My replacement msi k8n neo4 plat just took a dump

Puffnstuff

Lifer
Mar 9, 2005
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Well this afternoon my son powered down his machine so we could go do some shopping. When we got home it would not boot and would hang on the initial post screen after it displays his cpu but before it shows the memory. I tried resetting the cmos which would let it post and I would go into the memory and reset it and then when I tried to restart it would hang in the same place again. The dbracket shows initiating bios every time. We did manage to get it to see his memory once and then boot and after it ran for a few minutes it froze up and we could never get it to boot again. I can't begin to express my frustration with msi and this pos mb. I'm looking at newegg right now for a replacement which means more out of pocket expense for me. I'm sorry that I ever even bought it in the first place. Now I'll have to rma it again except this time I'm sending it straight to msi instead of zzf. They'd probably take at least two weeks to acknowledge that they even had it like the first one I rma'd to them. At least my fatal1ty runs like it's supposed to.
 

FastEddie

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If that's two down (two for two) I'd be looking at cause and effect. What psu are you running with that build?
 

Puffnstuff

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Well the first one was in my machine with the components in my sig and when the replacement came I put it into his machine. He's got an antec tp 550 ps in an antec soho case and I was using a thermaltake 20-24pin converter just to make sure all pins had power. When I put my greenlee digital meter on his rails I saw 11.98-11.99v on the 12v rail and 5.02v on the 5v. I never did measure the 3.3v rail. On my system I had my 600w enermax atx 2 with dual 12v rails on it and it still was flaky. My abit board has never faltered not the first time since the first time I hit the power button. I ended up ordering him a dfi lanparty nf4 ultra-d mb to replace this pos with. Each of the msi boards have had different problems with the same end result.