poopshotgun Posted August 25, 2006 Posted August 25, 2006 No, I'm sending it in on Monday. Have a LAN game tonight so I wanted to keep it. They've already promised me a replacement. DFI's RMA dept. did not simply flash my BIOS and send it back, in fact I still had my CMOS Reloaded settings. Not sure what kinds of tests they ran, Frank said the RMA guys put a RAID 0 on the board and then ran some read and writes (first, I only have one drive, second, I'd use RAID 1). Glad I didn't throw away the old chipset fan when I got the VC-RE... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorgan98 Posted August 25, 2006 Posted August 25, 2006 No, I'm sending it in on Monday. Have a LAN game tonight so I wanted to keep it. They've already promised me a replacement. DFI's RMA dept. did not simply flash my BIOS and send it back, in fact I still had my CMOS Reloaded settings. Not sure what kinds of tests they ran, Frank said the RMA guys put a RAID 0 on the board and then ran some read and writes (first, I only have one drive, second, I'd use RAID 1). Glad I didn't throw away the old chipset fan when I got the VC-RE... you lose capacity in raid1, raid 0 is harmless if you trust your drives. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopshotgun Posted August 25, 2006 Posted August 25, 2006 you lose capacity in raid1 But gain data reliability, security, and, as I understand it, read speed. raid 0 is harmless if you trust your drives. I don't like to trust ANY drive when it comes to my data (speaking of which, I should back up my novel...) Also, RAID 0 seems kind of useless to me since you're just spanning and interleaving drives. Sure, there are probably performance gains, but I'd rather just use the two drives seperately in thaat case. Personal preference, for sure. :cool: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masaki Posted August 26, 2006 Posted August 26, 2006 Well I see from the past posts that the driver and BIOS updates havnt fixed anything so I've decided for an RMA. However since DFI isn't doing any replacements I'm going to RMA to my retailer I'll let you all know if it works out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenity77 Posted August 27, 2006 Posted August 27, 2006 Hi. i got the same problem with uli. can anyone send a pictures of a bios setup that works plez? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizzer Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 I got a new board from DFI (Thanks Donna!). Installed it, flashed to 7-28-06 bios...I no longer have the "disk error" events. Also, my cold boot issue went away completely. So far, I'm good to go. mizzer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopshotgun Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 Hi. i got the same problem with uli. can anyone send a pictures of a bios setup that works plez? If we had one that worked, this thread wouldn't have gone on so long. Look back in the thread a few weeks and you'll see plenty of suggestions on what can potentially work. Some have fixed with BIOS settings and drivers, others probably have bad ULi chips (leaning that way myself and sending mine for RMA AGAIN tomorrow). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazeyivan Posted August 29, 2006 Posted August 29, 2006 Right I have the latest BIOS - and have installed the 2.14 drivers. Everything seems to work OK now, so I changed my HDD's (non RAID) from "emulated PATA" to "AHCI" in the BIOS - and we ran into problems straight away once windows loaded - it locked. So praying to the gods I switched it back and so far I am back error free, no lockup either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spajdr Posted August 29, 2006 Posted August 29, 2006 reinstalled windows with latest beta bios and driver, and no more hiccups, thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunknown Posted August 30, 2006 Posted August 30, 2006 reinstalled windows with latest beta bios and driver, and no more hiccups, thanks Which PCB Revision of the board are you using now without any errors? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imagination Posted August 30, 2006 Posted August 30, 2006 I bought a CFX3200-DR from Chief Value about 3-4 weeks ago, updated latest bios/drivers and all that. No issues. Only place i see a Revision is on the sticker on one of the PCI slots and it says Rev AA0. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorgan98 Posted August 30, 2006 Posted August 30, 2006 i was told by dfi that there was only the one revision of this board??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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