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I know this is the wrong forum, but I'm just looking for a quick answer. I am upgrading from an Abit Via Kt800pro chipset board to a DFI NF3 Ultra D board and I really want to save the reformatt for the weekend. I do however want to plop the Abit in a different computer tonight(this ones getting formatted after install). Has anyone been able to switch motherboards of different chipsets without reinstalling windows? I know its wrong, immoral and maybe even racist but is it possible to postpone the reformatt and just put the mobo into her? Thanks

Hi, I currently own the following pc and am finding that the motherboard is simply inadequate for my overclocking needs and that abit is horrible at bios revisions. Athlon 64 Venice 3000 Abit Av8 Via kt800 pro 2x512 Patriot 3200 XBLK Xion 450Watt PSU Ati X800xt AGP Now as an original owner of both Lanparty NF2 Ultra Rev A and later B I had quite high expectations of the Via Kt800 pro chipset. I went with the abit cuz of the price I was able to get and the reputation, however I was quickly sorely disappointed. The board simply cannot lock its pci bus and is unstable at LDT 3x making it quite a useless overclocker. The company released a bios that supposedly fixed the PCI locking issue only to find out after installing that it doesn't support the most popular ram for the motherboard(XBLK). Having dug up an old BH-5 Kingston 512 stick I was able to boot and reflash but I am completely fed up with this mobo. Unfortunately I don't have the funds to migrate to PCI-E yet, and it seems that it isn't really that effective of an upgrade unless I am willing to shell out over 350 dollars for a new graphics card, as mine is still relatively new. This means I'm stuck with either another KT800 chipset or try my luck with the Nf3 250 chipset. Having been a member of the DFI forum and then migrating to ABIT I desperately want to return to the DFI community as the support here is phenomenal. What I was wondering, is if it would be worthwhile to switch over to the NF3 250 chipset and whether anyone could give me an idea of its relative overclockability. In particular how does it fare with the Samsung TCCD infused on the popular brainpower pcb. I know the voltages of these chips aren't as good as the BH series but could I still reach high overclocks? (On the KT800 I was stuck at ~240) Thanks!

My setup stably ran 240@2-2-2-11 and once the weather cooled I was running the cpu at 10x. Suddenly my mobo stopped posting randomly but after a couple restarts would post. This lasted maybe a month until it completely stopped posting. I removed one of the 2 BH-5 sticks and it now runs at spec only which is 166 fsb. When I ran it at 240 I had the mem voltage at 3.3 but now it is back to 2.7. Also my dvd+rw has been very intermittent. It doesn't burn cd's or dvd's anymore but it will read them occasionally. This is very strange! All of these components are less than a year old and claimed to be of the highest quality. I have been running an unofficial bios I'm pretty sure it is 6/19 revision. My only hunch torwards what might be wrong is that either my psu is not powerfull enough for my setup or that the mobo is starting to flake and is screwing up my other parts. I am still in disbelief that my bh-5's performance could drop down that much. I did a proper burn in and my case temps never went above 40. If anyone has any ideas as to what could be wrong I would appreciate it.

Wasn't HS but the fan. I guess my idea of turning it around proved to be a lot more catastrophical than I could have imagine. I still don't understand how it could be, the heatsink is symmetric so when I turned the fan around, 180 degrees, it still should have had the same effect. Oh well, I don't think I will do that again though. Thanks for all the advice, after looking at my cpu temps though, and basically trying everything else, I was pretty certain it was the cpu/hsu. The only thing that made me skeptical about that was the fact it would boot at certain speeds. Thanks for everyone's help

Hi, I decided to do a case rewiring today and also add some artic silver to the Northbrige of my board. While I was at it I also took off the heatsinks off of my new BH-5 chips. Now when I put everything together, everything started up and I was relieved to find my computer start up fine. I pressed del to get into the BIOS and started double checking settings. All of a sudden after about 45seconds it shut off automatically. I was like WTF?!? I hope this isn't going to happen again. Well it did, and it keeps happening, and it doesn't matter what I'm trying to do, after 45 seconds of being on, it automatically shuts off. The temperatures look very stable, the voltages in the BIOS look fine and I even tried running under optimized(stock) settings. If anyone has any clue as to what I could have possibly done wrong then please help. Thanks a lot! UPDATE: Alright well at first I basically disconnected everything from the case including drives(including power switch cable), and any non essential cables. Still would randomly restart. Afterwards I swapped ramchips and it would still do it. I proceeded to remove the cmos jumper and let it sit in the BIOS for a while to see if that did it. It did not shut off at 100mhz fsb. I then upped it to 133 and it still didn't do it. I upped it to 166 and it failed before it even go to the Lanparty Screen. I then put it back to 100 and tried to start windows, and here I am on my computer writing this. Very strange! However thing that does make me think it might be cpu related is that even at this pathetic speed, my cpu temps are a good 7degrees higher than before, at first I was thinking that it might be due to the fact that the case was open and all the fans weren't plugged in, but just to be specific I will mention that I also turned the fan around, as it was sucking from the PSU area and I figured since the PSU blows out might be better to turn it around. The heatsink on the northbridge looks alright although a bit of the artic silver came over the chip but it barely hangs over. My system temps are lower than before though. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly apprectiated. I know it isn't the RAM, nor anything else in the case. The computer is also running fine at 100mhz fsb and 1.25ghz Athlon XP. Now my question is, could this be the psu, and if the motherboard can reach the BIOS and the startup screens for agood 45 seconds even at 240fsb, then is can it even be the mobo?

Alright well at first I basically disconnected everything from the case including drives(including power switch cable), and any non essential cables. Still would randomly restart. Afterwards I swapped ramchips and it would still do it. I proceeded to remove the cmos jumper and let it sit in the BIOS for a while to see if that did it. It did not shut off at 100mhz fsb. I then upped it to 133 and it still didn't do it. I upped it to 166 and it failed before it even go to the Lanparty Screen. I then put it back to 100 and tried to start windows, and here I am on my computer writing this. Very strange! However thing that does make me think it might be cpu related is that even at this pathetic speed, my cpu temps are a good 7degrees higher than before, at first I was thinking that it might be due to the fact that the case was open and all the fans weren't plugged in, but just to be specific I will mention that I also turned the fan around, as it was sucking from the PSU area and I figured since the PSU blows out might be better to turn it around. The heatsink on the northbridge looks alright although a bit of the artic silver came over the chip but it barely hangs over. My system temps are lower than before though. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly apprectiated. I know it isn't the RAM, nor anything else in the case. The computer is also running fine at 100mhz fsb and 1.25ghz Athlon XP. Now my question is, could this be the psu, and if the motherboard can reach the BIOS and the startup screens for agood 45 seconds even at 240fsb, then is can it even be the mobo?

Hi, I decided to do a case rewiring today and also add some artic silver to the Northbrige of my board. While I was at it I also took off the heatsinks off of my new BH-5 chips. Now when I put everything together, everything started up and I was relieved to find my computer start up fine. I pressed del to get into the BIOS and started double checking settings. All of a sudden after about 45seconds it shut off automatically. I was like WTF?!? I hope this isn't going to happen again. Well it did, and it keeps happening, and it doesn't matter what I'm trying to do, after 45 seconds of being on, it automatically shuts off. The temperatures look very stable, the voltages in the BIOS look fine and I even tried running under optimized(stock) settings. If anyone has any clue as to what I could have possibly done wrong then please help. Thanks a lot!

Sorry for not specifying earlier. I am running 2x512 with CPC off in Dual Channel mode. I updated my sig now. Windows will boot up to 248 before I did any memtest with 2-2-2-5 timings. Gonna run memtest for the next couple days hopefully it will be stabler at these speeds. At 240 everything runs fine except for counterstrike source which gives a memory error after 10min. No other games crash though, kinda strange. To verify it was the memory though and not the program, I lowered the FSB to 230 and it didn't happen again. Well having CS work at these speeds is a must so hopefully I can iron out a bit more speed out of these chips.

So I couldn't wait to get these puppies installed as I came back home from Labor day weekend. MMMM they looked so pretty. I popped them in to see the highest stable fsb I could reach before doing memtest. 240x9(not pushing multiplier) with CPC off runs great out of the box. I accidentaly forgot to switch AGP to 66mhz from auto and CS:source ran so much better but for a short period of time because it froze pretty soon. Starting FPS was around 100, after putting it back to 66 it was again 80, but still a good increase of about 10fps over before. I am about to put it through memtest86 overnight. I also have the vcore up to 3.3 now, but all other voltages are auto. Should I up my chipset voltage as well? Systems temps are very stable and I must say the peformance of 240 @ 2-2-2-5 is soo much better than 217 @ 3-3-4-8 of that poopy kingmax I am sending back tomorow. Everything opens up instantly again just like it should. Either way I couldn't be happier with my new ram, and my Lanparty is taking it like a champ as well =). I am now going to sleep and have memtest run all night. Lets hope I can get higher tomorow.

Is it important to up the fsb through-out the burn in process? I was thinking of maybe going home for labor day and leaving the computer running memtest. I have decided that if I really do need to do the straight 72 hours then its well worth it. If I can just leave it running, I will most likely leave my computer on at my place and go home, if not then I will just take my computer with me.

Sweet thanks for the responses! I definately can't wait to get them in. One more thing, when doing the burnin process, does it have to be continous, or can it be broken up into segments? I don't think I can go without using my computer for 72 hours unfortunately. Also, should I start the voltage at 3.3 right out of the box, or build up it up throughout the burnin. Currently I'm running 217fsb, but what should my starting fsb be for these chips? Thanks for all your help.

Hi, my first post dealt with me trying to up my FSB up to 205 and having it crash and not let me run 200/400. Well all thats resolved now and I am currently running my at 217/434 very stably with both cpu temp and system temp around 37C. I bougth some Kingmax PC3500 ram but I RMAed it and right now I am expecting delivery of some Kingston KHX3000 512x2 modules from zipzoomfly. Now my question is, how much more cooling am I going to need to be able to sustain around 240-250? I installed some new fans and I have also placed 2 80mm Fans that blow straight on the memory/chipset. Before the northbridge was very hot to touch now its warm, however I'd imagine that it would be considerably hotter under those conditions. Especially since I plan on increasing the voltage a bit. Will I have overheat issues? Would it be wise to buy a chipset cooler or are there any guides for good homemade coolers? I also figured that the Northbridge probably needs a lot more cooling than south bridge but both get pretty hot. Also I was fortunate enough to buy an x800pro that came with all the XT hardware so I decided to flash the bios and it was a success!. Currently it idles around 40C and goes up to about 52C. I was hoping to maybe overclock it, but I didn't really want the temps any higher. Does anyone have experience with any of the Zalman 80 series coolers? It seems that my old corsair xms 3200C2 wasn't all it was cracked up to be =/ but neither were these kingmax chps, although they run 217 at spec very nicely.

Hi, thanks for the response, and please try not to derail threads but I still think I may know of a possible solution. I am assuming that you are trying to get a digital signal out of it. I am pretty sure that you need to specify inside the Nvidia control panel that you want the spdif to output digitally. Also, what kind of speaker setup are you using. I have mine setup through a digital reciever, are you using digital computer speakers? If you are using an analog pair of speakers however, I do not think it will work as I am pretty certain SPDIF is strictly digital. If that doesn't help, sorry as I am not sure what kind of setup you have.

Hi, this is my 3rd DFI mobo. The two were lanparty ultra A's and I the first one was a DOA. The second one stopped posting, and I could never figure out why. The A revisions were pretty buggy but I read good things about the B so I decided to buy it. I have had my B for 2months now and unlike my A which could never run at 200mhz fsb this one ran great at 200. My current specs are : Athlon XP Barton 2800+(unlocked multiplier) Corsair XMS 3200C2 512mb DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B I had been running at 200x11 for a while and getting great stability and performance as should be expecting as this is hardly an overclock.Yesterday I decided to maybe try to get a bit more performance and try to up the FSB while lowering the multiplier on the CPU. I decided to set the multiplier to 9x, change the memory from aggressive to optimal and start raising the fsb just to be safe. My first and last increment was up to 205mhz. System wouldn't post and just started beeping. The LED diagnostics displayed just the 3rd LED on which made me think its a RAM problem. I pulled the cmos jumper and system booted fine. Went into BIOS selected the default optimal settings for the mobo restarted and everything worked fine at default which was 166mhz fsb, 200mhz ram, and a 12.5x multiplier. Apart from being disappointed that I hit such a low limit I decided to at least raise it back to 200fsb. After I rebooted, it wouldn't post again and the same LED was on. This however makes no sense because even at 166mhz fsb the ram still runs at 200. I'm starting to think I messed something up on the mobo. I also noticed that it is common for these mobos to not be able to go above 166, but I thought that was only for the Ultra A and seeing how I was running 200fsb for 2 months I can't see how all of a sudden I would be stuck at 166. I love my dfi mobo and hoping the Ultra B was going to be rock solid but it seems I'm back into having problems all over again. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I really don't know where to start, I at least want to be able to run 200fsb again. Thanks in advance!