Originally Posted by deckard
yes, it was the first thing i did; use the intel raid chipset...i tried all combinations...i guess i will buy an upgrade vista ultimate disc which comes with a 32 and 64 bit discs...do you know the trick on installing an upgrade disc on a hard drive that does not have any OS?..i do!
XP works flawlessly at 4400 mhz...can even install it at that mhz...it's the bios and OEM disc that is not compatible...the vista OEM disc works just fine on asus P5B and my Abit IP35 Pro.
the GSkill is a good buy for 8gb's...AND...you can overclock another 200+ points.
i think that i am going to dump this board and go back to the Pro....this board has worn me out.
my board (bios) stinks to high heaven!
i wasted $250 to buy a new vista disc and it's the board and bios that is keeping me from having a stable vista...this sucks big time...NO MORE oscar wu...disappoint me only once and the bad mark last forever!
i got suspicious when Brother was selling bios chips...DFI users must have a high failure rate for whatever reasons...i took the battery out to clear cmos and then moved the RTC jumper to let it sit overnight for about 8 hours...put it all back together this morning and all my settings were gone from the CMOS Reload section..expected!...so...i played with some of the genie settings...it went out of parameters and i don't know why...it gave me the memory beep out of range but i didn't touch any memory settings...i powered down and then powered up and low and behold my CMOS RELOAD settings were all restored...how it do THAT!...i cleared all that stuff out overnight!!!
WELL...I GIVE UP with this DFI board...going to sell this baby at a good discount...it will be posted up soon in this forum...back to my IP 35 Pro board where stress free and hassle free is the nickname of the PRO board...AND...it runs vista without a hitch overclocked to its fullest!
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