DFI LanParty UT -- did I get a bad one?

[Tostada]

Originally posted by: Kaiser__Sose

did you disable the SATA ports in the bios?
while you are there disable other things you are not using (onboard sound etc)

Yeah, I disabled all the SATA stuff under the Genie menu, and I have the floppy, serial ports & parallel port all disabled.

If I disable thermal throttling the board won't post. Is that a known problem?

 

[silky]

You might want to try the 04/15 bios from DFI; fixed all my problems including disabling thermal throtlling. You can find it here http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download/...?PRODUCT_ID=2840&STATUS_FLAG=B&SITE=US

 

[Avalon]

Your 12v and 20pin ATX connectors secure in the motherboard? What is your PSU's 12v line rating?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Tostada
I actually think this might be a PSU problem. Would it make any sense for it to act that strange and try to detect the RAID (which is disabled) when I overclock?

I'm thinking my PSU (EnerMax Whisper 365) might be weak because it's about 5 years old. At one point I had the PSU running an Athlon XP 1600 with multiple 10K SCSI drives, and with 3X 10K drives sometimes one of them would fail to spin up.

I'm a little confused about PSUs, though. Does the CPU run off the 12V rail with modern motherboards? Is that what dual rails are -- one for the CPU and one for the drives?

I am starting to think it's your PSU too,it's a bit old and the old Enermax didnt have much power on the +12v compared to newer ones.

 

[Tostada]

My first board was Rev. A00. I RMA'd it and my new board is Rev. A01. Both do the exact same thing.

I've tried the official 8/27 BIOS, the unofficial 4/15 BIOS, and the Oskar Wu 5/10 BIOS. They all do the exact same thing.

I bought a SeaSonic S12 430W. It didn't make any difference.

Any ideas on what it could be?

If it actually was a bad board, I would think this would be a common enough problem that someone else would've seen it.