K7t266 Pro IDE

When Looked at my MoBo I noticed two extra IDEs for the model I had. When I looked in the manual it showed the two extra IDE's on the K7T266 Pro-R, but my box says K7t266. Did I get the wrond Mobo in the box? Anyway when I went to hook a new harddrive up to one of them it was not found, I tried in the other and still not found. I ended up hooking it up as a slave on my other hardrive.

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Originally posted by Microman56
Is there a seperate manual for the raid ide\'s?
When I purchased this board, there was two manuals inside. One for the mobo and one for Lite-RAID, which was new function at that time. Manual was not very accurate.
Anyways, if you want to activate that RAID-function, you will have lots of help-replies here.
For manual, try Msi support-site.

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NEED HELP! Modem keeps disconnecting w/K7T266 Pro & WinXP

My system:
K7T266 Pro
Athlon 1333MH
256Mb DDR 2100
MSI GeForce 2 MX, 32Mb
Zoom V.92 internal modem
SB Live! 5.1
2 x 80Gb Maxtor HD
LiteOn 16x12x40 CD-RW
USB mouse
340 W Enlight Power Supply
This system worked fine on the internet when I was running Win98. I upgraded to WinXP and now the modem keeps disconnecting shortly after connecting (but it always connects for a short period of time).
Here's what I have tried: Reloaded WinXP Home Edition on a newly formatted HD using a clean install (not an upgrade) and the NT file system. Loaded the latest MSI 4-in-1 drivers and upgraded Bios to latest version (v1.9). Reloaded all the software. Got all the latest XP drivers and WinXP updates. Have tried 4 different brands of modems, internal and external. Have tried modems in different PCI slots (currently using PCI slot 3 with SB in slot 4). Have tried modem on different Com ports (currently using Com 3). Have tried slowing down the com port speed. There is no IRQ sharing with the modem. Have tried different phone jacks and cords (the same ones that work fine on the older HP Win98 computer I am writing this on). Have tried 2 different ISPs (currently using CompuServe). Have reloaded the ISP software several times (trying different versions) and currently have their latest XP version - ISP says others are not having this problem with their software (have spent hours with their technical help with no resolution). Not using any ad blocker or anti-virus software (yet).
Nothing I have tried has made any difference so far. Am I missing something? I don't want to go back to Win98!
Oh ya, another minor annoyance: My system freezes after sitting idle for a while, even though the Windows power scheme is set to Always On and no screensaver. Otherwise, everything else works fine.

Hello everyone,
I was gone for a few days, but when I got home I was very happy to see some more posts to this thread!!
Last night I tried disabling the SoundBlaster (with the Windows System Device Manager). I disabled both the sound card and the game port. The modem was still disconnecting.
Until now I hadn't heard of Via chipsets and SoundBlasters not getting along well with each other either. I had, however, previously tried another sound card - it was an older Diamond Monster card I had, but I couldn't find a WinXP driver for it. It didn't work well at all with WinXP. So back to the SoundBlaster Live! 5.1.
I did find a cure for the other problem I mentioned. I noticed that the SoundBlaster and all 3 USB controllers were sharing IRQ 10. I removed the USB optical mouse and tried a PS2 ball mouse. That solved the problem where the system was freezing after sitting idle for a while. I sure liked the optical mouse better though. This same problem may have been related to another one I noticed. When playing audio CDs, sometimes the sound would stop momentarily and then go on again. I haven't yet had a chance to see if removing the USB mouse solved that problem as well. I have also noticed that the volume of audio CDs are controlled by the wave volume and not the CD volume. Is this normal? I have both the analog and digital cables connected and the CD digital setting enabled. It's very annoying, since turning the volume up on audio CDs causes the Windows wave sounds to blast me out when they play. I don't know how to set the SoundBlaster to use one of the other unused IRQs - can anyone tell me how to?
I haven't yet tried the PCI latency patches, because I wasn't too hopeful after seeing that it didn't work for Philipponnat.
Now for the Bios. I have always had my Primary Graphics Adapter setting on AGP. The onboard modem and audio settings have always been set to disabled. I was excited to see that Philipponnat found a cure for the modem disconnections with the PCI latency setting. When I went to my computer to do the same thing, I was disapointed to find that my Bios does not have a setting by that name, either in the PNP/PCI configuration or anywhere else. The only thing I found that looked related was one called "PCI Delay Transaction" in the Advanced Chipset Features section, but the only settings available are enabled or disabled. Mine was set to disabled, but I couldn't tell any difference when I set it to enabled. Maybe we have different boards - mine is version 1, but I have flashed the Bios to the latest version I found, v1.9.
I have noticed another strange thing in the Bios. The Bios no longer detects the power supply fan speed - it always reads zero RPM in Bios even though the lead is hooked up. The other fans show a reading. The power supply fan used to show a reading when I first put the computer together.
I also have S.M.A.R.T. enabled. I have 2 identical hard drives. They are Maxtor 80Gb 7200RPM ATA133 drives which are S.M.A.R.T. capable. Only the primary drive (master on the primary IDE) displays S.M.A.R.T values in SpeedFan. The other drive is set as a slave on the secondary IDE (my CD-R-RW is set as the master on the secondary IDE).
There have sure been a lot of wierd things about this motherboard. Thank you everyone for your input so far. Still need more help!!
John

K7T266 Pro (ver 1.0) fasttrack 100 HD recognition ( 128GB)

Hi,
I've a K7T266 Pro (version 1.0) mobo, bios 1.9, with a Fasttrack 100 Lite controller on it (bios ver 1.31M).I bought a new maxtor hd of 160 gb, but the fasttrack controller won't recognize it right (131GB), so windows does recognize it wrongly too.
If I connect the disc to the primary/secondary ide controller (non promise) then i can format it at 160GB. Although the promise controller still thinks it's a 131GB disk, windows will still see it at 160GB (although i don't know if it will keep on working: almost no data on disk yet).
I'm wondering how to resolve this problem. I saw a bios update with a solution to this problem with the K7T266 Pro 2, so will there become one for ver 1.0? Or is there already a solution?
Many tnx in Advance,
Ralf

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If I connect the disc to the primary/secondary ide controller (non promise) then i can format it at 160GB....windows will still see it at 160GB
Found >this.
The guy who started the thread had the same problem. Miti made a special bios for him but it didn't work.
Looks like there is no solution so far.

CoolerMaster CP5-7JD1B and K7T266 PRO

Hi,
The other day I installed a AMD XP2000+ with my K7T266 PRO mainbord (MS-6380). Together with the new cpu I installed a new heatsink/fan; the CoolerMaster CP5-7JD1B. Works perfect but... when starting the computer I'm getting a bios message that the fan isn't detected working and I can choose between shut down or not. But the fan is working.... Anyone any idea why this is happening ?
By the way: PCAlert and Fuzzylogic show the fan working properly and the message isn't displayed when I restart (ctrl-alt-del) the computer.

i should ingnore that.
its safe trust me
the BIOS of your mobo detect a cpu fan that runs minimum of 3000rpm.
your cpu fan is running below the 3000rpm.
thats why.
i should go into BIOS and disable the cpu fan detection at the 'hardware monitor' menu (where you see the temps).
i have that too.

MSI K7T266 Pro-RU

I am using a Msi K7T266 Pro-Ru m.b. I do not seem to be able to install windows Xp on this system.
When I make a primary partition and boot Xp from Cd windows set up starts loading and after about 60 s the screen turns black with a flashing cursor!
On the same partition it is not a problem to install W98se.
I flashed the Bios in order for the mb to recognize my Athlon 2000(version 07.00T/11/30/2001).
Other hardware: 3D prophet 8500 LE/128 Mb
A open 52 speed CD Rom
A open 300 Watt voeding
WD 153 BA(7200 rpm)
256 Mb Dane Elec DDR (PC2100).
Anyone an idea?
Hans.

Memory seems okee, someone suggested that the VGA adapter is the problem, si I am going to find out.
One problem remains: my motherboard doesnot seem to be able to hold the year; time and date is okay, but after one day, I find for example 2007, the next 2001 ans so one?
Is this a known phenomena?
Hans.

USB problem with K7T266-Pro

I have an USB problem with Logitech Cordless Wingman Gamepad. I have dowloaded the newest version of logitech gamepad, and the VIA drivers for motherboard K7T266-pro. I also tried to install the USB filter rc1, but the problem remains.
Here is how the problem occur:
1. On start up, the gamepad is detected and ready to use.
2. While I am playing a game, the usb device is reconnecting a lot. I turned of the "Allow this device to turn off to save power" in device manager under all USB root hub. But the problem remains.
3. After a while, when I have been playing for a while, the gamepad turns off, and the usb device is not recognized error message appears. Under device manager I now have a Unknown Device under USB.
4. To get it function again I have to restart the computer.
Anybody who knows the answer for this ?

I have a similar problem but with my Logitech optical mouse. It's also using the usb port and it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting the device in Win XP. I use to have Win2000 and I experienced the problem but not as often as now. Also in Win2000 there wasn't an annoying sound when a device would connect and reconnect, and not to mention when your playing a game and the mouse quits for 1/2 a second, really annoying! Sometimes it will quit completely and I have to either physically reconnect it or reboot to get it working again.
I have recently tried fixing the problem:
a) I flashed my old Bios and put in ver 1.9 from this site
b) I've updated the Via 4in1 drivers
c) I've updated the mouse drivers that come from Logitech.
None of these updates helped. I've taken my mouse to work to see if it does the same thing, but so far so good. My pc at work is running Win2000 but different MB. I don't think there is anything wrong with the mouse. Although I haven't tried using the PS/2 adapter that came with it and see if it behaves the same way. I have a feeling the mouse will work fine, but kinda sucks cause I have usb and I have to revert back to PS/2 just so it works properly.
I've read on the Via Hardware forum some people having the same problem but with an Abit board. They changed something in their Bios to resolve it. If anyone has any ideas, maybe changing something in the Bios that has to do with the usb ports, I would greatly appreciate it.

K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) Issue

Hello all
This problem has been bugging me for quite some time now;
When I start any Games/movies/Dxdiag or something similar that is beeing used by my GFX card my pc hangs up and afterward it reboots. When I boot up agin in Windows it says that my GFX card was the reason why the system rebooted
My Computer specs are:
nVIDIA TNT2 Riva vanta 32mb
512 MB DDR RAM pc 2100 (Have tryed memtest86)
AMD 1500+
K7T266 Pro (MS-6380)
Regards
Thomas

Had the same trouble with my old card. The thing wont work on new motherboards with the latest nvidia drivers because the AGP port speed is too fast for the card. You can fix it by disabling the vertical sync but that just makes the system unstable. Roll back to the 46 driver, I think that's the one dated october 2003. That driver seems to work good with those cards or use the original driver it came with. If you still can't get it to work it might be a good idea to look at updating to a video card that can handle 8x AGP.

K7T266 Pro won't power on

I have a new (used) K7T266 Pro that won't power on. Could this be caused by JBAT1 being in the clear position? The manual shows JBAT1 but the board actually has two jumpers on it right next to each other. Can't tell which one is JBAT1. What does the other jumper do? It's not listed in the manual. I tried with working Athlon XP 1600+ and PC2100 RAM. I also tried with no CPU and no RAM. Thought I'd at least get some beeps. No luck. Any ideas?

Quote from: zillafan on 27-October-06, 03:00:15
Thanks for the info. The board has two seperate jumper blocks on it. Both with 3 pins. They are very close to each other. The manual only references one jumper though (JBAT1) By looking at the board it hard to tell which one is JBAT1. Not sure what the other one does.
Thanks again.
It is often very difficult to see the markings on a board, especially if the board it mounted in the case. I have a pair of magnifying glasses and a high powered flashlight for just such occations. See if you can download the manual from MSI and open it on your computer. You may then be able to zoom in on the picture to see more details.
Some manuals even gray out the items that are not of much interest in order to highlight the ones that are. You can sometimes find the exact location from the various landmarks on the board. Usually it is easy to spot various chipsets, connectors, etc. to find your place. It is like reading a map, except for the roads, lol.

K7T266 Pro w/ Athlon XP 2000+

Specs:
K7T266 Pro
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512 MB DDR (2100)
80GB + 40GB (IDE)
GeForce 4 MX440
At first i used a Duron 1200 and run fine, but not fast enough. I bought myself an Athlon XP 2000+ that came from an other fine running machine. I've updated my bios so it would support that processor. I've installed the 2000+. I set my fsb to 133. The motheboard boots. While WinXP starts i get an Bluescreen, not a defined error, just an 'error' (micersooooft...). Even when i try to install WinXP, i get errors (bluescreens) When i manually set the fsb to 133 and my multiplyer to 12.5 (to get the 1667 for 2000+) the motherboard doesn't even boot.
this is a generated html page of my system.
http://users.skynet.be/fa006592/index.html
Plz suggestions ? i just want the 1667 run like it should be.

Too much APIC, but many suggests this idea:
"Although I'm not entirely clear on the a c o m p l e t e l y fresh installation of Windows XP is required (with APIC mode disabled)."
Here is something to read, if you like. http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/13533/
But again, I want to know more about the error message.
Are your temps high?
This is an idea of a BSOD for APIC:
reading boot............
probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 39M a20=on]
disk fd0 hd0*
>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 1.26
boot>
booting fd0a:/bsd: 1220608+1916928 (......)
{Following is white on blue}
Copyright (c) 1995-2000 OpenBSD. ALl rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org
OpenBSD 2.8 (RAMDISK) #182: Mon Nov 6 11:13:39 MST 2000
deraadtopenbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK
cpu0: F00F bug workaround installed
cpu0: Intel Pentium(P54C) ("GunuineIntel" 586-class) 133 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8
real mem = 41529344(40556K)
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 found at 0xf0000[0x1000]
pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 4 interrupt routing table entries
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
WARNING: can't reserve area for I/O APIC
WARNING: can't reserve area for Local APIC
pci0 at mainbus0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82437FX(Triton)" rev 0x02
"Intel 82371FB (Triton) PCI-ISA" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not
confugured
"Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430" rev 0x47 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured
isa0 at mainbus0
isadma0 at isa0

K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) v1.0 with IBM 180GXP/180 GB drive

Hi,
I'm thinking about buying one of the new IBM Deskstar 180GXP hard disks and I'd like to go for the 180GB version.
Question is, wether my board K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) v1.0 with latest bios v1.9 will support the large drive 100%.
I read in the changelog for the bios about the support for the Maxtor 160 GB drive but is somebody actually using a disk larger than 128 GB, that might require 48 bit adressing with the MS-6380 (it's the old version 1.0 I'm talking about) and has more than 137 GB on data on it without noticeable problems? I couldn't find any info about this in the forums or on the net.
Thanks in advance for your help.
G. Freeman

Hello Assaf,
Thank you for your note.
Just for the archives: I bought the 180GB IBM-disk and it's working without any problems. The 1.9 BIOS is fine and Windows recognizes the drive as well. Only thing I had to do was to update the VIA 4-in-1 drivers and enable Big LBA support in Windows 2000, as described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article #305098. After a reboot Windows recognized the complete disk (before only ~128 GB).
After some hours of testing (bit by bit writing and reading on the whole disk and some 'WinBenching') I installed Windows 2000 and it's running very well so far.
Anyway, others might be better off with an IDE controller for Windows 98/ME or NT4.
G. Freeman

G4MX440-T on K7T266 Pro

This is a strange one.
This VGA card works on an ASUS P4B533 and on an MS-6309. BUT...
fails to post on a K7T266 Pro Ver 1.0
and fails to post on a K7T266 Pro2 RU
A GF2MX400 works fine on both the 266's
I think I am getting mad......
the Two Failing systems were striped down to:
xp1800 CPU
512Mb DDR One stick
the offending card. GF4MX440-T
a 300w supply (same supply was used with the p4)
latest BIOS on all units.
Drivers irrelevent as no post....
any ideas...
anyone..

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Originally posted by Bergmania
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and does the mobo ms-6380 (k7t266 pro2) provide ENOUGH power to the AGP slot FOR the GF4 Ti 4200/4400/4600???
GeForce4 TI works.. the Geforce4 MX is a lemon anyways, get a GeForce3 or a Radeon 8500 instead..
I have to disagree, I had the oportunity to test the 8500 head to head against the GF4MX440 on both a
P4 1.6 and an XP1800+
the P4 was an 845 chipset and VIA266A for the AMD
the GF4MX left the ATI in the dust in both cases and at less $$$$ My suppliers show the lowest config of an 8500 to be about $175.00c and the GF4MX440 to be $125.00c there is only one GF3 still availible and its way outa reach 500+ some capture etc etc setup.
The 8500 has 128mb the GF4 64 and the ATI has a few more features in bump maping etc. but the GF4 beat its ass anyhow.
3dm scores:
P4 ATI8500=8752
P4 GF4MX440=9127
AMD ATI8500=9213
AMD GF4MX=10091
Systems both had 512-pc266-cas2
40 gig maxtor 7200
Win XP-Pro

Having trouble installing Radeon 7500 into K7T266 Pro

I am having all sorts of problems switching from my nVidia TNT 2 (MaxiGamer Cougar) video card to my new Radeon 7500. I am running an AMD Athlon 1400 with 512 MB DDR RAM.
I have the K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) chipset.
Can anyone think of what I am missing here. I think I have all the updates AGP drivers I need but I am not sure. I get lock ups prior to windows starting everytime. Even in safe mode.
Grrrr.

I ended having to format my c drive. Windows began doing some really funny things and then never started again with old or new video cards. I have re-installed windows but now sometimes my monitor stays blank when I start the computer. It is supposed to wake itself up but when it does, it has no picture. To solve this I shut down and flick the switch on the back and discharge everything. It then works again for another few times. Do you think this may be a problem with my power supply? I have an Enermax 350W. I bought it when I built the computer and figured it would have plenty of juice.
Thanks for you help

K7T266 Pro R and Geforce 2 GTS problem

Hello everyone. I have been experiencing a problem for some time now regarding lockups and crashes caused by my video card, which vary in severity depending on the driver version used. Since I'm using an MSI K7T266 Pro Raid mobo (version 1) I thought I'd post my question here.
The exact problem depends on the driver version. Using any Nvidia Detonator drivers at version 40 or newer, my system becomes extremely unstable. On first booting everything seems fine, however if I try to open my Geforce display properties the Windows freezes during the redraw of the display properties window, which goes blank. Sometimes I can call up Close Programs Dialog, which shows DDHELP in the list, and [not responding]. I've never actually gotten an error message from DDHELP or any other error message -- perhaps the computer jams too hard for Windows to get one up. I've seen reports around the Net about DDHELP problems from things like DirectX 8.1, but they're never quite like my problem. The problem is identical on DirectX 8.0, 8.1, and on 9.0.
No matter what I try to do in Windows with these drivers installed, the computer will lock up in seconds. For example, if I then open IE 5.5, I might be able to get as far as a page or two before the similar thing happens: during the window redraw the computer locks up (usually with a blank or partially-redrawn window), sometimes causing the mouse to lock and sometimes not, and then if I can get the Close Program Dialog open DDHELP has appeared and is Not Responding.
The most stable driver version I've found so far is 29.42, which does not cause the lockup above and never causes DDHELP to appear. However, it is quite unstable as well, and causes Windows to lock up sporadically during 2D window redraws in various programs. For example, when calling up a Save Document dialog or when opening a pulldown menu the program will lock either before any of the redraw becomes visible on screen or when the new dialog box is "skeletal", only partially drawn. Sometimes the crash is severe enough that I have to do a cold restart on my system.
The other problem is that sporadically garbage blocks will appear in portions of my screen, like old windows and color bands popping up that do not refresh. This often happens to me in Photoshop 6, and happens usually when I'm scrolling down a window or something.
These problems with version 29.42 all appear to be 2d window-drawing related. I do not have any problems with 3d games with 29.42. However, the new reference drivers are so unstable on my system that I can't even try to open them.
With 29.42, the most stable drivers I've found so far, some kind of lockup due to redrawing windows almost always occurs within an hour (sometimes minutes) of booting up.
For what it's worth, dxdiag tests just fine.
I was hoping someone could help me figure out what's causing the trouble, what driver I should use, and how to resolve it. If possible, I'd really like to use the newer drivers as I've been told they're much faster. In any event, I hate having such an unstable system where lockups could occur at any moment!
Here's the lowdown of my system:
-MSI K7T266 Pro Raid [1] mobo (MS-6380)
AMIBIOS date: 5/1/2001
VIA 4in1 drivers version 4.45
ACPI power management disabled
PnP Aware OS enabled
-256 meg PC2100 SDRAM with 266 mhz FSB
2.5 cas latency
-AMD Athlon 1.33 gb with 266 mhz FSB
-Asus AGP-V7700 (Geforce 2 GTS) 32 mb
AGP 4X, Fast Write enabled, Aperture size 128 mb
current drivers: Nvidia reference 29.42 (also 40+)
on IRQ11 (shares with my Ethernet card)
BIOS version 2.15.01.14
-Windows 98SE
-DirectX 9.0 (also tried 8.1 etc)
-Soundblaster Live! 5.1 on slot 3, drivers from 5/2002
-Viewsonic PF790 monitor
-C drive is 30gb Western Digital 7200rpm, FAT32
-D drive is Raid 0 striped array, pair of 40gb 7200rpm
-Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet Adapter on slot 5
-no memory resident programs on loadup except for WinPoET, Explorer, Systray
If there's anything I've left out that could help, let me know!
Thanks to anyone in advance,
Raphael Tehan

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Originally posted by backwoodz
You should post this in the VIA forums........If was me I would first swap the nic card to a differnt slot and try to stop the sharing of videos irq.....secondly try relaxing your memory timings to the most laxed setting
Thanks, I realized after posting this was the incorrect forum. I've put it in the VIA Socket A boards area, and also am trying the Via Arena forums.
Are you talking about my mainboard or graphics card memory?
Here's what I've got set under Advanced Chipset:
Configue SDRAM timing by: SPD
SDRAM Frequency: HCLK
SDRAM CAS# Latency: 2.5
SDRAM Bank Interleave: disabled
SDRAM 1T command: enabled
AGP mode: 4x
AGP comp driving: auto
Manual AGP comp. driving: CB
AGP Fast Write: enabled
AGP Read Synchronization: disabled
AGP aperture size: 128 mb
Do any of these settings seem problematic to you?
Thanks.

K7T266 Pro Raid and Geforce 2 GTS problem

(Originally posted to wrong group)
Hello everyone. I have been experiencing a problem for some time now regarding lockups and crashes caused by my video card, which vary in severity depending on the driver version used. Since I'm using an MSI K7T266 Pro Raid mobo (version 1) I thought I'd post my question here.
The exact problem depends on the driver version. Using any Nvidia Detonator drivers at version 40 or newer, my system becomes extremely unstable. On first booting everything seems fine, however if I try to open my Geforce display properties the Windows freezes during the redraw of the display properties window, which goes blank. Sometimes I can call up Close Programs Dialog, which shows DDHELP in the list, and [not responding]. I've never actually gotten an error message from DDHELP or any other error message -- perhaps the computer jams too hard for Windows to get one up. I've seen reports around the Net about DDHELP problems from things like DirectX 8.1, but they're never quite like my problem. The problem is identical on DirectX 8.0, 8.1, and on 9.0.
No matter what I try to do in Windows with these drivers installed, the computer will lock up in seconds. For example, if I then open IE 5.5, I might be able to get as far as a page or two before the similar thing happens: during the window redraw the computer locks up (usually with a blank or partially-redrawn window), sometimes causing the mouse to lock and sometimes not, and then if I can get the Close Program Dialog open DDHELP has appeared and is Not Responding.
The most stable driver version I've found so far is 29.42, which does not cause the lockup above and never causes DDHELP to appear. However, it is quite unstable as well, and causes Windows to lock up sporadically during 2D window redraws in various programs. For example, when calling up a Save Document dialog or when opening a pulldown menu the program will lock either before any of the redraw becomes visible on screen or when the new dialog box is "skeletal", only partially drawn. Sometimes the crash is severe enough that I have to do a cold restart on my system.
The other problem is that sporadically garbage blocks will appear in portions of my screen, like old windows and color bands popping up that do not refresh. This often happens to me in Photoshop 6, and happens usually when I'm scrolling down a window or something.
These problems with version 29.42 all appear to be 2d window-drawing related. I do not have any problems with 3d games with 29.42. However, the new reference drivers are so unstable on my system that I can't even try to open them.
With 29.42, the most stable drivers I've found so far, some kind of lockup due to redrawing windows almost always occurs within an hour (sometimes minutes) of booting up.
For what it's worth, dxdiag tests just fine.
I was hoping someone could help me figure out what's causing the trouble, what driver I should use, and how to resolve it. If possible, I'd really like to use the newer drivers as I've been told they're much faster. In any event, I hate having such an unstable system where lockups could occur at any moment!
Here's the lowdown of my system:
-MSI K7T266 Pro Raid [1] mobo (MS-6380)
AMIBIOS date: 5/1/2001
VIA 4in1 drivers version 4.45
ACPI power management disabled
PnP Aware OS enabled
-256 meg PC2100 SDRAM with 266 mhz FSB
2.5 cas latency
-AMD Athlon 1.33 gb with 266 mhz FSB
-Asus AGP-V7700 (Geforce 2 GTS) 32 mb
AGP 4X, Fast Write enabled, Aperture size 128 mb
current drivers: Nvidia reference 29.42 (also 40+)
on IRQ11 (shares with my Ethernet card)
BIOS version 2.15.01.14
-Windows 98SE
-DirectX 9.0 (also tried 8.1 etc)
-Soundblaster Live! 5.1 on slot 3, drivers from 5/2002
-Viewsonic PF790 monitor
-C drive is 30gb Western Digital 7200rpm, FAT32
-D drive is Raid 0 striped array, pair of 40gb 7200rpm
-Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet Adapter on slot 5
-no memory resident programs on loadup except for WinPoET, Explorer, Systray
If there's anything I've left out that could help, let me know!
Thanks to anyone in advance,
Raphael Tehan

Quote
Originally posted by backwoodz
You should post this in the VIA forums........If was me I would first swap the nic card to a differnt slot and try to stop the sharing of videos irq.....secondly try relaxing your memory timings to the most laxed setting
Thanks, I realized after posting this was the incorrect forum. I've put it in the VIA Socket A boards area, and also am trying the Via Arena forums.
Are you talking about my mainboard or graphics card memory?
Here's what I've got set under Advanced Chipset:
Configue SDRAM timing by: SPD
SDRAM Frequency: HCLK
SDRAM CAS# Latency: 2.5
SDRAM Bank Interleave: disabled
SDRAM 1T command: enabled
AGP mode: 4x
AGP comp driving: auto
Manual AGP comp. driving: CB
AGP Fast Write: enabled
AGP Read Synchronization: disabled
AGP aperture size: 128 mb
Do any of these settings seem problematic to you?
Thanks.

[VIA] K7T266 PRO- RU motherboard: Windows XP on a RAID ARRAY (fasttrak100 LITE)

Hi All!
I have a
MSI K7T266 PRO- RU motherboard, BIOS is the latest, official from MSI website,
Problem short description: Windows XP (sp1 or sp2 english, I tried both)
will not install when I set 2 x 40 Gig = ~80 Gig Stripe Array.
detailed description:
motherboard K7T266 PRO- RU BIOS 1.9 AMI BIOS.
AMD ATHLON XP 1700 + "Palomino" microprocessor, at default speeds.
one piece of 512 PC 3200 RAM, can tell details later.
Power supply: 400 W CODEGEN model : 300X.
HDD-s : one IBM deskstar, fully functional, and a SEAGATE barracuda. seagate SEATOOLS, IBM DFT 32 no errors both.
I set in the FASTTRAK 100 LITE "PDC20276R" (written on the chip) bios a STRIPE array. Powerquest drive magic , or the Windows XP CD handles it fine , as a 80 gig disk.
I downloaded ALL available versions of the FASTTAK 100 LITE driver from the MSI website.
(only tried: MSI driver FASTTRAK 100 lite, the only available driver on the MSI website, and various drivers from www.promise.com) ( http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=15&category=driver&os=0&go=GO ) (but I guess they WONT support my raid controller on the motherboard)
Windows XP CD , booting, Press F6 for additional RAID /SCSI drivers, I put in the floppy, choose WinXP fasttrak lite driver, windows continues, even formatting the 80 GIG disk, copy files- access the FASTTRAK.SYS driver, EITHER it says: no fixed disk present, press F3 to exit windows setup, or windows setup continues, copies files, reboots, and then STOP ERROR
http://www.martin555.dyndns.org/stop.jpg
please, help me with the following:
how to install XP on a raid array.
is it worth, will it be little bit faster disk load times etc?
is it secure if I trust the HDD-s?
any clue, how to overclock the AMD 1700+ athlon XP palomino to its maximum, but still stability?
AND : I read a lot about some MOD-ded BIOS called " KUNIBERT" , which makes the LITE raid to a FULL RAID and some other extras? where to get it and what to do?
email me if you can martin5 "at" freemail.hu
THANKS !

pardon me, dump? my english is not very perfect.. you mean to trow away, replace to something better, more stable power supply, more powerful?
you must see... first I would like to resolve the "installing XP on a raid array" problem,( how is it possible, is it worth, will it speed up hard disk access and load times... etc... ) and after that maybe I will OC the machine...
it is now , with a 8 cm ventillator and a large aluminium cooler 39 Celsius IDLE and goes to 45 Celsius during EVEREST benchmarking test. (temperatures on 1700+ default setting and OC-'d to 1900+. just experiencing with it. ) (I saw the toms hardware guide movie , smoking processors..)
cheers, Marton.

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