DFI NF4 Ultra/SLi-D BUGS and Fixes Thread

could also be another DoA Ultra-D ....is it me does that model have a large % of error boards?

i havent seen a lot of sli-DR models being DoA ?

It doesn't seem DOA since it detects all my devices in the bios. I think I just connected something wrong. I hope so anyway, but I only have a few days left before store's return policy expires, then I'm stuck with RMA :(

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Originally Posted by MadMikeSS

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.

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Did you try jumpering the other PCIe slot to 16x? By default it is only 2x.

Eric

also here is a link to my current screen shots I cannot get this past 2300mhz and able to boot.. I dont know if its the 5/10 2 bios or a bad stepping on the venice or what? its a 3000+

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/davebo...bum?.dir=/2513

I just got a dfi lanparty ut dr mobo i have a 4000+ rev proc and two new 6800 gts. I got it running sli with some coaxing then today while it was turned off I took out one of the sticks of ram to see what they said and bam, it refused to run in sli anymore. Ive tried switching the jumpers back and forth. I know the vid cards are fine any suggestions? Im thinkin of sending it back to new egg. It will run single card just fine and I have all the power cables ran. plenty of power and have updated to bios 5.10-3

I have a strange problem with my fx55 on a Dfii nf4 Ultra. I refuses to work together with my tccd ram memory.(ocz pc 3200 el rev. 2) . memory is ok. I have tested it on another pc. I have tested all bios' . Why does it only work with bh5 ram? Any advice or suggestions?
strangely, it started when I bought my fx55. However, it works fine with the 3500+ "winchester"

does ULTRA-D have SATA 2 ?

yes

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Originally Posted by Chris85

I don't hope this is posted before, but I didn't want to read the entire thread again ;)

On my DFI I want to use a IDE HDD for benching, but I can't get it to work. After format and copying of the first files it reboots, which is normal, but after that I get the message: Error loading operating system. I thought it was the HDD so I tried another (80GB Maxtor) but I got the same message.

Hope someone can help me... :rolleyes:

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I am having this same problem, anyone with an idea or 2 on what it is? ive tried 4 different hdds and all the same so i know its not them.

One of the guys in a different thread helped me, the problem was drive was registering as a cbs rather than lba.

Guys i am having problems whit the SLi-DR i use my cpu at 11x255=2805 whit ocz 4000 vx at 1.5-2-2-5 3.4v the thing is my board once a week doesn`t boot, the power led keeps flashing, and i get a long bip, the diagnostic leds are all on (3), the only solution is to clear cmos but sometimes i take 2 days to reset this bios, i move the cmos jumper to pin 2 and 3 remove the baterry, remove the power cord and lol 5 hours later it might reset, once i get the bios reseted things get back to normal, at least for a week stable, and the again stops booting, i tried the latest bios oficial on the dfi homepage, any sugestions?!?!

please Help

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Originally Posted by CometMan

Guys i am having problems whit the SLi-DR i use my cpu at 11x255=2805 whit ocz 4000 vx at 1.5-2-2-5 3.4v the thing is my board once a week doesn`t boot, the power led keeps flashing, and i get a long bip, the diagnostic leds are all on (3), the only solution is to clear cmos but sometimes i take 2 days to reset this bios, i move the cmos jumper to pin 2 and 3 remove the baterry, remove the power cord and lol 5 hours later it might reset, once i get the bios reseted things get back to normal, at least for a week stable, and the again stops booting, i tried the latest bios oficial on the dfi homepage, any sugestions?!?!

please Help

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Refer to this thread. this what a lot of us are having.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=63715

another thing i managed to boot up whit only one dimm on the 3 slot, but whit the 2 dimm nothing :(

wanted to share what I have gotten to so far with my 3500 Venice core on sli-dr

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=20878

Can anyone tell me how to BURN IN VENICE ? any links for instructions ?

*URGENT*

I wonder why my DFI-DAGF mobo LDT BUS is 1.53v when i was using the Smartguardian to check this setting ???
is it over-volt A LOT? And would it cause burn mobo ?
anyone can enlight me since there are NO option that i can change this value in BIOS...

please I need some help with DFI nf4 Sli-D and my couple of ADATA Vitesta 600 512mb Pc4800 RAM. I used them with a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum at 255 mhz @ 2,5-3-3-11 1T @2,8v without a single problem. Now on this DFI with bios 310, Adata Vitesta 600 seems to work only @ 2T!!! Infact if I set 1T I cannot install windowsXp at all (I get a BSOD PFN_LIST_CORRUPT just after inst files have been copied onto hdd). Using onboard MemTest+ I realized that @ 1T I cannot pass test 8 (it produces hundreds of error!!!). I tried to switch Ram on the orange (2-4) slots. Now I am totally stable (S&M and Prime95) @ 260x10 1:1 (with a 3500+Venice@1,47v) with 3-3-3-7 2T 2,7v. I tried increasing voltage up to 2,85 but I continue to get errors if I set 1T. I am going to cool my Ram since it's definitely much hotter than on MSI (that's weird since it's working @ 2,7v vs 2,8 I had on MSI).
Now I would like to know:
1. can you give me any suggestion to get 1T with my Vitesta 600?
2. I flashed bios 510-3 and 510-1 because I read on other forums 510-3 is for TCCD while -1 is generic. Here I learned that 510-2 is for TCCD, can you confirm this? Anyway with 510 I was able to get 1T @ 260 only setting 3-5-5-11 passing MemTest+ but definitely smashing performance into thousands of pieces....My PSU is an Enermax Noisetaker 600W v2.0, if this can help.

Thank you very much for any reply

New set of problem
Post explaining whats happening
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread....ight=cpu+usage

I have a big problem :

Vdimm in Bios = 2.6v enable +0.03v
I measure by Multimeter and Vdimm is 2.71v

Vdimm in Bios 2.5v disable 0.03v
Multimeter shows 2.6v

So wtf is going on with my DFI ???

What BIOS are you using ?

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What BIOS are you using ?

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414-1 .......

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btw , anyone have a link to measure the CPU Vcore ?

maybe I have the strangest problem on the face of earth with my damned SLI-D and ADATA Vitesta 600, please read this email I sent to DFI tech support and tell me what you think:

Dear DFI Tech Support,
I have bought from a week a DFI Lp Nf4 SLI-D board REV RA02 and I had only nightmares from the very moment I turned my pc on.
First of all let me say that before buying DFI, I was using a MSI K8N Neo2 PT NForce3 board without a single problem with the very same hardware I am going to list (obviously I changed the VGA card from AGP to PCI-Ex):

PSU Enermax Noisetaker 600W
DFI lanparty SLI-D Rev RA02 (default bios was 125)
RAM ADATA VITESTA 600 Pc 4800 512mbx2 dual channel on slots 1 and 3 (orange ones)
CPU AMD A64 3500+ Venice core (E3) with Thermalright SP90 heatsink.
VGA Point of View GeForce 6800Ultra 256mbDDR3 (now PCI-Express, on MSI it was the AGP model)
SB Audigy2 PCI Audio card
on SATA 3 Western Digital RAPTOR 36GB HDD
on SATA 1 & 2 Maxtor Maxline10 300GB 16mb cache HDD
on IDE 1 2x Pioneer 109 DVDRW Drives (master and slave)
on IDE 2 1x NEC DVR 3540 DVDRW Drive (master)

Let me explain in detail the problem I had first with final bios 310:
my memory was automatically recognized by this DFI as 3-3-6-3 1T @ default fsb (200mhz) but I could not install windows at all due to a blue screen (PFN_LIST_CORRUPT error). I was forced to set 2T (CPC disabled) to install windows and let my pc run without problems, in fact no matter what timings or ram settings I tried, I could never pass memtest if I was keeping 1T (CPC) enabled. (on MSI board the same identical RAM was costanlty working @ 260 fsb 2,5-3-8-3 @ 2,8v 1T!!!!!). on overclock with bios 310 I had no problems with my ram reaching 260 fsb (1:1) only if CPC was DISABLED! .
Reading various forums including DFI ones, I discovered there were various beta bios from Mr. Oskar Wu and I tried various of them including release 510. Moreover a new final version was out yesterday (now I see it has been removed due to some issues it had with USB mouse and Keyboard) named 615. INCREDIBLY and above all with "final" bios 615 my adata vitesta 600 were able to perform incredibly well even @ 1T and even overcloking FSB up to 260mhz I was able to keep 1T adjusting other timings BUT and here comes the HUGE problem I have with this board, everytime I turn my PC OFF and then ON again if I do not stay @ standard FSB the POST fails to complete. To be more precise as soon as I turn on the pc CPU infos and RAM timings appears and then POST seems freezed but after a few seconds it is able to list IDE DRIVES and then freezes again and forever on detecting SATA 1 and 2 that fail to be recognized (with some FSB values only one of the two Maxtor HDDs on SATA 1 & 2 is recognized). If I am so lucky to reach bios again (this happens when one on two HDD is recognized) to load optimized defaults, save and exit, this reveals to be USELESS since POST FAILS in the same way as bios is corrupted and the only thing I have to do is to CLEAR CMOS to let system go again. Curiously soon after a CMOS reset I can do whatever overclock operation I wish, boot and reboot thousands of times without a single POST failure, BUT IF I turn the pc off with FSB set above standard, when I turn it on again the board will never POST!!! THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME WITH EVERY BIOS EVEN IF RAM IS SET @ 2T!!!! ONLY WITH BIOS 310 THIS Problem does not occur, but my ram is very very underperforming with this bios!!! MOREOVER with every bios @ 260 FSB the chipset fan starts to act in a very strange way automatically increasing speed up to 7000+ rpm and soon going down to 5000 rpm every 3 seconds producing an ASMA like and very disturbing sound!!! Again BIOS 310 is NOT affected at all by this strange chipset fan syndrome. All in all I find BIOS 310 is the best one for stability but it does not allow me to use my ram @ 1T no matter what I try (I was able to use 1 T only @ 4-5-9-5 and a many other setting at maximum value). Many people on the forums told me to RMA my board because of this weird problems but I am sure it all depends on my RAM and bios settings.

I have a Dfi ultra-d mobo with a winchester 3200+. It after switching procs with my defective venice it wont boot with the 1st 16x pcie slot. It was working fine before i took it apart and put it back together. the Wierdest thing is that if i put the graphics card in the 2nd pcie 16x slot it works.

Anyone have any idea whats wrong with my mobo? it was working fine before. Can someone help me fx this problem?

Thanks

Quick question...what is too hot for this chipset?

My chipset temp gets up around 46 C when I'm at load for awhile. I'm pretty sure below 50 C would be ok.