Single SATA drive with VIA VT8237 Chipset (KT6 Delta-FIS2R) ?

After the installation of one (!) 120GB MAXTOR SATA drive on the VIA Southbridge,
partitioning, formating and installation of Win 98 SE I face the following problem:
- Under ControlPanel-> System-> DeviceManager there is a missing driver for the
SATA RAID Controller
- After installation of the VIA SATA/RAID-driver and rebooting,
Windows get stucked (obviously because no RAID-array is defined)
- Afer rebooting the second time, one can find in the DeviceManager a VIA SCSI
Entry that says driver is not started anymore because of faillure
- Under ControlPanel-> System-> SystemPerformance one found the information
that the SATA drive is running in MS-DOS compatibility mode because of a not
started driver
Question(s):
Is there a driver for the VIA SATA interface that will work with a single drive or
is the only workaround at the moment the use of the "slower" promise controller?
Or is it still a BIOS problem (That one can not install an "dummy-array" with a single drive) ?
KT6 Delta-FIS2R with BIOS 5.2

Me too - regarding "slower" performance, but my only source was a VIA article...
(http://www.via.com.tw/en/southbridge/vt8237_drivestation.jsp)
(...but there must be a reason why MSI build in the additional Promise-controller)
Thanks for quick information!
Kris

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[Athlon64] CAN'T SEE SINGLE SATA DRIVE / K8T NEO no Promise controller

I have a K8t NEO -the cheapskate version with no PROMISE SATA controller or on-board Firewire
I have been running on XP SP2 on 2 IDE drives, everything is ok. I added a SINGLE SATA drive and turned the VIA SATA controller on in BIOS. I did the MSI Live Update and have the latest VIA SATA driver, latest chipset, latest BIOS, latest EVERYTHING. At boot, the VIA SATA controller reports my Hitachi SATA as Channel 0 Primary" in the SATA devices table. Going into the SATA RAID menu it tells me "You can't make RAID with just one drive" which is true, of course. But the point is the controller SEES the drive.
I've run MSI Live Update and have the latest BIOS, latest SATA XP driver, latest EVERYTHING.
Windows XP doesn't see the SATA drive.
In XP I see a VIA RAID CONTROLLER in Hardware / Device Manager which is DISABLED. When I right-click then click ENABLE on the VIA RAID CONTROLLER the machine reboots immediately. I tried safe mode, same thing. I tried BIOS settings of "No PNP O/S Installed" and "Yes PNP O/S Installed" and reset the NVRAM. No change.
I think there must be an IRQ conflict.... I have a sound card (on-board sound is turned OFF in BIOS) and AGP video card, and that's it- no WiFi NIC or anything else to eat up IRQ resources. I use the Realtek on-board ethernet.
I tried my Windows 98 partition and that booted, detected the new hardware (VIA SATA) and I installed the driver from the MSI CD and Win 98 is happy with the SATA drive..... it sees the drive just fine.
How do I make Windows XP see the SATA drive?

Have you tried starting XP with CD and entering recovery, log on as admin and see if SATA drive is there? Remember to "F6" with a floppy drive of SATA drivers for
-XP-... I'm assuming you already have as you said all is uptodate. When the boot BIOS for the VIA SATA apprears and you press "TAB" I believe it is, you can mess with the SATA functions. Sorry if does not apply to your compy or you've already done all this.... BTW you CAN run a RAID array with one HDD, at least thats what I did on my Promise controller.
In my Device Manager under Disk drives it looks like this (notes bracketed are noting position):
Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0 (G:\ 1-160GB IDE Seagate/notice ONE drive)
Promise 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0) (F:\ 2x200 SATA)
ST3160023A (Location 1 (1) VIA IDE D:\)
VIA SATA RAID 0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0) (E:\ 2x120 SATA)
WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (Location 0 (0) VIA IDE C:\)
Under the boards BIOS, is the SATA drive listed under the BOOT table??? In my system it lists the above 5 partitions (7 HDD's total), floppy, 2 CD/DVD drives, etc...
Oh also in Device Manager IS the VIA SATA controller appearing in the "SCSI and RAID controllers" tab??? I have set mine to just SATA before and of course now it says "VIA SATA RAID Controller"... for you it should read "VIA SATA Controller". Remember there are 2 different drivers for the SATA controller, one for SATA and one for SATA RAID. Look on your floppy disk or if you saved out the updated driver. I made a new floppy with the latest XP drivers. When booting from WINXP CD, and promted for "F6" and press it, later it will show you TWO different drivers after reading the floppy disk for XP. You obviously want the non RAID driver... hope that helps somewhat... g'luck

How to install Windows XP on a single SATA drive?

I am trying without much success to use a single Maxtor 200 GB SATA drive in a non-RAID configuration running Windows XP Home SP 2+. I obtained documentation from the MSI Download site that explains how to do such a thing. However ...
First, out of the box the Drivers & Utilities CD is useless -- can't read it, simply hangs the CD drive.
Second, the drivers from the Download site (IATA_ICH5R) return "incompatible hardware. software not supported on this chipset" messages.
So where do I get the drivers required to install Windows XP on a single SATA drive (to use at point F6 in the Windows XP installation)?
Regards,
Bob (ll1951md)
P.S. Configuration ...
865PE/G Neo2-P (MS-6728) w/ Intel Extreme Graphics 2, Realtek ALC655 Audio
2 GB Corsair Dual Channel DDR Memory
Intel P4 3.0e GHz Processor
1 Maxtor 200 GB SATA HD
1 HDS 120 GB ATA HD

Thanks for the tips. I was able to install Windows XP and boot from the SATA drive by using these options and setting the appropriate boot device selections...
Legacy Mode
ATA Configuration - PATA only
SATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA channel selection - both
Combined Mode Option - S-ATA 1st Channel
S-ATA Ports Definition - P0 - 3rd./P1 - 4th.
I just wasn't sure if I was really getting "SATA" performance, etc. without specific drivers.
Thanks again.
Bob (ll1951md)

875pneo Promise..Single Sata Drive?

Can I attach a single Sata drive on either ser3 or ser 4 on the Promise controller?
Or does it always have to be 2 drives in raid config...
My main os is setup on RAID0 on the INtel ICH controller above on the mobo.
I change the promise to SATA only in Bios.
Not coming up in Windows...
I just overcame a nightmare of having one HD fail as RAID0 on the promise and moved the structure with clean OS install on the ICH controller.
I just now want my sata 500 singe drive to connect.
When I had the RAID0 OS on the Promise, I was able to have the single SATA drive on SER2.
that was then this is now.

AND I already have data on my ESATA drive so I do not want to "reformat" it here as stated.
I can't even see it in disk management.
Q: I've installed a new SATA HDD, I can find it in Device Manager but it doesn't appear in Windows Explorer at all! HELP!!
You need to format the HDD, not just SATA but also PATA HDD then only Windows Explorer can see it and assign it with a drive letter. To format a HDD, right click on My Computer, select Manage, look for Disk Management. You should see a no-drive-letter unformatted drive there in the list. Get it formatted by right click on it and choose the obvious option there is.
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E-sata drives with xcam mp4s and QTref to r3d redcam

Client is bringing e-sata drives with xcam mp4 files and QT refs pointing to r3d redcam.
How do you import/see the files in your new project? What's the right way to do this to maintain the proper link to the file?
I'm new to FCP and remember in the tutorial on lynda.com that they said it was critical to have your media files in: "/documents /fcp documents / capture scratch" to maintain the proper link.
Do you have to create this path/folder on the new drives? If you simply import the files, will the system automatically establish this link/path to media?
Another question: instead of file-import command, can you simply drag the files from the drive into the browser of your project (rumor I heard)?

You don't need to copy the media if the drive is fast enough.
You can just drag the files into the browser. That's the same as using the File>Import function.

Running on SINGLE SATA Drive

I just have one question, is it possible to operate off of a single SATA drive on any of the K8T Neo mobo's?

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Originally posted by alzheimer
and btw. why i have icon in win xp in system tray - safely remove hardware and there is my sata HDD???
you know, I have the exact same thing. I have a Samsung SATA HDD connected to SATA1 (I am not o'cing), and the green arrow shows up. When I try to go into properties (right-click), It does not give me the option of "hiding" it. Odd indeed.
And to the original post question, yes, no problems running single SATA as detailed here in the responses.

KT6 Delta FIS2R BIOS stopped detecting IDE1 & 2 optical drives

I am working on a new system that has developed an unusual (to me) problem. The system is partially built and consists to date of the following:
1. Chieftec MA-01BND case with Super-Flower TTGI TT-520SS (520 Watt) power supply.
2. MSI KT6 Delta FIS2R motherboard with an AMD XP2600 CPU and one stick of Corsair CMX512-2700C2 RAM.
3. Two Mitsumi MTM-1.44BL floppy drives.
4. Two Maxtor 6Y080MO HDD’s connected to SATA 1 and SATA 2, not in RAID.
5. Sony DDU1621BK DVD/CD ROM mastered on IDE1.
6. Sony DWU10A-B2 DVD/CD RW 1 mastered on IDE2.
7. Asus V9520 VS AGP video card.
8. Windows 98SE installed on HDD1.
Everything was operating properly, and I was installing software and drivers for peripherals, when the following problem appeared.
At boot-up, the MB logo pops right up; but then, it takes approximately 80 seconds for the BIOS to initiate. Boot-up then proceeds as normally, and Windows 98SE initiates normally. However, neither optical drive appears in Program Manager; and, pushing the “open” button on either drive fails to open the tray.
After the BIOS initiates, the usual message directing one to press the “DEL” key for access to BIOS Setup never appears. However, if the “DEL” key is held down anyway, the system will enter Setup. Note that there is also a delay of approximately 80 seconds for this to initiate.
Once into Setup, the “Standard CMOS Features” page indicates no IDE devices. Resetting the detections to “Auto” across the board makes no difference. Resetting the CMOS via the “Clear CMOS Jumper” and via removing the CMOS battery changes nothing except that the CMOS returns to the default settings, and the BIOS still fails to detect the optical drives.
Since SATA1 and SATA2 are detected and operating, I believe that the chipset is OK because they are served by the same Drive Station on the chipset as IDE1 and IDE2 which aren’t detected and operating. I also consider damage to the motherboard itself to be an unlikely cause because that can’t account for all of the systems, either. I suspect the BIOS because of the following:
1. The BIOS is so slow to initiate, as is the entrance into setup.
2. The direction to press the “DEL” key for access to BIOS Setup never appears.
3. The BIOS has stopped detecting the drives on IDE1 and IDE2.
4. All of these functions that take place prior to chipset initiation.
Does anyone know what happened and what needs to be done to return the BIOS to normal operation? Or, is this a board failure, after all?

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Originally posted by Fredrik Åsenius
Sorry, I didn't think of the SATA when I read your specs.
Easy to do with all that info.
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OK, what is BIOS eventually booting from? Is your SATA working?
What appears to be happenning is that the BIOS times out while trying to detect the IDE's (in this case, optical drives) and then just goes ahead and boots. The SATA's are working fine, as is Windows, once I wait out the time out for the BIOS. Except, of course, Windows also can't see and doesn't indicate in Program Manager the opticals that the BIOS couldn't find, which makes sense. The odd thing in this scenario is that, once the BIOS times out and goes on, it does not provide the customary message to hit "DEL" to enter Setup (but holding down "DEL" when the BIOS procedes will take me to Setup anyway!
I talked to eSupport today, and the techie says it's a BIOS problem that their update will resolve. Well, of course it WILL; they sell updates (duhhh). Being the trusting soul I am, I'd like some independent confirmation. I've posted this on 4 forums hoping to catch someone who has seen this happen before, in addition to contacting eSupport (Amibios's update shop) and MSI Support.
MSI's Support Department is, of course, silent, as usual.

MSI KT6-Delta FIS2R Broadcom doen't accept any driver

I've problem with MSI KT6-Delta FIS2R networkcard Broadcom doen't accept any driver, anyone help me.

I've got the same problem with the 4401 onboard lan of my Kt6 delta lsr.
I ran the dos-diag tool from the broadcom website and it reported an error
in the 3. test.
It reported an invalid mac-address (ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff) as well.
I can't get it to work in linux either.
Either the board is damaged or the bios is buggy (v3.4).
I would really appreciate if someone could tell me how to fix this.
Are there different verisons of the kt6?
I've got version 2.0.

Power Up probs with kt6 delta fis2r

I've recently changed my mother board and given my kt6 delta fis2r to my dad. It came out of my comp in fine working condition (earthed when removing etc.) It's now in my dad's case and when it's switched on it immidiatly switches off again. The bios was updated to 5.5 but was working for weeks before being moved. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advanced.

Just spoken to him, he's had the board out on the box connected it accross and it does the same, it's not actually getting far enough to give anything on the d-bracket. I've got a spare power supply here that isn't a Q-Tec and we're gonna try it on that first. My bro has also had probs this weekend so I'm told, he had a KT6V with the same power supply, and is now running my dads kt4 ultra. My bros PSU isn't liking my dad's comp either, so I'm now wondering if it's something to do with the 4 pin power plug on both PSU's? Still confused tho as I havn't had any probs with the board while it was on my Q-tec PSU, just lucky I guess?
Thanks for all of the replies, I'll be changing my PSU asap.

Need help from somebody with the "MSI KT6 Delta-FIS2R" motherboard

Hi everybody!
I really need some help from somebody with the MSI KT6 Delta-FIS2R motherboard (the one with onboard LAN, Audio, RAID, S-ATA and IEEE1394 firewire). You see. I've got this board myself but it's been destroyd. Some values for the onboard devices in my board has been overwritten so that windows no longer recognizes the onboard LAN and Audio controller anymore. I really need some help from somebody with this board.
I need to see what the values for the onboard devices should be. I hope someone can help me by sending me a repport from the Everest home edition: http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en
If anyone could do me this favour, I would be VERRY thankfull

Quote from: HYSTERIAH on 12-November-05, 06:24:20
I really need some help from somebody with the MSI KT6 Delta-FIS2R motherboard
HYSTERIAH,
With 76 Replies and 277 Views on your original thread, it looks to me like people have been trying to help you.
So there is no confusion, I am locking this thread so all your help and advice you receive will be in the same place, so people do not need to jump between threads to keep track of what has already been suggested for this mobo of yours.
Richard

KT6 Delta FIS2R Ver 2.0

osnavi has inspired me to see if the forum could possibly contribute some form of solution to my issues. Here we go.
On my system all 4 of my HDD are attached to the Promise 378 controller in RAID mode, both identical pairs of drives are set up as RAID 0 arrays. I am booting off my 240 Gig SATA array, and intended to use my 160 Gig ATA array for captured video file storage while I was editing said files. Most recent BIOS (5.5), most recent Promise driver, press F6 when I install Win XP, install Broadcom driver, update XP first, install MSI drivers beginning with VIA 4 in 1, USB 2.0, then C-audio. This process takes waaayyyy longer than it's ever taken with a single ATA drive, the install seems to pause every 30 seconds or so. Once in Win XP, I load the newest PAM utility, and find my SATA Master 0 on the array has a SMART failure.
I run Maxtor's Powermax utility, get an error code, proceed with an RMA, get a new SATA 120 Gig HDD, test new drive with Powermax (tests perfect), repeat install as above, AND NOW I GET ANOTHER SMART FAILURE!!!!! I am now thinking that this mobo is killing my HDD's!?! I am as I type (on another functioning piece of hardware) running another full Powermax diagnostic. I smell another RMA in the wind.
Any thoughts?

Okay,
I've since tested both Maxtor SATA drives with Powermax, both are fine. On to your suggestions.
Stevehp: No, the WD drives are ATA (EIDE) while my Maxtor drives are SATA. The WD's are on the ATA channel of the Promise controller and were working fine. I should note that I did get a successful install by using one of my Maxtor drives on the VIA channel and enabling the WD RAID after, but when I attempted to repeat the process using my other drive (out of curiosity), no luck. Same timeout error (it looks like one of my drives may be the culprit). I have tried installing the Maxtors on both the VIA 8237 and the Promise 378, neither works properly. As a Raid 0 array on the Promise controller or the VIA controller with the Maxtor drives (with OR without the ATA WD's enabled) I get a "drive timeout" and "retry drive access" error every 30 to 90 seconds, which causes a pause of approx. 30 seconds. Extremely annoying. It really seems to be some sort of drive firmware defect. I also tried a RAID 1 array on the VIA controller. It seemed to work except the drives never actually mirrored themselves, when I rebooted the VIA BIOS wanted to manually duplicate the source drive contents. Finally, I don't have XP with SP1, I need to run Windows Update to get the SP1. Thanks for your thoughts.
Sharp: Yes, the VIA 8237 SB has RAID 0, 1, or JBOD (not positive about JBOD). Please see above for my various installation attempts. Thanks for the note on SMART, I have disabled it as well as APIC ( I really don't need it as I have no PCI cards installed nor do I use any legacy ports). Though this doesn't seem to be access time related at all.
Essentially what happens is for example, I move the mouse over to the START button, open Programs, and it stops, 30 or so seconds later, it frees up the cursor and continues. This happens A LOT. I have never had an installation of XP do this, nor have I ever experienced issues with HDDs causing timeouts. I have experienced conflicts, buggy drivers, etc. I have never had a fundamental component like a HDD do this.

KT6 Delta FIS2R questions (Please explain!!)

A) Will i still have to pin-connect my XP2400 Tbred-B processor so i can use variable multipliers and FSB ???? Unlock it in other words?
B) Can i connect 2 UATA100 drives to the PROMISE UATA connector?
C) Do you think it should beable to reach 233Mhz FSB ????? (Its only 33mhz higher for flip'n sake) Dosnt matter if it dosnt now, some bios updates later might fix it.
D) Is Corsair PC3200 with the built in LED a good ram stick? I want the timings to be in this order C2 - 2 - 2 - 5 - 1CMD (a usual timing array in MSI RAM settings) and beable to enable all other turbo settings for RAM. Important.
E) Will the 1Gbit LAN work properly with a 10/100 switch ????????????????? This is rather important coz i have the DSL connection going through the switch.
F) How much better is the VIA SATA compaired to the Promise SATA ?? RAID or Non-Raid variables.
G) I have an Antec 1080AMG 430W so everything should be stable?
H) What is the overall satisfaction of this Mobo, particularly in the field of windowsXP installation, driver stability, CPU overclocking, etc.
I) On the PROMISE UATA connector, is a 2 disk RAID-0 possible?

I'll answer what I can.
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B) Can i connect 2 UATA100 drives to the PROMISE UATA connector?
You can connect two drives one cable, but you can do two master drives for that to happen you'd need a SATA to IDE apapter.
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D) Is Corsair PC3200 with the built in LED a good ram stick? I want the timings to be in this order C2 - 2 - 2 - 5 - 1CMD (a usual timing array in MSI RAM settings) and beable to enable all other turbo settings for RAM. Important.
Corsair is a great ram manufacturer, and the Pro series is pretty cool though I'd never need the LED's. I run mine at CAS2, but I have all other settings to AUTO last time I tried to manually set some of the values I had some data corruption on my hard drive so I don't do to much tweaking to those settings.
The turbo settings are known to cause problems on this board anywhere from lockups to the onboard LAN no functioning either in a flaky sense or not at all so I'd run at more conservative settings or buy a pci nic.
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E) Will the 1Gbit LAN work properly with a 10/100 switch ????????????????? This is rather important coz i have the DSL connection going through the switch.
Shouldn't be any reasons it won't a Gbe nic can run at 10/100 as well so if that's your concern you'll be okay. My Netgear wireless router gets along just fine with my board.
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) How much better is the VIA SATA compaired to the Promise SATA ?? RAID or Non-Raid variables.
The via sata doesn't run through the pci bus as such it doesn't incur that shortage of bandwidth a pci adpater like the onboard promise would. On the other hand you will have better luck running a single sata drive on the promise than with the Via mine works fine, but those with LSR boards have terrible trouble with single drives.
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G) I have an Antec 1080AMG 430W so everything should be stable?
You'll be just fine with that setup though make sure the psu is a Truepower.
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H) What is the overall satisfaction of this Mobo, particularly in the field of windowsXP installation, driver stability, CPU overclocking, etc.
I love mine very fast, and very stable. Can't comment on XP I use 2000 SP4 though the installation routine isn't too much different between the two.
Drivers well the ones MSI provides on the cd, and on their site are a bit moldy they don't update them too often of course you can get the Hyperion drivers at Via Arena, along with the via sata drivers if used, broardcom has newer reference drivers, and if you use the onboard sound C-media should have newer reference drivers as well. The promise raid is the only thing reference drivers aren't covered by as promise doesn't release drivers for "lite" onboard raid chips.
Overclocking I haven't done too much of it I did oc it a bit with Corecell, and also did a bit in the bios my cpu is a downgraded 2700+ so I bumped it up once though it was new hardware that I just spent big bucks on so I brought it back down.
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I) On the PROMISE UATA connector, is a 2 disk RAID-0 possible?
If you mean SATA(UATA?) then yes that possible same as with the Via SATA.

KT6 Delta-FIS2R Serial ATA Question

I have 2 maxtor 80gb serial ATA drives on order, should be here anyday now. Can't wait!!
Now with the KT6 Delta-FIS2R am i right in thinking it has 2 serial ata controller cards (via & promise?) each supporting 2 drives.
Which controller do you recommend i plug my drives into? I intend making a 160gb JBOD stripe set with the 2 disks. Is there much difference between the two?
With the via it appears you can make/delete the raid config thru the bios. Do you have to ctrl-? to get into the promise to do the same?
Apologies for my lack of understanding but i haven't really played with the MB much as i'm waiting for the drives to arrive.
Also, what is the recommended stripe size? the book says 64k, is this correct in practice? I will be making a 20gb system partition and the remaing 140gb for data and the pc will just be for general use (downloaded files, re-encoding dvds, maybe the odd game)
bios updates?
What is the recommended patch levels for the motherboard and both serial-ata controllers?
Many thanks for your time.
Zarch

Yup, seen the perf. figures... System does seem really fast, but when you're coming from a PIII with 5400rpm and 512k cache, anything is fast Got to remember benchmarks are just that and real performance lies somewhere between 0 and benchmarks...
For setup, I think I've seen mention that you should build the SATA array as the only HDD in the system as a first off otherwise the OS tries to install to the IDE drive. Haven't tried this, but just to let you know.
Also, you have to create the RAID array in the BIOS and also set the array to be a boot device in the BIOS. Without doing this the OS doesn't appear to install correctly (and you certainly won't be able to boot it!!).
I don't think there is any performance degredation to splitting the disk into two except if one of the partitions becomes full. When it gets full, it is much more difficult to defrag the drive (and seek time is what ruins disk performance). I've found that you need 20-30% free to be able to sensibly defrag drives (with large files on there). If you believe you'll only ever use 12-15GB for your system, then fire away - but bear in mind I've used that in the first 4 weeks with my system (without the video files...). Games can be a few hundreds of MB each so they soon mount up if you are not careful...
Just have fun and enjoy a really fast system and dont forget a separate backup HDD (or get another 2 SATA drives and run a RAID 0+1 off the Promise controller...) - and not one of the partitions!!
Andy

SUPER TROUBLES!!!!! - KT6 Delta FIS2R

Greetings,
Man am I pissed!!! The saga starts here…….
I decided to upgrade one of my servers, looking on MSI’s page, I see this new KT6 Delta – FISR2 and yea I fell in love, just had to have it…..
I placed my order with an online retailer for basically a complete package. (Details below).
MB: KT6 Delta – FIS2R
CPU: AMD XP 2500+ (1.86 GHz / 512 KB L2 Cache / 333 MHz FSB)
Ram: Kingston 512 MB 333MHz DDR PC2700 DIMM CL 2.5 (KVR333X64C25/512)
Drives: (2) Seagate Barracuda 120GB Serial ATA 7200RPM 8MB Buffer
I paid for FedEx 2 day air, which should have arrived on Thursday. Good thing I checked FedEx Online Tracking Thursday evening since no package showed up. Telephoned FedEx, and the lady read me the “details” on the tracking number posted by the driver from earlier in the day. The driver stated, “He couldn’t find the house number, only Dr. Offices”. Off to the FedEx station I go to pick up my package of new parts, and to chew the ass of the station manager…..
Friday I didn’t have a chance to fiddle with anything, so I put that off until today (Saturday).
Yippie it’s now Saturday morning, I can play with my new hardware! (Hell I even got up early for this)… ;P
I took down my file server, and proceed to remove the MB and the remaining guts so I can install these new parts. Upon opening the KT6 Delta FIS2R box, I noticed there aren’t any Serial ATA power connectors for the drives, so off to the local computer store I go. (The MB did come with two SATA drive cables).
Now back home, I can really get a start on this new box. Installed the MB, CPU / Fan, and Ram….but wait….my AGP video card won’t fit in the AGP socket… They changed the damn socket… Oh well, off to the local computer parts store again for a new video card. I snagged the PNY Technologies Verto GeForce FX 5200 AGP – 128 MB DDR, now heading back to the house…..
Once home, I slam in the new GeForce, and continue to hook up everything else (case led’s, speaker, etc….you know the drill, usual case crap). Whew assembly is complete; I can now power this new hog up!!!!
Flipped the power switch, you could hear the “whirl” of all the fans I have installed, boy am excited!!!! Ummm wait a minute…. Nothing, nodda, zero, zilch, nothing…. Monitor is blank; drives are not turning (usual chit / chat clatter). Houston we have a problem!
Ok maybe I did make a mistake in hooking up this new contraption, but I seriously doubt it. Now before some start to flame, just let me clarify that I have been building machines for 14 years now. I double, triple, and quadrupled checked everything, and still the damn box won’t even give the slightest hint of booting. So I figured I’d look around on the MSI forums for some hints etc. Maybe someone else has had this problem before.
Upon searching I find that most people think it’s a power supply problem when one of these new fangled boards won’t even flicker. Ok just to eliminate that, off the local parts store for a new power supply. I picked up a KWI KingWin 450 Watt jobby-do with 3 fans built in. I wanted an “Antec” but they didn’t stock them…. Oh well….
Back home again now for the 3rd time, I install this new power supply, with all of my fingers crossed, praying this is the problem…. Muddled a little something under my breath, and pushed the power button…….. Same thing, nodda, zilch, zero…..
Ok now something I received must be DOA. First let’s rule out the CPU and RAM. I removed the AMD XP 1700+ and 512 MB PC2100 ram from my workstation machine, and installed them into this new KT6 Delta FIS2R, just to see if it’s any of those two parts. Remember I just want to see if this new setup will just get to the bios.
Smashed the power button and nothing….. I’m getting more pissed with each and every moment now, as you can probably tell. Ok it’s probably not the CPU & Ram, so let’s put them back in my workstation. Ok done, now fire up the workstation….. Nothing!!!
This workstation has a MSI KT7266 Pro2 MB in it, so I figured I’d check the D-Bracket on the back panel….. Four Red LED’s, (processor is not installed properly or DAMAGED). Well crap I know it’s installed properly, so I’m guessing the new KT6 Delta FISR2 MB smoked that CPU when I swapped them out. So now my workstation is down also….. Can you just imaging how pissed I am now?????
Reinstalled the new AMD XP 2500+ CPU and Kingston Memory back into this new piece of crap KT6 Delta FIS2R, powered her up and looked at the D-Bracket LED’s. Now everything is dead!!! Nothing….Even the damn fans won’t even power up, I mean nothing is powered up anymore. Ok let’s try this, to see if the new XP 2500 CPU and RAM is ok.... I installed the XP2500+ and 512 ram into my Workstation to read the D-Bracket LED’s. It shows the same as above (processor not installed properly or damaged).
So now I have to purchase a new processor for my workstation machine, in order to get that back up and running. Then on Monday, I have to contact this online retailer I purchased all this stuff from, to see if they will swap out the MB, CPU, and Ram.
Man I’m pissed!!!! Maybe this is a fluke, DOA board???? I seriously hope MSI’s quality isn’t going down the beaten path….
All for now…..
Jeff

Hi Guys,
Thanks again for lending a helping hand once again...
ASSAF:
Yea I tried that also, still nothing….. CPU+Cooler+RAM+VGA I even went down as far as only the CPU+Cooler+Ram, while watching the D-Bracket to see if there was any instance of life in this thing……Nodda…
BAS:
Yes I made sure the Cooler was installed correctly, and yes re-greased when it was installed. I also unplugged & re-plugged in the power connectors, thinking that “might” do it….. Still nothing… Even tried two other Power Supplies….. Nodda….
Tomorrow (Monday) the retailer and I will have a little telephone chat, in order to get my RMA number. I’m hoping this isn’t going to be a problem in swapping out the components, but until I see some action, I’m not going to hold my breath. As for now, I’m guessing this is going to be a hassle…. Time will tell!
Thanks Again,
Jeff

MSI KT6 DELTA-FIS2R Bundled stuff

Hi!
I Bougth a MSI KT6 DELTA-FIS2R, and expected some more bundled stuff. Does anyone know whats supposed to be bundled? I need to know if my supplier is ripping me off.
I'm missing the D and S bracket, and some cables( only got 2 sata cables and 2 ide cables, but that doesnt matter much as I got all the cables I need).
Trond

Hi Trond look at the side of your outer box find the white sticker it will list what accessories you should be getting. If you need the brackets you need to yell at MSI well not really you need to contact them by e-mail I wouldn't try phoning them you'll never get through. What MSI doesn't tell you up front is that even though the motherboard is a top of the line expensive sob the accessories are still optional so what you could get is a bundle worthy of the SR or LSR bone stock model. What you should get are the RED rounded cable(s), the SATA cables the power adapters are optional so I hope you can get ahold of some or have a drive with a legacy power plug. My box contained two manuals one for sata one for the board, two floppies, the standard issue MSI driver cd, I/O bracket, cheapo black rounded cable, and the firewire bracket nothin' else when I first opened the box I was looking all over at all the nooks, and cranies for the other stuff, but alas it wasn't there. So long story short to determin what you get you have to look at that white sticker.

Single SATA drive with VIA VT8237 Chipset (KT6 Delta-FIS2R) ?

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