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Just a warning to those of you to try to upgrade to the DFI NFII Ultra
Infinity boards that the BIOS can be some finiky with respect to recognizing
hard drives.
One great secret about DFI is that you can talk to the tech support staff
who are helpful and usually pick up the phone within the first minute of the
call. No waiting around listening to your queue position.
I recently installed one of these boards as an upgrade for my home system.
The installation went smoothly except that the system would not post, but
hang on auto-detection on the Western Digital 40 GB harddrive (31-Oct-2001,
maybe it was a Halloween gremlin). If I unplugged the drive from the Mobo,
I could post or make it to configure the BIOS. If the drive was plugged in,
the system hung on the message detecting ide devices.
For two days, I tried trouble-shooting and gave up. I had an 80 GB Western
Digital drive in my kids computer. If you read some of the reviews for this
board many customers complain that it crashed their drives. Because I had a
spare system, I could plug 40 GB drive in and verify that nothing was wrong
with it. I think in some cases the drives were fine, but that is the first
inclination of tech support that the drive has failed.
When I swapped drives the 40 GB drive was recognized in the kids computer
and the 80 GB drive in the DFI system. Besides capacity, the only other
difference between the two drives was that the 80 GB drive was about 6
months newer. Of course, it meant swapping files and reinstalling the
software to get the two systems back the way they were, but on this one it
was easier to switch then fight any longer.
My other struggle with this system is getting the Barton XP 2500+ up to 2.2
GHz. I had it overclocked on an Epox 8RDA+ system with the same RAM to
209x11 @ 1.8 V. The system boots to windows xp and appears stable at 11x200
@ 1.8 V, but fails Prime 95 in the first 2 minutes. Still working on
figuring this one out.
Cheers,
Pete
Just a warning to those of you to try to upgrade to the DFI NFII Ultra
Infinity boards that the BIOS can be some finiky with respect to recognizing
hard drives.
One great secret about DFI is that you can talk to the tech support staff
who are helpful and usually pick up the phone within the first minute of the
call. No waiting around listening to your queue position.
I recently installed one of these boards as an upgrade for my home system.
The installation went smoothly except that the system would not post, but
hang on auto-detection on the Western Digital 40 GB harddrive (31-Oct-2001,
maybe it was a Halloween gremlin). If I unplugged the drive from the Mobo,
I could post or make it to configure the BIOS. If the drive was plugged in,
the system hung on the message detecting ide devices.
For two days, I tried trouble-shooting and gave up. I had an 80 GB Western
Digital drive in my kids computer. If you read some of the reviews for this
board many customers complain that it crashed their drives. Because I had a
spare system, I could plug 40 GB drive in and verify that nothing was wrong
with it. I think in some cases the drives were fine, but that is the first
inclination of tech support that the drive has failed.
When I swapped drives the 40 GB drive was recognized in the kids computer
and the 80 GB drive in the DFI system. Besides capacity, the only other
difference between the two drives was that the 80 GB drive was about 6
months newer. Of course, it meant swapping files and reinstalling the
software to get the two systems back the way they were, but on this one it
was easier to switch then fight any longer.
My other struggle with this system is getting the Barton XP 2500+ up to 2.2
GHz. I had it overclocked on an Epox 8RDA+ system with the same RAM to
209x11 @ 1.8 V. The system boots to windows xp and appears stable at 11x200
@ 1.8 V, but fails Prime 95 in the first 2 minutes. Still working on
figuring this one out.
Cheers,
Pete
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