Upstart problem with kt3 ultra2

When i turn the power on my computer it wont start properly.
I hear 4 "beeps" and my screen is still black.
I have to turn off and on my computer about five to ten times before it starts properly. :O
When it starts up it works fine ?( and i can use it as normal.
What is wrong and what can i do to fix it ?
Help Me ?(

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Originally posted by camon
When i turn the power on my computer it wont start properly.
I hear 4 "beeps" and my screen is still black.
According to http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/ami.htm, this is a System Timer failure. You might also try removing and reseating the RAM.
--Barry

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Mobile 2500 overclocking problems with KT3 Ultra2

First off sorry for my poor english.. it's not my first language. Now here's my system:
CPU: Mobile 2500
HSF: Vantec Aeroflow with AS5
MB: MSI KT3 Ultra2
RAM: 2x512MB PC2700
VIDEO: Leadtek GeForce 4 TI4200
The temperature is about 43C cpu and 40C case when the system is idle and it can get to 50C cpu and 43C case when the system is on maximum use.
So here's the situation... I adjust the bus speed from 133 to 166 mhz.. I put the vcore voltage at 1.675 which is the maximum I can choose in the bios.. The multiplier is stuck on 14x.. When I try to run Prime95 or 3dmark03 my system is very unstable.. In prime95, one time it stopped after 10 minutes, the other time after 40 minutes. In 3dmark03, I tried it at least five times and it usually stops during the second run of the tests.
I'm very disappointed because I read a lot about this cpu before buying it and everyone was overclocking it easily so I had no doubt it would get to 166 mhz especially with proper cooling.. It sucks pretty bad!
I hope some of you have some advices or suggestions on what I could try to make it work.. You are my last hope! Thanks in advance!!

Here comes another update... Keep in mind that my cpu is currently at 14x166=2337 mhz. I did some benchmark today and the results are starting to give me hope.. first I ran Prime95 for 14 hours without errors on the custom test with 2048-4096. During this testing, the voltage went like this: 3.3V = 3.22V , 5V = 4.95V , 12V = 12.28V. Is it normal? Does it mean my power supply is good enough? The specifications of the Power supply are : 3.3V-20A , 5V-30A , 12V-15A. After that I ran all 3dmark03 tests three times without any glitches.. Then I played Far cry for about 20-30 minutes without any problems either.
Now what I'm wondering is if I run Prime95 without any problems but that 3dmark03 works sometimes and fail sometimes, can it help you guys to tell me what could be causing the instability?
Thank you again for all your help!

Problems with KT3 Ultra2 and Barton 2500+

I have a very big problem.
I buy new Athlon XP2500+ ty my board.
KT3 Ultra2 support 166FBS, but AGP and PCI bus is overclock (83/42) and my system is very instabile. Now using 133FBS. Can I fix bus to 166/66/33???
My configuration:
Win98SE+WinXPSP1
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (bios version 5.7)
Athlon 2500+@1900+ (Barton 11*133, 1,65V)
+ Spire 5F271B1L3 FalconRock II™
256MB RAM DDR-400 Kingmax (CL2 at 333, 1.7V*)- sorry I mean 2.7V*
Daytona ATI Radeon 9000 64MB DDR
SB Live! Value
AMD 10/100 LAN adapter
40GB Seagate HDD
Lite-on combo
FDD teac
add: 4 april 2004 at 15:17
My PSU is Emko 300W ''JS-300 P4''parametres in:http://www.emko.cz/emko_cz/index.html
1900+ temps: CPU: Chipset:2500+ temps: CPU: Chipset:At 2500+
Stability configuration si withount SB Live! value and LAN.
result: Memtest86 - O.K.
3DMark2001SE build330 - O.K.
SiSoft Sandra 2003 - O.K.(burn-in: CPU and memory test 20time)

what sandra version did you use?
next to temps and psu, please tell us, what bios is installed. barton cpus require version 5.7
"(CL2 at 333, 1.7V)" did you mean 2.7V? cause 1.7V are llittle too low.
sj

BIOS Settings Problem on KT3 Ultra2 MS-6380E with Barton 3000+(FSB333)

Well, I finally got my Barton 3000+ with 333 MHz FSB and installed it yesterday in my MSI KT3 Ultra2 Mainboard....
System Before changing anything:
PSU: DTK 400 W
+3.3 V / 22 A
+5 V / 35 A
+12 V / 15 A
-5 V / 0.5 A
-12 V / 0.8 A
+5 V VSB / 3 A
So that should make up 400 W as far as I know, my total System drain should be around 300-350 W so even if it would not suffice 400 W it should run the system ?
Mainboard: KT3 Ultra 2 (BIOS v5.7)
CPU: AMD XP 2100 FSB 133 MHz
RAM: 1.536 MB, 3x512 MB Infineon PC3200 (400MHz) CL 3-3-3-8 @400MHz, Cl2.5-3-3-7@333Mhz, 2-2-2-6@266MHz
VGA: MSI RX-9800 Pro 128 MB
DVD/CD-R/RW-Combo: Plextor PX-708 (Firmware 1.08)
CD-R/RW: TEAC CD-W540E (Firmware 1.0K)
Storage: Western Digital WD800BB (80 GB) (Firmware 17.07W17)
USB-Storage: Maxtor 4 K080 H4 (80 GB)
Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 172T with Driver Version 1.0
Printer: HP Deskjet 970Cxi with Original HP Driver Version 4.3
OS: Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4
BIOS Settings: SDRAM 1T Command: "Disabled" It won't work stable with 3 RAM's in it with that setting, but that I did know before.
CPU Fast Command: "Ultra"
System was running stable for nearly 2 years with this Configuration:
So now it goes:
First I changed the CPU form my old AMD XP 2100+ to the new Barton 3000 + with its new Arctic Cool Copper Silent 2TC.
Then I went into BIOS and raised the FSB to 166 MHz, which should be the correct one, or do I have to put 167 MHz in there (since 166.666666 MHz is rounded to 167)?
Then I exited and watched the restart...but it didn't start-up it only got me 3 long beeps at the HOST.
After some whining and beating I plugged out anything and cleared CMOS and started the whole thing again:
System after Clearing CMOS:
Mainboard: KT3 Ultra 2 (BIOS v5.7)
CPU: AMD XP 3000+ FSB 100 MHz
RAM: 1x512 MB Infineon PC3200 CL 2-3-3-7 (BIOS setting CAS Latency by "SPD")
Storage: Western Digital WD800BB (80 GB) (Firmware 17.07W17)
Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 172T with Driver Version 1.0
OS: Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4
With all Default settings, the Computer boots up, and is correctly Recognized as a Barton 1300 MHz.
When increasing FSB to 133 MHz it is correctly displayed as a Barton 2200+
NOW...
...after adding one BIOS setting after another I narrowed the problem down to the "CPU Fast Command (decode)" Function...if set to Ultra it does not boot-up when running 166 MHz FSB, it does not even let me into BIOS. I have to clear CMOS and restart from scratch again...
Is this normal and expectable with a Barton 3000+ running at the native 166 MHz FSB or not ?
Since my system before was running on "Ultra" with my old AMD XP 2100+.
There is only one more thing I noticed, the CPU V-Core is shown to be only 1.616 V (setting on "Auto" but it should be 1.65 V ? Should I increase the V-Core to 1.675 V in order to get closer to 1.65 V or shouldn't I worry about ?
Thanks for any Input you can give me on the problem.
Iscaran

Iscaran, you are indeed correct in the statement which you made
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...after adding one BIOS setting after another I narrowed the problem down to the "CPU Fast Command (decode)" Function...if set to Ultra it does not boot-up when running 166 MHz FSB, it does not even let me into BIOS. I have to clear CMOS and restart from scratch again...
This setting can be set to fast/ultra on the KT3 Ultra2 when using PC2100 ram running at 266. However, when using PC2700 ram running at 333, this setting MUST be set to normal for the satisfactory operation of the board. I know that you have PC3200 ram actually installed but it is only running at 333.
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Is this normal and expectable with a Barton 3000+ running at the native 166 MHz FSB or not ?
Yes, absolutely normal
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There is only one more thing I noticed, the CPU V-Core is shown to be only 1.616 V (setting on "Auto" but it should be 1.65 V ? Should I increase the V-Core to 1.675 V in order to get closer to 1.65 V or shouldn't I worry about ?
How are you measuring this ie Bios or o/s utility? Not unknown that these are incorrect. However, if you feel unhappy about this, try setting the V-core manually to 1.65v and check what this gives.
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So 3.3 V x 22 A gives 72.6 W, that could be really a little cutting the edge. Could that cause the board to not respond when setting the "CPU Fast Command" to "Ultra" ?
Getting a more powerful psu will not likely cure this well documented problem.
However, this board mostly draws power from the 3.3 & 5v rails. The 12v is mostly used to power HDD, optical and fans. When you consider that 128Mb of ram draws about 8-10w from the 5v rail and you have a total of 1.5Gb that adds up to 96-120W of juice just for the memory alone. This board will beep at you at o/s level when it's running underpowered but my opinion is the same as osnavi's your 3.3v & 5v rails are too low. Also what is combined 3.3v & 5v wattage. What kind of reading do you get on monitoring utilities.
By the way I have as you can see from my dets below the same board and cpu as you and when I changed from a XP2000 Palomino with PC2100 ram to XP3000 Barton and PC3200, I changed the 'Fast Command' setting from 'Fast' to 'Normal'
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I just purchased a MSI KT3 Ultra2 ATX motherboard as an upgrade. After
installing it an all the components, I had difficulty booting at
times. I would get boot error beeps, specifically two short ones, than
8 long ones. The D-Bracket would initialize, however it would stop and
fail at "Boot Attempt" - the first D-Bracket 2 light is lit up red.
I though I had a problem with the power supply, which was 250 watts,
so I changed it to another one. I was able to boot up the system a
couple of times just fine (get to the bios screen and past it),
install the OS, however after turning it off and trying to turn it
back on, it would not work. After I changed the power supply the
problem was constant and now i cannot even get to the bios screen at
all. Before when the system was running it was fine, no errors and I
kept it on for about 10 hours with no problems at all.
My other specs include:
Antec 300 watt ATX (with 12V thing for P4, but not attached)
MSI Geforce4 mx440 card
512 Meggs Samsung 2700 SRAM 1-dimm
IBM ATA66 Hard drive
Floppy drive
Athlon XP 1800+ Boxed (using the retail CPU fan)
Now every once in a while I get to the bios screen after which the system runs fine, but most of the time I get these beeps. I tried moving around everything and the system is barebone.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you,
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Hi,
Read the top articles on trouble shooting....
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USB 2.0 Issues with KT3 Ultra2 6380E

Windows XP SP1
Bios: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T
Hi I was wondering if someone could help me?
My machine has six USB ports. (1&2) Two ports are
installed on the motherboard, and my users guide says
they are legacy ports. (3&4) two ports are installed
on the d-bracket 2 connector: JLED, connected to
JUSB2, these are what I believe to be my only 2 USB2.0
ports. (4&6)Finally 2 ports are connected via JUSB3 to
the front panel of my Antec case. I think the front
panel of my case has 1.1 connectors so it is
essentially a 1.1 port.
I am having some difficulty getting my USB ports to
function properly with a USB 2.0 Buslink hard drive
UII-40 72E. I suspect there is some IRQ conflict.
Trying to alleviate this I disabled all the device
drivers I suspected might cause this in the device
manager in safe mode. I then removed from the device
manager all the USB (2.0 and 1.1) root hubs, and after
that their host controllers. I then booted to VGA
mode (thinking this should disable the video card
drivers??) and exported this IRQ info from my sys info
after the USB host controllers are reinstalled:
Resource   Device   Status
IRQ 9   Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System   OK
IRQ 11   RADEON 8500 SERIES    OK
IRQ 21   VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host
Controller   OK
IRQ 21   VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host
Controller   OK
IRQ 21   VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host
Controller   OK
IRQ 21   Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller   OK
IRQ 0   System timer   OK
IRQ 8   System CMOS/real time clock   OK
IRQ 13   Numeric data processor   OK
IRQ 12   PS/2 Compatible Mouse   OK
IRQ 1   Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2
Keyboard   OK
IRQ 14   Primary IDE Channel   OK
IRQ 15   Secondary IDE Channel   OK
IRQ 6   Standard floppy disk controller   OK
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port) power on my buslink USB 2.0 hard drive. As soon
as I do the machine immediately goes to a blue screen.
No messages given but numbers are shown. I have screen
shots taking with my digital camera. I then returned
to safe mode, remove the USB drivers as I did before,
and boot to VGA mode. Once the USB drivers have been
restored I attempt to power on the bus link hard drive
this time plugged into the onboard legacy ports. I
can I get another blue screen this time including a
message "IRQL not less or equal", again I have taken
screen shots with my digital camera.I then returned to
safe mode, remove the USB drivers as I did before, and
boot to VGA mode. Once the USB drivers have been
restored I attempt to power on the bus link hard drive
this time plugged into the front panel USB ports
(4&6). When I power it on Windows XP warns me that I
have a high-speed USB device plugged into a non
high-speed USB hub. But I receive no error messages.
However I do not exceed the drive through "my
computer". I go through the add hardware wizard to try
and at the drive manually and it says the device is
working properly. Still I do not see the drive.
Finally I tried installing a Buslink USB 2.0 PCI card
after the above steps. I then returned to safe mode,
remove the USB drivers as I did before, and boot to
VGA mode. Once the USB drivers have been restored I
attempt to power on the bus link hard drive this time
plugged into the PCI card. The drive seems to be
recognized automatically by Windows XP however my
system slows to a crawl trying to access any hard
drive. When I try and access the USB 2.0 hard drive I
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I first tried installing the VIA4in1 and VIA USB2.0 patch. Then I tried the D-bracket after refreshing the usb drivers (I did not disable all other devices like in my original post, should I have?). Same result, blue screen crash at power on.
Next I disable USB ports in BIOS and install USB PCI card. Then power on the USB HD plugged into card. Same result. Computer slow accessing local drives. When I try to access the USB drive I get a "E:/ is not accessible; the file or data is corrupted or unreadable."
Next I remove the USB card. I enter BIOS and set to "2" ports. Presumably this turns on the USB1.1 ports on the mobo. I return to windows xp. It now seems to install the drivers, but just as it finishes I get a "a problem has been encountered instaaling this device (it has done this before but after finishing I get the blue screen most times). Next I goto the device manager, and in my USB devices I have a USB mass storage device w/ a yellow flag. I goto properties and see a:
"the device cannot start (code 10)" device status. I click "troubleshoot" and voila... blue screen.
Finally I reboot, and set 4 ports in BIOS, making my JUSB3 FRONT PANEL usb1.1? ports active. Interestingly these respond like the PCI card. Computer slow accessing local drives. When I try to access the USB drive I get a "E:/ is not accessible; the file or data is corrupted or unreadable." As soon as I power off the USB HD things are normal...
I will take this USB HD to work tomorrow just to ensure its integrity. Any other ideas? What kinds of BIOS settings might F up USB?
Andrew

Problems w/ KT3 Ultra2 w/R

I think the best thing to do it's to explain the problem from the beginning.
A couple of months ago I bought my computer by components and put it togheter myself. Everything was fine, but there was a problem. Back then, my mobo was an ABIT KX7333R and it wouldn't boot if I changed the processor speed in the bios (it booted allright with the defalut -XP 1500- but when changed it to the real one -XP 2000- it didn't boot at all). So I used it for about 3 weeks with the default setting (I was too lazy at that moment to change the damn thing) and one night, the computer died while I was using it. Anyway, I assumed twas the mobo, so I requested a RMA from Abit, and had my motherboard replaced. The replacement worked fine for about 10 minutes, and when I was writing an email, puff, died again. At that time I was swearing and cursing, and blamed Abit. By then, I was tired of waiting and everything (just got stressed) so I ordered an MSI KT3 Ultra2 with raid. When I first booted the PC, the motherboard didn't recognized my HDD when I entered the Bios. I tried restarting, but the pc would not respond. So I checked the D-Bracket lights and they say that the problem was in the IDE controller or device. So I replaced my HDD with another one, but nothing happened.
So, my questions are:
1- Am I the guy with the worst luck in the world and got three defective motherboards in a row?
2- Could it be that something else in my PC is causing the problem?
If you have any questions, please post it here and I'll answer them. Here it's my computer components:
Athlon XP 2000
MSI KT3 Ultra2
Gainward GF4 TI4200
SB Audigy Gamer
3COM Ethernet card
Corsair XMS PC2700 512MB (Silver heatspreader)
Turbolink 420W PS
Lite-On CDRW
PS: Sorry for the length...

Have you tried with another CPU ? If not, please do so ; or return the CPU for RMA.

Ram Problems on KT3 Ultra2

Hi every one,
Everything worked fine on my KT3 Ultra2, but one day my system started to have random crashes, the ones typical of Ram problems. I tested my memory sticks (2 Kingston 256Mo sticks) and they're fine.
I tried switching memory sticks, and it appears that whenever a memory stick is placed in the second mainboard memory bank, these crashes happen. If i place memory sticks in banks 1 and 3, everything works fine.
I want to add memory to my system, but i can't with that apparently malfunctioning memory bank.
My system:
AthlonXP 2000+
2x 256Mo DDR266 Kingston
my power supply specs:
350W
+12V 17A
+5V 35A
+3.3V 14A
I know these are not very good specs for a power supply, but as i said, I haven't changed anything in my system, and the problem appeared suddenly, so...
Can someone help me?

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Originally posted by Toenne
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I tried 3 different 512 Mo PC2100 memory sticks (all 3 branded: seitec, infineon and kingston) and my system never worked fine with them.
Try to increase the ddram-voltage to 2.7V, does it work now?
No it doesn't work
BTW, i run W2000 SP4.

Boot up Delay with KT3 Ultra2

My configuration:
Windows XP
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (Non Raid) MB
AMD XP 2100+
256meg PC2600 Ram
Advansys ABP940UW Ultrawide SCSI card
Intel 10/100 Network card
Using Onboard sound
Matrox Millinium PCI Graphics card (Temporary)
3x Ultra wide scsi Hard drives
Plextor Ultraplex40 Wide cdrom
Panasonic 7502B CDR
During bootup the machine goes thropugh the post screen 100% after which the scsi bios screen appears as usual. After this I hear another beep followed by 30sec to 1 minute of black screen after which the PC boots normally. I am thinking it may be some incompatability with the scsi card but can't be sure. The 4 green indicator lights are glowing indicating a good startup but why the pause??? Windows then boots and runs normally.

I'm assuming this is a raid board right? the raid bios initialization is REALLY slow, so that's my best guess, or possibly a driver causing it, I loaded the via raid patch fix and it slowed down my boot process but not by 5-10 seconds.

Big problem with KT3 Ultra (ms-6380e v1.0) after flashing the BIOS (de

Hello out there.
I have a real complicated matter with my Kt3 Ultra board.
Used to work fine, but after I flashed it with the latest BIOS (5.7), the board has this strange behaviour: when I clear the CMOS, the board boots up, when I change & save the settings, the board does not "come to life"(black screen & beeper silent).
It has also this weird problem: it shows garbage charaters on the voltage setting of the CPU. Instead of voltages (i.e. 1.750 etc. etc.) I have only "scrambled" strings.
I had MANY difficulties in upgrading the BIOS because the AMI-flashing utility kept telling me "bios protection enabled) (but there was NO bios-protect setting in the previous bios - I checked a zillion times)...but after trying with different revisions finally I made it.
I already tried everything (re-flashed older bios-es etc. etc.)and I'm starting to feel beat ... if you have any advice, please le me know.
It would be really SAD to put this great board in the garbage-dump....
Bye,
Wyk'03

im having problems with this board as well,
i had no problems with the flash,
i did this...
boot to win me floppy,
copy the flash files to ramdrive, flashed to latest bios..
now windows hangs when i have my ac97 audio enabled in bios...
I WANT MY AC97!
hmmm can you get to a dos prompt from a boot disk?
try re-flashing with 1.0 again and then disable the cmos virus protection thingy, and yes it was there it was in the 1.0 bios on the main screen.

Problems with kt3 ultra + radeon 9800pro

hey guys,
heres my story (bare with me)
i bought a radeon 9700 pro around christmas time, recieved it, (almost) everything worked fine on it, etc etc. however in games, it would give me this weird flickering poly thing going on (screenshot included) after seeing this, i stuck an extra fan in my case, thinking it was a heating issue. no worky. after that i just assumed the heatsink/fan wasnt securely on the chip. whatever.
anyway, i returned the vid card, got my money back and just decided to sit on the extra money for another couple of months and let prices drop a bit.
soooo i order myself a radeon 9800 pro this week. i get it today, and im getting the EXACT SAME PROBLEM. so obviously it wasnt a heat issue, it was.. something else.
this is where you come in anyone have ANY ideas why i would be having this problem? im attaching a screenshot i snagged of what the error looks like (if that will help at all)
i have already tried running driver cleaners, blah blah blah. i even reformatted and reinstalled windows on the drive, and im STILL having the same problem. not to mention i get occasional lockups and bluescreens.
ive tried flashing bios, updating mobo drivers nothing fixes it.
is this just some quirky incompatability between the mobo and the vid card or what? (i had a gf3ti200 in here before the 9800pro.. never had any problems)
so can anyone help or am i just going to have to buy a new motherboard?
msi kt3 ultra
512 pc2700 ram
80 gig wd
ati radeon 9800 pro

"DOS'ish" ?
start with flashing the latest mobo bios before you start if you haven't allready. I recommend stick with the 3.7 Cat driver (many people are reporting worse problems with the later rev Cat drivers) and follow these directions:
1) download and install the latest via driver (i know, you have it)
2) download and install latest soundblaster driver (if you are using a soundblaster audio card of course)
3) download and install catalyst 3.7 driver/control panel/samartgart from ati.
4) disable fast-write in bios (this was causing corrupted icons and cursor in windoze).
5) go to c:\programs\ati technology\ati control panel and execute smartgart (it's a link)
6) enable - pci read/write and agp read (probably allready is enabled).
7) disable - agp write (default in my case was on causing lots of stability problems in games).
"apply", reboot, then "ok".
above solved all my probs w/9600 pro and msi kt3 ultra-aru
good luck!

Sound problems with KT3 ultra

Hello All
I have a KT3 Ultra, WinXP Pro, LG CD-RW (HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8160B ), 512 Mb DDR Ram etc.
My problem is that when i rip cd's to MP3 i lose all sound. This has happened with Easy CD-DA and Exact Audio Copy.
If I go into AC'97 Audio config all speakers seem to work exept the Front Left and Right. But this seems to stop them all from playing any audio.
Reinstalling AC'97 fixes it but it's a bit annoying.
Audio driver : 5.10.0.3840
Audio controller : VIA 3059
AC97 Codec : ALC650
Any help appreciated
upinsmoke

I think i solved it by installing the 5.10.0.4050 drivers.
upinsmoke
cant seem to change the thread description to SOLVED

Problems with KT3 Ultra (MS-6380E)..please help

Hey all-
Here is my system configuration:
MSI KT3 Ultra MS-6380E) motherboard
AMD Athlon 2100+ XP cpu
(2) 512mb PC2700 DDR ram (1 gig total)
(2) 120gb Western Digital 7200rpm Harddrives (240gb total)
Nvidia Geforce Ti 4600 video card
Creative Labs Sound blaster Audigy Platinum
LG 32x10x40 CDRW
16x DVD ROM
400 watt power supply
Here is my problem:
Just built the machine, checked every plug and everything and when I turn on the machine I got no screen, no post, no beeps, nothing.
So I turned the machine, and cleared the CMOS. Turned the machine back on and got post , went into the BIOS, set the time,date, yada yada, all the drives were detected fine. I went in the Frequency/Voltage Control screen and the "CPU FSB Clock" was set to 100 mhz, "CPU Ratio" was set to Auto as was the "CPU Voltage, DDR Voltage, and AGP Voltage". I saved settings and rebooted but then I didn't get a screen, no post, no beeps.
I tried clearing CMOS again, turned machine on, got back in the BIOS just fine. I tried setting the CPU FSB Clock to 133mhz and left everything else on Auto. Rebooted and once again ..nothing.. no screen.
I don't understand what the problem could be. It seems that I can only get a screen when I clear the CMOS. But even if i use the "Load BIOS Setup Defaults" or even the "Load High Performance Defaults" I still get no screen or anything when I reboot.
Can anyone help me here? I have never run into this before.
Thanks in advance!!
Joe

If it is only doing it when you turn your bus speed of 100 up to 133 for the xp processor then I have had the problem. If you are booting with a bad cpu that isn't working properly (can't run at 133) then the computer will not POST. As soon as you clear the cmos it sets the speed back down to 100 for failsafe. If you try to boot a duron processor like a 700 or something on fsb 133 then the motherboard won't post. Make sure you don't have a duron processor instead of a athlon xp or a bad cpu. I would recommend taking it to the place you bought it or else an autorized amd spot. They should be able to throw in another proc and check it out.

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512Mb PC2700 DDR RAM (with errors)
80Gb Hard drive
Geforce Ti4400 Graphics card
Modem
LAN

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Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 8053cbb1, parameter3 ee5b1a40, parameter4 00000000.
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Hi Guys,
I have posted on here before.
I have a kt3 ultra mobo.
The problem i have is when playing games the system locks up and i have to hard restart.
I have followed advice from this board the the faq ant mobo bios set up which sadly has not solved the problem.
Very strange but in the pc i have two x 256 meg ddr ram.
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