having some issues with cold boot with Mushkin blue. Which bios do work best with Mushkin blue?
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having some issues with cold boot with Mushkin blue. Which bios do work best with Mushkin blue?
I did both Tedy, and as stated MANY times
I turned on my ultra-D this morning, and got the 3 led syndrome again, but this time 1 cmos clear worked( which was very surprising after fighting with the board for 2 days the last time), I left the battery in this morning.
I think I have an issue with the bios/cmos myself.
I went into CMos reloaded and shutoff the autosave feature, someone at DFI street said it cleared his boot problems, so I'll try anything at this point.
GL man
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Try these settings in BIOSQuote:
Originally Posted by TEDY
set:
Trwt: 2
Tref: 3072 (200MHz 3.9us)
Twcl: 1
Bank int.: Enable
Skew control: 255+
Drive strength: 7
Data strength: 2 or 4
Max. Async: 8ns
Read Preamble: 5ns
Idle Cycle: Auto
Dyn. Counter: Enable
R\W Bypass: 16x
Bypass Max: 7x
32Bit Gran.: Disable
lol aquamark3 crashes at damn 200*9 all default
gotta be PSU or X800XL taking too much power...can't imagine anything else
ruled out proc
it works fine 280-300
so it's ram.....definatelly .....
I have the problem where the 3 leds light up when I turn on the computer, and then nothing happens.
I have to shut down and turn off the PSU. Then I try and boot a number of times. Eventually, the computer boots.
Simple Q here. What is a good replacement fan for the northbridge on these boards? I had 2 x 6600GTs and it was fine, but with the 6800 Ultra I just got on a trade, it's much too cramped and pressing against the NB. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm running two 6800GT's, and it fits with the stock NB heatsink/fan. NB doesn't get too hot in my case, I'm more more worried about the two RAM sticks.
I noticed freezing and lockups, until I turned off all the power saving modes, ie. harddrives..... I did leave power saving modes for the monitor on and no problems.. Seriously though, my lock ups etc... went away....Quote:
Originally Posted by Nugz
stopped booting, right before I shut my pc down it showing 128C on three temp sensors, which was in no way correct. I could still do anything and no stability issues... That was using the 5V supply and when set the jumper back to 3.3v supply and waited a bit it booted and was able to run fine, except if I'm running the pc and shut it down and try to start it back up right away it will just beep at me....
I tryed that mod using the 3.3v line while still being able to select higher than 3.2v and it works beatifully.... I raised my 3.3v line up to 3.6v and running my mem @ 3.4 stable ......@ 255mhz, but the board is still screwed up, it will still beep at me if it is at all warm.... I have plenty of cooling I sure of that...
Anyway will RMA it, and make sure to use the 3.3v mod, at least I can run up to 3.5v w/o using the 5v line... and no worries about board getting hot....
I have been trying to find out the exact values of the extra memory dividers that the A64 DFI boards have (9:10, 7:10, 3:5) And i think that they are all off.
If i use a common numerator of 24 for all dividers this is what comes out:
111b 24/24 * 200 = 200.00MHz aka 1:1
110b 22/24 * 200 = 183.33MHz aka 9:10 (it's 11:12)
101b 20/24 * 200 = 166.66MHz aka 5:6
100b 18/24 * 200 = 150.00MHz aka 3:4
011b 17/24 * 200 = 141.66MHz aka 7:10 (it's 17:24)
010b 16/24 * 200 = 133.33MHz aka 2:3
001b 15/24 * 200 = 125.00MHz aka 3:5 (it's 5:8)
000b 12/24 * 200 = 100.00MHz aka 1:2
To me it seems to make sense that these are the true dividers.
I have some problems with my dfi nf4 ultra d.
When i use my ide hdd everything is ok, but when i connect my sata maxtor hdd it says: ntfs.sys damaged or deleted.
I checked the sata hdd with powermax, everything is ok.
My karajan module also died a while ago, before i had thes probs.
Dunno if it has something to do with it. :confused:
I installed my new cpu today.
The problem is when I change any option in the bios, when I reboot, the system will hang and I need to clear CMOS every time.
If I dont go in the bios (version 310), system boots and works flawlessly.
Any helping ideas are much appreciated :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by rick_fx
I had the same problem - update to 414 BIOS and all should be fine. Use the search here on the forums to get a link.
Will do :toast:
Still cant change ram timings without getting a system hang :(
When you flash the bios are you doing the full flash with winflash.exe ? If so make sure you update the whole bios and not just the main section. It can cause the bios to act up.Quote:
Originally Posted by rick_fx
Just got my Venice 3000+ and put it in my new DFI Ultra-d
4 leds on power, tried reseting cmos and safeboot, any ideas?
Edit: Only 3 LEDs now
Edit2: Installing XP now, Ram worked in 3rd slot.
I'm having an issue with my PCI-E...It's at 2x instead of being at 16x. I'm not using anything else in the PCI-E interface slots. I have 1 PCI card. I don't remember it ever being at the full 16x. Here are my specs....
DFI LP UT NF4 Ultra-D
A64 3000+ @2.6GHz
2x512MB OCZ Gold VX
Leadtek 6600GT (PCI-E)
Viewsonic P95f+b
I'm using BIOS version N4D331-2
here's a pic showing that it's only at 2x.....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...k42/express.jpg
Any ideas why, or how to fix this problem???
Which slot did u plug ur vga into ? .... try another one :)
Fix'D
Well, I'm sure this is covered by someone before but not in this thread at least not from a quick search for chipset.
As more of us are painfully aware, the chipset for the Ultra-D/SLI-D and I'm sure other variations of the same board is located in the absolute worst spot. Especially if you happen to own any high end video card that extends over the chipset cooler. I found with my X850XT if pushed all the way into the PCI-E slot actually pushes down on the chipset cooler and causes it to not make good contact with the chipset. My temps went up to 44C idle. When I lifted the card out slightly to release that pressure my chipset idle temps went down to 37C.
As an experiment to see if I could move to the 2nd PCI-E slot I ran 3DMark05 before and after the move and went from 6231 to 5800 with the same exact settings. So changing slots is not an option. I want to watercool the chipset but that's pretty much impossible without some kind of modded waterblock and I'm not even going there. DFI goes out and makes a great overclockers motherboard but makes the mistake of placing the chipset in the most inconvenient place on the board.
If anyone has any suggestions, I know there are aftermarket air coolers that work well, and I'll probably go with one, but if anyone has a suggestion or solution please PM me.
You shoulda done a search on "chipset" in the main forum ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMikeSS
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61809
FRUSTRATING PROBLEM.
Not sure if this is a bug or if I just set this up incorrectly. I have two CD drives installed, set to cable select (BIOS recognizes them as Master and Slave automatically). When I try to boot from the winxp cd (i know this disc works, used it before) it gives me a "DISK BOOT FAILURE." I already set the boot order to FDD>CD>HD. I've tried both drives. Everything is straight out of the box and I haven't done anything to the BIOS except change the boot order. Can anyone help?
try setting them to jumper selected master and slave.........
I did that last night, then I replaced the rounded IDE cable with a spare one from the DFI box. Still get the same problem. I also disconnected everything else (hard drive, floppy, and the other CD drive) so that only one CD drive was connected. It still gives me the same error.
I think I might have configured something incorrectly, but I have no idea what :(