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post #61 of 205
8/21/08 at 1:49pm
I had no idea there was such a thing as a 5.25" bay pump/reservoir combo - then again, I know squat about H20 cooling anyway.
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post #62 of 205
8/22/08 at 1:51am
Thread Starter 
well one 4879 showed up today, the other is due to arrive Friday.

I pretty much have the unit assembled, but having Post errors which seem to point to a defective GPU,

It's nice having the Post Codes on this DFI Lan Party Board.

So I guess I will have to try the second GPU Friday afternoon and see what happens
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post #63 of 205
8/22/08 at 2:47am
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1337124

issues w/ dfi
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post #64 of 205
8/22/08 at 4:52am
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Originally Posted by ZX81 View Post
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Unfortunately it has come to our attention that the fix listed below is not working for some people while others have claimed it worked. Thus, until we have either heard from DFI regarding this issue or the community is given a fix we are recommending you AVOID DFI X38 and X48 motherboards if you intend to buy this card.

You may not believe it but we had much, much more planned for this review but unfortunately our DFI motherboard conspired to haunt us again and again. Other than the fact that our LanParty DK X38 T2R decided to mysteriously give up on our very slight memory overclock, it refused to cooperate when we installed the HD4870 X2 into it. An ASUS X48 P5E Deluxe worked without a hitch, as did a Gigabyte EP35 and ASUS P5Q Pro so we knew it wasn’t the chipset and had read of these same things happening to owners of the HD3870 X2 when pairing that card up with certain DFI boards.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...review-22.html

and a possible fix for the problems
http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7739
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post #65 of 205
8/22/08 at 11:12am
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so how does one blind flash a DFI MB
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post #66 of 205
8/22/08 at 2:48pm
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well I had to run out and buy a cheap PCie Video card so I could flash the DFI MoBo with that updated BIOS but it worked.
installing Windows XP 64bit on the new system now
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post #67 of 205
8/22/08 at 3:54pm
fantastic dave! have fun today
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post #68 of 205
8/22/08 at 5:25pm
At least you didn't have to send the board back!!
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post #69 of 205
8/24/08 at 3:02am
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
well I had to run out and buy a cheap PCie Video card so I could flash the DFI MoBo with that updated BIOS but it worked.
installing Windows XP 64bit on the new system now
Glad to see it got things straightened out for ya.
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post #70 of 205
8/24/08 at 5:13pm
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well been playing around with the new build, and seems there are still a few more bugs with the DFI mobo, including when I enable ACHI I loose my raid 0 config, and Windows craps out.

Even trying Vista 64 bit been a pain in the ass, with a non certified driver causing windows to halt and ask me to override the Certfied Driver ceck.

Going to do a clean install again, and see if the new drivers work with setting up raid.

The DFi BIOS issues also extend to the secondary Raid drivers which only can be setup with a keyboard with a PS2 connector, my USB KB can't access the configuration menu. So I had to reset the cmos and disable the j-raid option until I can try again with a ps2 KB.

Ugh, Should have stuck to the Asus boards I think, anyone want a deal on a DFI Mobo
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post #71 of 205
8/24/08 at 7:14pm
Ahh bios sucks, feel the pain.

I lost my raid 1 mysteriously here on P5Q deluxe recently and now just use software backup as I lost data and had loads on downtime reloading everything. I dont know anything about raid so got frustrated and said F-it


If your in the market for a new board these P45 ones lose a wee bit of bandwidth, not much to average user, but with crossfired x2 cards you'll see it if anyone does (supposed to be a few percent as p45 does 2x x8 pcie2 rather than 2x x16 pcie1.1 - or simething along these lines)

Hey something that may help you meantime is software ive been using on my laptop for a few months with no problems, readdriverplus - it basically just selects disable driver signing upon boot up - I use it soley for running fangui on vistax64)

Its free, here's the website: http://citadel.x10hosting.com/readydriverplus/

Fennux uses DFI board, he may be good to chat to

G'luck dave
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post #72 of 205
8/24/08 at 9:30pm
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Well it seems you can't run 2 x 4870x2 cards either

Some other just discovered issue with the DFI board.

Think I made a mistake buying this DFI

Going to get the Asus Rampage I think
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post #73 of 205
8/24/08 at 11:25pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
Well it seems you can't run 2 x 4870x2 cards either

Some other just discovered issue with the DFI board.

Think I made a mistake buying this DFI

Going to get the Asus Rampage I think

Sorry to hear about this.. but... look on the bright side, you'll get a better mobo now.

=)
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post #74 of 205
8/25/08 at 12:18am
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I am also considering this board

Gigabyte X48-DS4 ATX or this one if I can find on in Canada GA-X48-DQ6
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post #75 of 205
8/25/08 at 7:39am
I'm just catching up here...that sucks about your DFI Dave.

There are a couple of lengthy threads @ XS on the Rampage and X48 DQ6 you should check out (if you haven't already).
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post #76 of 205
8/25/08 at 3:52pm
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Seems even rampage and X48 DQ6 have issues lol

The Rampage and my Reaper Memory have problems.

maybe I will just have to go DDR3 route
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post #77 of 205
8/25/08 at 3:54pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
Well it seems you can't run 2 x 4870x2 cards either

Some other just discovered issue with the DFI board.

Think I made a mistake buying this DFI

Going to get the Asus Rampage I think

Well DFI in Twaiwan is working on a possible BIOS fix for the Dual 4870x2 card problem. time will tell.
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post #78 of 205
8/25/08 at 6:21pm
This is one pain in the a$$ build!
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post #79 of 205
8/25/08 at 6:28pm
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I had better ones that for sure.
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post #80 of 205
8/25/08 at 6:31pm
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I just bought this

OCZ Reaper OCZ3RPR1333C94GK 4GB DDR3 2X2GB DDR3-1333 CL 9-9-9-20 Dual Channel Memory Kit $169.00 After Rebate

Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 ATX LGA775 X48 DDR3 2PCI-E 2PCI SATA2 RAID Sound 2GLAN 1394 CrossFireX Motherboard $359.47


Going to list my DFI MB and DDR2 reaper memory for sale.
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