DFI SLI DR Expert CPU Death Fix

[Kunaak]

this is a beta bios, but the word I got from DFI directly, is that bios 1207, should help with the rare occurance, of CPU's dying in this board.

the known issue is that, rarely, the CPU will get over 3 volts sent to it, from a cold boot.
the Issue is being worked on fast by DFI and Oskar WU.

before anyone flips out, try to realize how few people seem to have problems with this board, before condeming DFI, with the lynch mod mentality and such.

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downloa...FLAG=B&SITE=US

[Dissolved]

could you get an offical Statement?

is the 12/07 a BETA bios? -DFI says Betas will void all warrantys so it would be nice to know for those people still useing the 11/02 if they will still have warranty after flashing.

[Kunaak]

this is a beta bios[/url]

I can try to get some sort of official word from DFI, but I doubt thats gonna happen. the people I know at DFI aren't the big fish, just the review people really. plus alittle of the shipping and PR people.
I can get little bits of info here and there, but nothing big, if thats what your looking for.

[STEvil]

3 volts?

thats.... very excessive!

[G H Z]

What about the CF-DR?

[mdzcpa]

What about the CF-DR?

I beleive that was addressed with the 12/12 beta BIOS here:
http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downloa...FLAG=B&SITE=NA

[Revivalist]

I was looking down the list of BIOS files and searching for one with a description like . . . . "Helps to remove CPU burn up." . . .

No but seriously, what does "Improving NF4EDB25 HELP Error message" mean? I'll be setting up an Expert this weekend and I'm trying to figure out whether to start overclocking on the stock BIOS or to flash it first.

[mdzcpa]

To ALL:

I went ahead and flashed to the new Expert beta BIOS in Kunaak's link. Everything seems fine so far. I never had any trouble with the board to begin with, but I thought I would try this out for the members here who are looking for a fix.

So far, so good.

[AlterBridge86]

No but seriously, what does "Improving NF4EDB25 HELP Error message" mean? I'll be setting up an Expert this weekend and I'm trying to figure out whether to start overclocking on the stock BIOS or to flash it first.

All that is talking about is an issue which reared its head in the 11/22 and 11/25 beta bioses where all the description text in "standard cmos settings" was a bunch of random characters. Its back to normal in this new bios Nothing else to report yet from it...

[pcdoc1]

I flashed this yesterday and it been fine..........

[uOpt]

OK, now I want to know what these "rare circumstances" were.

I don't think there's a good reason to withhold that information.

[mdzcpa]

I want to clarify that regardless of the description of the 1207 beat bios, I beleive Kunaak was informed from DFI that it contained the fix for the CPU overvolt issue and that they were working on getting it official asap.

[mdzcpa]

OK, now I want to know what these "rare circumstances" were.

I don't think there's a good reason to withhold that information.

I don't beleive that this information is actually being withheld at this time. Obviously they have been working on the problem and must have discovered that they can duplicate it in the lab, or see a posibility that it can occur. However, it may be a random occurence over 1000 boot cycles, or a bunch of other things. I'm pretty sure we'll hear more soon. Once they get this beta to official, I think we'll hear more details.

[alpha0ne]

I don't beleive that this information is actually being withheld at this time. Obviously they have been working on the problem and must have discovered that they can duplicate it in the lab, or see a posibility that it can occur. However, it may be a random occurence over 1000 boot cycles, or a bunch of other things. I'm pretty sure we'll hear more soon. Once they get this beta to official, I think we'll hear more details.

And whilst we are waiting for these 'details', we flash to said bios in the hope of safeguarding our precious h/ware and in the process lose any warranty we "may" have had.

Yer right

[pcdoc1]

And whilst we are waiting for these 'details', we flash to said bios in the hope of safeguarding our precious h/ware and in the process lose any warranty we "may" have had.

Yer right

Well seems like a decision everyone's got to make for themselves.... I personally would rather lose a $200.00 board than a $500.00 chip so I'd never give it a second thought.....

[003]

Would this work with other Lanparty Nf4 motherboards, like the ultra-d? Is the 3volt thing even a issue with the other models?

[loonym]

I don't beleive that this information is actually being withheld at this time. Obviously they have been working on the problem and must have discovered that they can duplicate it in the lab, or see a posibility that it can occur.

Working on it and even duplicating it is a very different matter than publicly admitting there is a problem.

However, it may be a random occurence over 1000 boot cycles, or a bunch of other things. I'm pretty sure we'll hear more soon. Once they get this beta to official, I think we'll hear more details.

You seriously think this? And what will this statement be? Maybe something along the lines of 'We goofed and included a time bomb in our flagship board. And by the way, so sorry about those irreplaceable $1000 processors.'?? Not likely.

[dinos22]

this is a beta bios, but the word I got from DFI directly, is that bios 1207, should help with the rare occurance, of CPU's dying in this board.

the known issue is that, rarely, the CPU will get over 3 volts sent to it, from a cold boot.
the Issue is being worked on fast by DFI and Oskar WU.

before anyone flips out, try to realize how few people seem to have problems with this board, before condeming DFI, with the lynch mod mentality and such.

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downloa...FLAG=B&SITE=US

are you freaking kidding me man.......................wtf is this all about............so pls tell us more. I don't like the sound of this

[Kunaak]

oh jesus...

here it goes.

first off, please don't start flipping out.
out of how many DFI Expert boards out there, have you heard of killing a CPU? 2? 4? maybe 8?

this is a incredibly rare issue so far, and so far, I have yet to hear of this on any other forum except here, and even here only a tiny amount of people have reported this...

at the moment, your more likely to wake up tommorow with angelina jolie in your bed, then a dead CPU from your DFI Expert board...
so please, don't start freaking out.
dealing with people who are scared and flipping out, is just too damn hard.
so please, realize, this problem so far is insanely small...

but, yes, the problem does exist and DFI is fixing it ASAP with a new Bios.it is unfortunate, but you got to realize, the chances of you coming into this problem is so damn small, its ridiculous to get crazy over it.

No, this isn't a Issue to any of the other NF4 boards out there.
if it was, we would have heard about this a year ago.

this isn't the first time theres been a issue like this on the market, if anyone remembers when the NF3 150 boards were released, there was a issue with that chipset, where people were ending up with dead A64's.
it came down to a basic flaw in the design of the chipset, where it would send over 4 volts to the Mem controller on the CPU and instantly fry it.
there would be no sign of it, no burn marks, no smell, no smoke.
just a CPU that would no longer boot.

people back then were flipping out, like the ebola virus was just released into thier drinking water...
but when all was said and done, the amount of people who had dead CPU's from NF3-150 boards, was so small, that they could all have fit in a small room together...
but with how much people freaked out, you'd think the world was gonna end.

try not to get into that mentality.
it really makes trying to help people really annoying, cause the hardest person to help, is the irrational ones.

[trakslacker]

i dont even see what the problem is here. I mean come on now, as has been said before on these baords, more volts solves everything! Expert kills your golden FX-57 by hitting it w/ 3 volts? Give that sucker 5 volts(and a few magicaly jellybeans) and it'll wake right back up and run faster than ever!

seriously though, its good to see that they are addressing the issue asap.

[^don.k's^]

at the moment, your more likely to wake up tommorow with angelina jolie in your bed, then a dead CPU from your DFI Expert board...

Tell that to mikegava or OPB, sure they wouldn't mine to get a dozen dead cpu's if they found Angelina with 'em in the bed... j/k

[jrw]

Its kindda simple isn't it.

If DFI releases a new bios that supposedly fixes a problem with their board (the number of people experiencing the problem is not the case), they thereby accept the responsibility as the "creator" of the problem.

If I had a dead CPU in my Expert board, I'd RMA it to DFI...

I cannot believe that they actually at first dismissed the problem, telling users they CPUs died because of extreme overclocking, when in fact, the problem is on their hands.

What a way to tr- the overcloeat ones #1 customer cking community...

We all know, that when it comes down to hard law we have no case since most of the stuff we do voids warranty. But when a company is alive due to the fact that we overclock, I consider it massively disrespectfull to blame die-hard-legend overclockers for a fried CPU when you KNOW your new board is the cause...

At least, I wanna see an official apology to OPB and Pedro Rocha

[longsiew]

I have confident in DFI and Oscar Wu. I was pesimistive about the cool boot issue that happend on DFI NF4 board that can be cured by a simple Bios flashing. I was wrong and I don't have any cool boot issues with my previous DFI Nf4 ultra-D after falshing to bios 623-3.

So, let us wait for the bios fixing. Meantime, we can still using the Official bios for the Expert

[nop]

well, flashed it and it seem fine so far. eventhough my eXpert doesn'e "kill" any of my CPU yet, but i prefer not to have it happen.

[jinu117]

So... for that small number of people... I am thinking DFI is willing to pay back for burnt cpus is my guess?
It is not only how the problem occured, it is also matter of how problem is resolved and damage control has been done.
I believe these are steps to be taken.
1) Publically acknowledge the issue. Well, if people don't know they could still be running the board without bios update... how ever slim the chance it will happen.
2) Take out all the boards in circulation. They want to risk their customers? They are risking their reputation.
3) Compensate those who actually lost CPUs due to this. It WILL be hard to verfiy and to be honest, they should do just like what AMD does on this kind of situation.
Unless all of these are met, I can't see any reason ever to use DFI board in future as it clearly shows me that they are not willing to stand behind their product. It will cost them a lot of money, yes. But hiding behind problem will lose them more money over time.
Of course, I live in my idealistic world half the time so this most likely will be just tossed away.

PS) Anyone remember the time of P90 fiasco about buggy FPU? It didn't even burn cpu, failed just about all application out there but eventually, company did acknowledge problem, worked on it, made most customers happy again. They didn't do this by hiding, turning down customers, etc. YES it did cost them huge amount of money by incredibly larger proportion, but hey, they eventually gained trust back from people by doing many right things. AMD might have been in better shoes if intel decded to just keep hiding.