How to ID my exact motherboard with information from Everest and sight?

Hey guys,

I'm trying to find my exact product so that I can look for drivers and updated BIOS that are from 2005.

I know that i have a:
DFI nF4 Series
Motherboard ID 01/25/2005-NF-CK804-6A61FD49C-00

And I think it is a LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR from looking at pictures.

I don't know any information past that, and DFI/Lanparty aren't helpful

This is the page I am stuck on:

http://lp.lanparty.com.tw/portal/CM

on the right is a product search > LANPARTY > SLI-DR

Then it gets to a page showing about 30 variations of the board. I don't know how to figure out which one I have

 

Hi

Have you looked ON the motherboard itself? Usually it's printed with exact model on the board.

 

From what I can find: LANPARTY multi gpu

 

Do you know if the SLI-DR is a Venus or Expert.

http://lp.lanparty.com.tw/portal/CM...sWindow?action=e&windowstate=normal&mode=view

Go to the drop down box to look at venus or expert.

 

Check what SIW gives you for motherboard model. http://majorgeeks.com/SIW_System_Info_d4387.html

If you go to the DFI page and click Downloads then in the middle of the page you will get selections for BIOS/Driver search. I only see 3 possible models. For Series either select LanParty or UT. LanParty only gives one option for nf4 models. Lanparty UT gives several variations.

Direct link to LnPArty nf4 SLI_DR http://lp.lanparty.com.tw/portal/CM...sWindow?action=e&windowstate=normal&mode=view

 

@sach2:
I thought I had a direct link also, but it seems that if you reference the SLI_DR direct link, it takes me to the home page only. Does this happen to you also? You are right, I missed that extra model.

 

@tgell I don't know, maybe the search result links we posted only last several minutes. You posted just before me and when I tried your link it took me to the same SLI_DR page as my link. Now both our links go to the homepage as does TSXCman's original link.

I guess TSXCman you will have to start at the Download link off the homepage. If you are fairly sure your MB is not part of the UT series I think there is only one set of drivers offered. The BIOS is award BIOS so it should quit on an incompatible match if you try to update the wrong board.

 

Same as Everest's Info so far, does anyone see anything that I should notice? my goal is to ID my board, and find if there are new drivers as well as a newer version of this Phoenix BIOS (dated back to Jan 25, 2005!)

Mother Board

Manufacturer DFI Corp,LTD
Model LP NF4 Series
Version 1.0
Serial Number

North Bridge NVIDIA nForce4 Revision A3
South Bridge NVIDIA nForce4 MCP Revision A3

CPU AMD Hammer Family processor - Model Unknown
Cpu Socket Socket 939

System Slots 5 PCI

Memory Summary
Maximum Capacity 16384 MBytes
Maximum Memory Module Size 4096 MBytes
Memory Slots 4
Error Correction None

Warning! Accuracy of DMI data cannot be guaranteed




BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version 6.00 PG
Firmware Version 101.110
BIOS Date 01/25/2005
BIOS Size 512 KB
BIOS Starting Segment E000h
DMI Version 2.2
Characteristics - supports ISA
- supports PCI
- supports Plug-and-Play
- supports APM
- upgradeable (Flash) BIOS
- allows BIOS shadowing
- supports booting from CD-ROM
- supports selectable boot
- BIOS ROM is socketed
- supports Enhanced Disk Drive specification
- supports INT 13 5.25-inch/360K floppy services
- supports INT 13 5.25-inch/1.2M floppy services
- supports INT 13 3.5-inch/720K floppy services
- supports INT 13 3.5-inch/2.88M floppy services
- supports INT 05 print-screen
- supports INT 09 and 8042 keyboard services
- supports INT 14 serial services
- supports INT 17 printer services
- supports INT 10 CGA/Mono video services
- supports ACPI
- supports legacy USB
- supports booting from LS-120
- supports booting from ATAPI ZIP drive

 

The reason I am looking is because I am having my computer underperform in some aspects, and I just reformatted it so that it could be clean and in order. I have updated all drivers the same way I would any computer, but I am noticing that so many of my drivers and BIOS are dated back to 2005 or so. Thats a long time ago for computer tech, when I reboot now I cannot access my pheonix bios either. I constantly reboot and press ctrl-alt-esc OR ctrl-alt-s, which have worked in the past, and are the protocol keys for this BIOS.

I would like to update drivers, BIOS, (if updates exist) for this MOBO, and over clock it a bit since this motherboard series has been known to do that easily.

The DFI site is confusing, and alot of the links send you to ERROR pages because they are so ancient. And there are alot of models for this series of MOBO

 

found this:
http://lp.lanparty.com.tw/Upload/FAQ/CM/en_US/GENG01.htm

I got in my computer and found

WARRANTY VOID IF REMOVED
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51008978

Haven't found that code's relevancy.


I peeled off the SLI sticker on the board at it reveiled the NF4 beside LanParty like in the top of this card:

http://img.lanparty.tw/Upload/CatalogElement/LP nF4 SLI-DR.jpg

I am going to update these BIOS settings, if I don't update this board in an hour I've messed up

 

From what I see your original BIOS date was 1-25-2005

These four boards use that same BIOS and look just about identical.
LanParty NF4 SLI-DR
LanParty UT NF4 SLI-D
LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D
LanParty UT NF4-D

I'd go with the LanParty NF4 SLI-DR drivers. My guess is they are all the same. [Of the 3 UT versions the only difference I could discern between the boards was the Ultra-D may have had a different LAN chip]

 

Oh, the UT boards glow under ultraviolet light. That is the difference between UT and non-UT boards. http://techgage.com/article/dfi_lanparty_ut_ultra-d/ Just a gimmick so I doubt that board is UT.

 

thanks sach2,

yea i manually flipped thru the bios downloads too and noticed a similar file for most of the models.

I havent updated yet, but I was playing around with overclocking. not good results tho due to my computer running hot and not being cooperative.

managed to only see positive results at 5% OC. 210 x10, playing around with the multiplier just made the computer too hot for the higher Hz.

Figured out the board finally though!

thanks guys