K7T266 Pro2 RU V2.0 - 250Gb HDD?

Hi folks, Ive been reading though these threads but havent found an answer yet.
I have a K7T266 Pro2 RU motherboard and I have connected a 250gb hdd to one of the ide ports.
I have partitioned (in dos) and formatted it into a whole drive. WinXP shows the 250gb drive but only shows 130 odd gb available.
I conducted research that has suggested that there is a 137gb limit caused by older versions of bios on this board, though Im not sure how correct this is.
It currently has ami bios a6380ms v3.2.
Has anybody found a solution without updating their bios? I have already attempted updating and have been unsuccessful. I will post the error messages I received during bios operation if there is no other solution.
Thanks in anticipation.

I do now.
Windows recognises the whole disk, and its also fixed my usb2.0 ports which I had long since given up on!
Chalk one for microsoft.
Cheers!

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K7T266 Pro2-RU Big HDD Support ?

Hi there.
Anybody know if the K7T266 Pro2-RU can support the new WD 250GB HDD ? MSI Archives say 160GB works ok. Am reluctant to spend the cash just to try.
Want to use the new HDD as a second HDD on IDE4. Primary one is installed on IDE3 (system thinks its a Raid Stripe 1+0) but have no interest in RAID, just want to make use of the available IDE ports. Currently IDE0 and IDE 1 are used for 3 optical drives.. a DVD-ROM, DVD +/-RW and a CDRW.
Advice appreciated.
Thanks

Except... windows won't recognise the drive when its plugged into IDE4 when its set up as a second Stripe 0+1 array. Works perfectly well when plugged into IDE1 or IDE2 though. So it sounds liek a software issue to me...
Any ideas ?
Currently have an 80GB HDD on IDE3 set up as an array 1 ie Stripe 0+ 1. This is my boot drive.
When I insert the new 250GB drive in IDE4 the RAID controller recognises it just fine and sets up a second Stripe 0 + 1 array, no problems. But, after XP loads (boots off Array 1) I cannot find the second hard drive anywhere.
I have tried the latest Promise 100 controller driver for XP that I can find on the net, no joy, and I have the most recent BIOS from this site for this board.
I'll stick this on a new post as well since its kind of a different question.

MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU and 200GB HDD

Since 2001 I have used my computer builded with MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU ( 6380) mainboard.
A week ago I bought a new Samsung's hard disk (SP2014N) with 200 GB capacity. Before connection of the new disk to my computer, I upgraded BIOS to the newest one, downloaded from MSI Web site.
The new disk is connected as master to IDE-0 interface and to the second IDE is connected my old 40 GB Seagate (as master) and DVD recorder NEC ND-3520 (as slave). The BIOS has detected the new disk as Auto, the old one as User type (47), the DVD recorder as CD and everything looks right, but there is a problem: I can not connect any drive as slave on Primary IDE channel. The BIOS does not recognize the HDD or CD/DVD connected to slave on Primary channel.
Can you help me, please?

To Osnavi's questions: yes, yes, yes, yes.
To DaveR: my both optical drives worked as slave together with my old Seagate HDD (40 GB) and everything was fine.
I don't like to connect both hard drives on the same channel, because I'm working with huge video files and I need some speed of independent HDDs.

HELP! k7t266 pro2-u winxp install

Hi,
I have a problem with installation of winXP SP1 on my computer. First i got a blue screen in the first step of installation (windows loads drivers, then freezes). It said that acpi.sys is the problem. I disabled it and then the problem was irq not less... . Then i disabled
internal cache, system bios cacheable and shadowing options and installation started but the computer was too slow ( it took about an hour to copy the files on hard disk). After the installation was finished i put back the fields internal cache to writeback and c00 32k shadow to cached and left system bios cacheable on disabled ( i read in the manual that it might be a reason for system hangups) to speed it up. For a while it seemed like it was working ok, i installed the drivers, software... but tomorrow everything up. windows started to freeze when i tried to encode mp3's from audio cd's, when i tried to install new sofware...
I dont know what to do and don't want to disable internal cache because of the huge system slowdown...
Can anyone help !!!
my config is
amd athlon xp 1800+
microstar k7t266 pro2-u with lan
256mb kingston 266 ddr
maxtor 40gb ata133
teac w540e writer
nvidia g-force 2 mx400 64mb

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Hi!
What can your PSU provide in terms of ampères?
Load BIOS setup defaults. Open case.
Have the HDD and the CDRW on different IDE channels and cables, with both as Master respectively at the end of the cable.
Install VIA 4in1 drivers.
When everything works, make proper BIOS adjustments.
Best wishes, and good night!
Can't provide the data about my PSU because i'm not at home right now.
I will do it tomorow.
Cables are already set up like that.
Thank you

K7T266 Pro2 & new hard disk

Hi
I have just upgraded my K7T266 Pro2 with a 2400+ chip (with modification & bios) and upgraded RAM to 1 GB. All works OK.
Now I am trying to put in a new 250 GB Western Digital hard disk and installing Windows XP Pro from scratch and I am running into problems. The hard disk is on the main IDE connectors.
The BIOS recognises the hard disk. When installing Windows XP, it seems to only detect a 131 GB disk!. Windows installs but when the computer reboots as part of the installation, the hard disk will not boot, even when forced as the fist boot device.
If I boot from the Windows CD and go through the install again same problem.
Any suggestions?
Chris
Adelaide
Australia

harrisc:
You mentioned that you updated the BIOS - the last release (1.9) had a note that it "Support Maxtor 160GB HDD (4G160J8)" so I would expect the board to support the 250 Gb WD drive, as well.
The problem probably is in Windows - XP versions before SP1 did not support 48 bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing) which is needed for drives larger than 131 Gb to be recognized.
Here is a link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article with a 'fix':
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q303013
If your installation disk is a pre SP1 then that's the problem; if it's SP1 or SP2 then there IS a BIOS limit (contrary to what I assumed above). Your best bet then is to partition the drive with a ~50 Gb primary and 200 Gb extended partition and live with two logical drives.
Good luck,
ss

K7T266 Pro2 - BSOD - missed bag of tricks

Hi all, I have a problem with my computer and I am not sure what's the problem. The System has been running fine for about a year.
Lately when I shut my computer off for a length of time and start it up a few hours later I get a blue screen, generic of course and have to restart, when I do reboot the computer starts up in safe mode, I then recieve a display error and have to reset my display properties. Which of course causes another Blue screen and recieve the following error - SoundBalster Live! "Math Co-proessor is not detected. Eum10k1.vxd cannot be loaded"
Config
k7t266 pro2
AMD AThlon 1800+
pc2100 DDR 256 mb
Geforce 2 32 mb
60 md HDD ATA 133
Sound Blaster Live - Value
Dlink 528 networkcard.
and of course Windows 98 se
anyone have any idea what this might be.
TIA
Dave

Hi,
There are some known issues with SB live cards and MSI motherboards. Is it possible to try the onboard sound. Its not too bad a I use it:)
Rob

K7T266 Pro2-RU won't power up

Hey Wonkanoby,
I figured I'd post this question here also.
Awhile back I built a system for my buddy using an MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU with an XP1800. He brought it to me a couple days ago because when the power button is pushed absolutely nothing happens. No fans, no POST LED's, nothing.
The power supply ( Antec 420W ATX ) works fine. I put it in my own system and it worked no problem.
I tried clearing the CMOS, didn't help. All jumpers are set correctly. The CMOS battery is good.
I took the board out. Checked it front and back with a magnifying glass. Saw no signs of a short or burn mark.
Are there some contact points I can check for voltage at? I am by no means an electronic technician but I know how to use a meter without frying anything ( well, most of the time ) 8)
System specs:
MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU w/XP1800
256MB Mushkin PC2100 DDR
120GB WD HDD
ATI Radeon 8500

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Originally posted by Mekanic
Tried a third power switch from another case, BINGO!
Thanks guys )
power switch?? like power switching supply or power switch as button to turn on??
PS I had similar situation like PC won't turn on at all problem is not propertly connected power button (ATX)

K7t266 pro2 ru freeze

Hello.
I purchased this motherboard on 2002.
This is my config:
Hardware:
Mobo MSI 6380 k7t266 pro2 ru (via kt266a chipset)
CPU AMD Athlon 1800+ Palomino core (no overclock)
RAM Kingston DDR PC2100/266 MHz (no overclock)
Videocard Triplex Millennium Silver Geforce 4 Ti 4200 64 Mb Ram (no overclock)
Analog TV card miroMEDIA PCTV
Digital Satellite TV Card Hauppauge Nexus-s (has mpeg2 hardware decoder onboard)
sound card CMI/C-media 8338 4ch (mobo's internal AC97 disabled)
ISDN TA card Asuscom PCI internal P-IN-100 ISDNLink
Software:
Microsoft XP SP2 slipstreamed, totally "windowsupdated"
Via drivers 4-in-1 "Hyperion" 4.51 installed (latest)
Promise FastTrak 100 Raid controller Driver 2.0.0.0 (latest)
Nvidia drivers Detonators 56.72 WHQL installed (not latest but working very well)
C-media driver for 8738/c3dx 5.12.1.0 (forced but perfectly working! and latest)
Bt 848 generic BtPCI WDM drivers (for the miroMEDIA PCTV, but tried even with pinnacle 4.* VFW drivers and 5.* WDM drivers)
Hauppauge Drivers 2.18c (latest)
The problem is this:
when i'm watching tv, from the analog or the digital card, if i do something on one of the hard disks (on the raid or not, ntfs or not), like transfer file, search a file, or something very HEAVY that requires high data rates on the hdds, the system freezes, EVERYTIME!
I read on this forum about the pci latency unofficial patch by george i-dun-remember-who, but even installing it, it didn't help.
What i must do? The system works not so bad in other situations, so how can i fix this problem?
I get mad when the system freeze 'cause i need to hard-reset everytime and i think this can do damage on xp files :(
Please, if anyone has this same problem and fixed it, help me!!!
Thanks in advance.

Hi there.
@Fredrik Åsenius:
Look, i was wrong about cas latency, it was 2,5 set by SPD, not 2. For the HD disks, they are ALL cooled by fans of 4x4 or 5x5 (cm), that i obviously clean regularly, so you can understand that i touched they with the finger and they are kinda at ambient temp.
Anyway, this are the pci card placings:
Slot 1 -> empty
Slot 2 -> miroMedia PCTV card
Slot 3 -> Asuscom ISDN TA card
Slot 4 -> C-media/CMI 8338 audiocard
Slot 5 -> Hauppauge Nexus-s DVB-S TV card
More infos: like i said in the first post, I ever installed from the beginning, that means when i fresh installed xpsp2, the "PCI Latency timer patch" from George Breese (now i remember him ^^) from this page http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/#PCI, but didn't help.
Actually i followed the hint from MGP, and a little more, so i tried to enable wait states, delayed transactions and stuff, and disable fastwrite, low agp x factor (from 4x to 2x), even highen PCI Latency timer in the BIOS to 248, the maximum, and seems that the situation is better, i tried to watch tv (from the Nexus-s with Progdvb) and do a search on all my hd, the system didn't freezed and the video didn't glitched as before. Only when i ran the PC Alert's Cooler XP, continuing watching dvb-s tv and continuing searching, the system freezed. Well, a little better but i'm investigating some more: i was asking and googling if there's a PCI test bench software but had no luck, a guy from irc told me to try Sandra and Aida. Actually i tried Sandra, the latest, and read about the pci card infos.
I found an interesting thing: not all pci card have the same PCI Latency timer, there are some that has a personal entry. I googled for PCI Latency timer again and found a program named PCI Latency Tool 3, that let you set every card's timer separately. This program shows exactly the same settings as Sandra, so i'm sure that is good working ^^
Actually i reset the timer at the default entry, 64, and this is the entry list of every card's PCI Latency timer:
miroMEDIA PCTV -> 64
Asuscom ISDN -> 16
C-media/CMI 8338 card -> 64
Hauppauge Nexus-s -> 255
This are the timings of the other pci related and mobo integrated devices:
CPU to PCI bridge -> 0
PCI to AGP bridge -> 0
PCI to ISA bridge -> 0
Controller IDE VIA BusMaster -> 32
Promise Fasttrak 100 Raid ctrl -> 32
Microstar (NEC) USB 2.0 ctrl -> 64
Nec Usb ctrl 1 -> 64
Nec Usb ctrl 2 -> 64
And finally this is the timing of the AGP card:
Nvidia geforce 4 ti 4200 agp4x -> 248
I dunno if there's something wrong so i didn't changed anything, but i think that's the Nexus-s timing is really high and over the maximum allowed by the mobo, so can be this the problem cause... if not i dunno where to hit my head
@ osnavi:
No, i dun think can be the power supply not enough, i dun have a friend with a better one but i tried uninstalling all the others cards (sound, pctv, isdn) and all the other Hd and the dvd-rw too, so only the basic needed to try: mobo + cpu + ram + agp card + dvb-s card + 2xhd 80gigs, and did exactly the same... well, i dun think now that 17 A is not enough, even if it's not so the minimum... Ah, did i said that it did the same even with a "low power" gefo2mx ? well i'll write it again :p ^_^
@MGP:
I know that's not an MSI fault and is a Via fault... but it got me sad, cause i like MSI hardware and stuff, but this bad experience, and more of this no support at all from the manufacturer.... well is no good :p
For the other things look above, i tried but i dun think agp stuff is related.... I think that is pci latency related, cause i know that i.e. eide or raid performances are not so good. Thinking that when my issue pops out is exactly when i'm watching tv and doing hd stuff, that means poor eide or raid.. or pci performance, than here comes out that it can be only this the cause.
Ah, i dunno if i told you all, guys:
watching tv from the pctv analog card (and i mean at maximum resolution of pal 768x576) or from the dvb-s card (with hardware mpeg2 decoder that means 720x576) means that there's needed a maximum bandwidth of 32 MB/s (it means: 768x576 for frame x 25 frame per second x 3 bytes color (32 bits/8 =3 bytes) = 32 megabytes for every second), that's pretty much, but not to saturate pci bw. The matter is when 32 MB/s is occupied and the eide or raid needs bw: the chipset seems to freeze cause can't manage well the bw needings, and so is related to the latency timer.
Sorry again for longness ^^

K7T266 Pro2 RU repaired but...

Hello.
Long time no see, I'm back now ^^
Since the glorious times of my first Socket A system, much water have flowed on rivers so to say that many things happened, to me and in the world.
Well, ok, to make long story short here's the thing.
Some time ago (iirc some years) I were trying some spare hardware I have and when I was trying my old K7T266 Pro2 RU motherboard, after some tests, I did a mistake: I didn't installed properly a stick of ram, being partially inserted on one side and not fixed properly in its slot, so, forgetting and/or not noticing it, I switched on the motherboard and the poor board "poofed" out dead. The component that burned was nearby the ram slots, named D7 on the board and it was an SS12, a schottky diode: I thought so that replacing it would have sufficed to bring the board back to life, so I went to a tech assistance shop and they gave me an SS14 diode, claiming that it have the same characteristics of the SS12 being it just stronger than the earlier and that it can stand some more voltage, so I bought it for a few euro.
After that I left all the mess apart since I lost interest to it, until now that I decided to try to fix the motherboard with the new component and see it I were right about it, but here came the first problem: when I were trying to unsolder the old burnt diode, it was really difficult, first off because it was too near the ram slots (so I were fearing to melt the plastics of the retention system), second off because the pin on the opposite side of the ram slots wasn't wanting to let go the track it was soldered! I struggled much to make it let go and after I succeeded, luckily, the track under was lifted from the board and I found it even cut!
After swearing all of my calendar (don't mind about this, it's something we do much in italy, not always tho :P), I then tried to solder the new diode: it wasn't so difficult, and luckily i managed to sold back the cut track rejoining it and, because the whole thing wasn't so fix, I put even a drop of Superattak glue (cyanoacrylate): the result was very good, even tho couldn't be as if it nothing happened, but acceptable in general.
I tried then to reinstall it on one of my old case desktop ATX lying around, throwed my old Athlon XP 1800+ Palomino and a stick of 256 MB DDR266 from an old Intel celeron 1.7GHz Willamette rig I got recently, and powered it up again: first attempt didn't do anything, after some cable checking (I don't remember now but maybe I reversed the reset and power on switches plugs ^^) it finally run... and *drum roll* it even did the POST! I was happy, then, and was thinking that everything were going the good way. But Murphy is always hiding somewhere, so my happiness wasn't lasting long.
Ok, then, I decided to try to test it again to see if the hardware is still going, so I tried to install windows XP on a spare maxtor 80gib I had lying around, but with no much luck: firsts attempts hanged many times always on the same step (still on the early blue text-only screens), so I decided to try to run a memtest first, to check it before everything, and here comes the new main issue.
I've installed memtest86+ v4.20 on an old 256 mb usb pendrive, successfully, because I needed to test the ram on some other computers, so I had the thing already ready for the task: I inserted it on one of the onboard usb plug (the v1.1 ones: naturally on the usb 2.0 it's not even detected) and tried to boot the board from it. Failing.
I then tried it again on other computers: first my notebook, then some other rigs and all of them run the test correctly. To be sure I reinstalled the memtest on the pendrive, to no avail.
I've tried to change the ram stick, I've plugged a 512 MB DDR400 one (not the one of the incident, but surely a working one, since I tried it successfully on other rigs), and change the slot too, still to no avail.
The pendrive "boots", but it hangs prompting me:
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SYSLINUX 3.86 2010-04-01 CBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
Boot:
What should I do?
Is it because of the USB 1.1?
Or maybe a BIOS issue?
Or is it really my motherboard that's still TFU? I really hope not, I want to make it work again :(
Anyway, of anybody of you that still have this glorious motherboard, can you please tell me if you can run memtest86+ from one of the ONBOARD USB (1.1) plugs?
I take it from here, btw: http://www.memtest.org/ (http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.usb.installer.zip to be correct).
Please answer me, thank you in advance!!
Edit: I forgot to say that I did the c37 removal mod for making the board compatible with 0.13 µ cpus, successfully, natuarlly :P

Quote from: Bas on 06-February-12, 19:38:58
Looks like the harddisk is broken.
As it complains about the partitions just like XP does.
No, I tried to boot the memtest from usb disconnecting everything else, so no hdd and no cd/dvd. I also tried to disable every integrated periferal and device: fdc, serials and parallel, midi, game, ide, raid, audio, modem and usb (1.1 naturally).
Btw when I said that it complains about the partitions? :o
Quote from: eagle3 on 06-February-12, 20:58:32
Try memtest on a cd and boot from that; or use a linux live cd. Or the marvellous Ultimate Boot cd. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Also that board was built around the time of the bad cap debacle..
I think I would have binned it..
I followed your suggestion (but I thought it by myself too) and tried with the cd version of memtest86+, burning the iso onto a brand new cd (sigh, so much space wasted :p), and tried it: it finally worked, and I found that the 256 Mib ddr266 stick isn't compatible with the board, since the test didn't even started, another stick of 512 Mib ddr333 got errors (even 1 is too much to me, but it didn't have only 1 error), and finally the 512 Mib ddr400 tested fine for about 2 hours! That's a relieve ^^
Unluckily even using the good working ram, it still don't want to boot memtest86+ from the usb pendrive.
I still ask to anyone with my same board if they can do the same test, just to be sure that's just the board that can't boot properly from usb, or maybe a little incompatibility with my old pendrive.
Thanks for now.

K7T266 Pro2-RU hard drive size..

Hi !
I tried to find a solution by searching the forums but this exact question
nodoby asked.
I bought new HDD (Seagate ST3160023A) 160 G / ultra ATA and
i cant get it working.
Board is K7T266 Pro2-RU and it seems that BIOS is recognise new
HDD but i cant made any partitions and/or format it.
I tried it many different ways, with other HDD:s
Master, Slave, Cable Select.
Seagate's own disk utility hangs, Windows xp (SP1) Disk management hangs and so on.
Is this some known issue or is it so that the HDD is broken ? if
i understood correctly, mainboard should support HDD:s up to 160Gb ?
Thank you !

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i understood correctly, mainboard should support HDD:s up to 160Gb ?
Correct for the onboard raid controller, but the ide controller can only manage drives up to 137GB as far as I remember.
Btw: Moved this thread to the via section, maybe anyone there else has some idea.

K7T266 PRO2-RU and Problem with a FEW DISPLAY ADAPTERS ...

Hello ,
I was using my mainboard with 32 MB Creative Riva TNT2 Ultra until creative's fan was damaged . I tried 16 Creative TNT2 m64 display adapter of a friend of me , but it didn't work with K7T266 PRO2-RU. Many sounds are coming from mainboard while D-LED shows Testing RTC (or boot attemp, I'm not sure about that) (Same symptoms with "no graphic adapter" - I tried again after unplugged the display adapter - )
At the beginning I was thinking that the 16 MB creative graph adap. was broken . So , today I bought a new graphic adapter 128 MB of Creative 3d Blaster5 Radeon 9200SE . When I plugged it into mainboard , I saw the same problems with 16 MB Creative TNT2 m64 . After that , I found another 32 MB Creative TNT2 Ultra from my friend and it worked with my mainboard FINE .
- I tried all of the old bioses of MSI K7T266 PRO2-RU
- I tried to start the computer with no any other devices (such as HDD , sound card , tv card etc. ) . Only display adapter was plugged in the mainboard , but it didn't work . System hanged up everytime I tried .
- I made some bios adjustments which are suggested at this forum ....
But none of these worked .... ?(
What is the problem ? Why only 32 MB creative TNT2 Ultra is working with my mainboard , but 16 MB Creative TNT2 M64 and 128 MB Creative 3DBlaster5 Radeon 9200SE are not while all of them are working FINE with an old PII mainboard . (tvout+DVI) I'm looking forward to hear from you . , Help me please .
Ps : Can new beta bios solve that problem ?
XP pro
2100+ 0.18m XP CPU with coolermaster CP5
40 GB Seagate Barracuda IV
300 watt Codegen Power Supply
2*256 MB Kingston DDR 2100 Memory
( No floppy , no souncard , no tv card etc , no any other devices like cdrom , dvdrom , cdrw etc.)

That's it!
I provided a few PSU's from my friends and tried 420 watt thermaltake and 520 watt VANTEC Stealth 520A PSU ...
Same situation happened and 128 MB Creative ATI Radeon video card didn't work ...
The problem can not be about PSU ...
I tried two different brand of fx 5200 (128 MB ) video card on my system (with 300 watt codegen PSU) . Everything is ok .
And I also tried the RADEON card on my friend's computer which is running with 230 watt Elan Vital PSU . It worked perfectly ...
So what can I think about that situation?
The Answer is : There is something about MSI mainboard ... When I wanted to contact with support center via e-mail , I got an automated e-mail answer which is not completely able to solve any of my problems.
Besides , I saw the problems between brand new Nforce mainboard of MSI and ATI video cards ...
SO , if we get all of these informations together , we can say "THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT MSI" ...
The solution is not buying expensive PSUs...
That's really bullshit , I can buy a brand new mainboard instead of an expensive PSU.
Finally , I bought an Asus mainboard , everthing is going ok now!
I'll not buy products of MSI anymore because they didn't do anything to solve my problem . Goodbye MSIIIIII ....................................... ........

K7T266 Pro2-RU and Promise FastTrak100 RAID Drivers

Hello
I am trying install my 2 new Seagate HardDisk in the IDE RAID on my K7T266 Pro2-RU motherboard without success.
MotherBoard's IDE RAID BIOS can see the two 160GB HDD that I have installed and Windows XP can not see it with the lastest BIOS v3.7 and the lastest Promise FastTrack IDE RAID Controller ( v2.0.90 Build 10 ). Both HDD are not detected by Windows XP by using F6 key, However my 2 40GB HDD are detected by Windows XP without problems.
I have 2 K7T266 Pro2-RU motherboards and they have the same problem, I think that the really the problem is the fasttrack.sys driver Could be it updated ?
Does anyone have new Promise Drivers for Windows XP ?
Cheers.

Yes I do, I have used that drivers for many time and they are very old in this moment because Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB are not visible, only my IBM DeskStar 40GB works fine with that drivers.
I have tryed to use the last fastrtrack.sys v2.00.0.25 from Promise Technology without success which has support to large HDD above 137GB and needs BIOS update to my motherboard v2.00.0.24 in FastTrack (tm) "Lite" BIOS v2.00.1030.23.
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=15&category=driver&os=0&go=GO
I have installed Windows XP SP1 in my IBM DeskStar 40GB on IDE3-RAID and works fine, later I have installed another HDD Seagate 160GB on IDE4-RAID and Windows XP can not see it.
Later and I have put the new fasttrack.sys (v2.00.0.25) driver in Windows XP and with a reboot machine, Windows XP can see my new HDD160GB HDD like a 149.05GB unpartitioned drive ( which is corret ). When I put the old fasttrack.sys driver Windows again can not see the 160GB HDD
Later I going to install the Windows XP SP1 in the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB and the IBM DeskStar 40GB by using F6 key and neither HDD were visibles. So I can not continue with the installion
Later I going to install WinXP again with the old drivers and once again only IBM 40GB is visible.
I need your HELP MSI Support Team.
Thanks in Advanced.

MSI K7T266 Pro2 troubleshooting

Hello,
I just recently recieved a MSI K7T266 Pro2 motherboard (A6390MS) and I'm getting some weird troubles with it. I connected everything to the motherboard and when i start up the computer the screen comes up fine... but for some reason when i go to hit delete to go into setup it doesn't work. It continues to boot until it tries to detect any hard drives connected to raid. Since i don't have anything hooked up to it, it says "No Array is Defined.........." Then it says to hit to continue booting. For some reason it must not be detecting my keyboard because any button i hit does nothing at all. So after i let it sit there and do nothing, it goes back to the first screen that tells you the BIOS version and CPU and all that, and it displays the message "CMOS/GPNV Checksum Bad"
I'm not exactlly sure what that means or why it is saying this. I've been sitting here for a week trying new things. My Keyboard is PS/2 so i figured that might be it. I tried using a PS/2 to USB adaptor and it still won't do anything when i hit DEL to go into Setup. I tried different keyboards and I only get the same thing. I checked MSI's website and they have no information at all and i couldn't find anything on the internet to help. Hopefully someone here may know what my problem is. I think that the PS/2 ports are bad, and if so, how is that fixable?
I didn't buy the motherboard, my friend's dad gave it to me to try out because my previous ASUS motherboard died out on me. So as far as sending it back to MSI, I dunno if that is possible. I'd have to find out how long their warrenty is and how long ago he bought it.

It won't even read the floppy disk drive to use a boot disk because it seaches for the HDD first i guess.
Now after taking the battery out and all that it just keeps saying CMOS settings wrong instead of the other message about "CMOS/GPNV Checksum Bad" and i can't make it go away.
I'm really lost now and not sure what to do with the board because it's obvious that it works... but if it is something as small as the ps/2 ports being damaged, it would be such a waste.
Also the PC Speaker is making a rapid clicking noise and im not sure what it means. It also beeps 3 times after it tries to detect the raid and goes back to the start up screen that shows the information about the processor and ram and stuff

K7T266 Pro2 - 32bit transfer mode

Hi All !
At first, I have K7T266 Pro2 - MS-6380 Ver2.0, WDC800BB (80GB/7200RPM), BIOS 3.6, AMD XP-1800+, 2x256DDR CL2 Apacer, Win2000, Via4in1-4.43.
I have seen some messages which spoken about "32bit transfer mode ON". But on my mobo there is not possible to set this feature "ON". During post I can see that 32bit transfer mode is OFF.
1) So, is there any possibility to set this 32bit transfer on my mobo ?
2) Second problem.My disk make clunking and clicking sound when is not empty, and there is some fragmentation (is full for 70%). Sometimes it stops work for a while (1-2sec). All disk reports like a surface scan (from WDC) and S.M.A.R.T. reports are successful. After I have removed all files it was ok for a while, until it was again filled with files. Where the hell could be the problem ? Could anybody help me ?
Thank you
Marek ?(

Thank you.
Yes I am sure the disk is going down... But I can not prove this fact. All test all successful ;(
The problem with HDD is the seller can not accept complaint until disk will be damaged. Now I have to wait till my disk will go down.
So what should I do...I have to buy another due to data backup.
Have a nice day
Marek

BIOS SETTINGS optimization with K7T266 PRO2 v.2.0

Hye,
Can someone tell me what are the best settings for my BIOS (AMIBIOS) with my MB MSI K7T266 PRO2 v.2.0.[/u]
My BIOS is an AMIBIOS, v.3.7 (released date 10/14/2002)...
My specifications:
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-HDD: Seagate BARRACUDA ATA V 120Go
-ATHLON XP 1700+ (1.5GHz)
-DVD reader + CD Writer
Thanks!!!

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