Need urgent help with mobo.

kingbob387

Hi, I just bought new rams off Adverts to use, it won't boot with all the 4 sticks of 2GB but it boots with 2x 2GB. So I thought it was the BIOS, since I've never updated it, It's a MSI K9A2 Platinum that I also bought off Adverts.

So I went ahead and tried to flash the bios, used the MSI Liveupdate app to download a newer BIOS, ran the exe, it went well and fine, computer went and restarted itself. Once it restarted it was in the old window is loading screen, like the vista one, I though it was going into safe mode to finish the rest so I left it. But then a BSOD came up and I had to shut the computer down. But then it won't turn back on afterwards, the computer boots but nothing comes up on the monitor. It seems like my G15 is getting unstable power from USB cause the lights on it goes bright and dimms. So is the BIOS borked now? Can someone help me please!


Update

Took out battery on MOBO, left it for a while. Put it back in and it turns on with no more lights on keyboard, but still nothing on screen. Help please!

Hijpo

kingbob387 wrote: »

Hi, I just bought new rams off Adverts to use, it won't boot with all the 4 sticks of 2GB but it boots with 2x 2GB. So I thought it was the BIOS, since I've never updated it, It's a MSI K9A2 Platinum that I also bought off Adverts.

So I went ahead and tried to flash the bios, used the MSI Liveupdate app to download a newer BIOS, ran the exe, it went well and fine, computer went and restarted itself. Once it restarted it was in the old window is loading screen, like the vista one, I though it was going into safe mode to finish the rest so I left it. But then a BSOD came up and I had to shut the computer down. But then it won't turn back on afterwards, the computer boots but nothing comes up on the monitor. It seems like my G15 is getting unstable power from USB cause the lights on it goes bright and dimms. So is the BIOS borked now? Can someone help me please!


Update

Took out battery on MOBO, left it for a while. Put it back in and it turns on with no more lights on keyboard, but still nothing on screen. Help please!

im intoxicated at the mo but a screwed up bios update will mess up your system.
Dependin pn you operating system how much ram it will accept.
People, explain it better, like nick....\yoyo.... Or other

xsiborg

Hijpo wrote: »

kingbob387 wrote: »

Hi, I just bought new rams off Adverts to use, it won't boot with all the 4 sticks of 2GB but it boots with 2x 2GB. So I thought it was the BIOS, since I've never updated it, It's a MSI K9A2 Platinum that I also bought off Adverts.

So I went ahead and tried to flash the bios, used the MSI Liveupdate app to download a newer BIOS, ran the exe, it went well and fine, computer went and restarted itself. Once it restarted it was in the old window is loading screen, like the vista one, I though it was going into safe mode to finish the rest so I left it. But then a BSOD came up and I had to shut the computer down. But then it won't turn back on afterwards, the computer boots but nothing comes up on the monitor. It seems like my G15 is getting unstable power from USB cause the lights on it goes bright and dimms. So is the BIOS borked now? Can someone help me please!


Update

Took out battery on MOBO, left it for a while. Put it back in and it turns on with no more lights on keyboard, but still nothing on screen. Help please!

im intoxicated at the mo but a screwed up bios update will mess up your system.
Dependin pn you operating system how much ram it will accept.
People, explain it better, like nick....\yoyo.... Or other

no need to freak just yet, as i suspected, your motherboard comes with a bios backup and recovery solution-

http://www.ehow.com/m/how_7654460_msi-boot-after-bios-flash.html

just check before you do this that you have all the connectors pushed home properly on the correct pins! i used build pc's for a living before and the amount of times this would happen, not funny, but always managed to recover! one time i did manage to blow a motherboard though by forgetting to use the screw stands, the motherboard was directly sitting on the case, instant boom! well, nothing that dramatic, more like 'power?poof, dead!'.

ps, try this with just one stick of RAM in the rig, seated properly, and check that your CPU is also seated properly with enough thermal paste (could be the processor overheating too if the heatsink isnt correctly seated!).

but first of all, go make yourself a cup of tea, stay calm, and dont let it beat you. the culprit here i suspect is a dodgy stick of ram.

kingbob387

Ok, I took out the new ram and slotted a old 1 GB ram back in, windows booted fine. Trying to flash the BIOS again atm, this time I turned everything in the background off just to be safe.

Update

Computer only boots with one of the new rams....

It can boot with one of the new ram and 1GB of my old ram. So are the other 3 new ram faulty?

Update 2

Went into BIOS, turned the gang mode on, put one of the new ram into the same coloured slot as the other working new ram. Won't boot. However, if I put it into the different coloured slot, it boots fine. Why is this? Is the new ram pairing up with the old ram? I don't understand.

Update 3

Turned gang mode off again. One of the 2 leftover sticks boots fine with the others... The other one refuses to boot. I guess one of them is faulty. Good enough I guess, currently have 7GBs of rams installed. Thanks for the help everyone! Appreciate it!

xsiborg

kingbob387 wrote: »

Ok, I took out the new ram and slotted a old 1 GB ram back in, windows booted fine. Trying to flash the BIOS again atm, this time I turned everything in the background off just to be safe.

Update

Computer only boots with one of the new rams....

It can boot with one of the new ram and 1GB of my old ram. So are the other 3 new ram faulty?

Update 2

Went into BIOS, turned the gang mode on, put one of the new ram into the same coloured slot as the other working new ram. Won't boot. However, if I put it into the different coloured slot, it boots fine. Why is this? Is the new ram pairing up with the old ram? I don't understand.

Update 3

Turned gang mode off again. One of the 2 leftover sticks boots fine with the others... The other one refuses to boot. I guess one of them is faulty. Good enough I guess, currently have 7GBs of rams installed. Thanks for the help everyone! Appreciate it!

from what i remember now (many moons ago, im a long time out of the custom gaming rig building game) but the different colored slots were for different bus speeds if you had DIMMS that were able to run at the higher bus speed (RAM was shocking expensive 20 even 15 years ago but as well as perhaps the misfortune of a dodgy stick of ram, you may also have faulty slots on the board. try the 1GB stick in each of the slots after you have windows up and running and set up, might not be a bad idea to download and run 'memtest' on it either, im not too sure but i seem to remember DDR being picky about having to be installed in pairs with matching speeds, not really an issue nowadays though but that might be one for you to check over aswel.

'gang mode' isnt a bios term im familiar with but perhaps some of the posters in the building and upgrading forum might be able to give you further insight.

there wont be much of a performance difference anyway between 7 and eight gigs of ram unless you're running a horse of an overclocked hyperthreading processor underneath the hood, and even then the performance ratio would be negligible unless you're fiercely picky!

EDIT: just read up on that 'ganged' mode, you're better off running in 'unganged' mode, its basically the idea of running each of your memory sticks in tandem to 'spread the load' as opposed to running them in single channel mode, which makes each stick work independently of each other. personally speaking i'd leave it off, in unganged mode.