DFI looks to have a winner here.

[mad mikee]

But I have gotten 1800+ mb/sec (exact match - memtest) w/ 1 .5G stick of BH5 (2-2-2-7) and one stick of EB 3700 (3-2-2-6) @ 250 FSB (140/358 x 7) or (150/333 x 7.5).

Which would you go with, since neither seems to have much more left in it

[Zeus]

I know you mean powerled of case , if the onboard DRAM powerled or standby powerled is blinking , your chipset on the board is " burned out " ...

Ok , my recommendation will be ...

1 . Take off the board , remove any thing including retention kit come with the board
2 . Turn the board to back side and check carefully if there is anything short between all the DIMM/AGP slot pin ...
3 . Put only the MB on an safe platform , remove AC power cord first
4 . Plug the ATX 20 pin and ATX +12V 4 pin power connector
5 . Install the cpu , put the cpu heatsink on it carefully
6 . Install one DIMM in DIMM3
7 . Plug the spreaker or buzzer on the front panel connector
8 . Plug the AC power cord
9 . Boot up the mainboard to see if there is any beep sound
10 . No beep sound or continous long beep sound ? Return it to your reseller and ask for an exchange ASAP ...
11 . 3 short beep sound ? Turn off the power and install the video card , it should be able to boot with display card if there is 3 short beep sound without video card on the MB ...

1.done
2. checked thoroughly, no shortage whatsoever
3 to 9. done
10.with RAM in slot3 continues beep, other 2, no beeps

Contacted my reseller, now waiting for him to get new boards shipped.

Thanks for your help, Oskar Wu.

[eva2000]

can the bios savior RD1-PMC4 for 32pin 4Mbit be used on this board ?

[Dissolved]

can the bios savior RD1-PMC4 for 32pin 4Mbit be used on this board ?

Yes. ive ordered one allready. Might be cheaper if you buy another Chip (dfi-street.com has a member selling the chips for about 10.00 shipped) you can just hot flash it, then you have a cheap spare.

10.00 bucks for a blank chip
30.00~ bucks for the RD1

Your choice

[eva2000]

already have 2 spare RD1-PMC4s hehe

[kakaroto]

OSKAR_WU:

This is Probly a Simple Question for you, But..

On the DFI, the Bios chip is 4mb? and the bios is 512k, So What happeneds with the extra 3.5mb?

Kinda curious, i mess with xbox bioses and such, so it came to mind.

Thanks for your time & GREAT work!

Its 4MBIT , and that is 512KB.
You should know that, every bios (SST = 4MBIT)

[Dissolved]

already have 2 spare RD1-PMC4s hehe

Bleh, i wish i would have known i would of bought one..

Its 4MBIT , and that is 512KB.
You should know that, every bios (SST = 4MBIT)

OK im tired as hell (too much sitting on my butt watching memtest loop on my DFI)

But doesnt 4mbit / 512kb = 8 Times.. Meaning the bios is 512KB, uses 1/8 of the bios chip.. So what is held on the other 7/8 of the chip?




Edit: This mobo is Fun as heck so far! 260FSB 3-2-0-2-9-11 LDT 3x So far..

[pot]

mmmm
8Bits=1Byte
ciao
Alessio

[kakaroto]

Bleh, i wish i would have known i would of bought one..




OK im tired as hell (too much sitting on my butt watching memtest loop on my DFI)

But doesnt 4mbit / 512kb = 8 Times.. Meaning the bios is 512KB, uses 1/8 of the bios chip.. So what is held on the other 7/8 of the chip?




Edit: This mobo is Fun as heck so far! 260FSB 3-2-0-2-9-11 LDT 3x So far..

Wrong... 4Mbit = 4096Kbit (4x1024) include start and stop bit
4096 / 8 = 512KB!

[Dissolved]

Wrong... 4Mbit = 4096Kbit (4x1024) include start and stop bit
4096 / 8 = 512KB!

4mbit / 512kb = 8 4096 / 8 = 512KB

Same thing?

so when flashing the bios chip with a 512kb bios file it Doesnt Fill the full chip is what im asking.. i think i need sleep, my mind is telling me that you could have 8 different or same 512KB bios(es) on a 4Mbit bios chip..

:sleep:

[mad mikee]

OK im tired as hell (too much sitting on my butt watching memtest loop on my DFI)

I Identify with that (snore smiley, followed by zombie smiley)

I AM USING THE BSAV MENTIONED HERE, WORKS FINE.

Trying for more BWidth

[Joe T]

4mbit / 512kb = 8 4096 / 8 = 512KB

Same thing?

so when flashing the bios chip with a 512kb bios file it Doesnt Fill the full chip is what im asking.. i think i need sleep, my mind is telling me that you could have 8 different or same 512KB bios(es) on a 4Mbit bios chip..

:sleep:

8 is the factor between bits and bytes mate.

[Dissolved]

8 is the factor between bits and bytes mate.

OK, thats all i needed... NOW i can sleep lmao.. Thanks..

:retarted:

[mad mikee]

I LIKE THIS BIOS LOOK AT THE MEMORY SPEED FSB (AND ITS PASSING!) :banana4:


Oh did I mention there's a slight reporting bug at some of the dividers that show HTT as mem FSB

[spaceman]

:d

[Dissolved]

I LIKE THIS BIOS LOOK AT THE MEMORY SPEED FSB (AND ITS PASSING!) :banana4:


Oh did I mention there's a slight reporting bug at some of the dividers that show HTT as mem FSB

which devider?

[Zeus]

OMG, Please stop posting these screenies.

I have to wait till my reseller gets new boards in before i get a new one.

Let me be the first to put down some downsides of this board:

-The AGP slot sux, the release tab is changed to some crappy meant-to break-thingie.

-The manual is very basic, not a word on the bios despite it's many complex options.

-The slots are yellow as a which holds back overclock.

-Can't think of any more, no matter how hard i try.

Anyone know if ClockGen works fine on this board?

[kakaroto]

I LIKE THIS BIOS LOOK AT THE MEMORY SPEED FSB (AND ITS PASSING!) :banana4:


Oh did I mention there's a slight reporting bug at some of the dividers that show HTT as mem FSB

At what speed is it actualy running?
Is that PC3700EB?

[kakaroto]

I like my DFI every day more and more

Tryed a fully stable setting @1.7v



Need EB's ram to run 300MHz 1:1

@Zeus: Clockgen works perfect here ... only changing VID/FID is not possible.

[Rudzer]

Is there a trend of "getting DOA mobos" alÃ:banana: lanparty nf2 or just some rare cases?

the idea of getting a doa mobo doesn't appeal me the least :/

[ocmyface]

At what speed is it actualy running?
Is that PC3700EB?

yes, is it your bh5 or your eb in that board?! omg i mso excited, one more week and ill be going A64!!!!!

[spaceman]

Is there a trend of "getting DOA mobos" alÃ:banana: lanparty nf2 or just some rare cases?

the idea of getting a doa mobo doesn't appeal me the least :/

I'd say rare cases, look how many have been sold already. A few bad ones is normal, noone makes em 100% perfect everytime. kakaroto, which chip are you runnin? I'm stuck with a 9x multi on my 3000+. BTW guys, look at the bottom of mad mikee's screenie.

[trans am]

Is the Command per clock option in the ram menu the settings for 1T/2T? I think it is, but I'm not sure. Setting to enabled or auto gives me 1T.

I want to get this board past 300 but nothings really helping much, even when using a divider.

right now I'm at 260x10 1:1
1.7vcore
3.1 vdimm
AGP is 1.8v
chipset is 1.9v(i have a 40mm 6000 rpm fan on it blowing down)
ldt is at 3x
cas latency is 3
ras-cas 3
tras 10
trp 3
trc 12
trfc 16

tony mentioned playing with the drive strength? What's a good setting to start out with? right now it's at 2 but I don't see a difference. options are 1-4. so which one's best for stabliity? 1 or 4? Does agp voltage help at all? I've left it alone in the past, but I heard increasing the voltage helps stabilty. Please let me know if you have any recommendations. I'm using ram slots 1 and 3

see my sig for what I'm using.

[chickenrun]

@transam

Yes, that's the 1/2T command - auto/disabled will give you 1T, enabled is 2T

Can't get mine running at 300 from bios either... so far now 270x8 x4HTT works fine..
Even with ClockGen my mem (OCZ PC4200) doesn't want to go higher at this point, regardless whether I relax timings or set 2T command...

[trans am]

@transam

Yes, that's the 1/2T command - auto/disabled will give you 1T, enabled is 2T

Can't get mine running at 300 from bios either... so far now 270x8 x4HTT works fine..
Even with ClockGen my mem (OCZ PC4200) doesn't want to go higher at this point, regardless whether I relax timings or set 2T command...

I have it enabled and during post it says 1T still. are you sure about that? I also tried the drive strength settings. 4 was good. but 1 made the system cold boot and no post. So I think 4 is probably the setting tony was talking about.
I really wish I could go past this 300ht barrier so I can get some more from this EB 3700. I seem to do 270 at 3-3-2-10 1T ok but anything over is no good. even at 3-3-3-10 there was no difference. 260x10 at 1:1 for now.
notice in the cpuz screenie, I messed up in the bios and had my TRAS at 2 LOL. I fixed it since. what settings are best for TRC and TRFC? right now it's trc 12 and trfc 16.

I tried 269*9.5 at 1:1 and that seems to work pretty well.