Official DFI NF4Ultra-D/SLi owners thread.

gary996 · 10 Mar 2005 at 10:47

just downloaded the 310 (diamond flash) thinking of giving it a go

welshtom · 10 Mar 2005 at 10:52

anyone tried these yet?

gary996 · 10 Mar 2005 at 11:27

any idea what this means on startup all works well just dont know what this is

"Option rom can not be invoke vendor ID 10DEh Device ID 0057h"
"Option rom can not be invoke vendor ID 1095h Device ID 3114h"

ricco · 10 Mar 2005 at 12:21

Sounds like its not reading the vendor ID from the ROM on some hardware ?

Anyway, done a quick test with 209,310 and 310-2 BIOS

Overall things were pretty even, but 310 was the fastest slightly.
Ill list my full bench marks for each later.

Order of speed = 209,310-2,310 :
did'nt try 309-2

Minstadave · 10 Mar 2005 at 12:33

I just trashed my RAID array with the 310-2 guess

Guess I learned the hardway that a bios flash loses your RAID settings. Is this normal?

Wingz · 10 Mar 2005 at 12:39

Minstadave said:
I just trashed my RAID array with the 310-2 guess

Guess I learned the hardway that a bios flash loses your RAID settings. Is this normal?

This bios updates your raid rom as well (NVMM 4.85 and NV RAID 4.81) so i guess it will reset your raid settings.

Minstadave · 10 Mar 2005 at 12:41

Yeah looks like it, I forgot to set them again before going into windows, so the disk manager had a fit and tried to recover what it could, just made a mess though.

Time to start downloading everything all over again.

ricco · 10 Mar 2005 at 12:53

Ouch - yeah one of the reasons I don't use raid

The raid aray will always need setting if a new raid BIOS is loaded.

I would have thought Auto config would have done , but I have not used raid for a long time, taken me a while (a few years) to get over the mess from the last disaster

Minstadave · 10 Mar 2005 at 12:55

It defaulted to RAID off unfortunately. But good thing is it was just a media drive, and it won't take to long to get everything again (uni file sharing is the way forwards).

zixiazhang · 10 Mar 2005 at 13:09

so if i wanted to upgrade to 310 is there a way to protect my raid array? I have my os and all the programmes on it!

Minstadave · 10 Mar 2005 at 13:14

I don't know tbh mate, I think if you set the RAID settings in the bios before booting into windows you should be ok, unfortunately I didn't do this so can't tell you if it works or not. Not doing it definately trashes the RAID array though, this I have tried

indieman · 10 Mar 2005 at 13:34

new raid driver too:

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/Driver/F6FDD_NF4RAID.exe

from:

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downl...PE=null&INDEX_TYPE=null&STATUS_FLAG=A&SITE=NA

scooter · 10 Mar 2005 at 15:45

please help

ok guys hope ya can help
got the new dfi nf4 sli-dir board
eveything setup and ready to go
problem is when i boot from xp cd to install
it gets to the screen were it says setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration and it just stays there any help please
amd 4000 raptor drive 2x xfx 6800 gts

ricco · 10 Mar 2005 at 17:35

Read the first post regarding installation.

TheMightyTen · 10 Mar 2005 at 18:01

zixiazhang said:
so if i wanted to upgrade to 310 is there a way to protect my raid array? I have my os and all the programmes on it!

I've just done it ok. Like you I boot off a raid array. What I did immediately after flashing I went straight into bios and reset all my settings exited bios then pressed f10 to enter the raid setup when prompted and my array was showing fine and healthy.

Minstadave · 10 Mar 2005 at 18:09

TheMightyTen said:
I've just done it ok. Like you I boot off a raid array. What I did immediately after flashing I went straight into bios and reset all my settings exited bios then pressed f10 to enter the raid setup when prompted and my array was showing fine and healthy.

Its ok for some

ps3ud0 · 10 Mar 2005 at 18:11

Minstadave said:
I just trashed my RAID array with the 310-2 guess

Guess I learned the hardway that a bios flash loses your RAID settings. Is this normal?

Unlucky mate - lucky it was only a media drive and not your OS - Ive been bitten by hardware RAID 0 failing before and nearly thought I lost everything and that was on IBM 75GXPs - guess I was asking for trouble

...

That was back in the day when RAID was a new feature on mobos - never touched it again...

When will I see the wonders of this mobo

ps3ud0

Minstadave · 10 Mar 2005 at 18:13

It was my own fault, I should have been more careful, now worries though,will soon refill it

You having probs with this board? Or just not got it setup yet?

ricco · 10 Mar 2005 at 18:13

TheMightyTen said:
I've just done it ok. Like you I boot off a raid array. What I did immediately after flashing I went straight into bios and reset all my settings exited bios then pressed f10 to enter the raid setup when prompted and my array was showing fine and healthy.

Good m8.

can you give an exact instruction listing so i can add it to first post, I dont have Raid myself so I can't list the steps.

ps3ud0 · 10 Mar 2005 at 18:27

Erm dont tell anyone (esp. ricco) - but I dont own it yet - dont see any point until the PSU I want is available (OCZ 520W Active PFC Revised). Im a stow-away on this thread...

/me looks shiftly over shoulder

(hide me)

ps3ud0 :cool: