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Hi, everybody!
After lots of reading, I finally decided to upgrade my home system. I
bought:
MSI K8 Neo2 Platinum motherboard (Rev.1, Bios 1.3)
AMD Athlon64 3000+ processor
2 sticks of Corsair value RAM (PC3200). They are in dual-channel mopde
in banks 1 and 2.
An old (but seemingly working) Adaptec AHA2940UW SCSI Adaptor
Radeon 9700Pro 128 MB video card
Antec Sonata case.
At this point almost all settings in BIOS are default.
After some problems with the case (power supply was dead) I put this
system together. It works more or less fine (WinXP Home installed with
no problems, I'm now typing on this machine), except for 2 issues:
1. ATI Control Center won't run.
2. Computer won't perform warm reboot (Ctrl-Alt-Del, or "restart" from
Windows menu results in motherboard being hung at the stage of
processor identification, according to these nice LEDs at the MSI
bracket). Pressing "Reset" switch or powering system on-off brings
things back to normal.
Is it a bad motherboard, processor, both? Or any other suggestions?
P.S. The PSU rails seem OK:
Vcore 1.42
+3.3V = 3.25V
+12V = 11.80V
+5V = 4.99V
Battery +3.19V
+5VSB = 5.05V
As reported by system's BIO
Hi, everybody!
After lots of reading, I finally decided to upgrade my home system. I
bought:
MSI K8 Neo2 Platinum motherboard (Rev.1, Bios 1.3)
AMD Athlon64 3000+ processor
2 sticks of Corsair value RAM (PC3200). They are in dual-channel mopde
in banks 1 and 2.
An old (but seemingly working) Adaptec AHA2940UW SCSI Adaptor
Radeon 9700Pro 128 MB video card
Antec Sonata case.
At this point almost all settings in BIOS are default.
After some problems with the case (power supply was dead) I put this
system together. It works more or less fine (WinXP Home installed with
no problems, I'm now typing on this machine), except for 2 issues:
1. ATI Control Center won't run.
2. Computer won't perform warm reboot (Ctrl-Alt-Del, or "restart" from
Windows menu results in motherboard being hung at the stage of
processor identification, according to these nice LEDs at the MSI
bracket). Pressing "Reset" switch or powering system on-off brings
things back to normal.
Is it a bad motherboard, processor, both? Or any other suggestions?
P.S. The PSU rails seem OK:
Vcore 1.42
+3.3V = 3.25V
+12V = 11.80V
+5V = 4.99V
Battery +3.19V
+5VSB = 5.05V
As reported by system's BIO