Official DFI NF4Ultra-D/SLi owners thread.

ricco said:
Gaz, you will need to clear cmos fully as it seems to chjange settings in cmos & bios, so when you reboot it still tries to load the bad settings.

Had a similar problem myself.
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yes i clear it fully was very easy with the one jumper and now i am back.

to try a clock my self this time.

gaz123
 
Can user pls be aware that BIOS 217 has issues.

A newer BIOS build, with an older 'NVMM' (whatever that is) is available that fixes the problem.

2.18 Beta DL mirror for OCUK is available from first post - tested and stable.
 
Well, a slow, quiet 80mm fan from my old antec case and a bit of good 'ol blue tack has dropped my PWM temps below 40C even under maximum load (that's almost a 30C improvement, just from a fan!). The fain is pointing mainly at the memory anyway, but the mosfets get a fair blasing from it.

My chipset temps still get up to 50C though, and that's with the fan on full (edit - got it up to 55C with case on, 3dm03 at full pelt for a few runs). Pointing a big fan straight at it made little difference either... I guess I need to take of the HS and re-apply Arctic Silver, but tbh I don't feel like expending the effort... it's always a pain to do everything 'vertical' in the vapochill case, and I'd have to remove the PSU, graphics cards etc as well before I could get to it.

Am I likely to be experiencing instability from a chipset temperature ~50C at all, do you think? Also, exactly how much of a temp drop have people seen by adding AS5 to the chipset heatsink?
 
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ricco said:
Can user pls be aware that BIOS 217 has issues.

A newer BIOS build, with an older 'NVMM' (whatever that is) is available that fixes the problem.

2.18 Beta DL mirror for OCUK is available from first post - tested and stable.
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No probs here, what is the NVMM and what does it effect :S

Concorde
 
well the NVMM that no one can talk about or tell us waht it is :(

Nvidia Memory Manager maybe ?

But allot of ppl have reported problems with 217, and Oskar Wu released the 218 as a fix , but they are all beta's after all :(
 
Does anyone know the MBM settings for these? Im guessing the highest temp is the cpu sensor 3 and chipset temp is sensor 1. Sensor 2 gives a negative reading?
 
Well, that took a grand total of 5 hours to install the new board and install windows. When I was trying to install windows it would hang at the detecting hardware screen, through a process of trial and error I tracked it down to the SATA drives stopping windows install starting. Once Windows was installed, setup my RAID array and now I'm flying!

Jokester
 
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Well, that took a grand total of 5 hours to install the new board and install windows. When I was trying to install windows it would hang at the detecting hardware screen, through a process of trial and error I tracked it down to the SATA drives stopping windows install starting. Once Windows was installed, setup my RAID array and now I'm flying!
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Cool - how's the performance looking so far for you?



BTW - no problems here with the 218 BIOS here. I haven't particularly noticed any differences in performance or changes in BIOS though... what was this revision supposed to have changed / fixed?
 
mip said:
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1) it looks like its out of stock everywhere :(

2) Why better getting it from elsewhere anyway?
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maybe cause if you get a problem its almost impossible to get through to them due to the withdraw of email support, plus their bit more expensive than elsewhere
 
Ok guys need help again... my RAM is rated to run at 266 with 3-4-4-8 timings but I cant seem to get it this high i find it conks out at around 250ish i've set my multiplier to 5 and the fsb to 266 and it wont boot into windows! Is there something wrong with my RAM or does the cpu still come into play with such a low fsb?

thanks all
 
I knew you was going to say that, I did read your sig, but some ppl seem tochange hardware faster then they can update their Sig ;)

Anyway try it at 2T and see how far you get.
Don't forget to set the HTT multiplier to 3x when you push over 250mhz.
Also, TCCD at CAs3 - eek, should'nt go any slacker then 2.5,4,8,4 2T.

It could be your CPU though, what week is it ?
 
Is anyone else getting problems with there temperature sensors? They were working fine but now both the bios and windows temp monitering software say that all chips are running at -128 oC. Anyone got any ideas what could be causing this?
 
Zil

-128 is an error , as in its not reading at all now.

Could be a voltage problem from BIOS or your monitoring chip has given up.(RMA)

Did you change anything that may be linked to them not working (BIOS update?)
 
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