KT4 Ultra FISR Single SATA drive only

I have the KT4 Ultra FISR and just purchased a Seagate 160GB SATA drive.
Can I use this as my only drive?
Do I simply need to set the SATA as my first boot device?

Sadly you will need the sata drivers. You should have your drivers floppy close when you start your windows setup, and when it tells you Press F2 to install third party controllers.. you must press it.
Some steps before:
First connect your SATA drive. Go into bios at Integrated Peripherals/OnBoard PCI Controller and enable Serial ATA Controller. After reboot you should see the FastTrack Bios - press Control-F and get into FastBuild Configuration Utility. Then chose Define Array, chose 16k stripe, save settings. Now use some software like Partition Magic to partitionate the SATA HDD. the rest will be done by the windows setup.
About your other question, is safe to keep the old HDD, some say better to use it on the IDE2 connector on the mobo and to disable from bios IDE1. I tryed and I didn't notice any diference.

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KT4 ULTRA FISR SATA Problem

I really need some help here. I have a KT4 Ultra board with SATA Interface and a brand new Seagate Barracuda 120 GB. On to the problem .. when i booted up the computer for the first time, it detected my disc. After that .. i was testing som different settings in the BIOS .. and had to clear the CMOS Now .. it won´t detect the drive at all. It says something about "No drive attached to the FastTrak controller. Bios not installed/loaded" I have installed all drivers and stuff that came with the board but no luck. Is the driver loaded into the BIOS from the beginning or? How do i get the d*amn board to detect it again? I can´t even enter the bios setup (for the SATA controller.. ctrl+f) So .. i can´t really do .
Help!

It says jumper (Factory only) so i don´t think u are supposed to jumper it. It´s master by default. At least that´s what seagate claims =) Or?

Serial ATA on MSI KT4 Ultra FISR??

Hello
Just a general query here about Serial ATA on the 6590 board (KT4 Ultra FISR).
I am hoping to build a system with this board and was hoping to start with only one HD, preferably an 80Gb Serial ATA drive. Does the promise raid controller on this board allow you to boot on a single serial ATA drive?
P.S. I was also hoping to add a Radeon 9700 card (not pro) but have read about many problems within this forum. Does anyone know if the problems have been cleared?
Thanks
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Well, my idea was to buy a Serial ATA drive from the outset and use it as the only HD in the system. Therefore, it would have to start on the serial ATA raid port.
The only other boot option I can see which may be relevant is "Legacy SCSI". Doesn't sound right though. There are also a lot of BBS (BIOS boot specification) choices from 0 to 9 but I dont know what they are.
There are about 25 boot options including from USB CDROM drives but nothing specific to RAID!

KT4 ULtra FISR - HD install probs

okay - I have just built my new system -
Athlon XP 2400+
MSI KT4 Ultra FISR
512MB Samsung DDR400 (MSI Approved)
ATI Radeon 7500
Hercules Digifire 7.1
Seadate Barracuda 80GB
Pioneer DVD-RW 104
Liteon CD-RW 20x
My problem is - that the HD is new, formatted - when I make the Pioneer the 1st boot device, winXP starts to install - however after it puts the initial set of files onto the HD - it has to restart - and when it does I get this msg:
"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the windows documentation about hardware......."
I initially tried it with a 120GB Maxtor drive and got the same msg. Nothing is wrong with either drive - because they are both brand new, and properly formatted.
I am not using the RAID option I just want to have two HD's connected to IDE1 as master/slave.
When I go into the BIOS - in the boot options my CD drives and HD shows in the correct order. So if it can see my HD in the BIOS - why can't I boot up and complete the installation?
Do I have to disable something in the BIOS - there is a RIAD controller check just after the BIOS splash screen and then it goes onto say that the no drivers were found - so then it carries on with all the other checks and then stops with the above error message.
Somebody please tell me how I can get it to locate my HD and complete the installation of the OS?
Thank you

sorry i guess i wasn't that clear - my optical drives are on IDE2 - IDE1 only has my Seagate HD - only when this is up and running will i add the maxtor as a slave to IDE1
so still looking for that solution

KT4 Ultra FISR and WD Raptor 74GB problems

MSI KT4 Ultra FISR - MS6590
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000rpm - WD740
Is it possible on the MS6590 to have a SATA drive on Ser1 but nothing on EIDE or Ser2? The reason I ask is that, I cannot get the drive to show in BIOS under "Standard CMOS". Thanks any help is appreciated.

..." I'll post my power supply specs in about an hour..."
Hey ! How many minutes have an hour in your country ?

KT4 Ultra FISR very slow HD & FWire with XPSP1

Any suggestions please.
I used to get 35-45MBytes/s sustained copying 1G video files between drives using win2k sp4.
Then I had to go to XP to support the new 200G boot drive.
Now I get 15MBytes/sec copying files and the firewire runs at 7MBytes/s.
SiSandra says 40200 for the 200G, 26000 for raid 0 array (2x80G on promise pci ultra66).
HD Tach shows the 200G drives as 55MB/s down to 45MB/s & 25MB/s for the firewire.
It has to be a problem with winXP.
Indexing has been turned off.
Motherboard KT4 ULTRA FISR 6590
-Bios 1.4
-CPU AMD XP2800 (1.8GHz)
-Kingston PC2700 2x 512MB
- GeForce FX5600 (8xAGP)
-Hard Drives: all seagate - IDE 0 200G, 200G, IDE 2 nil, IDE 3 (sata) 120G, 80G
IDE 1 DVD Writer & CD ROM,
Promise PCI ULTRA66 Raid 2x 80G
External Firewire 200G & 80G seagates
WIN XP SP1

So yesterday the system stopped dead - wouldn't boot into XP - and all my roms were at home.
So I did a system repair - no gui.
Ran full setup from the rom, got all the way to installing drivers and hang.
Repeat 5 times removing hardware at each step and disabling items in the bios.
Eventually got XP to install with generic PCI video, 1HD, 1 CDROM. No MB
Turned out to be that problematic Broadcom 5702. Had to disable in bios.
And the rom drive crunched my XP disk badly.
Reinstall everything. What a pain.
Still having trouble with that broadcom adapter chipset...
Anyway with the network disabled in bios the firewire now does 15MBytes/sec sustained and Sisandra says my boot partition rates 37000, better than the 12000 previous..

Upgrading to a MSI kt4-ultra FISR board.....

Currently I've got a gigabyte motherboard and I want to upgrade to an: MSI kt4-ultra FISR board. Can I just pull my old board out and install the MSI board with all my old hardware, O/S already on harddrive - and do a start up, or will I run into errors and problems when I try this? Currently my system looks like this:
1) Case: "Xaser SC5000BWII" 400watt mid-tower case
2) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7DXR DDR+Raid
3) CPU Chip: AMD Athon XP 1800 1.6Ghz
4) Memory: 512 of PC2100 DDR266 Memory
5) AudioCard: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy MP3 card
6) VideoCard: ATI RADEON 9000pro, 128 DDR
7) Hard Drive: Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM ATA-133 "D740X" Mdl:6L080J4
8) Operating System: Ms Windows XP Pro
Thanks for the help........ seboyd ?( :D 8)

A clean install will give you 30 days to reactivate and it only takes a 5 minute call to get the new #s. Pretty simple and much easier than trying to straighten out all the error codes from old O S. I did however move an XP harddrive from a Turbo2 to a KT4 without a new install but they were both MSI boards. A clean install also gets rid of all the junk that accumulates. Just enter bios and make the CD rom 1 st boot . BIGDADDY51 CT. USA :D 8) :D

K6 FISR & Single SATA

Hi Guys, I have been reading all the forums so I can set up my new (first) system build correctly. It is the old chestnut of the single sata drive on the FISR MoBo. The only thread I have read that this will work is from 'Technojunkie'. As I hope to get my system started tomorrow after building this week I would be gratefull to know if Technojukie's install system has worked for others. I would just love my new system to work from the off, and stay working!
XP+2800
512Mb Memory
K6 Delta FISR
MSI FX5200 Graphics
MSI 52x CD-W/RW
MSI 16x DVD
Zip 100Mb Int
Q-tech 350w PSU
Maxtor SATA Calypso 80Gb[/COLOR]

Q-tech 350w PSU

How to install Windows XP on a single SATA drive?

I am trying without much success to use a single Maxtor 200 GB SATA drive in a non-RAID configuration running Windows XP Home SP 2+. I obtained documentation from the MSI Download site that explains how to do such a thing. However ...
First, out of the box the Drivers & Utilities CD is useless -- can't read it, simply hangs the CD drive.
Second, the drivers from the Download site (IATA_ICH5R) return "incompatible hardware. software not supported on this chipset" messages.
So where do I get the drivers required to install Windows XP on a single SATA drive (to use at point F6 in the Windows XP installation)?
Regards,
Bob (ll1951md)
P.S. Configuration ...
865PE/G Neo2-P (MS-6728) w/ Intel Extreme Graphics 2, Realtek ALC655 Audio
2 GB Corsair Dual Channel DDR Memory
Intel P4 3.0e GHz Processor
1 Maxtor 200 GB SATA HD
1 HDS 120 GB ATA HD

Thanks for the tips. I was able to install Windows XP and boot from the SATA drive by using these options and setting the appropriate boot device selections...
Legacy Mode
ATA Configuration - PATA only
SATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA channel selection - both
Combined Mode Option - S-ATA 1st Channel
S-ATA Ports Definition - P0 - 3rd./P1 - 4th.
I just wasn't sure if I was really getting "SATA" performance, etc. without specific drivers.
Thanks again.
Bob (ll1951md)

875pneo Promise..Single Sata Drive?

Can I attach a single Sata drive on either ser3 or ser 4 on the Promise controller?
Or does it always have to be 2 drives in raid config...
My main os is setup on RAID0 on the INtel ICH controller above on the mobo.
I change the promise to SATA only in Bios.
Not coming up in Windows...
I just overcame a nightmare of having one HD fail as RAID0 on the promise and moved the structure with clean OS install on the ICH controller.
I just now want my sata 500 singe drive to connect.
When I had the RAID0 OS on the Promise, I was able to have the single SATA drive on SER2.
that was then this is now.

AND I already have data on my ESATA drive so I do not want to "reformat" it here as stated.
I can't even see it in disk management.
Q: I've installed a new SATA HDD, I can find it in Device Manager but it doesn't appear in Windows Explorer at all! HELP!!
You need to format the HDD, not just SATA but also PATA HDD then only Windows Explorer can see it and assign it with a drive letter. To format a HDD, right click on My Computer, select Manage, look for Disk Management. You should see a no-drive-letter unformatted drive there in the list. Get it formatted by right click on it and choose the obvious option there is.
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KT4 Ultra FISR and Radeon 9700pro

OK, I upgraded my MB from the k7t266pro to an Kt4 Ultra. I also upgraded to an AMD xp 2500+ and new DDR 333 ram. My video card is the ati 9700pro. This card functioned just fine with my old board as I never crashed.
Since I have upgraded I have not been able to play any 3d games!! all the games start and are playable for 2-5 mins then it just completely freezes my system. i cannot even do an end task and have to hit the reset button to restart the PC.
I am running Winxp home edition and am fully patched. I have also upgraded the bios and installed every new driver from the live update utility. i have the latest drivers available from ATI as well.
what gives here? I have searched Google and various other sites and i have run across many many threads with people having identical problems with this board and video card. my thought is that it is not the video card, as it ran flawlessly on my old MSI board. i do PC support and system admin for a living and 99% of the time I can resolve PC problems on my own, however, I am at a loss with this one. I have been a loyal MSI customer as this is the 4th MB i have bought from you guys over the years, but i can't help feeling disappointed right now. any ideas? This stinks as I was so looking forward to the upgrade in performance and now i got jack.
Tabascodog
System info:
MSI KT4 Ultra FISR
ATI 9700pro
512 DDR 2700 Ram
300w PS (AMD approved)
Maxtor 30bg ata 133

I took the advice of some of you and got a Antec 430w TruePower PS to replace my old one. Still no good. I was a little skeptical about the new PS thing since I run a pretty minimal configuration.
MSI KT4 Ultra - fisr
AMD XP2500+
Radeon 9700pro
512mb 333DDR Ram
30BG Maxtor HD 133ata
Creative PC-DVD Drive
1 Generic Floppy
As you can see, pretty sparse. I soley use this box as a gaming type PC, so I try and keep the load light. At this point I think I would like the board replaced. Like I said, the 9700pro worked like a champ on my k7t266 pro, I doubt it is the new AMD CPU... so that leaves just the memory or the board at this point. I mean, driver wise I am using the same drivers as those that do not have problems. I am going to buy some high-end memory to eliminate that issue, but I highly doubt that will make the difference. I hope I'm wrong though.
Oh, BTW the option to change the AGP slot back to 4x is locked out for some reason. That kinda pisses me off too. I mean, at least give me the option to bring it back down to 4x.
Tabascodog

KT4 Ultra FISR AGP Speed Problem

Hi all,
I've got a bit of a problem and was wondering if someone can help?
I have bought the KT4 Ultra FISR and am having a problem when trying to use it with my 8x AGP Nvidia ge Force 4 ti 4200 but the bois wont let me change the AGP speed to 8x, it insists that the highest it can go is 4x. ;(
I have run the newest 3DMark03 and it's showing that my AGP is only 2.0 and not the 3.0 that is meant to be with the board?
I was wondering if this is the problem?
I have double checked with the Graphics Card Manufacturer and they have confirmed that my card is an 8x card and I know that it was running at 8x on my last board.
I have done all of the Auto updates on the MSI motherbaord update utility but there's still no joy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
- Ricky

Hi there
Well I have the Inno36 Ti 4200 8x AGP card:
http://www.ivmm.com/inno3d/geforce4/products_gf4_ti_agp8x_reviews.html
I know it's not the best card on the market but it should still be able to operate at it's advertised speed :P
A couple of the guys here at EA bought the card and theres are working fine on thier boards :(
I am not totally sure of the version number of my bios but does 1.3 ring a bell?
I wont be able to check the version till monday...
Like I said before.. I did notice that 3dmark03 noted that I was using agp 2.0, is that right?
- Ricky
P.s. Thankyou for taking the time to help me out Its much appreciated.

KT4-Ultra FISR no longer supported?

Hey all, I was trying to find the Bios/driver updates/manual for this board, the MSI KT4-Ultra FISR. Can anyone link me? I can't seem to find it.
Thanks.

You will find the KT4 Ultra in the archives section here:- http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=356 The bios, driver and manual links can be found on the left of your screen.

KT4 Ultra FISR

Hey, I am new to these forums. Thought I would drop by and see if I can get some help with a new mobo I had just purchased.
I just purchased an MSI KT4 Ultra FISR. AMD 3200+ Capatible and allows for 400mhz memory to be placed.
I am going to purchase an AMD XP3200 Barton chip soon and would like to use the new type of memory. Either XP2700 (2x512mb @ 333mhz) or XP3200 (1x512 @400mhz). Ok... now for my question. I have been to MSI homepage and read the specs on this specific motherboard. It states that I can only use 1 stick of XP3200 (400mhz type) memory at 2 channels. Does anyone have this board and ever tried running it with XP3200 (2x512 @ 400mhz) totalling 1Ghz @ 400mhz?
Also will the XP3200+ operate with XP2700 memory running at 333mhz? Dumb question. I know.
Ya... if anyone has any suggestions as what I can do to mod this board feel free to let me know.
Another note... while looking through the product line MSI does not show it is carrying the KT4 Ultra FISR anymore.. Any reason as to why or is it now calld by another name?

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_list.php?kind=1&CHIP=4&NAME=Socket%20A
its in the archive as via now make a 400a chipset so msi sell the new one now
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=442
yours is here
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=356

KT4 Ultra-FISR MSI UTILITIES DON\'T WORK

Hello all i have buyed a KT4-Ultra-FISR , instaled it withou any problems with a Athlon XP 2400+ and Windows XP PRO, the only problem is that the MSI utilities don't work, i have tried PCalert4 and fuzzylogic, and both put my cpu running at 100% and don´t work, they don´t even close with ctrl+alt+del, and shuting down program, i have to sut down the computer to close them, the new version of pcalert show the following message "no hardware monitor", if i use the program Speedfan, it work well, can anyone help me? my bios is the v 1.1
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My System
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KT4-Ultra-FISR
Athlon XP 2400+
256 DDR 333 Apacer
80g Maxtor Diamond Max+ 133 7200
G-force 4 MX 440 64 DDR
Pioneer DVD 16x
Plextor CD-RW 40x12X40
CPU Cooler Thermaltake Volcano 7

I have used the latest version of the utilities from MSI website and tey don´t work, but as i said before if i use Speedfan 4.07, it work fine, can this be a problem of the bios? i still have the original version (v 1.1), should i update the bios?
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Originally posted by SebX
Did you updated utilities from MSI WWW page ???
Did other monitoring software like MBM 5 work corectly ???
Try MBM 5 if it works , download updated utilities from MSI web site ....

KT4 Ultra FISR Single SATA drive only

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