xp3200 on KT4v

[sciroccotune]

I can’t get a 3200 to work with my MSI KT4v board. I have installed the newest bios that claims to work with the 3200 but it just will not run with a 200 mhz FSB.

best i can get is 166x14 reporting as a 2800.

Have I installed the bios correctly? I used the ami flash utility and everything seemed to go fine?

Any one got any ideas on this one?>

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Is your RAM rated at DDR400?

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[sciroccotune]

the ram is ddr 333. surly that should work? It also seems to run fine at 400.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

lol, no. AMD3200 has a 200mhz fsb, which needs to be coupled with DDR400 ram. The reason you are having problems is becuase you are overclocking your RAM.

Try loosening the timings and adding a little extra juice to the sticks.

Posting your RAM type/make/model would help.

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[sciroccotune]

emm make lol, Im not really sure. Its 2x256 running at 333.

what would i have to change timing wise to get it to run at 400?

cheers ned

 

[sciroccotune]

Help me ned!!!!!! lol

 

[sciroccotune]

Help me ned!!!!!! lol

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Somewherein your BIOS you will find the RAM settings - Post the timings of the RAM if you can find them. I.e the CAS timings, Trad etc etc.

Also, if you can find the RAM voltage settings, bump it to 2.7 or 2.8 and see if that is more stable.

If your RAM is a CAS 2.5 then you'd need to change that to CAS 3.

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[sciroccotune]

it is cas 2.5, so i tried 3 and giving it 2.7v. the system would still not boot with 200 fsb. However the system will run with a low fsb (i.e 100) with the ram set to 400 but i guess that this would be the case?

Think i will have to get some ddr 400.

ebuyer.com has some for around £70 for 1gb single stick.

any recomendations for some cheap single stick 1gb ram? (ddr 400 of course lol)

 

[sciroccotune]

BTW my ram is Elixir 333 ddr.

 

[endyen]

If your ram runs @ 400, it doesn't matter what your fsb is at.
What multiplier are you using? Is the multiplier unlocked?
It would seem to be if your mobo sees an xp2800.
BTW running with a 166 fsb, and a 14X multi, you are getting better perf than you would @ stock anyhow.

 

[Nights_L]

I search on MSI's website, I found the highest processor it supports is 3000+, which makes sense to me since KT4V is a KT400 chipset motherboard..

 

[Crashman]

Isn't the KT400 a chipset that only supports a "333" bus processor, or slower? Like the KT133 only supported 100MHz bus?

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[sciroccotune]

the lates bios update say :
"Fix system reports incorrect message for AMD 3200+ CPU.".

link@:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=362&kind=1

 

[Crashman]

But the chipset only supports <A HREF="http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=362" target="_new">FSB of 200/266/333</A>

Hewlett Packard had a special version AMD XP processor, also labled XP3200+, that used a 333 bus (166MHz clock) and was clocked higher than the 400 bus version. This special processor would be what they are refering to.

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[sciroccotune]

Well aint that fantastic! I have bigger problems now as my 200GB SATA HD just died. i have managed to stop it crashing another computer but i still need to recover the logic drive to get my data (had to remove the raid partition to stop it crashing the pc)

before this happened i was running 177x12.5 and getting a stable system (so running like 355 fsb lol) so its running at the right speed anyway. I have also ordered some 400mhz ram to try but even if it doesn’t work I will still have 1.5 gb ram ;-)

 

[Nights_L]

Isn't the KT400 a chipset that only supports a "333" bus processor

Yeah..that's what I meant, so 3000+ is the highest processor supported by KT400, which makes sense to me.

 

[endyen]

That's only a 2 mhz oc of the pci bus. What kind of controller craps out that easily. A sata dying is not unheard of you know.

 

[sciroccotune]

Yeah i wasnt to happy!! finally managed to get it noty to crash what ever pc it was connected to! Running verious recovery progs as we speak - not looking good :-(

At least maxtor are going to send me a new one!! then im going to get another and run a raid 1 aray to mirror!!!!!!!!

evil pc's!!

least my cpu will run at the right speed now (well sort of 177x12.5) so guess it will proform the same.

(also deff not the car as the hdd seems to have damaged sectors and have tried new card.

fun fun fun