RD600 first look and general questions

[amandpm]

I have bought it but have not installed it yet.

[korby]

I have bought it but have not installed it yet.

So?

[korby]

OK, waiting for the result. Gotta find a way to get it in Romania.

[ante_ante]

Have one problem. When i turn off my computer it´s auto boot and i have to turn it off again with the power button. Anyone having the same problems ?
How do i fix it ?

[pcmoddingmy]

Okay... I think my board is dead.
It wouldn't boot anymore and halts at error "25". Tried everything including clear CMOS, remove batt, unplug ATX and all... still no go.
Finally, after hitting "Insert" repeatedly, it would "beep" once and pass the "25" code until the BIOS appears in the monitor. Then, it would halt at error "7F" where the BIOS asks me to "Press F1 or Del".
I couldn't get past the "7F" code anymore.

FYI, I didn't flash BIOS and the board worked just great before I had this problem. The only thing I was doing prior to this was swapping out for a Swiftech MCW30 chipset waterblock, and the board worked fine after the MCW30.

Any idea what went wrong? I think I may have to request for a new BIOS chip from DFI.

[nealh]

Okay... I think my board is dead.
It wouldn't boot anymore and halts at error "25". Tried everything including clear CMOS, remove batt, unplug ATX and all... still no go.
Finally, after hitting "Insert" repeatedly, it would "beep" once and pass the "25" code until the BIOS appears in the monitor. Then, it would halt at error "7F" where the BIOS asks me to "Press F1 or Del".
I couldn't get past the "7F" code anymore.

FYI, I didn't flash BIOS and the board worked just great before I had this problem. The only thing I was doing prior to this was swapping out for a Swiftech MCW30 chipset waterblock, and the board worked fine after the MCW30.

Any idea what went wrong? I think I may have to request for a new BIOS chip from DFI.

Curious what voltages were you running on the mobo..not cpu

[pcmoddingmy]

Curious what voltages were you running on the mobo..not cpu

I'm not too sure as I didn't power the board for about a week. Might be about 1.7~1.9V-ish. The board never runs more than a couple hours and I mainly use it for benching.
I guess the BIOS might have borked out and hopefully a new BIOS chip can help solve my problem

[nealh]

I'm not too sure as I didn't power the board for about a week. Might be about 1.7~1.9V-ish. The board never runs more than a couple hours and I mainly use it for benching.
I guess the BIOS might have borked out and hopefully a new BIOS chip can help solve my problem

so what do you use for everyday use?

Tony has stated DFI feels anything over 1.5v can lead to killing the chipset..so it is possible the chip is damaged

[pcmoddingmy]

so what do you use for everyday use?

Tony has stated DFI feels anything over 1.5v can lead to killing the chipset..so it is possible the chip is damaged

No... the RD600 is only powered up for benching. I have another rig for my everyday use.
I suspect that the chip could be damaged, but it should not be able to completely power up if the chip happens to be damaged. Maybe its just a borked BIOS, I hope.

[GNU]

Urg. What happens with dfi-club? They are not reachable again.

[The Nemesis]

Urg. What happens with dfi-club? They are not reachable again.

they're now powered by vBulletin so the link changed.

[GNU]

they're now powered by vBulletin so the link changed.

thx

[momomo6789]

mine works great and always have ... also c1 is memory

[pcmoddingmy]

Anyone else getting error code "7F"?

[erwinz]

I encountered that code.. when i use my corsair 8000UL.. I can't oc my sticks.. I cant pass ddr2 800

and I also encountered this

A12 DDR1 BR#9851 REL P4 Rel 9.4.1.33 R423GL-SE P/N 113-A45101104

I got this message when i boot my screen.. when i set my memory to 402.. I recover my system by a cmos reset and cold boot..

mm.. i think its a compatibility issue..

hope there is a new bios..

and could there be more options for the configuring of raid harddisk using the promise controller.. we can only use 16k

mm.. I think DFI should look onto this problems.. I'm not into benching mostly.. but I want a stable machine..

and also the vdroop issue is worsening.. a member of the official forum of DFI fix his problem by reloading his bios again..

maybe i'll do this later..

hope Oscar is looking at our problems.. I know this board have a capability.. so i'll wait..

[OldGuy]

I encountered that code.. when i use my corsair 8000UL.. I can't oc my sticks.. I cant pass ddr2 800

and I also encountered this

A12 DDR1 BR#9851 REL P4 Rel 9.4.1.33 R423GL-SE P/N 113-A45101104

I got this message when i boot my screen.. when i set my memory to 402.. I recover my system by a cmos reset and cold boot..

mm.. i think its a compatibility issue..

hope there is a new bios..

and could there be more options for the configuring of raid harddisk using the promise controller.. we can only use 16k

mm.. I think DFI should look onto this problems.. I'm not into benching mostly.. but I want a stable machine..

and also the vdroop issue is worsening.. a member of the official forum of DFI fix his problem by reloading his bios again..

maybe i'll do this later..

hope Oscar is looking at our problems.. I know this board have a capability.. so i'll wait..

Raid performance on this board is less then stellar...the Promise controller is very very slow. I would stick with the ATI controller.

[erwinz]

oh tnxs man..

have you use linux on the DFI RD600?? can the ati raid controller be recognize??

hey, do you any idea of a beta bios on the works??

[OldGuy]

oh tnxs man..

have you use linux on the DFI RD600?? can the ati raid controller be recognize??

hey, do you any idea of a beta bios on the works??

No idea about Linux...here is a link to beta on the DFI site>>> 12/8/06 beta

Didn't have the board up long enough to try it so you may want to wait for someone else to chime in on it before trying unless of course you are wanting a newer one and have already taken this one for a spin.

[Kin Hell]

No idea about Linux...here is a link to beta on the DFI site>>> 12/8/06 beta

Didn't have the board up long enough to try it so you may want to wait for someone else to chime in on it before trying unless of course you are wanting a newer one and have already taken this one for a spin.

Er...you're prolly gettin' older than you realised!

Your link above is for the current official Bios 2006/12/08.

On board number 3 right now...soon to be RMA# 3 as well. Out of 8 DFI LP boards I`ve tried across 2 different platforms, 2 have worked!!
DFI have had enough of my time. Time to move on.

[Polynikes]

Perhaps I WON'T be getting an RD600. :\

[fhpchris]

Perhaps I WON'T be getting an RD600. :\

Why would you ever switch from x6800+975 to RD600?

[OldGuy]

Er...you're prolly gettin' older than you realised!

Your link above is for the current official Bios 2006/12/08.

On board number 3 right now...soon to be RMA# 3 as well. Out of 9 DFL LP boards I`ve tried across 2 different platforms, 2 have worked!!
DFI have had enough of my time. Time to move on.

Too funny man...I swear to you I went to the beta section...web site won't load up right now so I can't prove I'm not senile and blind...I thought the date was a little stale

On the not too funny part...You, my friend, and DFI do not mix. I still have my NF3 250gb and have had an RDX200 (still have technically, I sold to my company and it's still kicking folding 24/7 for over 9 months), NF3 Ultra D (pain in the ass but worked ), NF4 ultra D, Expert and the RD600. All have worked out of the box without issue. Technically I still own the the NF4 Ultra D until this weekend and posting from it right now. Awesome board...I also have an Infinty NF2 and my trusty Infinity 975X/G...

So you could say DFI has had an excellent track record with me thus far...For you, I would never again even try one and could hardly blame you.

EDIT: Okay...I feel better. They have 12/8/06 in the beta section and it IS a beta. Shipping bios is 12/18/06...

[Kin Hell]

Too funny man...I swear to you I went to the beta section...web site won't load up right now so I can't prove I'm not senile and blind...I thought the date was a little stale

On the not too funny part...You, my friend, and DFI do not mix. I still have my NF3 250gb and have had an RDX200 (still have technically, I sold to my company and it's still kicking folding 24/7 for over 9 months), NF3 Ultra D (pain in the ass but worked ), NF4 ultra D, Expert and the RD600. All have worked out of the box without issue. Technically I still own the the NF4 Ultra D until this weekend and posting from it right now. Awesome board...I also have an Infinty NF2 and my trusty Infinity 975X/G...

So you could say DFI has had an excellent track record with me thus far...For you, I would never again even try one and could hardly blame you.

EDIT: Okay...I feel better. They have 12/8/06 in the beta section and it IS a beta. Shipping bios is 12/18/06...

LOL OldGuy.....Funny thing is, the very first DFI board I ever had ROCKED for me too. T'was an nF4 SLI DR Expert & Opty175...the best AMD rig I have ever had the pleasure of owning & indeed the Fastest PC I had owned to it's exit date. Another 4 boards tried for a friend to no avail & identical Spec down to everything but the Lian Li case. Heck, even Quad SLI ran F.E.A.R. like I've never seen the game run..."LPB Boy"...eat your heart out! The FPS increase was awesome in that game & 3DMark totally Sucked...rofl.
Anyways, maybe I have been unlucky, but I refuse to waste anymore time larking around. I'm seeing cr4p with hard drives that are normaly associated with ALI (now ULI) & VIA chipsets & it appears some of the 680i reference boards are also suffering mass storage issues. For my money, it all went tits up when the Industry started using the SCSI name for IDE devices & all sorts of strange anomalies with hard drives not working on certain boards means that Industry Standards are not being adhered to!
My Maxtor 600GB 2 x Raid0 Stripe & Segate 750GB drive behave like tin cans full of nails compared to the Opty SLI DR Expert rig. What cracks me most is HDTach saying my hard drives are bursting @ 303Mb/sec rather than 97Mb/sec on the Promise, but when windows loads from the ATI headers at the alleged 303mb/sec, it takes 4 times longer to load windows??
Then when you're on the desktop, copying files is like waiting for paint to dry.
It`s even funnier that after waiting 6 months for a motherboard that was fast developing into being a piece of Vapoware only days before it's release, That "Collective Smoke" we were all having shoved up our collective Asses has kinda blown away me trusting any other Chipset other than Intel for Intel CPU's. Hold up Bad Axe 2, I'll be right there..............

[kimandsally]

Too funny man...I swear to you I went to the beta section...web site won't load up right now so I can't prove I'm not senile and blind...I thought the date was a little stale

On the not too funny part...You, my friend, and DFI do not mix. I still have my NF3 250gb and have had an RDX200 (still have technically, I sold to my company and it's still kicking folding 24/7 for over 9 months), NF3 Ultra D (pain in the ass but worked ), NF4 ultra D, Expert and the RD600. All have worked out of the box without issue. Technically I still own the the NF4 Ultra D until this weekend and posting from it right now. Awesome board...I also have an Infinty NF2 and my trusty Infinity 975X/G...

So you could say DFI has had an excellent track record with me thus far...For you, I would never again even try one and could hardly blame you.

EDIT: Okay...I feel better. They have 12/8/06 in the beta section and it IS a beta. Shipping bios is 12/18/06...

I have to agree old man, this is my 5th DFI, had a SLI D, SLI DR, Expert, CX3200 and now this RD 600, never had a problem other than the ones that are a learning problem, everytime there was something wrong it was something that could be fixed using BIOS options, don't want to sound nasty but these are for either people who know what they are doing or people like me who like to tinker and learn whilst having fun.

Sorry to say but DFI get blamed when a lot of the time it's user error, I bought the DFI Expert simply because there was supposed to be loads of problems and I like a challenge, how dissapointed I was when it worked right out of the box without a single issue.

[erwinz]

hey thanks for your quick reply..

mm.. we really need to be patient in dealing with dfi.. but i know they can deliver jsut like in the dfi 975x infinity..