going 939 crazy here.........

Mr.Scott · #1 12-14-2010

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Originally Posted by Jor-El

I tried to power the DFI Nf4 Sli I gt from Cecil today and no luck all I get is lit 4 red leds and fans at full speed no post.

You know what that is?

Sorry for high jacking your thread buddy.

That's the 4 LED's of death. You can try a new bios chip, sometimes it works, most of the time it means the board is shot.
I forgot, make sure the ram is in the orange slots.

ny_driver · #2 12-14-2010

btw...that new BIOS chip I got didn't fix the Ultra.

EDIT: nice new Ultra will be here tomorrow.

ny_driver · #3 12-14-2010

Mr.Scott can you diagnose this problem please?
Board had been working great all day in the garage. I finally brought it inside and put the freezer on the cpu tonight and it was working excellent, until I increased the vcore to 123%, which should have been ~1.8v ......... when I hit save and went to boot up it started to and just quit. Now when I hit the power button the 4 LEDs light up and the board powers on momentarily, and then shuts back down.
I tried reset cmos and take battery out/ unplug for a few. Perhaps it was just coincidence when it decided to quit....maybe the board is CB.

Any ideas? Thanks again.

EDIT: Shit, wow,....I tried another PSU and the symptoms changed to the 4 LEDS of death that you mentioned earlier. Could I use the bios chip from an Ultra-D in it?

Mr.Scott · #4 12-15-2010

That board is shot, and yes, you can use the bios chip in the other board, but you need to flash it to the right bios.

ny_driver · #5 12-15-2010

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Originally Posted by Mr.Scott

That board is shot, and yes, you can use the bios chip in the other board, but you need to flash it to the right bios.

Thank you for the reply.
Did you mean I need to pre-flash it to the right BIOS, or it will work but need flashing?

The board is dead anyways and that was the only SLI-DR I had.....so it doesn't really matter atm, but just curious.

More boards for me to kill just came today.

ny_driver · #6 12-15-2010

Well I got 3 Ultra-Ds today and the 2 that I thought might not work are working fine, although 1 is missing the power button and the chipset fan is dead on the other. I should be able to maybe replace the button with one from another board.

Plus take a look at the one I got for $40 shipped priority that's barely even been out of the box. No dust or any signs of wear. Nothing has been opened and the box is perfect. I'm going to leave it right in the box until it's needed.

Mr.Scott · #7 12-15-2010

The boards use the same bios unless it's an Expert or Venus board, those are different. All those boards use the same bios chip.