MSI K7T266PRO2-RU and Radeon 9700 (non-pro)

Hi!
I'm thinking of upgrading to a Radeon 9700 non-pro,
and just thought I'd check this forum to see
if there are any compatibility issues between
my K7T266PRO2-RU and Radeon 9700 (like
there were between GF4mx).
If someone has a similar setup (k7t266pro2 w. 9700PRO/non-pro)
I would like to hear of your experience with this.
I appreciate your help.

Hi,
I can't remember any problems with it, as long as you make sure the powersupply can handle it.

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Hi!
I´m totaly new with amd and i got a msi k8t neo and a sempron 2800+ with 1gb memory and a saphire radeon 9500 non pro and the computer does not start with that graphiccard.The processor fan just spins up a bit then it dies. But with a gforce 5200 card the computer works fine. I have tryed the saphire card in my server with a P4 1,6ghz and on that motherboard it works just fine.
Im from sweden so my english is not the best ;-)

Quote from: qTj on 17-November-05, 20:25:05
Yes i have tryed all those things. But my card works perfectly in 2 diffrent computers. So i dont think that the vidccard is broken.. But what do i know...
Well you know that othergfx cards do work oin ur board, so I still say you RMA it, or swap if with another card that will work
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"drulleförsäkringen"
translates like "fools insurance", apperently in Sweden U get a refund when u buy something and wreck it

RESOLUTION: GNB MAX and Radeon 9700 Crashes

I had various lock-ups, crashes and "Windows detected and recovered from a device failure" error messages with my GNB MAX motherboard and Radeon 9700 and they are now fixed.
I was able to receive a beta version of an upcoming set of drivers from ATI and they did the trick!!
Just wanted to give you all some hope.
Hang in there!

Oops, I spoke too soon. I think FastWrites is on (I remember turning it off before on previous drivers and noticing a big slow down that is not present now) but there isn't a SmartGart tab appearing in my ATI control panel any more. I checked Advanced - Options - Details and yes, 8X is on.
How can I verify that FastWrites is on without the SmartGart tab?

KT4 Ultra and Radeon 9700 Pro

Ok I have a question. So it seems there is an issue with this particular card and the KT4 Ultra. So what in the $#%@ brand and model 8x agp card did MSI use to test the 8x function of this board? I thought the 9700 pro was the only 8x card out right now? If its not why wasn't it tested by them??? I hope this will be fixed by a bios update, but not for me, for the others out there, as for me, I am taking this back and I'm getting an Epox board, I heard Asus has similair problems but Epox 8x board works. Very sad that I had to spend hours trying to figure this out and it wasn't even my error.

ATI has already stated (about 2 weeks ago) that a problem does exist with the Radeon 9700 and certain 8x AGP boards. You can RMA the board and it will either be replaced or the BIOS will be flashed at no charge to you. Go to http://www.ati.com and send them an email.

648Max and Radeon 9700 - Im confused

I just installed a Radeon 9700 pro. I was getting a beep sequence when booting and it would go no further. I would just restart the computer and it would come up fine.
Everying appears to work fine after that but I do not like things to work any other way than perfect.
I looked into these boards and have been reading alot about this issue and so I checked my versions.
I seem to have A revision 1.0 Motherboard and a revision 1.1 Radeon 9700pro(D33011).
Should I talk to MSI and ATI about replacing them?

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Originally posted by AMaskedMan
I just installed a Radeon 9700 pro. I was getting a beep sequence when booting and it would go no further. I would just restart the computer and it would come up fine.
Everying appears to work fine after that but I do not like things to work any other way than perfect.
I looked into these boards and have been reading alot about this issue and so I checked my versions.
I seem to have A revision 1.0 Motherboard and a revision 1.1 Radeon 9700pro(D33011).
Should I talk to MSI and ATI about replacing them?
i had boot problems with this combo when i first bought them. msi asked me when i purchased the MB and asked for a number on the box tht shows what month it was made. if it was made last september they had a issue with 9700 and the board and they rma''d the board and everything works fine now.
dont know if that would be your fix though but i would suggest talking to them.
other than that make sure your using bios 1.1 or 1.3 (heard 1.2 was problematic for 9700) and that your power supply is adequet.
Edit:
just saw you had rev 1.1 of the 9700. that rev has had boot issues with agp 8 MB's. so if the problem i described doesnt fit yours(not made in sept) you might talk to ati about getting a rev 1.3 or higher. i had to get the 1.3 when i was using a via agp8 board and people on Rage3d had problems with the same issues on the sis 648 boards also.

MSI KT400 and RADEON 9700 PRO

I'm having many problems with this combination: some games don't work.
I've read there are problems with agp 8x, any advice?
I can't play:
mechwarrior mercenaries
arx fatalis
platoon
thanx!

Since the KT400 is a VIA Chipset based motherboard and this is an Nvidia/AMD/SiS SocketA forum I am moving it to the VIA based forum.
Perhaps you can elaborate on exact problems and provide a complete hardware listing, including your power supply's combined wattage across the +5v and +3v rails.

MSI 648 Max and Radeon 7900 pro

I have big troubles trying to setup my video card ATI Radeon 7900 pro. I try several drivers from ATI, I've tried Radeonator to downclock the video card, but the system is still very instable, hanging in every games (AoM, WC3) after few seconds, and even hanging while doing elementary stuff with the PC.
Anyone know something about this pb ?
Is it specific to the video card (i ca see a lot of pb with this card) ?
Is there a compatibility issue between video card and this mother board ?
Thanks in advance.

You can try going back through the earlier posts. I know there were quite a few dealing with the Radeon9700 and the 648Max. I don't have the Radeon so I can't help much if the problem is really related to that card. One thing you might check right off are the voltage readings in the BIOS. I know you need a pretty good power supply with that combination of motherboard and graphics card. I also know that there were some other issues as well.

MEGA 180 and Radeon 9700 Pro

i was reading and people sticked in an 9800pro and it worked fine so i took a gamble and got a 9700pro
ok took me 2hrs yesterday to stick the 9700pro in the mega and i had to take the psu, heatsink and cdrw out to do so and it booted fine the 1st time... then i installed the drivers and restarted the kb wasnt working so i thought it wasnt plugged in, checked it and it was plugged in so turned off the comp and turned it back on and the monitor was blank but i can hear it like loading so i reset the cmos and all i hear was beepings sound when i turned it on and nothing on the screen.... so turned it off again and waited a while and turn it back on and all i get is a black screen..... took out the 9700 pro and went back to onboard graphics and everything works fine again.... so i guess there is no way that i can get the 9700 pro to work on this right?
any help is apperciated thanks in advanced

Quote from: Dr Stu on 24-December-05, 20:31:08
where did you get the 9700pro from?
these are no longer manufactured, so i guess you have bought this "used" from somewhere (ebay perhaps?)
try it in another computer system, and see if it does the same in there. if it does then you have bought a duff card
yes i got it off someone used and no there is nothing wrong with it cuz i just tired it on my bro's desktop (p4 1.8ghz) and it works fine... and i just noticed that his psu is 250watts also and it works fine so then shouldnt it run on the mega also if it works on his comp with 250watts psu? or i guess its just differeent psu's??

KT4 and Radeon 9700 Pro......

Ok I found that all my 3d games lock up with any driver version, with all the via 4 in 1, trust me there is nothing I haven't checked. Another thing I found is the card works great on my other pc which is not an 8x AGP motherboard. So I hear everywhere on many other forums, "turn it to 4x agp on your board and try", oh boy I sure would if that section WASN'T GREYED OUT AT AUTO!!!!!!!!!!! Please MSI, what is the point of not letting us lower the AGP speed, especially if people are reporting problems with this card and your motherboards. I figured one time, just once, I would stray from Asus and Epox and buy an MSI since it advertised 8X agp ( god knows if they tested a real 8x agp card with the board ), this has been a major mistake, and since I have to live with it, all I ask is that you put out a bios update so we can lower the agp speed. thanks

4esth,
There is no way to allow the user to manually set AGP4x on an AGP8x card on MSI KT4 Ultra.
Did you come across any other VIA KT400 boards that allow user to manually set AGP4x on an AGP8x card, please let us know. Until now I haven't found one. Or else it would serve as a good point to request MSI. But I doubt there is any at the moment.
Other than that, I would suggest you to check for the heatsink condition on the card itself. Apply some Arctic Silver III if you have, lap the core if you dare as some core GPU is not FLAT and does not have good contact with the heatsink.

Over clocking XP 2400 and 9700 non-pro

im going to get my parts in a few days and was wondering if anyone had overclocked either of these.

hi
i overclocked my xp2400+ from 133*15 to 166*12 to get it with sync with memory.
i kept the volt 1.65 as it was.
i did not overclock the core only the fsb.
i cant remember why i did it actually anymore.
i had all the speed i could possible need and it was stable.
i used the wire trick to unlock multiplier.
i had my computer up and goind for over 1 month before i oc'ed the cpu.
its on 24/7 so i know it was good and stable.
i heard from several people in here that 200*11 is NOT impossible to reach.
if you dont get a VERY good deal then a barton 2500+ would be better to buy or you will regret it someday when you feel the need for speed 8)
bye

MOVED: Re: K8T Neo2 F (6702E) and Radeon 9700

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Originally posted by dondada
OK, lets clear this up. What is happening is that the computer is randomly freezing/shutting down. Now it doesnt matter what i am doing, its just random. I've done the burn-in test for about 15 hrs with no problem, but then when i stopped it, i tried to open IE, and the comp crashed, so its not a load problem. the rig always POSTs, thats not a problem. I have not run MEMTEST, but i've tried other ram, with the same problem. I've also tried different vid cards, such as a Radeon 7000, a 9600 pro, and a nVidia mx440, all of which worked flawlessly. Now in the bios, i have the AGP Fast write set to Off, the aperature set to 256mb, and the VLink 8x support is disabled (therefore set to 4x). The primary graphics adapter is set to AGP. The AGP Frequency is set to the default, and so is the voltage. ALSO, when i was talkin with MSI, then sent me an updated bios. the bios file says 3.36, but in the actual bios, it says 3.31. is this anything to worry about? I have not done driver clean, or used the Omega drivers yet, but i will do that now. Please reply if you can help or if you need more information.
1) why set fast write to off? mine is on.
2) why set the aperature so much higher than the available onboard ram on the 9700?

OCing a Radeon 9700?

I have a Powerccolor Radeon 9700 (non PRO version) and was wondering how far I can clock the core and memory. I'm not really sure as to the stock speeds, but I think the core runs @275mhz. My system OS is Windows XP SP1; I have a K7n2 Delta-ILSR/Athlon XP 2500+ running @2.05ghz; the memory is 1GB of Mushkin Level One DDR 3200.

You should do a voltage mod to your VR gpu chip. That's the only way to get a high core clock with out screen coruption. Do a search on volt moding 9700. There's lot's of people doing it to all video cards and mother boards. You can volt mod the ram.
I've got my 9600 pro up to 550mhz core from 400 and 370mhz ram from 300. I'm using water cooling though and have ram sinks, which you'll need also for OC'ing with higher voltages. 9700 get hotter also because of the .15 micron GPU size.
If you do the bios flash, 9/10 times you have to volt mod for stability. That's the key for bios hacks on non pro to pro flashing.
Just a thought.

KT4 Ultra +Radeon 9700 Pro Trouble Free !

After a few months of relatively trouble free gaming with KT4 Ultra and Radeon 9700 Pro, I was shocked to find recently that my PC began to crash after only a few minutes of gameplay. 8o
Believing that a reinstall of all the relavent drivers would cure the problem, I set about trawling through the latest advice on what works / doesnt work. This I have to say was a minefield of anecdotes, mainly bad ones - as most of you guys are probably aware !
After installing drivers as 'best' I could, the problem remained the same.
It would appear that to ask for a complete list of recommended drivers is futile, since there is little correlation between reported 'fixes'. There is always someone reporting that the latest versions are causing problems.
For the moment, this tale has a happy ending cos I found that the system is getting too hot (after some months !), so with the side panel off and a 12 inch desk fan blowing inside I managed a 4 hour session with now problems. )
The purpose of the post is to highlight the disturbing fragility of these systems (which i'm sure many of you have first hand experince), both in hardware and software and to share my disbelief at the apparent lack of sustained testing that these boards undergo.
Looks like a better cooling system is in order

It's unfortunate that most of the new hardware seems to pump out heat. The ATI 9700 pro use about 100W of power on it's own. The whole system puts out enough heat to warm a small room.
I have noticed that the heatsink on the ATI card gets very hot, even though it has a fairly serious fan on it (the fan on my Sapphire card is a lot like a blue orb).
I am wondering if a lot of problems with these setups are thermal. I have the KT4 Ultra and ATI 9700 pro and it has not given problems at all.
I have (from past experience) installed plenty of cooling in my case (a full tower, that helps too). I find that the cooler everything as kept, the less problems there are.
I think that at some stage in the near future there will have to be a change somewhere. Either in heat output (reduction in power use) or cooling.

865PE Neo2 and Radeon 9800 Pro Graphics Problems

Hello!
I just got done building a new system last week, and I've noticed some issues when playing games. Problems arise when the "Performance Mode" is set to anything higher than 'Fast' in the BIOS. I get a ton of artifacts when playing games. I also get artifacts when the Dynamic Overclocking feature is turned on. I'm using the latest Catalyst drivers, running on XP SP1 w/ all patches installed. My guess is that my graphics card doesn't like the boost in speed. BUT, I bought the VisionTek 9800 Pro because I read several reviews on it that said it was stable when overclocked. Anybody have problems like this? I saw an earlier post stating something about OEM 9800's being fakes, but this was a retail version ordered from CompUSA. Any advice, tips, comments would be greatly appreciated... It's driving me NUTS!

I've got the Built By ATI Radeon 9800 Non-Pro and I've set Perf Mode to Slow and DOT to Disabled. This enabled me to OC the Proc stably.
I've played SWG with all terrain and video settings to the MAX and have had only one problem where the game itself crashed. But that was an anomaly not the norm.
I personally would recommend icing perfmod and DOT. They seem to be good marketing ideas, but don't gain much in practice.

K7N2 AND radeon 9500 : NO post!!

Hallo @ all!
I have a big problem.
i read some similar issues all over the forum with the K7n2 and radeon 9500/9700 and Kingston RAM.
Well, i have 2x 256 MB 333 cl 2.5 kingston ram.
when i use the radeon 9500 non pro 128 MB, the fan just moves a short time and the system is off and can only be put on after PSU switched off.
So I cant switch on my SYSTEM ! (
PSU enermax 365 (3.3V 32A 5V 32A )
the graphics card works, tested on ECS K7S5a AND MSI KT400!
with SAME PSU.
AGP is OK tested with GF 2 mx.
but not the combination 9500 AND K7N2.
im so sad!
i have to run the syst with a VODDO BANSHEE :-(
the system is ok, if i remove the 4 pol aux power plug from the graphics card, BUT: then the graph card hinders system from booting. (intentionally , its made by sapphire)
If sombody has a solution or a tipp PLZ PLZ PLZ help.
Greetings, JENS.

Hello!
I found a "solution". although u cant call it so... .
Well, 1st i tried an enermax 465 watts, but of course, the problem is the same.
the fans just moves 1 sec and then u cant do another till u switch PSU off/on.
its no RAM problem, because system ran fine with voodoo banshee PCI.
so i tried sth. "brave" :-D .
but what should happen bad, if the Graphics card is layed out for the 12V ???
I removed the 12v Power plug, booted the system till the Warning: plug in 12V aux power in ur radeon 9700....
(i posted before, that system starts till this point when power plug (12V) is removed).
And then I plugged in and hit the RESET button:
See, system booted well *sheesh*.
But, its no solution due to its necessary any start....
So, would U built in a delayed switch, which overtakes this work, or would u send in the Mainboard?
Greetings, Jens.
What a curies thing a PC is...

MSI K7T266PRO2-RU and Radeon 9700 (non-pro)

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