adam217

Disable wake on lan in windows, in the device manager, advanced tab of net card.

Does it go through the shutdown process or just turn off abruptly? If it goes through the shutdown process then I would have to say it is a software issue, if its the latter then my first guess would be a failing power supply. Try touching the PSU while it is running and see if it is creating excessive heat, make sure the fans are spinning properly. Also double check your CPU, chipset and video card fans and heatsinks for excessive dust and make sure they are spinning properly. I see you have two rigs, you could try using the PSU from your older rig, it should have no problem powering your current setup and would be a quick way to diagnose if that is the problem.

Before you go through the trouble of sending the card back, find a local computer store, not a big chain, more of the mom and pop type, and ask them to see if it will post in one of their systems. Most decent places will do that for nothing, if not maybe $5-$10 will get you an answer and a help with the frustration. You could also take you computer with you and have them try another PCI-E card. The RDX can be picky about memory, I run mine in the orange slot, should also be better for overclocking as the traces from those slots to the CPU are shorter.

Sorry to hear that, I feel partially responsible. I should have suggested that you unplug any drive with information you don't want to lose. I have done the same thing in the past and I now unplug any extra drive when reinstalling an OS. You should also consider backing up irreplaceable data onto removable media, you never know when a hard drive could fail. I ran a small computer shop for a few years and can't remember how many times I had to remind customers to do so. Depending on the type of wipe you did you may be able to recover some of it, there are good recovery programs out there.

Crossfire adds some slowdown at the startup, the whole screen flickering and the mouse resetting position after a few seconds. As for before the windows logo appears, you could try bootvis to see if it helps, but I don't have high hopes for that. I don't have crossfire, but I had been using a friends computer for the last few months that had an A8R32-MVP with 1900XTX Crossfire setup, had the same issues when it got to the desktop but not the after post issue. I did see some slowdowns on shutdown, but it was rare that it took more than 45sec. I don't completely understand the slowdown at boot at the desktop, when I first got the machine from him I had the Cat 6.7's installed, they exhibited the issue, the 6.8 also did, but when I went to the 6.9 it seemed to go away.....but since he returned and needed his computer back I reinstalled the OS and put the 6.9's on a fresh install it's doing it again, can't figure this one out, it also seems to be worse than it ever was before; slower. One thing you could try; DBAN http://dban.sourceforge.net/ ; to completely wipe those drives, you would be surprised at the amount of leftover stuff is still on a hard drive. If you have used your drives in RAID for a while and had them on other RAID controllers there could be some configuration stuff left on them. That stuff could have an effect on the after post / pre logo slowdown. I know it's a pain to back everything up and reload, but might be worth it. On that note, if you haven't heard of it you may want to try Nlite www.nliteos.com, allow you to remove all the garbage from windows and integrate the RAID drivers so you don't have to use the floppy drive, also integrate all the post-SP2 updates; http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/. Good luck, hope some of that gets you started in the right direction.

I have been following this thread for sometime, wondering if I would have any issues when I got around to migrating to this board. I have finally got around to it and in my testing over the last few days of use I have not had any problems. I bought my board used, http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=94341 , that is the board I have, by the pictures you can get any revision information you desire. I have 2 36GB Raptors in RAID-0, connected to the ULI controller, ports 1 and 2 as labeled on the board, 2 and 3 as seen by the RAID BIOS. If there is anything I can do to help sort this out let me know. I am running the latest BIOS and driver, 7/28/06 BIOS and 7/20/06 v1.0.6.1 driver. The rest of the system info in in my sig.

I own both boards, in the middle of moving to the CFX. The only reason I decided to go to the CFX was the better overclocking and I got it realativly cheap. In my limited time with the CFX it has proven to be far better when it comes to memory overclock, my old 2x512 Mushkin BLK LvL2 BH5 saw the highest clocks I was able to achieve; 280 2-2-2-5; on the CFX, wouldn't do more than 250ish on the RDX. Same situation with my G.Skill 2x1GBHZ, 260 was stable 1:1 on the RDX, but not when using the 180/200 divider. The CFX runs them stable up to 279 1:1 and fully stable at 260 with the 180/200 divider. The USB is a little slow on the RDX but it never bothered me, peripherals work fine, just slow transfers to external had drives. Both boards share the Silicon Image 3114(I swear DFi has the only stock pile of these ancient controllers) as their extra SATA controller, the RDX has a Silicon Image 3112 built into the ATI southbridge, which isn't considered to be that fastest but I never had any problems with it. The ULi southbridge of the CFX has some SATA issues of it's own which I seem to be lucky enough to have avoided in my limited testing. Either is a good board, given the choice of the two, for a few extra dollars I would go with the CFX, better overclocks, more mature chipset(s). If you don't have any of this hardware yet, I wouldn't buy into socket 939, may as well go AM2 and give your self an upgrade path, the only advantage to 939 is cheaper memory for the time being, I would also highly recommend a minimum of 2GB memory, 1GB just doesn't cut it today and sure won't in the near future. As for the power supply, more is better. The 450 would be fine for your planned system, but a good PSU can last you far longer than a single system, they stick with you throughout many upgrades. So don't go cheap on a PSU, it feeds all that power hungry hardware, I prefer a good, stable, clean foundation to build from. The OCZ 520SLI that I currently run has been great and my next PSU will most likely be an OCZ of some sort, the new GameXStream PSU are quiet and efficient, and judging by my past experiences, should be reliable. Good luck.

Anybody have a copy of the Smart Guardian for CFX3200 they would like to share, I also don't have the cd.

What happened to the 7/28 BIOS, the newest one listed at the link provided is the 5/23 BIOS? Did I miss something, or is there possibly a new BIOS due out soon? Never mind, I now see it is listed under the regular BIOS downloads now, does that indicate it is now offical? Has anything changed since the beta release?

What happened to the 7/28 BIOS, the newest one listed at the link provided is the 5/23 BIOS?

Disable Wake On Lan in windows under the advanced tab of the network card(s) properties in device manager.

You could use nlite to integrate them into the install disc.

I have been unable to install to the 3114 controller, use port 3 & 4 of the 3112 controller and you should be ok. I have moved them to the other controller once windows was installed and had the proper drivers installed for the 3114, but the performance was horrible.