DFI 965-S is here! For sale @ ewiz

[ziddey]

seems to be not a difference at all . the solid components that matter for cpu voltage regulation are still all solid. someone posted a thread about it and had no trouble hitting 550ish

[XtremeTiramisu]

Hey guys, Are there any ways to recover your system from failed OC? It's driving me nuts to manual clear the cmos everytime the system fails to boot...I had to reconfigured all of the setting under BIOS again and agian...

This my first DFI board and I'm very used to the crash free feature on Giga/Asus boards I had. If there's no way to get around the failed OC crash issue, my OC will take FOREVER....

Please help me out here.
Thanks everyone.

[ziddey]

you've got the new bios. hold reset and home key

[XtremeTiramisu]

you've got the new bios. hold reset and home key

Thanks ziddey for helping me out again at a bad time.
I tried the method and it worked like a charm
It only revert the Genie BIOS setting and rest of other configurations were the same as before

[XtremeTiramisu]

damn...now the reset + home key method doesn't work after like 5-6 times failed OC. The system just hangs there after powered on...I really don't want to go through the FCG guides again for reconfiguring the bios settings....LOOOL..

time to get some nice PC8500 RAMS !!!! ARRRHg

[XtremeTiramisu]

Guys, what's the correct way of press and hold the RESET + HOME key to get back to default setting?!

I've being trying for hours to no avail!
I even flashed the BIOS back to 0402 cos 0424 doesn't let me use the reset + home method.

I'm on 0402 now and I still cannot go back to the default setting using reset + home method....OMG.

What have I done wrong??? I tried press and hold reset + home from the ATX case or mobo's reset button + home key on the keyboard and the system just kept on shutting off / on before I could even hear the loud beep for a successful post.

I really love this board but until I get failed OC, things started to get really annoying.

I said to myself this is my 4th c2d mobo and I really want to keep it as my last one.

Edit:
The booting cycle:
1. click
2. click click
3. click
4. shuts off.
5 turns back on..in a loop

I pressed RESET and HOME together and the system just wouldn't let me CONTROL IT @@@@@!!!!

[JWilson]

Hold down Delete only and then power on. May take several cycles. Didn't you clear CMOS?

Edit: Never mind on the Clear CMOS. You don't want to reset up....

Edit Edit: Rebels Haven has mod bios with all the crap preset for OC. Makes it easier. Also all straps are available, but not all work for me.

[XtremeTiramisu]

Hold down Delete only and then power on. May take several cycles. Didn't you clear CMOS?

Yeah, I cleared the CMOS already but whenever my OC fails, I cannot use the RESET + HOME method to post back to default setting. It'd be crazy if you had to do CMOS clear everytime you make each trial and error OC attempts.

I've tried your method by holding down the reset key first and the power on but then the system just hangs there. I pressed reset again, it shuts itself down auto and turn back on again and shuts down again and again...in a loop

I press reset again in the middle of the loop and the system seems to get respond to that but its respond was just hanging there.

It would take over hundreds times of trial and error to get the perfect OC setting and it would be impossible to acheive if this DFI mobo doesn't have OC fail recovery feature..

I literally tried every combinations of RESET / HOME / INSERT ...and I just couldn't get the mobo to respond back to me properly

sigh...

THis mobo seems to be the best OC board I've tested but with the lack of OC fail support may just make its great OC-ability to nothing unless I'm just so talented to know the exact configuration without the system fails to boot due to OC....

[JWilson]

Sorry, reread my reply. I was editing while you were posting back. It's Delete not Reset.

[Praz]

@X-Tiramisu

It doesn't take but maybe 45 seconds to set the cmos back up from a cleared state. With that said there might be other issues at work here. I've hammered this board hard since the day it was released and probably haven't seen an actual no-boot condition but maybe five or six times.

[Okda]

on my nf4 DFI when i face such problem and want to boot into failsafe settings ii hold my finger on the insert button and power on the machine

can u try that

[JWilson]

It's Delete on this board, Resets only FSB.

[XtremeTiramisu]

Thanks for the replies guys,
I still don't have any luck to get the mobo to post using the methods above.

The system will just cont on a restarting boot loop and it doesn't seems to respond to the press and hold key(s) I've tried..

manually CMOS clear will be the only option if I ever get a failed OC. I'd have to go through the hassel to just get CMOS cleared...and then another round of hassel to get BIOS configuration setup again. If OC trial by error fails, congrats, I'm on the nightmare loop again...it'd take forever before I could reach the final OC.

Sorry guys, I know you all have kindly helped me on the way but this DAMN MOBO just isn't smart enough to recover from a failed condition. I feel like I've to OUTSMART this board to get it tricked to boot...

[XtremeTiramisu]

If I cannot solve this issue and have to do CMOS clear everytime OC fails...back it goes and it doesn't matter how great of a OC'er it is...it'll take FOREVER MY TIME to overcome that failed OC loop....

[JWilson]

On mine, I have to hold the Delete key down while the board tries to reboot. Once in a while the settings are too screwed up to work at all, but usually within 3 restart attempts, it resets the FSB to 266 and away it goes. If my settings turn out to be bad at 266 also, Clear Cmos is the only answer. Good luck!

[krampak]

I can't pass 310Mhz FSB stable on my QX6700 I must be doing something wrong but I dont' catch it...

Is there any tweak/critical value for Quad Cores ? I'm using 04/24 bios...

I did 480Mhz FSB stable yesterday on a P5K Deluxe... this is by now quite far from those numbers... Hope I will find the solution (if someone helps me on this..).

[The Nemesis]

IIRC i read that mem overclocking was hard compared to other 965 boards. 2/3 divider with mem around 600mhz would be nice. Very strong E6400 youve got, it deserves a higher multi
All previous DFI boards we have had here rather early but unfortunately stil not this one.

Here ya go loc.o. I managed to get the crucial 25th Anniversary to do 600Mhz. Took 2.5volts though. 32mb Pi not possible, but I'm gonna plug in that G.Skill kit I mentioned b4. Only increase in Vdimm was necessary by the way.

[demenion]

My NB temps are 50C idle at 1.25V... i touch the heatsink and its very hot...

any ideas? everyone elses seem to be running under 40C

my cpu temp is 28C / system temp 37C

[Jodiuh]

Put a fan over it. I've got a small 80mm Antec Spot on low that keeps the NB @ 30.

[yenclas]

Hello people.

Sorry by my bad English, I'm Spanish.

Today arrived the mobo and I have a problem.

My PSU is a Tagan 480W and with the same components except the motheboard that was a ASUS P5W DH Deluxe my system was totally stable.

TOday I change the Mobo and configure the BIOS, but when I run Orthos, in two or three seconds, the PC shut down (with a previous power off).

Sometimes when Windows XP starts up, PC shuts down too.

I watch a 12v Power with 8 pins in the motheboard but my PSU only have a 4pin 12v. The manual says that If we don't have the 8 pin 12v power cable, we can connect de 4 pin cable.

What is my problem ?

Is my PSU ?

[megatron]

@yenclas, you are probably right. DFIs are picky about which PSU they like. I assume all voltages are correctly adjusted.

[ziddey]

bleh. might need to get another dfi board and see if it does better than this one. or move to quadgt and try that (although I'm starting to like this board).

I can't seem to find stability with 500fsb. Unless I set dq to 5 or 6 and 1.6vsb, and pcie to something other than 100, I can't even get more than a few seconds worth of blend stability. Doing the above grants me a much longer time of around 6 hours or so. Even adding a bump in voltage across the board doesn't help. I've tested with loose timing and 6x multi as well. Seems like all will be fine when it'd decide to just out of no where lock up hard.

So I'm at 8x450 now. Tried 200strap and found no 400mhz option for ram, so no 1:1 there.

man...

[The Nemesis]

@ziddey,

Did you loop memtest 1.70 #5 @ 500FSB? I was successful with one kit, but unsuccessful with another. I normally run memtest for about 4-8 hours @ high FSB or memory speeds to isolate it or the memory controller. You may want to try running small or large FTT's and see if you get further. This will help isolate if the memory oc or cpu oc is failing. I got my board to pass 4 hours of orthos 515 X 7 when I first got it. Haven't been able to duplicate it since. Going to be trying my 2nd board over the weekend. It has newer serial numbers etc. Hopefully I can see some 535FSB Pi like others

[XtremeTiramisu]

On mine, I have to hold the Delete key down while the board tries to reboot. Once in a while the settings are too screwed up to work at all, but usually within 3 restart attempts, it resets the FSB to 266 and away it goes. If my settings turn out to be bad at 266 also, Clear Cmos is the only answer. Good luck!

Thanks for keeping me updated.
I tried that method but the board still only cont. on a reboot cycle...sigh

Can anyone else please share your reboot back to default trick with this board without doing the CMOS clear the hard way everytime?? Thanks.

This board doesn't seem to like my rams(see sig) no matter even I've loosen the timings and such. My DS3 could bench at 500FSB 1:1 at 4-5-4-15 timings but with the DARK, I can't even post beyond 495FSB with sorts of loosen timings/subtimings...and voltage bump to 2.3v already..

[The Nemesis]

@X-Tiramisu
What keyboard & mouse combo do you have? My microsoft one doesn't work holding insert or home, but the logitech does. Both are wireless & both are hooke to a kvm switch.