K7T266 Pro (6380)

Why in MSI K7T266 Pro (6380) all vga cards malfunction? I test 5 vga cards and function only 1!! ?(

i have the board ms-6380 using BIOS v 3.5 (AMI).
i can tell you:
the GF2 GTS pro worked well
the Asus GF4 MX 440 caused my system boot proces...(beeps 8 times)
my new POV GF4 Ti 4200 works fantastic!
my system is using a cheap 350Watt power supply.
(using 7 coolers/fans...)

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MSI K7t266 Pro 6380 MOBO

Ok you guys. I just baught a new case for my computer and I transfered everything over!
The Main board is an MSI MS-6380 2.0
BIOS is American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 11/30/2001
AMD Athalon 1800+ proc
1 gig mem
After the transfer....on first start up. for reason the BIOS reset itself. sinse then i have only been able to set the bus line at 100 instead of 133 *Thats its max is 133*
when it is at 133 *I have a duel boot system with Win 2000 and Win XP pro* Win 2000 goes to a blue screen at start up and WIN XP just locks up at its post screen and sometimes doesn't even make it that far.
The new case has a 400W power supply instead of a 300W and i added a new Proc fan rated up to a 3000+
The fan is running at normal speeds and the proc is quite cool at both 100 and 133
ALSO....when i change the multiplier at 100 or 133 I loose all Video to my monitor and have to reset the BIOS manually to get it all back up.
So i am stuck at 1.1 instead of 1.5 like its suppose to be!
I'm sad:( Have you ever seen a 29 year old man thats A+ certified**Not that that means much!* cry??? My wife took pictures!!

Yes your right I should have included that on my signiture file i will be sure to update it!
ALSO
Your correct again! It was the PROC fan causing the problem.....now i have to figure out why it was the fan!?!
Thermaltake Volcano 11+ was the fan I used....according to the specs it should have worked fine for the proc.........oh well...its working now....
Thanks for the suggestions....
sorry to have irratated you!
T.s.

GF4 4400 (8871) On K7T266 Pro (6380)

X( Well I've heard about this going around already. Im having a major problem with artifacts leading to system freeze with this Geforce Mainboard combo. I am otherwise happy with all my MSI gear, and this is really the first major unsolvable problem I've had. Any suggestions would help since the local MSI distributor (PC Club Southern California) is run by a bunch of human rejects that will offer me no exchange or solution despite my having spent literally thousands of dollars there. Please help as I dont really need a $300 paperweight.
Thanks in advance....

Okay its definitely not heat or lack of power supply so Im going to run with bad ram as I have a PNY 8871 GF4 4400 working just fine. However the only way PC Club's south coast store will exchange is with a full on RMA to the factory which means I have no video for 6 weeks. This after I have spent untold thousands in the place and have only ever returned one thing. Any ideas or perhaps some muscle from MSI to contribute to the cause?

K7T 266 Pro (6380) + 0.13 micro = ?

Does my motherboard MSI K7T266 Pro(6380) work with a 0.13 micro AMD prozessor? Does it work with prozessors over 2000+? Will there be a new bios release? :O

it seems that Athlons with new smaller core does not work in this motherboard. is there going to be a new BIOS supporting new CPUs?
it's really not fair that I bought the CPU 1700+ XP because I know my MB supports till 1800+ XP and then I find out it doesn't ;(

MSI 6380 K7T266 Pro Boot problem

My computer will not boot. The D-LED on the motherboard (MSI 6380) shows one of the LED in red when booting. Since I do not know is that's LED 1 or 4, the following is the reference from the D-LED in the manual:
1. Testing RTC (Real Time Clock)
2. Boot Attempt - This will set low stack and boot via INT 19h.
Can someone help me? What seems to the problem and how to resolve it?
I am using the following:
MSI 6380 (K7t266 pro), BIOS ver 1.9, PC2100 DDR (256mb), 64mb 4x AGP, 80gig HD, NIC, CDR, and 56K Modem.

put power on and off agian, acpi enabled !! in bios, do not use pci slot 1 and 5, if there is Creative and a modem on that place

MSI K7T266 Pro(MS-6380) AND Gf4 ti4600

Just recieved a Albatron gf4 ti4600 card. The computer won't boot. The card booted perfectly on a friends expo kt266a motherboard. But the card won't boot on any of my two pc's. We have tried his Enermax psu, we have tried everything. Are there any possible solution? Is there any other who has had problems with MSI K7T266 Pro(MS-6380) and gf4 ti4600 cards? we tried his Point Of View gf4 ti4200 XP card on mine and it worked.

?(
I' have the same problem with a GeForce4 MX440 !
My computer send 8 beeps and...nothing. When I retry 3 ou 4 reset, it boot and all is OK with Windows XP.
It seems there is a voltage problem with AGP slot. I post 2 mails to MSI France but they don't answer at this time...

Help! Can't overclock via CPU Ratio (multiplier) with K7T266 Pro (MS-6380)?

I have a Athlon 1.2 GHz (266 MHz FSB) that I'm trying to overclock via the clock multiplier on my K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) mobo.
Right now the CPU ratio is set to Auto in the Hardware Monitor in the BIOS, but I know that it's using a clock multiplier of 9 (9 x 133 Mhz = 1197 Mhz, which is about 1.2 Ghz)
The only way that I can overclock this CPU is by increasing the FSB above 133 MHz. That works, but I'd like to avoid that as the USB no longer works when the FSB is past 138 MHz (i.e. I can't OC higher than 1242 MHz through the FSB)
If I set the clock multiplier above 9 (ex: 9.5, 10, etc.) nothing happens. I reboot and my CPU is still at 1.2 GHz. Its as if I can't OC by increasing the CPU ratio. I'd like to set it to 10 and run at 1.33 GHz but I can't. Why is that?
If I lower my CPU ratio below 9, then the computer freezes up totally at bootup and I have to clear the CMOS to get it working again.
THANKS!

Hi,
You need to unloack the CPU, search google for closing L1 Bridges, then you can set it to anything you want

K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) Issue

Hello all
This problem has been bugging me for quite some time now;
When I start any Games/movies/Dxdiag or something similar that is beeing used by my GFX card my pc hangs up and afterward it reboots. When I boot up agin in Windows it says that my GFX card was the reason why the system rebooted
My Computer specs are:
nVIDIA TNT2 Riva vanta 32mb
512 MB DDR RAM pc 2100 (Have tryed memtest86)
AMD 1500+
K7T266 Pro (MS-6380)
Regards
Thomas

Had the same trouble with my old card. The thing wont work on new motherboards with the latest nvidia drivers because the AGP port speed is too fast for the card. You can fix it by disabling the vertical sync but that just makes the system unstable. Roll back to the 46 driver, I think that's the one dated october 2003. That driver seems to work good with those cards or use the original driver it came with. If you still can't get it to work it might be a good idea to look at updating to a video card that can handle 8x AGP.

K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) v1.0 with IBM 180GXP/180 GB drive

Hi,
I'm thinking about buying one of the new IBM Deskstar 180GXP hard disks and I'd like to go for the 180GB version.
Question is, wether my board K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) v1.0 with latest bios v1.9 will support the large drive 100%.
I read in the changelog for the bios about the support for the Maxtor 160 GB drive but is somebody actually using a disk larger than 128 GB, that might require 48 bit adressing with the MS-6380 (it's the old version 1.0 I'm talking about) and has more than 137 GB on data on it without noticeable problems? I couldn't find any info about this in the forums or on the net.
Thanks in advance for your help.
G. Freeman

Hello Assaf,
Thank you for your note.
Just for the archives: I bought the 180GB IBM-disk and it's working without any problems. The 1.9 BIOS is fine and Windows recognizes the drive as well. Only thing I had to do was to update the VIA 4-in-1 drivers and enable Big LBA support in Windows 2000, as described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article #305098. After a reboot Windows recognized the complete disk (before only ~128 GB).
After some hours of testing (bit by bit writing and reading on the whole disk and some 'WinBenching') I installed Windows 2000 and it's running very well so far.
Anyway, others might be better off with an IDE controller for Windows 98/ME or NT4.
G. Freeman

K7T266 Pro-R(MS-6380) & AthlonXP 2100+

I have a K7T266 Pro-R(MS-6380) with the 1.9 Bios. Currently i'm using a 1,4GHz Athlon Thunderbird. I have been thinking of upgradning my cpu. According to the cpu test the AthlonXP 2100+ doesn't work with my motherboard. Why is this? The AthlonXP 2000+ works just fine and they are the exact same .18 build series. The AthlonXP 2100+ is a few mhz faster. Is there no way to get the AthlonXP 2100+ running? They are both of the Palomino (0.18u) series....

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Add Palomino CPU support for 1.5Ghz~1.7Ghz
That is taken from the list of things updated in bios v. 1.5 for my motherboard. The latest bios released is v. 1.9 and since a XP 2100+ = 1,73GHz, why doesn't it work with my motherboard?

K7t266 Pro Ms-6380 + Western Digital 160gb

Hi there.
I have a MSI K7T266 PRO V1.0 motherboard with the 1.9 BIOS version.
I wanna buy an Western Digital 160 GB hard drive. Did anyone know if the motherboard can detect it succesfully (because of the 137 GB barrier).
Has anyone been successful in this operation? ... The BIOS version said the 137 GB barrier is broken.
BUT ... I REELY, REELY, REELY NEED TO KNOW IF IT'S TRUE AND IT'S ACTUALLY WORKS FINE....
Thanks to everyone.
Q Inc.

if it supports one 160 gb drive it will support any size drive by any maker
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=27&kind=1

CPU capacity of K7T266 PRO-R(MS-6380)

I have a motherboard as specified in the header. Now, I am not very good at computers, so I have been unable to find out what is the most powerful CPU this motherboard is able to handle. It says in my user's manual that 1400MHz is max, but someone told me that it can take more. Is there a difference between the k7t266 pro and pro-r? Can anyone please help me? I would be really grateful.
Also, my bios version is AMI v. 1.9 if this is important.
Thanks!

Hi,
This should say it all: link :D

K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) safe BIOS-upgrading?

I'm still using BIOS v.1.0A for my K7T266 Pro... I guess...
So what's the safest way to upgrade to V1.9?
I'm unsure about flashing... and cant afford any comupter-failure for the moment (thou I want a bigger harddisk)!
Any suggestions? /Stefan

Best way is to follow the instructions to flash using 2 floppy disks. One will have the windows98 startup files the second will have the flash program and the update itself. Just make sure you copy the flash util and the update over to the temporary drive it makes. Also if you have a UPS (universal power supply: battery backup) it would be benifical to hook it up just in case the power goes out.
Just make sure you read the stickies in the bios section of the forum and if you have any other questions feel free to ask. It is always a risk to flash your bios, but it is also a risk everytime you get into a car. You just want to be well informed, before you attempt this, just like you "should" be with driving a car.
Good Luck
Jeremy

Having trouble installing Radeon 7500 into K7T266 Pro

I am having all sorts of problems switching from my nVidia TNT 2 (MaxiGamer Cougar) video card to my new Radeon 7500. I am running an AMD Athlon 1400 with 512 MB DDR RAM.
I have the K7T266 Pro (MS-6380) chipset.
Can anyone think of what I am missing here. I think I have all the updates AGP drivers I need but I am not sure. I get lock ups prior to windows starting everytime. Even in safe mode.
Grrrr.

I ended having to format my c drive. Windows began doing some really funny things and then never started again with old or new video cards. I have re-installed windows but now sometimes my monitor stays blank when I start the computer. It is supposed to wake itself up but when it does, it has no picture. To solve this I shut down and flick the switch on the back and discharge everything. It then works again for another few times. Do you think this may be a problem with my power supply? I have an Enermax 350W. I bought it when I built the computer and figured it would have plenty of juice.
Thanks for you help

K7T266 Pro R and Geforce 2 GTS problem

Hello everyone. I have been experiencing a problem for some time now regarding lockups and crashes caused by my video card, which vary in severity depending on the driver version used. Since I'm using an MSI K7T266 Pro Raid mobo (version 1) I thought I'd post my question here.
The exact problem depends on the driver version. Using any Nvidia Detonator drivers at version 40 or newer, my system becomes extremely unstable. On first booting everything seems fine, however if I try to open my Geforce display properties the Windows freezes during the redraw of the display properties window, which goes blank. Sometimes I can call up Close Programs Dialog, which shows DDHELP in the list, and [not responding]. I've never actually gotten an error message from DDHELP or any other error message -- perhaps the computer jams too hard for Windows to get one up. I've seen reports around the Net about DDHELP problems from things like DirectX 8.1, but they're never quite like my problem. The problem is identical on DirectX 8.0, 8.1, and on 9.0.
No matter what I try to do in Windows with these drivers installed, the computer will lock up in seconds. For example, if I then open IE 5.5, I might be able to get as far as a page or two before the similar thing happens: during the window redraw the computer locks up (usually with a blank or partially-redrawn window), sometimes causing the mouse to lock and sometimes not, and then if I can get the Close Program Dialog open DDHELP has appeared and is Not Responding.
The most stable driver version I've found so far is 29.42, which does not cause the lockup above and never causes DDHELP to appear. However, it is quite unstable as well, and causes Windows to lock up sporadically during 2D window redraws in various programs. For example, when calling up a Save Document dialog or when opening a pulldown menu the program will lock either before any of the redraw becomes visible on screen or when the new dialog box is "skeletal", only partially drawn. Sometimes the crash is severe enough that I have to do a cold restart on my system.
The other problem is that sporadically garbage blocks will appear in portions of my screen, like old windows and color bands popping up that do not refresh. This often happens to me in Photoshop 6, and happens usually when I'm scrolling down a window or something.
These problems with version 29.42 all appear to be 2d window-drawing related. I do not have any problems with 3d games with 29.42. However, the new reference drivers are so unstable on my system that I can't even try to open them.
With 29.42, the most stable drivers I've found so far, some kind of lockup due to redrawing windows almost always occurs within an hour (sometimes minutes) of booting up.
For what it's worth, dxdiag tests just fine.
I was hoping someone could help me figure out what's causing the trouble, what driver I should use, and how to resolve it. If possible, I'd really like to use the newer drivers as I've been told they're much faster. In any event, I hate having such an unstable system where lockups could occur at any moment!
Here's the lowdown of my system:
-MSI K7T266 Pro Raid [1] mobo (MS-6380)
AMIBIOS date: 5/1/2001
VIA 4in1 drivers version 4.45
ACPI power management disabled
PnP Aware OS enabled
-256 meg PC2100 SDRAM with 266 mhz FSB
2.5 cas latency
-AMD Athlon 1.33 gb with 266 mhz FSB
-Asus AGP-V7700 (Geforce 2 GTS) 32 mb
AGP 4X, Fast Write enabled, Aperture size 128 mb
current drivers: Nvidia reference 29.42 (also 40+)
on IRQ11 (shares with my Ethernet card)
BIOS version 2.15.01.14
-Windows 98SE
-DirectX 9.0 (also tried 8.1 etc)
-Soundblaster Live! 5.1 on slot 3, drivers from 5/2002
-Viewsonic PF790 monitor
-C drive is 30gb Western Digital 7200rpm, FAT32
-D drive is Raid 0 striped array, pair of 40gb 7200rpm
-Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet Adapter on slot 5
-no memory resident programs on loadup except for WinPoET, Explorer, Systray
If there's anything I've left out that could help, let me know!
Thanks to anyone in advance,
Raphael Tehan

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Originally posted by backwoodz
You should post this in the VIA forums........If was me I would first swap the nic card to a differnt slot and try to stop the sharing of videos irq.....secondly try relaxing your memory timings to the most laxed setting
Thanks, I realized after posting this was the incorrect forum. I've put it in the VIA Socket A boards area, and also am trying the Via Arena forums.
Are you talking about my mainboard or graphics card memory?
Here's what I've got set under Advanced Chipset:
Configue SDRAM timing by: SPD
SDRAM Frequency: HCLK
SDRAM CAS# Latency: 2.5
SDRAM Bank Interleave: disabled
SDRAM 1T command: enabled
AGP mode: 4x
AGP comp driving: auto
Manual AGP comp. driving: CB
AGP Fast Write: enabled
AGP Read Synchronization: disabled
AGP aperture size: 128 mb
Do any of these settings seem problematic to you?
Thanks.

K7T266 Pro (6380)

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