List of DFI NF4 Ultra/SLI Bios

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

As some of You know some time ago this happened to me:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ht=killed+BIOS

It was with the 331-1 and thanks God I had a second BIOS chip. That one was flashed with the 218 BIOS and when I threw it in all was workin' fine again. Bought a (new) second BIOS chip with 331-1 flashed unused so far.

Then flashed back the working one with the 218 to the 331-1 and still all was fine.

So yesterday I got my new ATI X850XT - shut down the rig, unplugged all and built in the new vid card. Fired up the system, board was starting, all diodes were O.K. and fans were spinning but no vid signal to the screen.

Hm - I thought maybe BIOS is not detecting the ATI card because my previous was a Nvidia 6600GT. Decided to clear CMOS and removed the battery.

Fired up the rig again, and....... long beeps, 3 red lite onboard diodes and a blinking power lite on the front panel.

Hm.., thought it was maybe caused by the new vid card - so I replaced it again with the 6600GT.

Same issue, no access to BIOS. Now I felt really pissed because the same thing happened to me twice.

Decided to throw in my brand new second BIOS chip with also the 331-1 on it, but no go !!!

So there is only one conclusion: Using the 218 helped me out before but two BIOS chips with the 331-1 on it refused to work.

Seems to me like the 331-1 can be flashed when rig is running, but after changing some hardware and/or after clearing the CMOS the 331-1 is not able to boot, maybe it has something to do with the BIOS boot sector.

Today I ordered two more BIOS chips ( ) with the last offical BIOS (310).

Should arrive on Wednesday - if they help me out like the 218 did first time there is definately something wrong with the 331-1.

Never cleared CMOS with 331-2 or 331-3 so I can't tell You if the problem will appear there also.

But be carefull guys - best is when using 331 and want to change some hardware to flash back to regular BIOS before.

Will keep You updated and cross Your fingers for me.......

Long offline periods - can only use the office machine yet......

[neokenzo]

Mine is slightly different. I flashed the bios from 310 to 310p. Immediately Windows had problems booting. Only way to boot is using Windows CD. So I decided to fix the problem using Windows Recover. Only to find out it not only it wont boot, but it had problems detecting my SATA's on RAID. Thought it was a faulty board.
Got another board from my mate who was running bios 310. I decided to flashed it again with 310p and the same symtoms appeared. So flashed it back to 310 and everything is working fine again.
BTW, where did you get the bios chips HCC?

[Grov]

My opinion of DFI boards has totally changed these past few weeks, with no posts ive got from 2 BIOS's.

It seems to happen a lot on both the NF3 and NF4.

[Quanticles]

Mine is slightly different. I flashed the bios from 310 to 310p. Immediately Windows had problems booting. Only way to boot is using Windows CD. So I decided to fix the problem using Windows Recover. Only to find out it not only it wont boot, but it had problems detecting my SATA's on RAID. Thought it was a faulty board.
Got another board from my mate who was running bios 310. I decided to flashed it again with 310p and the same symtoms appeared. So flashed it back to 310 and everything is working fine again.
BTW, where did you get the bios chips HCC?

You can order them online.

Just take the model number off the top of the chip and search for it online. If you cant find it then you can try http://www.digikey.com/

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As some of You know some time ago this happened to me:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ht=killed+BIOS

It was with the 331-1 and thanks God I had a second BIOS chip. That one was flashed with the 218 BIOS and when I threw it in all was workin' fine again. Bought a (new) second BIOS chip with 331-1 flashed unused so far.

Then flashed back the working one with the 218 to the 331-1 and still all was fine.

So yesterday I got my new ATI X850XT - shut down the rig, unplugged all and built in the new vid card. Fired up the system, board was starting, all diodes were O.K. and fans were spinning but no vid signal to the screen.

Hm - I thought maybe BIOS is not detecting the ATI card because my previous was a Nvidia 6600GT. Decided to clear CMOS and removed the battery.

Fired up the rig again, and....... long beeps, 3 red lite onboard diodes and a blinking power lite on the front panel.

Hm.., thought it was maybe caused by the new vid card - so I replaced it again with the 6600GT.

Same issue, no access to BIOS. Now I felt really pissed because the same thing happened to me twice.

Decided to throw in my brand new second BIOS chip with also the 331-1 on it, but no go !!!

So there is only one conclusion: Using the 218 helped me out before but two BIOS chips with the 331-1 on it refused to work.

Seems to me like the 331-1 can be flashed when rig is running, but after changing some hardware and/or after clearing the CMOS the 331-1 is not able to boot, maybe it has something to do with the BIOS boot sector.

Today I ordered two more BIOS chips ( ) with the last offical BIOS (310).

Should arrive on Wednesday - if they help me out like the 218 did first time there is definately something wrong with the 331-1.

Never cleared CMOS with 331-2 or 331-3 so I can't tell You if the problem will appear there also.

But be carefull guys - best is when using 331 and want to change some hardware to flash back to regular BIOS before.

Will keep You updated and cross Your fingers for me.......

Long offline periods - can only use the office machine yet......

Isnt 3 lights and long beeps a memory problem? Your bios and graphics card are problably fine, but you might have the memory in the wrong slots. Make sure to put your memory in the *orange* slots. If you have only one stick of memory, i think you need to put it in slot two. Try moving them around to find out.

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

Isnt 3 lights and long beeps a memory problem? Your bios and graphics card are problably fine, but you might have the memory in the wrong slots. Make sure to put your memory in the *orange* slots. If you have only one stick of memory, i think you need to put it in slot two. Try moving them around to find out.

Didn't touch the mem at all - both sticks in the orange slots. But maybe You are right it has somethin' to do with it, yesterday I tried to boot 4 times - each time with a single stick in a different slot.

With RAM in slot 3 or 4 the issue happened as before and the fan of my X850XT was running full speed (as in 3D mode).

With RAM in slot 1 or 2 it was different - only one red lite onboard diode and not long but short beeps.

No blinking power LED on front panel and reset was working but also no access to BIOS. The GPU fan speeded down to normal turns.

I also tried the Vdimm jumper on both rails - no go.

What I don't understand is I didn't even touched the jumper or the RAM before - only cleared CMOS and 331-1 is working no more.

I still wonder if it is caused by the Vdimm setting in BIOS - I left it always at 3,72. Maybe it should be set back to a normal normal voltage like 2,8 or somthing before clearing the CMOS.

Yet i happened after CMOS clear because I wanted to replace the vid card and some time ago it also happened after a CMOS clear when I swiched the Vdimm jumper and replaced RAM.

Tomorrow I'll get 2 new BIOS chips with the offical 310 - I really hope this will help me out.

As I said before - I also tried a brand new never used BIOS chip with 331-1 BIOS (I have a reseller of BIOS chips who flashes the needed version in stock)
and this chip doesn't work also.

The RAM is BH-5 and ran on my previous board at 3,9 Vdimm and now 24/7 at 3,72 - so I don't think it is damaged. It can even bare 4,1 Vdimm......

So I have no idea whats going on here, only thing I can say is that 331-1 was running perfectly with the BH-5 but it refuses to work after clearing the CMOS.

Any suggestions here?

[P_1]

Didn't touch the mem at all - both sticks in the orange slots. But maybe You are right it has somethin' to do with it, yesterday I tried to boot 4 times - each time with a single stick in a different slot.

With RAM in slot 3 or 4 the issue happened as before and the fan of my X850XT was running full speed (as in 3D mode).

With RAM in slot 1 or 2 it was different - only one red lite onboard diode and not long but short beeps.

No blinking power LED on front panel and reset was working but also no access to BIOS. The GPU fan speeded down to normal turns.

I also tried the Vdimm jumper on both rails - no go.

What I don't understand is I didn't even touched the jumper or the RAM before - only cleared CMOS and 331-1 is working no more.

I still wonder if it is caused by the Vdimm setting in BIOS - I left it always at 3,72. Maybe it should be set back to a normal normal voltage like 2,8 or somthing before clearing the CMOS.

Yet i happened after CMOS clear because I wanted to replace the vid card and some time ago it also happened after a CMOS clear when I swiched the Vdimm jumper and replaced RAM.

Tomorrow I'll get 2 new BIOS chips with the offical 310 - I really hope this will help me out.

As I said before - I also tried a brand new never used BIOS chip with 331-1 BIOS (I have a reseller of BIOS chips who flashes the needed version in stock)
and this chip doesn't work also.

The RAM is BH-5 and ran on my previous board at 3,9 Vdimm and now 24/7 at 3,72 - so I don't think it is damaged. It can even bare 4,1 Vdimm......

So I have no idea whats going on here, only thing I can say is that 331-1 was running perfectly with the BH-5 but it refuses to work after clearing the CMOS.

Any suggestions here?

Have you tried the 414-2 or -3 bioses yet?