The ram runs fine on my grouper board. I might try the new Sapphire board. I have a naked cbb1e that I want to push. I might just sell it now and wait for Conroe. Oh the official 425 bios.
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The ram runs fine on my grouper board. I might try the new Sapphire board. I have a naked cbb1e that I want to push. I might just sell it now and wait for Conroe. Oh the official 425 bios.
Sorry I took so long, was at my brothers wedding shower. :bs:Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
If you still want some settings let me know, i'm at 3070 and still playing with the ram.
:toast:
My ram ran spectacularly on my Grouper, (using auto settings) the DFI ran with "optimized" settings but any kind of a overclock attempt was a no boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
I would be on the Sapphire right now (it is a great board :up: ) if I did not bork the bios chip(:slapass:).....the DFI deffinatly has a learning curve but does OC better.
Good Luck :toast:
Guys
When pushing your board you may just push it a little to far, the issue then is the board does not seem to overclock nice..infact you usually end up thinking you broke it or it just went bad.....issue is cmos has been corrupted, the cmos you can not see.
The fix is to clear this cmos from DOS
with this tool, load up pure dos, then run the exe here, it clears the cmos completely and allows the board to perform as it should.
I will be adding this info to my guide on BE also, the issue seems to be the the ULI south bridge and does hold the board back if pushed hard. Also for high clcoks do NOT run raid, the best is to run an IDE drive, second best is a SATA drive but you will lose upto 10fsb if you run raid unless you are off the SI controller.
I have found a weird issue with this board and the latest beta of ati tool, i didnt try any others. No matter what, on a second run, the board will freeze, as in full hard lock, no keyboard, mouse, anything. Doesnt matter how the second run starts, if it either finds artifacts and restarts the count, or if i turn off the artifact scan and start it again, it will always freeze in the 2 minute range everytime. I blamed it on the ram, tried different ram same exact thing. I tried flashing card back to x1900xt, same thing. reinstalled the catalyst driver, same thing. tried reinstalling this version of ati tool, didnt try any others, same thing. i can run any test all day long, prime, loop 3dmark06, game, but ati tool always freezes on the second run at the same point. any ideas, as i sure ran out of them... its not too bad, but it is annoying to have to reboot the pc everytime i want to run ati tool.
I don't think it's the board...........ATItool might not be updated for the 580 chipset.Quote:
Originally Posted by cky2k6
:shrug:
I pushed the board to 250htt using 166 mem divider and it refused to boot. I doubt 250htt is pushing it off the edge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony
It's all in the memory timings on this board..............if they are wrong it will kick you back with a no boot, you have to finesse it a little bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
:horse:
Worry about your ram later, go for your max core first.Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
It's a starting point.
:toast:
I used Tony's settings. TO make sure its not the ram, I use dividers so ram isn't an issue.
Hi all,
I have been fighting to get either my Mushkins Extreme's (UCCC) or my OCZ 4000EB's (Infineon) to get to 270mhz either 1:1 or on a divider. The Mushkins will post at 270 but there not memtest stable nor prime of course. The OCZ's will not even post at that speed at all. As a matter of fact, they won't go 1 mhz past 260mhz regardless of voltage or timings. Right now, I'm running at 289/260 (htt/ram) and I'm perfectly memtest/dual prime stable with the OCZ's. Here are my Infineon settings:
Genie BIOS Settings:
FSB Bus Frequency............................. - 289
HT PLL High Speed............................. - Auto (Can't remember)
LDT/FSB Frequency Ratio....................... - 4.0
CPU/FSB Frequency Ratio....................... - 9.0
RD580 HT PLL Speed............................ - High Speed
HT Bus MMOS Drive Strength.................... - 31
HT Bus PMOS Drive Strength.................... - 31
HT Bus Receiever Impedance.................... - 10
CPU HT Bus Drive Strength..................... - Strong
CPU VID Control............................... - 1.40
CPU VID Special Control....................... - Auto
DRAM Voltage Control.......................... - 2.65v
SB PCIE Voltage............................... - 1.80v
NB Analog Voltage............................. - 1.21v
LDT Bus Voltage............................... - 1.21v
NB Core Voltage............................... - 1.21v
DRAM Configuration Settings:
DRAM Frequency Set............................ - 180=RAM/FSB:01/01
Command Per Clock (CPC)....................... - Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl)..................... - 3.0 Bus Clocks
RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd)..................... - 03 Bus Clocks
Min RAS# active time (Tras)................... - 08 Bus Clocks
Row precharge time (Trp)...................... - 02 Bus Clocks
Row Cycle time (Trc).......................... - 10 Bus Clocks
Row refresh cyc time (Trfc)................... - 16 Bus Clocks
Row to Row delay (Trrd)....................... - 03 Bus Clocks
Write recovery time (Twr)..................... - 03 Bus Clocks
Write to Read delay (Twtr).................... - 02 Bus Clocks
Read to Write delay (Trwt).................... - 03 Bus Clocks
Refresh Period (Tref)......................... - 1560 Cycles
DRAM Bank Interleave.......................... - Enabled
Errata 94 Enhancement......................... - Disable
Errata 123 Enhancement........................ - Auto
Odd Divisor Correct........................... - Disable
DQS Skew Control.............................. - Auto
DQS Skew Value................................ - 0
DRAM Drive Strength........................... - Level 6
DRAM Data Drive Strength...................... - Level 1
DIMM 1/3 Clock Timing Skew.................... - Auto
DIMM 2/4 Clock Timing Skew.................... - Delay 450
Max Async Latency............................. - 8.0 ns
Read Preamble Time............................ - 5.5 ns
IdleCycle Limit............................... - 64 Cycles
Dynamic Counter............................... - Disable
R/W Queue Bypass.............................. - 16 x
Bypass Max.................................... - 4 x
Burst Length.................................. - 4 Bursts
Anyone here have either UCCC or Infineon and have been able to get 270mhz stable? If so, settings please....
Can you try to change Tref to 4708 with thise settings (UCCC):fact:
Tried all of the TREF's and no go. What are you settings for the GSkills's to reach 270mhz???
Genie BIOS Settings:
FSB Bus Frequency............................. - 275Mhz +-
HT PLL High Speed............................. - Auto (Can't remember)
LDT/FSB Frequency Ratio....................... - 4.0
CPU/FSB Frequency Ratio....................... - 9.0
RD580 HT PLL Speed............................ - High Speed
HT Bus MMOS Drive Strength.................... - 10
HT Bus PMOS Drive Strength.................... - 10
HT Bus Receiever Impedance.................... - 10
CPU HT Bus Drive Strength..................... - Strong
CPU VID Control............................... - 1.4v
CPU VID Special Control....................... - Auto
DRAM Voltage Control.......................... - 2.75v
SB PCIE Voltage............................... - 1.80v
NB Analog Voltage............................. - 1.34v
LDT Bus Voltage............................... - 1.34v
NB Core Voltage............................... - 1.34v
DRAM Configuration Settings:
DRAM Frequency Set............................ - 200=RAM/FSB:01/01
Command Per Clock (CPC)....................... - Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl)..................... - 3.0 Bus Clocks
RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd)..................... - 04 Bus Clocks
Min RAS# active time (Tras)................... - 08 Bus Clocks
Row precharge time (Trp)...................... - 04 Bus Clocks
Row Cycle time (Trc).......................... - 07 Bus Clocks
Row refresh cyc time (Trfc)................... - 14Bus Clocks
Row to Row delay (Trrd)....................... - 03 Bus Clocks
Write recovery time (Twr)..................... - 03 Bus Clocks
Write to Read delay (Twtr).................... - 02 Bus Clocks
Read to Write delay (Trwt).................... - 04 Bus Clocks or +
Refresh Period (Tref)......................... - 4708Cycles
DRAM Bank Interleave.......................... - Enabled
Errata 94 Enhancement......................... - Disable
Errata 123 Enhancement........................ - Disable
Odd Divisor Correct........................... - Disable
DQS Skew Control.............................. - Auto
DQS Skew Value................................ - 0
DRAM Drive Strength........................... - Level 4
DRAM Data Drive Strength...................... - Level 1 50%
DIMM 1/3 Clock Timing Skew.................... - Auto
DIMM 2/4 Clock Timing Skew.................... - Delay 450
Max Async Latency............................. - 8.0 ns
Read Preamble Time............................ - 5.5 ns
IdleCycle Limit............................... - 256 Cycles
Dynamic Counter............................... - Disable
R/W Queue Bypass.............................. - 16 x
Bypass Max.................................... - 4 x
Burst Length.................................. - 4 Bursts
I don´t know why you set 3-3-3-8, if you don´t know what you are doing, don´t do anything.
Read this 1st => http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=2629
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony
Can I use this tool for every DFI Board?
You are using the yellow dimms with the UCCC ram?!...I see a «Delay 450» in the Dimm 2/4 setting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
I put my Gskill4000HZ on the Dimm 1/2 with «Delay 150» and it works fine...
No! :nono: I cote the post :fact:Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnMike
I use orange slot delay 450 (i think)
PS: increase "DIMM 2/4 Clock Timing Skew.................... - Delay " every 20Mhz
Ok, i get the picture! :slap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
If you actually read my post, you can see that those are my settings for the Infineon!! LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
UCCC can't do better than 3-4-3-8 and no better than 3-4-4-8 at high speeds. Duh!!!
I can do fine with my UCCC until I try to get to 3Ghz. Has anyone had luck with UCCC and high, high overclocks? I'm at work right now, I'll post some more info later, but I've worked all the settings up and down. Has anyone had luck with the yellow slots? I'm about to resort to them.
By the way, how do you run from dos?
enabling USB mouse support causes some bugs (USB keybaord will not be able to access the bios, cannot use a USB keyboard to set up windows, and some random locks occur).
The only issues I have are related to the boot process. I can't boot from a USB stick and also the boot media from Acronis True image refuses to work.
But performance wise I have no complaints. I did have a 1700+ before this, so it wasn't that hard to please me.
Quote:
Originally Posted by STEvil
The new beta bios fixes that issue and is the best bios so far. I'd highly recommend it....:)
I just installed my water setup and my mobo doesn't boot anymore. Error code ".8_" or ".8 " - anybody knows what this means?
Apparently none of the geniuses at DFI thought that without reference in the manual the mighty LED error codes are useless.
Are there any ideas about how to use more than 1 disk on this freaking mainboard? :P
I own 2x 36GB raptor, 2x200GB WD, 1x 160GB Maxtor and 1x 320GB Seagate is on it's way. But this mainboard is freaking me out!
The device, \Device\Scsi\m52881, did not respond within the timeout period.
Also, I cannot use the silicon image controller and the Uli controller at the same time unless I connect the drives on the Uli controller while Windows is booting from the Silicon Image controller. I tried 2 bèta biosses and the latest official.
Installing Windows on the Uli controller is like no option. Every (aprox) 5mins Windows hangs a few seconds. So with Windows installed, and plugging 2x 200GB on the Uli controller while booting I can use 4 disks, but the time-out is still there! Nothing is overclocked and all PCI cards are disconnected, IrDA is disabled and serial port is disabled.
If I connect all drives and then boot, I'll get the error message the Option rom cannot be invoke... This is freaking me out! My awesome 0610DPMW is getting lazy on this crapthing! ;)
AMD64 x2 3800+ @ 3050Mhz 1.5v (CPU-Z show 1.47v)
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=97641
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2...0mhz14v6vl.jpg
Where did you get that stepping counter CS????!!!!!!
YEA, me too!Quote:
Originally Posted by phi|os
That is a sweet 3800 X2.
Stepping please?
:stick:
LOL the stepping is writed in the Screen Shot :fact: :slap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raybo
You can buy it here => http://www.aquapc.com/loja/?id=46
But it´s only left 2 X2 3800+ with the same stepping.
And i can tell you that i have got to win desktop at 3100Mhz 1.55v :woot:
But thos mobo is tricky and it rebooted after i have take cpu-z validation.
But, CPU-z in not up to date and don´t let me validate :slapass:
Give me 2min and i will run Pi 1M at 3100Mhz .
My sistem is water cooled, and the win is not optimized for that :banana::banana::banana::banana: :D
BTW, those OCZ EB PC4000 Platinum are from a friend of mine, and he told me that they start giving artefact at +260Mhz.
But i don´t know how i don´t get no artefact at hall with 270Mhz, i think this mobo is cool for those chip CE-6 :toast: :clap:
I use the last Beta BIOS 23/05/2006, very good and heasy to set :woot:
:banana: 3100mhz 1.6v :toast: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=97767 :woot:
Wish i have some extreme cooling :slobber:
similar stepping/batch X2 3800+ here doing 3200mhz on water http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=2733 !Quote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
:eek: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=97767 :banana:
This X2 3800+ e better than my Opteron148 :eek:
:slobber: i want one so bad, anyone know where this stepping might be obtained in the states??? I have to order from portugal if I want this:eek:
:fact: Warning !!! Don´t try this at home.
:fact: Only for +18
:eek: only for real man !!! BTW, i don´t temember the real Vcore used, but i think that was 1.48v or 1.465v, anyway that´s not a problem :D
Here in Portugal is hot like 35/38ºC outside
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5...zx238007ws.jpg
Has anyone had issues with these boards having a memory beep error code? I just got a new from a Newegg RMA and I can't even get the display to come on. I keep getting a long beep error which the manual says is related to memory. I've tried my Mushkin CE-5, BE-5, and G.skill UCCC and all ram gets the same error beep. I've tried dual channel orange slots and single orange slot furthest from the CPU and still get the error. Any help would be appreciated.
Everything works fine on my DFI NF4 Ultra-D. If I can't get this resolved I'm going to give up on the ATI chipset altogether. I'll guess I'll just get an expert instead.
Have you read the entire thread? There are numerous resolutions to memory problems due to an immature bios.
Yes I have. I don't see anything detailing my situation. I've even tried an old crappy 256mb PC2100 module just to get the system to post. I can't get anything to display at all so updating the bios is out of the question.Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
I've always praised DFI, but I'm starting to see why others hate these boards.
I'm trying to avoid another RMA, but it seems like my only option. I just don't want to get stuck in an infinite loop of DFI RMA's...
What power suply are you using ?Quote:
Originally Posted by NinjaWreck
Look if the jumper to reset the BIOS e in the pin 1-2 and not 2-3.
When i first look at my board i noticed some jumper wasn´t in the wright set, it could possibly be that.
Try find on the manual how you must set all jumpers. ;)
1 stick of ram at a time at different slots?
I'm using the PSU in my sig, Silverstone Zeus 750 watt. I've already checked all the jumpers and they are correctly set.Quote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
I've tried all possible memory configs with CE-5, BE-5, and UCCC as well as some PC2100 I've had lying around.Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
I've already submitted an RMA ticket with newegg, thanks for the suggestions.
The previous board I got worked perfectly except for the fact that it kept rebooting during windows install. Maybe the third one will be the charm.
:mad:
:slapass: :confused: :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by ChkDsk
Try the new drivers Integrated220Quote:
Originally Posted by ChkDsk
Link: http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html
Funny i can only download thise drivers from Nvidia FTP :confused:
Tried that... But the erroring stays... Also I want to use 6 HDD's and it looks like this board makes it just impossible! Isnt anyone fammiliar with this problem and/or assinging IRQ's and sh*t manually? I'm just :banana: around with this board for over one week and the best results I have is running windows on the Sil Image controller with a max of 2 HDD's. :slapass:Quote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
Well, here i´m using 2x80Gb RAID0 ULi, 2x 160Gb ULi (not RAID0), 1x 80GB IDE
And i don´t have problems.
Have you hit F6 when isntaling WIN XP and used the Board Sata RAID Driver Disk ?
But no Silicon Image drives attached? And you have no lockups every now and then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6122/lock1tz.th.jpg
Ofcourse I used the floppy:slap:
The controller just locks up and system freezes for a while... Happens about every 10mins...
BTW, with only 2 raptors on the ULi, SI disabled and no PCI cards I have the same problem... Tried several bioses already...
Try scandisk, maybe you have Badsectors:fact:
http://dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53169Quote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
You need to remove the ULI Utility from loading up at startup. Use msconfig or the program of your choice....:)
1) Doesn't helpQuote:
Originally Posted by theonlybabyface
2) Warning message at POST stays and Windows won't boot (blabla cannot be invoke or something)
Hey, i accidently Enabled "HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability" on BIOS and when i get into windows suddendly the sistem freeze. i say "WTF is that", hit ctrl+alt+del, nothing happened, then 10second after system get normal . :eek:
Well, i start thinking for myself, «what am i do before start the PC?».
Then i remember that i have "Enabled HDD SMART Capability".
Well, all i have to do then is to shutdown this :banana::banana::banana::banana: and Disable this option :fact:
:woot: Start the sistem and... no more freeze !!! :woot:
Must be something to do with that option :D
Try Disable HDD SMART and tell me if you get no more freeze :)
Default is disabled... Installed Windows AGAIN on a single 160GB Maxtor with the 2.20 drivers and latest beta bios. Same :banana::banana::banana::banana:... Also when I enable ULi raid I cannot use the Silicon Image controller. While "posting" this error message appears instead of the Silicon Image bios post: Warning: Have Option Rom can not be invokeQuote:
Originally Posted by Counter CS
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/7827/error8dv.th.jpg
This makes me want to smash this damn board! Owned quite a few DFI boards but this is just killing me!
Don't uninstall the drivers, just prevent the utility from loading in Windows.:)
Also, make sure that you are on the latest beta bios....
I have ask for user of DFI NF4 and now have switch for the CFX3200.. i will buy the board, but my money actually don't permit me have the second GPU at same time, in real i need wait ~2 months...
Is the board OC more of a NF4SLI-DR, is new settings in bios and stability will permit me have same or better OC of CPU and DDR of what i have actually with the DFI SLI-DR? ( i plan build CF but need wait a little bit)..
It just for know if i wait a little bit, and look for buy the CFX then..When i m sure build at same time Cfire..
"sorry for my english"
[edit] oops, sorry, mods please delete
I don't know if this has been mentioned, I didn't see anything about it, though I only glanced through. But the VCore seems to be .025 out in the bios. I've got it set at 1.525 in the bios, but in CPU-Z it's being reported that it's at 1.5v.
Sorry if it's already been mentioned.
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=93297Quote:
Originally Posted by AndreYang
me using 4 gigs ocz platium cas 2.5(2 runs now fine)-3-2-5....:slapass:
http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...nt=bf2nut3.jpg
the stainless box was made by me using a 18 gauge stainless body with 2 rectagle holes punched for plexiglass on 1 side and rad on other with matching holes punched to sandwhich 3 120fans\case\rad together with 2 inch screws(its pretty slick)with 12 gauge sides tig welded with my computer like welds :D left alone(not grinded)welded to it for pc to sit on and all my crap to come up from the bottom not crowding or adding any heat to case and allowing rad to have its own area.
im a percesion stainless steel fabricater\welder so to be honest this stuff is really a breeze to do for me.i might design the box on cad but then again the things i have in mind are better done on the fly kinda as in mid(baked)build minset..ehe
http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21724
Seems to have gone all quiet about this board, everyone given up on it or something?
I'm about to, this problem with the ULi RAID is really getting on my tits, beginning to lose all faith in DFI to be honest.
Well, the ASUS has no problems with the ULi, but the HTT stops much too early for my liking with the 9X multi. Can anyone share how well this board does with the 9X multi? I have looked far and wide, posted on many many forums and never seem to get an answer.
LOL, I got the response I expected..........
I am curious about changing to the DFI, but maybe I would be swapping my problems for a different set of problems. The ULI raid works fine on my Asus board as well, running 2xWD 250 gig in raid 0 and a third identical drive on the SI controller for data storage.
I'm working with this CFX3200 board and a Opteron 165. I got the idea that 4x311 HTT makes the SB unstable. Yes i'm running double raid 0. So thats not a good thing for the stability of the board. But i upped the SB voltage to the max. i also has to upop the NB voltage to the max. Else i would get black screens and vpu recovery's when running 3d. To bad the board handles HTT this bad. My opteron is realy doing nice but my motherboard wont work with me :'(
I think its a hardware issue of the southbridge that cant be fixed with drivers.
If 4x311 is unstable, why don't you try 3x311?
Because i whant more then 1 GHz HTT :) I know that the peformance hit is not high but still :D.
I will do some more testing this week.
Thats this guide from tony where people talk about ? I want to look in to that guide. I want to get some more out of this motherboard.
what your max without using raid
Cant run without :) Windows is stored on that drive + all my data.
But i had some wrong settings. Got the Tony guide and now it runs superb !!! 1350 MHz Htt 4x337 MHz no extra nb voltage :) (1.21v) It was all in the settings.
Odd because I run 318X4. 24/7 without issues of any kind. What are you running for pmos/nmos/HTT receiver impedance values? I found these are quite important along with memory drive strength to really max out the core and chipset. Votage on the other hand seems to do little or nothing in that regard.
It was all in the settings. I needed to adjust the HTT PPL and driver strengt. I was able to run 1350 HTT After those adjustments and i'm still in stock voltage.
So it was my fault :) I'm glad its fixed now and the board runs like heaven :D
Does the AB0 Revision correct the ULI m5288 problem?
I have a Revison AA0...
I have a AB0 Revision and have had no corruption on my 2 WD caviar 400GB in Raid 0 yet for over 2 weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrinNutz
I also have a rev. AB0 too, but I have the time-out error of the uli m5288 :mad: So it is not fixed in this revision. I think I have to change back to my lovely Ultra-D board.Quote:
Originally Posted by Final8ty
I will not connect my SATAII -drives to a SATAI-based controler on the pci-bus... stupid sil3114.
Glad to see it's worked out for you. Increasing the PMOS and NMOS strengths will also help to increase margin on the link without having to increase the HT voltage.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Astennu
Hey Grayskull thnx for the tip on Pmos/Nmos asynchronus setting. Gained me a hundred Mhz core and 3 Mhz memory with no timing changes. Much appreciated.
Hey!
I'm thinking about buying one of these, as i can get one cheap from a friend.. now i just want to ask..
is there any known critical bugs with this board as it have been with the earlier DFI board? i mean no ram killing, cpu killing, or coldboot problems or so?
I don't have time to read the whole thread, so i would be glad if somebody could help me telling if there are any bigger bugs with it. Thanks!
theres no deadly issues with the board, just the timeout issues with the uli sata 2 controllers, and the occasional corrupted bios that will make it seem like your hardware is going bad. somebody earlier in the thread mentioned a dos program, i forget what its called, but it helped me out way back then. the corruption is actually so extreme that even a normal clear cmos and even a bios flash dont fix it.
oh well, sounds like nothing for me then.. i just want a board that run OC'd 24/7, without any issues.. but bios corruption are one of the worst!
well, it doesnt corrupt itself, its just that the cmos reloaded feature is glitchy, it causes issues even when you dont save anything to it, as i think its responsible for recovering after your oc fails.
for me, i tried setting an agressive oc (311fsb), even though it was stable before so i dont know what happened, but the bios freaked out, it couldnt boot for a while, then eventually it recovered, but instead of going to stock it went to 302 fsb, and it all went downhill from there, until i used f-tester which is the tool i was talking about earlier, it was unstable even at stock. once you get to know the board, and if you dont have any sata 2 drives, the board is as good as any out there.
Just a fast question.. i bought this board a while ago cus the sapphire wasnt enough realiable on me..
anyway, i finally got my 4GB of ram working together (had to flash different SPD on two of them though).
Anyway, i'm just running XP-32bit, so i thought i may ask.. XP only tells i got 3.25GB ram, but i know that is usual, since 32-bit cant handle more.. but the strange thing is that bios only reports about 3.4xGB ram..
Will i only be able to use 3.4xGB, or is it just the bios that reports wrong amount, and if i install XP-64 or Vista, i will still have all my full 4GB's ?
Ps, this board seems great so far!
Man, this topic definately needs to be stickied! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Rolle2k
32-Bit OS means that it has got 2³² Bit all in all as adress-room. This translates into 4GB (2^30 means Gigabyte and 2^2 means 4) for all adresses. Some adresses are needed for Graphics RAM etc., so all that is left depends on the rest of your hardware. In your case it seems to be 3.25GB. And it means that you can only use 3.25GB and nothing more, regardless of how much you install. This is a OS limitation and you can do nothing about it.
Get Vista 64-Bit and you're ready to use more.
Well, try re-read what i wrote again :)Quote:
Originally Posted by celemine1Gig
I know XP-32 will only show ~3.25GB as 32bit cant adress more than 4GB at max (and some some adresses goes to Graphic and so on).
The thing why i asked is because the BIOS only says i got 3,4GB ram at startup, so my question was simply: Is this just a bug in the bios, and if i install XP64/Vista64, then i will have my full 4GB ?
I had a similar issue on an Asus A8N32 some time ago. There was a BIOS setting dealing with remapping, IIRC, which let the BIOS see the full 4GB.
This DFI board and the Sapphire ROLLE2K has got, has the same crappy RD580 chipset, so no matter what you do, you will always end up with sleepless nights and lots, LOTS of cursing! I am so happy I got rid of mine that you wouldn't KNOW! Sometimes I had to flash the bios 5-6 times just to get it booting without any hazzle, just to come in the room an hour later and find everything FROZEN! Corrupt bios, rotten sata controller, buggy pcie performance... and probably lots more cr*sencor*ap that I don't know what was!
Yea too bad about the CFX3200 I would have loved to own one but shyed awat from it because of all the issues, hell I wouldn't even build them for customers!
You are better off with the Expert Board mine ran oced 24/7 and actually just pulled it out of the case and switched up kina reluctent to get rid of it as its still runs like a Raped Ape on Steroids and Sever Class stable and reliable, arguably the Best Motherboard I have ever owned too date!
Actually I have built 8 D.F.I Expert Systems and never had issue one with them never a complaint either from any customer outside of them telling me they were the shiznit.
If it weren't for all these goddamn issues it woulda been a MONSTERBOARD! And it was, in its own kind of way, it overclocked everything like a bad motherfker and had like a zillion options in bios!! :D
Sorry. My mistake. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rolle2k
But, as already mentioned, there should be a BIOS option for memory remapping. ;)
Then it should be no problem to use the full capacity with a 64-bit OS.
BSQuote:
Originally Posted by freakBYnature
I have this mbo,cfx32000.The only problem is that sata contorler (sil3114),it is slow...Perfectly stable,OC like hell (410MHz FSB without any voltage increase 4h stable didnt go any further).Latest bios and everything is perfect.Didnt have any problem
Don't you reccon that you got a board from an other batch or something? Cause mine SU**CKED! It did OC like HELL, but with all the other issues I had to face EVERY SINGLE DAY I had to let it go!Quote:
Originally Posted by quake6
And TRUST ME!! I have used beta drivers and all kinds of tricks to try and fix that board, the silicon image controller wasn't even stable on mine, so I just simply had to let it go.
Well I agreed about sil,but everything else is perfect
I got this mbo beacuse my old was broke (not cfx3200) and then i got this mobo
Maybe you guys got DFI CFX3200-DR/G, what I got was DFI LANPARTY UT CFX3200-DR. Don't know if it's the same board or if it's just another revision of the same board.
My board seems fine so far also, haven't noticed any of the bugs you have talked about... but then i don't use the sil3114 controller, and i don't use the bios auto-save if board boots fine feature (which i have understand only makes trouble.)
So i really think this will be a fine board for me.
It is not the silicon image controller that is the main "problem" controller, it's actually the other one, the ULi controller, but the silicon image controller is so sloooow it can mostly be described as a bug in itself. (there was a whole thread somewhere about the ULI "freeze" issue, think it was at now DEAD DFI-STREET)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rolle2k
I wasn't aware that there were an issue with the auto save, but in total (speaking for myself) it just comes in line along with a ton of issues, so my verdict is 1/10 score, with the 1 point alone coming from the really sweet clockability :rolleyes:
Then probably the problem is you :p:
I dont know,with mine is everything good...Maybe there is some kind of problem with your mbo,maybe is damaged or what so ever...
The problem is me? Most the people that got the UT version of the mobo either RMA'd it or blew it to pieces with dynamite. You got the DR/G version, maybe they changed something to make it better, I don't know. But the UT-version of CFX3200 for s939 has got some mayor engineering flaws all over the board, so it's not just me my friend. You should've read some other threads about the board, see my sig and understand that there may actually be two very similar named boards, but completely different in stability and issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by quake6
Okay, finally a new bios.. there is a Beta dated 2007/10/19 on DFI's beta download page which you can find here.
The only thing the update log says is:
Maybe something more, who knows.. i will try it later myself, don't have time right now though.Quote:
Major Reasons of Change:
Update Sil3114 SATA Raid Controller ROM Version 5.4.0.3 for Non-RAID mode SATA DVDROM.
Too bad my board died a month ago :( I was my favorite 939 board too
any word on the new bios? im stoked there is a new bios. D+d=D+D+D :D :D :D :D
just want to hear some feedback before i try her out
Favourite in what possible way? I say good riddance, I didn't ever regret I sold my CFX3200 and got a DFI ULTRA-D instead, much more stable and just as overclockable with 3% the issues the CFX3200 has. So I repeat, good riddance! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by EniGmA1987
I didnt have a single issue with my board and it overclocked far more stable at any settings than any other 939 board I have ever used. And the board lasted longer than my MSI K8N Plat and ASUS A8N32 too (went through 2 A8N32 boards before I just said to hell with them) My motherboards never last long :'(