Tmod and loggan26's Bios Flash CD & Utility CDs NF/4/3/2+ATI

[Guest Retratserif]

Is the OCZ Tony mob aimed torwards OCZ ram? I will be testing Bios's soon for the Expert. Is there a Bios I should avoid? I am just looking to get stable past 2.8. I feel that the bios might be holding me back.

 

Also, is there a way I could back up the bios I am currently using? I am not sure what they shipped me this time.

[Guest Tmod]

I used this CD to flash my NF4 Expert to the Tony EX406BTA bios. The flash went fine, and I pressed F1 to reset. Then it wouldn't post. After 30minutes of troubleshooting, I found out that it won't POST with ram in either of the first channel slots (closest to CPU), but running single channel was fine.

 

I tried flashing to the regular 406 BIOS with no avail.

 

All flashes were done @ stock speeds and 2.8v dimm /w CE-6 chips. Why would a BIOS flash fry one of the memory channels??

I don't think a bios flash would burn up any of the memory channels.

 

What bios did you originally have in this system?

 

There has to be something else happening here.

 

Tmod

[Guest Tmod]

Is the OCZ Tony mob aimed torwards OCZ ram? I will be testing Bios's soon for the Expert. Is there a Bios I should avoid? I am just looking to get stable past 2.8. I feel that the bios might be holding me back.

 

Also, is there a way I could back up the bios I am currently using? I am not sure what they shipped me this time.

OCZ Tony's bios is just softer on the memory timings so it will boot with less problems using several different brands of memory.

 

I haven't heard of any ill effects with any expert bios so if you are really looking to do some tweaking try all of them.

 

Tmod

[HKPolice]

It was 11/25 bios before. I tried flashing back to those and the Tony 704-2BT as well, still won't POST with anything in the first channel slots :mad:

 

I don't think a bios flash would burn up any of the memory channels.

 

What bios did you originally have in this system?

 

There has to be something else happening here.

 

Tmod

[Guest Tmod]

It was 11/25 bios before. I tried flashing back to those and the Tony 704-2BT as well, still won't POST with anything in the first channel slots :mad:

I assume you have cleared the CMOS and have NOT used any of the previous CMOS Reloaded settings?

 

Tmod

[iLLestOne]

Wait, so the N4d623-3 bios will work with the nf4 Ultra-d? And is the best OFFICIAL bios for TCCD?

[Aeka]

Tmod

 

If you don't allready do this, please do so for those that dl your iso.

 

awdflash bios.bin /py /sn /wb /cd /cc /cp /LD

 

/cc and /LD won't totally clear the cmos correctly, however using both at the same time is halfway decent.

 

/wb for example is extremly important.

From one rev of a bios to the next, may have a diff bootblock.

Even modded bios'es may have modded bootblocks.

So it's extremely important that you include that.

 

 

For example it may not be so important say from hellfire's 3eg r2 from 619.

However, it would be imporatant for slash's rev of that bios, since he modded the SIP located in the bootblock.

 

Flashing from say 506 to 112404, would need it as well, as there's a few changed bytes here and there located in the bootblock.

 

 

From previous experience using modbin back in the day, with a kt333 board.

Not flashing the bootblock resulted in a half dead bios.

 

 

So please ensure you flash the bios in it's entierty if you allready don't .

Just a heads up yo .

 

 

 

Also...

Ensure that people know not to use a hotflash routine when they don't need to.

The /f perameter to be exact.

 

If you use it on a working chip, it can kill it.

Not permamently, but it's not fun to kill an image so...

 

 

Also please ensure that people know not to ever enable bios flash protection in the bios setup.

Trying to flash will result in a failed flash.

Allways resulting in a dead bios after reboot.

 

 

 

 

Just one more thing to bother you with.

I have one more modded bios then this, but it's an inf bios not a lpb bios.

The rest I have are mine, so I don't include them in this rar.

 

It was something I put together one morning a while back.

Anyways I'd like to know of you know of any more then what is here, for the lpb:

 

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DFI_NFII-LPB_[bIOS-Set] (21) 20,447,232

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<[EvilouS]>

<[Hellfire]>

<[Merlin]>

<[tictac]>

2003-0709-Beta_RC2.bin 524,288 1/29/2005 7D94B3C7 a

2003-0930-UNK.bin 524,288 9/30/2003 1280F6B8 a

2003-1015-UNK.bin 524,288 10/15/2003 7F18595E a

2003-1127-UNK.bin 524,288 11/27/2003 8AD7A5C0 a

2003-1210-Beta.bin 524,288 9/18/2004 76468DDB a

2003-1218-Beta.bin 524,288 9/18/2004 C7FE3DE1 a

2003-1231-Beta.bin 524,288 9/18/2004 1F048A16 a

2004-0121-Beta.bin 524,288 1/21/2004 B763990D a

2004-0130-Beta.bin 524,288 9/18/2004 215BD854 a

2004-0131-Beta.bin 524,288 1/31/2004 4D0B5AA6 a

2004-0215-Beta.bin 524,288 9/18/2004 A536D982 a

2004-0217-Beta.bin 524,288 2/17/2004 5041147F a

2004-0217-Beta_Alt.bin 524,288 2/17/2004 E5392565 a

2004-0228-Official.bin 524,288 2/28/2004 FBF63E3E a

2004-0429-Beta.bin 524,288 4/29/2004 091CFE6A a

2004-0506-Beta.bin 524,288 5/5/2004 75A64403 a

2004-0619-Beta.bin 524,288 6/19/2004 34418129 a

2004-0619-Official.bin 524,288 7/20/2004 FF9B3E49 a

2004-0728-Beta.bin 524,288 7/28/2004 0BE63C58 a

2004-1119-Beta.bin 524,288 11/19/2004 99853C44 a

2004-1124-Official.bin 524,288 11/25/2004 88E9B399 a

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DFI_NFII-LPB_[bIOS-Set][EvilouS] (5) 2,621,440

-----------------------------------------------------------------

[EvilouS]_2004-0429_(UNK-Release){131}[E5CC8 524,288 5/11/2004 E5CC8189 a

[EvilouS]_2004-0429_(UNK-Release){C18}[CAB86 524,288 5/10/2004 CAB86C55 a

[EvilouS]_2004-0429_(UNK-Release){SPC}[0A57C 524,288 5/23/2004 0A57CD3F a

[EvilouS]_2004-0506_(UNK-Release){131}[8BC4E 524,288 5/11/2004 8BC4EA81 a

[EvilouS]_2004-0506_(UNK-Release){C18}[27E61 524,288 5/11/2004 27E6151E a

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DFI_NFII-LPB_[bIOS-Set][Hellfire] (5) 2,621,440

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[Hellfire]_2004-0619_(UNK-Release){3EG}[27D5 524,288 7/21/2004 27D5CDA8 a

[Hellfire]_2004-0619_(UNK-Release){3EG-REV2} 524,288 8/11/2004 8E881E1A a

[Hellfire]_2004-0619_(UNK-Release){3EG-REV3} 524,288 8/19/2004 499891DC a

[Hellfire]_2004-0619_(UNK-Release){C18}[4500 524,288 7/16/2004 45004CAA a

[Hellfire]_2004-0619_(UNK-Release){Turbo}[68 524,288 1/29/2005 685F14F1 a

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DFI_NFII-LPB_[bIOS-Set][Merlin] (5) 2,621,440

-----------------------------------------------------------------

[Merlin]_2004-0728_(UNK-Release){Discovery 0 524,288 11/23/2004 7697AD56 a

[Merlin]_2004-0728_(UNK-Release){TaiPan 0.2 524,288 11/1/2004 DD6ACCE3 a

[Merlin]_2004-0728_(UNK-Release){TaiPan 0.5 524,288 11/6/2004 3C148786 a

[Merlin]_2004-0728_(UNK-Release){TaiPan 0.5 524,288 11/6/2004 89EBADC5 a

[Merlin]_2004-0728_(UNK-Release){TaiPan 0.6 524,288 11/7/2004 D0DDDFA7 a

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DFI_NFII-LPB_[bIOS-Set][tictac] (3) 1,572,864

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[tictac]_2004-0619_(UNK-Release){3DFire}[258 524,288 1/3/2002 258A8D99 a

[tictac]_2004-0619_(UNK-Release){3DFire-R2}[ 524,288 1/16/2005 DB64464D a

[tictac]_2004-0619_(UNK-Release){XT}[D2CF427 524,288 3/26/2005 D2CF427E a

 

 

 

UNK means I don't know if it came form an official or beta.

There's a lot of dfi bios'es I don't know if they were official or beta because of the stock naming convention on alot of the older ones.

 

If you're interested in it give me a holler and I'll up it somewhere.

Otherwise give me a holler if you know of anymore .

 

I know there's a 708 or somehting like that that I miss.

Someone I seen pass through here once had it stock on there board, but quickly flashed over it.

I'm interested in ANY other rev, or perhaps alt rev's of the same bios.

 

 

Edit:

Oh yeah, I miss these:

 

DFI_Lan_Party_Ultra_B_TaiPan_0.3_04.11.04.rar

DFI_Lan_Party_Ultra_B_Discovery_0.3_ED_E4_EB_23.11.04.rar

 

Merlin mods.

 

Looks like this dir lister is having probs on the names...

[Guest Tmod]

If you don't allready do this, please do so for those that dl your iso.

 

awdflash bios.bin /py /sn /wb /cd /cc /cp /LD

 

/cc and /LD won't totally clear the cmos correctly, however using both at the same time is halfway decent.

 

/wb for example is extremly important.

From one rev of a bios to the next, may have a diff bootblock.

Even modded bios'es may have modded bootblocks.

So it's extremely important that you include that.

I include the command line that DFI has placed in their bios flashing routines for each differnet board that I include on my Cd.

 

I feel that it is the best compromise as their are many members or users of the CD that want the flash routine as close as possible to DFI's own.

 

I realize that the bootblock may be different between bios's and my experience with it after programming was it writes the bootblock anyway. I have confirmed that using my eprom programmer. I have had more issues using the /wb command then I did without using it.

 

Tmod

[Daba]

Hi

I have 2x512 PC3200 ballistix and i am using bios 623. the mem max out at ~240 with 2.5-2-2-6 timings and 2.6V.

I was considering an uppdate, I know 704-2BTA is good for ballistix mem but i would like to know how good is the new official or 0406BTA compared to 704-2BTA ?

wich bios is 704-2BTA based on ?

is it better to go for older 704-2BTA or new official?

[dreadi]

hi guys.

 

i have just d/led tmods tool as a recent attempt to update my bios to the lastest via winflash resulted in a no post. Now i have this tool and have been able to boot the cd, theres a whole bunch of bioses which i have to hand on the disk but dont know which one to choose.

 

my kit is: Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-D, OCZ gold pc4000(2x512),x2 4400+ and a 6600.

 

can anyone suggest which bios would be good to use or is it a case of just use any ?

thanks for any help:)

dreadi

[lowboy]

The one in my sig.

[dreadi]

thanks