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Hey guys sorry about no updates I have moved and have no computer acess right now. I am at the hospital in Norfolk VA with my freind that just broke his neck and am letting him rest so I though I would drop you guys a line...after I make my new crossfire setup I will have the net back and make a bios guide for them so see you all then.
Dragon
I just updated everything...sorry that it took SOOOO DAMN LONG...I will try to not let that happen again in the future...also in the future you can look forward to a Crossfire bios guide for DFI boards...unless someone already has or wants to use that idea...
P.S I am by NO means a relegouse person hell I don't even think I sp it right but if you could ALL think of my bud Mike that is in the N.I.C.U in Norfolk General, VA for breaking C5 in his neck as of now he has NO MOVMENT AT ALL...the reason I ask you to think about him is that it can ONLY help and can't hurt!!!
Dragon
Sorry if this was asked like multiple times, but what is the best BIOS for UTT ram like the PC4000 VX?
510-2 worked great for me, and from then on things only got better.
if you go above 3.4V make sure to stick some active cooling on those modules, they get pretty hot.
Sorry to hear about your friend. Don't give up, he can still recover. I broke C7 4 years ago in a racing accident. I can now move my body 90% as before the accident. It might be a long and hard journey, but help and support from family and friends is what he needs. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by FireDragon
I'm gooing to get a dfi sli-d motherboard. And i whounder if i can flash the bios whit winflash ?
you can flash in windows yes, but dont do it OC'd, and dont do it if you system is unstable. a good idea is to severely underclock your system before flashing... better slow than a corrupterd bios.
I wouldnt worry about it being underclocked or overclocked. As long as you're not worried about the system crashing while you're doing it it should be fine. There is a verification step when you flash that will make sure it was flashed correctly. I would close out other applications to prevent the system from crashing though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mussels
quanticles:
With the 704BT bios my ram was dying slowly. i'd pass 24 hours of OCCT testing / prime95, go for 4-6 hours of memtest, and on the next reboot it would crash in seconds on the most random things, usually at idle rather than load. with the utter instability of it, i can only reccomend that people play it safe this time around.
ouch. maybe corrupt OS?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mussels
when i thought my ram was slowly dying, it turned out to be the memory controller. I ran memtest for 8 hours, then the poor 4400+ never booted again.
i swapped to Vx 4000 and bam, everything was good.
it did kill the ram, and it did it by overvolting (going back to tony/bigtoe to get that confirmed officially)
Troman and everyone else who asks: use the offical 623 bios. it works.
Heyy I need some help.
I'm about to fire up my dfi nf4 sli-d motherboard.
What bios should i use for my setup ?
And what program should i use in windows to flash ?
FireDragon: Thanks for a very nice bios guide :)
Pershoot: Thanks for a very usefull CD-rom with all bios revisions to date :)
But what does /py /sn /cd /cp /cc /LD /R /f mean? Py =?, sn=? and so on...
I'm using 510-2Fix with my DFI NF4 Ultra-D, 3000+ 0517DPMW and 2*512MB Twinmos Speed Premium at 260MHz@3.3v in orange slots (better than yellow on my board). Maybe I should try 510-2 Hellfire? Will this bios allow me to go higher with my Twinmos?
Monge
Update:
I found out, what the switch /py /sn etc. mean here:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mai...os-update.html
Hi, I'm kind of new to the newer generation of DFI motherboards.
So I'm just interested in wich BIOSs i should test, its an X2 CPU so I don't know how old BIOSs i can test, so a recommendation would be nice. But I know that a BIOS ins't good on all hardware, so you don't have to give me that rant too ;)
Cheers
It says right in the guide when X2 suport was added it was LONG before the cpus came out
Dragon
man, my head hurts after reading this thread... currently i'm using the 623 bios (pretty sure it's an official release) and am thinking about flashing to the 310 final...
edit: nm, i see you need 510 or newer for RevE
i'm swaying more towards the 623-3 bios now seeing as i'm pretty happy with the bios as it is, and just want it a little more suitable for tccd rather than a general one...
310 has been good to me with TCCD, Max bench stable 340htt/ 300htt 24/7. But that is with Winn/Claw core.
Sorry if this has been answered before, but i just post a thread over at PCPer.com asking the following question:
Can somebody explain this to me please? Thanks :DQuote:
Over at xtremesystems.org this is what it's says about the -1/-2/-3 versions of BIOS files: "(-1 for TCCD/Micron/UTT-CH/UTT-BH/BH/CH This is the general bios that should work ok but is not optimized for any specific memory, -3 for TCCD/Micron, -2 for UTT-CH/UTT-BH/BH/CH)"
While at techpowerup.com it says this: "(* -3 for both kinds of rams (310 ram table), -1 for TCCD etc. (326 ram table), -2 for BH5/CH5 etc. (316 ram table))"
So i figured the -1 and the -3 version got switched around. But when i used a CRC file checker to compare the -3 version from XS.org with the -1 version of Techpowerup.com they didn't match. So there must be something wrong.
I would trust XS.org a little bit more, BUT of you look at the DFI website their BIOS file is named "N4D623-3" and according to Techpowerup.com that would stand for general use and that would make sence when downloading a BIOS from DFI. Also the N4D623-3 version from Techpowerup and from the DFI website do match. So i really think XS.org is wrong here.
what bios should i use for old school bh-5 & venice?
I'd try the latest 7/04-2bta from BigToe
soundx98
tnks
i'll try as soon as i get all the hardware +)
anything from 310 up i think. just use 623, latest official.
i just ordered a NF4 UT Ultra-D and am matching up a 7800 GT to it with a pair of 2X1GB Ballistix. Can you guys give me a recommended bios for OCing my 3800 X2 with my Ballistix? My other concern was are there any clearance problems for the 7800 cards clearing that chipset cooler?
gah dont use the bigtoe. while it fixed the CPU voltage killer bug, it still has RAM volts spikes on some boards (not many) which can hurt your ram. i have DDR600 here that screws up at IDLE now, never at load (memtest/OCCT lasts for 12+ hours, yet it wont sit idle for 15 minutes without a BSOD)
Can i use it for DFI NF4-DAGF motherboard?
P.S. Latest bios at DFI website - CK84D811 (2005/08/11).