MSI KT4-ULTRA & WD SATA RAPTOR

I have this KT4-Ultra with Promise SATA controller onboard and until now I did not know if it works well.
Today i've bought the SATA hdd from WesternDigital - the Raptor, and i'm very unsatisfied by the performance.
I've got only 58mbps burst speed and 48mbps medium on HD Tach. And i know that this is not ok. It should be far better I've readed all the reviews.
The drive is conected in a 1+0 Stripe Array. I'm using the latest driver for the controller. I had trouble before with this mainboard [thread] and i think it has something to do with the BIOS.
This i found it to be iritating - the HDD cost a lot more than the mainboard(wich is expensive too). I still think that the mainboard is the problem.

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Originally posted by wonkanoby Meseriashu
you have got it jumperless not master
There are no master or slave or cable select settings on SATA drives as there can be only one SATA drive per cable/channel. The jumpers on the Raptor set the power management mode of the drive on spinup.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=PtNY5SHg&p_lva=&p_faqid=958&p_created=1050530240&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTImcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1qdW1wZXImcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT00JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPTk1JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwyPX5hbnl_JnBfY2F0X2x2bDE9fmFueX4mcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=

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Originally posted by swedecom
Ok, I use these settings in my BIOS, are they right for my system??
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off my folks yesterday i got...
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I have the same issues with my KT4 Ultra (pure version).
Running GF4 Ti4400, Athlon XP2400+ etc, 450W power etc. There are quite many posts of similar issues all over the Via Arena forums and some here as well. KT4 Ultra's and KT4V's seem to be the boards affected.
Installing the Via USB Filter Patch helped with narrowing down the number of crashes and some of the errors.
(note: disable automatic restart from 'Startup and Recovery settings' to see the driver that crashes)
Link to Via Arena FTP site
I had a K7T266pro2-RU board before this which worked 100% stable. I've tested all my components which are fine. Tested different power supplies, memory. Still, continuous random errors after many times of reinstalling Win2K by the book and with default bios settings.
Sometimes the setup works fine for a week and then starts to mess around again.
Looks like setting the cpu fsb down to 128 MHz from 133 MHz solves the issues, so try that and report back.
Also check the filter patch.
I'm personally waiting for the next bios release to fix these issues - if not, I'm showing this board RMA and go to nForce2 chipset.
I also tested the 1.25 beta bios, which gave me lots of crashes during Win2K boot -> flashed back to v1.10 and booting works again.
- Tom

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