MSI K9N nForce 550 won't boot!

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Okay I have tried just about everything that I can do. they're no beeps, no buzzing, no POST, so signal to video, no burning smell, or unuseal sounds. But fans are getting power and the CD rom seems to get power.


I have tried the following: "process of cancelation", resitting everything in cluding the mobo, resetting CMOS jumper, removing the battery. No luck.

Sence I know this MOBO is fairly new, there is little or no trouble shooting guides for this and it.

I have decided that it's either my MOBO or PSU.


Athlon 64 3000 AM2
350W generic PSU
X800GTO 256MB
512 dual OCZ PC2 4200
Maxter Diamondback Sata
MSI K9N nForce 550 AM2



PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
 
You may have already tried this but try removing any add in cards... ie sound, nic, video etc then go on to disconnecting the optical and hard drives. Another remote possibility is the voltage switch on the back of the power supply got changed to 220 this was done to me as a prank one time.
 
You may have already tried this but try removing any add in cards... ie sound, nic, video etc then go on to disconnecting the optical and hard drives. Another remote possibility is the voltage switch on the back of the power supply got changed to 220 this was done to me as a prank one time.
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Thanks, but I already tried all of that.
 
Ack another MSI related issue

yeah generic PSU, slow DDR2 ram, etc



Okay I have tried just about everything that I can do. they're no beeps, no buzzing, no POST, so signal to video, no burning smell, or unuseal sounds. But fans are getting power and the CD rom seems to get power.


I have tried the following: "process of cancelation", resitting everything in cluding the mobo, resetting CMOS jumper, removing the battery. No luck.

Sence I know this MOBO is fairly new, there is little or no trouble shooting guides for this and it.

I have decided that it's either my MOBO or PSU.


Athlon 64 3000 AM2
350W generic PSU
X800GTO 256MB
512 dual OCZ PC2 4200
Maxter Diamondback Sata
MSI K9N nForce 550 AM2



PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
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Perhaps this is a case of dead bios?
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WTF


Apache lives, you act like you know a lot more than me but you don't seem to be any help.... Let's try stay on topic, and help me fix this, please.
 
1. reset the cmos
2. take the board and system out and sit it on cardboard or whatever and boot it with just board, ram, cpu, video etc OUT OF THE CASE
3. switch the ram if you can or test it or somethin (to clear it of any issue)
4. return the board


replace the board

Perhaps this is a case of dead bios?
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WTF


Apache lives, you act like you know a lot more than me but you don't seem to be any help.... Let's try stay on topic, and help me fix this, please.
 
I have the same problems, no video output.
I've tried everything that the MSI site has had to offer and nothing works + I'm out of ideas. It sucks that this is so new that there's no support for it yet.
Video card and ram work fine in my other system.

I had a similar problem with an Abit 939 socket mobo but it had a post code led to indicate that it was a memory problem, switched the ram and it worked just fine. Unfortunately it's not the case with this mobo.

This is such a pain to troubleshoot. Any ideas?
HELP!

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MSI K9N SLI nForce 570 AM2
Athlon 64 3500+ AM2
Ultra X2 550W PSU
EVGA 7600GT KO
1GB dual OCZ DDR2-800 PC2-6400 (OCZ28002048ELDCGE-K 2GB)
 
Well, I have already RMA'd it, hopefully I will get a replacment by Tuesday. I will let everyone know when I get it.
 
I'm hoping that I wont have to resort to send mine in for RMA

Did you RMA to manufacturer or the vendor?

I unfortunately bought mine from zipzoomfly and their customer support sucks so I'm holding off as long as i can.

I know when I got this mobo, everything was packaged very messy, like someone dropped it on the floor and put it back in the box.
I'm wondering if mine was damaged or used. But it's so new it doesnt seem likely.

It's hard to tell cause there's no sticker seal either.
How about yours?
 
I returned it to the vendor, as for the packaging it was decent. Mine did not look damage at all. But still didn't work.
 
Yo, I just got a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Orleans with the MSI K9N Neo. It also does not post and as I was reading I noticed we all have the 1Gig OCZ duel channel memory, could this be the problem and not the MB? What do you think? Also I read that usually it beeps or something if it is bad memory, but it just seems strange that we all have the same problem and same memory. I noticed under the CPU specifications that it shows it only supports the 3500 and 3800 in the Athlon 64, but the other dude that had the same problem had the 3500 so I have really no clue. Im gonna try Different RAM for the heck of it tomarrow.
 
Well after researching more tonight, I keep seeing that only the AM2 socket supports the Athlon 64 3500 and 3800. It doesnt say anything about the 3000+. Hope this is not the case, although newegg has the 3500 for $125 now.
 
Hi, i just joined here because this popped up on google when i was searching for answers to the same problem you all have.

My brother had just bought a

am2 athlon 3200
msi k9n platnium
gforce 7900gt
2x1 gig of g skill ddr800

I have read that you all had ocz memory and were beginning to think that was the problem where i get the same exact problems that you all have but I use the g skill memory.

I tried everything there is to try with no luck except the very last thing i remembered to use was the d-bracket that came with the motherboard and it showed up with the lights saying the memory was faulty. I find that hard to belive that both brand new sticks were faulty and would not even boot into the bios. If anyone has any luck trying different memory than ocz or g skill please reply back because im eager to get rid of this computer as it is starting to take up a lot of time trying to figure out the problem.
 
Well, I have not tried the memory thing yet, but now I think it is just the processor. On the MSI site, it says that only the 3500 and 3800 are supported, it does'nt say that the 3000 or 3200 are not, but it doesnt mention them at all. The only thing is one of the reviews for the 3000 on newegg have some guy on there with a review saying his worked fine with the 3000+. Unless they made a bunch of bad MB, just seems wierd. Not sure I was trying to look up any NForce 5 board that actually said they support the 3000+ and cant find any. Just dont know. I am going to try the memory because of what steve said about the D bracket first.
 
YOU GUYS ARE BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE.
I have the same board, OCZ DDR2-800 and a Sempron64. That board will support any AM2 cpu period. Im also running a 350w power supply.
Heres what I think your problem is. The motherboard voltage for the memory defaults to 1.8v, the OCZ memory I have is 2.1v. You have to manually up the voltage in the bios to 2.1v or it wont power the memory. Find out what the proper voltage is for YOUR memory first.
 
It was the memory!! I got some kingston 4200 at circuit city and it works. Now I dont know about changing the voltage, but its kinda hard to change the voltage when it does'nt post. But if I can change the voltage in Bios and use the OCZ in duel channel now that I can get there, Im all ears.
 
You have to manually up the voltage in the bios to 2.1v or it wont power the memory. Find out what the proper voltage is for YOUR memory first.
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Most of us don't even get a POST, so if there's a way to access the BIOS with out a POST then we would like to know. In the meantime, someone else try different memory too, just to make sure.


The motherboard voltage for the memory defaults to 1.8v
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BTW, I checked and my memory is 1.8v, so even the motherboards default setting (1.8v) doesn't work.
 
Have you called OCZ tech support?
The guys name is Sean, I know him, he will email you right back if you contact him here:
sean@ocztechnology.com
 
Have you called OCZ tech support?
The guys name is Sean, I know him, he will email you right back if you contact him here:
sean@ocztechnology.com
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Though tech support has never succesfully solve or troubleshoot a problem (atleast not that I can remember). I will give this a try.
 
Would it be better for me to rma my g. skill memory to the website i bought it from (newegg. Or would it be better to send it in to g. skill?
 
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