K8N Neo2 Platinum reboot issue

[imported_blkhwkz]

I have run into this issue with the bios my board came with (1.3) and even with the 1.41 beta. Specs are as follows:
A64 3200+ Winchester
XP-90 w/ Pnaflo 92mm
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
1GB Corsair XMS PC4000
500w Ultra-X modular PSU
300GB Maxtor SATA on port3 (boot drive)
250gb and 160GB ATA/133 IDE drives
9800pro
DVD burner and CD burner on the other IDE connector

If I have the machine off and power it on, all drives are detected quickly and the system boots very fast. If I go into the bios and exit or if I reboot from within Windows, the IDE drives are detected and then it hangs detecting the SATA drive (which is detected fine in the bios and listed as the boot drive.) I am not overclocking at all right now, the only change to the BIOS was manually setting the 3-3-3-8-1T settings on the Corsair (manufacturers specs.) Before that change the auto settings would have it at 2T and slower settings. The only fix it seems people have found is to power off and power on the machine and that it's caused by changing any setting in the bios off defaults. I find it hard to believe MSI hasn't fixed this even in the latest beta BIOS or there isn't a better solution than to power off and power on the machine. Any other ideas or suggestions? This is really the only problem I have had so far with this mobo and maybe I should consider myself lucky to not have the issues many others have run into, but it's still very aggravating.

 

[jonnyGURU]

So you never said..... Did it do this BEFORE you changed the memory timing? You only state that the memory timing is the only change you made.

 

[imported_blkhwkz]

Yes it did it before. Also does it if I load fail-safe defaults. Does it on 5 different bios versions from 1.3 to the latest beta 1.41. As I tested it more last week I found if I let it sit 5-10 minutes it finally moves beyond that point and then reboots and will do this in an endless loop until I turn it off and back on again, at which time it boots up in less than 30 seconds and has no issues. At least until I reboot again.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Bad board. Next.

 

[imported_blkhwkz]

Wasn't a bad board. The 1.51 beta bios fixes boot issues with Maxtor SATA drives. Loaded that up and it works fine. I told MSI I knew the board wasn't bad either even though they insisted it must be, told them it was a BIOS issue since I had seen many others have the same problem. Nice to see I was correct and they were not

 

[Icepick]

Wow. Didn't even know there was a 1.5x version available. Nice job fixing this man!

 

[Andres3605]

all this time to find this congrats, very good job

 

[imported_Eric]

Just upgraded last night and I'm having this exact same problem, my drive is on port 1 it's the only hard drive in the system and it was pissing me off. Glad to see that someone found a fix. My only question is where did you get the beta BIOS from? The latest version I see listed on the MSI website is 1.3, which is what my mobo came with. I hate to use a beta bios, but if that's what it takes then so be it.

 

[imported_blkhwkz]

I got the beta bios from here:
http://www.lejabeach.com/MSIK8N/k8nneo2.html

Pretty good site that stays up to date on the latest beta bios and what changes if any they have heard of.