**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

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Originally Posted by maxwedge

Oh, I don't know that one and was thinking memtest86+
btw, if you want 4gb of ram on this board I'd be looking at two 2gb sticks and not four 1gb.;)

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yep thats exactly wat i have done,

bought the G.Skill 2x2gb PQ sticks :)

also i did use memtest86+ but yeh its the one thats on the ultimate boot cd.. whichever version that loads up by default

I'm having pretty good success running 4x1GB Crucial Ballistix on this board. I'm running ~1100MHz, 5-5-5-12 at the moment, which appears to be memtest stable. Still testing my CPU though. I'm at 458x8 right now.

Ok just got this board setup to replace my p5k deluxe which died. With my two ballistix I get a C1 error. When i try to boot and with one of them I get the C1 error when it is by itself the other I do not. Dead stick most likely? I did set the timings and voltages manually in the bios.

Hm.. What's a "normal" FSB wall to hit with quad core on this board? Mine seem to crap out at around 460MHz, which is a bit annoying. Prime locks up within a few secs at 462x8, while 412x9 has been going now for a while. Any settings I should look at changing?

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Originally Posted by mnaz

Ok just got this board setup to replace my p5k deluxe which died. With my two ballistix I get a C1 error. When i try to boot and with one of them I get the C1 error when it is by itself the other I do not. Dead stick most likely? I did set the timings and voltages manually in the bios.

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its most likely a dead stick when i put in my ballistix from my dead p5b-deluxe it wouldnt boot, rmaed it and put in the new sticks and it boots fine without any errors.


also is the vdroop on this board that bad? on my p5b i only had to set 1.45v to get my e6600 stable at 3.6 but on this board i had to set it at 1.48. i dont have a multimeter so i cant really see what the "real" voltages are but uguru jumps from 1.46ish idle to 1.42/1.45 load.

Blah, anything over 460FSB is definitely a no-go on this setup. After 455 things start getting flakey, but anything below seems stable. CPU does 3750MHz at my current vcore, so that's not the problem. Is this a normal wall to hit with a quad? Anything I can do about it? My goal was 462 FSB for around 3.7GHz with memory at a 5:6 ratio for around 1110MHz. So far I've established that both CPU and memory will do these frequencies fine, but and mentioned the motherboard appears to be holding me back.

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Originally Posted by jagt

Blah, anything over 460FSB is definitely a no-go on this setup. After 455 things start getting flakey, but anything below seems stable. CPU does 3750MHz at my current vcore, so that's not the problem. Is this a normal wall to hit with a quad? Anything I can do about it? My goal was 462 FSB for around 3.7GHz with memory at a 5:6 ratio for around 1110MHz. So far I've established that both CPU and memory will do these frequencies fine, but and mentioned the motherboard appears to be holding me back.

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i say that you are very close to the top end of a Q6600.

you need to post all your voltages that you are using and what higher voltages you tried to support a higher overclock.

i see that you are using 4 x 1Gb sticks...probably that is your problem from going any higher.

Just got this board today for a q6600 setup. Test hook-up & all is working, although WinXP 64bit wouldn't install (blue screen). Vista 32 did though, for now.



So... anyone actually make a custom PWM waterblock yet? ;)

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

i say that you are very close to the top end of a Q6600.

you need to post all your voltages that you are using and what higher voltages you tried to support a higher overclock.

i see that you are using 4 x 1Gb sticks...probably that is your problem from going any higher.

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Well, I don't think it's the memory. I've tried 1:1 for lower frequencies, and the same thing happens. I've tried 2x1GB too, and it's still the same. Also, the memory passes endless hours of memtest at 1110MHz, 4x1GB, 5-5-5-12.

Anyway, here's the voltages I'm using at the moment:

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/350/voltagesta3.jpg

Some of the may be artificially high right now as I'm testing things. These voltages gave me 12 hours+ of prime stability at 452x8, memory 5:6 (1084). I think I can do these CPU frequencies with lower vcore, but I haven't tried lower yet.

Guys, I need some help.

Like a week ago when I was unpacking some rar-files on one of my harddrives the entire computer froze and I had to reboot after which I kept getting CHKDSK saying that there was something wrong with the disk. That went away after like 10 reboots but now everytime I browse that HDD or try to run like HDTACH on it everything freezes again. When I check the Event Viewer there's alot of errors called iaStor which are the AHCI drivers, something about them not responding within the set time.

So, I thought it was the HDD that was dying, but nooo.. I've tried reformatting it and it didn't help, I've also tried using IDE instead of AHCI emulation within BIOS but I couldn't even get passed POST, everything would just freeze and I had to reboot.

Then I disconnected one of the harddrives (got 2 500gb samsung and a raptor) and boom, I got passed POST again when having the disks set to IDE.

So far I've narrowed it down to possibly the motherboard, cause if I have SATA-ports 1-4 occupied I can't get passed POST, but if I take for example the disk in port 3 and move it to port 5 I get passed POST. I still get hangups within Windows though, when running like HDTACH or trying to extract a file. Now the other samsung-drive is getting CHKDSK errors aswell and one folder isn't accessible cause it's broken or something.

Today I'm gonna low format the first disk and try to reinstall windows with just the raptor and that one samsung disk connected and see if I can pass HDTACH tests without everything freezing.

Do you guys have any idea of what the problem might be?

EDIT: The raptor disk passes HDTACH tests and never makes the system hang, it's only the samsung disks. Also, I have a SATA-dvdburner, that's why I've got 4 SATA-ports occupied ;)

if you are using the psu in your sig (not a psu issue), I would suggest giving your Sb voltage a small increase.

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Originally Posted by hadji_a

if you are using the psu in your sig (not a psu issue), I would suggest giving your Sb voltage a small increase.

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You think that would solve it even though I've ran everything on the lowest possible voltage setting for like 5 months without any problems?

But sure, I'll try that later, thanks. :)

Well after messing around for a while my second stick started working (don't ask me how) and now the board is all set up and the os is installed. I love the board layout and hopefully the bolt mod will allow me to get back to the 3.7 I was running 24/7 on my p5k deluxe.

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Originally Posted by jagt

Well, I don't think it's the memory. I've tried 1:1 for lower frequencies, and the same thing happens. I've tried 2x1GB too, and it's still the same. Also, the memory passes endless hours of memtest at 1110MHz, 4x1GB, 5-5-5-12.

Anyway, here's the voltages I'm using at the moment:

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/350/voltagesta3.jpg

Some of the may be artificially high right now as I'm testing things. These voltages gave me 12 hours+ of prime stability at 452x8, memory 5:6 (1084). I think I can do these CPU frequencies with lower vcore, but I haven't tried lower yet.

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all those are good except ICHIO 1.5...you will need to tweak it higher, like 1.60 or 1.65.

what is your objective?...to go higher with the overclock to make it non-P95 stable or P95 stable....two big distinctions when it comes to voltages required.

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Originally Posted by mnaz

Well after messing around for a while my second stick started working (don't ask me how) and now the board is all set up and the os is installed. I love the board layout and hopefully the bolt mod will allow me to get back to the 3.7 I was running 24/7 on my p5k deluxe.

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i hope the mod will allow it...i have confidence it will...one thing to remember that mobo's will be different when it comes to voltages required to attain a certain overclock....it is the nature of the "beast"!:)

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Originally Posted by RAdoxx

Guys, I need some help.

Like a week ago when I was unpacking some rar-files on one of my harddrives the entire computer froze and I had to reboot after which I kept getting CHKDSK saying that there was something wrong with the disk. That went away after like 10 reboots but now everytime I browse that HDD or try to run like HDTACH on it everything freezes again. When I check the Event Viewer there's alot of errors called iaStor which are the AHCI drivers, something about them not responding within the set time.

So, I thought it was the HDD that was dying, but nooo.. I've tried reformatting it and it didn't help, I've also tried using IDE instead of AHCI emulation within BIOS but I couldn't even get passed POST, everything would just freeze and I had to reboot.

Then I disconnected one of the harddrives (got 2 500gb samsung and a raptor) and boom, I got passed POST again when having the disks set to IDE.

So far I've narrowed it down to possibly the motherboard, cause if I have SATA-ports 1-4 occupied I can't get passed POST, but if I take for example the disk in port 3 and move it to port 5 I get passed POST. I still get hangups within Windows though, when running like HDTACH or trying to extract a file. Now the other samsung-drive is getting CHKDSK errors aswell and one folder isn't accessible cause it's broken or something.

Today I'm gonna low format the first disk and try to reinstall windows with just the raptor and that one samsung disk connected and see if I can pass HDTACH tests without everything freezing.

Do you guys have any idea of what the problem might be?

EDIT: The raptor disk passes HDTACH tests and never makes the system hang, it's only the samsung disks. Also, I have a SATA-dvdburner, that's why I've got 4 SATA-ports occupied ;)

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put the sata DVD drive on the 5th or 6th ports.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

put the sata DVD drive on the 5th or 6th ports.

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Any reason to why I should have to do this? :x
Is port 1-4 supposed to be for harddrives, and 5-6 for other devices?

as far as i know...a dvd drive is not a hard drive...i made a suggestion to help and you question it...you can either try it or continue your diagnostics to figure out your problem....personally, sounds like one of your samsung drives is not playing nice, nice.

I tried it, and I still got errors in the Event Viewer. Atleast it doesn't freeze at POST anymore, gonna low format one of the drives then install XP with hdd's set to IDE and try again.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

all those are good except ICHIO 1.5...you will need to tweak it higher, like 1.60 or 1.65.

what is your objective?...to go higher with the overclock to make it non-P95 stable or P95 stable....two big distinctions when it comes to voltages required.

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Thanks. What exactly is the ICHIO voltage? What does it do?

My objective is to obtain an overclock of 3.7GHz with a 8x multiplier, Prime stable. I know Prime stability doesnt nnecessarily mean much, but I can't get peace in my soul without knowing it's P95 stable, haha. Old habit's hard to change, I guess.

My problem as it is now isn't Prime stability though. My system just freezes if the FSB frequency is too high, ie, over 450MHz.

Thanks for your suggestions and tips, by the way. Greatly appreciated.

ICHIO 1.5 is your SB input/ouput...the ICH 1.05 is the core voltage of the SB...the ICHIO is more important than ICH...in fact...you can probably cut back the ICH back to 1.05v

EDIT:..my suggestion is to max out ICHIO and MCH...lower your FSB memory ratio to 1:1 and then start increasing vcore and FSB to see what you can do with P95...once you reach 3.7 and say P95 for an hour, you can start experimenting lowering your ICHIO and MCH down to see if you can still P95

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Originally Posted by RAdoxx

I tried it, and I still got errors in the Event Viewer. Atleast it doesn't freeze at POST anymore, gonna low format one of the drives then install XP with hdd's set to IDE and try again.

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i hope that works for you.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

ICHIO 1.5 is your SB input/ouput...the ICH 1.05 is the core voltage of the SB...the ICHIO is more important than ICH...in fact...you can probably cut back the ICH back to 1.05v

EDIT:..my suggestion is to max out ICHIO and MCH...lower your FSB memory ratio to 1:1 and then start increasing vcore and FSB to see what you can do with P95...once you reach 3.7 and say P95 for an hour, you can start experimenting lowering your ICHIO and MCH down to see if you can still P95

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Thanks, I'll try increasing ICHIO and see if that does anything. Right now I'm gonna let my system stay at the stable 450x8 for some Call of Duty 4 action! :) Imortant to remember using the system for what it's built for once in a while in between all the tweaking :P

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

i hope that works for you.

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It did work until I connected the second samsung drive, the errors in event viewer came back and it appears to be running in PIO mode and I can't change it to DMA. =/

Guess I'll low format the second drive aswell and hope for the best..

It seems unlikely that both drives would crash at the same time, so I'm still suspecting something else. :x

EDIT: ...Now the one I low formatted earlier started giving me errors again

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Originally Posted by jagt

Right now I'm gonna let my system stay at the stable 450x8 for some Call of Duty 4 action! :) Imortant to remember using the system for what it's built for once in a while in between all the tweaking :P

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Man, ain't that the truth :)

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Originally Posted by RAdoxx

It did work until I connected the second samsung drive, the errors in event viewer came back and it appears to be running in PIO mode and I can't change it to DMA. =/

Guess I'll low format the second drive aswell and hope for the best..

It seems unlikely that both drives would crash at the same time, so I'm still suspecting something else. :x

EDIT: ...Now the one I low formatted earlier started giving me errors again

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have you tried running just one drive at a time to see if it works without errors?

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

have you tried running just one drive at a time to see if it works without errors?

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Yes, I tried that with the one I low formatted first. It worked until I connected the second samsung drive and tried to backup some files, then the errors returned.

Another guess is that something went wrong on one drive and when I copied files from that one to the fully working one they screwed something up.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

have you tried running just one drive at a time to see if it works without errors?

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Originally Posted by RAdoxx

Yes, I tried that with the one I low formatted first. It worked until I connected the second samsung drive and tried to backup some files, then the errors returned.

Another guess is that something went wrong on one drive and when I copied files from that one to the fully working one they screwed something up.

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didn't you say the raptor works fine by itself?

what bios are you using on the pro board?

EDIT:...remove the soundblaster card for more tests...i heard a few users complaing of having trouble with that card in windows.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

didn't you say the raptor works fine by itself?

what bios are you using on the pro board?

EDIT:...remove the soundblaster card for more tests...i heard a few users complaing of having trouble with that card in windows.

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Yea, I've always installed windows on the raptor and it has always worked like a charm, it's only the samsung drives that're giving me errors.

I'm using BIOS 11.

I will try removing the soundcard for a few tests, but I doubt it's causing the problems because I have had this system up and running problem-free for a few months up until just recently. The problems started after everything froze when unpacking some .rar-files one day.

Thanks for all the suggestions btw

EDIT: What I mean when I said that I've tried running with only 1 hdd connected is one of the samsung hdds+the raptor, so really 2 hdds, it's when I have both samsung drives connected that problems occur.

awaiting your report.

my next thing to recommend if both drives are still causing problems is to upgrade the bios...i would go to the official 14 bios next.

I moved the samsung disk from port 2 to 6 and ran some tests, no errors. Then I moved it back from port 6 to 2 and guess what? No errors. Pretty weird.

When I then connected the second samsung drive, the one that started this mess from the beginning, I got errors. I'm guessing that's the problem for some reason, is it possible for a harddrive to be faulty even though the manufacturers diagnostics program shows no errors?

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Originally Posted by RAdoxx

I moved the samsung disk from port 2 to 6 and ran some tests, no errors. Then I moved it back from port 6 to 2 and guess what? No errors. Pretty weird.

When I then connected the second samsung drive, the one that started this mess from the beginning, I got errors. I'm guessing that's the problem for some reason, is it possible for a harddrive to be faulty even though the manufacturers diagnostics program shows no errors?

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yes...you can have problems but it can also be caused by the bios in conjunction with the hard drive...think about upgrading the bios to the latest release which i think is 14 to see if that is any better....i am using beta bios 16...the link is back about 10-20 pages.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

yes...you can have problems but it can also be caused by the bios in conjunction with the hard drive...think about upgrading the bios to the latest release which i think is 14 to see if that is any better....i am using beta bios 16...the link is back about 10-20 pages.

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Yes, I'll do that! But I've actually had the system up and running problem free for a few months like I said a few posts back, it's seems unlikely that the BIOS would create a bunch of problems just out of nowhere after such a long time.

And, now I still get the errors even though I disconnected the second one I connected in the previous post...

I`m having some issues with this board and my wireless network-card. If I plug in the card it wont boot properly, it stays at post message 25. This is what the manual says about it:
Early PCI Initialization:
-Enumerate PCI bus number
-Assign memory I/O resource
-Search for a valid VGA device VGA BIOS, and put it into C000:0

Any ideas what to do about it? If I plug the card in after the board has passed 25 everything works fine.

Apart from this I like the board very much and im hitting nice speeds with it.
Max Fsb with Q6600 so far is 500, Spi 32 pass.
Nice chip also, how about 4300Mhz Air cooled? :)


http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/3368
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/3369

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Originally Posted by gbglassen

I`m having some issues with this board and my wireless network-card. If I plug in the card it wont boot properly, it stays at post message 25. This is what the manual says about it:
Early PCI Initialization:
-Enumerate PCI bus number
-Assign memory I/O resource
-Search for a valid VGA device VGA BIOS, and put it into C000:0

Any ideas what to do about it? If I plug the card in after the board has passed 25 everything works fine.

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What kind of card is it? USB? PCI?

Oh, forgot. Its PCI.

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Originally Posted by gbglassen

Oh, forgot. Its PCI.

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Tried it in a different slot yet?
If so, and it's still giving you trouble, you might want to update your motherboard's BIOS, and maybe see if there's a firmware update available for your WiFi NIC.

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Originally Posted by AstroCreep

Tried it in a different slot yet?
If so, and it's still giving you trouble, you might want to update your motherboard's BIOS, and maybe see if there's a firmware update available for your WiFi NIC.

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Yeah, I already tried all of that, no luck so far.

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Originally Posted by gbglassen

Yeah, I already tried all of that, no luck so far.

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Strange. Never seen anything quite like that yet.
What is the make/model of the WiFi NIC?
I have an abit PCIe NIC that I haven't had any issues with on this board (not the same luck on my old DFI Ultra, however).

It´s a Belkin Pre-N F5D8000

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Originally Posted by gbglassen

I`m having some issues with this board and my wireless network-card. If I plug in the card it wont boot properly, it stays at post message 25. This is what the manual says about it:
Early PCI Initialization:
-Enumerate PCI bus number
-Assign memory I/O resource
-Search for a valid VGA device VGA BIOS, and put it into C000:0

Any ideas what to do about it? If I plug the card in after the board has passed 25 everything works fine.

Apart from this I like the board very much and im hitting nice speeds with it.
Max Fsb with Q6600 so far is 500, Spi 32 pass.
Nice chip also, how about 4300Mhz Air cooled? :)

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i would boost your ICH 1.05 to 1.09 or 1.12 and also your ICHIO 1.5 to about 1.70 or even higher since you are doing 4300 Mhz...BTW..VERY NICE overclock!:up:

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Originally Posted by RAdoxx

Yes, I'll do that! But I've actually had the system up and running problem free for a few months like I said a few posts back, it's seems unlikely that the BIOS would create a bunch of problems just out of nowhere after such a long time.

And, now I still get the errors even though I disconnected the second one I connected in the previous post...

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have you adjusted the ICH 1.05 and ICHIO 1.5 upwards to see if that helps...those control the SB core and input/output voltages...give that a try.

gbglassen:

If Ace's suggestions don't work for you, and they may very well work, remove the card from the system - go to cmos and pnp/pci configuration - change from auto to manual but don't change and PCI settings - save the bios and power off as soon as the machine post. Install the card and power up and see if it will post now.

The machine isn’t posting because of address/irq conflicts being created by the wifi card that plug and play apparently can’t resolve for what ever reason. As Ace has stated more voltage on the bus may resolve the problem… In Award bioses there is a feature to “Reset Configuration Data” that would generally fix this problem but I don’t find a similar function in this bios…

Good luck with it…

Thanks for the tips guys, tried all of them already but nothing seems to work. have to get myself a new wifi card I guess:(
Ace-A-Rue: Thanks for the kind words:) need a to do some vmods to push this baby higher.
/Mattias

before giving up try the beta 16 bios just to make sure...that is a good bios...it allows changes to the bios without the puter shutting down which is/was an annoyance in my book.;)

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Originally Posted by bingo13

I think everyone should be happy with this BIOS.

Beta 16: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/...M629B_16AT.rar

As always, use at your own risk, no official support, not yet anyways.

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here is beta bios 16

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

here you go!...the WHY!...a QX6850 up against a QX9650

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Originally Posted by pcdoc1

Hey Ace, I think you're right and would like to test the QX9650 myself. Can't wait for some of your results.... :)

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BOY!...i am so tempted to go with a tray cpu (OEM)...but, i really want to buy a retail...i like that warm and cozy feeling of having have a 3yr warranty.;)

INTEL Matrix Storage Manager drivers 7.8.0.1012
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
Download link:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14848/a08/iata78_cd.exe

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Originally Posted by RAdoxx

Yes, I'll do that! But I've actually had the system up and running problem free for a few months like I said a few posts back, it's seems unlikely that the BIOS would create a bunch of problems just out of nowhere after such a long time.

And, now I still get the errors even though I disconnected the second one I connected in the previous post...

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Hi mate,

did you solve your PIO trouble ?

I just got same issue with my system HDD ( got 5mo/s in HDtune insteed of the 55mo/s ???) I was in PIO mode and can't change the setting in windows or in bios .

After checking google I found the way to reactivate the UDMA mode :

GO in regedit and look after these key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}�00x

the ?00x is your supposed number for your PIO drive

when you found it , deleted it ( save it first if you want) and reboot, now all should be fine.

My first attempt was wrong drive number but at the second one I got success. I had to reinstall my intel chipset driver by the way.

In my case I have had to deleted the n°0002 , here is a picture of it:

http://pix.nofrag.com/3/f/8/06058c25...b652fcf4tt.jpg

Now, all seems to be fine.

Hope it solve your trouble too.

Hi guys.

2 problems here. (Q6600 and bios-14)

1. abit-guru utility don't show anything at all (latest version). All readings are zeros.

2. Coretemp 0.95.4 read only core 0, and coretemp 0.95 crashes the system.

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Originally Posted by snips

Hi guys.

2 problems here. (Q6600 and bios-14)

1. abit-guru utility don't show anything at all (latest version). All readings are zeros.

2. Coretemp 0.95.4 read only core 0, and coretemp 0.95 crashes the system.

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clear cmos and then go into bios and set "defaults"...save and re-post back into bios...reset your individual settings and then save...Uguru should work after that.

use only coretemp 0.95.4.

still waiting patiently for an official ip35-E version 13 bios.

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Originally Posted by tomati

Hi mate,

did you solve your PIO trouble ?

I just got same issue with my system HDD ( got 5mo/s in HDtune insteed of the 55mo/s ???) I was in PIO mode and can't change the setting in windows or in bios .

After checking google I found the way to reactivate the UDMA mode :

GO in regedit and look after these key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}�00x

the ?00x is your supposed number for your PIO drive

when you found it , deleted it ( save it first if you want) and reboot, now all should be fine.

My first attempt was wrong drive number but at the second one I got success. I had to reinstall my intel chipset driver by the way.

In my case I have had to deleted the n°0002 , here is a picture of it:

http://pix.nofrag.com/3/f/8/06058c25...b652fcf4tt.jpg

Now, all seems to be fine.

Hope it solve your trouble too.

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Good to know, but I already did a low format on both drives, going to reinstall windows today. ;)

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

clear cmos and then go into bios and set "defaults"...save and re-post back into bios...reset your individual settings and then save...Uguru should work after that.

use only coretemp 0.95.4.

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No, that didnt work! UGURU is still showing nothing!

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Originally Posted by kapster

still waiting patiently for an official ip35-E version 13 bios.

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you've missed it - it's been up, had some RAM problems & they are on 14 beta atm.

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Originally Posted by snips

No, that didnt work! UGURU is still showing nothing!

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which uguru version are you using?...try uninstall, reboot, re-install of uguru.

it seems as though one of my cores is disabled - in wprime it only shows 1 core and one thread and super pi takes a lot longer - where do I fix this?
HELPPPPP!!!!

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Originally Posted by Heidfirst

you've missed it - it's been up, had some RAM problems & they are on 14 beta atm.

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Where can you get the absolute latest BIOS updates for the IP35-E, betas included? I can't seem to find a consistent source, even the official abit site(s).

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BTW My C2D works perfectly, both cores detected by BIOS and in windows.

could it be possible that a core died? as aqua mark and other benchies don't seem that good (as they were)

like this
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5578/1264906py4.jpg

so, what's proving to be better for quads and o/c...the ip-35 pro or the p5k premium?

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Originally Posted by 003

Where can you get the absolute latest BIOS updates for the IP35-E, betas included? I can't seem to find a consistent source, even the official abit site(s).

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BTW My C2D works perfectly, both cores detected by BIOS and in windows.

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here is the folder to download bios 13 for the IP35 and IP35-E.

it appears this is the newest release...Abit's USA website still shows bios 12 as the latest....always a good idea to go to the FTP site to check...their website is the last thing to get updated.

ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/bios/ip35/

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Originally Posted by TheGoat Eater

could it be possible that a core died? as aqua mark and other benchies don't seem that good (as they were)

like this
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5578/1264906py4.jpg

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i don't think you would show 2 cores, 2 threads in CpuZ if one core was dead...usually, lower bench scores mean a run down OS or video driver problem.

hey guys could someone tell me what is the most current revision of the board?

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Originally Posted by The Iceman!!

so, what's proving to be better for quads and o/c...the ip-35 pro or the p5k premium?

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LOL...when you come into the lion's den you want to act like a lion.:D

kidding aside, the Pro is an excellent board receiving the "Gold" award from Anandtech website.

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Originally Posted by SaII

hey guy's could someone tell me what is the most current revision of the board?

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i think there is 1.0 and 1.1 versions...minor changes between the two.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

LOL...when you come into the lion's den you want to act like a lion.:D

kidding aside, the Pro is an excellent board receiving the "Gold" award from Anandtech website.

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RAWR!! that better? :D
thanks!

Has anyone else had trouble with the onboard network adapters? I had one die a couple of weeks ago and after a reboot tonight the other one just didn't come back on. Lucky I had a PCI card in a drawer to put in, I guess.

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RAWR!! that better? :D
thanks!

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YES!;)

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Has anyone else had trouble with the onboard network adapters? I had one die a couple of weeks ago and after a reboot tonight the other one just didn't come back on. Lucky I had a PCI card in a drawer to put in, I guess.

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what bios are you using?

have you cleared CMOS with the battery out?

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

what bios are you using?

have you cleared CMOS with the battery out?

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Using bios11 at the moment but have been thinking of flashing up to 14. Funny thing is Vista shows both adapters as working properly but they lose all connectivity with my router. You think this could be a bios problem?

possibly!

another thing to consider is either vista or your router.

I'm yet to have ANY problems with my board (touch wood) and using the latest 16. bios and I bought one of the very first in AU :up:

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

possibly!

another thing to consider is either vista or your router.

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I thought about it being Vista so tried booting XP instead but same thing. Router works fine with the DLink pci card and my laptop so I doubt it is that. I will try the bios update and reset tonight to see what happens.

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I thought about it being Vista so tried booting XP instead but same thing. Router works fine with the DLink pci card and my laptop so I doubt it is that. I will try the bios update and reset tonight to see what happens.

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i heard guys reporting the same problem with the onboard NIC controllers and it came down to getting the latest driver...once installed, it worked fine....it is very rare to have both go tits-up;)

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I'm yet to have ANY problems with my board (touch wood) and using the latest 16. bios and I bought one of the very first in AU :up:

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same here for me...been a great board up to now with the 16 beta bios...i had NIC controllers dropping off line but that was caused by a malfunctioning wireless "G" router...since replacing the controller, i have no problems.

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Where can you get the absolute latest BIOS updates for the IP35-E, betas included? I can't seem to find a consistent source, even the official abit site(s).

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often the beta BIOS sticky on the abit USA forums is the best place to get betas (after someone has been kind enough to supply us with a copy).
As a rule abit doesn't put betas on public ftps although it appears abit China sometimes does.
In terms of official abit final releases then the abit Taiwan site/ftp (usually the ftp is updated prior to them being linked on the site) is usually the best.

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Originally Posted by 003

Where can you get the absolute latest BIOS updates for the IP35-E, betas included? I can't seem to find a consistent source, even the official abit site(s).

EDIT:
BTW My C2D works perfectly, both cores detected by BIOS and in windows.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

here is the folder to download bios 13 for the IP35 and IP35-E.

it appears this is the newest release...Abit's USA website still shows bios 12 as the latest....always a good idea to go to the FTP site to check...their website is the last thing to get updated.

ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/bios/ip35/

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bringing this forward for 003.

Hm, my USB ports stopped working after installing the latest chipset drivers, anyone else having this problem?

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Hm, my USB ports stopped working after installing the latest chipset drivers, anyone else having this problem?

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I actually had that happen to me with a Dell laptop (obviously not the same board, but a similiar problem).
I'd uninstall the chipset driver software then 'Uninstall' all the USB controllers/ports/hubs, reboot, reinstall chipset driver.

Don't know if this is the right place, but is abit ip35 pro related. Does anybody know if this mobo has a boot menu key?

Other mobos use F8 or F10 to select the drive from which you want to boot without entering bios.

@RAdoxx, yes, my USB ports quit working too. I found a solution on the internet that worked for me: go into Device manager and you should see 8 USB Root Hub items with yellow !'s next to them. Right-Click on each one and uninstall it. Then reboot. That worked for me and I hope it works for you. I'd like to see an "installation problem" sticky on this. Everything I've seen so far in my installation's been common. I had to go buy a 9 dollar PS/2 keyboard from Wal-Mart after I installed the chipset drivers...lol. Now I'm wading through the Bios flash do's and don'ts. Anyways, good luck!

Hi, me again, i just put together a new rig and i'm having some troubles, from time to time when i boot into win xp i receive a BSOD (STOP c0000145 Application error...), but this is very random and i cannot figure what is the problem.

Specs:

CPU: E6750
Ram: Corsair 2GB TwinX DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4
Mobo: IP35 PRO
Video: Leadtek 7800 GTX
Hdd: 1x 150 raptor, 2 x 320 seagate
Psu: Enermax Liberty 620w

I didn't oc anything yet. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Don't know if this is the right place, but is abit ip35 pro related. Does anybody know if this mobo has a boot menu key?

Other mobos use F8 or F10 to select the drive from which you want to boot without entering bios.

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NO!

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Hi, me again, i just put together a new rig and i'm having some troubles, from time to time when i boot into win xp i receive a BSOD (STOP c0000145 Application error...), but this is very random and i cannot figure what is the problem.

Specs:

CPU: E6750
Ram: Corsair 2GB TwinX DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4
Mobo: IP35 PRO
Video: Leadtek 7800 GTX
Hdd: 1x 150 raptor, 2 x 320 seagate
Psu: Enermax Liberty 620w

I didn't oc anything yet. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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did you import your old OS over to the IP35 Pro?...might try to do a repair installation.

Hi, no, i did a fresh install, twice (for the first install i used the drivers from the begining of the this thread, second install the drivers from mobo cd, for video car i used 163.75 forceware), the problem is the same BSOD but only when xp loads or has finished loading. I can hear clicks at all my hdds. I ran a memtest no problem with ram, upped ddr voltage to 2.1 for stability. I don't know how to provoke this error could you suggest some software for stress test?

Thanks!

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Hi, no, i did a fresh install, twice (for the first install i used the drivers from the begining of the this thread, second install the drivers from mobo cd, for video car i used 163.75 forceware), the problem is the same BSOD but only when xp loads or has finished loading. I can hear clicks at all my hdds. I ran a memtest no problem with ram, upped ddr voltage to 2.1 for stability. I don't know how to provoke this error could you suggest some software for stress test?

Thanks!

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'Clicks'? Your HDDs 'click'? If so, that's not a good thing. :(
Try to run a hard drive diagnostic app (whoever the MFG is should have stuff for download on their site), because a clicking HDD is a dying HDD.

i think i killed by board. it shows me 8.7 and there is no voltage on cpu. is the cpu defectif so there is no vcore or is it the board?
i have soldered a readout on the board, if the smd of the readout would be burned -> board = dead ?

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'Clicks'? Your HDDs 'click'? If so, that's not a good thing. :(
Try to run a hard drive diagnostic app (whoever the MFG is should have stuff for download on their site), because a clicking HDD is a dying HDD.

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The hdds are fine, the "clicks" are like when you turn off the pc, after pressing the restart button it take a wile for the hdds to power up.

Upped MCH = 1.33
Vcore = 1.39



Thanks!

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Originally Posted by ureche

The hdds are fine, the "clicks" are like when you turn off the pc, after pressing the restart button it take a wile for the hdds to power up.

Upped MCH = 1.33
Vcore = 1.39



Thanks!

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So you're talking about the 'normal' sounds; not the dreaded 'Tick of Death'? If that's the case, that's good. :) Just misunderstood the post is all, I reckon.

Hi, yes, normal sounds. There is one thing it does this BSOD after i have installed a program or a driver and i have to reboot. Can this be caused by the OEM version of XP?

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Hi, yes, normal sounds. There is one thing it does this BSOD after i have installed a program or a driver and i have to reboot. Can this be caused by the OEM version of XP?

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No, it wouldn't be caused simply by the fact that it's an OEM copy; Windows is Windows, is Windows.

Strange...

I have a weird thing going on with acronis... I have the purchased cd which is bootable and also have created a acronis BartPE boot disc with the software... neither cd will boot.. even with all my boot priority devices in bios set to sata cdrom, it still boots to c: Vista. man, I purchased this thing for imaging the machine, but kinda hard when it won't even boot to the device to do it.

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I have a weird thing going on with acronis... I have the purchased cd which is bootable and also have created a acronis BartPE boot disc with the software... neither cd will boot.. even with all my boot priority devices in bios set to sata cdrom, it still boots to c: Vista. man, I purchased this thing for imaging the machine, but kinda hard when it won't even boot to the device to do it.

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Try loading system defaults for your BIOS yet? I had this happen to me on a different motherboard a few years ago.
Reset BIOS to 'fail-safe' defaults (or whatever they may be called on this board), reboot, then adjust the BIOS to your preferred settings.

does this board support ddr2 8500? the 1066spd one?

its coming up on cpu-z as ddr2 6400 on cpu-z which is what i previously
had in the computer

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Originally Posted by AstroCreep

Try loading system defaults for your BIOS yet? I had this happen to me on a different motherboard a few years ago.
Reset BIOS to 'fail-safe' defaults (or whatever they may be called on this board), reboot, then adjust the BIOS to your preferred settings.

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Thanks.. well I tried defaults (fail safe and optimized). tried reset using the jumper switch.. set all my boot priority devices to sata cdrom.. it won't boot to the darn cdrom, just keeps booting to C:... even when the hd is nort selected as a boot device.

I just installed vista 64 2 days ago with a new raptor, and it booted fine to the vista cd. but now it won't even do that. so I'm fubarred if I need to run a repair or install vista again in the future. no cd boot. it doesn't even seek on post for it to boot. but the cd works fine once windows is up. this has to be a motherboard issue wherever it lies.

I originally thought for sure this was an acronis issue, but now that I've tried booting to the vista cd and it fails, I know where the issue is.. it's the mobo or bios.


EDIT: OK, I switched from sata port 3 to 4 and it boots to the cd now... go figure.. why in the heck sata 3 started not booting the cdrom in the past few days, when I've used it to install 3 os's on this pc in the past month. I don't know if the port itself is the cause, or switching ports caused bios to redetect.. whatever it's working now. imaging as I type on my x2 6000 pc.

Did some benching on the balcony the morning, upped my personal best on air a little. Really starting to like this board.

System:
Abit Ip35 Pro
Q6600
Crucial Ballistix 8500
ATI x1900xtx
Zalman 850W
Thermalright Ultra Extreme+129mm Delta

The rigg:
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/3457


Suicide at 4356Mhz
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/3453

Spi 1m at 4284Mhz
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/3454

3Dmark01 at 4158Mhz, 63735p
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/3456

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Originally Posted by lazy

does this board support ddr2 8500? the 1066spd one?

its coming up on cpu-z as ddr2 6400 on cpu-z which is what i previously
had in the computer

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I have Corsair PC8500 installed. Highest official spd is for PC6400/800Mhz. Is has an EPP entry for some Nvidia based boards only. You have to manually set the ratio to get to 1066Mhz and up the voltage to 2.2V
My memory is running at 960Mhz atm.

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I have Corsair PC8500 installed. Highest official spd is for PC6400/800Mhz. Is has an EPP entry for some Nvidia based boards only. You have to manually set the ratio to get to 1066Mhz and up the voltage to 2.2V
My memory is running at 960Mhz atm.

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Thank you for your answer.

I actually have my memery running at 1052MHz if i recall but i was only asking since CPU-Z reports it as a PC 6400 ram when its not

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Did some benching on the balcony the morning, upped my personal best on air a little. Really starting to like this board.

System:
Abit Ip35 Pro
Q6600
Crucial Ballistix 8500
ATI x1900xtx
Zalman 850W
Thermalright Ultra Extreme+129mm Delta

Spi 1m at 4284Mhz
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/3454

3Dmark01 at 4158Mhz, 63735p
http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/3456

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way to go!:up:

Hi, you are right, i tried retail version of xp, same thing, if the windows loads successfully it works like charm. I have ultimate vista 64 installed and had no problem. The BSOD appears only when xp is loading. I cannot figure what is the problem, maybe the psu is faulty.

Thanks!