[ny_driver]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[ny_driver]

Thanks for the info. I was a little leery because the number on the bottom line of the BIOS chips are all different. So SLI and Ultra are interchangeable chips...good.

I tried the new Ultra chip in the SLI-DR last night and it made no difference.

I want to find a Venus board.

[ny_driver]

Uggghhh...I can't any of my cas2 memory to run at cas2 on the Expert....all I get is BSOD or it hangs. Normally my pc3200 is good @ 250MHz 2.5-3-2-5, but it won't even boot @ 225Mhz on the Expert. I better double check that memory on another board, but I know it's good. What could it be?

UPDATE: I put them in the Orange slots and it booted up cas2.....I can't seem to d/l the manual. Yup, just gotta put them in the Orange slots. POS.

[ny_driver]

OK things are going better with the Expert now. I put it on the chiller. I have the art of kneaded eraser figured out pretty well now so the board and socket are always perfectly moisture free when I remove the eraser. Even after several days of playing. After 3 days I noticed moisture on the back side of the board/socket....it's tough to get air in there so I covered the back with Dragon Skin.

Then I realized these old GPU blocks I have are about the same size as the chipset area........so I made a chipset block. It works great, just as good as one I could have bought for $30-40.

Tomorrow I'm going to put the chipset before the GPU because it gets hot....I think I saw 35C with 1.96v

EDIT: it's held in place with 9-ply nylon waxed lacing cord and it's on there nice and snug.

[Hondacity]

that looks purdy

[ny_driver]

Put the chipset first and now she's idling @ 25C w/ stock voltage. I bet it doesn't break 30C with 1.96v now. .............and the GPU is still too cold @ 14C right now I better crank some voltages..