HELP: SATA & 3rd IDE not working on *new* MSI KT600 Delta FIS2R motherboard

First, happy holidays to all.

I need help/advice.

Running XP Pro SP1 with this mobo. Everything works beautifully...

.... Except:

This board has 4 SATA ports and a 3rd IDE port. Its Southbridge is a
VIA VT8237, and is has a built-in Promise (PDC20378) SATA/RAID
controller. There's also a VIA VT6306 chip present, but I have no idea
what it's doing there, because there's no mention of it in the
documentation. It's all 8237-this, 8237-that.

Full mobo specs:

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=474

VIA 8237 Southbridge specs

http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/vt8237.jsp


So as I understand it, the Promise controler 2x SATA, and the VIA
controls 2x SATA + the 3rd IDE port.

So far, I've only been able to activate the 2 VIA SATA ports. The 3rd
IDE port and the Promise SATA ports do not work (naturally everything
is activated in the BIOS).

Windows detects the Promise controller as "Promise 376/378 RAID
controller", but device cannot start (error code 10). And the
ATAPI/IDE Host controller gives the same error.

See "DeviceList.txt" below for device details and "Events.txt" below
for error details.


So might the problem be?

Any help appreciated.
====
Mark T.


DeviceList.txt:

Device Information Listing:

RAID Controller
OEM Device from Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI)
Chip: Promise Technology Inc
Detail
PnpID
VEN_105A&DEV_3373&SUBSYS_590D1462&REV_02
Device
RAID Controller
Chip Vender
Promise Technology Inc
OEM Vender
Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI)

VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller
OEM Device from Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI)
Chip: VIA Technologies Inc
Detail
PnpID
VEN_1106&DEV_3149&SUBSYS_59011462&REV_80
Vender
VIA Technologies, Inc.
Device
VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller
Chip Vender
VIA Technologies Inc
OEM Vender
Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI)


VIA ATA/ATAPI Host Controller
Driver Vender: VIA Technologies, Inc.
PnpID: pci\ven_1106&dev_4149


Events.txt:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: fasttx2k
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4
Date: 23 Dec 2003
Time: 1:38
User: N/A
Computer: HERACLES
Description:
Driver detected an internal error in its data structures for
\Device\Scsi\fasttx2k1.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 5a 00 ......Z.
0008: 00 00 00 00 04 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 04 00 00 00 c0 00 00 c0 ....À..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

 

Install the latest promise driver or XP won't use it and it will show up
as a "yellow exclamation point" in device manager.

Download them from the MSI site

http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/378_55.exe

HTH,
Jeff

 

I have this same problem with an 865PE Neo2 FIS2R board and the latest
drivers from MSI do nothing for me. It still gives me the nasty
exclaimation point...

 

Hi

My KT6 Delta LSR came with a special driver disk for the SATA. Do you
have them installed? ( I don't have the third ATA 133 port) I am not
using SATA drives , so I don't know if they work on mine.

Gollum

 

Gollum:

I was hoping your solution would work, but alas...

Now both SATA controller are enabled, but the P-IDE controller remains
with a yellow "!". (shit)

This is what event viewer says:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7026
Date: 30 Dec 2003
Time: 23:17
User: N/A
Computer: HERACLES
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
viapdsk

I already emailed Promise, VIA and MSI, but no replies yet.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.
===
Mark T.

 

So?

Anyone have suggestions before I start blasting MSI, Promise and VIA?...

Mark T.

 

So, has anyone with this mobo been successful in activating IDE3 under XP ?

M.T.