Recent content by DavidK21770

Just do a repair install. Put the windows install disk in and at some point it will check for an existing install. When it finds it, it'll ask if you want to repair it or reinstall. Choose repair (backup 1st). I've been doing this with XP for years. Over several AMD chipsets and then to my...

Also consider whether your heatsink may have been jarred and disturbed the compound between it and the CPU. I've seen that happen with big sinks. (Why I always lay my case down with the MB up if I'm moving it very far.)

An unstable OC will eventually cause bad data to be written to the disk which, if in a critical file, will corrupt windows or important programs. This is why I always run a full set of test programs for a long time before trusting an OC. (prime95>12 hours, OCCT>5 hours, >60 cycles of linpak...

This applies to Intel Speed Test, not the program that is the topic of this thread -- LinX! LinX tells you what iteration you are on, gives you a progress bar, and stops on the 1st error. So far, I like it much better than Intel Speed Test. My only complaint is that you can't have it...

Back to the original post... What about MB temps with an insulator against the back of it? Doesn't this increase them since you no longer have air flow behind that CPU chip? (After reading this, I plan to cut a hole in the back of my mounting tray the next time that I have my MB out -- I...

No. Your system has a stability issue. I use prime95 and make sure that after it's been running for a few hours, I do other things while it's running to really make sure that it's stable. I'll sometimes add superpi. You just want to make sure that you don't add enough memory use to start...

Trick replacement on DFI Street is Evercool VC-RE. http://svcompucycle.stores.yahoo.net/vc-re.html http://jab-tech.com/ has it also. Here's a good thread http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26143 I use water :)

Sorry you had that experience. Mine has been the exact opposite. I've had memory problems with over 1/2 of the Asus boards that I've had and they haven't OC very well. Thus my switch away from them for this board. It's my first DFI and has been rock solid stable. It is happily overclocking...

Thanks! I'd considered that, but you got me off my butt. I found a good thread there and am now overclocking my OCZ Platinum EL memory to get 1:1 on my CPU overclock :cool: (Priming right now -- been stable for close to an hour -- only 7 more to go!). [later] stopped priming at 13 hours --...

Yea, this thread seems to be dead.

I went from an Asus K8V to a DFI expert and had to repair winXP -- I seem the remember that it would boot, so I could do the easy repair by just starting an install from windows itself (instead of booting from floppy). That was a different chipset and CPU so I was surprised that it booted...

In theory, to overclock you need to increase the voltage. So, the implication is that it is more capable of being overclocked. I practice, this may not be true. I have the OCZ Platinum ELDCPE-K (EL, dual channel, also rated at 2.8v) and have found that it's just as stable at 2.66v as it is at...

Sounds like it can't find anything to boot from. Do you have a bootable device before it in the BIOS -- that it can boot from?

Check out DFI street. A great support forum just for DFI boards. I have the DFI Lanforce UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert and love it. Great board with lots of flexibility for overclocking. No problems at all. However, the flexibility means that there're lots of BOIS settings that can be tweaked -- and...

Great board. Only thing that got me was that you start with memory slots 2/4, not 1/3. And, it defaults to 1T memory timing (agressive). If you have memory problems, set it for 2T (the default on most other boards). If you're running SLI, remember to connect the extra power connector by...