Of course the system couldnt go together easy!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:38 pm

well I may have to take out 2 of the 4 ram sticks, leave in the orange or yellow?

Gonna try the new bios now first, in the bios options theres a "3 ory hole" looks like that should be something memory hole, hope teh board is ok.

to adjust for 1T ramd timing to 2T I need to change a bunch of ram settings?

For those that dont know this is the DFI nf4 DR board.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:42 pm

flashed bios, mobo/fans power up nothing else.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:11 pm

went down to 1 stick of ram and it booted fine, gotta play with it later. Installing drivers and junk now.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:55 pm

use the 623 Bios and use slots 1 and 3 for Dual channel. Ya may have to adjust some of the timings and the volts for the ram depending on what it requires.. I'm starting to hate my DFI mobo cause the whole system hates me LOL I can't get past blue screens now for some odd damn reason so I ordered a ASUS board to put everything on and give it a shot.. DFI for some reason just didn't like any component I put with it even though they were recommended.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:56 pm

yeah orange ...i booted on one stick at first ....got it going ...then added the other

edit.lol..he says yellow i say orange ..hmm ... did i mention i've had no problems with mine

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:04 pm

Running now, found a tiny piece of styrofoam in a dimm slot, still gotta put the ram back in and the tv card.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:25 pm

ohh yeah I mean 2 and 4 lol

damn colors another reason why I'm starting to dislike that board

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:26 pm

Sava700 wrote:ohh yeah I mean 2 and 4 lol

damn colors another reason why I'm starting to dislike that board

Good luck with the asus one

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:43 pm

so, how's it goin' ?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:59 am

Izzo wrote:so, how's it goin' ?

Went to work, trying to get aquamark 3 to work, looks like i dled a bad installer.

Then i can get to some gaming done.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:50 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Good luck with the asus one

running out of options.. looks as if DFI just plain hates any part I put on it.. this is after 3 different mobo's and I've swapped out everything cept the CPU which doesn't appear to have anything wrong with it.
Now i'm in just BLUE SCREEN HELL

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:14 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Went to work, trying to get aquamark 3 to work, looks like i dled a bad installer.

Then i can get to some gaming done.

did it crash?

where ?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:36 am

Izzo wrote:did it crash?

where ?

Wouldnt run, think it doesnt work for XP x64

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:18 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Wouldnt run, think it doesnt work for XP x64

ah

Jada · Post by **Jada** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:42 pm

Sava700 wrote:running out of options.. looks as if DFI just plain hates any part I put on it.. this is after 3 different mobo's and I've swapped out everything cept the CPU which doesn't appear to have anything wrong with it.
Now i'm in just BLUE SCREEN HELL

The Asus A8N-SLi Premium is a rock solid mother board, over-clock well and good raid options.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:09 pm

Jada wrote:The Asus A8N-SLi Premium is a rock solid mother board, over-clock well and good raid options.

I was reading some horror stories with that on another forum, seems much more limited than the DFI ones though.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:18 pm

Jada wrote:The Asus A8N-SLi Premium is a rock solid mother board, over-clock well and good raid options.

I got this before you posted.. its running good but now I'm not sure if it was the DFI board or not..seems to be a chip of ram gone bad now but could have been the board making them go bad. This makes 3rd time I've sent them or one of them back. XP loads alot faster with the DFI board like in 10-15seconds.. where the asus loads it in like 30-40.. I like the ASUS heat pipe vs the fan the DFI has also!

Jada · Post by **Jada** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:58 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:I was reading some horror stories with that on another forum, seems much more limited than the DFI ones though.

I have built quite a few computers with the Asus board, not one problem with the Asus A8N-SLi Premium, but the Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe was a nightmare, although that was a bios problem and they started shipping them with the 107 bios which fixed many problems, main one being a memory problem.

Also the chip-set fan was noisy and many would die on the Deluxe board.

Sava700 you got a good motherboard, might be the raid option pages slowing the boot time, if not raided you can turn it off in bios.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:03 am

Jada wrote:I have built quite a few computers with the Asus board, not one problem with the Asus A8N-SLi Premium, but the Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe was a nightmare, although that was a bios problem and they started shipping them with the 107 bios which fixed many problems, main one being a memory problem.

Also the chip-set fan was noisy and many would die on the Deluxe board.

Sava700 you got a good motherboard, might be the raid option pages slowing the boot time, if not raided you can turn it off in bios.

Asus needs a bit bigger gap in board names lol

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:23 am

Jada wrote:
Sava700 you got a good motherboard, might be the raid option pages slowing the boot time, if not raided you can turn it off in bios.

where at in bios so I know exactly where to go look and disable if you don't mind tellin

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:54 am

Sava700 wrote:where at in bios so I know exactly where to go look and disable if you don't mind tellin

Probably integrated peripherals.