MSI K7N2-L looses video at boot?

elkinm

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My K7N2-L has recently had boot problems. Sometimes when I turn it on it boots but does not start the display. The D-bracket sometimes shows a cpu start error, video error, memory system error and sometimes shows all green and still no display. If I press power twice quickly or reset it starts normaly but I don't know what is going on. I am most certain that this will occur after the reboot from bios whether or not I make changes.

I reseated and tesded the ram reseated the CPU and bought an SK6+ for better cooling and swapped graphics cards but the problem still persists.

I believe this started sometime after upgrading to the 3.4 BIOS but not imedietly afterwards. I have tried resetting the BIOS but still I have this problem.

Thanks
elkinm
 

NesuD

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Oct 9, 1999
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Yup i had the same issue. Apperantly the 3.4 bios has issues with radeons. I flashed back to 3.3 but was so disgusted with msi's lack of effort on fixing the problem that i stuffed the board in the closet and went to a Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL. Msi is really shortchanging their cutomers as far as decent bios support with this board is concerned. They said from shortly after the bios was released that they were working on the problem with some ATI people but still no fix. whats it been 3 months now since 3.4 came out?