HELP! k7t266 pro2-u winxp install

Hi,
I have a problem with installation of winXP SP1 on my computer. First i got a blue screen in the first step of installation (windows loads drivers, then freezes). It said that acpi.sys is the problem. I disabled it and then the problem was irq not less... . Then i disabled
internal cache, system bios cacheable and shadowing options and installation started but the computer was too slow ( it took about an hour to copy the files on hard disk). After the installation was finished i put back the fields internal cache to writeback and c00 32k shadow to cached and left system bios cacheable on disabled ( i read in the manual that it might be a reason for system hangups) to speed it up. For a while it seemed like it was working ok, i installed the drivers, software... but tomorrow everything up. windows started to freeze when i tried to encode mp3's from audio cd's, when i tried to install new sofware...
I dont know what to do and don't want to disable internal cache because of the huge system slowdown...
Can anyone help !!!
my config is
amd athlon xp 1800+
microstar k7t266 pro2-u with lan
256mb kingston 266 ddr
maxtor 40gb ata133
teac w540e writer
nvidia g-force 2 mx400 64mb

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Hi!
What can your PSU provide in terms of ampères?
Load BIOS setup defaults. Open case.
Have the HDD and the CDRW on different IDE channels and cables, with both as Master respectively at the end of the cable.
Install VIA 4in1 drivers.
When everything works, make proper BIOS adjustments.
Best wishes, and good night!
Can't provide the data about my PSU because i'm not at home right now.
I will do it tomorow.
Cables are already set up like that.
Thank you

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Ok, after two weeks reading every thread in this forum that has this word "K7T266" on it, i decided to write these lines:
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PS: sorry for my english, it's not my native language.

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Hello
I am trying install my 2 new Seagate HardDisk in the IDE RAID on my K7T266 Pro2-RU motherboard without success.
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Cheers.

Yes I do, I have used that drivers for many time and they are very old in this moment because Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB are not visible, only my IBM DeskStar 40GB works fine with that drivers.
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http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=15&category=driver&os=0&go=GO
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To Toenne:
Thanks for the reply. This has to be a BIOS problem since the FDD has to be accessed by the BIOS before any software or installed chipset drivers on the HD are ever used. With my problem, I cannot even boot the system from the FDD.
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Before anything else, thanks for reading and I hope you can help:
I have an MSI k7T266 Pro2A-RU motherboard with 512MB of Mushkin RAM, AMD XP 1600+, a Geforce2 MX400, Audigy Soundcard and a cheap PCI NIC card. I consider myself an above average technician and I've come up on a problem I can't figure out. There is about 80GB of data at stake here:
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---- Reboot in all available modes (Safe, Safe with NW, Normal, Last known, etc). They all FAIL. In safe modes, you can see where the system actually tries to boot off the array (runs through driver files and stops on MUP.SYS) and hangs. Same result with all other drives removed except the RAID.
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---- Removed all drives except the Array and tried to reload XP (with the array drivers downloaded again from the site.) No effect. System hangs.
---- In a last ditch effort, I have access to Winternals Administration Pack 2002 of all of their tools. ERC Commander, designed for this type of problem, Disk Commander, and the other tools all do the same thing: Any time the system attempts to read from or access the arry, the OS will hang. It won't even check for NTFS compatibility in the ERC commander program booting from a boot CD, and for those that are familiar with it, the Disk Commander program blue screens with a STOP: 0x000007B (0xF896963C, 0xC0000034, 0x0, 0x0) error. Research has told me this is an INACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE message.
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If anyone has any other bright ideas, I'm willing to try about anything short of damaging the array. Any help is greatly appreciated. Please post here, or e-mail to [email protected].
BTW, the Promise BIOS is Fasttrak 100 "Lite" v 1.31.1(Build 30)
Thanks.
- Chuck! ?( ;( ;( ;( ;( ?(

got one but its lightley used for storage but amd forum storage is full of tales of woe with them
type deskstar and problems in goggle for a laugh

K7T266 Pro2 RU, Raid-0 & Linux

When I try to install either Red Hat 8.0 or Mandrake 9.0 on my K7T266 Pro2 RU, which has 2 x 40GB drives configured as RAID-0 (ie 1 x 80GB), both versions of Linux see the two physical drives and not the one logical stripe array. Why? It almost seems that the Linux drivers for the Promise 20265R are treating the raid channels and normal IDE channels. I want to install Linux onto the RAID-0 stripe!
I have searched for guides/tutorials on installing Linux on RAID, but all the ones I found only talked about RAID-1 (Mirroring).
Windows 2000/XP only sees the one logical drive.
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Chris.

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log::l("PATCHING");
*raidAutoStartRaidtab = sub {
my (@parts) = @_;
log::l("patched raidAutoStartRaidtab");
$::isInstall or return;
require raid;
#- faking a raidtab, it seems to be working )
#- (choosing any inactive md)
raid::inactivate_all();
foreach (@parts) {
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unlink "/tmp/raidtab";
use raid;
package raid;
*prepare_prefixed = sub {
my ($raids, $prefix) = @_;
log::l("patched prepare_prefixed");
$raids or return;
&write($raids, "/etc/raidtab") if ! -e "/etc/raidtab";
eval { cp_af("/etc/raidtab", "$prefix/etc/raidtab") };
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to the floppy disk. Remove the floppy and reboot using the Mandrake Linux 9.0 CD1 to do a CD-ROM installation. During boot, press F1 at the splash screen, then place your floppy disk that contains patch.pl in the floppy drive. At the prompt, type "patch", then follow the installation as usual.
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K7t266 Pro2 and no sound

When I go to load the audio drivers I get a message saying:
"VIA Audio Chipset is not enbabled on this system! Please enable it first in Bios."
After checking Bios it is already enabled but yet not listed under the Device Manager in Windows.
I have re-installed the OS ( Win98SE ) 3 times now per VIA FAQ and still not recognized.
Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
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****System Info. *********
MSI K7T266 PRO2 V2.0
AMD ATHLON XP 1500+
CRUCIAL 256MB DDR PC2100
ATI RADEON 7000 64MB DDR
NETGEAR FA 311TX 10/100 NIC
Win98SE

Mike:
Maybe you are trying to install the 74mu170a or the new ComboAudio_a1u300a.
The last audio driver from VIA that works on this board is 74mu160a, VIA says it is due to new Microsoft Certification requirements.
Hope it helps, Regards Gustavo.-

Problem between K7T266 Pro2-RU and ASUS GeForce 3 V8200

Hi, i've installed an ASUS GeForce 3 V8200 in my K7T266 Pro2-RU.
The system starts correctly, but when i force the AGP from BIOS at 4x all games doesn't run very well...
I usually play games like UT or RTCW and when i run they i see many problem with the 3D rendering and shadow build...
All drivers are up to date...
How can i resolve this problem ???
Thanx...

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Originally posted by Fredrik Åsenius
I guess you got your problem solved. Just wondered about:
Did you uninstall the previous drivers?
Do you have any PCI cards near the AGP?
What are your system temperature, according to BIOS?
I think i'll follok the Toenne suggest. The difference between the AGP 2x and 4x is very small, anyway my drivers are (un)installed correctly and i don't have any PCI card near the AGP slot. Instead i think that in the future i'll pay more attention at the temperature problem: my Athlon XP 2000+ is hot also with a good copper cooler...
Another questios is, can anyone help me to find the best BIOS settings for my system?
In the next days i'll post my BIOS configuration so we can see where i've mistaken.
Thanx again...

Overclocking XP 1700+ w/ K7T266 PRO2 Settings

Hello,
Has anyone successfull overclocked an Athlon XP 1700+(Palomino) with a K7T266 PRO2 motherboard? If so what are the settings and has it been successful? I have Crucial 256MB DDR PC2100 installed with a Visiontek GeForce3 Titanium card.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Kind Regards,
rhyno68

Yes, I have the same mobo...In that date, I had an xp 1700+ palomino core, the only way to overclock that cpu, with decent mhz, is to cut the l1 bridges...This mobo only is stable at 144fsb with 2.7 vdim, at 143fsb it does not require more vdim.
I reached 1600mhz with that cpu...I little advice; If you want a lots of mhz, yo have to buy the same cpu, but with tbred core..yo can reach easily 600mhz extra for sure.

K7T266 Pro2 RU problem and question

Hello
I recently upgraded my CPU from an Athlon Thunderbird 1.400 to a AthlonXP 1700+ on my MSI K7T266 Pro2 -RU (MSI 6380 v2.0). The problem is that when i have the option Fast Command enabled in the bios, windows (Windows XP Professional) will crash and reboot after a couple of minutes (this happens even while i am browsing the net). With my previous CPU the fast command option didn't cause any problems. I wanted to ask if there is a way to solve the problem as the Fast Command increases the performance of my PC by 6-7%.
Also while the mobo won't support the tb2200+ will it support a lower clocked tb cpu (like 2000+)? And will i have a problem if i take an AXP2000+ and o/c it to 2200+ or 2300+?
Sorry if the above questions are already answered but its 02:40 in the morning and i don't have the courage to search the forum
Thank you for your replies
Palpatine
AMD AthlonXP 1700+ @1600MHz
Globalwin WBK68 HSFAN
MSI K7T266 Pro2 - RU (3.6 bios, Via 4in1 v4.00)
2 x 256 mb Corsair XMS 2400
2 x WD400BB 7200rpm in RAID 0
Leadtek Geforce 3 (with DetonatorXP 40.41)
Soundblaster Live! Player 1024 (latest creative winxp drivers)
Compex NIC 10/100 PCI
Teac W540E CDRW 40x/12x/48x
Pioneer DVD 106S 16x/40x
Herolchi 350W PSU

I had the fast command problem with the 512 mb generic ram (2x256) which i replaced later with the corsair XMS 2400, so i don't think that the cause of the problem is the memory. The memory now runs at 145 at CAS2 stable.
I will try tomorrow flashing the mobo with the 3.3 bios and see if it solves it (i had the 3.6 before i installed the new cpu).
Also i read in another forum that a mobo supports up to a specific cpu because higher clocked cpus require higher current and might destroy the circuitry in the mobo. If this is not true and its just a bios support issue then i will buy a XP2000+ and will try to o/c it to FSB 145-150 (2200+ to 2300+).
Do you have the fast command enabled? I see we have the same mobo, memory and (almost) the same cpu.

Newbie Freaking Out-K7T266 Pro2-A Shutdown, then startup

I had built a computer for myself, and it runs like a dream. It has the AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with the KT3 Ultra 2 Mainboard. I had no problems with it. Then, I decided to build one for my husband, but chose the K7T266 Pro2-A Mainboard with the same processor. (I am clearly waaay over my head right now). When I try and shut down the computer, I get a small click coming from the inside of the tower speaker, barely audible(similar to the small sound you get when you are installing a new driver, and it pops up to tell you that the disk is not in the drive????), then it attempts to shut down, only to reboot a split second later. Either it reboots fine, or it hangs onto a black screen, and emits 3 long beeps.
I desparately need some help here. I am going by the book (PC Building for Dummies" (please, don't run and hide....I am trying to learn!), and it helped me out a great deal on the first computer. This one has got me stumped. I also downloaded the new version of the boards bios last night, but it did not help. I also opened it up, re-seated the wires to the front switched, as well as the d-bracket, memory, video card, and modem. I went into the Advanced power management and disabled everything.
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K7T266 Pro2-A Mainboard
Bios 5.6
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
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Modem: HSP56 Micromodem
O/S: Win98SE (Updated, as well as downloaded the shutdown patch)
Please...I really jumped the gun when I started this thing. I should have studied up more on all the technical info, but I have been known to just jump in and do it. I have learned my lesson. I am bowing to all the computer technicians right now. ;(

I had that problem with a computer I recently built. Try swapping the power supply out of your other computer. I bought a cheapo case and the motherboard couldnt shut the power supply off.
Good luck! :D

K7T266 Pro2 incompatibilty problem with Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4200

I just bought the GeForce4 Ti 4200 from Siluro and installed it on my MSI K7T266 Pro2 MB and have since then experienced some problems when booting XP pro.
Everything seems to work fine untill the very last application loads in XP after boot. Then the screen turn white, the mouse cursor becomes a black and white stripped square and the system reboots automatically. Generally after second boot, evreything seems to work fine but I get an XP error message stating that "the Nvidia Geforce4 TI 4200 drivers may be the origin of the critical problem encountered".
I have all lastest drivers for both the MB (Bios 3.7 + lastest VIA drivers) and the Nvidia GeForce (Detonator 41.09) and yet experience the problem... Help!!
MB K7T266 Pro2 MS-6380 Ver. 2 (Bios 3.7)
Siluro Geforce4 Ti 4200 (Detonator 41.09
XP Pro

I have an AMD Athlon 1700+
768 MRam DDR 266
Sound card is Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum EX
I have an ADSL connection with Alcatel Modem
I hope this is what you required... If not, let me know exactly what it is as I do not really know what PSU and the rest stands for (or when I can get that information on my PC!)
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K7t266 pro2 ru freeze

Hello.
I purchased this motherboard on 2002.
This is my config:
Hardware:
Mobo MSI 6380 k7t266 pro2 ru (via kt266a chipset)
CPU AMD Athlon 1800+ Palomino core (no overclock)
RAM Kingston DDR PC2100/266 MHz (no overclock)
Videocard Triplex Millennium Silver Geforce 4 Ti 4200 64 Mb Ram (no overclock)
Analog TV card miroMEDIA PCTV
Digital Satellite TV Card Hauppauge Nexus-s (has mpeg2 hardware decoder onboard)
sound card CMI/C-media 8338 4ch (mobo's internal AC97 disabled)
ISDN TA card Asuscom PCI internal P-IN-100 ISDNLink
Software:
Microsoft XP SP2 slipstreamed, totally "windowsupdated"
Via drivers 4-in-1 "Hyperion" 4.51 installed (latest)
Promise FastTrak 100 Raid controller Driver 2.0.0.0 (latest)
Nvidia drivers Detonators 56.72 WHQL installed (not latest but working very well)
C-media driver for 8738/c3dx 5.12.1.0 (forced but perfectly working! and latest)
Bt 848 generic BtPCI WDM drivers (for the miroMEDIA PCTV, but tried even with pinnacle 4.* VFW drivers and 5.* WDM drivers)
Hauppauge Drivers 2.18c (latest)
The problem is this:
when i'm watching tv, from the analog or the digital card, if i do something on one of the hard disks (on the raid or not, ntfs or not), like transfer file, search a file, or something very HEAVY that requires high data rates on the hdds, the system freezes, EVERYTIME!
I read on this forum about the pci latency unofficial patch by george i-dun-remember-who, but even installing it, it didn't help.
What i must do? The system works not so bad in other situations, so how can i fix this problem?
I get mad when the system freeze 'cause i need to hard-reset everytime and i think this can do damage on xp files :(
Please, if anyone has this same problem and fixed it, help me!!!
Thanks in advance.

Hi there.
@Fredrik Åsenius:
Look, i was wrong about cas latency, it was 2,5 set by SPD, not 2. For the HD disks, they are ALL cooled by fans of 4x4 or 5x5 (cm), that i obviously clean regularly, so you can understand that i touched they with the finger and they are kinda at ambient temp.
Anyway, this are the pci card placings:
Slot 1 -> empty
Slot 2 -> miroMedia PCTV card
Slot 3 -> Asuscom ISDN TA card
Slot 4 -> C-media/CMI 8338 audiocard
Slot 5 -> Hauppauge Nexus-s DVB-S TV card
More infos: like i said in the first post, I ever installed from the beginning, that means when i fresh installed xpsp2, the "PCI Latency timer patch" from George Breese (now i remember him ^^) from this page http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/#PCI, but didn't help.
Actually i followed the hint from MGP, and a little more, so i tried to enable wait states, delayed transactions and stuff, and disable fastwrite, low agp x factor (from 4x to 2x), even highen PCI Latency timer in the BIOS to 248, the maximum, and seems that the situation is better, i tried to watch tv (from the Nexus-s with Progdvb) and do a search on all my hd, the system didn't freezed and the video didn't glitched as before. Only when i ran the PC Alert's Cooler XP, continuing watching dvb-s tv and continuing searching, the system freezed. Well, a little better but i'm investigating some more: i was asking and googling if there's a PCI test bench software but had no luck, a guy from irc told me to try Sandra and Aida. Actually i tried Sandra, the latest, and read about the pci card infos.
I found an interesting thing: not all pci card have the same PCI Latency timer, there are some that has a personal entry. I googled for PCI Latency timer again and found a program named PCI Latency Tool 3, that let you set every card's timer separately. This program shows exactly the same settings as Sandra, so i'm sure that is good working ^^
Actually i reset the timer at the default entry, 64, and this is the entry list of every card's PCI Latency timer:
miroMEDIA PCTV -> 64
Asuscom ISDN -> 16
C-media/CMI 8338 card -> 64
Hauppauge Nexus-s -> 255
This are the timings of the other pci related and mobo integrated devices:
CPU to PCI bridge -> 0
PCI to AGP bridge -> 0
PCI to ISA bridge -> 0
Controller IDE VIA BusMaster -> 32
Promise Fasttrak 100 Raid ctrl -> 32
Microstar (NEC) USB 2.0 ctrl -> 64
Nec Usb ctrl 1 -> 64
Nec Usb ctrl 2 -> 64
And finally this is the timing of the AGP card:
Nvidia geforce 4 ti 4200 agp4x -> 248
I dunno if there's something wrong so i didn't changed anything, but i think that's the Nexus-s timing is really high and over the maximum allowed by the mobo, so can be this the problem cause... if not i dunno where to hit my head
@ osnavi:
No, i dun think can be the power supply not enough, i dun have a friend with a better one but i tried uninstalling all the others cards (sound, pctv, isdn) and all the other Hd and the dvd-rw too, so only the basic needed to try: mobo + cpu + ram + agp card + dvb-s card + 2xhd 80gigs, and did exactly the same... well, i dun think now that 17 A is not enough, even if it's not so the minimum... Ah, did i said that it did the same even with a "low power" gefo2mx ? well i'll write it again :p ^_^
@MGP:
I know that's not an MSI fault and is a Via fault... but it got me sad, cause i like MSI hardware and stuff, but this bad experience, and more of this no support at all from the manufacturer.... well is no good :p
For the other things look above, i tried but i dun think agp stuff is related.... I think that is pci latency related, cause i know that i.e. eide or raid performances are not so good. Thinking that when my issue pops out is exactly when i'm watching tv and doing hd stuff, that means poor eide or raid.. or pci performance, than here comes out that it can be only this the cause.
Ah, i dunno if i told you all, guys:
watching tv from the pctv analog card (and i mean at maximum resolution of pal 768x576) or from the dvb-s card (with hardware mpeg2 decoder that means 720x576) means that there's needed a maximum bandwidth of 32 MB/s (it means: 768x576 for frame x 25 frame per second x 3 bytes color (32 bits/8 =3 bytes) = 32 megabytes for every second), that's pretty much, but not to saturate pci bw. The matter is when 32 MB/s is occupied and the eide or raid needs bw: the chipset seems to freeze cause can't manage well the bw needings, and so is related to the latency timer.
Sorry again for longness ^^

K7T266 Pro2-RU won't start DVD rom drive

Hi,
I have a K7T266 Pro2-RU MB running XP 1800+. I have been using it for over a year. Recently, I found out that I need to add a new HD to my system as I was running out of HD space. Let's start by giving my original system spec:
K7T266 Pro2-RU
512 MB DDR2100 RAM Kingston
Althon XP1800+
windows XP professional sp1
2 WD 80GB raid0 connected to IDE 3 and 4
IDE 1 master 16X DVD-rom
IDE 2 master 48X CDRW
I purchased and added a 120GB WD 7200 RPM (2MB model) to IDE 1 slave. Initially, everything was happy. I partition the new 120 GB into 3 logical drives each for 40GB. Last week, I decided to repartition the 120GB into 1 120 GB. The DVD-rom stopped functioning. Windows XP said it won't start (error code 10). I un-installed and let windows re-installed its driver and it still won't start. I re-partitioned the 120GB HD into 2 60 GB HDs and same problem. I have not tried re-partition the 120 GB into 3 HDs again. But I will later this week. Does anybody know what the problem may be?
My MB is running the next to the latest version of the Bios (I just checked last night).
Does anybody know what the problem may be?
Any comment is welcome.
David

wonkanoby,
thanks for your help. After opening up my case, I tried setting my 120 GB HD to master jumper and the DVD to slave. They both remained on the same IDE port. It seems to have solve the problem. I am crossing my finger for this one. If it fails again later, I will try your suggestion.
Again, thanks for your help.
David :D

K7T266 Pro2-RU Not Booting

Hello,
I recently got a MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU motherboard and an AMD XP2000+ processor. When I turn it on, I get the 4 red lights and no boot. I flashed the bios with the newest version, and it still won't work. I read in the bios history that 2000+ is supported, so I have no idea what's going on. My old 1ghz tbird works fine with the motherboard.
I run Win 2000
Radeon 9800 pro (actually just installed it along with the processor)
PC2100 DDR 256 (x2)
3 HD's (2 40gb are raided, other is 20gb)
Power Supply I believe is 300w
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Well the chip I got was retail. Does that mean its Tbred?
So that means soldering then eh?
Say I puss out on doing it, or mess up doing it, which board should I get instead?
edit: Also, why does the bios page say that the motherboard supports a 2000+ when it doesn't? (without the mod)

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