Man, that sucks....g'luck dude.
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Man, that sucks....g'luck dude.
:D Here's another funny - when I had finished building in the board and all componets I wanted to connect my printer at last, but........... then I recognized for the first time that there is no parallel / serial port anymore :am: - so I spent some bucks on a USB printer cable.
Now owning the right cable but don't have the board........ :toast:
Bad side: ZZF is being ass about it. Not buying anything from them.. btw, board looks like it was used when I got it meaning they probably sent me RMA'd board. What a crook.
Good side: Talked to DFI and they will replace the board under their shipping. Sounds like much better plan than screwing with the ZZF. Time for me to go around and bashing ZZF at few places I know that people use. Well, guess X850XT PE is going to have to wait again.
:D Fine - this is my understanding of a customers service........ :toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by jinu117
What makes you think the board was used when you got it....was it an A00 or A01 revision.....My SLI-DR A01 looked as though it had been opened and repacked, due to the tape seal being broken and another applied over the top on the motherboard anti-static bag.....i wonder if this was done to load the later bios or make the supposed component changes by DFI before shipping to distributers??Quote:
Originally Posted by jinu117
This was in the UK.
conrad.maranan,
How clean is the power in your house? Is it a new house/residence? or older? I ask because I've seen problems such as yours, where one person has had 3+ boards destroyed by by really dirty power getting fed into his computer. Maybe this board is extra sensitive to power spikes?
Mine is prime/memtest stable for 24+ hours, but every once in a while, the thing just reboots. The wiring in my place is very old, and I have to use converters to convert the 2 prong outlets to grounded, 3 prong outlets (gives me nightmares). None of the other 5 computers I run are rebooting, but every component in this computer, aside from the motherboard, has been tested in other systems.
Just an idea.
Was A02 board. However, the screw thread on Socket mounting mechanism was stripped. Unless you are real novice, it is not common you will strip those big screws really... -_-;Quote:
Originally Posted by bito
Not to mention accesory bags shows some sign of wear. (and Kazan sound board plastic box was not packed correctly)
Well, if that isn't enough proof, it didn't boot up at all (here goes another proof :P)
Out of 20+ mobos I went through in 1 year, there were 2 DOA boards but they didn't look used at least.
That is exactly what I got with the two boards I had. Three diagnostic LEDs, the other LEDs on the board, and a bunch of spinning fans. In both instances, the two front LEDs on my Lian-Li PC-65 would just blink in 0.5 second intervals. The LED for my DVD drive would constantly blink as well. RMA that board and get a new one. I've exhausted every option available to me to get the board back to normal and nothing would work. So just save yourself the headache and exchange it for a new one.Quote:
Originally Posted by jinu117
The power is clean (at least it should be). My place is fairly new so all of the electrical side should be up to par and within spec of today's standards.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidHull
What bugs me is that I have other high-powered gizmos in my home that require tons of juice, and I'm not just talking about computers here. I can have all of the televisions on at the same time, power up all of my surround sound systems, have some food in the microwave while vacuuming the carpets, and none of the lights will flicker. I also have a 120-gallon aquarium that has two high-powered pumps and two rows of PowerCompact lighting running 24/7. I do not tax my electrical system by running amuck with everything on, but when I was playing with the Ultra-D, the computer and my aquarium were the only appliances running. My computer runs off of a different circuit than the aquarium, so we can basically eliminate shared circuits from the equation.
That was a good post, though. Stable electrical current and power regulation within the home is very important for a rock-solid system.
Didn't connect any of above as I didn't really expect the board to work when I saw the stripped screw :) RMA is already shipped under DFI's account and I will probably get new board monday or tuesday :)Quote:
Originally Posted by conrad.maranan
You didn't happen to buy it from ZZF and RMA'd it would you have? If so, I might start wanting to make few calls to some people I know :)
:lol: Hahaha. I'm a Newegg and mWave patron, so you don't have to worry about it being one of my returns.Quote:
Originally Posted by jinu117
EDIT: Just a few more post and you shall be ordained Xtreme Addict! Watch out now. ;)
If it's a dead Bios chip, it wouldn't be the first board having those problems on A64 platform.
Shuttle AN50R had it's fair share of those.
I also killed by Bios on AN50R with default settings just by shutting off the computer. Symptoms were exactly like those conrad faced.
Only thing to do was to get a new Bios chip programmed at a service shop and change the Bios battery to a high quality one that give 3.5V minimum.
No problems after that for me (not saying it'll cure DFI ills though).
get the fatality board!
i had the MSI, and it capped me off at about 285, even then at 285 i got sata corruption and my OS was acting funny. so i guess it was really at 280.
that and my NB fan was incredibly loud and annoying. it was driving me fricking nuts.
Is this sudden death issue only with the NForce4 Ultra boards or is the SLI boards as well? I was looking to pick up the SLI-DR as soon as I can find one.
:D Hm, maybe some of You can do this when the RMA'd board or a new one arrived back (it was my last test before I RMA'd the board myself):
The DFI has an onboard power and reset switch placed right on the PCB - so if pluggin' in the 24PIN ATX and the 4PIN 12V WITHOUT doing anything else (means no RAM, no CPU, really naked board) and switch on the PSU and push the onboard strartknob there should happen something.
I think at least the board should get power and give an error message by the 4 LEDs or some beeps because of missing CPU and RAM.
My board did nothing - but if some of Yours do You can be sure thet the board at least is under voltage and go on with installation.
It took me a lot of precious time to install all the components including the MACH II GT to recognize at last that the board is DOA - maybe You can avoid this by using the described test at first.
:toast:
1. Conrad - FIND A PCI VIDCARD (Cheap and someone's gotta have one)
this is a good thing to have on hand for just these issues.
2. About ZZF - they've been heading down the dark side for awhile now.
I will not trust them for anything and will never buy from them again.
3. I got the funny lights when I first started. Sorry I can't remember what I kicked or slapped to make it work :confused: .
Good luck to all. :toast:
:D You lucky one - got more than me, only saw the 5v standby diode all the time........ :toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by mad mikee
maybe those blinking lights are circuits charging lights....i think....
mine always blink upon startup after total power down and then the GPU bios info appear...once appear the blinking would go off..
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Originally Posted by HARDCORECLOCKER
Hum... I think you need at least the CPU in addition to the PSU to get some life from the mobo, then it should beep if you don't have memory and/or video card.
about grounding cable...i have one seperate in my new tagan...newer seen any other psu with it before, so just jacked the cable (with plastic hood on) under the board...but should i use it and where?
Mine suddently died and killed my CPU TOO!!!! Man, you cant know how much money I'm loosing with this! I'm loosing like 400$!!! Now, it is really the first time that I am angry like this!
I'm not sure if this will help but has anyone tried installing a port 80 diagnostic card into a dfi to see what post code it nails when this happens?
If anyone has a dead dfi that they have given up on and are not rma'ing maybe you should send it to me and i can do some diagnostics on it at least to see the cause of the hardware failure........
:eek: Please keep your bad luck away from me. It's dampening my spirit. :eek:
[OC RITUAL]Begins rubbing his magic OC leprechaun for good luck.[/OC RITUAL]
Where can I pick up one of those diagnostic cards? How do they work? Link?
i had the same problem with the 3 led lights and no go. i can't remember exactly what i did to get it going, but i DO remember hating (i mean REALLY hating) the dfi board for the 1st 2 weeks. after that, i started being grateful that it worked. most of my problems with the board ended up being due to a faulty IDE cable i had bought. some new-fangled ide round ide cable (IOSS gladiator) that was supposed to be the bees-knees helping with ide transfer speeds. i'm going to try a few things this weekend, gonna move over the usb jumpers to 5vsb and see if that helps the zippy boot into 5v vdimm mode.
i still regularly get stuck on the boot screen at 3 led's where the screen will read out the 1st line (award bios blah blah) but never show the cpu ident/memory. resetting the board from the switch on the board doesn't help either, i still get stuck. i find that powering down, unplugging the psu, clearing the charge by toggling the psu switch on/off while unplugged, pushing in the sata molex and sata hd connections and sacrificing small animals to the overclocking gods usually gets me to boot correctly.
i have a sneaking suspicion that most of the instability with the board lies in the usb. if you have 3 led's on, that means the mem,cpu and board have passed post. the rig then tries to seek out hd's and usb iirc. using that as a theory, i changed the hd delay speed setting in the bios to 3 sec but still didn't help. then a few days ago, i tried booting into my acronis secure zone (3rd party ghost imaging software) and the logged boot screen showed me some error messages saying that usb blah blah had timed out and wasn't responding. i went into windows and turned off the power management settings for the usb ports and so far haven't had any problems.
i really can't wait for the ati board to come out. hopefully, it'll work well with my zippy and i won't have to deal with random problems like i am with the dfi. the thing that worries me is that these are the same exact feelings i had with the msi neo2... well not as bad as the neo2, but failing boot 25% of the time is getting on my nerves.
http://www.soyogroup.com/products/proddesc.php?id=261Quote:
Originally Posted by conrad.maranan
you stick it in a free pci slot it is kinda like the epox post code reporter comes with a manual though that is far more in depth on post codes and such.
Cost me 24.99 at my LCS(local computer store)
Its great as a overclocking tool also because if you have a failed overclock you can determine if it was board cpu memory and so on :)
Thanks, chew*. I'll be on the lookout for one.