Newbie Freaking Out-K7T266 Pro2-A Shutdown, then startup
I had built a computer for myself, and it runs like a dream. It has the AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with the KT3 Ultra 2 Mainboard. I had no problems with it. Then, I decided to build one for my husband, but chose the K7T266 Pro2-A Mainboard with the same processor. (I am clearly waaay over my head right now). When I try and shut down the computer, I get a small click coming from the inside of the tower speaker, barely audible(similar to the small sound you get when you are installing a new driver, and it pops up to tell you that the disk is not in the drive????), then it attempts to shut down, only to reboot a split second later. Either it reboots fine, or it hangs onto a black screen, and emits 3 long beeps.
I desparately need some help here. I am going by the book (PC Building for Dummies" (please, don't run and hide....I am trying to learn!), and it helped me out a great deal on the first computer. This one has got me stumped. I also downloaded the new version of the boards bios last night, but it did not help. I also opened it up, re-seated the wires to the front switched, as well as the d-bracket, memory, video card, and modem. I went into the Advanced power management and disabled everything.
System Info:
K7T266 Pro2-A Mainboard
Bios 5.6
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
GenForce 4 MX 440 64MB D
Memory DDR PC2100 256MB
Modem: HSP56 Micromodem
O/S: Win98SE (Updated, as well as downloaded the shutdown patch)
Please...I really jumped the gun when I started this thing. I should have studied up more on all the technical info, but I have been known to just jump in and do it. I have learned my lesson. I am bowing to all the computer technicians right now. ;(
I had that problem with a computer I recently built. Try swapping the power supply out of your other computer. I bought a cheapo case and the motherboard couldnt shut the power supply off.
Good luck! :D
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Can anyone please help me?!?!?Hello.
2 years running fine and all of a sudden it is not booting?
Maybe after all this time something has finally gone wrong.
The best way to find out what is causing the hang would be to remove all the devices,
Remove hard drive, both cd drives and floppy drives.
Then connect 1 at a time and try to boot from it.
Test the floppy drive in your PC, does it boot from the boot disk?
if it does then put the hard drive back, IDE 1 master.
boot order floppy, hard drive
see if it still boots from the floppy drive
if yes then put 1 cd drive on IDE2 master, see if it boots from floppy.
boot order floppy, CD drive ,hard drive
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I attempted to do update the raid drive (got the grand message re: stop what the heck your doing or face certian death or Continue and prepair to die - when updating the driver in xp). Nothing worked. So I fdisked the drive (20gb ibm) drive that was my c: and reinstalled W2k Server...still seeing the same issue.
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Anyone, anyone?
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changing around the jumper,
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Hello.
Long time no see, I'm back now ^^
Since the glorious times of my first Socket A system, much water have flowed on rivers so to say that many things happened, to me and in the world.
Well, ok, to make long story short here's the thing.
Some time ago (iirc some years) I were trying some spare hardware I have and when I was trying my old K7T266 Pro2 RU motherboard, after some tests, I did a mistake: I didn't installed properly a stick of ram, being partially inserted on one side and not fixed properly in its slot, so, forgetting and/or not noticing it, I switched on the motherboard and the poor board "poofed" out dead. The component that burned was nearby the ram slots, named D7 on the board and it was an SS12, a schottky diode: I thought so that replacing it would have sufficed to bring the board back to life, so I went to a tech assistance shop and they gave me an SS14 diode, claiming that it have the same characteristics of the SS12 being it just stronger than the earlier and that it can stand some more voltage, so I bought it for a few euro.
After that I left all the mess apart since I lost interest to it, until now that I decided to try to fix the motherboard with the new component and see it I were right about it, but here came the first problem: when I were trying to unsolder the old burnt diode, it was really difficult, first off because it was too near the ram slots (so I were fearing to melt the plastics of the retention system), second off because the pin on the opposite side of the ram slots wasn't wanting to let go the track it was soldered! I struggled much to make it let go and after I succeeded, luckily, the track under was lifted from the board and I found it even cut!
After swearing all of my calendar (don't mind about this, it's something we do much in italy, not always tho :P), I then tried to solder the new diode: it wasn't so difficult, and luckily i managed to sold back the cut track rejoining it and, because the whole thing wasn't so fix, I put even a drop of Superattak glue (cyanoacrylate): the result was very good, even tho couldn't be as if it nothing happened, but acceptable in general.
I tried then to reinstall it on one of my old case desktop ATX lying around, throwed my old Athlon XP 1800+ Palomino and a stick of 256 MB DDR266 from an old Intel celeron 1.7GHz Willamette rig I got recently, and powered it up again: first attempt didn't do anything, after some cable checking (I don't remember now but maybe I reversed the reset and power on switches plugs ^^) it finally run... and *drum roll* it even did the POST! I was happy, then, and was thinking that everything were going the good way. But Murphy is always hiding somewhere, so my happiness wasn't lasting long.
Ok, then, I decided to try to test it again to see if the hardware is still going, so I tried to install windows XP on a spare maxtor 80gib I had lying around, but with no much luck: firsts attempts hanged many times always on the same step (still on the early blue text-only screens), so I decided to try to run a memtest first, to check it before everything, and here comes the new main issue.
I've installed memtest86+ v4.20 on an old 256 mb usb pendrive, successfully, because I needed to test the ram on some other computers, so I had the thing already ready for the task: I inserted it on one of the onboard usb plug (the v1.1 ones: naturally on the usb 2.0 it's not even detected) and tried to boot the board from it. Failing.
I then tried it again on other computers: first my notebook, then some other rigs and all of them run the test correctly. To be sure I reinstalled the memtest on the pendrive, to no avail.
I've tried to change the ram stick, I've plugged a 512 MB DDR400 one (not the one of the incident, but surely a working one, since I tried it successfully on other rigs), and change the slot too, still to no avail.
The pendrive "boots", but it hangs prompting me:
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SYSLINUX 3.86 2010-04-01 CBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
Boot:
What should I do?
Is it because of the USB 1.1?
Or maybe a BIOS issue?
Or is it really my motherboard that's still TFU? I really hope not, I want to make it work again :(
Anyway, of anybody of you that still have this glorious motherboard, can you please tell me if you can run memtest86+ from one of the ONBOARD USB (1.1) plugs?
I take it from here, btw: http://www.memtest.org/ (http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.usb.installer.zip to be correct).
Please answer me, thank you in advance!!
Edit: I forgot to say that I did the c37 removal mod for making the board compatible with 0.13 µ cpus, successfully, natuarlly :PQuote from: Bas on 06-February-12, 19:38:58
Looks like the harddisk is broken.
As it complains about the partitions just like XP does.
No, I tried to boot the memtest from usb disconnecting everything else, so no hdd and no cd/dvd. I also tried to disable every integrated periferal and device: fdc, serials and parallel, midi, game, ide, raid, audio, modem and usb (1.1 naturally).
Btw when I said that it complains about the partitions? :o
Quote from: eagle3 on 06-February-12, 20:58:32
Try memtest on a cd and boot from that; or use a linux live cd. Or the marvellous Ultimate Boot cd. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Also that board was built around the time of the bad cap debacle..
I think I would have binned it..
I followed your suggestion (but I thought it by myself too) and tried with the cd version of memtest86+, burning the iso onto a brand new cd (sigh, so much space wasted :p), and tried it: it finally worked, and I found that the 256 Mib ddr266 stick isn't compatible with the board, since the test didn't even started, another stick of 512 Mib ddr333 got errors (even 1 is too much to me, but it didn't have only 1 error), and finally the 512 Mib ddr400 tested fine for about 2 hours! That's a relieve ^^
Unluckily even using the good working ram, it still don't want to boot memtest86+ from the usb pendrive.
I still ask to anyone with my same board if they can do the same test, just to be sure that's just the board that can't boot properly from usb, or maybe a little incompatibility with my old pendrive.
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Hello,
I recently got a MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU motherboard and an AMD XP2000+ processor. When I turn it on, I get the 4 red lights and no boot. I flashed the bios with the newest version, and it still won't work. I read in the bios history that 2000+ is supported, so I have no idea what's going on. My old 1ghz tbird works fine with the motherboard.
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So that means soldering then eh?
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Hi folks,
Please, I need your help !!!!
I have MSi K7T266 Pro2 Ru and Xp 1600 running ok.
I did buy a new processor AMD XP 1800 with following code :
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AIUGA 0247TPMW on black stamp
number 2791 (in gold) on corner and "B" in other side.
The motherboard does not boot up on first time....
thinking the problem to be the BIOS version....I did update to V 3.7.
Tryied agan , but the problem still appears....the motherboard do not boot up....all 4 led´s stay red on power on !
I did a test with 2 another motherboards : ECS K7S5A and ASUS A7V133 , these 2 run ok with processor.
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Ricardo NBI have a K7T 266 Pro RU mainboard running the XP 2100 [and was running the XP1800]. Try reseating the CPU. Take the HSF off, take the CPU out and then reinstall it. I've had the problem once or twice on these boards and reseating the CPU seemed to solve it. As far as updating the BIOS, you don't have to add or remove anything on the board. Use the live BIOS and make sure the boot sector write protection in the BIOS is disabled.
Also note: The K7T266 Pro [any version] might have a stability problem with more that 512 MB of DDR memory. If you have more than 512MB [combinations of 1,2,3, 1GB or 3ea 256 MB or 3ea 512MB or 2 ea 512MB] your problem might be just the memory. There are many threads on K7T266 Pro stability problems with more than 512 MB or memory. -
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Now after taking the battery out and all that it just keeps saying CMOS settings wrong instead of the other message about "CMOS/GPNV Checksum Bad" and i can't make it go away.
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I have a problem with installation of winXP SP1 on my computer. First i got a blue screen in the first step of installation (windows loads drivers, then freezes). It said that acpi.sys is the problem. I disabled it and then the problem was irq not less... . Then i disabled
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I dont know what to do and don't want to disable internal cache because of the huge system slowdown...
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Hi!
What can your PSU provide in terms of ampères?
Load BIOS setup defaults. Open case.
Have the HDD and the CDRW on different IDE channels and cables, with both as Master respectively at the end of the cable.
Install VIA 4in1 drivers.
When everything works, make proper BIOS adjustments.
Best wishes, and good night!
Can't provide the data about my PSU because i'm not at home right now.
I will do it tomorow.
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I have a computer with only 256 Mb of RAM and I wanted to add 256 Mb but my second memory module of 256 Mo is not recognized whereas it functions very wel.
Here are details :
- Mother board : MSI K7T266 Pro2 (ms-6380 v2.0) with 3 memory slots
- BIOS : Award Modular W6380F1 V3.0 071902
- Memory module of origin : Samsung 256 Mo PC2100 (2 Sides)
- New memory module : Corsair Value 256 Mo PC3200 (1 Side)
Configs Tested :
- Samsung only : OK
- Corsair only : OK
- Samsung in Slot 1 and Corsair in Slot 2 or 3 : the computer starts but with only 256 Mb of RAM (in this config, Everest Ultimate Edition finds both memory modules but also only 256 Mb of RAM)
- Corsair in Slot 1 and Samsung in Slot 2 or 3 : the computer starts with a blank screen and several beeps.
Can somebody help me so that my second memory module is recognized correctly ? I specify that I did not modify the BIOS.
I thank you by advance.I'm no memory expert, but from being around here I've learned that there is more to a stick of RAM than the MHz speed. If timings etc were perfectly the same for the 3200 and the 2100, the system (the Northbridge) could simply set down memory speed to the slowest of the sticks.
However, I also know that many have been helped by entering BIOS, Advanced Chipset..., and go to the subtitle Memory timings controlled by..., and change from By SPD to By User. Then manually set down to 133 (266 effectively). This is if you absolutely want these two sticks. -
Raid 0 Failure! XP Pro won't read array on MSI k7T266 pro2 *URGE
Before anything else, thanks for reading and I hope you can help:
I have an MSI k7T266 Pro2A-RU motherboard with 512MB of Mushkin RAM, AMD XP 1600+, a Geforce2 MX400, Audigy Soundcard and a cheap PCI NIC card. I consider myself an above average technician and I've come up on a problem I can't figure out. There is about 80GB of data at stake here:
I have 2 IBM Deskstar 40GB 7200 RPM drives that were configured in a RAID 0 (stripe) configuration over a year and a half ago. This gave me a total of 80GB online. Windows XP Professional was installed and the drives have been running fine every since...
The system was practically bulletproof and it was very rare it ever locked up for any reason. A few days ago, however, the system locked up about 4 or five times. There was no software or hardware that had been added or installed and system use hadn't really changed up or down. I run up to date antivirus software (Command Anti-Virus), run behind a secure firewall and watch what I open. The lock ups were random, but happened when I was away from the computer. ( I leave my system on all the time).
Being a bit paranoid, on 1/28/03, I acquired an 80GB Maxtor drive to install to back up my datafiles. Before the install, I notice the system had locked up at least once that day, so I figured I would hurry up and get the drive in to back up. I installed the 80, booted, configured it in XP and made it active and transfered a few test files over. No problem. I made the decision to back up my data files before bed and continued to work for the next two hours. The system ended up locking up with a windows blue screen STOP error message: KERNEL_FAULT_INPAGE_ERROR when I tried to run a program. Thinking little of it, I rebooted the computer to find I could no longer access the data on the RAID.
I've tried nearly EVERYTHING I can think of. (You can already assume I've done the basics (check/replace the cables, etc). Here's a list and the results:
---- Reboot in all available modes (Safe, Safe with NW, Normal, Last known, etc). They all FAIL. In safe modes, you can see where the system actually tries to boot off the array (runs through driver files and stops on MUP.SYS) and hangs. Same result with all other drives removed except the RAID.
---- Installed another drive, loaded XP with the raid controller files (By the way, it's a Promise ATA 100 "lite" controller), plugged the RAID back in and it hangs on boot up. Safe mode gives the same results. Tried the same thing with Windows 2000 (so I could access the NTFS partition) and Windows 2000 won't load when the array is plugged in, but loads ok when it isn't (used the 2000 driver for the RAID controller for this attempt). Safe mode gives the same results.
---- Removed all drives except the Array and tried to reload XP (with the array drivers downloaded again from the site.) No effect. System hangs.
---- In a last ditch effort, I have access to Winternals Administration Pack 2002 of all of their tools. ERC Commander, designed for this type of problem, Disk Commander, and the other tools all do the same thing: Any time the system attempts to read from or access the arry, the OS will hang. It won't even check for NTFS compatibility in the ERC commander program booting from a boot CD, and for those that are familiar with it, the Disk Commander program blue screens with a STOP: 0x000007B (0xF896963C, 0xC0000034, 0x0, 0x0) error. Research has told me this is an INACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE message.
These are the main highlight major attempt things and there's a few things in between I've tried (like using Norton Ghost to try and mirror the array to the 80GB. Norton ghost said there is an error reading the partition and can't go any further (Returns an Internal error))
I'm at the point where I have run out of available options and don't know what else to try. I have since purchased the exact same motherboard off e-bay to see if it just so happens to be the controller and to see if my RAID will come back so I can at least read the data off of it. It should be here in a few days. If that doesn't work, I'm toasted. Could I be fighting a hardware (drive or board or controller) problem. Is the array THAT corrupt the OS can't read it???
If anyone has any other bright ideas, I'm willing to try about anything short of damaging the array. Any help is greatly appreciated. Please post here, or e-mail to [email protected].
BTW, the Promise BIOS is Fasttrak 100 "Lite" v 1.31.1(Build 30)
Thanks.
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In Snow Leopard I used to use ALT + cursors to move around spaces (not CMD - this was because I liked CMD + cursors for 'Home' and 'End'). Therefore I also used ALT + 1, ALT + 2 etc to jump to spaces. Therefore my ALT + 3 never gave the hash symbol,
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How to open a JSP project in Eclipse?
I am a new JSP user. Can somebody tell me how to use eclipse for jsp programming. Or can somebody give me a link that has a Eclipse JSP programming tutorial.
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Also lost my gallery?
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Spry error {encyclopedic title truncated by moderator}
Dreamweaver is giving me the following error when I try to add an additional tab to my Accordion Spry How do I correct this issue? Thank you very much in advance!!!