KT4 Ultra... nothing happens?

I just got a KT4 ultra, hooked it all up and...... nothing. No power at all to PSU, or anything else.
Here are all the facts:
Maxtop case... 350W PSU
AMD XP 1800 CPU
512DDR PC2100 (2- 256 sticks)
Thermaltake Heatsync.
Maxtor H/D 80GB
Lite On CD/R/RW
I can get the PSU to fire when I hook it up to another Mother Board in a different case.
I think the board is fried.
Any help would be nice.

Nevermind...... it was the video card. I will get the specs on it when I can. A friend at work let me borrow it and I don't have them right now.
Thanks for the 5 looks.

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Error detecting promise sata controller on kt4 ultra

Hello,
I've searched the forum and "the rest" of the internet without finding a solution to my problem.
The problem is: Normally when you boot the kt4-ultra you will have a message saying "FastTrack 376(tm) Bios version 1.00.0.18(c)2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc." and then either No drive attached to FastTrack Controller, The BIOS is not installed or information about your HDD configuration.
In my case sometimes without any reasonable explaination my computer won't detect the promise fasttrak controller AT ALL! It just jumps right over it, as it didn't excists. This is very strange since it's enabled in the BÌOS settings and it could be detected at the next reboot, or in many cases it wont be detected again for several days
As far as I can see it has nothing to do with the harddrives connected to it, as it happens anyway either with a SATA disk connected, IDE disk or no disks at all....
If anyone could help me out with this problem I'll be very gratefull!

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Originally posted by Fredrik Åsenius
How are your hard disks configured, and your CD/DVD etc?
I've litary tried every possible combination. The problem remains even with no disks or CD/DVD drives installed on the Fasttrak controller or IDE 1/2. Sometimes the controller is detected, sometimes not.
I should point out that if the controller is detected it always find my HDD who's connected to it and it works fine in Windows. But if it's not detected Windows will find a new hardware and try to install drivers to it, but it won't work cause the hardware is reporting an error and Windows will ofcourse not find a disk....
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What operative system do you have? On a quick search I found mostly linux related problems, though I was not too thorough.
I have Windows XP, but I don't think it matters what OS i'm running.
On the searched I've done Im only finding Linux and compability related problems...
I've had this problem for over 6 months now and I'm getting a BIT tired the shitty controller....

KT4 Ultra + Sata

Hi there,
Got rather strange problem that came up after i had some heavy file accessing in lan movin numerous files sizing from 600mb to 2gb.
i have system which has system drive on ide raid cable. 2 regular ide drives on primary ide, one burner on secondary ide and 2 serial ata drives Seagate 160gb.
I've had this system runnin on windows xp pro past year now, up 24/7 and only rebootin it for updates and such, but basically its up months straight.
well, i went to lan-party and took my machine there ofcourse. everything worked ok there the first day but on the second windows decided to lost SATA drives from the system, well i booted, promise controller showed the drives on bootup ok and i thought no big deal, but then when i got windows up it gave "Delayed Write Failed" and only showed one of the SATA drives (other ide drives were visible)
first i thought that the other drive had died (these things happens) and shutted the machine down, i took the power cable and sata cable out from that drive and started again. much to my amaze when windows booted up it gave the same error message and couldnt find the drive that was visible last time. at that point i thought it might be motheboard gone bad. Anyway, i took both sata drives offline for the duration of the lan-party since i woudn't want to think it there.
now I've searched web for solution for similar problems, found some, but those has been related either fresh install of winxp or installing drivers or modifying cache settings etc. In my case, the machine has been up and running over a year and last thing i updated was some drivers a month ago.
if it were only one drive doing this i would simply change it at work and hopefully begone with it, but 2 identical drives bought at different times and installed at different times can't brake down at the same time, (well allright Mr.Murphy has been evil to me before but still ).
Strange thing also is that i can use both drives short amount of time, i can access all the files ok and nothing seems to be corrupt yet. both drives also makes sound that is like they're shutting down and then restarting. which would suggests that they have gone bad but then again 2 drives at same time.. grr..
I was thinkin that if the PSU has gone bad it might do this but if its that's the case, shouldn't then all the drives shutdown and restart..
i can test with another PSU but not until few days until i get back to work.
phew.. went kinda long..
ps: exact system config: Kt4 ultra bfisr, Athlon 2400xp, 2x256mb(ddr333), 1x512mb(ddr333), 40gb seagate(ide), 60gb ibm(ide), 80gb seagate(ide), msi dvd+-burner(4x), 2x160gb seagate(sata), Radeon 9800pro, Live player 5.1, Sirtech 360W PSU, 3com 10/100, buffalo 10/100.

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Originally posted by Louhikarme
Hi,
it was 360W sirtec with followin stats: dc output : +5V 35A, +3.3V 28A, +12V 17A, -5V 0.3A, -12V 0.8V, +5VSB 2A.
I changed it to 420W sirtec, didn't look it stats tho but. now everythin seems to be ok. both drives keep runnin ok sofar about half hour uptime now. i hope this is the solution otherwise this will get tricky.
+5v 35A
+3.3V 28A need higher than 30A
+12V 17A Need higher than 20A

JIUHB TBred 1700+ and KT4 Ultra

Hi,
this is my first time being in this forum )
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After i have installed the CPU on my board i changed the FSB to 166 MHz - no problem the FSB is running with 166 MHz :P . Then i want to change the multiplier from 11 (default) to 12.5 -> nothing happens - the multiplier is still 11 ?( When i set the multiplier to 10 also nothing happens - the multiplier is still 11. The cpu itself should not be the problem (the CPU should be unlocked by default) because i have bought two of them and the other CPU runs on an KT3 Ultra 2 board with FSB 166 and with a multiplier 12.5. Can anyone help me or tell me what the problem could be.
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2x256 MByte RAM PC-333 (CL2,5 - Infineon)
Leadtek A280 TD - 64 MByte
80 GByte HD - Barracuda V
Juergen

additional info :
in another thread ("Is my Athlon XP 2400+ Tbred B Unlocked? Please help!") i found the information that with the KT4 Ultra board the only way to unlock the cpu is the wiring trick.
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@maesus - is there any hope that this overclocking feature is maybe implemented in the forthcoming 1.4 bios to avoid such kind of modification like the wiring trick (other mainboards are able to do that) ?(
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When doing certain tasks (one of which is accessing a Microsoft Outlook Web Access webpage with IE), the computer completely locks up. If I access that same webpage with Netscape, it's fine. Now, here's how I know it's the video card or the motherboard. When I go into display properties, advanced, troubleshooting, if I 'downselect' to disable 'DirectDraw and Direct3D hardware acceleration', everything works fine. Any ideas?

Ah, sorry about that. I was so frustrated last night that I completely forgot. My system is:
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MSI KT4 Ultra
Netgear Network Card
Onboard Sound (CMI)
Liteon 52x CD Writer
Western Digital 180 Gig HD
Antec 300 Watt True Power PS
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KT4 Ultra (MS-6590) very slow boot

i got a strange one here:
i replaced my MSI K7T Turbo2 with a KT4 Ultra. Since i got the new board installed (the KT4 Ultra) the machine needs very long until it reads mbr of the disk. what i exactly mean is, post boot goes with normal speed. all settings (FSB speed, DDR speed, CPU speed) are correct. after post boot, when it should start to load windows from the disk, it takes > 1 minute until the boot screen of windows shows up. after windows could boot, i don't have any problems anymore (speed rocks). i did not have this problem with the K7T Turbo2 board and except memory i still use the same components:
MSI KT4 Ultra w 1.4 BIOS
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (not oc'ed) (~36-43C)
MSI G4Ti4200-TD(MS-8870)
Adaptec 39160 64bit dual (in a 32bit slot ;( )
3*Seagate ST318452LW X15 Ultra160 15K RPM
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Creative Soundblaster Audigy Gamer
Compaq NC3123 FastEthernet NIC
Logitech Mousman (dual optical) USB
Microsoft Sidewinder USB
the boot delay was not only when booting from the disks, i had the same experience when booting from cdrom: after post boot about 1 min. nothing and then excpected speed.
any idea?
thanks sidderz

thanks for the hints,
at the stage where boot is delayed so bad, HD access has not even been happened. the OS did not even start to load. so i don't believe the OS has anything to do with it. (except msi found a way to load the OS without read access to the drives )
like i said, right after post boot after floppy seek (my boot order: floppy, cdrom, scsi id 0) the machine just stops (for me it looks like bios is waiting for an answer and then times out) with a black monitor (but signal seems to be still there cause the monitor doesn't go to stand-by). first i thought about an IRQ conflict, but i took care to not use pci slots with shared IRQ's. when the computer starts to read from the disks, boot process is fast as expected. but until the system even starts to boot the os from the disks (read access to mbr on disks), more than one minute just nothing happens, not even disk access. i also checked if the computer is just frozen, but this was not the case, at least the keyboard was not frozen (numlock/capslock and reboot with ctrl+alt+del still worked)
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Athlon XP 2400 shows as Duron 1400 on KT4 Ultra? - Help!!

Today (16th) I noticed the PC acting a little sluggish so I decided to check the system properties to see that my processor shows as a 1400 Duron when infact its an XP 2400. Since I only noticed it being slow today - i'm guessing something must have happened.
About 7/8 MS critical updates came today - so I installed them as I always do and I assumed since they are the only things I installed - one of the updates may have caused the issue so I removed them all. . still nothing. I then did a system restore to 2 days earlier on my system (Win XP Pro) and still it shows as a Duron 1400 both in Windows and the BIOS.
I havent changed anything in the BIOS for the last 6 months - I havent updated it either.
I have used several CPU identifying utilities - both AMD and independent - non of them see it as an Athlon XP 2400. I am the only person who uses this PC so nobody could have even swapped the processor or anything as I am pretty much around the PC the whole time (incase u were thinking that!!)
Does anyone know why my Athlon XP 2400 processor is showing up as a Duron 1400 all of a sudden when I havent made any major system changes? Is there an update/fix/patch I need to get to sort this out? Is it a common problem?
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Athlon XP 2400
Motherboard - MSi 6590 (KT4 Ultra)
BIOS - AMI v 07.00T
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Thanks for any help!

thanks for your help guys! I opened it up and saw some dust on the CPU block and fan - but nothing more than I have seen before - but I gave it a good clean anyhows... I also decided to replace the CMOS battery because even though it was showing a voltage in the BIOS, given that its the battery that came with the M/B when I first bought it 4 years ago - I thought it was time to change it.
After the clean and the battery replacement - the system was back showing "Athlon XP 2400" in both the BIOS and system settings so I'm guessing it was down to the CMOS battery. So thanks for the help! I'm glad to have it sorted now! I have however discovered the Northbridge fan is dead so I'm gonna still have to open it up in the next few days to replace that! If only that were as easy to find as a new battery was lol ...
thanks for your time!

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME KT4 Ultra MS-6590

I have been get this UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error all day. I been try to install XP Pro but it alway does this after I begin the install progress.
I have done fdisk, Partition Magic format, windows install format, and format but I keep get this error. I thought that it was was the hard drive but I try install XP on my ASUS K7V mobo and it work without a prob.
The reason I reinstall is to turn off the APIC and APCI so I can stop the infinite loop error I been getting. I have restore the default setting and still doesn't work.
System Config:
CPU: 2200+ XP
Motherboard: KT4 Ultra-SR
RAM Slot-1: Kingston 333 512 MB CL 2.5
RAM Slot-2: None
RAM Slot-3: None
display card: AIW Radeon 9700
IDE-1M: Western Digital 200 GB SE 8MB
IDE-1S: None
IDE-2M: Samsung 48x-16x-48x CD-R/RW SD-616Q
IDE-2S: Samsung 16X DVD SW-248B
IDE-3: None
SER-1: None
SER-2: None
PCI-1: None
PCI-2:None
PCI-3: None
PCI-4: None
PCI-5: None
PCI-6: None
PSU: (Antec AMD Approved 350W)
BIOS revision: 1.3
Operating System: WIN XP

This had happened to me a few months ago. What had happened on my system was that the Book Sector to the hard drive had been overwritten.
I loaded the recovery console from the XP CD and wrote a new one on there. Then the system loaded perfectly. No problems since.
Hope this may help
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Problem with KT4 Ultra and XP 2700

First excuse my bad english (i'm from Germany)!!
I have a heavy problem with my KT4 Ultra.
First my system:
AMD Athlon XP 2700
Mainboard: MSI KT4 Ultra (MS-6590) Bios vers. 1.1
MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4200 64 Mb
512 Mb DDR Ram Apacer Technology 512 MB 16x(32mx8)DDR-SDRAM PC2700U-2533-700(CL2.5 upto 167MHz)(CL2 upto 133MHz
Sound : Onboard
GlobalWIN CAK38 II Kupfer
Powersupply: Levicom 420W
Win XP SP1
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When i turn the FSB in the Bios up to 166MHz
the system crashes on Windows startupscreen!!
I've turned the FSP clock down to 164 MHz and Windows starts.But when i runned 3DMark2001 it crashes back to desktop !!
Then i turned the FSB clock down to 159 MHz and the system runns stabile!!
Now what i've already tried:
Turned down Ram timings and frequency (same prob.)
No heatproblem (CPU at 118.f)
Had the same system exapt an XP1800 instead an XP2700 and no problems!!
Called the MSI hotline (Germany) and they told me to type the FSB manually in the Bios (insted of numblock +and -). ?(
Still the same problem !! ;(
Has anyone the same problem as i ???
THX !!

Hi,
I would try other ram....
Or start from BIOS default settings and only change CPU-FSB....
See what happens...

Linux and MSI KT4 Ultra : DVD problems

Hi, I own an MSI KT4 Ultra Pure mobo. The vt8235 Southbridge is supported in the lastest version of the Linux Kernel, 2.4.20 . After upgrading the kernel all seems to work fine, but when the system try to initialize my hdc (Secondary master of IDE, a DVD reader DV-5800A from NEC) it locks up with the message :
hdc: device {Busy}
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ide1: reset success!!
and start looping with this message.
What can I do to get work my DVD Reader? With my precedent MoBo it works perfectly
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Bye

Hmmm that error used to happen with an older kernel and an ALI chipset. If you leave it long enough does it give up trying and continue to boot? The ALI did this eventualy.

KT4 Ultra-BSR multipler & CPU volts on XP2400 dont work!

Well after several atempts and clearing the cmos several times the multipler dosnt work on XP2400 and when you go to change the cpu voltage from auto it comes up with strange symbols not a voltage to select! so iam stuck at 141fsb and CPU voltage set to auto i can change the FSB only except lower or to 141, why is it asus and epox can change the multipler and we cant on our MSI KT4 Ultra, iam disapointed and who wouldnt be after all others can change there multipler!
any surgestions would be welcome and i think MSI should address this problem with a bios update and also look at the voltages for CPU as symbols mean nothing to me! ?(

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Originally posted by MSIconvert
Hi, well bluetooth lol, ok load bluetooth software from your instalation cd rom, dont load the mobile phone software as it causes trouble, then all i did was load the nokia pc suit that came with my nokia 7650, turned on blue tooth on my phone and then asked the phone to find bluetooth, problem it couldnt, but my pc found the phone, you have to make up a password and identify yourself over the blue tooth network, the software says it will conect auto, but it dosnt, you have to conect the 2 devices manuly every time, its faster than cable conection, but one problem i have found is that disconecting can cause problems, 1 out of 5 times when you disconect your pc loses the bluetooth conection and the only way it can find the hardware again is to unplug the arial device inside your case at the usb plug, reconect and it finds it again, a real pain i gota say, so much so i cant be botherd to use blue tooth anymore as iam fed up of takeing the side of my pc case off to get it to reconize the hardware again, but it does work when its all working and the usb finds the hardware, i hope this helps just a little but its not so easy to set up and the software isnt that easy either, maybe an update in the future will make it easyer to use.
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Oops, I meant how did you connect the module to the motherboard?? I can't find anyway in which to connect it directly into the mobo, and I didn't get a cable with mine. (I still haven't got to the software side of it yet - the hardware has been my prob for the past few weeks, no-one seems to be able to answer me).
Hope you can tell me how to do it (pref with some pics or something coz I'm starting to think my retailer sent me the wrong board).
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Beeps on a KT4 Ultra

Ok this is the problem.
I have an KT4 Ultra with an AMD AthlonXP1700+ that emits a single beep. ?( Not continously but every 1/2 minute to a minute.
Sometimes it is quit for the whole day and than it starts again. X(
There is nothing in the manual about beeps comming of this board.
The D-bracket is showing 4 green LED's so everything must be good. :D
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WindowsXP Pro
Norton NSW 2003
A lot of other software. :D
Who knows what those beeps are for and where I can find more info on them??

Go here: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/service/faq/faq/esc_faq_pro_detail.php?L_kind=1&UID=356&NA=KT4%20Ultra The answere is at the bottom of the page.

KT4 Ultra Bios 1.2 Doesnt Work

I have just updated my Bios to verison 1.2 and the computer wont go into windows.
Infact I have found the problem to be the USB Via chipset thats at fault. I have Windows Me and the the computer freezes every time it tries to load USB.
I have put version 1.1 back on an no problems.
I have reloaded windows and the following error appears.
Windows has had to disable the USB function due to a internal problem.
I try to reload the drivers and it freezes.
I have just spent 8 hours to find the problem was the usb chipset.
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I am running a KT4 Ultra with XP2000 Cpu. I updated my bios from 1.1 to 1.2 over the weekend, and now my once stable system is giving me no end of problems.
1, It would not recognise my primary hard drive and I had to clear the bios with the jumper four time before it would let me boot up.
2, Once I booted up and ran 3dmark, it was okay the first time but the second time the machine crashed and totally corrupted my hard drive. I had to reformat my hard drive and load a backup (two weeks old).
3, I have now re-flashed my bios back to 1.1 but although the system is working I keep getting CRC errors when trying to backup my hard drive to my secondary drive. This did not happen before.
This 1.2 bios seems more like a rushed beta version than a real bios update, it has given me loads of problems and I now have a system which is still not working properly. Bios upgrades are supposed to fix problems not create them!!
I would NOT touch this 1.2 with a long barge pole !!!

KT4 Ultra and FastTrak 376 issues.

I recently purchased a KT4 Ultra and installed it on me computer. Everythings fine, it boots and the bios recognises my IDE devices. It won't allow me to enter the bios though and it just sits there with the screen displaying this.
FastTrak 376 (tm) BIOS Version 1.00.0.18
(copyright info)
Scanning IDE drives
any help would be greatly appreciated
thx alot )

NEVER HAPPENED TO ME. TRY DISCONNECTING ALL IDE DEVICES, CLEAR THE CMOS AND PRESS DEL BEFORE THE PROMISE BIOS LOADS.
MAYBE YOU'LL GET INSIDE TO DEACTIVATE IT FROM LOADING AT INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS - ONBOARD PCI CONTROLLER - SEARIAL ATA CONTROLLER.
DO YOU HAVE AN SATA HDD? YOU COULD USE ONE FOR TRYING TO SETUP AN ARRAY IN THE PROMISE BIOS (BY PRESSING CTRL+F AND THEN CHOOSE THE AUTO CONFIGURATION). AFTER THAT MAYBE YOU CAN ENTER THE BIOS.
YOU CAN ALSO TRY TO FIND AN MODDED BIOS FOR THE KT4-ULTRA THAT DOES NOT LOAD THE PROMISE SATA BIOS BY DEFAULT.

KT4 Ultra - Monitor shuts off

Hey guys...i posted a while back with my problem regarding errors within windows, even after reformatting, and also it just randomly powering down..i solved those errors by replacing the memory chip and also replacing the HSF as the proc. was running rather hot...now, however, i'm faced with another problem...I'm using the PC and then all of a sudden the screen goes blank, says its not recieving a signal...so it seems the Vid.Card is just shutting down and not outputting anything..and it happens randomly, just during regular use, not gaming or anything, so i highly doubt the vid card is overheating...i then have to do a cold reboot and the screen works again for another 10 minutes or so and then just goes blank..its gotten to the point where the computer is barely usable with this screen problem so does anyone know what or have any ideas on what i could do to rectify this? Thanks!
COMP. Specs:
MSI KT4 Ultra - Athlon XP 2200+
256mb Ram
64mb GeForce4 MX440 8xAGP
300W Allied Power Supply
WD 60gb hdd
Thanks!

yep, i surely tested the cpu temps and memory and it was working without a hitch, now this monitor issue came into play...the monitor is rather old, could it just be shot? the PSU AMPS to the rails are as follows "Output: +3.3V@28A;+5V@30A;[email protected];+12V@15A;[email protected];+5VSB@2A". Is that my weakness? or perhaps the vid card is just dying? What is most probable? Thanks for the help!

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