KT3 Ultra - Fastest Chip

All,
I have a KT3 Ultra(non-raid) and want to upgrade my CPU from my Tbird 1.1.
I know that MSI says the XP2600 (266) chip is the fastest chip that will work officially. What is the fastest chip that can go in..unofficially and work?
Thanks,

What memory are you using now ? If it's not DDR 333 you should think about upgrading memory also.

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    Last December I bought a Hauppauge Win TV Nova-T USB unit for digital TV and Radio. I thought I'd make use of the USB2 sockets. The USB2 sockets work no better than the VIA USB1 sockets. Performance appears to bandwidth limited. The problem exists with XP SP1 and WIn 2k SP3 (with the patch from the MSI driver page). I have in the Device Manager 'NEC PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller B1' which is what is supposed to be there. All updates got from Microsoft. Resources for this Controller shows it's using IRQ 16, along with the Graphics card and Firewire PCI card. Using ACPI it cannot be moved.
    I've just got hols off the Sony DRX 500 UL USB2 DVD writer. It has both Firewire and USB2 interfaces. Firewire works a treat but USB2 wont. It identifies the Sony OK but Nero crashes usiny the USB2.
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    My mates bought a KT3 Ultra 2 (with the VIA USB2 chip) and it works a treat.
    Anyone got an NEC chipped mobo with USB2 working?

    Hi,
    AGP and USB are allway's tied together.....
    But as you are using IRQ16, it means you have APIC turned on...
    You need to change the HAL if you change the APIC, see the good article forum on this.
    You might want to run without APIC, not all devices/drivers like this....
    Also, check out the Nero page for updates....
    And a good USB side is http://www.usbman.com

  • KT3 Ultra ARU - Restricted Voltages?

    I'm running a MSI KT3 Ultra ARU with an Athlon 1700+ tbred. I was trying to adjust the voltage, but the max I can put it at is 1.6V (the default voltage for my chip is 1.5V). Now, I know the board can go higher for sure, because prior to this tbred, I was running a Palomino, and I had the voltage at 1.85V. But now, the max it allows me to select is 1.6V. Is there a way to "unlock" the voltage so I can bump it up past 1.6V?

    This seems to be the #1 complaint for the kt3-ultra series. I'd too like to find a way(without mods) to get the voltage past 1.6 on my tbredA. I heard they may be releasing a new bios(at least for my ultra2) but I doubt it'll affect the voltage adjustments. It'll Probably just have a few bug fixes and barton support.

  • MSI KT3 Ultra Reviews (NOT ARU)

    I can't find any MSI KT3 Ultra Reviews on the web
    Does anyone know where I can find MSI KT3 Ultra Reviews?
    (I don't want the MSI KT3 Ultra ARU reviews)

    bas is correct.  an ARU and non ARu are going to function the same and perfrom pretty much the same
    Im just posting in addition to what Bas said since I have both the KT3 Ultra and KT3 Ultra ARU and I can tell you from personal experience they perform identically
    =======================================
    The only rant I have about the ARU is the ARU has that ugly uneeded and crappy fan on the northbrdige....LOL I really like the non ARU without the fan better.  The orange heatsink on the nonARU is more than enough to cool the NB even when overclocking.  The KT333CE chip is well designed and doesnt get that hot by its very nature.  So that darn cheapy fan is just for looks and serves no functional purpose on this chipset.  
    And best of all with the non ARU - the orange heatsink makes no noise and has no moving parts to break down
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  • MSI KT3 Ultra ARU 5.7 BIOS and SoudBlaster Cards - Audigy

    I have flashed my BIOS to 5.7 Version and my sound card start to make a lot of noise (crackling) when play AC3 or DVD. If you dont want to use the new AMD CPU 333 FSB you dont need to flash the BIOS - I have Flashed to 5.6 again but, if you want to use a 333 FSB CPU you can flash the BIOS to version 5.7 and if have sound problems use the PCI latency patch for VIA chipsets.
    VIA chipset MotherBoard owners who have through all of the above and still have sound problems with their Soundblaster cards, might want to look into the PCI latency patch for VIA chipsets - get it here:
    http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/
    (scroll down the page there just a little to get to it).
    There's also a similar page about resolving sound problems on Via chipset based computers here:
    http://www.deinmeister.de/mvp3_zlt_e.htm
    I hope this post help somebody
    Mário Silva from Beja - Portugal
    My System:
    MSI KT3 Ultra ARU
    Athlon 2400+
    512 Kingston PC2700 DDR SDRAM
    MSI Geforce4 Ti 4200
    SoundBlaster Audigy
    Windows xp Pro SP1
    400W PSU
    Creative Drx3
    Pinnacle PCTV pro
    HDD Maxtor 80 GB UDMA 133
    DVD Pioneer slot in
    RW Samsung 48x16x48
    Creative WebCam Go
    UPS 500 VA
    Monitor Sony 19" E400E

    Since my chip is an unlocked, I cannot easily run it at the default, but I can underclock it. At 100x6.0=600mhz, USB does not work, as well as 100x12.5. Same with 133x6.0 and 133x12.5. It appears to make no difference underclocking or overclocking.
    I downloaded the right BIOS listed on MSI's KT3 Ultra-ARU page. I don't think the BIOSes are different anyway, since the same files, changelog, and etc are also listed for the Ultra-2 board.
    A thing to note, that this is the onboard VIA-controller USB ports doing this. My Ultra-ARU's NEC-controller USB 2.0 ports work fine in both Win2k and Linux if I hook my mouse and keyboard up in those. This is not an ideal solution for me though.

  • MSI KT3 Ultra ARU Startup Trouble

    I am running an MSI KT3 Ultra ARU Mainboard with an amd athlon xp 1500+ processor, a GeForce4 Ti4200 made by Gainward (64mb), two AOC 120MM case fans, one 80mm case fan, a thermaltake volcano 7 speed variable Heatsink, two crucial 512MB pc2100 DDR Ram Chips a sony 16x12x40x cdrw and an LG 16x dvd rom, as well as a 20gig tape drive by HP and floppy drive.  The hard drive is a maxtor diamondmax 60GB.  all this powerd by an Antec 350W PSU.
    Specs over with, heres the problem
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    Anyone got any ideas as to why this problem would be occuring????

    hi nailz,
    Hope this may solve your problem. In the BIOS, Advanced BIOS Features, set "Boot Sequency" 1st, 2nd, 3rd boot devices to the SAME one, ie Floppy for all, or 1st Master HDD for all. Then reboot. Disable "Try boot device' first. Repeat this until you get the board to boot the device.
    If can't,
    Clear the CMOS and retry.
    If can't,
    (In the BIOS) select all IDE devices and set to NONE. Set "Clear NVRAM" in PCI Configuration. Save and exit the BIOS, then re-entering BIOS in the next boot, enable all IDE devices. Save and exit, re-enter BIOS once more, check the "Boot Sequence".
    Yup... try changing around with IDE settings in the BIOS. Good luck.

  • New MSI KT3 Ultra 2 Raid Board Install

    Hi All
    I have Just installed a new KT3 Ultra 2 Raid board and XP 2000+ CPU with 512MB Memory.
    Problem is that since I installed this new Board CPU and memory my PC has been playing up a little, Mainly Adobe Premier 6.5 . The audio that I capture will not playback off the time line, but I can hear audio from the timeline on stuff I have downloaded from the web. Also Get weird message boxes pop saying that PC Alert or Fuzzy Logic are already loaded (buggered if I can find Fuzzy logic).
    ALso CPU XP2000+ what is the operating speed of this Chip? I thought it was 1.6ghz, on boot up my PC claims it is running at only 1.2ghz.
    Am I wright in saying that I need to totally reinstall everything fro scratch including win XP?
    (sorry just put new board etc in on old install, slap wrist)
    CHeers
    Gary

    Hi tazman,
    It's not quite obvious from your explanation, but did you just install your new mobo, CPU and RAM without reformatting your Hard Drives and reinstalling the o/s?
    If so, this is a big no-no. This can cause all sorts of headaches for you and you are lucky that your computer is able to run at all. First things first, backup all of your important data files, then reformat your entire hard drive(s) from scratch, ie fdisk to get rid of all partitions, re-establish your partitions, then format away.
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    All the best,
    Dimal.

  • My KT3 Ultra Experience (from the nightmare to a running well system)

    Well First...
    I don't speak a well english, maybe because still think in spanish, so maybe find many gramatical errors.
    the very very begin
    The history begins with a terrible electric shock in my house, i got a Athlon XP 1700+ with a cheap PC Chips Board (810)..yeah the all in one board (video, modem, ethernet, sound) build my first system with a mixture of expectatives and dreams with my first AMD athlon XP , the system running well, before got the "great idea" to plug a Zoltrix Genie TV card for record South Park, everything is OK, so, i think that i abuse the luck, and a rainy night, i surf the net ( a XXX one... ATK... never forget that site after this) a electric shock enter trought the tv cable searching ground, someone that got this experience maybe feels a demon in a box, a white light come out from the back of the system and hit the isolated regulator ( with the sparks and all the stuff ) the light goes out and a tasty barbecue smell fill completly the room.
    ohhh...
    the list of cooking components:
       Athlon XP 1700+
       PC Chips 810 (a/v/r/s)
       Maxtor HDD 40GB
       Zoltrix Genie TV
       Mouse (generic)
       Keyboard (generic)
       Microsoft sidewinder gamepad
    The miracle pieces:
       256MB DIMM sticks from crucial (PC 100) two of them
       External CD Burner HP CD-Writer 8230e (USB)
       Philips Monitor 17'
    i learn to never watch a porno site in a rainy night... it's really bad for your system
    build another system "da plan!"
    in a trip to Bogotá i search in the computer mall called UNILAGO, the new system board, someone callit MOBO, my idea are this:
    A Boxed Board. Candidates like ASUS , Gygabyte, MSI, with the VIA 333 chip are required.
    we search in all the place, asus show its A7V333 model, but its too expensive in the price that this guy offered (maybe think that i don't search the pricewatch.com page before go to the mall... je je) in a place some guy show me a very nice box... i think the first impression counts, its the kt3 ultra board in her shiny box, next tactic ask for minimun price (...no minimun price got this board...) so i pay 360 thousand pesos for it.
    wen come back to Cali ( the place i live) and after got some pesos in my bag i go to the computer mall in Cali called La passarella (remember the argentinian soccer player?) for buy the components.....
    the list is this:
       Athlon XP 1800+ BOXED (got the original AMD heatsink)
       DDR RAM PC2100 256 MB
       Genius Netscroll Optic
       Genius Keyboard
       CD-Rom LG 52 X
       Case with a 300W ATX Power Supply
       Realtek Ethernet Card (Encore)
       AGP Video card with the SIS chip 315 128MB of ram
       Genius Maxfire USB (i buyit for the cheap price and anyway i don't play too much in a computer so i dont need a Nvidia Ti thing or a gamepad expensive)
    wen go to the house, plug all the stuff and the process it's fine, no complicate things occur, i do two modifications first
    1)to the AMD heatsink, the clip come in the other side, so i need to unplug the Power ATX supply for attach it and don't want to do the same thing every time that retire the heatsink, i disarm the heatsink and turn the clip to the other side, no problems with this mod...  
    2)i don't use floppy disks... I HATE IT so the place of the floppy converts in the place for the D-Bracket with all the lights and two USB... nice because i perfored the case in the right way and the usb and the lights come in the front of the case...it's a easy mod...
    all the things come well so turn it ON...
     KT3 Ultra first Round!
     well i don' pay much attention in the first time that power on the system and hit the del key.... nothing happens and a letters of searching array and scanning devices show... after this process the amibios screen shows (the blue one, and still today don't find the option for change the color scheme like te PC Chips amibios options got) in this point i know that the rule "search the instruction booklet" it's totally necessary for many options the options that i disable and some that enable are this:
        in integrated peripherals disable the ata raid option (remember the scan devices screen?) i plug a maxtor ATA 100 hard drive to the ide cable because don't know if this hard disk works with the Raid Option maybe not because is ata 100.. so disable the option
        in power management options i activate the CPU critical temperature to 70°C
        in advanced bios settings i enable the MSI link to the future screen... nice, SMART for HDD enable. In the boot secuence put first CD-rom and later HDD
        in standard CMOS settings put the hour...(uh!), and obvious disable the nasty floppy drive (BOOT CDS REPLACE THE NEED OF FLOPPY DRIVES...)
        in PC health disable the intrussion option, because i don't have the switch for the case...
        in frecuency and voltage i find the FSB in 100Mhz but i don't change anything in this point...
     after this tiny modification, i save the changes and restart....
     the system boot with a CD he he... with a image of the win98 boot disk, so i formated and fdisk the drive... tooooo fast in this point.
     after partition the HDD in 5 pieces and formating every partition, i reboot the computer for installing Win98...
     the installation goes normal, and install all the MSI software (only for know what apps are appreciable por me) i don't have any problems, install all the drivers for every single hardware piece and the system works well... so testing es the next point.
     KT3 Ultra first test after the installation
     well i feel that my job are easyly...(ji ji) and all the process go OK so testing my new machine gotme like a child.
     i run the test of SiS for the AGP card ( 3D thrill ) the demo of the card got a cosmic scene, comes very fast, i try to watch if someone piloting the space ship, and maybe see something
     the sound are good for the include sound chip in the board, put and test all the effects and test...ok ok... nice.
     microsoft direct X got some testings so i run it too ... write in run command "dxdiag" and ready for the tests, in this point i feel free to install a copy of "formula 1 2002" in the machine some guy borrowme a copy, wen i try to install got a n error.... (the first one) and the game don't install ... i reject the installation and try another game, in this point i search the Athlon XP Oem.bmp file for branding my new system... je je, and hit the window key and pause and i find that my processor runs in 1.1 Mhz... (what!!!) if this CPU is a 1800 and this speed maybe is wrong....so i read the boocklet and find in the FSB option the way for put the CPU in his real Mhz...(1.53) in this point begins the troubles...
     KT3 Ultra damage my CPU??????!!!!!
     Wen enter to the bios i got direct for the FSB option and put it to 133Mhz maybe this thing it's easyly too, i think, i made and save the changes... and.....
     A BLACK SCREEN COMES AND I SEE THE FOUR LEDS IN RED!!!!
     AHHHH!,  i thinks that this processor pases to a better life after this point, with shaking hands  read again the boocklet and find the interpretation for the 4 red leds signal, damage or bad installed processor.
     oh, so what i do...?
    i continue reading for a little FAQ in the boocklet, and nothing, only a glossary, i call a friend to helpme... ( the true geek one) the guy tell me to reset the bios with the jumper... so, i don't loose anything with this and do it...
    wen the computer reboots the signals come to life... (ufff!) and the scanning device creen shows again... so i need to save again my settings.
    i do all the things and save, the system turns on and windows 98 load normal again... i try to fix the FSB thing in other time i think, and continue intalling some programs.
    In my CDs find a copy of formula 1 2001 no de 2002 version, because this version i installed in my other fried system i installed in mine for show and prove the 3d card...
    the installation works fine and terminate ok, wen i hit the icon to play, the 3d settings window appears i select some options 800x600 32bit color and press test,  a blank screen comes with some little caracters, in some point wen the test come back my system frozes and nothing happens... OHHHHHHH! what happens?.... i think, i decided to check the temperature values because in this point think that my installation fails in the put heatsink process.
    i load PC alert and find CPU temperature in 78°C... oh, it's too high i think so shutdown the system and check the heatsink for anything that miss in the first time.
    i put again the heatsink an log to the bios for check the values....
    this is the values of PChealth option in bios:
       Cpu temp  : 71°C and stable in this value...it's high too
       System Temp : 38°C ...high too
       VCore      1.744V
       +5.0V       5.038V
       +12V      11.923V
       -12V      -11.497
       -5V         -5.026V
       Batt      3.24V
       +5VSB      4.969
    some ideas come to my mind and try to think if some options of the bios, the best performance option it's a good point to start i think so i select and save the changes...
    oh, oh, the black screen comes again.... buuuuuu! and the four red leds too....buuuu!
    mmmm, ....what i do?, what i do?....i reset again the bios, for the options and try to boot the machine again... maybe leave the system in the first point i think but nothing prepare me for the many "chorro" of errors thath follow after this point....
    If i can roll back the time....
    i think to be superman and fly in a oposite earth direction for roll back the time... (luisa!)
    the system begins a non stop errors secuence  sometimes the four leds are red, sometimes tree leds red an the top right led green, in the book says this signal is for damage DDR ram...
    wen windows 98 loads the system frozes in some points, and wen enter and run some test the system frozes too...
    i reset the bios to the original form an try to leave the house excactly wen enter the first time... i save it and the errors continues...
    with NO hope of correct by myself the issues i turn on my old K6II system and find the MSI forum that got some mysql errors
    in the forum find the Power unit suplly issues, i got the ATX box and 300W maybe it's too low i think after MANY post with same errors like me, i think to made a program plan for recover the stability and my ideas come in the next point.
    now need another message to continue....

    Return the system to the "normal" or less stability
    In the forum (thanks for the people thath participate) some people says issues of frozen systems because cheap ATX power supply, some other got problems with the heatsink, i think that a mixture of those issues gotme like mad and try to figure out the quality of a atx power supply that changes the performance after a bios setup... ( it's a very cheap ATX power supply, i think) the Power unit now don't support the energy, and power needs of the system in some cases wen i run the 3d accelerated test the system frozes wen i hit "test".
    return today to the computer mall passarella, and buy this items:
       Vulcano 7 (it's a building no, it's a airplane no,... it's vulcano 7 with speed sensor incorporated, much bigger than a building and more CFM than any airplane make!)
       ATX power supply 400W for kicks power requeriments and maybe extract energy enough for a reading lamp...
       wen come back to the house i install the new parts, the vulcano 7 needs the same mod than the other AMD one, or maybe MSI put the  sockect A protect clip layer in the wrong site, maybe the board fit well in a ATX-XL case for no uninstall the power unit to put the heatsink... anyway need to uninstallit but this issue it's funny.
    wen everiting it's ok i turn on the system...
    KT3 Ultra Runs smooth... FINALLY
    i know thath every body needs to listen a couple of help tips, in this point i think that logged to the forum are the best idea that i got, many people got the same problems and if you don't ask or search you think thath the MSI board it's a terrible board, and this no true, and because it's red too.
    the system loads normal and i think to go up the FSB to the NORMAL 133 value for this athlon XP 1800+ i change the values, save and reboot the first thing that i find are the bios recognize the Amd Athlon XP 1800+ in the first black screen ( wen disables da logo) later, web hit windows key+ pause the window says Athlon XP 1800+, in the fuzzy logic app i find the values of 1523 Mhz and the temperature don't rises 50°C it's now OK, better than the cooking eggs thing that got before the changes.
    now i need to give some thanks..
    Thanks
    to all the people in the forum, i don't write a nice english but i know read and it's enough for take a easy living style with this machines...
    MSI people thanks
    for the people in the mall, they don't know  much the Power unit issues of this board it's a bit more exigent than others in his point.
    to my dog that share my angry in the late night, it's a good one that dont' sleep well wen i work in the night..
    so to all the people thanks for made this posible, maybe this long post with less technical things works for put your boards well.
    Victor Hugo Hernández
    Cali - Colombia

  • Cannot get sound to work kt3 ultra 2c

    Hello- I reformatted and installed windows 98 on a friends comp with an ultra 2c ms 6593-it has ac97 sound.  I installed the latest vid drivers for his card and dx9..and then i tried to install the sound drivers from the cd and for some reason the cd doesn't go through an auto set up. i can't even install the sound drivers manually. I went into the bios and it said ac97 was enabled.But there is nothing in windows that shows any sound.the computers sound worked before he crashed it and i reinstalled..i was running out of time so i couldnt look into it further.. is it possible that installing dx9 before the sound drivers could have screwed something up?.. or was something in the bios changed that i am not aware of. He crashed the comp when he tried to put in a modem that might not have been compatable..and i may have changed something when I went into the bios to try and get into safe mode to retrieve some files..
    ac97 says 'enabled' in bios but i can't remember if it was highlighted-(changeable)
    anyway- im not that experienced in this stuff..any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
    THARN
    this system also hangs on startup-doesnt get past 3 grn lights on the back bracket- it starts though if reset is pushed..that doesnt seem good to me.
    the system specs as far as i know are:
    msi kt3 ultra 2c(via 333) athlon 1800
    win98/265 mb  ac97 onboard sound
    nvidiage2-64mb card

    Thanks-Hansh
    I'm thinking the same thing but the problem is-it's not my computer and my friend said he doesnt want me to re format and redo everything-but there may be no other choice..deep down i think it has everything to do with installing directx9 before the sound drivers...(my mistake -doh)..im going over there today to try everything short of reformat.. ive been reading this entire site and appreciate evryones input from past posts...helps mediocre' compgeeks like me.
    THARN
    btw- win 98 was installed- heres the story. win 98 was installed- sound was working vid was working. I transplanted his old modem from his other comp and the connection was slow-was an old v90 and probably not in good shape anyway. so we ordered a new modem and it had an intel chip-(when the drivers were installed-fatal exception to the 100th degree..)so i reformatted and reinstalled everything for him.got a new modem that said amd copatible-everything works except sound..prolly because of the order i put in drivers..gonna see soon enough.

  • KT3 Ultra misreading AMD 1800XP

    I am running an Athlon 1800 XP on the KT3 Ultra.  On bootup the chip is identified as an Athlon 1150.  Previously (two bios upgrades ago) the chip identified appropriately.  I am currently running AMIBIOS 5.6.
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    Thanks.

    wonkanoby thanks for the reply,
    I knew I had to change the fsb and had  tried several times but I was convinced the value was somehow locked.  I was about to post to back to you to ask how this could be dealt with when I decided to try one more time... and realized I had not been using the correct keys (+ and -) to change the values.  I am once again running an Athlon 1800 XP.  Amazing what happens when one proves one's own ignorance (in public nonetheless) and then reads the instructions.  I need to get off the bong for awhile.
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  • Random resets with a kt3 ultra and a MSI GF3 ti200 in 3d games

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  • Max "benefit" with KT3 ultra 2 and XP 333 cpu?

    The KT3 ultra 2 board is based on the KT333 chipset and will support an XP 333Mhz(FSB) processor, but I'm a little confused about whether I can get the max performance out of an XP 333 chip with this mobo.  I kind of remember seeing a discussion about this about a year ago when I bought my KT3 mobo and XP 1900+ 266(FSB) processor.
    I guess my question basically is with a KT3 mobo and an XP chip with 333 FSB, which will be the "bottleneck"?  Or are they really running at the same speed?
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    Quote
    Originally posted by 1wingman
    The KT3 ultra 2 board is based on the KT333 chipset and will support an XP 333Mhz(FSB) processor, but I'm a little confused about whether I can get the max performance out of an XP 333 chip with this mobo.  I kind of remember seeing a discussion about this about a year ago when I bought my KT3 mobo and XP 1900+ 266(FSB) processor.
    I guess my question basically is with a KT3 mobo and an XP chip with 333 FSB, which will be the "bottleneck"?  Or are they really running at the same speed?
    Thanks,
    Chris
    the benefit would be that you can run you cpu at 333 along with your ram at 333 no bottle neck!!!
    but with the 266 fsb processors if you ran your ram at 333 and cpu at 266 the cpu is is the bottle neck!!!

  • Kt3 ultra/ gf3 ti200 random reset with 3d games

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  • Problems with kt3 ultra + radeon 9800pro

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