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Wow it's been a minuted since I said that I would answer this thread. Anyhow, here we go:
1. First of all, always know that you will find most pertinent information over at www.dfi-street.com/forum. They have a plethora of stickies that should help you with the initial setup.
2. Secondly, it is always recommended to install IDE drives in the IDE-S (secondary) port versus the primary. This is especially pertinent when dealing with IDE hard drives such as Western Digitals.
3. Know that there have been some incompatibility issues with Geil ram on these boards, particularly the PC 3200. In my experience with DFI, I have learned that an overwhelming majority of stability-related issues are often tied to the memory and it's settings. I'd suggest trying another set of memory to see if it helps matters at all.
4. Seeing as you have yet to reach the bios, don't rule out the fact that the motherboard could be DOA. Typically, this does not occur as much since newer boards ship with the 6/19 bios, but it could happen.
Please post back with any results, or pm me for the quickest reply.
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1. First of all, always know that you will find most pertinent information over at www.dfi-street.com/forum. They have a plethora of stickies that should help you with the initial setup.
2. Secondly, it is always recommended to install IDE drives in the IDE-S (secondary) port versus the primary. This is especially pertinent when dealing with IDE hard drives such as Western Digitals.
3. Know that there have been some incompatibility issues with Geil ram on these boards, particularly the PC 3200. In my experience with DFI, I have learned that an overwhelming majority of stability-related issues are often tied to the memory and it's settings. I'd suggest trying another set of memory to see if it helps matters at all.
4. Seeing as you have yet to reach the bios, don't rule out the fact that the motherboard could be DOA. Typically, this does not occur as much since newer boards ship with the 6/19 bios, but it could happen.
Please post back with any results, or pm me for the quickest reply.
deception``