Help with KT6V-LSR

Hi all
Just built my first PC. Feeling pretty pleased and all until i switched the power on. Not a peep from the motherboard. Maybe i have a duff board? Any suggestions or help would be most appreciated.
Quick rundown of system:-
KT6V-LSR SKT A
Seagate ST380013AS 80 GB
Kingston 256MB DDR PC2700
AMD Athlon XP2200 256 MHz FSB
Coolermaster CP5-6J31C Socket A
Asonic C-Media 7.1 Channel Soundcard

Hello,
Maybe you did not put the front case connector in the right place?
PWR_Switch.
What video card are you using and what power supply?
180W is no good
Have a look at the PSU sticker for the following,
eg
+12v =13a
+5v = 30a
+3.3v =22a
AMD Athlon XP2200 256 MHz FSB
AMD Athlon XP2200 266 MHz FSB
Spot the difference

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[AMD] XP2800+ or 3000+ with KT6V-LSR

I just got a this computer from a friend of a friend. When I got it it was showing 1.26GHz so I purchased a 3000+ Barton core cpu. After I poped the old cpu out and installed the 3000+ I noticed the old chip was a 2800+. The place that built the system didn't change the FSB to 166 so that it didn't show the right GHz. My question is: which would be the best cpu out of these two for me to OC? Plus the system case is clear plexaglass so they put a power supply in it that is 3 sides are blue plexiglass. There is no sticker on the power supply or anything that I can find that will tell me what kind it is or what wattage it is. Is there some way to be able to find out this information? Any help would be appreciated.

Quote from: blazing storm on 11-June-05, 22:52:17
True Chile every CPU is different and can go further or not so far but still I'd say it would be less strain on the 3000 as it's already at a higher speed to start with.
You could test each one to see how far they can be overclocked and then choose the best one mrbadnback.
fair enough but overclocking is about bang for the buck...i don't see the 3000 thoroughly outperforming the 2800, oc-wise....a 500MHz better oc on the 3000+ will not be a very noticeable gain in performance...go back a couple of years to the golden dlt3c jiuhb 1700 chips, that were getting extreme oc's compared to the higher speed processors, and outperforming them...plus, the KT6V-LSR doesn't seem to oc as well as the plain ol' KT6 Delta did...I had 2 of those at 221FSB with a DLT3C 1700 and a barton 2500+...that being said, he's still gonna get something for nothing by oc'ing....

What 7600 GS work stable with KT6V-LSR ?

Hello,
I want to know if 7600GS AGP videocard works fine with MSI KT6V-LSR mobo ?
Thanks ...
It's for an upgrade and to replace my : Leadtek WinFast A250 ULTRA TD (GeForce4 Ti 4600) - MyVivo
I think 7600GS nvidia series is better than my actual leadtek videocard and better than x1650 ati series ...
Am i wrong with that ?

...
Finally I have order a MSI NX7600GS-TD256 AGP, MSI product link :
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/vga/vga/pro_vga_detail.php?UID=754
I hope my pc config is going to work stable with ...
But why MSI says that system requirements need "AMD K8 (and above)..." whereas all
other 7600GS AGP builder work with min AMD K7 ! "... or compatible with AGP slot"
... i have AGP 8x with my KT6V-LSR ... so I don't understand why MSI mix CPU min
requirement info with "or" AGP slot requirement info in the same sentence ?
HOWEVER I found in MSI Global website (http://www.msi.com.tw/) this documentation
for NX7600GS TD series :
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/manual/mnu/spt_mnu_detail.php?UID=754&kind=2
... In this documentation we can read this system requirements :
To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements:
Intel Pentium III (and above), AMD K7 (and above), or compatible with expansion slot
Minimum 128MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
Interactive Program guide requires Internet connection for listing updates
Power supply of 400 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability.
My actual config :
Mobo KT6V-LSR (AGP 8X slot)
420W THERMALTAKE power supply
and ATHLON AMD K7 XP 2200+
... should work with NX7600GS ...
Let's see ...

Help with mem speed issue in KT6V LSR BIOS

Hi all
In the BIOS of the MSI KT6V LSR board, does anyone know if it is possible to turn off the memory speed setting the puts memory to either Fast, Turbo or Ultra? I am uisng 1 DIMM of TwinMos 512mb, PC2700 DDR Ram and I can't run it at its correct timing of 333Mhz, because I think the above speed setting overclocks the memory and is causing instability in my installation of Win XP.
Cheers
SteveC

Thanks Fredrik & Sliksta.
Firstly Fred the cpu fsb is set to its correct timing of 166 (333 FSB Barton installed) and everyhting else in that screen is set to auto. It seems to be showing the correct CPU speed on boot up, so I can't see the problem there.
The thing is I have flashed the BIOS to the latest version and that memory setting for Fast, Turbo and Ultra is still there and can't be disabled. According to MSI it would be disabled in BIOS update V1.3, because it overclocks the memory and causes problems on some memory. When I run the memory timing at 333 I just seem get instability in Windows and thought it must be down to that timing issue. I have turned down the memory to 266 and things seem to be ok so far. Maybe I'll just stick to that. Strange one really. Could be the memory is a bit duff or I havent flashed BIOS properly. Shoud I reflash it do you think?

KT6V-LSR onboard LAN Help???

I'm having major problems with the onboard LAN on my KT6V-LSR...
Everything was working fine, until I decided to overclocking a little, then problems with the onboard LAN started!!!
Basically when I connect the ethernet wire to the onbaord LAN windows still shows as no connection???
Windows XP recognizes the onboard LAN and I'm able to update drivers, but still no luck regardless of what drivers I use...
I've also tried clearing CMOS and installing a fresh copy of Windows XP and still no luck!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the VIA southbridge takes care of USB, LAN, and audio... So why is it that my onboard sound and USB works fine but the onboard lan refuese to work???
The green light for the onbaord LAN on the I/O is always lit, is this normal???
I've just bought a PCI network card and it works fine, but the onbard LAN still doesn't work???
I'm thinking it's a defected motherboard, but I do not want to go throught the trouble of RMAing it.
Any help is welcome...
KT6V-LSR
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Samsung PC2100 (512MB)
Asus Geforce 4 Ti4200 8X (128MB)
Maxtor 60G ATA 133
Vantec iON 400W

I've tried taking out the PCI one then disabling the onboard and re-enabling it, but no luck... It just doesn't work. Now I'm starting to think it's a bios problem with system standby in S3??? Or perhaps hibernation???
Really, I think I've given up on the onbaord LAN. Everythings working fine with my PCI networkcard...
So again, thanks guys for contributing on trying to come up with a solution to my onbaord LAN problem...
Thanks.

How Do I Flash My KT6V-LSR Bios? I read the MSI Instructons, But Im Still Totally Confused? HELP!!

Help, I want to flash my KT6V-LSR Bios to the newest version but i have NO clue on how to do it?!! HELP PLEASE

Hello.
Another KT6V wanted to flash his bios but wasn't sure, Lilflea.
So I posted this and he managed to flash his BIOS.
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I hope this is easy to understand.
To Flash the BIOS, download this have 2 disks ready.
http://www.holisticaroma.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/boot98se.exe
Requires 1 floppy disk, run the file and it will make a boot disk with ram drive.
Now copy
adsfi711.exe and a7021ms.170 from the BIOS zip file to floppy disk 2
Restart the PC and boot from the floppy disk.
It will load and you need to choose boot without cd rom support
Now once it has finished loading, rmove the disk and insert the disk with the 2 files.
Then type copy a:\adsfi711.exe c:
Then type copy a:\a7021ms.170 c:
Now type c:
then type
adsfi711.exe a7021ms.170
it will flash the BIOS.
After the Flash you must Reset your CMOS, turn off the PC.
Remove the side panel and move the Jbat jumper on the motherboard into the Clear position, wait a few seconds then put it back in the save postion.
Then you can turn your pc on and you MUST reconfigure all your settings,
eg CPU FSB.
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The DOS way

Upgrade to KT6V-LSR gone wrong, system freezes and BSOD's

Hi guys!
I just recently bought a KT6V-LSR to replace and Asrock K7S41GX motherboard. After putting all together (specs on signature) installed windows from scratch in a new partition on the master drive. Installed VIA 4 in 1, DirectX 9.0c, Catalyst 5.03, Realtek sound driver, LAN driver, USB patch, all of them were the latest versions available from the corresponding site, everything while the pc was not connected to the internet.. When I installed the Catalyst driver, rebooted the computer and it started testing the computer to find the "most stable settings" according to the installation said. The screen got all srambled but it seemed to bel going on, on the installation process it said that it'll take about 1 minute, waited about 5 an then restarted (it said that the test might cause the system not to respond anymore and that if it happened, restart it), it started all right. Then I installed NAV 2005. Installed acrobat reader. Then I tried to install Office 2003 and the system froze when it was about 15% of the copying files process. Restarted it and then the system crashed again the same way. If I leave the system running idle, it crashes randomly. It didn't show up with a BSOD at the beginning but now it shows
kernel_stack_inpage_error
0x00000077 (0xc000000E,0xc000000E,0xc00000000, 0x01b42000)
and another one
kernel_stack_inpage_error
0x0000007A (0xE14F862c,0xc000000E,0xcBF97B704, 0x02c23860)
(once each)
I'm thinking (from what I have read here) it might be the power supply, but since here in costa rica it's almost imposible to find a decent 400W PSU and I won't have the 100 bucks it costs for a couple of weeks more, is there anything I should try?
Temps on the system are 45-49 idle, 53-55 load. Applied thermal grease to the HS&F before installed it.
the 12+ (I've read is very important since the KT6V is very hungry on this rail) is showing up about 12 on the core center, but I've read that is not really representative...
Haven't updated to BIOS version 2.0 yet...
I checked the memory, ran only 1 stick and then the other one, on both slots.
I'm open to any advice, for sure I'll replace the PSU but that's gonna take a couple of weeks and I wanted to check if there's something I could try in the mean time.
Thanks a lot for your help!

Quote from: Olahahacos on 16-March-05, 14:22:12
Hey , Ford Tech , can you give an explanation of what the setup with the CD drive and the master harddrive on IDE 1 will do .
I have the same PSU nazgoth has .
I'm just interested in the affect that setup will have with the power in the system .
If you have noticed my posts its more of a house electricity thing with my setup , the harddrive not getting enough power , temporarily I hope .
Not really a voltage concern.But I guess it could if both drives are running at the same time.With IDE, one is limited to two drives in a chain, and these drives cannot work at the same time. In essence, they must "take turns".So by putting 1 HDD as primary master and cd as slave,you will get the full performance of your drive.Most peeps only run CD roms for program installs and or CD burning or copying anways.
As far as the cable,yes there are 80 wire flat cables that work just fine.The only reason to go to the round cables is to improve air-flow and or the length of the cable itself.
I am sure many people use it the old fashion way with no problems.I just experienced a performance issue when I had HDD's on the same chain.It was mainly because I load all my games on my D drive.It also kept defaulting it to PIO mode which is the slowest mode.Since swaping the drives around on the chain(IDE1=HDD-Operating system-primary master and CD burner as Primary slave)(IDE2=HDD-Storage/gaming-secondary master and my DVD rom as secondary slave)Both drives run in UMDA-MODE-5 set up that way with no more problems

HD Samsung SP2504C SATA II vs MSI KT6V-LSR: How to install?

Hi everybody,
Ok, i will try to explain the problem with my bad english, so please dont laugh!
I have two modeboards, the MSI KT6V-LSR and ASUS A8N-SLI SE, recently i acquired the HD Samsung SP2504C SATA II for the ASUS, and it works perfectly. So i needed to install this HD SATA II in the KT6V-LSR and i followed some proceedings first:
*The HD already had the XP SP2 installed using the ASUS one
1_i placed the jumper and the HD changed to 150
2_i pluged the data cable in the right conector and the power cable (i tryed in both channels, but only in one the hd is reconized)
3_removed the ide pata 40gb (samsung too)
4_Enabled ide sata in bios
5_configured to boot using hd sata
The system rebooted always just after the bios scrreenies. Strange, the HD PATA worked, came from the asus too! So i decided to format this HD sata. Like always i followed this steps:
* My XP cd dont have service packs and boot system
1_i used a floppy with WINME boot + smartdrive
2_delete partition, create and set active
*3_format c:
4_f:cd i386
5_f:i386\winnt
*Other strange thing, the formatting time just take a few seconds unlike the several minutes that normaly takes.
I started to install the XP anyway, and after the copy of files from cd to hd, during the first boot appears a blue screen, and the messages are relationed to the new HD, so the installation stop. I tryed several times but the same thing happened.
The HD sata is reconized in the windows, shows patitions, i transfered 13gb from it to the hd PATA, but i had to boot using the PATA one. I want to use this HD SATA like master, bootable, not like slave.
How to install it, how to format it properly?
I hope that my confusing explainations are sufficient to you understand the problem.
Some help please!
And thank you very much
MSI KT6V-LSR bios V1.9 08-27-04
AMD ATHLON XP 2400
768MB CORSAIR VALUE SELECT
SOLTEK GF 440 MX SE
SEVENTEAM 420BKV-03F (+3.3v=30A ;+5v=30A ;+12v1=16A and +12v2=16A [26A])
HD 40GB SAMSUNG
HD 250GB SATA II (that dont works in this motherboard!)

This being really difficult to explain the problem with my so bad English. I go to try to use a translator online, ok?
I use the floppy of boot of the WIN ME, is through it that I obtain to define the partitions, to format hd, and to install the XP. I always made this and always it functioned, also with this HD SATA II samsung 250GB, but only using motherboard ASUS A8N-SLI IF. But when I go to make these procedures using the KT6V-LSR, I do not obtain to format hd right and I do not obtain to install the XP. Then the problem happens before installing the XP, during the formatting. So i want to use only de hd sata, not the HD PATA.
Another thing, I read in one fórum of my country that the KTV6-LSR can damage and even though to “kill” the hd sata. This is really?

Problem Kt6v-lsr

HI..I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A MAINBOARD KT6V-LSR, THE PROBLEM is:
I' NOT ABLE TO START WINDOWS BECAUSE TO START THE CPU, THE ICON OF CORECELL CHIP APPEARS IN THE MONITOR AND BLOCKED THE CPU, THE KEYBOARD AND THE MOUSE don't RECOGNIZE THEM AND I' NOT ABLE TO IN THE BIOS AND I DON'T NOW WHAT HAPPEND. I NEED HELP BECAUSE THE GUARANTEE DE MI BOARD ALREADY EXPIRES.. THANK YOU AND EXCUSE FOR THE ENGLISH BUT I DONT SPEAK -WRITE ENGLISH...
BYE
Guido.

No, sorry, this was the original PSU. I put down the wrong wattage before.
I appreciate your help, but what you aren't getting is that I can't get TO the BIOS settings to change the FSB or other CPU settings. It hangs before I can get to that point.
According to the manual, the LED display that I posted is for when the MB is initializing or loading the BIOS. This is just after initializing the video, which does come up then. It never gets past this BIOS load point., so there is no possibility to enable/disable CoreCell or any BIOS settings. I'm wondering if the BIOS is blown or something?
There are no LED codes for problems, just indications of where the system is during POST. So if it hangs, it just means that it didn't complete this step. In other words, there is no indication that there are wrong CPU settings, etc.
BTW, the CoreCell logo is just part of the screen display at this point. I don't think it means that CoreCell is being loaded or setup here. Its just a static logo display.
This is a new, out-of-the-box MB, so the BIOS has never been changed as far as I know.
The only thing that has occurred, is that I tried to bring the board up without the 4 pin 12V cable being attached for CPU pwr connector. Using this cable is new to me, so I wasn't sure whether it was needed or not. But the MB (obviously) wouldn't even start without this 12V cable. Once I put the 12V cable in, then it booted to this point and then hung.
I tried again to reset the CMOS with JBAT1 jumper. I unplugged the AC from the PSU. then put the jumper to reset for 5 minutes. I also popped the battery out for 5 minutes too. Still the same results!

12V On Powersupply KT6V-LSR?

Hey,
I currently have a KM2M Combo L mobo, and I want to upgrade to a KT6V-LSR mobo, and also PC2100. My power supply is totally great with my current setup, but will it be sufficient for the KT6V-LSR? I have a dell PSU laying around w/more amps on the 12v line, 16A actually, my current specs are below, and im not changing anything w/new mobo besides adding 512mb PC2100. Help appreciated, i dont want to run into problems...:(

Well, I Put The Dell Power Supply In (250W) and It Works Like A Dream! All Voltages Are Higher, And Dont Move Around As Much, Played Far Cry For 3 Hours, Not A Jitter! You Can Tell, Just By Feeling How Solid And Heavy The Dell PSU Is, Compared To That 'TurboLink.' The TurboLink Was So Light And Flimsy, You Could Push The Sides In!!!!! As For Motherboards, I Purchased On Newegg.com The SOYO KT600 Dragon Plus 1.0. Sorry MSI, Still Love Ya! Juss Lower Your Prices. I Also Downloaded The SOYO Manual, And It Said At Least 350W, BULLLL. If you HAVE A QUALITY Power Supply, You Can Run Anything On It! My Dad Had This Power Supply (Just Bought A Antec TruePower 430W To Replace-Had SATA Plugs) And Was Running The Following On It....
DELL 865PE CHIPSET MOBO
P4 2.4GHZ
512MB PC 2700 DUAL CHANNEL
80GB HITATCHI 7.2K RPM
ATI RADEON 9800 PRO (OC'ED TO 436/884)
SB LIVE 5.1
I/O MAGIC 8X BURNER (DVD)
48X NEC CD BURNER
2 CASE FANS - 1 CYCLONE PCI FAN, 1 120MM CASE FAN
If He Can Power All Of THAT!!! I Can Sure As Hell Get Away With It On My SOYO. And He Also Had NO LOCKUPS What So Ever.
As For That Turbolink, Im Selling It On Ebay, Along With My KM2M, Athlon T-Bird, And 256 MB Ram.
Thanks To All Who Have Ever Helped Me With My MSI. I'm Sure I'll Come Back And Post A Problem With My SOYO Under "Everything Under The Sun" Section!
Goodbye MSI. Helooooo SOYO!

KT6V-LSR Sata Raid 0 problems

have been experiencing the following problem running raid 0 on sata.
Running any game after a period the game either stops working and crashes to the desktop or I get bluescreened with various error including IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or Stop 0x0000008e Win32k.sys.
Has anyone else suffered this problem and found a solution.
I have tried the following.
I have tried Raid 0 and jbod with no difference
Running a single Sata drive without raid the system appeared stable.
Games refused to run without XP SP2
The system ran fine on a single IDE
I have had long discussions with Microsoft who were very pleasant but unable to help.
I have rebuilt the system from scratch several times. It does not appear to matter what additional cards are installed.
My system is as follows.
Mother board MSI KT6V-LSR
Processor AMD XP3200+ 400fsb
Memory 2 x 512mb pc 3200 (Generic)
HDD 1 x maxtor 250gb 7Y250M0 1x WD 250gb WD2500JD
Sound Card Philips psc604
Tuner Pinnacle PCTV PRO
Fire wire Belkin 501
Window XP SP2
PSU 500w (Generic)

Quote
Originally posted by Fredrik Åsenius
Is this what Microsoft has been wondering?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330187
What is your graphics card?
What are your temps?
Are there any error messages in Device Manager?
Final question: What optical devices, CD and DVD, do you have?
The thing about most of the 0x0000008e errors that Microsoft have reports on are pre XP SP2. They claim to have fixed that for SP2.
Graphics card is Gainward Ti4800SE
CD LG CRD-8522B
DVD LG DVD-RAM GSA-4120B
Temps processor 48 - 51
chipset 38 - 40
No errors in device manager

MSI KT6V-LSR (MS-7021) Can't Boot From CD/DVD

New to the forum and would like to say hello to everyone first.
Here's my problem i can't boot from my DVD drive, my 2 HDD's and 2 DVD drives are working fine inside windows.
Inside the bios screen they are detected in the right order, and are in the right boot order. I checked the jumpers on them and they seem fine and i haven't touch them since i changed my dvd rewriter 6 months ago and i have booted from a cd since then.
I just booted up the Windows Xp disc on a differnt pc and it worked fine, yet on mine it goes straight to my XP OS.
I was hoping someone could help me out, thanks.
MSI KT6V-LSR (MS-7021)
Athlon XP 2400+
768 MB Ram
Windows XP Home sp3
Maxtor 6Y120L0(master)
Seagate ST3400832A(slave)
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20(master)
JLMS XJ-HD166S(slave)

Did you install Nero 9 by any chance?
Even if you didn't, and old version of InCD can cause this too.
The problem is upper/lower filters, they are screwed and thus your CD's are missing in action.
Run this tool inside windows: ftp://ftp6.nero.com/tools/General-CleanTool.zip
As for booting, change the boot order in the BIOS, probably set to harddisk first.
If that doesn't solve it, disconnect one of the CD's and test with a single one, maybe one is broken and hinders the other, but that is my last guess.

KT6V LSR (MS 7021) SATA controller card second opinion, please

I want to thank Fredrik Asenius for his reply to my previous post.
However, due to the fact that the purchase of a SATA controller card and two SATA2 hard disks will be handled, of necessity, at a distance of 800 kilometers (involving courier expenses), the technician of the store has requested that I ask for a second opinion from another expert in the forum. An error, therefore, could be very costly. (No offense of any kind intended to Fredrik Asenius)
My motherboard is the MSI KT6V LSR (MS 7021) Via KT600 Northbridge and Via 8237 Southbridge chipsets.
Both SATA connections are currently taken up by two SATA hard drives (no striping, nor mirroring in use). The rest of the installation consists of IDE CDRW and DVDRW drives, as well as an MSI Nvidia NX6200AX (256 RAM) AGP video card and a Soundblaster Live Value PCI audio card. The other four PCI slots are not occupied. The system also has 1.5 gigabytes of RAM and a 520-watt PSU. I am running Windows XP SP2 Professional.
My questions are the following:
(1) Since the two SATA connectors on my motherboard are occupied, if I wish to add another SATA device I will have to install a SATA controller card. Does the SATA controller card have to be SATA 1 or can I also use a SATA 2 controller card?
IMPORTANTLY, the technician questions whether the motherboard will accept a controller card adding more SATA devices. He says that you cannot add any more SATA devices to this motherboard. Is he correct?
(2) If it is possible to add more SATA devices using a controller card, since the chipset on the motherboard is Via the SATA controller software is also from Via. Does the SATA controller card also have to be one that uses the Via SATA RAID software? (In other words, are there compatibility issues? Can all this all work together?)
Once again, thanks for the help.

Quote from: bjmcm on 14-December-06, 04:40:05
(1) Since the two SATA connectors on my motherboard are occupied, if I wish to add another SATA device I will have to install a SATA controller card. Does the SATA controller card have to be SATA 1 or can I also use a SATA 2 controller card?
IMPORTANTLY, the technician questions whether the motherboard will accept a controller card adding more SATA devices. He says that you cannot add any more SATA devices to this motherboard. Is he correct?
(2) If it is possible to add more SATA devices using a controller card, since the chipset on the motherboard is Via the SATA controller software is also from Via. Does the SATA controller card also have to be one that uses the Via SATA RAID software? (In other words, are there compatibility issues? Can all this all work together?)
Once again, thanks for the help.
I have had a fair amount of experience with this kind of issue.
1. No, the add in card does not need to be SATA I, it can be SATA II. I recommend a SATA II card and SATA II drives. Putting SATA II drives on a SATA I controller can fail to work.
2. Is he wrong? Essentially, yes he is wrong. It depends on how literally you take his words. You can NOT add more SATA drives to the motherboard. You CAN add an add-in SATA card and then put the additional SATA drives on that new add-in card. The difference in wording the answer is critical.
You ask about the Via chipset on the motherboard and also on the add-in card. Actually, it is probably LESS likely that the add-in card will work if the chipsets are the same. The issue is the computer being able to differentiate between the two controllers. I had this very problem with a machine.
That computer had two add-in cards. Each was the same brand. The computer could not differentiate between the two cards and gave a hardware error. I replaced one of the cards with another brand and it works fine. The manufacturer suggested trying the cards in different PCI slots. I did not try that, I just got a new card because it was easier for me.
The add-in card does NOT need to support RAID, that is optional. If you do not want to use RAID, the card does not have to support it. If you do want to use RAID, obviously the card does need to support it. RAID is part hardware and part software so if the card supports it and you do not to set it up as RAID, that is fine.
One caution...If the add-in card has an external port that you want to use, be aware that there is something called e-SATA that might use an incompatable type of port connecter. I had a card with that connecter and I found that the cables are extremely expensive and also hard to find. Most external SATA connectors are the SATA I style that you are used to though.

KT6v-LSR Boot Problems

I'm only giving the specs for certain items because I'm only trying to boot it with these installed.
KT6v-Lsr
AMD XP 2400+ T-bred
Thermaltake Volcano 6 cu+
Antec 430 Watt PSU (+5v=36a, +12v=20a, +3.3v=28a, -5v=.5a, -12v=1.0a,+5vsb=2a)
I've been having this problem since I bought this board and put it together earlier this week. I first tried to power the system with my old Antec 300 Watt psu. When I read the other posts on this board I went out and bought a 400 watt psu, same problem. I finally went out and bought a better Antec 430 watt psu, still same problem. Please help. This is what happens when I try to boot up (same problem, all psu's) the D-Bracket leds show Sys Power ON, then Early Chipset Initialization, then Memory Detection Test... and then the system powers down. I would think that with 20a on the 12v I would be set, so I'm starting to think the mobo is just bad, and might just return it. Would appreciate any help though.

In fact, feel grateful that the newer boards have the ability to detect the CPU temp rising too fast, and shut the system down to save that costly CPU's life
Without that little feature, you could fry a CPU in just a couple minutes

I can't install Windows 98 on a KT6V-LSR

I used to be able to dual boot Win98 and 2K from different partitions on a single 80Gb hard drive. Needed the Win98 only because my old Matrox capture card has no drivers for the newer OS’s. When I changed my mobo to an MSI KT6V-LSR (Via KT600) I couldn’t get the Win98 partition to work (I didn’t have to wipe it through 2 earlier mobo changes. I guess it couldn’t stand the 3rd)
The previous setup was like this, all on a 1-1/2 year old 80gb Maxtor:
Primary partition, 753 mb, FAT32, Windows 98
1st logical partition, 11gb, NTFS, Windows 2K Pro
2nd logical partition, 25gb, FAT32, for video files
3rd logical partition, 40gb, FAT32, for all my data, downloads, etc
I could get the standard Windows OS selection page upon boot. This time whenever I try to install Windows 98 I get the above “serious error” message right after the partition check by scandisk. It's not the installer's fault, it's been with me for a long time. Worked flawlessly before.
I am able to install Win2K on NTFS or FAT32. It is only when I try to install Win98 that I get slammed with this error. I can’t use my capture card and that’s where I earn a little.
The drive passes both the Maxtor diagnostic software (full system scan) and the Seatools generic test (full system scan).
There are no viruses detected (my software may be faulty, though).
PartitionMagic 7 fails to create the small partition I need for Win98, saying “cannot create partition, anti-virus software may be running” But I have disabled any virus settings in BIOS and I am using PartitionMagic from the boot diskettes.
Really stumped here. Can’t afford to buy a new drive right now just so to transfer my files and wipe the current drive.
In summary, the drive allows me to install Win2K on either NTFS or FAT32. But it will not allow me to install Win 98, whether on a Primary partition or the first logical partition (i.e. after Win2K has already been installed)
I have since been able to install Win98. But I had to connect the Drive to a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller.
Question is, is the new hardware really incompatible with the old OS?
THEN... On two consecutive nights, my registry in Windows 2000 got corrupted (hive corruption). And I have had to reformat and reinstall both times. I am worried now that the mobo I got may have serious faults.
Hope you can give me quick feedback on this.

Hello,
You should be able to use windows 98 with this motherboard.
Can you try this.
Format the drive with only 1 partition (80GB FAT32)
Use maxblast to do this.
Remove the Ultra ATA66 PCI controller.
Remove the sound card.
Plug the hard drive in IDE cable 1 (set it to master too)
Plug your CD drive to IDE cable 2, set it to master.
Reset your CMOS
Now when you power up, enter the BIOS
go to Frequency/voltage control
Set the CPU to 166Mhz FSB (it should be running at 1.667Ghz)
CPU Ratio = Auto
go to advanced chipset configuration >DRAM settings
Set the memory to 333Mhz(166Mhz)
Go to Standard CMOS setup.
Press on your Hard drive
Set the mode to LBA
Also change your boot order to
Floppy
CD ROM
Your hard drive
Go to integrated peripherals
Disable the onboard sound
Now save and exit.
Boot from the windows 98 CD
See what happens.

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