motherboard, in a Lian Li case.
The hdd activity led was working fine, now all of a sudden it does not. It
does come on solid, when I first reboot the system, or boot from cold, but

First off is if hard to flash Bios using MSI updater ?I have never done
it before and want to update it so I can run a 2800 Barton Next issue
is it says i need a Floppy drive to do it. I have none in the system.
Can i use a thumbnail portable drive to do it using a USB port?

I have acquired a second-hand motherboard. It looks like an MSI and has
MS-6747 written on it. I would appreciate any help on where I can get a
manual for this board or more info on it. I have spent a lot of time
trying to find info on it, like details of pinouts, manuals, drivers ...

I'm building a pc with a MSI K8T Neo motherboard and a GeForce 6600GT
AGP video card. With the system in a bare-bones state (no OS
installed), it randomly locks up during post. Some times I can get into
the bios setup, other times not. Regardless, it always freezes within

I flashed the BIOS for my MSI FX5600 graphics card a while back. around the
same time my PC stopped starting first time after it had been turned of for
an hour or more.
I have tried reflashing the BIOS, but I can only do it with the same version

According to CoreCenter cpu/system temp barely exeeds 35 deg celcius, even
after a long period of gaming......;). Northbridge fan is unfortunately
ALWAYS running at app.7000 rpm and creating qiute a bit of noise. I've
enabled the Cool'an'Quiet finction botn in BIOS and CoreCenter ...

This board
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=651M-L
intially came with a 2.0 GHZ Intel Celeron. I upgraded to a Intel P
2.7 GHZ because the performance of the Celeron was iratic. Since then

Two years ago I bought KT3 Ultra 2 (MS-6380E v1.X) with Athlon XP 2000+
and 1GB of DDR RAM.
Now I'm thinking of upgrading my computer with a faster processor.
Which to buy if specs for the mainboard are as follows:

          a mate has just purchased a second hand Tiny machine. It has a
motherboard with the markings "MS6178 V1.1" Is this a Microstar board? I'm
having trouble finding their website to get the users manual. Any ideas
anyone?

Just received my new pc with the above mentioned mb. Should I install
NVIDIA's chipset drivers, or stick with MSI's (somewhat older) drivers?
MrK

I would be very grateful for any help with this problem.
I've just upgraded my DVD recorder, but it doesn't seem to like the
DMA 4 setting automatically assigned to it.  The old recorder worked
on DMA 2.

I have just bought a Skt478 P4 2.8Ghz 533Mhz proc for my 648 Max board
- to replace my 2.4Ghz proc.
Nothing happens at boot up.
I note that the 2.8 processor is a "prescott".  The manual syas the

I have a brand new K8N Neo2 Platinum System consisting of the following:
AMD Athlon 64 3500 (130nm)
1GB Corsair Pro Series Xtreme Memory Speed (XMS), CMX512-3200XLPRO
2 x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, SATA 150, Cache 8MB, 7200 RPM, 160GB