K7T turbo2 v.5 IDE detection

Greetings,
I just got a K7T turbo2 to replace my K7T pro2a, which did not die but I figured I was living on borrowed time. Anyway when I was setting up my new board yesterday the first time I tried to start it up it would not initialize the primary IDE. Not knowing what else to do I switched cables. This seems to have fixed it and thus far I have not had any other problems. What I am wondering is this; is this a normal thing for this board? I just recently found this forum and in doing a search I found a couple of message discussing this issue. Have I made a poor choice in boards? In my initial research this seemed to be the best Kt133a out there but I am wondering at the moment. Are there other issues that I should watch for and will this IDE situation happen again? Thanks for reading and for any help you might offer. BTW this is only the second system that I have put together.
Dave

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Originally posted by Dmayner Anyway when I was setting up my new board yesterday the first time I tried to start it up it would not initialize the primary IDE. Not knowing what else to do I switched cables. This seems to have fixed it and thus far I have not had any other problems
More than likely a bad cable, damaged during the mobo swap. They're more delicate than they look/feel. The Turbo-2 is a very nice board, no vices to speak of.

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Think that line is not showing progress of scandisk, but ending time to make a selection of entering setup or select a bootable device...

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Source: DISK
The driver disable the write cache on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0
(repeated FOUR TIMES) Source: ATAPI
The Device \Device\IDE\IDEPort0 did not respond within the timeout period.
THEN:
Source: ATAPI
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\IDE\IDEPort0
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Maxtor 40g Master
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I start my computer and it will not load Windows because it does not detect a bootable drive.
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HD#2: WD Caviar WB300BB (30GB) UATA/100
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CDROM#2: TDK 48/24/48 CDR/W
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I hope I've given enough details to my problem. I appreciate any help given, thank you and if you have any questions for me, I'll be checking this post often so ask away! THANKS AGAIN!!
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If there is no option to boot from USB-HDD then it may never work.
Long shot I know, but what if you connect your USB drive, then power on your system, and press F11 when the logo/POST screen appears, does the drive show in the Boot Menu that appears?
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I don't have a DVD drive installed and it would be a bit of a pain to acquire one
Really? DVD drives are very common, and cheap as chips! You can pick up a brand new DVD writer, for the price of a (good) DVD movie.
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Hello everyone,
The thing is that "Power" button on my case doesn't work for me properly. When I'm just booting the machine, the moment I press the power button the whole system freezes (the hdd led remains on, power led goes off, fan is on, disks are on, monitor is on, boot screen is on). When I press it again, system reboots.
Many of you had the similar problem before... I tried most of the suggestions... Nothing worked for me.
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Please help.
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K7T Turbo2 V5.0
1Gb PC133 RAM
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Gforce2 GTS-V
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Where did you get the CPU from and do you know for sure it was pulled from a working system? eBay, and no... :(
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You did clean base of HSF and use fresh thermal compund/grease when installing CPU & HSF/cooler? Yes.
I assume it still works with the 1800+? Yes, using it right now.
Recheck power connections and make sure the plugs are fully seated (ATX 20 pin, JPW1 square 4 pin) I'll check that the next time, probably tomorrow.
Is PSU +12V more than 10-12 amps? No idea what you're talking about here...

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Motherboard: MSI K7T Turbo2 MS-6330 Ver5.0
Bios: 3.6
Chipset Driver: 4.43
Processor: AMD 1800+ XP
RAM: 256MB SDRAM PC133
HDD: WD800JB 80GB
CDROM: Generic 50x
CDRW: Lite-On 40x12x48 LTR40125S
With Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro, I cannot install any PCI devices. I have tried a modem, NIC and a Soundblaster live. It sees the device, and knows what it is, but fails to install. I have tried different PCI slots. I have tried just about every BIOS setting (and yes I disabled the integrated modem, either though there is no integrated modem) but can't figure it out.
With Windows 98SE, no problem installing PCI devices. I did use a different hard drive to test WIN98, but I don't think that would matter.
Does anyone have any ideas? I can't seem to get through to tech support (no surprise there).
Thanks,
DTM77

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Originally posted by maesus
I think this is just WinXP couldn't find the exact drivers for your PCI devices. Try to point to the driver location that you have downloaded and extracted, and manually install the driver.
Thank you for the advice, but that's not it. I did what you said.. pointed to either the CD or floppy. Even with the soundblaster, XP new it was a soundblaster and tried to install it's driver, but no luck.
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DTM77

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wow....... this is a mirror image of what happened to me almost.... to put it blunty... sounds like mobo is dying... or the cpu is dying.... but ....
did u just build this computer or did this just start up recently??? the mobo has some serious issue of POSTing when it's first installed and i have absolutely no idea why..
also... check your hsf on your cpu and c if it's it mounted properly. another thing.. r u changing anything in the bios???
Ed.
P.S. yes.. don't bother to rma. it'll take u about a month and a half to 2 months rma'ing.. i currently hate msi for how they handle my rma...

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Why is doing this? Other than the hanging up on the first bootup after the computer has been off, the computer runs just fine.
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K7T Turbo2 w/ latest bios 3.6
AMD Tbird 1.3ghz
256mb PC133 SDRAM
20gig maxtor HD
TNT2 M64 32mb video card
300watt inwin S500 case
Guillemot Maxi Muse sound card
100mb internal zip drive
52x generic cdrom
1.44 floppy
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Thanks Bas,
I flashed to the latest because the latest bios allowed my k7tturbo2 to support 2400+, and 2600+ amd XP cpus. With the 3.5 it would only allow support up to only 2200+. I don't have the 2400+ as of yet, on order at the momment.
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Yank out some of that ram, like the 512k stick and then try it out . ME doesn't need all that to function. BIGDADDY51CT.USA

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1 gb PC133 SDRam (2 512's)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro agp Graphics (128 mb)
SB Audigy gamer PCI sound
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WD 800JB as stand alone
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DC output +5v (0A - 40A)
DC output +12v (0.8A - 24A)
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Should I start all over again? If I do, should I install win2k with the sound card installed?
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Again, this is for an audigy sound card and Win2k:
please try out the following cleansweep and
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1. Enable the WINDOWS 2000 STARTUP MENU by rebooting your computer and
tapping F8 once every second OR holding the SHIFT key while rebooting.
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out of the installer
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UNINSTALLATION under UPDATE OPTION.
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MODE).
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- The card is the only card installed other than the Graphics card.
- The card is at least one empty slot away from the Graphics card.
- Place the soundcard away from all the others.
- That the card is seated properly in the PCI slot.
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- That the on-board sound on your motherboard is disabled through the
BIOS.
- That the on-board gameport is disabled through the BIOS.
- That your motherboard BIOS is up-to-date.
- That the operating system is up-to-date with the latest service packs
and patches.
- That there are no background applications open when you attempt the
solution.
- That the anti-virus program is disabled.
- That if you are over-clocking your system, return all options to their
recommended settings.
- That you access the PC with administrator rights.
13. Perform an installation via the CTRUN program on the CD
(X:\CTRUN\CTRUN.EXE where X is the drive letter of your CD drive that
has the installation CD).
[note:RE: Item 13 - there was a ctrunx directory with ctrunx.exe and start.exe in it. The ctrunx.exe wouldn't execute, but the start.exe did the job]
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Under the option 'Select your product': Select 'Sound Blaster'->'24-bit
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Under the option 'Select your operating system': Select 'Windows 2000'.
Click on the 'Go' button just below the Windows selection.
In the next page, click on 'EAX 4.0 ADVANCED HD Driver Update for
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS' and the download should
begin.
16. Once you are prompted to OPEN FROM CURRENT LOCATION or SAVE TO
DISK, select SAVE TO DISK and download the update to MY DESKTOP.
17. When the file has completed the phase of being transferred to your
computer, locate the file on your desktop and double click the file.

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-or-
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Did MSI send me back a lemon w/ chipset problems?
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yep to both replys --> hdd on primary master (no jumpers), cd-rw on secondary master (jumpered to master)
Blue ends to blue mobo plug.
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Welcome
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Here is a link to the different bios versions.
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=24
Turbo2 a terrific MB. Good luck! )

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