WakeUpDead Posted August 11, 2006 Posted August 11, 2006 Had to RMA mine with those issues, get my new one tomarrow. Hope this one does better! I use Newegg for most my stuff and not once have they turned down a RMA. Heck my board was more then 2 months old and I never wrote to them prior telling them I had issues, just did the RMA and here you go, a new one! Have to send in my nF4-D next, it stopped working yesterday, they approved that RMA too, I bought it in Dec. 05! Newegg is very good to its customers, as long as you follow their rules! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2000army Posted August 11, 2006 Posted August 11, 2006 Fresh install / new drivers / new bios/ first time i have recieved errors in 4 months/only when playing BF2/usually when a map loads. Patman74.....I sent you an IM about the fan. my email is [email protected] if you did not get it! Thanks again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChkDsk Posted August 11, 2006 Posted August 11, 2006 Well, if I understand correct there are no real improvements made? Too bad... ChkDsk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonDecepticon Posted August 12, 2006 Posted August 12, 2006 The upside is that I haven't had any BSoD's or corruption so far, but the problem appears to be worsened. It's at least inspiring that they got both a BIOS and driver version out of ULi. I'da figured ULi would just keep pointing at Asus and saying it wasn't their problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thietavu Posted August 12, 2006 Posted August 12, 2006 It seems like the "long freezes" have more or less disappeared after the bios/driver updates, but the event log still shows errors... Strange. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis.ie Posted August 12, 2006 Posted August 12, 2006 Actually, I can ALMOST live with the freezes as I am getting them quite infrequently .... however, what is annoying me the most at the moment is not being able to use the two disk controllers at the same time. Even after flashing back to the 523 BIOS, I still can't get the SiI to see my backup drive. It will see it in windows, but not in "DOS" mode. Another strange thing, if I flash the current official BIOS, upon reboot BOTH controllers will work (and no error messages on boot) if they are both in RAID or if the ULI is in non-RAID and the SiI is in RAID. But if I put the ULI in RAID and the SII in SATA, I get the funny message. This is only after the flash, If I mess around turning them on and off, suddenly I find I can get no error message with any combination. If I have the ULI disabled and SII in SATA mode I CAN see the attached drive. The whole thing is a MESS and I wish they would fix it as whether the ULI chip has problems or not (could be a bad batch of chips) the above is annoying and needs to be fixed. Ho hum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akela Posted August 14, 2006 Posted August 14, 2006 It may sound stupid, but If I plug the drives that are RAID 0 in the first and last connectors, I get no errors, but if they are next to each other I get errors. Could it be only in my rig? This shouldn't be happening!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis.ie Posted August 14, 2006 Posted August 14, 2006 Interesting about the ports, I can't try that on the ULI as I have 4 x RAID0. I might try the SII in SATA mode on the other ports though just to see if it makes any difference. I think my single drive is on port 2 just now as it was the easiest to connect to .... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akela Posted August 14, 2006 Posted August 14, 2006 Nemesis, try that when you configure RAID - connect first and third, second and fourth... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis.ie Posted August 14, 2006 Posted August 14, 2006 Not quite sure what you mean, I have all 4 connected, i.e. one array accross all 4 drives .... If I change the order e.g. if I were to swap drive 2 and 3's connectors, the stupid ULI controller/software has not tagged the drives so unless they are in the right order it doesn't see them as a valid array (Got to love the RAIDCore in my server) ...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akela Posted August 14, 2006 Posted August 14, 2006 Not quite sure what you mean, I have all 4 connected, i.e. one array accross all 4 drives .... If I change the order e.g. if I were to swap drive 2 and 3's connectors, the stupid ULI controller/software has not tagged the drives so unless they are in the right order it doesn't see them as a valid array (Got to love the RAIDCore in my server) ...... They go from top to bottom as in connectors (based on experimenting) so I pick first and last for two drives when I configure the array, I was thinking you can pick just first and third in order, etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorgan98 Posted August 15, 2006 Posted August 15, 2006 Any one wonder how many rma's dfi have had with this board would be interesting to know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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