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My RMA'ed DFI board will not post just like the last one

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I just don't understand how this could happen? It's really bizarre that two motherboards would be bad as a result of my error. I even went down to the stupid grounding wrist band on this one. This is the first time I ever owned a motherboard, if I did infact own the motherboard and it's my fault.
 
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
OP:

Basic mobo troubleshooting....

Take the board out of the case, off of the motherboard tray. Set on top of DFI box. Install only CPU and CPU fan. NO RAM, NO VIDEO. Attach NO drive cables, USB cables, etc.

You want this as STRIPPED DOWN as possible. Just hook a case speaker up to the speaker header because I don't think the DFI had an on board piezo (can't remember.)

Now hook up the PSU and all of it's power leads. Clear the CMOS for about three seconds and return it to the normal position. Press the little "pwr on" button on the board.

Yes, there's no video card, but what we're listening for is a beep code.

The board SHOULD beep a "no memory" beep code. If it doesn't, and the only two other parts involved are known working (per the Asus board) then you have a dead board.
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Originally posted by: JSFLY
My friend bought a DFI-Lanparty Expert SLI last month

He built his computer, but it wouldnt boot. Gives me a call to bitch and tells me hes gonna RMA the faulty DFI Mobo. I tell him to bring it over. Turns out his ram was in the Yellow slots instead of orange. We reset the ram and everything booted up flawless.
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Shens.

The DFI board posts even with the RAM in the wrong slots. It actually comes up and tells you that the RAM should be relocated to slots 2 and 4 if you put them in the yellow slots.





Sean, I know there's a bunch of BS to filter in this thread, but did you try what I suggested... what tw33ter quoted above?
 
Yes, orange slot closest to the CPU and I tried the other orange slot. It gives me no beep with just my CPU installed. Could it be the Enermax 535w SLI 2.0 or my dual core operton?


btw: it does not work on cardboard outside the box

I guess I have to go back to my old ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
 
I think I should go for the refund. And perhaps then get the ASUS A8N32-SLI board. Only problem with that is my case is BTX style. And I hear the heatpipe design has issues with that. However my entire case is ventilated, so it probably wont run THAT much more hot.
 
May I ask why you're "upgrading" from an A8NSLI to a DFI LanParty NF4?

And could it be the PSU? Maybe. The DFI board has more issues with power supplies than anything, but I don't what there would be about that PSU that would prevent it from posting a DFI board while it continues to post an Asus board.

I haven't seen anyone else with an issue with that board and that PSU.
 
OK, well I've decided on an ASUS A8N32-SLI. Is the 600W Enermax Noisetaker a great PSU? I want something that will be ready for the geforce 8 and maybe two.
 
Sean, I don't know if this is the case with DFI or not, but with Asus the board's serial number is on both the board, and the box. So if you can find the serial number on your board, and your box, and they still match after a trip to the factory, then it seems they did send back the same bad board that you bought initially. Any good?
 
Originally posted by: Sean Maxwell
I think I should go for the refund. And perhaps then get the ASUS A8N32-SLI board. Only problem with that is my case is BTX style. And I hear the heatpipe design has issues with that. However my entire case is ventilated, so it probably wont run THAT much more hot.
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i've heard that too, and read a few threads on it. i don't have first hand experience so you can take this at face value, but poke around a bit. apparently the heat pipe only works one way, not if you turn it upside down. worst cases you should be able to throw a zalman hs or some other chipset cooler on there.
 
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
Originally posted by: rise4310
...although your board is still going strong so whatever.
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Exactly. It works GREAT, in fact. Knock on wood. 😉

And I know what you mean about addressing the bandwagoneers. I'd do the same thing if the tables were turned.

But it's why forums are THE WORST place to get advice. Have you ever noticed that most people that work for a living don't hang out at forums? It's because it's frustrating.

One person has a good experience with one specimen and it's god's gift to the compuer industry.

One person has a bad experience with one specimen and the biggest piece of crap since Ishtar.

The fact is NOBODY here is made to make a qualified judgement on any particular product unless they have first hand experience with more than a couple specimens.

Take arcenite, for example. This jackass built two and hasn't had a problem. Therefore, I am a noob. Doesn't matter that I've been doing computer hardware professionally for 10 years, software for twenty and have been writing hardware reviews for six. I'm the noob.

Noob or not, you take a motherboard, and install a known working CPU and PSU and fire it up stripped down of everything else, outside of a case, and you don't even get a beep code... board's dead.

Sure, DFI's have had power supply compat issues. But to my knowledge, the Enermax 535 isn't one of them.

And noob or not, arcenite, you have a machine that worked the first time it was put together and four months later ceases to post, yet all components fire right up when migrated to another motherboard.. How does being a "noob" have anything to do with a PC dying simply sitting on a desk doing what it's supposed to do?

arcenite, good luck. ODDS are that you'll not have a problem. Because despite my own horrid experiences, I'm perfectly aware that the RMA rate on DFI product is less than 10% and most of those aren't even bad.

The DFI board that I swapped out with another DFI board? The replacement was an RMA. A DFI board some "noob" returned because he couldn't get it to work. Of course, it did work, nothing was wrong with it and I decided to give it a shot because it was the last one in stock.

So yeah... I sound really negative. The board isn't really THAT BAD but all of these NOOBS telling the other NOOBS how they shouldn't be using this motherboard because they're NOOBS instead of trying to HELP THEM and TEACH THEM basic troubleshooting THEORY is really quite asinine.
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Noob.
 
To all the people bashing me thinking that I hate DFI:

I love DFI, just hate this situation I'm in.

To all the people bashing my experience with computers:


DFI confirmed the board being bad you ignorant swine
 
Originally posted by: Sean Maxwell
To all the people bashing me thinking that I hate DFI:

I love DFI, just hate this situation I'm in.

To all the people bashing my experience with computers:


DFI confirmed the board being bad you ignorant swine
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o rly
 
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