Tired of DFI Ultra-D instability:

[slash196]

I'm absolutely sick to death of BSODs and random reboots on this comp. It's absolutely insufferable. So I'm gonna bite the bullet, and see if a BIOS flash can't solve my woes. Given the specs in my sig, what beta BIOS should I use, or is an official release forthcoming?

 

[Snowice]

218

also, take a look here for ur bios settings.

good luck...

 

[slash196]

Thanks, I'll give those BIOS settings a whirl, then see where I'm at.

 

[OVERKILL]

Slash,

whats the status of your ultra D?

 

[Demo24]

what about the new 310?

 

[Puffnstuff]

After you get your bios settings situated and if your instability continues you should put a digital voltage meter on your rails just to be sure that your voltages are right.

 

[Nebben]

I would seriously recommend checking your RAM. I don't know much about the particular RAM you're using, but I know with my old PC I had many BSODs and random crashes and it was completely caused by one of my RAM modules.

I have a very similar setup to yours and I have literally not had one single BSOD or system crash in about a month of runtime. And I've overclocked considerably, with the stock heatsink/fan.

Try a Memtest86 overnight and see what it tells you.

(My previous system had one bad stick out of two, and upon replacing it it's completely stable. I think that the vast majority of WinXP BSODs are caused by RAM.)

 

[jose]

Did you plug in all 4 mobo power connectors ? 24pin psu, 4 pin cpu, 4 pin molex & 4 pin floppy (all on the mobo)

Regards,
Jose

 

[Waylay00]

Any word on the status?

 

[CheesePoofs]

3/10 (newest official bios). Try raising your ram's voltage to 2.8 or 2.9; this board often likes a lot of volts for the ram.