Command center back online! ^^

Yay! Long time no see, minna-san. At last my Internet connection is back! (and of course my DFI Lanparty NF4 UT Ultra-D)

So.. what story I want to share today? Despite that I already RMA’ed my motherboard, I can’t use any USB devices now! >_< I have reformatted my C: drive and reinstalled Windows XP, but still the USB won’t working. Everytime I connect an USB device like my Asus Xitepad or Zen Vision M (removable disk mode), Windows detected those devices as “Unknown Device”, and a popup baloon from system tray said “USB Device Not Recognized”. I already installed the driver and my gamepad still won’t run. The same thing also happened to my Zen Vision M. Aww.. what should i do? RMA my motherboard again?

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Maybe my Flickr page won’t be updated for a while. I can’t transfer the photos from my SE K510i. ^^

Rest in peace.. my DFI Lanparty NF4 UT Ultra-D :(

It was happened yesterday. I’m still on school and it was raining. Usually I left my computer running at home. I didn’t even think this tragedy would be happened to me. My computer was struck by lightning! >_< I didn’t know until I came home. As usual, I turned on the monitor and moving my mouse to show the login window. Nothing appeared on my screen. I tried to turn off my computer from power button, nothing happened too. So, I turned off my computer from the power supply switch.

At first I thought my computer was overheating, so I let my computer rest for a few minutes. After that, I try to turn on my computer. And.. my BIOS won’t load! Usually when booting up the computer, there must a beep sound and the BIOS screen with “Award” logo was shown on the monitor, but it didn’t happened.  I turned off my computer again and plug out the power from power outlet. 

I opened my computer case. Nothing strange inside the case. Diagnostic LEDs when my computer still on is normal and no burnout smell. I try everything I could do to the motherboard like using the safe boot jumper, clear CMOS, and unattach the BIOS battery, but.. nothing happened. My motherboard, specifically the BIOS is dead!

And, how I typed this blog entry? I’m on Internet cafe right now. Working my school assignments and typing this entry at the same time. The assignments must be given to teacher at tomorrow. Next Saturday or Sunday I’ll try to have replacement for my motherboard. Of course I couldn’t say my motherboard is broken because of lightning. Must lied a little to the dealer. ^^

Well then, I must continue on my school assignments. Bye!

The NB fan on NF4-Ultra-D – XtremeSystems Forums

The NB fan on NF4-Ultra-D – XtremeSystems Forums

I just realized how noisy is NF4 chipset fan on LanParty NF4 Ultra D. How come I just realized it now? I can’t stand it anymore! >_< At first the chipset fan was not noisy, but lately it became very noisy, and a few hours ago my NF4 chipset temperature on Motherboard Monitor just passed it’s threshold!

60 C! I closed all programs and turned off my system, then opened my computer case. I cleaned up a bit the inside of my computer case with vacuum cleaner. Maybe the heat build up becoming faster because of the dust. After the cleaning is done, I close the computer case and start up my computer again. Well… still noisy like nothing happened even after I cleaned the inside. But 10 minutes later, it become less noisy, just like usual again! I checked the Motherboard Monitor, the Chipset Fan’s RPM was 3900++! I think those noise before was caused by chipset fan speed was slower than 3900++. Take a look at my screenshot above when the chipset reach 60 C, the chipset fan was around 2600 RPM.

How about the link I put up on the top of this entry? It quite related to my problem. I can’t change my chipset fan because it doesn’t had enough room, blocked by VGA card. Then, I see one of the post on that forum, he/she bent the cooler plate (from passive cooler he bought to replace the fan) so the cooler could be fitted and doesn’t blocked by VGA. Very creative I think, but I’m too scary to do such thing. ^^

Well then, I must get back to work. Still has one school assignment to do. ^^