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..

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No Sound with KT4 Ultra - FISR -- HELP!

hey
I got a KT4 Ultra - FISR along with and XP 2400 and other goodies for christmas. I put the machine together and installed 98se, and all of the included drivers the came on the MSI Utilities disk. Everything was working perfectly with it (got 11752 on 3dmark 2001, is that a decent score?) anyways everything was cool except the on-board c-media sound was not working at all. ?( I have 2 speakers w/ sub and i have them plugged into the line out spot in the mobo. I have turned the sound on in my BIOS and messed with all the sound settings in windows and still i get no sound at all. I even unplugged the bracket that came with it for surround because i saw it could possibly cause some problems. I then checked all my connections and still no sound. X( I was woundering if there are any other settings or jumpers that i need to set for my sound to work. Any additional information on how to get my sound to work would be greately appreciated. My system specs are below. Thankz
MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR
AMD XP 2400+
MSI GF4 TI 4400
256 MB GeIL PC2700
120 GB Maxtor ATA/133
ASUS 48/16/48 CD-RW
Pioneer 16x DVD
Hyperion 4in1
Win 98se

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KT4 Ultra-SR (MS-6590) dont work with AMD Barton 2500+

;( Please help me any1.
I have MBO KT4 Ultra-SR (MS-6590) with CPU AMD Barton 2500+ and i have a big problem. System corectly boot only if a select CPU FSB Clock = 100 MHz (CPU Ration/CPU Vcore/DDR Voltage=all AUTO). When a select CPU FSB Clock 133 or 166 MHz, system begin run corectly and after few second turned OFF. I selecting SDRAM Frequency on=AUTO/266/333/400 MHz but not working. My old CPU is AMD XP Palomino 2100 MHz and work fine with KT4 Ultra MBO. I upgrade BIOS with 1.4 version. I change memory module with PQI (PC 2700/256 MB) and JETRAM (PC 2700/256 MB) but is same ":censored: ". System dont work. Bad CPU Barton 2500+? I dont no. Please help me any1.
My System:
MBO KT4 Ultra-SR (MS-6590)
CPU AMD Barton 2500+ (FSB 333)
Memory DDR Samsung 2x256 MB (PC 3200) K4H56083D-TCC4
Cooler SPIRE WhisperRock IV+Artic Silver 3
HDD Seagate Baracuda 120 GB SATA
PSU Enermax 300W EG301P-VE(FMA)
VGA Saphire ATI Radeon 9100 (64 MB+TV/DVI-out)
DVD-ROM Pioneer 120S (16x speed)
CD-RW MSI CR52-A2 (52/24/52, Atapi)
FDD Teac 1.44 MB
Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1

Most of the time, this sort of problems arise because of power suppliy issues.. U have a enamax 300W PSU which is a VERY GOOD PSU but might just be on the line...
If u can, try swapping the PSu for a good 400 or a 420W PSU.. this might solve your enigma.. I really dont think this is your processor...
Read this two articles on PSu wrtten by one moderater which will aid in solve in fixing your problem (PSU1 , PSU2 , Troubleshooting Guide )
Best of luck
RAsika

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 "accessories"

I purchased a bare bones KT4 Ultra FISR board from Newegg.com ?( and wanted to know how I can purchase the special backplate and get info on the 1394 bracket.
Anyone know? I wrote to MSI but they did not answer my email.
Thank you!
Eric

These brackets were hard to get..... I guess somebody had mentioned it. Please use the forum search function and hunt for the answer. Good luck.
My another suggestion is to get a good PC casing with IEEE1394 ports and USB ports in front. You can make full use of these ports

KT4 Ultra FISR and Volcano 9 Cool Mod

I am building a system using the KT4 Ultra FISR and a 2800+. I am also using the Thermaltake Volcano 9 Coolmod fan which has LEDs on the fan. My question is this, the board has two sets of Power LED headers, a two pin and a three pin. The Coolmod is supposed to plug in to the Power LED header. Is it possible to use the three pin header for the fan and the two pin header for the case? I don't want to lose the front LED. I know Thermaltake says don't wire both front panel and Coolmod to the same header, but it doesn't say anything about two different headers. If someone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. I hope I made myself clear. Thanks in advance.

Do you mean to use the two pin JFP1 Power LED for the case and the 3 pin JFP2 for the Volcano mod? I dont think it should be a problem, my LED's are mixed and matched between the two headers. You could test it with a multimeter to see what the output of one header is while the other is connected to its LED.

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 - 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 = Bluetooth or not?

I have a KT4 Ultra FISR motherboard.. Do I need anything else to make bluetooth work or not.. I've seen several threads that say this board does not need any antenna because one of the USB headers has it built in.. I've hooked it up to the motherboard as it says.. Yet, even after installing the Bluetooth software from MSI's site it dosen't show up under device manager at all. And it dosen't find my Sony T68i phone either. Am I supposed to have something else, to make this work? Like I said, I have no antenna or card that I got with the mobo, should I have?

At our local shop that sells a lot of msi mobos, the bluetooth mobos have the antenna and module in a seperate box taped to the mobo box. I think that is probably the way they are meant to be sold, I asked and they said that is how they come. I think some retailers may be taking the bluetooth module and antenna box off and selling it seperate from the mobo, I would call and asked the place you bought it from. This seems to be a widespread issue.

KT4 Ultra FISR Upgrade

I have the KT4 Ultra-FISR with the Via KT400 chipset. I just read on Via's site that the KT400a is available and it is a pin to pin replacement to the 400. My question is, is there a way that MSI can provide the chipset upgrade (cost is not an issue) or will the upgrade of existing boards be available? Some of the benchmarks for the 400a show a marked improvement over the 400. Thank you in advance for any help.

Hi,
Sorry, but no, that's not possible.

KT4-ULTRA FISR NO LAN DETECT

I have this problem:
in the bios at
Integrated Perimetrals > OnBoard PCI Controller
1. Serial Ata Controller
2. 1394 Controller
3. Audio Controller
the lan controller???
I dont see...?? ?(
I have canghed the bios from version 1.2 to version 1.3 and from 1.3. to 1.2 but the Lan controller dont see...!
why the problem?? the chip Broadcom is on board... but dont work!!
my configuration are:
- MSI KT4-Ultra FISR whit bluetooth module bios 1.3
- AMD Athlon XP 2400+
- 512 MB DDR333 Geil ULTRa Cs 2
- SK Video ASUS V8200 Dlx Ti500
- 1 hdd 40 GB Ata 133 P.M.
- 1 hdd 80 GB Ata 133 P.S.
- 1 hdd 60 GB Ata 133 Ata Raid
- 1 DVD rom S.M.
- 1 Yamaha F1 S.S.
Bye...!
Excuseme for my english I'm Italian and speak so so the language...

Okay, I assume the new 1.4 bios they are working on will address this problem? Or perhaps not? This problem as I see has been discovered last year, yet how many bios updates were released since? None of them remidying this situation.
The KT4 Ultra FISR is a really nice mainboard, but the lack of support and/or broken LAN controller really makes it look bad.
Flashing the bios and clearing the cmos simply wont work. This shouldnt be necessary when the LAN just dissapears on its own without any cause. If it isnt a bios bug, then its clearly a board flaw.
Is that why this problem has been covered up quite well? If there hasent been a bios fix, then i would guess that it is a flaw that is still not being publicly made by MSI themselves.
If theres a known fault with a product, i expect to be known about it. This problem has shown up enough to be a known flaw.
No, checking the winblows "device manager/tackler" wont show it, clearing the cmos wont show it, flashing the bios 10000 times wont make it show either. The device doesnt even exist on the mainboards pci table, its gone, not there, poof, kapoot, vanished.
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 0).
Master Capable. Latency=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xefffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge (rev 0).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xec00 [0xecff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdfffff00 [0xdfffffff].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 16).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff].
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 128).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 1:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) (rev 128).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe01f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 2:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#3) (rev 128).
IRQ 12.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe41f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 3:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 130).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdffffe00 [0xdffffeff].
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge (rev 0).
Bus 0, device 17, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
IRQ 14.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfc0f].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: PCI device 1002:514d (ATI Technologies Inc) (rev 0).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc0000000 [0xcfffffff].
I/O at 0xc800 [0xc8ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdfef0000 [0xdfefffff].
Hello?? Anybody home? Think Mcfly think!
edit:
Yes the IEEE1394 and RAID controller isnt there, thats because it is disabled in the bios, and can be reenabled just as easily, unlike the Broadcom LAN controller, that isnt even there to enable anyways.

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 ....

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

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
?(

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!

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