Who has the DS3 boot cycle issue?

Robert · 28 Jan 2007 at 14:44

Basically I bought an xfi - but with the F7 bios, when you reboot the card uninstalls itself. Now, I updated to F9 and it sucked. It wouldn't let me run my E6300 at 400FSB with Geil RAM (it'd go into a reboot cycle and turn off, resetting the bios). Now I upped the bios to F10. Now I get no cold boot issues, but if I reboot is cycles 4 times then comes on. The system is fine but this is annoying! Who else experiences this and has anyone found a fix which doesn't involve flashing the bios again? Oh the boot cycle doesn't happen when running at stock FSB with the voltages I specify.

Buffalo2102 · 29 Jan 2007 at 09:19

Does it still happen without the X-Fi installed?

I've never had the reboot issues and have used almost every BIOS since F3. Don't have a X-Fi though.

Robert · 29 Jan 2007 at 09:44

It's a well known issue with the F9 bios. It's damn annoying, well it isn't that bad but I'd like to fix it if I can. The XFI isn't the problem - it happens when any overclock is applied.

acs1 · 29 Jan 2007 at 09:44

I have an xfi music in the top pci slot and with both bios' F7 and F10 had no boot cycle problem or the card uninstalling itself

mercyless · 29 Jan 2007 at 11:48

had the DS4 with the same issues, only way for me was to reset cmos, got so bad i left the side door off, never knowing if it will startup ok or go through the reboot cycle.
got rid in the end.