Official DFI NF4Ultra-D/SLi owners thread.

Jimbo Mahoney · 25 May 2005 at 15:39

Try 2k as well?

That's how I found XP SP2 unstable - I started playing with my new rig on 2k then swapped to XP to find the stable overclock incredibly unstable!

Street · 25 May 2005 at 20:44

stuck the new bios on for the board and it all works a treat now

yay!
used xp+sp2 as well...

just need to finish setting everything up now.

was a proper mission getting myself a bootable floppy though, as this pc wouldnt boot for me to create one and none of the pcs in my office have floppy drives.. had to go for a trek round a mates and get him to do one for me!

1st step... install cs:s and see how much better it runs

andyr · 25 May 2005 at 20:53

just got my mobo yesterday kind of worked out how to change mem timings and also multiplyer and fsb but how do i change cpu volts and how do i tell which bios revision i got , sorry for the basic questions

Street · 26 May 2005 at 09:01

from what i can remember... the voltage settings are all under that genie bios page...

although now ive got a new problem... i cant get my memory to run at 1t! It used to run at 1t in my old machine, but windows wont boot with it at 1t anymore

spose i should update my sig as well

andyr · 26 May 2005 at 11:00

Street said:
from what i can remember... the voltage settings are all under that genie bios page...

although now ive got a new problem... i cant get my memory to run at 1t! It used to run at 1t in my old machine, but windows wont boot with it at 1t anymore

spose i should update my sig as well

Thanks for that i found it in the end , on the issue of 1T or 2T how do you swap between the two in bios

smids · 26 May 2005 at 11:22

andyr said:
Thanks for that i found it in the end , on the issue of 1T or 2T how do you swap between the two in bios

CPC enabled and disabled IIRC. Though I'm not sure which is 1T and which is 2T :confused:

[timko] · 26 May 2005 at 11:58

CPC Enabled is 1t and Disabled is 2t

smids · 26 May 2005 at 12:01

Ah, ok. I think mine's on Auto which runs 1T, but now I'll set it to enabled.

andyr · 26 May 2005 at 14:39

Hi can you tell me how i find the bios revision as in cpuiz it says 6.00 PG :confused:

i thought i woud see a number like 310 or something

R3DBuLL · 26 May 2005 at 14:50

If You go into the bios and turn off the DFI logo at boot then re boot it and it'll tell you in the bottom left.

I'm sure someone will give you a more detailed description but mine should do the job

smids · 26 May 2005 at 14:57

That's the award revision, not the BIOS itself. 310 stands for the date in American format. i.e. 310 is 3/10/05 (10/3/05 in UK format) BIOS. Just look at the date in CPU-z and it will give you BIOS revision. I'm on 510 i.e. 10/5/05 bios. Hope this helps

andyr · 26 May 2005 at 15:16

thanks for the help it looks like 125 then wow thats quite old for a new mobo i will have to flash it , what do you recommend with my ram

smids · 26 May 2005 at 15:59

If that's TCCD XMS3200XL Pro, then -1 or -3; 2 is for BH-5.

monkeygabriel · 26 May 2005 at 20:08

andyr said:
thanks for the help it looks like 125 then wow thats quite old for a new mobo i will have to flash it , what do you recommend with my ram

its not unsual.my mate just got one with that old bios too. as said depending on tccd or utt/bh-5.

go with the 510s as they have some fixes over the 414s.

Street · 26 May 2005 at 21:25

whereabouts do you get the 510 bios from? on dfis website i can only find the 310...

ahh i found it... its a beta version? Is that stable or any better than the 310?

FreeStream · 26 May 2005 at 21:27

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/114

Edit: Where's Ricco gone again :confused:

Concorde

Fluffy Bunny · 26 May 2005 at 21:38

whats the best way of flashing this board? Do you have to do anything special before you do it?

FreeStream · 26 May 2005 at 21:51

All the info you need is on the first page, we use WinFlash, because if it goes wrong you can fix it lol

Concorde

monkeygabriel · 26 May 2005 at 22:06

Street said:
whereabouts do you get the 510 bios from? on dfis website i can only find the 310...

ahh i found it... its a beta version? Is that stable or any better than the 310?

yes and yes.the official is a bit out of date now and a few issues have been fixed in the 414,509 and 510s. we need a new official if thats the way you want to go but better with the latest imo anyway.

Street · 26 May 2005 at 22:11

well just stuck the 510 on...

still doesnt let me boot in 1t though, although instead of just restarting the pc when windows trys to load it gives me a bsod now... progress? :S

Would increasing the vdimm let me run at 1t?