Hi

I just wanted to share the information that bios 13 and 14 (the two newest as of writing) for the otherwise excellent abit IX38 QuadGT is not compatible with the ATI Radeon HD4870X2 card. I didn't try 12 myself, but restored back to 11 as soon as I found out about the issue.

I spent close to two days pulling my hair out about this one, so I thought I'd help anyone else with this hardware combination. So it won't take them as long. I had never heard about graphics cards not beeing compatible with a bios before this.. well at least I was glad that I had not broken my motherboard with a unlucky flash or anything like that. And putting the huge HD4870X2 in and out several times during the last days has been a big pain in the ass for sure. My cabinet has about 2 mm clearing for this graphics card and I've managed to damage a P-ATA cable in the processs, silly me.

I hope, but to be realistic really doubt, that ABIT will do anything about this problem. The latest bioses fixes a lot of things with newer cpu's wich is great but wich we now can't take the advantage of. It makes the life cycle of the motherboard shorter for me at least.

Well, take care all