Initializing hard disk controller on kt3 ultra 2

I have a kt3 ultra 2 and when I open my pc, the start blocks on initializing hard drive controller (on the D-Bracket) but my harddisk is well plug. Someone have an idea ?

Hi,
I suggest disassemble the whole PC, use plastic standoffs for the motherboard, and put all back together;
Another is to use 6 screws + paper washer to hold the motherboard on the casing.
This should fix the problem.

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KT3 Ultra2 stuck on Initializing Hard Drive Controller

AMD Athlon 2200
KT3 Ultra 2
Antec 400W
Maxtor 60G
512
I put the machine together and it does not display anything. On the D Bracket it shows 2 red 2 green "Initializing Hard Drive Controller". I have depopulated motherboard all the way down to just one stick of Ram, One hard drive the bare necessities. It still doesnt work. Swapped hard drives, video cards and Ram. Measured voltages for power supply. Rebuilt it twice from ground up. Reset CMOS. Still same thing. It shows the 2 red 2 green as soon as I turn it on, doesnt seem to be running any POST tests.
Any suggestions? :O

I am a 17 year old high school student who has put together a total of 12 machines. There are a couple of issues I would like to address:
1. Every PC I built was based around SOCKETA platform and EVERY board was an MSI.
2. I just finished building two machines around the KT3 Ultra-2 board (I am typing on now), have given the one to my uncle and aunt. NO PROBLEMS. XP2100 512 PC2700 Two 30Gb Maxtors RAID0 Saphire Radeon 9000 Pro 128mb DDR.... No trouble. They went together in about 45 minutes... I have hauled mine (I kept one for me - yippee!!) up to my cabin and back again... never ever failing...
3. I understand everyone's frustration in this issue, for it is DEFINETELY an issue, BUT, MSI I can guarantee is working out the solution and they stand behind their products. I was having trouble with an Nforce based board. Sent it back, got a new one in 4 days... That has been my only trouble MY ONLY TROUBLE. And on top of it, I later learn that it was my fault. I was the one who grounded mysterious pin 9 on the USB header... It was how the case came set up---you know with the front USB ports...
4. I also know that MSI's boards are the most stable I've seen . I've helped other students with home built PC's who use Gigabyte, ASUS, Abit, ECS... and I've seen trouble with all of them.
5. Stick with it. Don't give up. Get your board and if need be your proc. replaced, and move on. This board is worth it. It is so nice. I have had my machine on for two weeks straight. Running XP PRO. Nothing but solid.
6. WHY DOES EVERYONE BLAME EVERYTHING ON THE PSU??? I have used cheap-o 300W generic supplies (granted, I have never owned or set-up a GF4) but plain and simply put, I have not had any stable problems with MSI boards and cheap power supplies. MSI does an excellent job with their power stabilization portion of the board, and design their boards around imperfect voltages. Nothing is perfect. "30 amps", that's rediculous.
Anyway, I hope that I have changed a few minds about MSI and their boards, and that you will take the time to get your problem resolved. If you do, you will do just like me, and return to MSI for all of your computing mainboard needs.
-AlwayzAMD
MAXTOP case - ALLIED 350w ATX
MSI KT3 Ultra2
512Mb PC2700 DDR Ram (Samsung)
AMD Athlon XP 2100
Saphire ATI Radeon 9000 PRO 128mb
Thermaltake VOLCANO 7 HSF
2 92mm Case fans
2 30Gb Maxtors RAID0 (striping - sweeeet!)
Lite-on 16x DVDROM / 48x CDROM
Lite-on 48x24x48 Burner
Idle Temp: 38C
Load Temp: 44C
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D-Bracket2: Initializing Hard Drive Controller

Hey guys, maybe you can help me out here?! My motherboard hangs up with D-Bracket 2 showing (1, 2 - red lights and rest green) Initializing Hard Drive Controller. I use Wester Digital HDD and also tried other HDD. However I tried running with just CPU, Video and Memory installed - but same message is displayed. It seems to me that it's not about HDD but HDD Controller on motherboard itself. My oppinion is that my motherboard is broken and I should contact MSI for warranty coverage. Thanks for sharing your knowledge in advance!
Motherboard: KT3 Ultra2 Series
HDD: Western Digital 60GB
PSU: ThermalTake 420 W - Runs fine on other system with even more load
CPU: AMD Athlon 2200+

Western Digital uses a jumperless setting when there is only one drive attached to a channel.
Also, insure the blue end of the cable is inserted into the board, and the black end is attached to the Master drive. The gray connector in the middle is for any slave drives.

Initializing Hard Drive Controller?

Yesterday, the CPU temp spiked up to 60 so I disconnected everything and cleaned fan, cooler, and took of all old thermal grease and put new one. It's silver one. Anyway, I left like that for a night and this morning I tried to connect it but didn't work. I tried erasing all Bios and but nope. So I tired four led thing and it says 2 red top, 2 green bottom. The manual says
Initializing Hard Drive Controller:This will initalize IDE drive and controller. I touched nothing of harddrive or cd-rom, only the fan and cooler. Nothing shows up when I turn it on. Please help~

ok. I took off cpu and back on again, 2 red on top, 2 green on botton. Same. Took Ram off and on again, same thing. Could it be bios problem? It worked flawlessly until I did what I said .

975X Power Up Edition Hangs on "Initializing Hard Drive Controller"

Symptoms:
4 month old Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD drive would "hang" the system maybe 2-3x in the last month.
Upon reboot no boot device found. Power cable removed from PC, and plugged back in it would work fine.
I switched off my PC at 8am, come home at 5pm, switch on PC and no boot device found.
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Clear Cmos, problem persists.
Removed all other unnecessary hardware and tried different cables and ports, problem persists.
Reach conclusion SSD drive is dead.
Plug back in old Hard drive (Still fixed in bottom of PC, but not attached) and PC loads up fine.
Pc randomly restarts about 10x in the space of 24 hours, sometimes with the message no boot device found. (Power cable removal/plugging back in rectifies fault)
Now, problem persists also.
Remove all unnecessary hardware, and try again. Problem persists.
Clear CMOS.
Pc shows MSI splash screen, and hangs.
Removed even hard drive, same problem.
Checked D Bracket and I have RRGG which is "Initializing Hard Drive Controller" "This will initialize IDE drive and controller"
MOBO: MSI 975X Platinum V2.1
CPU: Core2Duo E6300 1.86Ghz
GFX: MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/OC
Memory: Corsair XMS2-6400 2048MB (X2)
PSU: Corsair TX650
HDD1: Corsair Force 3 120GB / HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 250GB
HDD3: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
HDD4: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Currently have GFX, 1 Stick of ram, the CPU and its cooler plugged in, that's it.
Any suggestions? I've searched this forum but there aren't any real solutions, one was dead and required RMA'ed, another one depended on the PSU, and another one didn't have enough power to the PCI-E card. (GFX)

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Plug back in old Hard drive (Still fixed in bottom of PC, but not attached) and PC loads up fine.
Pc randomly restarts about 10x in the space of 24 hours, sometimes with the message no boot device found. (Power cable removal/plugging back in rectifies fault)
Just to be sure on this: What you are saying is that currently, it does not matter what kind of device is attached (SSD, hard drive, optical drive), you get the ""Initializing Hard Drive Controller" "This will initialize IDE drive and controller"", even though if there are no SSDs, hard drives and optical drives connected to the system whatsoever?

Largest hard disk on MSI KT4A Ultra (MS-6590)

MSI say the largest hard disk the KT4A Ultra (MS-6590) supports is 160GB:
http://global.msi.eu/index.php?func=prodfaqanswer&faq_no=912&prod_no=548&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=
Is that right?
Does it apply to SATA or just IDE?
Can a BIOS update or other patch get over that limit please?
Thanks
Toby

If you'd read my sticky topic, the answer was there all along...
> SocketA board sticky topics - please look here first <
Quote from: > General FAQs for MSI SocketA boards <
I want to fit a 250gb HDD to my system. Will it work?
Check your board's support page here. Look for the Test Report for Hard Disks. Once a board supports greater than 137gb, any size drive will work. If you see a size such as 160gb tested as OK, then you will be fine!

[VIA] KT3 Ultra 2 Problem

"My KT3Ultra2 won't start ... there's no beep or picture shown on my screen.
The D-Bracket LEDs shows : "Initializing Hard Drive Controller" (two red on the up side, and two green on the down side).
i removed the HDD and it's worked on my other system.
can anyone advice me what should i do ??
Thank you so much.

Quote from: Grayone on 09-January-06, 15:26:35
Sorry, I missed the first line about it not posting. Sleepy, I guess.
Swapping parts like the video card between the two systems will eliminate that possibility since it could be power supply or cpu or video card that stops the boot process before it can initialize the hard drive controller.
Please furnish us more information about what parts are in the system? Create a profile containing info similar to I have in mine. The info will make troubleshooting much easier.
hi mate, thanks for the fast replies.
i had done all the sweaping of parts from one system to another. as for the power supply is a new one.
my system is using MSI KT3 Ultra 2 (MS-6380) running on CPU AMD 2100+
Ram is Kingston PC2700 333Mhz 512MB.
A Maxtor HDD 40Gig.
A creative Sound Card.
lastly a Benq CDRW.

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ATI Radeon All in Wonder 64. (probably works for sure)
Ok, here's the problem. I have everything checked twice, all cables, jumpers etc... I go to boot up and I do have a signal going to the monitor (it's not the card, I tried another working card in it) and it's a black screen. The motherboard does not beep or anything. The D-Bracket is coded:
R R
G G
- Initializing Hard Drive Controller.
So it will just hang there. I don't know what the problem is. I have two CD rom drives that I originally had hooked up with the HD and I've tried every which way to hook it up and test it. I'm stumped. Any ideas?
Thank you.
Statik24

Ok, I tested it on a AOPEN 250w powersupply.
This 250w is less than the one in question, should it matter? I am originally using this 250w with my K7T266 Pro2 and Athlon 1500 XP. It works fine with that.
Im wondering if the KT3 requires more power or if it for some reason just doesn't work with all the power supplys that other similar boards will work with.
Anyway, I've got different results now...
What it does now is actually beeps. 3 long beeps in a row, the D-Link code is:
R G
R R
-Memory Detection Test.
The manual says it will hang there if the memory module is damaged or not installed properly. It hangs there and the memory module (Kingston Value Ram PC2100 DDR 512mb) is installed correctly.
I then tryed booting with the module in slots #2 and #3. Same thing. I then tried a memory chip that I knew worked for sure (in slot 1,2,3) and it still hangs at power on, with the same D-link message.
So it's not a bad RAM chip, and it is not because it's installed incorrectly. So now it's not giving me the IDE Init. Code anymore, now it's just giving me the Memory Detection Test Code.
When I switched the power supply back to the original (300w AOPEN) and it's doing the same Memory Dectect thing! It's not doing the IDE Init. anymore....
I'm kind of confused as how the D-Link codes changed from the first powersupply to the second, and then retained that diagnostic message... Maybe it is still that I have not given the board a powerful enough powersupply?
So next step in troubleshooting is to buy a 350w power supply and try it? If that doesn't work, I can't see anything else wrong with the configuration, so I would assume that the motherboard is bad. Then to exchange it.
So is this starting to sound like anything to you yet ?(
Thanks, Statik24
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Originally posted by Bas
Hi,
Test with another brand of powersupply.....
Assaf has seen this same problem with the AOpen 300W PSU (tested 3 of them) and none of them would work with this board.

D-Led Problem Kt3 Ultra 2 ARU

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
I have a computer that has been running fine for about 9 months.
Specs are:
MB - MSI KT3 Ultra2 ARU MS-6380E
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 2100+
RAM - 256MB Kingston PC2700
HDD - 80GB WD 7200 RPM
CD-ROM - Lite-on 52X
CD-WR - Lite-on 52x32x52x
VGA - Gigabyte Radeon 9200 128 MB
PSU - Raidmax Model KY-450ATX Max Output 350 Watts,
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Today I just turned it on and nothing happened.All I got was a blank screen and no beeps. The D-Led has 2 red on the top and 2 green on the bottom. The manual says Initializing Hard Drive Controller-This will initialize IDE Drive and controller. Just what does this mean? Is the controller on the MB dead or is the HD dead? Clearing Cmos, changing the PSU, and changing the video card did nothing. Still no bootup screen and I have an amber light on the monitor. I can`t even get into the bios and a boot disk doesn`t work.

..."changing the PSU, and changing the video card did nothing..." Please give AMPS of other P.Su. Also if you loaded something new or moved something before this "dying "; CPU/System temp. idle/full load. Some o/c. ? Special changes in Bios ? Some upgrade ? HD WD alone in IDE 0 and CDs in ide 1 ? What o/s ?Try taking off HD and boot with floppy or CD.

[SOLVED]Hard Disk not recognized when installing

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