K7T turbo, Geforce2 MX = unstable system

I've got
Duron 700
K7T turbo
Geforce2 MX
320MB ram
and my winXP are very unstable, very offen it reports some errors. don't you have some fix?
I have heard that chips from Nvidia goes wrong on this MB

I have the GeForce 2 MMX 64 MB and I have K7T Turbo2 motherboard and it seems to run fine. My OS is Windows 2000 pro.( FULL VERISION). If you installed the update drives for this video card you might have problems I did and I had to redo my whole computer.
K7 TURBO 2
AMD XP 1700+ (COOLERMASTER FAN)
BIOS 3.62 UPDATE ON OCT 24,02
Maxtor 40GB and 10GB hard drive
CDRW and Creative 52X cd-rom
256 MB memory.
300Watts power supply

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Usb & msi k7t turbo

hello i've problem with instaling usb controler on my msi k7t turbo limited edition and win Xp .
system recognize usb controler but there is a message -- " There is a failure during instaling usb controler , abnormal data "
what should I do ?

Hi,
I have not seen this problem before....
Did you install extra USB controllers or are we talking about the on-board controllers???

K7T Turbo-R (6330 v3) & Athlon XP 1800 Problem

My current system is a K7T Turbo-R that I've had for a couple of years now. During this time, I've used an Athlon T-Bird 1.33GHz processor without any issues - very stable (I can probably count on one hand the number of lock-ups). The power supply is a 300W Antec.
I decided to upgrade the CPU. I checked the CPU support status and found that the highest I could use with this board is an Athlon XP 1800+ Palomino, which is what I purchased (code on the core is AX1800DMT3C).
After removing the TBird and installing the XP (along with a new CPU cooler), the system won't post at all, and all 4 LEDs are red. :O
I reinstalled the TBird (along with the same new cooler) and all is fine again. Figuring I had simply received a bum CPU, I tested the same XP 1800 on another system (a Soltek PurpleRay) and found that the CPU was fine.
Note: The BIOS is at v3.6 and J17 is open.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

This reply is for Mustang (a bit late maybe )
The description of your problem indicates one or more failing capacitors on your motherboard. Check out this link for some example pictures of what that looks like:
http://www.careyholzman.com/caps/thumbnails.html
The reason i'm thinking about this is that i replaced 6 dead capacitors on my own K7T turbo last weekend. 4 of the 4700uF/6.3V ones had died (around the CPU socket), and both of the 2700uF/6.3V ones near the AGP slot. My system was showing the EXACT same symptom you are having. It would not boot after powering on with the power button, but a reset helped (this is at 1000 MHz, at 1333 MHz resetting did not help). This also explains why your old processor works fine, but the new one doesnt. Your PSU/power regulator combo is able to provide a stable enough voltage to the old processor with it's low power consumption. But with the new more power-hungy processor those big capacitors (which help stabilizing the voltage supplied to the processor) are missed :/
Apparently a Taiwanese capacitor producer supplied a large number of faulty capacitors to motherboard producers like msi,asus, abit, etc. More info in here: (and lots of other sites too)
http://www.timcousins.com.au/capacitorfailures.htm
Hope this is indeed your problem, and that you can fix it

K7T Turbo & CPU upgrade

Oops, is this the right spot for this post ? Anyway...
I have a MSI K7T Turbo Version 3.0 Limited Edition motherboard,without RAID.
(yes I know it's old)
The AMD Athlon processor (1.1Ghz) got fried and I want to replace it. The board is fantasic and I want to upgrade the processor. What AMD processors can I use in this board ?
The manual says 1.3Ghz maximum. I have seen on websites it will take up to 1.8Ghz. Is this true ?
I have also seen it will only take Athlon, or Palamino.
Someone else told me it will take the 1.33 GHz Thoroughbred processor , or some low Athlon XPs like XP1800+.... Help !
Can anyone please clarify for me ?
I want to put the maximum size processor in that will run with stability....
ps. I have upgraded my cooling system !
dakiwi

Hi,
And welcome to the forum
You have succeeded in finding the fount of all MSI knowledge - This forum (well some of it anyway)
Go here:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=25&kind=1
Hope it helps you!
Axel

K7T Turbo LE IDE problem?

Hi,
I'm stuck here. I have an AMD Athlon 1400/266 (T-bird) running on the K7T Turbo Limited Edition mainboard, BIOS version 3.6. 512 MB PC133 SDRAM. 2 Maxtor HD's. My system is about 2 years old.
In the last 2 months, the following has started to happen:
Occasionally (say, 1 out of 10 attempts), my PC won't boot (DISK_BOOT_FAILURE). I know this in advance because when it happens, it gives two short beeps when powered up (can't find the meaning of them :O ).
The problem is: sometimes the Primary Master is gone ("none"), but other times, it's the primary slave. In that case, the PC will boot but behaves very strange once WinXP is started. And sometimes, both master and slave show up as "None" ?(
The optical drives on IDE2 are detected at all times.
D-Bracket is all green. I reseated the IDE cable with no result. Tested both the Maxtor HD's, no errors.
So, what now? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dennis

Just came back from my holiday so I ran some more tests.
First, I checked the drives one at a time using the PowerMax utility. 81GB slave is fine (tested alone).
40GB master is fine 9 out of 10, 10th time it says "Please Perform extended diagnostics" and then it reports "Congratulations, your drive passed all tests!"
A little weird....
Looks like failing drive, but could this also be IDE controller communication failure?
I also tried replacing the 80pin IDE cable with a 40pin cable which is brand new. This makes no difference other than slower system speed.
Maxtor website has no info, MSI same story.
Now what??? ;(

K7T Turbo LE and problems with IRQ routing Win98SE

When I boot my machine (AMD 1600+ on an MSI K7T Turbo Limited Edition), the BIOS reports me the following:
SiS6326 AGP card: NA (no IRQ even if I enable "Assign IRQ to VGA" in BIOS, but that's not my problem)
Startech NIC in slot 2: IRQ 11
D-Link DFE-538 TX in slot 3: IRQ 10
Echo Mia soundcard in slot 4: IRQ 5
Onboard Promise ATA100 controller: IRQ 11
2x USB controllers Via 3038: IRQ 3 for each one
IDE controllers: IRQ 14 and 15
In "Settings - Control Panel - System - Device Manager", there's one big difference:
The two USB controllers (Via 3038 PCI to USB) are on IRQ 10!!! The only way for Via USB controllers to be on their real good one IRQ (3) is to completely disable "IRQ Steering" in "Settings - Control Panel - System - Device Manager - System Devices - PCI Bus".
To resolve this, I tried:
- different Via 4 in 1 (4.32, 4.35, 4.36): no changes
- Via IRQ miniport uninstalled: no changes
- Enable "PnP OS" and "ACPI" in the BIOS: no changes
- Tried all the combinations in "Settings - Control Panel - System - Device Manager - System Devices - PCI Bus - IRQ Steering" (except disabling IRQ Steering because like I said, it resolves the bug. Though, I want IRQ Steering to be enabled AND the bug resolved).
So, if anyone have a clue, it will be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
gugusse
- MSI K7T Turbo Limited Edition
- Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4ghz)
- Win 98SE with all the patches
- NIC Startech (Realtek 8139 chip) in PCI 2 (IRQ 11)
- NIC D-Link DFE-538 Tx in PCI 3 (IRQ 10)
- Echo Mia in PCI 4 (IRQ 5)
- SiS 6326 AGP card (doesn't take an IRQ!)
- HDD Quantum Fireball Lct-10 20 GB 5400 rpm on IDE 1
- HDD Maxtor 6 L080J4 80 GB 7200 rpm on second IDE of the Promise controller (running in standard IDE mode, not RAID)
- Plextor 8/4/32 (master) and CD-ROM 56x Affrey (slave) on IDE 2
- 4 in 1 v.4.35

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SiS6326 AGP card: NA (no IRQ even if I enable "Assign IRQ to VGA" in BIOS, but that's not my problem)
Just thought that I would let you know that I have the same troubles with no IRQ being assigned by the BIOS and due to this I am having troubles getting a DUAL monitor set up running!
--David

K7T Turbo Limited Ed. and problems :(

Hallo
I have MSI K7T Turbo Limited Edition mobo (on KT133A). Yesterday something strange happened. I was surfing the net and suddenly my PC rebooted. After reboot I saw that in BIOS test, BIOS didin't detect my hard drives connected to first controller. CD-ROM and CD-RW were properly detected on the second controller.
I turn the PC off....waited about 30 seconds and turn it on. And everything was fine again. But in a short time it happened again. But now I heard something strange. I heard that both drives are stopping...slow down wnd stop. After a 1-2 sec. windows XP freezed and PC rebooted again :( And again there was no drives detected on first controller :(
I checked:
1. viruses - system is clean. I checked it with NAV2003 (within windows and dos - from bootable disc)
2. I tried to plug those 2 drives (15 GB Caviar and 15 GB Fujitsu) to the second controler (first was empty).
I asked some friends about it and one said that it could be power supply (maybe there is some instability or something).
Someone else told me that it could be a battery on the mobo (I have has this mobo for 2 years).
Or maybe it is a problem with motherboard? Maybe controller is damged....but...from the other hand when I restar the PC everythin works fine....some time :(
System: AMD XP1700+ (not overclocked), mobo as I said above, Radeon 8500, CD-ROM and CD-RW (pluged to second controller), Caviar 15 GB and Fujitsu (pluggeg do first controller), Windows XP with SP1.
I had no problems with that system befere.

Hi
I must check the type of that battery...but from the other hand if the battery was the problem it wouldn't keep all BIOS settings. Am I right? But it keeps.
Power supply is 300W - it is a kind off no-name (I bouhgt it with case 3 months ago and there was no problems befere :( )
I've already borrowed one - I'll check it later today (after work).

How to adjust IRQ for PCI card within BIOS - K7T Turbo

Hello,
I have a new Diamond firewire external 160 Gb harddisk.
In spite I have upgraded the BIOS for my K7T Turbo board to version 3.6 (by specs at MSI at least I should use version 3.4 to run 160 Gb HD's), I get I/O errors after trying to copy lot of data to the harddisk. ;( Afterwards I am losing contact to the device and get exclamation marks within the system configuration.
In searching for the errors, it could be the controller of the harddisk itself is not running proper, because I get NO fault by the firewire device within my PC, but just the Diamond controller + harddisk.
To make a last try if I can fix it, I want to give the internal firewire card an own IRQ number. Now with PnP options, many devices are sharing the same IRQ 11.
How can I set a fixed IRQ to the fourth (4e) PCI card within the BIOS?
Looking to the settings it seems I only can manage it when it is an ISA card, but those cards are not used any longer in modern mainboards.
Here are some screendumps of the errors.
1.
No problems after a hard reboot.
http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/1_reboot_no_error_a.gif
2. Closer look for the following devices.
The contents of the red boxe within the device system shall disappear after the error.. The blue ones do get exclamation marks
http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/2_reboot_no_error_b.gif
3+4. Error messages after a short while when trying to copy many data (above 4 Gb).
http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/3_Error_message.gif
http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/4_Error_message.gif
5. Errors within the system configuration.
Input 1 do get an exclamation mark first, afterwards input 2
http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/5_many_data_error_b.gif
The input of the previuos mentioned red box "general volume" (one is of the Diamond controller), is lost.
Within the file explorer also the harddisk volumes are lost.
6. The log files show a controller error of the disk at IRQ 11
http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/6_system_log.gif
Because no errors are found within the 1394 (firewire) device itself, I guess the problem is the Diamond controller of the harddisk.
But before going to the shop, I want to try to give the HD an own IRQ.
Regards, Léon Obers

Mmm. I just see some other options.
The device called "1394 CF type II IEEE 1394 SBP2 device is an extrenal firewire Compact flash reader, not a Diamond controller. (It is connected, during the test, but not used for copying files).
In that case, it could be, that the firewire card itself is the troublesome device. First CF-card reader is lost from connection (exclamation mark), afterwards the Firewire harddisk.
Regards, Léon Obers

K7T Turbo and Windows XP shutdown issues

I have just finished building a machine and installing Windows XP. When I choose "shutdown" from the "start" (whose idea was that anyway?) menu it gets to the screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer" (or something to that effect) but all the system fans are still running. How do I get the system to shutdown completely?
The configuration:
MS Windows XP Professional with SP1 and ALL updates from windowsupdate.com
No other software installed (except for the drivers needed for the M/B)
MSI K7T Turbo with the latest BIOS from MSI's site
AMD 1400 Thunderbird w/PAL 8045 heatsink and fan
512 PC133 SDRAM
WD 40Gb HDD (set as master on IDE1)
Sony CD-RW (set as master on IDE2)
GeForce 2 MX 64Mb video
3Com 3c905 10/100 NIC
Integrated sound
Generic Modem
Generic floppy drive
I am going to be giving this system to my mother to use and want to make sure that it will turn off when she hits shutdown.
Any help/assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Have you enabled ACPI?
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810903
Are all devices acknowledged without errors in Device Mangaer?
Hope things work out! Send my best to your Mother, will you.

K7t turbo won't boot with xp1800+

I'm tyring to do an upgrade from my 1.4 tbird to a xp1800+ palomino. I have 2 sticks of pc133 crucial ram and a 300W sparkle psu. I've been running at 133 the entire time i've had the 1.4 cpu.
the bios will detect the 1800+ fine, but the computer always reboots when it gets to the "Starting windows xp" screen
what could be the problem?

Hi
I have also bought a new cpu (XP1800+) for my K7T Turbo and the day before I upgraded the cpu I updated the bios from 3.2 to 3.6
Then I upgraded the cpu, and have a lot of trouble!
The machine stops all kinds of places, it is very hard/tricky to turn it on, some times I need to restart it serveral times.
The led displays (D-LED) comes with different failure from stopping at early chipset initialization to testing vga bios and initializing keyboard controller.
I found that the default VCore is not the 1.750V as required by the XP1800+ and that the motherboard only supports VCore = 1.700V, set this by manual.
Then remember to remove the jumper on the board to work with cpu's at 133FSB.
These things helped me a lot, but my machine was still very unstable.
I have now downgraded my BIOS to ver. 3.2 and testet it for one day, and have not experienced any kind of problem, except that it does not recognize my cpu as a XP1800+ but runs at 1533 MHz
I think, that theres a bug in the BIOS ver. 3.6 for the motherboard! ??
This is also showed by the problems did'nt stop when I changed my cpu back to the old TB1000, and had the same problems as with the XP1800+
So my advise:
- set the VCore manually
- remove the jumper
- downgrade your bios
I have plans to upgrade my bios 0.1 version at a time, until it becomes unstable, and then go 0.1 version back.
Im writing a new thread on this subject to, where I will also write about my experince about the bios upgrades.
Good Luck!
Regards
Ronni

K7T TURBO and GeForce 4600

Hello all,
I am having trouble trying to put together my K7T TURBO MS 6330 with an ASUS V8460 (Ti 4600 Ultra Deluxe).
Specifically, I just replaced my old Oxygen card with the GeForce 4 one, and as soon as I installed the SmartDoctor 2 utility, I got the message (in red flashing text) :
" Your VGA card voltage 1.5 is out of safe bound. Motherboard doesn't supply with reliable
1.5 voltage.
Please contact with motherboard manufacturer for help."
(I've allready sent an email to MSI support, and still waiting.)
Furthermore, I've been experiencing sudden crashes (i.e. when I am using 3d applications) followed by a blue screen reporting an error message about a file that seems to belong to SmartDoctor folder.
I've read that ASUS vga cards are rather demanding as for power and voltage. Anyway, I'd like to ask everyone in the forum, if there is a safe and reliable way for the
K7T TURBO and the Ti 4600 to work together, perhaps with a motherboard BIOS update (I am still using ver. 2.7 since there was no need to flash it till now) or something...or maybe it would be a better thing to do, to install on my machine an MSI 4200 8x AGP card that is available, instead... or ... go back to my oxygen thingie... :(
My PSU is 420 Watt, and my cpu is Athlon 1200 with 768 mb ram.
Well, I just hope someone could help...
Thanks in advance

Hi all,
I forced my AGP bus to x2 a couple of minutes ago, and now I got a message from Smart(...) Doctor that my voltage is out of 3.3 V bound etc.. and a blue screen reporting UNEXPECTED KERNEL MODE TRAP (?).So, the situation is not improved...
I also put my sound card to another PCI slot, but I still had no luck at all. The thing is that unfortunately I have IRQ 11 being used by 6(!) devices: my gfx card, my scsi controller, my soundblaster, 2 VIA USB controllers and Microsoft ACPI Compliant System.Not very nice indeed.
I wonder if updating the motherboard's BIOS would do any good; btw, mine is ver.2.7, while the latest is 3.6 (!), but since I was ok till now, why bother flash it?
For the time being, I am not able to run 3D Mark 2k1 beyond benchmark #3, since it stops, leaving me on the desktop, while whenever I run Maya, winamp 3 and ACDSEE 4 simultaneously,after a while I get the blue screen of death, saying something about anvioctl.sys file - a SmartDoctor file hiding into system32/drivers. ?(

Unknown Flash type in BIOS K7T turbo

I have tried to flash the my bios with newer version but it seems that it doesn't work out and the message is "Unknown flash type". Before this I already flashed the bios several times using different version until I used the 1.6 B for power bios from MSI then it seems that the bios get trapped couldn't get flashed with other version again. I ' m so desperate to flash my bios with BIOS ver 3.5 for K7T turbo2 but until now I can't get it done, could anyone help me how to solve this problem ?
My system :
K7T Turbo , BIOS ver 1.6 B power bios, ATHLON 1 G, RAM 384 MB, WIN 98 SE, LIVE! OEM, GE FORCE2 PRO.

Hi!
Happy to hear that you have things running again :D
The recommendation - in one sentence - is actually the way to flash as promoted by Bas and Assaf (moderators) for a long time and it has now found its way to the official website here (so I think you should thank them ) )
About the BIOSes: when you go through the list of available BIOSes, you will see that the earlier versions were issued because there were problems to be solved. after 3.0 or so there will be only some evolution in relation to new hardware (and for those versions - I remember in particular 3.4 some problems were reported).
Version 3.2 has proven its stability for a long time now and, unless you need the updates because - for instance - you have a 160 GB HDD, there is no need to go higher than 3.2 ...
Hope this helps (and: have FUN! :D )
Hans

Trying to get the old K7T Turbo back to work ...

Hi all,
I am trying to build a system from old parts I have lying around:
850 MHz Athlon,
PC100 SDRAM,
K7T Turbo V3
I cannot get the system to work so far ... it will not post but hang at 0100 (RAM problems) every time ...
This is what I have tried sofar:
- trying different sticks of RAM (4 - all PC100, ranging from 32 to 128 MB)
- changing PSU (a 300W Fortron came with the case ... I tried a 400W Zalman too)
- swapping graphic cards
- changing batteries
- tried with the board in and out of the case
- reseating CPU, memory, graphic card, etc ...
Nothing of the above helped ... I noticed that (at least some of the time) the power led is flickering fast.
I think that the board might be damaged during storage ... any suggestion is welcomed!
Regards,
Hans

Hi Grayone,
Thnx for replying! I did a visual inspection of the board (again, actually ) - no bulging capacitors, no leaking, no burn marks.
Any other suggestions?
Regards,
Hans

K7T Turbo(ms6330)ver3

i see in msi webside that this mainboard support xp1800.in cpu support they say the same.but in the bios support (bios ver3)they say that onely k7t turbo 2 support xp1800 and above.is there somthing wrong here?http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=100&MODEL=MS-6330%20Ver3.0 http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=100%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20 http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/cpu_support/cpu/spt_cpu_detail.php?UID=100&NAME=MS-6330%20Ver3.0%20%20%20%20%20&NAME=MS-6330%20Ver3.0

Hi ernyh,
If you look around on the forum, you will find a considerable number of "success stories" and I believe every single one )
However, this does not make the limitation to the 1800+ a myth. The limitation has been set by MSI and is therefore a reality - there are the technical reasons in relation to the powerlines on the board (just look around in this forum), but there are also "economical reasons" like the fact that the gain in performance you (or xroyal, for that matter) will have will be a mere 10-20% in theory - meaning that part of it will be visable in benchmarks. In practice it will be hardly noticeable in comparison to running at stock speed for most games and applications.
Also, the people who will ask the question are almost invariably newbies and giving them advice that will cost them their warranty if something does go wrong, is not good advice - at least in my book )
Furthermore, there is no question about it that running the system out of specs will have a negative effect on life span - even if there is adequate cooling of the cpu - because, for instance, there will also be stress on other components.
So, as long as the limitation is there "officially" I am of the opinion that the answer to the question must continue to be "1800+". Nevertheless, I hope that you will not run out of luck )
Hans

K7T Turbo 2 False IRQS

I'm new to the forum, but not new to the computer world. I own a MSI K7T Turbo 2 mobo. I've installed both win2k pro and win2k server many times trying to resolve the issues. Durning pre post the IRQS seem to be fine. When I check them in the Operating system I'm getting like ethernet reading irq 19, soundcard reading 16, modem reading 18. This is by for the weirdest configuration I ever seen in a system. I'm thinking its factory defect. I know that there are only 16 irqs not 20 of them....Lost in space.
X(

No, this is not a defect. This is "APIC", Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller, is a PC2001 Compliance design guide, which expands the IRQ resources. Is your system running without any issue? If no problem, that means APIC works fine in your system. :D

K7T turbo, Geforce2 MX = unstable system

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