Question about KT3 Ultra 2

Hi all,
I am currently running the KT3 Ultra 2 board with the Via 333 chipset, and I want to get a new processor. The processor i'm looking at is the AMD Athlon XP 2500+ with the Barton Core, but I'm not sure if my board supports this specific chip. Anyone know if it does? Thanks.

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Originally posted by Reijin
Thanks very much!
Hmm, guess this board can't run it at 333 FSB...ah well.
wat do you mean it cant...
the only athlons that mobo cant run are the 400Mhz FSB bartons
i have that exact mobo and am using a 333 FSB 2700+, works fine as well
the 2500+ will work fine
might need to flash yer bios though

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Two (too much?) newbies questions about KT3 Ultra 2

Goodmorning all.
I've bought a KT3 Ultra2 (MS-6380E) motherboard and i've two questions about it.
First of all I need to buy the optional S-Bracket to use my SPDif sound sistem... where can i buy it in Italy or in Internet?
In second i've to know the highest processor my MB support becouse i have to upgrade my PC.
Can U help me?
Tha a lot and sorry for disturb.
Hallo.

Hello,
question 2, not sure about question 1,
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=341&kind=1
You may need this BIOS update too.
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=341&kind=1

Questions about KT3 Ultra/Ultra2

First: what's the difference between the Ultra and Ultra2 (I'm talking the raid version of each)? The specs are nearly idtentical. The only difference I saw was more USB2 support in the Ultra2.
Second: the RAID versions have an IDE3 and 4. The specs say they support a maximum of four IDE devices. Yet 2 on IDE1 + 2 on IDE2 + 1 on IDE3 + 1 on IDE4 = 6 devices. Does using IDE3 and 4 disable IDE1 or something? (I'm assuming from the manual that IDE3 and 4 don't support a master and slave on each, hence the one device each above.)
Third: anandtech.com found the Ultra was stable with all of its memory banks filled (a rarity in the MBs reviewed). Does the Ultra2 share this distinction?
Four: both the Ultra and Ultra2 (all models, but especially the RAID versions) have support for the thermal diode in the Athlon XP, right?
Five: anyone know when MBs based on the KT400 are due out?

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It also has full bluetooth functionality.
The Ultra2-BR is just shipped with the BT module.. and if you use it you loose 1 USB2 connector..
Reading the manuals..
Ultra2
Clock Generator
100/133 MHz clocks are supported.
Ultra
Clock Generator
100/133/166MHz clocks are supported.
The ultra2 can't use PC2700 ??! or just a typo..

Bios Question? KT3-Ultra

I bought this board for a friend's computer for, and I hate to admit it, one main reason: It was red... His case is solid acrylic and all his fans are red led, and his cables red, and his cpu fan red, and so on and so forth....His decision, not mine. Anyway, the specs on the board stated it would go up to a 2600+ or better, so I felt justified in buying a 2200+ thiinking I could run it as such. WRONG! The motherboard turned out to be a 6380e but of fujitsu-seimmens fame. I know that I cannont upgrade the current bios chip of Phoenix type, with the MSI AMI type bios. What I was wondering if it would be possible to get a bios chip off of a real 6380e flashed with any version of the MSI bios,(I can upgrade it myself after that) and just switch the 2 out? The boards are identical in every way except for the bios chip.....I don't see a problem in doing this, but really don't know if it is an option......

I think it was an old Fujitsu Siemmens board as with some research I did it looks like they purchased a bunch to use in some computers but scrapped the design and sold it off. The Fujitsu-Siemmens page and the HP page don't have a 6380 motherboard at all, they have similar ones, but they are all running the kt266a chipset whereas the one I purchased is running the kt300. As for flashing the chip with original bios I don't see how that could be done. The original bios is made by ami......the chip on the board is a phoenix/award. It boots with the word award bios, the file sizes when you go to flash, (though I have never done it completely) don't match. Or at least I don't think that they did......I can't remember, I just know that the program gave me some interesting errors and I didn't want to proceed because of them.

KT3 Ultra Deluxe Processor Upgrade Question

I purchased a Computer, custom built by a local shop(before I got into the spyware/virus removal business and woulda possibly tried to build my own) a few years back, and it has been a great system except that now the one online game I play, Everquest, is running slow when 30+ players are on the screen. Other friends with brand new computers experience no lag/choppyness... The lag is only experienced with multiple players on screen.
With some friends, we have decided that it is not my Video card or anything else in the system, but the processor that needs upgrading.
I have :
AMD AthlonXP 1800(1507mhz in bios i think)
MSI KT3 Ultra Deluxe(VIA KT333 chipset based) (it has RAID, so im assuming the ARU model)
1024mb PC2100 or PC2700 ram..(not sure how to check)
NVidia GeforceFX5500 256mb Video
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy
Maxtor 7200rpm 40gb hard drive on Raid IDEs(set as dummy IDEs, not RAID)
Maxtor 7200rpm 80gb hard drive on Raid IDEs(set as dummy IDEs, not RAID)
Lite on 16x DVD-Rom drive(Primary IDE master)
Plextor 8/4/4/2/12 DVD-RW PX-708A(Secondary IDE Master)
Originally windows98 installed by the store.
Reformatted twice and Windows 2000 installed presently.
a SMC $10 junk NIC that I will be replacing with a 3com cause im tired of it after 2months(my good netgear FA311 went bad)
What I am wanting a definite answer on, is whether I can stick a 2600mhz, 333 Barton Athlon XP in this.
I have searched the forums and most topics say yes/no... 50/50... so im confused.
Is it possible to put the 2600 in there... will that even help... on player movement/etc in the game..(a friend with a similar system and a Radeon X800 Pro 256mb sees no difference and has similar lag to me(only in large player raids with multiple players on screen))
I am just trying to see if I can spend $100 to throw a Barton 333 2600mhz in here and I think that should help it..
or if I have to spend $250+ to possibly get a new PS, ram, processor/mobo the works.
So.. is it possible?
How much work would be put into it, besides
Turn system off, unscrew the fan/heatsink, pop the processor out
put the new processor in.
Put the new heatsink/fan on
start the system?
Or is there going to be alot of..... BIOS work involved.

Friend has very similar system
1700 AthlonXP
1gig ram
ATI Radeon X800 256mb(a premier card I thought? as in performance) Pro
He experiences lag/choppiness same as me, at times with 30+ users on the screen/game.
I had read that officially Barton was impossible, im just asking if there is anyway to put a barton on it and will it work/how much work will it end up needing.
266mhz 2600s arent available anywhere I look.... no 266mhz is actually..
So Im just fearing ill need to upgrade the entire motherboard too.. and may be better off getting a new barebones kit.
Its not gradual... its just when 30 players/characters are on the screen.... especially when they move... it gets choppy, take the number down to 10... and its lag free/choppy free.
5v and 3.3v = 245 max watts
5v, 3.3v and 12v = 380 max watts
115/230 Volts
3.3=28A
5=40A
12=18A
The NIC is being ordered as im typing this... hopefully a 3com NIC will provide better power than a SMC 10$ replacement for my netgear FA311...
It has to be either the NIC or the processor.
The reason for this im just saying.. is my friend has sound blaster audigy, similar processor(1700), cheap nic, a MSI mobo, not sure if its Ultra3 or not... and has very similar issues to me, despite throwing $350 down on that Radeon X800 256mb Pro, supposedly the best video card you can get.
It didnt relieve hardly any of his lag... and hes quite.... happy about it... /sarcasm

KT3 Ultra BIOS problem + question

Hi
after switchin on the CPU Halt command detection. My PC beeps 3 times after shutting down. D-LED says memory problem. When I turn off the PSU and after a while turn it on, everything is OK and PC boots normally. Does anyone know the reason of the beeping??
Question: has somebody tried (somebody very rich to afford buying Barton) Barton (or T-Bred FSB333) processor on KT3 Ultra??
thx a lot )

Hi,
Switching on CPU HALT Command will make your system unstable. That's the message of the beeps.
You should be able to improve this by using a better PSU. Otherwise, there is no reason of using CPU HALT command as there are many software CPU Coolers you can get.

KT3- Ultra aru board (ms-6380e series) processor question

Ok i'm running a msi kt3 ultra aru motherboard with bios version 5.7
looking at the cpu charts i'm slightly confused. What I'm wondering is can I run an athlon 3000 processor on this board? I know its going to raise the bus speed up but I'm running pc2700 ram right now so I dont see that being a problem.
anyone either running a newer processor on this board, or who would know the answer, it would be appreciated....
thx!

You guys rock. Thanks for the feedback. haven't made the purchase yet, got a friend that manages a compusa thats supposed to be getting me a deal, we'll see I guess....
THANKS AGAIN!!!

KT3 Ultra 2 question

Does KT3 Ultra 2 support 48bit lba? If not does it with any bios updates or is it completely doomed?
I am trying to decide weather I'm gonna buy a 200gb drive for my fileserver(which is running an old kt3 ultra 2), or a 200gb sata for my main machine. It all depends on the 48bit lba(aka. support for drives over 137gb).

Yes it does according to this test report:-http://www.msi.com.tw/html/products/mainboard/testreport_pdf/6380E_Ultra2/hd.pdf However you do need to ensure that the operating system you use supports it as well.

MSI KT3 Ultra-Aru (KT333) and Duron Applebred??

Hi, welcome,willkommen,witajcie,dobry den, ... (I know this word in 11 languages)
I have MSI KT3 Ultra-Aru (KT333) and J want to buy AMD Duron 1800MHz(Applebred).
Does my motherboard support that processor?? It will work without problems??

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Originally posted by osnavi
pk.master: It doesn't make any sense to discuss about the answer to your question. If MSI says your Mobo doesn't support that CPU and people who know what they say, agree with that, Why argue ? If you want, go and buy it, as at last you are the one to decide what to do.-
in msi website the 333 fsb cpus are not supported too in kt3 ultra-ultra aru but they still work... so it make sense to discuss if applebred work or not in those mobos.

PC Component power requirements on a KT3 Ultra-ARU: ANSWERS - At last

G'Day Folk,
First, my PC specs are as below in my sig.
Second, I know this is an old motherboard, but I would like to keep it going, and make the best of it for another year or so. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and would help two other users!
Symptoms:
Minor stability and performance issues, mostly in games, simulators, or doing high resolution photographics processing. I bought three machines with similar specs in 2002, for my brother, father, and myself. Each has had some hard to nail down, intermittent problems. My brother's PC has had a new motherboard and processor after failure of the KT3, but still has some niggling problems. He also has an XP 2600+ running at 65C !
More recently I have been able to reliably reproduce graphics problems in Empire Earth II, Serious Sam, and Halo. Specifically, I can create the problem in an Empire Earth II game by running a saved game and looking at a specific spot on the map. The screen shows tearing, and eventually goes black, returning to normal dispaly when I move to a different part of the map. In certain Halo games I could cause the problem by looking in a specific direction. I assume this is because what is being displayed is using different or more graphics processing features, although it is not apparent what they may be from the content of the view.
Being able to reliably reproduce the problem allowed me to actually analyse the cause.
Diagnosis:
After upgrading all drivers, and trying everything I could think of, as well as everything I could find on the web, especially in this forum, I have narrowed the problem down to the power supply. The clincher for me is that when I create the problem the 3.3Volt power supply line (rail) drops to as low as 2.45Volts! The +5V line also fluctuates and drops as low as 4.81Volt. This was measured using MBM5 and MBM5 Log. The usual voltages reported by MBM5 at idle are +3.3V rail = 2.99 to 3.01 Volt, +5V rail = 4.92 to 4.95 Volt.
Okay, so the +5V rail stays in spec (just), but the +3.3V rail is out of spec (+/- 5%) even at idle. It should be at least 3.135Volt.
I checked the voltages with and without the problem using an analogue volt meter, as software voltage readings are often low. The volt meter is a little slow to respond to the voltage fluctuations, but did confirm that at idle the +3.3V rail was less than 3.1Volt (out of spec), and with the problem occuring, dropped at least to 2.8Volt.
As you can see below my power supply should be able to handle all I throw at it. Topower isn't the greatest brand, but it does receive "satisfactory" in reviews on Tom's Hardware and such. I suspect it (and my brother's and father's) has always been weak, although age, or more powerful games may be highlighting the problem.
Solution:
Get a new power supply.
Not so simple these days, particularly if you want to upgrade in the future, with the move to powering components using the 12Volt rail. I want a power supply that will power my current +3.3V and +5V hungry motherboard, plus future 12V requirements, if possible. So I am doing a Power Audit of my PC, hence . . .
Questions:
I have collected power requirements for most of my components in Ampere by supply voltage. However, details are hard to lock down. I'll jump straight into specific questions.
1. The Athlon XP 2100+ draws a maximum of 89.9Watts into the Voltage Regulator Module (VRM), which converts it to the CPU supply voltage of 1.75Volt. (About 51Amps. Ouch!) If this is sourced from the +12V rail as suggested by the AMD Athlon Desktop Builders Guide, then this would be 7.49Amp, and would not effect the +3.3V and +5V rails unless the total power capacity of the supply is being exceeded. However, the CPU power source was changed from the +3.3V and +5V lines to the +12V lines around the time of the XP2100+. I don't know what MSI did on my motherboard.
Can anyone confirm which voltage rail is used to power the XP 2100+ on the KT3 Ultra ARU motherboard?
2. I have found average power usages for motherboards of around 25 Watt on many web sites, but can't confirm the power used by the KT3. Does anyone know the maximum current (Amps) for each voltage rail from the power supply for this motherboard?
3. Memory power requirements also vary a lot on the web. I'm using 10Watt each on the +3.3V rail for two sticks of 512MB DDR Corsair. Can anybody confirm this, for the KT3? (10W per stick seems to have been the standard since 128MB sticks came out!)
4. I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 AGP graphics card. (Okay, it's not an MSI, but the power should be similar across brands.) There are several threads that suggest that this card uses lots of +3.3V and +5V power from the AGP slot. (Wonkanoby?) However, none give actual Amps for each rail. Anybody know?
5. In case anybody knows, I can't find actual power for an Audigy 2 ZS either. Any suggestions?
As modern power supplies tend to have reduced +3.3V and +5V capacity in favour of +12V, I need to be pretty sure of the actual requirements on these rails before buying a new supply. I could just "go and by the biggest Antec I can find and don't worry about it", but I might find that it has the same problems my existing one does.
All help greatly appreciated. Selection of a new PSU could fix three PCs, mine, my brother's, and my father's.
PS: My apologies to those I told that this was a great power supply. Well, it has great specs, and the problems observed couldn't be tied to it until recently. Bummer really.
PPS: Sorry for the long post, but it's an interesting, and important topic, isn't it?
UPDATE: See post on 1st March, 2006 for response from vendors and updated table of component requirements.
Here is a copy of my signature in case I change it in the future, just for context.
MSI KT3 Ultra ARU (MS-6380E V1.0), AMI BIOS 5.7
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ Palomino 1.73GHz @13 x 133 FSB
2x Corsair CMX-512-3000C2 512MB 2-2-2-5-1T @333MHz
Leadtek GeForce4 Ti 4600 Winfast A250 Ultra MyVIVO 128MB (AGP)
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
2x WD Caviar WD1200JB 120GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache,
each drive enclosed in a Scythe Silent Box Heatlane HDD Enclosure
CD&DVD Plextor PX320A & Pioneer DVR-A09P
Topower PSU 470W PFC 3.3+5V=235W +3.3V/26A, +5V/47A, +12V/28A
mCubed T-Balancer Fan Controller,
multiple quiet fans: Zalman, SilenX, Panaflo, Lian Li blower
Zalman CNPS6000-Cu & ZM-NB32J NB HS
~ 10-20C over ambient
Lian-Li PC-60 Case, WinXP ProSP2+

Try the link below, this will tell you what you need. After you added all you hardware and get the final power result add 50% to this and you will have the proper size P/S needed for your system. You can even make a list of future upgrades you want to do and that way you can see what P/S will work for you now in the present and what you would need in the future, just remember to add 50% to what ever total you add up.
For example, if the P/S calculator says you have a total draw of 279W then you would add 50% to this;
279+50%=418.5
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/index.jsp
Below I have pasted a piece that I made for determing P/S which may help you to;
Resets are a P/S issue and lock-ups are most likely due to your graphic card, with that said I will give you a table with which you can determine the proper P/S for your system and a little info just for info.
I must also add that never trust software to tell you your voltages, this includes the BIOs as the BIOs is just a piece of software. To properly check the voltage one must use a digi-VOM.
A 7200rpm HD draws around 20 watts, this 20 watts includes both the 5v & 12V rail.
HD and CD's generally are figured at 2 Amps per device, let’s brake this down some.
Spin-up: 12V x 1.3A + 5V x 650mA = 19W
Read/Write/Idle: 12V x 350mA + 5V x 700mA = 7.75W
Seek: 12V x 675mA + 5V x 725mA = 12W
Those would be typical for a 7200 rpm IDE drive. As you can see a HD requires more power at start-up then during actual operation. This is why sometimes a PC takes a few tries to start up before it will actually make a successful boot and once it boots to windows all seems well or sometimes a occasional restart, which would indicate a weak/ bad P/S.
Now to find the power used by the CPU you can check either AMD or Intel for the spec sheets on that CPU or you can follow this link that has tons of CPU ratings, CPU specs.
Some more basic mathematics… When a 12-volt circuit is drawing 10 amps, it is consuming 120 WATTS of electrical power. 12 Volts X 10 Amps = 120 WATTS.
This is the formula: P = E x I
P - Watt (power)
E – Voltage (electrical pressure)
I – Amperage (current flow)
Serial/PS-2 ports draw <35mA and if you have USB ports then they have a maximum of 500mA per port, again only if they are used- no use means no draw.
The PCI slots are allowed 5A of the +5V, 0.5A of the +12V and 7.6A of the 3.3V Max per slot, again that is if the slots are used. So if the serial ports, PS-2 and USB ports are being used you are looking at around 5A draw on the MB, which would be around 20 Watts.
So now we can add things up. (This is just an example of a basic system)
MB=20W
CPU= 60W, used as a norm.
HD=20W
CDRW=25W
DVD=20W
Graphic card=15W / newer GF4 and ATI 9000 and up= 35W
RAM 10 Watts per 128 MB
Network Card 5 Watts
Average per PCI Card 8 Watts
Total around 200W for this example.
Now this will fall on different rails and that is were things get tricky, because as you see in my above break down of the HD that a HD use's both the 12V & 5V rail. This is why it is important that the 12V rail be at least 18 Amps if you plan on having more then 1 HD and case fans. Then you have the 3.3V & 5V rails that need to be strong too, the 3.3v rail is actually not so important with newer DDR MB and today’s CPU’s as it is mainly supplying the PS-2 ports power as well as some device cards. Most newer MB use the 5v and 12v rails mainly to supply the demands of today’s devices.
Now this 200W is the bare min what is needed for things to run but in the real world you will want to add 50% to the 200W for your min P/S need, this allows room for spikes and heavy demands and a little head room to add hardware in the future.

Max "benefit" with KT3 ultra 2 and XP 333 cpu?

The KT3 ultra 2 board is based on the KT333 chipset and will support an XP 333Mhz(FSB) processor, but I'm a little confused about whether I can get the max performance out of an XP 333 chip with this mobo. I kind of remember seeing a discussion about this about a year ago when I bought my KT3 mobo and XP 1900+ 266(FSB) processor.
I guess my question basically is with a KT3 mobo and an XP chip with 333 FSB, which will be the "bottleneck"? Or are they really running at the same speed?
Thanks,
Chris

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Originally posted by 1wingman
The KT3 ultra 2 board is based on the KT333 chipset and will support an XP 333Mhz(FSB) processor, but I'm a little confused about whether I can get the max performance out of an XP 333 chip with this mobo. I kind of remember seeing a discussion about this about a year ago when I bought my KT3 mobo and XP 1900+ 266(FSB) processor.
I guess my question basically is with a KT3 mobo and an XP chip with 333 FSB, which will be the "bottleneck"? Or are they really running at the same speed?
Thanks,
Chris
the benefit would be that you can run you cpu at 333 along with your ram at 333 no bottle neck!!!
but with the 266 fsb processors if you ran your ram at 333 and cpu at 266 the cpu is is the bottle neck!!!

Warranty on MSI KT3 Ultra?

Hello!
Multi-part question:
1: How long (if any) does the warranty on a MSI KT3 Ultra mobo last?
2: If 8/03/02 is within that time period, how do I go about getting my $ back and/or an exchange?
My mobo shat itself about a half an hour ago and I think it's toast ;(
Thanks in advance
-ICEman

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Originally posted by Rob454
hehe, if its over 14days don't bother. I had a big arguement with there staff because they won't return a Palm Pilot after 16 days. LOL I end up eating it.
It's been just short of a YEAR and they took it back!
It didn't even have a box!
Aaannndd, they exchanged it for a MSI KT4V!
Booyah! I should do this more often :P

KT3 Ultra 2 + BF1942 problems

Hi guys, this is a question for anyone out there that has the KT3 ultra 2 and have tried playing Battlefield 1942. The rest of my specs are:
1900+ XP processor
256MB ram
radeon 7500 LE 64MB DDR
cable modem
The trouble is choppy game play. This occurs in single player mode as well as multi-player so I wouldn't really call it lag. In single player, most of the time the game starts out really choppy but smooths out within a few minutes and is fairly decent for the rest of that map. Multi-player is worse. It's very rare that I can connect and play without lag or a choppy frame rate even with ping times of around 60. It's very frustrating and I know from reading EA's forums that I'm not the only one experiencing this. I'm wondering though if there is anything I can do with my setup to make things better. I disable my firewall and anything else running in the system tray before playing with no luck. Any suggestions?

I enabled sound hardware acceleration from within the game. I'm not sure if it made much of a difference or not. It seemed to be a bit better though.
The bad thing is that I had 3 spontaneous reboots while playing the game spaced about 1 hour apart. :( I did change the memory timings in the bios. I set SDRAM freq to HCLK+33 (I've got 2700 memory). It was set to SPD.
I also set "PCI Delay Transaction" to disabled, it was enabled.
So I'm not sure which of these changes, if any, caused the reboots. The strange thing is that it only seems to be a problem while playing BF1942. I've left the PC on for a few hours doing nothing or web surfing and I've not had any reboots. Microsoft's error reporting thinks it's a device driver error, but doesn't know which one.
Anyone have any ideas?

KT3 Ultra(MS-6380E) Windows XP Compatibility...?

I had recently bought some new parts for my computer and everything seems to be compatible with each other even the store i bought the parts from told me everything is compatible. I checked the compatibility of the new parts ive bought and they are all "compatible" so i dont believe what i am about to say is a hardware/hardware related issue but something else. Im currently running windows 98se and eveerything is running fine. My mother board is KT3 Ultra(MS-6380E) and my CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 1800+. When I installed windows XP everything would work well for a while but when I would go to start shuntdown in XP the computer would more often restart itself than shut itself down. and sometimes when i booted it up again it would have some blue screen with a STOP error. I dont currently have what the stop ERRORS were butthey prevented me from getting back into windows XP at all. and sometimes the computer would say my mouse or keyboard is unplugged or not responding sod have to unplug them restart replug them in and hope for the best. Im wondering now what the heck is goin on here everything is compatible in windows98se and all my older(not so old) parts work in windows XP. Is there some special drivers I need to get to make the KT3 Ultra(MS-6380E) work properly with Windows XP I dont recall I installed any new drivers for it but should that really matter WinXP detects the latest drivers doesnt it? So anyway what is going on here I just want my computer that technically should work with Win XP to work with Win XP like it should. Please answer my loooooong post it would mean alot to me if I could get this issue figured out. any mroe hardware questions etc.. I can answer just email me at [email protected] or post behind this message. thank you for taking the time to read this.

Heres all my hardware:
Motherboard: MSI KT3 Ultra(MS-6380E)
RAM: -256mb DDR
Processor: -AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
Mouse: -Microsoft Opticle mouse USB and PS/2 Compatable. Product ID 53121-576-6286695-00000
Keyboard: -IBM Rapid acsess Keyboard Model# KB-9930
Monitor: -AS6S MPRII by TVM
Sound Card: -ESS Solo
-and Onboard soundcard
Graphics Card: -ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
ROM's: -Hitachi DVD-ROM GD-2500
-Matshita CD-RW CW-7585
Network Adapters: -SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1211TX)
My mouse is currently and always is plugged intot he normal mouse port.
BTW what are "WAKE settings" and legacey support?

KT3 Ultra 2 Keyboard lock-ups

I have a problem I haven't seen the answer to. Just built a PC with MSI KT3 Ultra 2, 2000XP processor, GeForce4 Ti 4200 64 MB vid card, 256MB, Windows ME. System has been stable for about 2 weeks now, but yesterday and today it has locked up the keyboard while web browsing (no other programs running). Not sure what is occurring. I have an intake and 2 exhaust fans and temps appear to be well with in acceptable ranges. After this occurs, windows will lock-up on reboot at the ME splash screen. Then sometimes, the pc wil reboot on the following restart fine. Other times, it locks up again with an illegal division error after the splash. No programs or hardware added lately that would have caused this.

The second system has a 330 watt enermax power supply. With the new system I put together, I put virtually the same board (MSI KT3 Ultra 2 with bluetooth and RAID), everything is the same as my first system (except the KT3 Ultra-ARU) and the stability is fine. So, I'm reasonably confident its not the power supply.

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