Matrox G400 max and MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum with AMD64 3000+ winchester CPU?

[morkys2]

Anyone try the combo of Matrox G400 max and MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum with AMD64 3000+ winchester CPU?? Apparantly this does not work and causes serious BSOD issues. A BIOS version higher than 1.1 is required to use the winchester CPU, but when used, this newer BIOS causes BSOD with Matrox G series cards, particularly the G400 max. Matrox is aware of this. MSI hasn't seemed to address the issue with a BIOS revision. Does anyone have any experience with this? Has someone out there had luck with this combo?

thanx in advance for any feedback,

[morkys2]

I better bump this thread before it goes off the page and becomes lost in the sea of posts....aaaaaaa....lol...

Wow. Not much action here. I guess 6 years ago when the G400 max was a thriving card there was alot more action.

Nobody out there with an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and G400?

[Goc]

Well it seems to me that MSI is to blame... Not much Matrox can do about it...

[morkys2]

Correct. I'm looking to see if anyone here has had any luck with the combination.

[gorg]

Well I have an MSI K8N Neo (Socket 754 nForce 3 250GB, not Neo 2) and a Matrox G400 Max. It works great. I've even installed a waterblock on the G400.

[morkys2]

Gorg,

As it should. Using a Newcastle CPU and the 1.1 BIOS causes no such problems on the Neo 2. Its only when you try to use a winchester CPU and are forced to use a higher BIOS than 1.1 on the Neo 2 939 board.There is some funky stuff going on with the implementation of socket 939. Things aren't trouble free, lets put it that way.

thanx for the feedback,

[morkys2]

Anybody else?