KT4 Ultra: Where is my LAN?

1000mbit Broadcom on-board LAN is no more available on my KT4-Ultra FISR motherboard! It disappeared from OS and from BIOS also!!! I have it for month, I don't want to buy another one while having this in RMA process :( I just did it with Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Ultra which I've selled as second hand, because I prefered MSI.
You know, Integrated peripherals in BIOS doesn't include LAN now. SATA, Audio, and Firewire are still present.
One more thing to mention: can I plug a harddisk to one of extra connectors (SATA, IDE3) in stand-alone mode? It seems that I *must* set-up a RAID (even with one drive) once I attach a new disk to such connector. This was a shock to me. I hoped I can just buy new SATA drive and connect it normally or use IDE3 for "portable" harddisks... Maybe I did a mistake with selling feature-packed Gigabyte board, because it got 4 IDE connectors, 2 SATA connectors and 2 independent RAIDs!! As I know from my previous Gigabyte mobo, there is a jumper (or maybe a settings in BIOS nowadays) to make RAID chip act like a normal IDE controller. I'd like to switch it on my MSI board!
However, MSI boards are faster and less problematic, so I want to stay with this brand.

by the way I really don't understand what should I do with those metallic clips. Should I remove them and burn the mobo afterwards? This seems to me to be a complete BS, I hope you have 1+ experience with this issue. I cannot imagine how can a metallic stick, separated from mobo's layout by 2mm ring, have any impact.

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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 accessories - where?

Looking for the accessories to the KT4 Ultra FISR board.
I need a D Bracket 2, and a 1394 Bracket.
(I already have the S Bracket).
These items are, so far, impossible to find.
Thanks!

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 - will someone please save my sanity

ok here goes:
ORIGINAL BUILD:
MSI KT3 motherboard
athlon tbird 1ghz
2 IDE hdds
512mb ram
windows xp home
SB audigy gamer
Geforce 3
lynksys lan card
USB key/mouse
NEW BUILD:
KT4 ULTRA mb
athlon 2100+
IBM deskstar 80mb in the IDE 3 spot
Leadtek winfast 250 Ultra myVIVO geforce 4 TI 4600
512 ram
sb audigy gamer
onboard lan
windows xp home
usb key/mouse
ok i am ready to off myself with this thing.....i backed up the needed software then swapped motherboards, as well as CPU....also changed the video cards. First was that everuything started going wrong...windows would crash to a blue screen that went by lightning fast since my pc would reboot itself.....then it would post start loading windows then reboot itself. I adjusted every bios option for close to 8 hrs last night to seee what would work. when i finally got into windows in safe mode it might or might not reboot. No sign of the third hdd (what am I doing wrong here...or can that IDE3 not be used as a standard third hdd) so i swapped back the original vid card since that usually is a prob, but no real diff.....so i formatted completely the #1 drive and relaoded xp home complete clean install......went thru the whole thing ok but when i tried to download the SP1 the computer started the whole rebooting itself over again. WHAAAAAA!!!!! does any one have any ideas, since the only diff in the pc now is the mb and processor, i did the clean install using my orginal video card with the hopes of installing it again later. I did install the MSI IDE driver, the broadband driver and the USB2.0 driver found on the disk, but i didn't install the others since it said not to under windows XP...should I have installed that whole 4 in 1 driver thing with the agp driver for VIA??? i searched the net and have been to 100's of sites before posting here, all with thwe hopes of figuring this thing out for myself, but i am at your collective mercy. please help whille i figure out where i out those darn bullets.......

interestingly, it seems somewhat fixed...sorta...installed new via 4in1 drivers which allowed me to then istall WDM for my video card.....now i am stuck with trying to get the HDD on the IDE3 to be recognized....i tried enabling raid but XP keeps telling me that it can't install the raid driver becuase "data is invalid"......what the hell does that mean...tried every diff version of the ware but no luck....why can't the friggin bios have an IDE 3 enable thing....or i wonder how else i might be able to get this all to work.....hasn't crashed in 4 hrs which is a triumph

KT4 Ultra MS-6590 - Win XP Home boots with 2GB DDR333 installed but not 3GB

Spec...
KT4 Ultra MS-6590
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (FSB set to 166MHz in BIOS)
BIOS MS-6590v1.4
Win XP Home 2002, SP3
Problem...
Previously, had 768MB RAM installed, and XP strangely identified CPU as a 2200+.
Recently upgraded the RAM to 3GB DDR333 (3 sticks of 1GB 184-pin unbuff DIMM 128MX64 DDR PC2700), and changed BIOS settings for CPU and DRAM.
In the DOS boot screen, Win XP progress indicator fills completely from left to right, then stops with a half-blinking cursor in the top left of the screen.
Removed 1GB stick and Win XP successfully loaded, also now recognising the Athlon XP 3000+, and running a heck of a lot faster.
Tried adding the /3GB switch to the boot.ini file, which didn't do anything, and after reading more forum advice, guessed this might be irrelevant. I don't think this is a 4GT and PAE issue, as I'm not trying to install above 4GB (if I've correctly understood).
Also, forum advice (various sites) conflicts on whether Win XP 32-bit is limited to 2GB or 4GB, and I can't find any workarounds for my current setup.
Any ideas?

Another test I've done is to enable boot logging with Win XP. This appends command lines to the file 'ntbtlog' in the windows directory, which mainly shows drivers being loaded as Win XP is launched. The log is normally date and time-stamped for every boot-logging session.
When all 3 sticks are installed, I cold boot, then press F8 and select 'enable boot logging' from the options menu. This is what appears on the screen as the system, attempts to load Win XP.
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\KDCOM.DLL
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\BOOTVID.dll
Loaded driver ACPI.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\WMILIB.SYS
Loaded driver pci.sys
Loaded driver isapnp.sys
Loaded driver viaide.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\PCIIDEX.SYS
Loaded driver MountMgr.sys
Loaded driver ftdisk.sys
Loaded driver PartMgr.sys
Loaded driver VolSnap.sys
Loaded driver atapi.sys
Loaded driver disk.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\CLASSPNP.SYS
Loaded driver fltmgr.sys
Loaded driver sr.sys
Loaded driver PxHelp20.sys
Loaded driver KSecDD.sys
Loaded driver Ntfs.sys
Loaded driver NDIS.sys
Loaded driver Mup.sys
Loaded driver BTHidMgr.sys
Then the process freezes and a solid white block appears in the top-left of the screen, with the top-right corner of the block blinking.
At this point, I turn off the PC using the main power switch, then remove the 3rd memory stick. After booting up again, with only 2 sticks installed, opening the text file 'ntbtlog' reveals that this boot event wasn't logged.
So, I reboot Win XP with only the 2 sticks installed, and select 'enable boot logging'. This time, the above list of loaded drivers is shown in the text file, plus a whole lot more. The potentially interesting observation is the next in the list after "Loaded driver BTHidMgr.sys" which is "Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\amdk7.sys".
'amdk7.sys' is a driver file which seems to come with one of the Win XP Service Packs, and which "is necessary to enable Windows XP support for AMD PowerNow! technology on computers that use a mobile Athlon 4 or mobile Duron processor." http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306458
Various other posts refer to it in relation to AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Mobile, whereas mine is a 3000+ in a desktop. Also, if 'amdk7.sys' isn't available, then Win XP will load the generic driver 'processr.sys'. In fact, my 'ntbtlog' includes the entry "Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\processr.sys" which would make sense.
However, my curiosity is that with the 3 sticks installed, Win XP fails to continue loading when reaching 'amdk7.sys' in the driver list.
Another test I did was to change the power management settings in the BIOS.
"IPCA Function: This item is to activate the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Management Interface) function. If your operating system is ACPI-aware, such
as Windows 98SE/2000/ME, select Yes. Available options: Yes, No."
This was normally set to Yes. When I set it to No and rebooted with 3 sticks installed, instead of a half-blinking white block (as described above), the screen went black and then the system rebooted itself...
The plot thickens!...
Maybe there's a clear explanation for this - however, I'm wary of doing something to the 'amdk7.sys' driver file (whether removing or disabling it somehow) in case it prevents Win XP from launching with just my 2 sticks installed. I'd guess there are precautions, but need further info on whether this is relevant, and what the implications might be.

Raid & KT4 Ultra BSR

;( Can anyone save my sanity!
Read all about updating PC, thought easy, I can do that. During summer fitted extra memorey 512, fitted new hard drive, then an extra one for back ups, all well so far, then at Christmas bought KT4 Ultra BSR board & AMD 2400XP. Fitted ok no probs, great.
So why can't I understand how the hell to get Raid to work. The guide is about as useful as a smack in the mouth. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get an easy to understand guide to which HDD connects where and what I do with the jumpers on each. Tried configuring as Master and Slave on same cable to IDE 1 works Ok. Then tried same on IDE 3 only MAster shown and cannot configure raid. Please help before I trash it!

hi,
i had the same problem,
i have pull the little white mini plug of the harddisk where you can put it on master/save/..........
that restarted my compu and in to the set actived the raid / serial controller.
than you niet to configure your harddisk ( push ctrl-f)
and than you use nr.1 (auto........).
restart and normaly is the job al done.
jupliner/belgium.
mb: msi kt4 ultra bsr
cpu xp 2200.
256 mb/ddr/333mhz
big tower
geforce2
western digital 80gb/7200(8mb cache)
liteon 52x24x52
16/48 dvd

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
Further specs:
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.

New KT4 Ultra Won't boot

Still looking for an answer to my boot up problem. Computer starts and the lights on the dbracket stop at the first green light. I get no video,keyboard or mouse and I have to use the power supply switch to turn it off. I assembled the board with no problems. Rule out the stupid stuff like plugging stuff in with power on the board or misinstalling the cooling fan. I followed the instructions carefully. Did I break this thing, or should I buy a new power supply X( and try again? It would have been nice if the manual said something about the power supply so I could have planned that into my system. I really thought 300 watts was enough... it worked fine on my Shuttle system. If you have a recommended power supply in the $30-40 range, please let me know the make/model so I can go shopping.
I would greatly appreciate any help that will keep me from having to spend hours on the phone with the MSI Tech Support help desk.
KT4 Ultra MS 6590, Athlon 2200+, Kingston 512M 333 PC2700; 2 EIDE 7200 RPM HDD's running Win 2K Prof;2 EIDE CDROM's; Nvidia Riva TNT M64;Realtek PCI 10/100 Lan (RJ45) Antec Model PP 303x 300W PSU(3.3/14A;5/30A;12/10A Peak 160W)

I had this problem when I first got my KT4 Ultra and it was either one of two things I did and it works fine now.
Make sure that you don't have more of those spacers that seperates your MB from your case. There should only be like 6 that you need to put on. Any more than what you have screw holes for up top and you're potentially shorting out the board to the case. Luckily I didn't cause any damage and as soon as I put only the necessary spacers in, I had full boot up.
Another possibility is that your jumper pin that is used to clear the CMOS is in the wrong position. I contacted MSI tech support before and pointed out that what was shown in the diagram as the correct jumper position was different than what is said in the instructions. This caused me some confusion and luckily again, it didn't cause any damage.
Hopefully someone else will chime in on my response to your problem and either back me up or disprove it but it couldn't hurt to double check those things I've pointed out.

KT4 Ultra: conflict w/ expansion cards

This is my first post, so please be gentle. I recently built new PC for photo editing and want to keep this old KT4 Ultra computer for general usage right beside. Both are running Windows XP Home SP3.
My KT4 computer had HDD crash and after replacement and fresh istallation of XP I initially had following expansion cards inside:
USB Expansion card (w/ 4 USB ports) on Slot 2 (INT B#)
Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC on Slot 3 (INT D#)
Terratec EWX 24/96 Sound Card on Slot 6 (INT C#)
Everything was OK until I wanted a LAN connection for sharing of files (mostly) and Internet (via cable modem) between these two. Instead of a broadband wired router I opted for a Gigabit Ethernet card installing it on slot 5 (INT B#).
USB Expansion card (w/ 4 USB ports) on Slot 2 (INT B#)
Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC on Slot 3 (INT D#)
D-Link DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter on Slot 5 (INT B#)
Terratec EWX 24/96 Sound Card on Slot 6 (INT C#)
Somehow didn't want to have it on slot 1, so close to video card. Unfortunately after this the sound card was dropped by the system, a yellow question mark in Device Manager.
Further I failed to instal my Bluetooth Dongle which I earlier had used succesfully for communication to my mobile phone. Now my Broadcom USB Bluetooth Device is put under Unknown in Device Manager.
I did experience problems with the sound card several years ago in this very same PC. That time I knew little about system and BIOS setting and had to use another PC for audio purposes (digitalizing of tapes and vinyl).
As reference I used the PCI Interrup Request Routing table, found on page 2-32 in KT4's manual. Funny thing is that Sandra XI tells now that my two Ethernet cards having both INT pin A# while by their slots they should be B# and D#. I don't have true understanding what this means though. In BIOS the PNP/PCI Configurations has all slot IRQs on Auto.
Is this conflict easily cured by re-positioning card(s) on other slot(s) or addressing IRQ settings manually, and if so how and in which order? Or should I remove all the cards and install them in certain order...?
I'm quite exhausted as I had some component issues with my new PC and now this KT4 once again rejects my sound card. Maybe I'm better off by installing it on my new PC, but then this failure with Bluetooth dongle, (which I put on the USB port of KT4, not on the USB exp. card.) Oh my, why can't sound card and ethernet card live together!?!
I would appreciate your help very highly.

Hope you get things like you want them!
Eh, made this in 2003, but I'm not sure if it isn't more confusing than anything else:
"The use and sharing of IRQs aren't mentioned in my MSI manual, (due to the APIC function I think), so I had to go to some ASUS manuals. As standards are standards, I believe things can't be to different. If someone has any addings or suggestions please come forward, so I can adjust the table.
*Please note that this is generally speaking and mainly for ASUS boards a few years old!
**Please note that you should not have any sharing with the IDE controller or similar!
***Please note that it is a good thing to have expansion PCI sound cards in slot 3!
****Please note that surprisingly enough it looks like PCI slot 2 would be free for any device, but AGP cards get hot and bigger so it is not a great idea.
IRQ sharing table
PCI 1 shares with PCI slot 5
2 shares with AGP and PCI slot 6, or sometimes with onboard IDE
3 shares not, or sometimes with onboard audio/modem
4 shares with onboard LAN
5 shares PCI slot 1
6 shares with AGP and PCI slot 5
AGP slot shares with PCI slots 5 and 6
USB 1 shares with USB 2, 3 and USB 2.0
2 shares with USB 1, 3 and USB 2.0
3 shares with USB 1, 2 and USB 2.0
USB 2.0 shares with USB 1, 2, and 3
Onboard audio/modemshares not, or sometimes with slot 3
Onboard LAN shares with PCI slot 4
Onboard IDE shares not, or sometimes with PCI slot 2 "
Normally it is best to let Windows or whatever OS you run do the job. Setting IRQ:s yourself is a (too) big assignment.

KT4 Ultra (6590) need update of the Promise SATA RAID Controller PDC20376

The last Bios update AMI 1.4 for the KT4 Ultra (6590) have built in the bios version 1.00.0.18 for the PDC20376 (Promise 376).
I can configure 2 maxtor (6E040T0) sata1 in a raid0 array and it works under WinXP SP3,
but the 2 drives are working in UDMA5 according to the FastBuild Utility when the motherboard specifications talks about 150Mb (SATA1).
It's not an OS problem because the FastBuild Utility at Bios startup show the UDMA5 mode for HDD.
It's not a Maxtor 6E040T0 (SATA1) problem because have no jumper to set.
The Promise support center don't provide support for built in raid controller but the responce was that it's related to a known bios issue of the controller, so i have to update.
For the last Bios version for the S150 TX4 controller look at:
http://promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=108&category=all&os=100&go=GO
It's impossible to update the bios with the promise tool because the controller is integrated in the motherboard.
I read for example than on the motherboard K7N2 Delta-ILSR the bios version of the Promise 376 controller is 1.00.0.21:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=92756.msg665966#msg665966
I think the only solution is a modding bios, where i have to replace only the Promise controller bios but:
1) The tool amibcp.exe can't open the A6590VMS.140 AMI bios (renamed .rom), i don't know why!!!
2) What promise controller bios rom file is good?
Can anyone out there help . . . please ?

This is my results compared to my other UDMA6 HDD on IDE1, HDTach long bench stop with "Read Error" and only quick bench works.
The version of the Controller driver under WinXP-SP3 is 1.0.1.29 and I configured the driver in the PAM Utility with:
"Driver Write Cache" enabled and "Write Back" as cache settings (The 2 Maxtor SATA1 in RAID have 2MB of cache, but i don't know How many cache have the controller!!).
The Burst Speed is too strange!!! quick bench error?
I made it so your image is clickable.
-Frankenputer

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!

Kt4 ultra bios and raid function

i am using the kt4 ultra motherboard (bluetooth ready and SATA), when i go to the integrated peripherals, onboard pci controller i can only enable/disable the audio controller....
where am i supposed to enable/disable the raid controller?? is there a jumper i am missing on the board?
thanks in advance,
brian

Are you sure you have a KT4 ultra with the Serial ATA/RAID controller option? There are several versions of the motherboard, all doesn't include the PDC20376 SATA/RAID controller, please check if you can find the chip on your mobo. The controller is enabled/disabled under Integrated Peripherals->OnBoard PCI Controller
->Serial ATA controller.

KT4 Ultra + WinXP/2K installation errors!

Hi, I've just finishing building my pc, after a few slitgh problems which have been sorted, thanx to wonkanoby..specs are as follows :
AMD Duron 1.3 w Coolermaster HS/F
KT4 Ultra Lite
GF4 MX440 8X
Maxtor Fireball 40g HDD (connected to IDE1 as master)
52x CD-Rom (connected as slave)
256mb ddr 2100
Ethernet network card
Audiophile 2496 soundcard
2 front USB
Floppy drive
350w PSU
(All these products apart from the soundcard are brand new bought last saturday, and i know that the soundcard works fine)
I sorted out BIOS and began to install (firstly) windows XP, this all ran smoothly until it froze on the initial setup screen (the one where it opens and copies files-still) It froze firstly after everything had ran through and the screen said (at the bottom) something similar to this (sorry bad memory) "starting windows". I restarted the pc and it all ran through again however this time freezing on something simlar to this "Hewlett packard ...... being installed" again i restarted the pc and i just got a message saying "Unable to boot from CD-ROM code - 8"
I decided to try windows 2k, which is on a PC downstairs, just to see if i could get the thng running and then upgrade to XP. However this time it didn't freeze but came up with an error similar to this one "unable to open ???.sys file may be corrupt or missing" I then restarted the pc and it came up with a different error message, instead of the .sys file it was a .DLL...... ?? ?(
I THEN decided to try my windows 98 which was used on my last pc, again it froze on setup!!
Does anybody have any idea whats going on here?
The POST recognizes the memory and hard drive and cpu.
Please someboady help?!?!
cheers
aL
p.s. The BIOS ran through fine and I didn't change that much from the default settings.

It gets through the memory test ok on POST so I don't recon its that... plus the memory is brand new....
I ran windows setup 3 more times just now (win2k one) and got the following error messages :
1. "File setupdd.sys could not be loaded
The error code is 7
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit"
(pressing a key restarts the setup)
2. After getting through setup for about 2 minutes this error message came up :
"The file tffsport.sys is corrupted
Press any key to continue"
(pressing a key again restarts the setup)
3."File \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 4
Press any key to exit"
If it's the power supply, would disconnecting all additional hardware from the pci slots, just have the bare minimum to run, accomplish the problem until i get a more powerful power supply???
**just tried it with bare min, and still no joy :(**
Maybe i'm just destined not to have a working PC!!
cheers again
aL

Kt4 ultra ati 9700pro only x2 agp locked out

hi
can anyone please help, just brought a kt4 ultra and a 9700ati i cant hightlight the auto in the agp rate set up in the bios..
i have tried all new ati drivers
msi live update says i have newer or same bois
ati control panel only allows me to set x2 max
errrm no jumpers on board to set agp rate
i installed mobo and gpu with a fresh install of win xp
even took ati 9700 out uninstalled driver cleared regdit
replaced with gf3 ti200 installed went into bois
yipee allows me to set agp rate not greyed out on auto
so set to x4 save bios.. uninstall gf3 blah blah....
once ati is back inplace the friggin agp rate is greyed out on auto again.. which it sets on x2 in ati control panel and 3d.marks info both say x2
it seems to be a problem with the mobo not liking the the ati
dose anyone know if msi know of this problem ..or they have it in hand with possible bios update.
or as mobo is just 2 days old return back to the store and say it dont do what it says on the box..
hehe bit like a ronseal advert
argggghhh the pain please help my head can't take much more
my 1st msi mobo purchase and its not going to well
anyone know if the new gigabyte supports ati gpu's
wont bother with abit or asus
thanks for any help "even if the ati is 1.1 it should still beable to set on x4 agp ???" :(

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Originally posted by XorArch
Yep the ABIT AT7 MAX2 works great with my Prophet 9700 pro, just remember it has no serial or paralel ports(which is not a big problem for me), but it does however have 10 USB2 ports, firewire and lan onboard.
Now if only my XP 2400+ would arive X(
LOL.......... :D

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I took the card out and put my old TNT back in, and the PC worked OK.
I tried the jumper settings on the Triplex card, but it still failed to boot.
NOW the PC won't boot - even with the TNT card in, BUT it will boot WITHOUT a gfx card (although it gives the customary beeps).
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