DFI Ultra-D...SUDDEN DEATH

**conrad.maranan** · 02-09-2005, 09:25 PM

For the past 30 hours, my board has been working fine. As a matter of fact, I did not encounter a single problem when installing the board and configuring it. It has been 100% hassle free up until about one and a half hours ago.

Just before it conked out on me, I plugged in a good ol' IDE hard drive so that I can install Windows 2000 Professional. I pulled the plug on my Raptor so that BIOS would only see the IDE drive. I reset BIOS so that everything was set to AUTO - no overclocking whatsoever. WIN2K installed fine. I then rebooted the computer so that I can defrag the drive. Fans are blowing full blast, LED lights on the board are on, but I wasn't getting a signal to my screen. The diagnostic LEDs only have three lights on. I tried reseating the graphics card, reseating the CPU, reseating the RAM, and swapping the RAM with other modules. Nothing. I've reset the CMOS, pulled the CMOS battery, consumed a few Heinekens. Nothing.

I was wondering if anyone else has encountered the same problem - or if anyone has a clue as to what has caused this to happen.

Components used were:
- AMD Athlon64 3500+ Newcastle
- DFI LanParty UT Ultra-D
- OCZ PC-3200 Gold VX (2x512MB)
- XFX GeFORCE 6600 256MB
- OCZ Powerstream 520W

**~~Onepagebook~~** · 02-09-2005, 09:52 PM

I will refer this to Oskar.

**jjcom** · 02-09-2005, 09:54 PM

Can you try out another PSU? I had a computer that appeared like it was on and tried everything...turned out the PSU was bad

jjcom

**Alex08** · 02-09-2005, 09:56 PM

yes, please try another psu, i've seen the ocz 520w do that before.

**thebluesgnr** · 02-09-2005, 10:02 PM

"Fans are blowing full blast, LED lights on the board are on,"

This means the board is getting power from the PSU. It could still be the issue, but I don't think it's very likely.

**~~Onepagebook~~** · 02-09-2005, 10:05 PM

I fried a ocz 520w when I first day got SLI-DR, but not like this.

**jjcom** · 02-09-2005, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by thebluesgnr

"Fans are blowing full blast, LED lights on the board are on,"

This means the board is getting power from the PSU. It could still be the issue, but I don't think it's very likely.

I had something like this happen on an old 90mhz P1. Everything turned on, but the PSU wasn't giving enough for the MB to work

jjcom

**Alex08** · 02-09-2005, 10:33 PM

i've seen where the OCZ 520w was working on psu testers and also with the paperclip trick, which only starts up the powersupply, but failed to work on any motherboard that it was tried on.

**conrad.maranan** · 02-09-2005, 11:14 PM

The Zippy that I had purchased specifically for this board was a no go on my first day with the DFI. I read of others here having the same problem. The OCZ unit worked flawlessly up until the point when the board died. I tried a Thermaltake PSU as well and it just doesn't want to boot up.

I'm sure 520W from the OCZ unit is more than adequate. I was only running one hard drive, one DVD writer, and a low-end GPU. Actually, 520W is overkill for the components I listed in the first post.

I guess I'm just a little bit upset because it died when voltages and frequencies were set to stock. I wasn't even overclocked or doing anything out of the ordinary.

**STEvil** · 02-09-2005, 11:25 PM

you didnt disconnect that drive while it was running did you?

Try another cpu, and maybe a hotflash of the bios.

**conrad.maranan** · 02-09-2005, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by STEvil

you didnt disconnect that drive while it was running did you?

Try another cpu, and maybe a hotflash of the bios.

I would never do such a thing.

It's not the CPU. I'm using it on my Neo2 as I'm typing this so I know that can't be it. I also hot-flashed another chip with the shipping BIOS, popped it in the DFI, and nothing happens.

I'll just refer to this as S.M.D.S. - Sudden Motherboard Death Syndrome.

**reject** · 02-10-2005, 12:39 AM

you should take that out of your sig its probably jinxing you

**Dissolved** · 02-10-2005, 12:43 AM

Do Motherboard manf Actually test the mobos after there made?

**jikdoc** · 02-10-2005, 02:07 AM

did you try holding down insert as you press the reset button on the motherboard? i had the same problem, getting stuck at 3 lights on the motherboard.

p.s. dang i wish the zippy worked with this board, i'm soooo itching to run vx up to 3.8

**HARDCORECLOCKER** · 02-10-2005, 04:28 AM

Originally Posted by conrad.maranan

For the past 30 hours, my board has been working fine. As a matter of fact, I did not encounter a single problem when installing the board and configuring it. It has been 100% hassle free up until about one and a half hours ago.

Just before it conked out on me, I plugged in a good ol' IDE hard drive so that I can install Windows 2000 Professional. I pulled the plug on my Raptor so that BIOS would only see the IDE drive. I reset BIOS so that everything was set to AUTO - no overclocking whatsoever. WIN2K installed fine. I then rebooted the computer so that I can defrag the drive. Fans are blowing full blast, LED lights on the board are on, but I wasn't getting a signal to my screen. The diagnostic LEDs only have three lights on. I tried reseating the graphics card, reseating the CPU, reseating the RAM, and swapping the RAM with other modules. Nothing. I've reset the CMOS, pulled the CMOS battery, consumed a few Heinekens. Nothing.

I was wondering if anyone else has encountered the same problem - or if anyone has a clue as to what has caused this to happen.

Components used were:
- AMD Athlon64 3500+ Newcastle
- DFI LanParty UT Ultra-D
- OCZ PC-3200 Gold VX (2x512MB)
- XFX GeFORCE 6600 256MB
- OCZ Powerstream 520W

Did You already find a solution ???

**bito** · 02-10-2005, 04:32 AM

I wonder if this is what happened to the 2 x DFI reps over at the DFI forum??
Their boards are dead too......but they cannot talk about it.

**matt9669** · 02-10-2005, 04:52 AM

All I can say is - that's a bummer . . .

We're sorry for your loss, sir. (insert cheezy hearse graphic)

**Lidocaine** · 02-10-2005, 05:08 AM

The only thing I can think of is someone reported problems when the HDD was set to cable select vs. Master............or visa versa, cant remember, too early, but try both.

**cantankerous** · 02-10-2005, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by bito

I wonder if this is what happened to the 2 x DFI reps over at the DFI forum??
Their boards are dead too......but they cannot talk about it.

What is this about not being able to talk about it? And why not? If something is up with these boards we all have a right to know regardless of if the info is good or not.

**HARDCORECLOCKER** · 02-10-2005, 06:48 AM

Please report here the offical statement from DFI............

**conrad.maranan** · 02-10-2005, 07:06 AM

Holding INSERT down while rebooting was one of the first things I did in order to boot into BIOS Safe Mode. It didn't work. I read the post from AG on DFI-Street several days ago and how his board also experienced S.M.D.S. but can not speak of it. I did find it somewhat strange that DFI would refrain him from disclosing information regarding his problem.

**HARDCORECLOCKER** · 02-10-2005, 07:10 AM

So what about the situation? Do we have here a secret problem hidden by DFI which explodes sometimes like a time bomb and kills some boards ???

**Tony** · 02-10-2005, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by conrad.maranan

For the past 30 hours, my board has been working fine. As a matter of fact, I did not encounter a single problem when installing the board and configuring it. It has been 100% hassle free up until about one and a half hours ago.

Just before it conked out on me, I plugged in a good ol' IDE hard drive so that I can install Windows 2000 Professional. I pulled the plug on my Raptor so that BIOS would only see the IDE drive. I reset BIOS so that everything was set to AUTO - no overclocking whatsoever. WIN2K installed fine. I then rebooted the computer so that I can defrag the drive. Fans are blowing full blast, LED lights on the board are on, but I wasn't getting a signal to my screen. The diagnostic LEDs only have three lights on. I tried reseating the graphics card, reseating the CPU, reseating the RAM, and swapping the RAM with other modules. Nothing. I've reset the CMOS, pulled the CMOS battery, consumed a few Heinekens. Nothing.

I was wondering if anyone else has encountered the same problem - or if anyone has a clue as to what has caused this to happen.

Components used were:
- AMD Athlon64 3500+ Newcastle
- DFI LanParty UT Ultra-D
- OCZ PC-3200 Gold VX (2x512MB)
- XFX GeFORCE 6600 256MB
- OCZ Powerstream 520W

What bios was you using.

**Lidocaine** · 02-10-2005, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by bigtoe

What bios was you using.

Sorry to butt in, but which one is the best? I'm using 1/25 and having problems overclocking.

**HARDCORECLOCKER** · 02-10-2005, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by Lidocaine

Sorry to butt in, but which one is the best? I'm using 1/25 and having problems overclocking.

Latest is 209 and before was 201 - both should fix a lot of problems, try it.

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