KT3 Ultra 2 (MS-6380E) problem

I have this MB from 2002. Been a great MB until very recently. For 4 yrs I've had a Maxtor 6Y120P0 as a secondary hard drive on the primary IDE channel, but recently it reverted to a slower speed, "PIO Mode" (as shown in Device Manager, IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, Primary IDE Channel, Advanced), having always previously been "Ultra DMA Mode 4". (I have a WD Caviar WD800JB as primary drive, never any problems). This is a major pain, writes are 10X longer.. I pretty much ruled out the drive or cable (new cable, ran DOS-native Seatools tests, all passed), so suspecting the MB. Can someone recommend a tool or diagnostic utility which can tell me this for sure, and is this fixable? I looked on MSI's site but can't find something for this old of MB. I did look at some MB utilities but haven't found something that will tell me this level of information.
Very much appreciate any help...
Derek

Thanks again for the replies. As in my post, I have a WD Caviar WD800JB as the master drive.
You mean to switch them, which would make my current slave as master? If I did that, wouldn't it try to make my current slave the C: drive? And then NOT find the Windows folder? Or would it know to find Windows on D:? I do want to hopefully fix this *without* re-installing Windows.
I take it you mean "uninstall" the driver (only options in DM for Primary channel are "Update Driver", "Uninstall"). If so, that would delete for BOTH drives on the channel correct? Would Windows be able to re-install the driver even though its own drive's driver was deleted? (I guess my experience in this particular area is a bit limited .

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Help!
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Hi,
Are you sure the motherboard is mounted correctly in the case?
All stand-off's removed that are not needed?
Did you try to put the MSI cdrom in there and wait upto 2 minutes until the menu appears?
Well I use to have a CreativeLive sound card from the begining so at the begining the sound on board was disable. But now I have a second computer and I put the creative on that one and I want to enable the sound, this is the point when the big surprise show up.
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This is interesting. I have the same board, also running WinXP Professional with SP1 on it.
As long as I don't use a Bios later than Ver. 5.4 the USB ports work fine and connected devices are recognized and installed correctly.
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Heh...
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first things first
MSI KT3-Ultra AUD
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ATi Radeon 8500LE
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The PSU puts out 180w on the +3 and +5 wires combined.

steps I took:
Cleared CMOS via Jumper
Adjusted CPU FSB to 133
set date and time to correct settings
set boot sequence
reboot
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Cleared CMOS again
Flashed BIOS
Flashed BIOS again
Reboot
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Modified CPU FSB ONLY
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RGRR on D-LED
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Contacting newegg right now, will go up to PC3000 Mushkin Ram whihc has shown to have no issues what so ever with the board.
My recomendation is to trust Mushkin's website and not use thier 2700 Ram with the KT3-ULTRA-ARU. Any helpful throughts or suggestions as I will not be able to mail the thing back to newegg until this weekend.
Thank you to the board members for thier help. Thank you to MSI for a board that I hope to one day enjoy.

KT3 Ultra 2 (333) SHUTDOWN problem

i have a shutdown problem, it's probably relatet to the mainboard - when i press the POWER OFF/ON button on the PC, the computer kind off goes into stand-by and reapetedly make series of 3 beeeps at a time.
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Im not going to be using the RAID function, but I would like to add some more IDE drives.

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MSI KT3 ultra aru Western Digital 200GB raid problem

Hi!
This is what I've got.
KT3 Ultra-ARU (MS-6380E)
AMD 2000+
256 MB 333mhz RAM (AMD Compatible)
Seagate ST330630A 30GB (an old drive)
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Western Digital Caviar WD1800JB 180Gb 7200rpm Special Edition UDMA100 IDE
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Promise 100 IDE-controller
Creative Geforce MX 440
Lite-on LTR-40125W
NEC ND-1300 DVD
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IDE1: Seagate (Master)
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IDE4(Raid2): WD2000JB (Cable Select)
IDE5(IDE-controller1):
IDE6(IDE-controller2): NEC ND-1300 (Master) and Lite-on LTR-40125W (Slave)
And the Software:
I've updated all the software drivers so I've got the newest and I'm currently runnign Win2k SP3 with almost every patch installed on it.
And finally the problem:
When I've hook my WD2000JB to the on-board raid everything seems to be working normaly. The bios finds the drive and makes a new array. Win2k boots up and finds the drive and I can create an partition. But when I've try to format it it the computer starts to freeze for a while and then acts like normal again. The HDD-led blinks as it should during the "normal" time, but when the comp. freezes it stops blinking. The formatation stops at 7% and the HDD-led stops lighting. I don't get an error eventhough it was several hours since it stoped. And the formatation takes like 30min for 1%.
When I connect the WD2000JB to the IDE3 I can format it and it acts just like normal. I even did a full system test with the System tool found on Western Digitals support site and it didn't find any errors. But when move it to the raid-IDE the errors return. I've get Error reading / writing to disk and when I've did a chkdsk I've got the "Coudn't use Device) so I did a scandisk and it found very very many errors so it completly ereased everything that was on it.
And when I've run Western Digitals program again i've get an error (Disk error read/writing) error code: 0113.
Can it be that the Western Disk doesn't work well with Raid? I've haven't heard anything about that, so...
Best regars,
Mathias

You can have a look at my hardware below...
Chassis: Antec 1080B (300w PSU / 180w COMBINED)
Mainboard: MSI KT3 Ultra ARU
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Display: ABIT Siluro GF4 Ti4200 AGP 4X
DVD/CD-RW Combo: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4120B
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Monitor: KDS Visual Sensations VS-190
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NICs: 3Com 3C900B / DLink DFE-530TX
RAM: Micron DDR 266MHz (2x256MB DIMMs)
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MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU + All In Wonder Problem

I've got a odd problem that is related to putting my machine into Standby. If I do so the night before, then wake the system up in the morning I see issues that point to memory corruption or driver failure or a conflict with the VIA chipset. Outlook Express will lock up on launch, the ATI digital VCR app will either not launch or fail to shutdown if it does. I clean installed Windows XP, then updated it with XP SP1. Of note is that the video card works ok with the OS supplied driver but if you install the ATI drivers (which are needed to make the TV and Digital VCR work) this stuff happens. I have reinstalled several times so I am pretty sure this isn't just a messy config issue. I've had bad experiences similar to this with VIA chipset mobos in the past so this doesn't surprise me.
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HD: Seagate 80GB Barracuda IV
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Build 2600
BIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T, 4/2/2001
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xp2100
512mb pc2100
60 gig maxtor
64mbddr geforce4MX440
sblive5.1
52x cdrom

Sorry I haven't replyed sooner work comitments.As for the memory settings everything is set to default in the Bios but I still cant get machine to run games as an xp2100 still freezes.the power supply is a 350 watt unit that came with the case. This is not only powering mainboard and ide devices+sound,lan and vga card but also an extra side case fan and blue neon light . Am I to assume the power supply could be the main problem.
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xp2100
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s/b live 5.1
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KT3 Ultra problems.

So I've been experiencing some oc problems with my MSI KT3 Ultra. (Rig in Sig) I've been trying to get my AGKGA AXP 1800+ higher than 1.67 without success for weeks now. I thought maybe that the new v5.6 BIOS for the KT3 Ultra would fix my problems. Boy was I wrong.
Upon installation of the new BIOS, everything goes perfectly without interuption or problem. I proceed to restart the computer after installation is completed.
Much to my surprise, the computer will not POST. On the D-Bracket diagnostic LEDs, it gives me the message that there is something wrong with the memory.
1 X( 3
2 X( X( 4
I tried switching banks, still no post. I tried resetting the BIOS, still no post. I also tried a working stick of Crucial pc2100 (ddr266), but the same problem still exists.
Have any of you had this problem with the v5.6 BIOS? Do you think that the BIOS was hosed somehow?
All I know is that this problem is making me crazy. I think after this bout with my KT3 Ultra, it is time to replace it. I've had way too many headaches to warrant keeping it.
Thank you for your help...:P

Hi again,
Agree with "Wonkanoby", should remove the battery before shorting the CMOS reset jumper. Have to be careful when you remove it though, can't come into contact with your skin otherwise the various fatty acids contained on your skin will ultimately cause problems. Just use a latex surgical glove or similar or wrap your fingers in gladwrap, just as good.
By removing the battery you shouldn't need to have the jumper on for more than 5 seconds to completely drain the charge in CMOS. After that, remove the shorting jumper to it's storage position and replace the battery then follow the restoration procedure to normal to allow startup, etc. Best of luck,
Dimal.

Ram Problem With KT3 Ultra

Hi Guys,
I have posted on here before.
I have a kt3 ultra mobo.
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I have followed advice from this board the the faq ant mobo bios set up which sadly has not solved the problem.
Very strange but in the pc i have two x 256 meg ddr ram.
If i take either stick out the pc plays games perfectly. This is frustrating as both sticks work fine on their own but not together.
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Hi,
Sometimes it happens that sticks just won't work together....
You might want to swap one of the sticks with a friend to see if the problem is gone...

Problems IDe connection KT3 Ultra 2

Have the MSi KT3 ultra 2 MS 6380E special IDE Kables??
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