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Reply #15 - 28.12.05 at 23:22:32

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anyways the MSI KT3 boarsd arn't reccomended for V6K users it's not to trust. Gary has tested more of those boards and if a V3 ain't gonna work leave it aside for the 6K or any other 3dfx AGP card besides V4 4500.

I'm not the be all and end all of testing, it's possible there was a revision change that disabled 3.3 support for the KT3 Ultra II boards.

I might try flashing it to an early bios but not inclined since this is the daily use box, a 5500 PCI or 4500 AGP will do just fine.

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Reply #16 - 28.12.05 at 23:24:54

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And I said, that I have the same mainboard, with 3.3V support (My Voodoo3 AGP boots flawlessly).

No 3-4 beeps at first power up or red screen?

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Seems, there are existing different versions of this mb. (VIA KT33CE an CF)

1) Do you have hardware monitoring via software? The MSI driver disk has a program for checking while in windows but AGP and DIMM voltages come up blank when checked.

2) What revison board do you have? Bios? Southbridge number?

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #17 - 28.12.05 at 23:52:25 Some pics-
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #18 - 29.12.05 at 01:17:48 nice new Seagates Gary I ordered a brand new Seagate 120GB HDD ATA 7200 rpm today also, no more Maxtor for me my firend 8) it is that the 3rd Maxtor HDD died
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Thema Senior Member Offline Hardcore Powah Posts: 485 Slovenia Gender:	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #19 - 29.12.05 at 01:20:02 I was most impresed by the segate photo too. They are also my favourite disk brand.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #20 - 29.12.05 at 13:33:48 well the 4th Maxtor died today, where is the world leading to, @ least my 6K is okay,, it's unharmed the only Maxtor that is working is my 120GB 7200 rpm 2MB lol I hope I get some Seagate HDD's around here. Now I understand that everyone says that Seagate is more reliable lol
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IG88 Full Member Offline Posts: 209 Australia Gender:	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #21 - 29.12.05 at 13:41:13 the gigabyte ga7dxe amd 761+686b chipset is a rock solid board ran a v55000 agp on it for a year or more runs up to 2100 xp no raid though
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roflkopp Guest	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #22 - 29.12.05 at 13:59:15 Quote: No 3-4 beeps at first power up or red screen? After all, unfortunatly YES I have 3-4 beeps. But the voodoo3 brings a picture...
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roflkopp Guest	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #23 - 29.12.05 at 18:01:20 Quote: After all, unfortunatly YES I have 3-4 beeps. But the voodoo3 brings a picture... Good news: I testet with 3.3V Voodoo5 AGP, and it works perfect. No multiple beeps or other strange behavior. I hope the pictures answer your questions:
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #24 - 29.12.05 at 23:22:00 Quote: Good news: I testet with 3.3V Voodoo5 AGP, and it works perfect. No multiple beeps or other strange behavior. But still no 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 AGP volt options in the bios?
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roflkopp Guest	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #25 - 29.12.05 at 23:34:34 Quote: But still no 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 AGP volt options in the bios? Nope.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Building new PC... finally! Reply #26 - 30.12.05 at 00:05:49 Quote: Nope. Doesn't sound very promising.
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Reply #27 - 30.12.05 at 18:01:27

well every KT333 board should support AGP x2 3.3Volt as 1.5 voltages. and 3.3 Volt is the most important my ASUS A7V333-R like EPoX EP-8K3A+ both support 3.3Volt AGP x2 and x4 and 1.5 Volt AGP x2 and x4 like all other KT333's should do.

Omega_SUpreme has the MSI KT3 Ultra2 with V6K also, , maybe you had a bad one like I did have with my HDD 's these last few days.

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Reply #28 - 30.12.05 at 18:10:50

As I understood the problem is werther the board is able (made for) to apply the chipset's AGP2x feature, KT333 definetly supports 3.3V agp the question is if the board does, for that I suppose it has to have some components more and a bios that enables the use of those components wich enable the feature (eg. a board with a southbridge that has integrated some soundblaster support and the board does not have the rest of the stuff on it to use it)

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Reply #29 - 30.12.05 at 19:53:50

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Indeed, the KT333 chipset does support 3,3V AGP. If the rest of the motherboard supports 3,3V AGP is the second question

1) Just because the chipset supports 3.3 volts doesn't mean the motherboard has to, that is up to the motherboard manufacture.

2) AGP 1/2x mode does not automatic mean 3.3 support, there is all sort of reasons to change the mode down from 4x.

3) My motherboard works fine, other KT3 show the same issues.

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