Recent content by jimcpl

Hi, FYI, I had some time this weekend, so I worked on trying to see if I could get my K8NGM2-FID working again. I was successful (I'm typing this from a machine with it installed), and I'm posting in case anyone runs into this in the future. The bottom line is that all of the BIOSes...

Hi, I received two new BIOS chips from MSI yesterday, supposedly with the 3.50 and 3.70 BIOSes. However, when I tried the new BIOS chips, I'm still not getting any POST/beeps, or video output. I've tried removing the CMOS battery, pushing the clear CMOS button, etc., but still no joy...

Hi, My daughter's system which uses the K8M2NG-FID mobo with an AMD 3000 X2 CPU, was having an occasional problem where the boot sequence would change by itself. That was with BIOS 3.50. So, earlier this week, I used Live Update to update her BIOS to V3.70. The system worked after that...

Hi, I'm really happy to report that I got this working (PHEW :)!!). First, I installed a floppy drive, and used the procedure here to do an emergency BIOS flash: http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm In my case, after the flash, it beeped ONCE, not 4 times. BUT...

HELP!! I ran LiveUpdate to update the BIOS on my K8NGM2-FID mobo, and the program said it was successful, then asked me if I wasn't to restart. But when it rebooted, the machine won't boot!! I don't have a floppy drive on this machine, so I couldn't make a recovery floppy during the...

Hi, Answering my own post... Ok, I got the new drive working. I'm not sure exactly what the problem was, but here is what I did that finally worked: 1) With the drive attached, and no partitions on it, I went into Device Manager, and deleted the "Secondary IDE Channel", then 2) I...

Hi, I've had a K8NGM2-FID mobo for awhile, running Windows 2000 Server SP4, and I tried to add a 2nd hard drive (a 200GB Samsung IDE) this weekend. The BIOS sees the drive, and in fact, if I boot to a Win98SE boot disk, I can see the drive and FDISK it, but I can't get it to appear in...

gman, I had it running (CTP 5308, I think) for awhile last week, but am back to Win2K Server. It ran a bit slowly for my tastes, and posts on the MS Vista NGs indicated that was expected with a beta. Installation went smoothly. I have an AMD 64 3000+ CPU and have a Seagate 120GB PATA...

Hi, FYI, I tried this same stick in a different K8NGM2-FID mobo, with an Athlon 64 3000+ CPU (E6) and it again wouldn't boot at all. I also tried DIMM2, same deal. It looks like this mobo may not be compatible with single-sided DIMMs? Jim

Hi All, Another question from a K8NGM2-FID newbie. This one on my daughter's new build: CPU: AMD 64 X2 3800+ OS: Win XP Home SP2 (all latest updates) Drivers: All drives from CD installed (VGA, NFORCE, and HD sound) Memory: 1 512MB stick of PC2700 Question: In Device Manager...

renethx, I tried to clear CMOS, and even removed the battery, but it wouldn't boot with that particular stick of (known-good) memory. I keep wondering if the single-sided vs. double-sided was the difference? The latter memory was the one that worked... Jim

Hi, This may sound kind of dumb, but does the K8NGM2-FID mobo support PC2700 memory? I got one of these mobos in for my daughter, and we installed an Athlon 64 X2 3800 CPU. When I first installed the CPU, I had a 512MB stick (double-sided, PC3200) in DIMM1, and it booted fine. After...

MSI's website says it does: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/..._cpu_support_detail.php?UID=702&kind=1 But, there's not indication in the above table of any BIOS version-dependencies, so I guess we can't tell for sure. FYI, a new board I received this past Thursday from ZZF...

Re. RAID: Hi, My understanding is that this mobo supports RAID with PATA drives. I connected to IDE drives as master and slave on the 2nd IDE, then I enabled "NVidia RAID" in the BIOS, but when I reboot, I don't see anything indicating a RAID BIOS, and pressing F10 per the manual...

Hi, Re. the CNQ software: Would it do any good to email MSI about this? Are they (generally) responsive to this kind of feedback? Re. the CPU fan speed: Unbelievably STUPID error on my part!! I had the CPU fan plugged into the SYSFAN connector :(! I moved the HSF fan connector to the...