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64 3200 socket 939 90nm?

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Gbaby1008

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I am going to buy an 64 3200 socket 939 90nm with a k8n neo 2 patinum. I heard some people say that you need the newest bios for this cpu 2 work. I was wondering if there is a special procces you have to do thisor how. Does it evenl start up with the old bios in it?
 
Most people I ask say it works fine with shipping bios with a single stick of ram. You then flash to whatever bios you want with officiall winchester support and you are good to go.
 
I just built mine three days ago. I got it to boot fine with only one stick of RAM installed. With two sticks in dual channel it refused to boot. The board came shipped with v1.2 BIOS. I used MSI's LiveUpdate software to update the BIOS to v1.3 after Windows XP was installed. Then Dual Channel worked fine. My advice to you is to try 2 sticks of RAM in dual channel first. If it won't boot then do this:

1. Build the system using one stick of RAM to start with (or 2 sticks in single channel mode (slots 1,3)).
2. Install Windows
3. Use LiveUpdate to upgrade BIOS to the most recent version (v1.3)

My K8N NEO2 runs great.
 
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