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BIOS Update went well. Card still doesn't work.
Plugged in additional floppy cable and also doesn't work.
The PC boots fine, the BIOS codes shows its fine, just the GFX card fan spins at 100% and nothing is displayed on the screen.
I would blame it on the card but it works fine my other PC :(
Revival of an old thread perhaps??
Anyways, just got a machine to play with that has this board (UT X48 T2R). The owner would like me to make it clock either harder and/or more stable. I am a noob to DFI boards and come from ASUS. I am well versed in clocking ASUS boards, although I personally have always wanted to tinker with this board, and now, finally, I have my wish. The owner has a Q9650 CPU in it, a TRUE cooler, 2x 2GB sticks of 1066MHz OCZ Reaper memory and a Corsair TX-750 PSU. He has also given me 4x1GB sticks of 1200MHz OCZ Flex XLC RAM too if that would also help, although he says the reaper sticks let it clock harder. He has had a bit of luck in clocking it at around 4GHz, but every now and then BSOD's occur despite all tests running fine. The CPU and Heatsink have been lapped to good effect.
I would like to know some basics, or some links within this thread to some places that I can start with in the BIOS. I am also rebuilding it as the cable management leaves something to be desired. Any things that are a must-do for this board with the Q9650? Any areas that I should keep an eye on to lower or raise values incrementally? Also which is the better BIOS to this day - CDC24 or 603? does anyone have the link for 603? I have the manual, but would prefer some help from those with successful results...
Any help would be much appreciated...
P.S. w00t!, my first post as a Premium Member :D
I am about to test my board out... I got it and a lapped q6600 and I have a lot of memory options... going to put the cpu on water and maybe the chipset also... not sure about that.. I guess the chipset runs hot but not sure how much I will use this board...
SabreWulf - I'm just getting into this one myself... if I see anything note worthy while I am OCing and testing I will report it here.... I think the main thing to watch for is PWM and chipset temps while overclocking that quad... the PWM gets quite hot on this board as does the chipset.. keep a lot of airflow to those areas for sure.
Cheers, and will do :D So far it either goes stable under load but crashes randomly at idle with temps fine, or adjusting NB voltages results in it not being stable under load but it being stable at idle. Very frustrating.
adjust your gtl settings
you musta had high nb temps