DFI Infinity 965-S Tests (535 FSB 1:1)

[trans am]

crap I dont have a floppy drive and this is a floppy maker. is the a raw .bin file? I tried to extract with 7zip but no go.

[ziddey]

use winimage

[trans am]

nevermind. found it:

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/BIOS/I96PD613.zip

just use winflash

[Misko]

Now it is once again Not Found

Can somebody attach it here 10x.

[GripS]

Here ya go:

This one is the diamond flash image:

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/BIOS/I96PD613.exe

I wouldn't use winflash. Everyone make sure you bring your system back down to default speeds before flashing!!

Ok. I just completed flashing and am currently running at my overclocked settings before the flash. One thing i noted and i figured i would share here. Every time i have flashed the bios before i was able to use an ISO on CD-R. This one is similar but uses a floppy. 1. It takes about 2 minutes for the image to install on the floppy and 2. The flashing process takes about 5 minutes(I'm used to 1 minute maybe 2 at the most).

To sum it up. Don't freak out and shut your system off because you think it's taking too long. Let it run and it will complete.

[Dark79]

Also, anyone using Patriot DDR2-667 LLK might want to reconsider this BIOS update as doing so made my board give a long 1 beep error at power up. To resolve I had to put in my old Corsair 5400UL to boot and flash back to 4/24.

(I did try to up the RAM voltage and put the Patriots back in, but Windows would randomly restart and give me the 1 beep error again).

Unfortunately, even after flashing back to the 4/24 BIOS, I can't get my old overclock back...

[ziddey]

I fiddled a lot with bioses and sometimes did encounter the long beep myself as well. Powering off and back on usually fixes this. If not, resetting cmos did so

[Dark79]

I fiddled a lot with bioses and sometimes did encounter the long beep myself as well. Powering off and back on usually fixes this. If not, resetting cmos did so

Tried that to get windows to boot, but then it would restart or lock up and I'd be back to the long beep. Also, if I cleared the CMOS, that would put my RAM voltage back to 1.9 which in 6/13 also causes the long beep error with my Patriots (whereas in 4/24 it doesn't).

Also, maybe I'm just going crazy, but the 6/13 BIOS seemed slow in general - even the POST screen seemed to be moving in slow motion. Also, my Patriots at DDR2-1066 in 4/24 were error free in Memtest. In 6/13 with the same settings had thousands of errors.

Personally, I'm going to stick with 4/24 and hope I can regain my previous overclock.

EDIT: After a couple BIOS flashes and CMOS clears I got my board stable again with 4/24. Currently the weather is really hot where I live so I had to back down my overclock a tad as my A/C isn't up to the task Still, at least everything's back to normal.

[Sir Lancelot]

I can't donwload it either...


I wonder if this beta was a piece of crap...


Does anyon else have installed it? If yes, what are the results?


Can anyone share it please? ...even if it's crap (or not) I would like to play around with it...



thanks

[RealTelstar]

I passed

[GripS]

I have it installed. No problems at all with it. Loaded optimized defaults before and after flashing and then put in my overclock settings without a problem.

I just checked my link a few posts up. It works fine here.

[JWilson]

Has anyone played with the strap settings?

[trans am]

I have 6-13 also and it works fine however this is still beta for a reason.

[ziddey]

yeah, they unleash different dividers, providing the respective 533/667/800 at the strap fsb.

so this means, at 200fsb, you have 3:4, 3:5, and 1:2.

naturally, because it's a lower strap, fsb limits will be lower, if you don't become ram limited first

[Sir Lancelot]

I have it installed. No problems at all with it. Loaded optimized defaults before and after flashing and then put in my overclock settings without a problem.

I just checked my link a few posts up. It works fine here.

I confirm it. The link is working. Just make a "Save target as.."



Thankx



EDIT: After all, it's not working...it downloads a zip file, but it is corrupt...Please somebody make it online...

[Dark79]

I confirm it. The link is working. Just make a "Save target as.."



Thankx



EDIT: After all, it's not working...it downloads a zip file, but it is corrupt...Please somebody make it online...

You can get all the BIOSes (including modded ones) at the Rebel's Haven.

http://www.lejabeach.com/DFI/dfiinfinity965s/

[Mysterfix]

Well guys I'm on my second board and I'm calling it quits on the DFI\Intel board headache. Don't get me wrong I still do appreciate DFI for the 2 Ultra-D's I have but this board has some issues for me.

My G.Skills sometimes won't even boot with this board, I have to remove one stick, boot into bios, set ram back to 800mhz shut down and then put the other stick back in or I get a very long beep and black screen.

The vreg on the memory is horrible, my first board would under volt by .11v-.15v and setting anything above 2.25v resulted in a total shutdown and restart after booting into windows. My current board under volts by .15v no matter what and will shutdown at anything above 2.3v which is actually only 2.15v measured with a multimeter.

I've already got my return shipping label from Newegg and the board goes back tomorrow. I'm also gonna RMA the ram just incase this board somehow caused it any damage due to the screwy vregs.

I think I want to try the P35-DQ6 FTW Not gonna try anymore DFIntel boards for awhile yet.

[GripS]

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Upload/BIOS/I96PD613.exe

[pippo369]

New beta bios 0702

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

Major Reasons of Change:
Fixed Intel Conroe-L series(420,430,440) CPU's can't enter CMOS setup function.

[JWilson]

Rebels Haven posted a mod of the 0702 this morning with all the memory timing settings unhidden.

Added:

STRAPS: 166mHZ, 250mHZ, 333mHZ, 400mHZ
Trp: 7T, 8T, 9T
Trcd: 7T, 8T, 9T
Tras: 1T, 2T, 3T, 4T, 5T, 6T, 7T, 8T, 9T
ALL PRE TO ACT: 1t, 10T, 11T, 12T, 13T, 14T, 15T
Twr: 4T, 5T
Twtr: 4T, 5T
MCH ODT Latency: 13T, 14T, 15T
Channel 1 CLK fine delay: 3T, 4T, 5T, 6T, 7T
Channel 2 CLK fine delay: 3T, 4T, 5T, 6T, 7T

[evoic]

I want to sell my new-in-box retail DFI Dark, but I don't see anywhere on XS to post the details.

Why is there not a FS/FT section ???

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

[ziddey]

You need 100 posts evoic

Also, I flashed on the new 702rh bios and set 4-4-4-4 instead of previous 4-4-4-9 on 424, and mbench results went down the drain:

before:
Access latency 52.8 ns (191 clocks)

Read datarate (INT) 7463 Mb/s
Write datarate (INT) 3179 Mb/s

Read datarate (MMX) 8106 Mb/s
Write datarate (MMX) 3199 Mb/s

Read datarate (SSE) 8388 Mb/s
Write datarate (SSE) 8176 Mb/s

after:
Access latency 57.2 ns (207 clocks)

Read datarate (INT) 6750 Mb/s
Write datarate (INT) 2911 Mb/s

Read datarate (MMX) 7244 Mb/s
Write datarate (MMX) 2933 Mb/s

Read datarate (SSE) 7617 Mb/s
Write datarate (SSE) 7696 Mb/s

[Bail_w]

I want to sell my new-in-box retail DFI Dark, but I don't see anywhere on XS to post the details.

Why is there not a FS/FT section ???

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

You need 100 post + to access FS/FT section.

[evoic]

You need 100 post + to access FS/FT section.

Ahhhhh.

Got it.

Thanks for the heads-up, fellas'.

[NormanABates]

I want to sell my new-in-box retail DFI Dark, but I don't see anywhere on XS to post the details.

Why is there not a FS/FT section ???

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

finally giving up? wonder what the replacement is...