Post your luck with DFI Experts and/or RDX200 boards

[mdzcpa]

the reason I started this thread is to help people get a better perspective on how much of a risk these boards are. A lot of people I've encountered have said that they'll never recommend DFI again because of all of the bad reports. Well, everybody reports bad things and how mad they are, but hardly anybody starts a thread with "THIS BOARD RAWKS"...thus putting a negative spin on ALL DFI boards (more of a spin then there should be, at least).

Okay...I see your point, and its obviously well intentioned. We just need to recognize that unhappy folks post on threads like this more than the satisfied ones and that the results can be skewed.

I meant no offense from any of my posts.

Makes me wonder how lucky you are with DFI mdzcpa...

LOL...Over the years I've lost more hardware than I want to admit. Last February I lost 2 EN6800Ultra TOP cards and the Asus A8N-SLI they were running on in one session. That was $1600 in hardware gone.

I've also lost other CPUs, mobos and vid cards over the years to the overclocking gods. Again, more than I want to admit.

BUT, I never blamed the hardware. Its just the risk of the hobby.

As far as DFI is concerned, I've been though 2 Ultras, 2 SLI-DRs, and 2 Experts. I still have one SLI-DR and one Expert humming away right now. 6 mobos doesn't make a statistical sample, but I must say, they all ran (still run) trouble free. Maybe I am indeed just lucky Funny thing is...folks used to say the same thing about me and Abit mobos when they were the tweaker board of choice. Now its just DFI. Same story different brand.

Dead CPU and Expert motherbard are available to be analyzed DFI if they want..

If DFI want to gave and explanation I'm opened to fully co-operate with their technician.

This is a great offer Pedro. I wish the folks at DFI would take the time to look at the hardware. Some firm conclusions would either put minds at rest, or allow adjustments to be made.

[s7e9h3n]

As far as DFI is concerned, I've been though 2 Ultras, 2 SLI-DRs, and 2 Experts. I still have one SLI-DR and one Expert humming away right now. 6 mobos doesn't make a statistical sample, but I must say, they all ran (still run) trouble free. Maybe I am indeed just lucky Funny thing is...folks used to say the same thing about me and Abit mobos when they were the tweaker board of choice. Now its just DFI. Same story different brand..

Hehehe - It's quite ironic that my Expert runs flawlessly with my first attempt @ this board; I had gone through 10 DFI Ultra-D/Sli-D/Sli-Dr's before this one

[mrlobber]

Until this is confirmed, its just another trouble report. I think there might be merit to this one...but I need other confirmation from reputable sources.

mikeguava here @ Xtreme has tested this. We don't know whether dodo @ dfi-street = mikeguava @ Xtreme, but you can search for mike's trouble thread with the RDX200, which contains all the info.

[jc2mm2]

anyone using a 4000vx here? Having problems w/ the bios, can't get it to be Prime95 stable.....

[5-Clicks]

anyone using a 4000vx here? Having problems w/ the bios, can't get it to be Prime95 stable.....

from looking at your sig, you're running the 704-2BT bios? that's a previous NF4 board bios. i thought the Expert used a different BIOS...

EDIT: btw, for anybody interested, ~77% of good boards.

[ncsa]

Have been running an Opteron 146 and able to match the same OC as woth the older SLi-DR MB.... some unusual matters with dividers but it loves BH modules and not to happy to have TCCD in the slots.

BIOS 11-25 when flashed has some corruption in the description fields (de.bin) so using 11-17 OK.

[Kenetixx]

Well just built a system at work based on the xpert , and it killed 2 chips , the customers 3800 x2 and a 3000+ venice , bot dead not even a boot powered up the board and nothing not boot scrren or anything, both cpus confirmed dead WTF ???? SO not loolking good, I have reverrted back to my Ultra d for a while so see fo anything xomes of the expert board.

[uOpt]

Well just built a system at work based on the xpert , and it killed 2 chips , the customers 3800 x2 and a 3000+ venice , bot dead not even a boot powered up the board and nothing not boot scrren or anything, both cpus confirmed dead WTF ???? SO not loolking good, I have reverrted back to my Ultra d for a while so see fo anything xomes of the expert board.

Is there any more info available on this?

E.g., what were the attempted Volts on these runs?

[alpha0ne]

Is there any more info available on this?

E.g., what were the attempted Volts on these runs?

As far as I know EVERYTHING was @ default, new board, no tweaks, no OC

[k0nsl]

Well, my RDX200 CF-DR has ran days of D2OL, prime and playing all the newest games, while overclocked. The trick of disabling support in the bios for USB mouse solved the problem of lockups and refusal of booting up properly.
Never had a problem since. It is also my first ever AMD based system and naturally my first DFI, and my modest results may be viewed here; http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=80010

-k0nsl

[oqvist]

you have to take into account that those with failed have been very dedicated and voted on all 3 top options. So looks a bit more like at least 90 % chance if not more you won´t get such issues .

[mike]

you have to take into account that those with failed have been very dedicated and voted on all 3 top options. So looks a bit more like at least 90 % chance if not more you won´t get such issues .

only one vote posssible per member I think? No?

[Charles Wirth]

Please reduce all figures by one. Join NBK voted once on everything.

We are rechecking this poll for accuracy, any other discrepancy will be noted.

[Kenetixx]

Everything was set to Default as far as i know, ias i said iit didnt even make it to BIOS before it died, checked other components on another board as i thought i tmight have been a PSU issue but everything seems to be working fine, have another expert to try at work 2moro, will post how it went

[shawn1998]

I voted in the poll last week that I didn't have any issues at all. Scratch that vote. I had to rma the board back to DFI (Monarch sucks) yesterday. Come to find out, the system would crash whenever I tried any 3d application, ie games, 3d mark 2001, 2003, 2005. Everything was at stock, never oc'd. Tried swapping all components between my two rigs, psu, cpu, ram video cards, hd's and cables. The only thing that fixed it was to put my SLI-DR back in.
The board was faulty. Suppose I'm lucky, though, that it didn't take anything with it.

Shawn

[bullit]

well i´m lucky too,only the temperatures are deadly wrong 9/10 degrees minus.At this moment Priming with a 148 CAB2E at 2915mhz at 1.5 a still rising.

[alpha0ne]

Has any tried to hotflash a bios chip in the Expert ??

I have a bios chip I bought for my Ultra D and its the same chip, BUT when I try to flash it with an Expert bios it wont complete

I KNOW the bios chip is OK because it worked fine hotflashing with my Ultra D ?????

[zungkono]

my Expert works fine,
but if I use wrong DRAM setting, it won't POST(blank screen) then I had to CLEAR CMOS and put second ram on DIMM4.

[blowsion]

got me a brand new rdx 200 the thing never booted , 4 leds where burning but no video output.
gonna take it back to the shop tomorrow.
the revision is an A03

[RistoEe]

Nothing's dead here... just RMA one RDX200 cause it was unstable even stock clocks. This one is bit better... just a bit though Can't get more than 225 stable (and yes it's mobo... everything else has been tested different modos).

[5-Clicks]

Please reduce all figures by one. Join NBK voted once on everything.

We are rechecking this poll for accuracy, any other discrepancy will be noted.

Thanks Fugger. Also note that even though join nbk voted once on everything, it didn't affect the percentages...

[MFM]

Pedro Rocha -FX57
Dumo - FX55
mikeguava -FX57 & 4800X2
Sampsa - FX57
Onepagebook - FX-57& X2 4600

MFM - FX55 SD 0.90 + 2GB Patriot Mems

Link: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...t=82281&page=4

[zinff]

No problems on expert + opty 175 + 2x1gb redlines other than if you adjust the startup voltage to ANYTHING other than auto it will not post.

[zungkono]

No problems on expert + opty 175 + 2x1gb redlines other than if you adjust the startup voltage to ANYTHING other than auto it will not post.

my expert' startup voltage in auto and it works well, just when my dram setting(timing) false then it won't POST/stuck 3 leds on and I had to CLEAR CMOS

[Perc]

well the first week i ran my expert series it ran flawlessly i pulled it out to try out the asus 32-sli board and when i poped the expert back in i encountered the problem of not being able to change my v-core and when i did change it the system would just go blk causing me to have to clear the c-mos to recover. not sure what that was all about but for now im running my ultra-d til some new bioses come (wich i see one was just released to help with the death syndrome) that i can try and see if the problem goes away or not...

also this rdx board does it have the HD sound or the same crappy sound that comes on the other DFI boards???

thx perc,