Official DFI NF4Ultra-D/SLi owners thread.

ricco · 19 Mar 2005 at 20:01

or should I zip it up ?

ricco · 19 Mar 2005 at 21:38

Brum Man said:
zip er up!

Ok done

ricco · 19 Mar 2005 at 23:54

Ham said:
I had trouble installing windows, so i did the trick of whipping out the battery and manged to get Xp installed. It made it to the desktop once and then restarted, now it gets to the Xp loading screen and restarts. Anyone got any clue on how to sort this out?

Ham would help if you can give system specs, and BIOS version.

Sounds like memory could be out of spec.

ricco · 20 Mar 2005 at 00:06

Ham said:
it the bios version that comes with the motherboard not sure what number that is

Well you done very well to get as far as you have IMHO

Firsup check out the first post and grab youself 310 BIOS. Use the link to DFI site and get instructions of how to do it from a floppy drive.

This is a MUST, and will all work towards fixing BIOS issues.

ricco · 26 Mar 2005 at 17:55

SO I am led to believe although the BIOS does'nt offcialy support venice the only problem will be with San Deigo 's

ricco · 26 Mar 2005 at 18:03

Well from the initial test of venice done so far it booted without problems in a Ne02 , just was'nt recognised properly (ID)

this was confirmed somewhere ( pls dont ask me to link it as I can't rem the thread exactly) by some mobo manufacturer (it might be DFI) and was pointed out the problem with Estepping will be with the San Diego's

ricco · 26 Mar 2005 at 18:33

Thanks Dave,

saves me digging through forums I check out.

my memory just aint as good as it used to be (MDMA)

ricco · 28 Mar 2005 at 03:10

was it a fresh windows install ?

ricco · 28 Mar 2005 at 19:42

I have used both too, with no noticeable difference.

I don't think anyone runs faster, but the marvell did cause stuttering in some games with an early driver- think thats fixed now.

Whatever you use - just rem the Nvidia firewall software is a resorce hog.

ricco · 29 Mar 2005 at 01:31

Joe i always dissable things that I don't use( I.e Floppy controller etc). Saves resorces.

Seems that many new setups have problems from memory configuration, noit sure if AUTO sets some advanced options too tight for certain modules.

ricco · 29 Mar 2005 at 12:36

hmmm,

I used to get random reboots with an ATI card on BF 1.61b with 5.2 dets- try different drivers

ricco · 29 Mar 2005 at 12:57

Matt,

did you use driver cleaner to rtotaly remove the old drivers ?

ricco · 29 Mar 2005 at 17:26

You will need to un-install it from start/settings/control panel/Add &remove programs

ricco · 30 Mar 2005 at 16:48

mad_weegie said:
also notice that when ram is in both orange slots the monitor takes its time to come on compared to when in yellow and orange as monitor is on right away apon powe up. This is puzzling me

sounds maybe like a weak memory controller.

Set CMD to 2T and see if that helps.

ricco · 30 Mar 2005 at 19:13

mad_weegie said:
i dont follow ricco! when i have the sticks in the yellow and orange it boots up at 333 and (2T) but when i put both em in the orange its 400 and (1T) but fails to load windows. just keeps restarting after the bios loads.

Is CMD somewhere in the bios? in that mad GENIE part lol im lost.

where the memory options are , its the very top option.., Dissable = 2T

ricco · 31 Mar 2005 at 00:09

well 2T does put as much (we will call it) load on the memory and its controller as 1T does.

1T is prefffered as it does give a peformance boost, but in some configurations it can cuase stability issues.

BUT:

there is a valid arguement about single channel 1T or Dual channel 2T options.
We wont go into this unless it helps with system stability overall.

ricco · 1 Apr 2005 at 20:15

helpimcrap said:
how do i flash the bios in windows?

how do i know which bios i have?

and how on earth do i know which one i should get??

theres so many....

Read the first post !

As for BIOS, only 310 is official (as linked) and I recomend anyone who does'nt know how to tweak all mem timings stick with it (for now).

ricco · 2 Apr 2005 at 01:26

MSI diamond then

ricco · 2 Apr 2005 at 01:42

For a start this is an not a MSI thread - so get out.
Second I understrand ** miffed off with ** DFI RMA, but TBH maybe they did do something and its possible hardware conflict or another peice of hardware.
So posting the same thing in multiple threads will not help you.

If you want information about another make , try to post a specific thread about it.

Edit* why does it star out the short you're ( U R) - thats just silly...

ricco · 2 Apr 2005 at 01:55

Note to self - dont post after night down the pub

But Im just so commited to helping !