Do any of you people have an MSI K7T Pro?

[PlunX]

I'm just wondering what good video cards are for this motherboard.. I got a Radeon 32MB DDR and it freezes as soon as I start playing a game, but it usually holds up well in Windows. Seems as though the only other choices I have are a GeForce2 MX (Prophet II) or back down to a Voodoo3 3000. Any suggestions?

 

[Trifecta]

Um, what you have sir is some sort of major problem.

Solutions:

#1 get your drivers updated - Your motherboard drivers are critical, especially if u are using a via chipset. (I am not familiar with the MSI board)

I believe that you are using the Via KT133 chipset and if that is the case you most definately need the latest Via 4in1 drivers plus the agp fix file. Go to CLICK ME! and download them there.

Some people say that installing the files one by one is the way to go, but beware that these are all self extracting and you need to create appropriate folders and load them into each one.

THEN, you probably need to get the latest Drivers for your video card. I have read several places (www.gamersdepot.com for one) that have said in their reviews of the ATI radeon that certain via chipsets have compatiblity issues with their cards, but I thought that the latest drivers fixed that. I could be wrong.

I would also try getting the latest sound card drivers. I would bet there are issues with your card. Maybe you even have to use the 3rd PCI slot like the Abit boards.

If all of that fails you should return either the mobo or the graphics card and try try again...

Good luck.

 

[blackEyEz]

I have that problem too with my MSI K7T Pro mobo. I have a Winfast s220-ii Vanilla TNT2 32 AGP and freezes also with every game.
I have the latest BIOS, the latest VIA drivers and the latest Detonator drivers.
So a bit in the dark what to do next..

 

[Mem]

BlackEyEz,
My MSI K7T PRO is now 5 weeks old,I have used both TNT & now a Geforce2 MX card on my system & it is rock stable 100% in gaming & general use,first make sure you don`t take shortcuts like crappy ram,(I`m using Crucial)also a good PSU,once you have all the right hardware tweak your Bios,I`ve disabled fastwrites,AGP 4x is enabled,all video shadowing is disabled,clean install of OS does help.Also the best stability on my system was setting ram to Normal, not fast or Turbo for gaming,I have CAS2 ram so have set it to CAS2 in Bios.

Btw I have tried both Via 4 in 1 (4.24 & 4.25) drivers all work fine,& the Detonator drivers that I`ve used are 5.22 & now 6.31. One last thing the New Bios 1.6 fixes stability timing issues with TNT & savage cards so do try that(I`m using 1.6,have also used 1.4 & 1.2 with no problems).Remember any new board you should tweak the Bios to get the best out of it & your graphics card,I`ve tried quite a few games being I`m a gamer from old to new & they all run great no crashes or BSOD.

 

[paulip88]

BlackEyez,

About what to do next, try using the previous generation detonator drivers. I think there are some issues with the latest Detonator drivers and the VIA chipset. Try that out.

 

[blackEyEz]

Hi,

First of all thanks for replying, ive been to other boards wich wherent very interested in my problems.

I ran Scisoft Sandra 2k and will paste some of it and maybe you guys now whats wrong with my GPU

Mainboard & Processor(s)
Processor(s) AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 701MHz
Performance Rating PR932 (estimated)
L2 On-board Cache 256kB synchronous write-back
System Bus(es) ISA(16-bit), PCI(32-bit), USB, AGP(32-bit)
System BIOS Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
System Chipset VIA Technologies Inc Unknown

Operating System(s)
Windows System Microsoft Windows 98 Ver 4.10.2222 A

AGP Bus
Version 2.00
Current Data Transfer Rate 2x
Side Band Enabled Yes
Fast-Writes Enabled No


CIS Technology Inc HCF 56k V90 FaxModem
Latency: 248 clocks {warning}


Leadtek Research RIVA TNT2
Device Information
Device Type VGA Display Adapter
Device ID Device 0h on bus 2 F0
Windows Device Name NVIDIA RIVA TNT2
OEM Device Name Nvidia Corp RIVA TNT2
OEM Hardware ID FUN_0, VEN_10DE, DEV_0028
Product Device Name Leadtek Research RIVA TNT2
Product Hardware ID VEN_107D, DEV_2135
Revision / Stepping B / 2 (17)


Power Management Capabilities
Version 1.00
Supports Clock Slow-down Yes
Supports D1 PM State No
Supports D2 PM State No
Supports PME# No
Supports PME Clock No


AGP Capabilities
Version 2.00
Command Queue Length 32
FW Transfers Support No
Over 4GB Addressing Support No
Side Band Addressing Support Yes
Data Transfer Modes Support 1x, 2x


Device Properties
Latency Timer 248 clocks
I/O Access Yes
Memory Access Yes
Bus Master Capable Yes
Special Cycle Recognition No
Memory Write & Invalidate No
VGA Palette Snoop No
Parity Error Response No
Address/Data Stepping No
System Error Line No
Fast back-to-back Transactions No
Detects Parity Errors No
Supports System Error Line No
Supports Parity Line No
User Defined Format No
PCI66 Bus Support Yes
New Capability List Yes
Device Select Timing Medium


Hardware Resources
Memory Address D4000000
Memory Address D6000000
IRQ Line 11
INT Pin A#
Dynamic Management Yes


Performance Tips
Warning W1207 AGP Ver 2.00 devices may be incompatible with early AGP 1.0 boards.
Warning W1206 PCI latency too high. Device could hog the bus for too long.
Tip T2 For more information about tips, press F1 and scroll to the Tips section.


I got two things out of it, the AGP version of 2.00 and the PCI latency, can this explain the trouble I have running full screen movies/games?..
I run DirectX7a and all the latest drivers, BIOS/Detonator/VIAchipset.

Thanks,

blackEyEz

 

[Mem]

BlackEyEz,
Try what paulip88 said older drivers,also try the new beta 6.34 drivers as I said my MSI K7T PRO board with my old TNT card was fine so double check all Bios settings & try the above drivers the old 5.22 were great you can get all the drivers from here .

 

[jonnyGURU]

Mem; a TNT card is far different than a Radeon card.

Also, it's a KT133 problem, not an MSI problem. All of the Socket A boards have this problem.

 

[Mem]

JonnyGURU ,I was replying to blackEyEz he has a TNT2 card I better put his name at the front of all my posts so Members don`t get confused.

 

[blackEyEz]

It WORKS!!..I kinda overlooked my TNT2 Bios, and upgraded it and everything works now..

Thanks all for the help