View Poll Results: Have you had bad experiences with DFI's lates boards?

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  • My DFI Expert died

    21 10.10%

  • Multiple DFI Experts that I have owned have died

    7 3.37%

  • My DFI Expert died and took the CPU/other component(s) with it (Please specify)

    13 6.25%

  • My DFI RDX200 died

    11 5.29%

  • Multiple DFI RDX200s that I have owned have died

    5 2.40%

  • My DFI RDX200 died and took the CPU/other component(s) with it (Please specify)

    9 4.33%

  • Just the CPU/RAM/etc. bit the dust, but the board still "works" (Please specify)

    6 2.88%

  • Everything has been problem free from day one

    129 62.02%

  • I own multiple boards and they're all flawless

    26 12.50%
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Thread: Post your luck with DFI Experts and/or RDX200 boards

  1. 12-14-2005, 04:21 AM #76
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    i am very happy with my expert board, no problam at all so far (month)
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  2. 12-18-2005, 10:50 AM #77
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    i edited the poll and removed one vote from each option as one member had voted for all options
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  3. 12-18-2005, 10:56 AM #78
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    Quote Originally Posted by Onepagebook
    of course, and you know why?

    I don't, could your share the secret?
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  4. 12-18-2005, 12:36 PM #79
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    Quote Originally Posted by alpha0ne
    Has any tried to hotflash a bios chip in the Expert ??

    I have a bios chip I bought for my Ultra D and its the same chip, BUT when I try to flash it with an Expert bios it wont complete

    I KNOW the bios chip is OK because it worked fine hotflashing with my Ultra D ?????
    bios chips different size possibly (2mb/4mb).

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  5. 12-18-2005, 03:14 PM #80
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    Should flash under DOS with AWDFLASH and parameters: /cc /cd /cp /sn /py /cks /F Should work - I did flash under NF7-S
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  6. 12-18-2005, 03:18 PM #81
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    Wow, fatalities are close to 10%. It's not looking good thus far.
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  7. 12-18-2005, 09:27 PM #82
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    Quote Originally Posted by STEvil
    bios chips different size possibly (2mb/4mb).
    The two bios chips both have identical markings, I have been doing this for a looooong time now and always use all the swithces in dos so is this another Expert fault ???

    My spare bios chip works OK in an Ultra D so it is not damaged in any way

    Anyone else care to try ????
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  8. 12-18-2005, 10:37 PM #83
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    hmmmm maybe the expert writes something else to the bios chip? on the bios chip you flashed that part is missing and hence the board doesnt boot with it?
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  9. 12-18-2005, 10:46 PM #84
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    Quote Originally Posted by alpha0ne
    The two bios chips both have identical markings, I have been doing this for a looooong time now and always use all the swithces in dos so is this another Expert fault ???

    My spare bios chip works OK in an Ultra D so it is not damaged in any way

    Anyone else care to try ????
    Might be the tool in that case.. but every time i've had this issue it was because the chips were different densities and I was trying to flash a 4mb bios image onto a 2mb chip..

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  10. 12-18-2005, 11:28 PM #85
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    But those are THE SAME SIZE chips so it's not about it.
    When I wanted to flash (Written with other BIOS chip) for the first time the chip was Erased, but there was a Write Protection Problem
    When I used all Parameters /cc /cd /cp /sn /py /cks /F of AWDFLASH uder DOS the Chip was correctly written with Expert BIOS 12.07 beta
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  11. 12-18-2005, 11:39 PM #86
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    I'm going to try one more time (already tried 5 times ) and if it does not work again I will try to RMA the board
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  12. 12-18-2005, 11:58 PM #87
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    Maybe buggy chip like in Abits NF7-S sometimes. I was lucky and had no probls with NF7, but many people had - for sure U know that even enter to BIOS was impossible time to time.
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  13. 12-19-2005, 12:43 AM #88
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hirotaro
    Maybe buggy chip like in Abits NF7-S sometimes. I was lucky and had no probls with NF7, but many people had - for sure U know that even enter to BIOS was impossible time to time.
    Hehe yer I had 4 boards with the Nforce 2 chipset, one of them the NF7-S Ver2, buggy POS though very high performance in their day
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  14. 12-19-2005, 12:44 AM #89
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    Wow, those poll results are REALLY disturbing.
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  15. 12-19-2005, 12:51 AM #90
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bar81
    Wow, those poll results are REALLY disturbing.
    Tell that to DFI

    I have seen quite a few peeps here try to downplay the h/ware lost to Expert with the usual BS like outa hundreds/thousands its only a small percentage, well IMHO that percentage is increasing all the time and DFI are doing what as far as informing the users...............sweet FA
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  16. 12-19-2005, 06:56 AM #91
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    My RDX200 went tits up Thursday night, Flashed bios, cleared cmos... and nothing
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  17. 12-19-2005, 12:14 PM #92
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    how did it happen?
    shut the board down and then when you wanted to reboot it was dead?
    is the cpu ok? and the mem?
    were you running oced? what settings?
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  18. 12-19-2005, 01:38 PM #93
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    It was shipped with a dead battery but regardless the board is very good. I am RMA'ing it tommorow and ordered another one overnight OCs very well!
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  19. 12-19-2005, 02:01 PM #94
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  20. 12-19-2005, 02:16 PM #95
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    Quote Originally Posted by CrashOv3r1De
    It was shipped with a dead battery but regardless the board is very good. I am RMA'ing it tommorow and ordered another one overnight OCs very well!
    why are you rmaing it then?
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  21. 12-19-2005, 03:48 PM #96
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonDTM
    My RDX200 went tits up Thursday night, Flashed bios, cleared cmos... and nothing
    Also today...

    Quote Originally Posted by JasonDTM
    I had a problem also, I couldnt clock past 230mhz until I changed the LDT Bus width to 8bit.

    hmmmm
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  22. 12-19-2005, 08:01 PM #97
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    DFI RDX200 smoking

    Some old school BH-5 loving..

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  23. 12-19-2005, 08:12 PM #98
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonDTM
    My RDX200 went tits up Thursday night, Flashed bios, cleared cmos... and nothing
    Sorry Jason - hope nothing else went along - especally after I said it was all good to go...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hirotaro
    But those are THE SAME SIZE chips so it's not about it.
    When I wanted to flash (Written with other BIOS chip) for the first time the chip was Erased, but there was a Write Protection Problem
    When I used all Parameters /cc /cd /cp /sn /py /cks /F of AWDFLASH uder DOS the Chip was correctly written with Expert BIOS 12.07 beta
    Quote Originally Posted by STEvil
    Might be the tool in that case.. but every time i've had this issue it was because the chips were different densities and I was trying to flash a 4mb bios image onto a 2mb chip..
    ... please read slower.

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  25. 12-20-2005, 02:35 AM #100
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    Quote Originally Posted by STEvil
    ... please read slower.

    Don't understand => Same Chips, Same Size (both 4MBs, both LPC/FWH
    PMC4 type) so what is Ur post about???

    Only thing could be older version of AwdFlash. But I believie, that Our Friend uses the One given with BIOS - that means the One that Manufacturer expects U to Use.

    Or maybe U're talking about EEPROM Writer?? But He said He want's to do Hot-Flash
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