Official DFI NF4Ultra-D/SLi owners thread.

Matt_Hirst · 13 Mar 2005 at 10:59

Re-set cmos and the following happens:

With gcard in top slot, single stick of ram, no hd's, dvd's or anything else, 3 red led's are lit and the green power led on front of case flashes on and off.

With gcard in other slot, single stick of ram, no hd's, dvd's or anything else, led's go down to one lit and pc speaker beeps - darrrrrrrrrr da da - power led remains lit.

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 13 Mar 2005 at 11:01

Mercyless,

RMA's are direct back to DFI, gonna try some differnt ram today and if that don't work have a go at the RMA procedure.

Got my board Friday

Regards,

Matt

Minstadave · 13 Mar 2005 at 11:49

Élynduil said:
Save me reading through this huge topic,
I want to get an Ultra-D but I hear chipset cooler is loud and close to the PCI-E slots. What suitable passive or 'silent' coolers will fit alongside a 6800 or X800?

You won't get a passive cooler on the chipset unless you seriously mutilate a zalman NB cooler or the like, as the GFX card runs right over the chipset.

nickinmarbella · 13 Mar 2005 at 11:50

Hi, i just got me the ut ultra d and g skill la, I have followed all instucions posted by Ricco.........still can boot it

is anyone having problems instaling windows xp? i have cleared Cmos & Reset DMI pool but still freezes on the loading windows page,

gary996 · 13 Mar 2005 at 13:08

nickinmarbella said:
Hi, i just got me the ut ultra d and g skill la, I have followed all instucions posted by Ricco.........still can boot it
is anyone having problems instaling windows xp? i have cleared Cmos & Reset DMI pool but still freezes on the loading windows page,

Had no problem at all setting Xp pro up. What hard drives you using sata or pata and have you enabled the sata ports you want to use?

mercyless · 13 Mar 2005 at 13:31

matt, whats going with mobo's, we laid out good money for it, now even more to send back plus time waiting and we just got it, i'm not happy at mo.
it has to be dfi for rma ?in our case we just got them 2-3 day ago, will they repair or replace mobo?
dont like it if repairing mobo,should be new i'd say

nickinmarbella · 13 Mar 2005 at 13:33

hi gary
i am useing a maxtor 30 gig, jumper set to master...........i also have a raptor, but no going to use this until i can at least load windows.

Matt_Hirst · 13 Mar 2005 at 13:34

Tried a differnt power supply and 2 differnt sticks of ram - still no change so off to rma the board.

Matt

Roch · 13 Mar 2005 at 13:37

Hi
What is a safe Vcore level to put through a 3800? At the moment I can pass 20 loops of 3dmark01 at 217 with the vcore at 1.52 and the vdimm at 2.9. Would you consider this "gaming" stable? The memory passes memtest ok at 233, 2.5,4,3,8, (with the multiplier turned right down) but won't boot into windows at 12. I've tried smaller steps but it crashes 3dmark at 220. I'm thinking that I should try more vcore but don't want to fry it. This is a gaming machine so I want to keep within safe and stable tolerances. Exos is reading 32. So far ***** pi-fast is 47.61, 3dmark01 around 26500 and 3dmark05 is about 9100 This is without touching memory timings or Nvidia control panel. Any pointers greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Matt_Hirst · 13 Mar 2005 at 14:03

Mercyless,

Agree with ya, reading the dfi rma things first port of call can be supplier it's upto the person sending it back.

Would prefer to take it back to overclockers and get replacement, would be quicker.

Regards,

Matt

ricco · 13 Mar 2005 at 14:33

Roch said:
Hi
What is a safe Vcore level to put through a 3800? At the moment I can pass 20 loops of 3dmark01 at 217 with the vcore at 1.52 and the vdimm at 2.9. Would you consider this "gaming" stable? The memory passes memtest ok at 233, 2.5,4,3,8, (with the multiplier turned right down) but won't boot into windows at 12. I've tried smaller steps but it crashes 3dmark at 220. I'm thinking that I should try more vcore but don't want to fry it. This is a gaming machine so I want to keep within safe and stable tolerances. Exos is reading 32. So far ***** pi-fast is 47.61, 3dmark01 around 26500 and 3dmark05 is about 9100 This is without touching memory timings or Nvidia control panel. Any pointers greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Most of that is outside the scope of this thread, maybe start a new post in Overclocking regarding as you will get far more replies specificly to you.
As for Vcore, 1.65v is a safe max(as stated by AMD's white papers)

matt1 · 13 Mar 2005 at 15:09

my 6800GT literally sits ontop of the chipset cooler, does no harm to it (probably a bit of obstruction).

Roch · 13 Mar 2005 at 16:36

Will do ricco, ta. very much.

eric · 13 Mar 2005 at 19:27

Software for the UT Ultra d

Been through this thread and can not find answers to my questions hence this post. { If I have missed bits I beg forgiveness , this thread IS long }.

Here goes:

1/ How do you remove Nvidia firewall ?
2/ How do you remove Nvidia forceware ?
3/The Nvidia SW driver , a good guy or not ? if not how get rid ?

Ps.
Thanks for all the tips so far esp R and a high 5 to DFI forum for the bios set ups.

Cashman · 13 Mar 2005 at 20:09

is this board very troublesome then lads?

I was thinking of buying one today? But I'd like to know why people are all having bootup problems?

samcim · 13 Mar 2005 at 20:16

Mine was and still is AWSOME! not one single problem!!!!!!

mh2005 · 13 Mar 2005 at 20:23

HELP!!!

Hi all,

Got my A.02 Ultra-D on Tuesday and have been fighting to get it to boot with my new pair of 512mb Corsair XMS3200XL all week. Managed to get it running OK with a pair of Samsung 256 PC2700 sticks from my old system and also followed the thread advice of setting up using one stick - this went ok. But I CANNOT get any stability with both Corsair sticks installed, it simply gets to the WindowsXP Pro desktop and immediately reboots. Have flashed the BIOS to 209 and also tried every possible memory combination and voltages from 2.5 - 2.9 but all to no avail. Have also tried all the slot combinations possible.
Any additional advice would be appreciated (have studied this thread for an hour though!) or do you think I should RMA the board?
Thanks in advance

A very frustrated Mark H

samcim · 13 Mar 2005 at 20:30

single sticks boot ok? try running memtest 86 (floppy boot) both orange slots are best too.

mh2005 · 13 Mar 2005 at 21:05

Cheers samcim, Yes single sticks seem to work fine, and I've tried both individually. Have run memory test in the BIOS 209 and it did show errors in 1 of the 10 tests (can't remember which test though!) I've also concentrated on the orange slots but I did try the yellow in desperation.... nothing seems to work.
Thanks

mad_weegie · 13 Mar 2005 at 21:53

Ive just ordered this board and ive read many places that the board will work fine with a 20pin psu connection! is this true? current power supply is 450w and didnt want to change that aswell! just wanted some feedback from anyone who actully has it on this setup. thanks .