**Official DFI LanParty UT P35-T2R Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[ether.real]

It is a bug. I havent seen it work for anyone.

[Brother Esau]

Anyone try the 11/07/07 Official Bios yet???

[nfm]

Anyone try the 11/07/07 Official Bios yet???

After playing around, I had to disable GTL Refs (115 115 117 do not do well anymore). After tuning "Phase Adjustments" CH1:1 6-6-6-7-6 and CH2: 6-6-7-7-6, 11/07 is still about 1.0ns slower than 9/13. SuperPI numbers stayed the same.

[cuhaos]

Alright set, now I gotta test.

Sort of OT: Does anybody have any cooling ideas for the NB and PWM on this board. My temps are getting a little toasty compared to some others around here. I've got good airflow in my p180B, and I know people say "just stick a fan over it". Well that's great when it's sitting flat and level but the fan's going to end up at the bottom of my case when I turn it upright...

Get creative with zip ties

[winston856]

Update:

Been priming for about 6 hours now at 1.38125 vcore, so far so good

It's only been 6 hours though so there's still a chance for it to fail, however it's probably stable

I'm still on the 9/13 BIOS and unless I hear a good reason that other one's better I'm staying.

[Brother Esau]

9/13/07 or 10/5/07 Beta

[Brother Esau]

After playing around, I had to disable GTL Refs (115 115 117 do not do well anymore). After tuning "Phase Adjustments" CH1:1 6-6-6-7-6 and CH2: 6-6-7-7-6, 11/07 is still about 1.0ns slower than 9/13. SuperPI numbers stayed the same.

I think thats a Beta Release not Official because the Bin File is LP35DB07.BIN not LP35D1007.BIN

[cuhaos]

Using the 11/07 bios CN linked. Working fine for me

I'm not xtreme enough to remember what I was getting in Everest before, but after going back and fiddling with stuff I seem to have a new high stable overclock...
No complaints about the bios here.

PS. If you try it DO NOT USE WINFLASH FOR CHRISTS SAKE
Brother Esau has had to do enough bold text rants at people

[Brother Esau]

Thank You

[terroristone]

yes very ture, i think it should be put on the first page and have a thread clean, if people are too lazy to read the frist page then too bad let alone the whole thread.
Andrew

[Brother Esau]

Using the 11/07 bios CN linked. Working fine for me

I'm not xtreme enough to remember what I was getting in Everest before, but after going back and fiddling with stuff I seem to have a new high stable overclock...
No complaints about the bios here.

PS. If you try it DO NOT USE WINFLASH FOR CHRISTS SAKE
Brother Esau has had to do enough bold text rants at people

Ha hah.....its easy on the eyes for me anyway you know getting older and all that

[kberguy1]

I previously requested info on flashing BIOS on a PC with Vista and a floppy drive, but haven't as yet gotten any response. I have tried to do things as per DFI info, but it hasn't worked. Could someone with Windows Vista please outline how they did their BIOS update?

[jimmyz]

I previously requested info on flashing BIOS on a PC with Vista and a floppy drive, but haven't as yet gotten any response. I have tried to do things as per DFI info, but it hasn't worked. Could someone with Windows Vista please outline how they did their BIOS update?

why is it a problem. when you boot to a floppy you are not in vista? vista should have no bearing on flashing a bios. what exactly are you doing? you do know you need to reboot and select floppy as first boot device then f10 and reboot into the floppy to flash.

[Dihon]

I think thats a Beta Release not Official because the Bin File is LP35DB07.BIN not LP35D1007.BIN

I believe B07 stands for 1107 as B is 11 in hex.

[Praz]

Dihon is correct in how the BIOS date is coded. LP35DB07.BIN is the 11/07 BIOS.

[cantankerous]

It is a bug. I havent seen it work for anyone.

If this is the case I really wish it could be solved. There have been plenty of bios releases out in which this fix could have been contained in. If anyone has any ties with Oskar himself, or anyone else who may be working on writing the bios for this board, do you think this 'bug' could be mentioned so it could be resolved? I'm sure there are many others besides myself that would appreciate being able to use that divider. Thanks.

[kberguy1]

why is it a problem. when you boot to a floppy you are not in vista? vista should have no bearing on flashing a bios. what exactly are you doing? you do know you need to reboot and select floppy as first boot device then f10 and reboot into the floppy to flash.

Hi,

My first issue is that the self extracting BIOS file cannot write to the floppy because I am getting a "Windows Error N.5".

Then, when I try to do an end run and use the zip version of BIOS file, I am able to make floppy, but I get a "remove media and press any key message" after setting floppy a 1st boot device, saving settings in BIOS, and rebooting.

I even got desperate and tried the Winflash Utility, but it said it was "not for Windows 2000, NT, or Windows XP" operating systems.

I guess am going to do a clean install of Windows XP, and see if that works. I can't think of anything else to try right now.

[terroristone]

i run both vista x64 and xp, i had the same problem with vista, dont try making a copy from vista, run xp on another crappy drive you have somewhere and do iut from there if you get despreat. or copy the file to memory stick and take it to another pc and make your floppy from there.
Andrew

[C-N]

I am able to make floppy, but I get a "remove media and press any key message"

The problem is the floppy is not bootable.

Can you not just boot to the A prompt using ether an XP startup disk or even a 98 boot disk then swap disks to the one with Awdflash & the bios file on & run Awdflash.

CN.

[C-N]

How do you go to the Pub and not smoke Craig?

Easy go drinking with my friends, that in itself is enough to make you forget where you live, your own name etc etc oh & the fact that you used to smoke.

Its all quite nice now here in the UK to go out to the pubs & clubs that are all smoke free not so much for the smoke which as an ex smoker I don't mind but for your clothes jeez I used to have to burn my clothes after going out they smelt that bad the next day.

CN

[C-N]

Has anyone figured out a way, if it is even possible at all to use the 333/1066 strap option? Since the day this board was released that option has been unavailable to use due to it not allowing the system to post once selected. It always results in a C1 error no matter what else is done to help remedy it. Even on the latest release bios this still occurs. Is this a bug that has yet to be squashed or am I missing something? If anyone is able to successfully use this strap please do share on how. I think I would like to keep my system at 3.0ghz but would like to try my ram at 1066 without having to fiddle with too much NB/VTT voltage that is required when you have a high FSB to obtain 1066+ speeds.

It is a bug. I havent seen it work for anyone.

Works fine for me but I have only tested it enough to make a screen shot for you guys & to prove the point it works.

I have also only tested it on the 1019 BETA BIOS.

CN

[DJSUB]

5:8 is working, here's another proof

[kberguy1]

copy the file to memory stick and take it to another pc and make your floppy from there.
Andrew

I just wanted to thank those who responded about my BIOS issue, and let everyone know that this approach worked, and I have updated my BIOS to the 11 07 version. It shouldn't be that troublesome to upgrade a BIOS, but Vista doesn't seem to make anything easy.

Anyway, now that I have some added tunability, I should be able to get some decent numbers for my system
.

[the_real_7]

Urgent Notice

Nb and Sb and pwr on these boards are not all cooled properly ,
Took my board apart last night and some of the pwr modules where missing thermal compound, so I took the time a
reapplied Artic Silver 5 to them and restarted the board and my temps dropped all around enough to get up to 3.6 4x900
4 4 3 10 prime stable 12 hours... Also pwr is not making that squeling sound on shutdown.

wow what a mission, but on the brightside I dont have to buy the flex now unless I need some bandwith

[Brother Esau]

I just Flashed to 11/7/07 Bios..........so far so good!