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

[GameGuru]

Thanks for the info guys. Since this is a brand new build I'll be doing a fresh install of XP 32bit. I guess I'll just let it self update through Creative and hope all is well. Thanks again everyone.

[Soulburner]

Super Pi 1M

[Jodiuh]

just tried that hotfix. It says "does not apply to your system".

That's because it's already installed. They're pushing the 2 compat/perf updates now, but you'll still have to manually grab the virtual address space fix.

...The room is fairly warm, ~75-76F...

Same ambient here right now...finally AZ's starting to cool off. Here's a comparo pick of my "safe and lazy" OC. Fan on TRUE's an SFLEX @ 1200RPM using AC MX-1.



The main problem I've had w/ the X-Fi on this and the DFI Infinity P965-S relates somehow to pci traffic. Using the pci lat tool to bump it up to 128 solves the prob on the Abit...nothing on the DFI. Asus P5B Deluxe and Evga 680i do not suffer from this problem. They play GRAW2 and BF2/BF2142 wo/ any crackling whatsoever...no fix needed. The major difference between those board's the pcb layer, tho they've got a higher # phase for PWM's, but I'm not sure that has much to do w/ it.

[Ace-a-Rue]

just tried that hotfix. It says "does not apply to your system". Im on a legit buisness vista install that i got from my school.

Also the port error it gets is on boot, when it comes up in the bios. Sometimes it wont even detect the drive.

I just tried to do a full reformat of the drive in question, and a full long reformat bluescreens the whole machine after like 15 min or so. A quick format actually works.

then, it might be the drive or it might be a memory problem.

[FlimFlam00]

sorry it didn't work out for you...what was the problems with both boards?

Ah man, where do I begin? The first board was the worst. Crazy post errrors, could not save any bios settings. I could not even set the time. The time in the BIOS borked out Vista too, and invalidated my activation. The video would go out, and had serious i/o errors with my drives. Just crazy stuff that I have never seen, and I TS'd it for hours. Then I rma'd it, and got a board that booted but still had problems. So after spending about 20 hours messing with it, I packed it in, and popped in a trusty 680i board.

Sometimes the hardware gods try to give me every possible problem there can be.

Oh well. I loved the layout and features of the board, and this was my first actual Abit board, so I am kind of bummed. But Nvidia c72 is around the corner. ;-)

[new-b]

Did you try a different PCI slot by chance?

Well...I tried that 2nd to bottom PCI slot and it shared IRQ with my nic (really don't like that).... after some enable/dissable of usb and nic in bios/device manager etc. the X-Fi is now sharing IRQ with different USB controller (onboard header not in use as best I can tell) and the back USB ports now work.

Still have some sharing I don't like (namely video card) but it's not giving me any problems.

[GameGuru]

Just installed everything and the board won't post for the life of me. Gives me check CPU voltage error and thats it. Anyone have any comments? If not I think I'll try my luck with the DFI board. Thanks.

[strange|ife]

game guru

that memory shouldnt be a problem with this board. Clear cmos via battery method+dipswitch. Install only one stick in dimm slot 4. see if you can get in bios and set your vdimm to 2.1v. And vcore to stock

see if that helps. if not, leave the battery out over night. IF thats not working, if u have the board installed try removing it from case and running on a mat...if u cant get it to post then, i would either try some diffrent memory/psu. Or just return/rma. Thats weird, ive had 2 of these boards without much hassle as far as booting. They boot everytime, always. except for a C1 error, but that was due to posting with 4 sticks my first time getting it, booting with 2 and setting voltage cleared it up right away.

[bfox2]

then, it might be the drive or it might be a memory problem.

Yea, I just pulled it and am gonna start the RMA with newegg.

[luihed]

Just installed everything and the board won't post for the life of me. Gives me check CPU voltage error and thats it. Anyone have any comments? If not I think I'll try my luck with the DFI board. Thanks.

Were you watercooled or aircooled?.... You probably tightened the mounting screws too tight, this board doesnt like that.... I hope simply loosening it fix your issue, sometimes it works sometimes its too late.... like I said on post #2318, seems like people having boot problems with htis board are running on water... What I cant figure out though is even when I did mount my WB faily loose, it still gave me boot issues ( 8.7 C1, 9.9 8.7 C1 lol ).... I did love the board cos it took 7 RMAs before I gave up lol....

[Alik4041]

Just installed everything and the board won't post for the life of me. Gives me check CPU voltage error and thats it. Anyone have any comments? If not I think I'll try my luck with the DFI board. Thanks.

I know it's stupid, but just recheck to make sure the cpu is seated properly. Most this message is from this kind of mistake.

[largon]

The D9GMH/GKX no-boot C1 error issue looks like a RAM hardware problem (incompatible chip revisions?) rather than a SPD incompatibility. Flashing an SPD from a working DIMM to a non-booting DIMM does not fix the problem. No matter what, my Team DDR667 D9GMH (with flashed or default SPD) always halts in C1 but works flawlessly on another board. It's not a dead board either since a non-Micron Corsair DDR667 works a-ok on the IP35.
Dammit.

I guess I'm feeling like buying some more RAM.
:p

[GameGuru]

Were you watercooled or aircooled?.... You probably tightened the mounting screws too tight, this board doesnt like that.... I hope simply loosening it fix your issue, sometimes it works sometimes its too late.... like I said on post #2318, seems like people having boot problems with htis board are running on water... What I cant figure out though is even when I did mount my WB faily loose, it still gave me boot issues ( 8.7 C1, 9.9 8.7 C1 lol ).... I did love the board cos it took 7 RMAs before I gave up lol....

Yes I am watercooled, see sig below. Mounting the block to tight seems really weird and if I remember correctly I didn't tighten it then that tight. I will however try this, thank you. Also I noticed that you moved on the the DFI board, how you liking that?

Originally Posted by strange|ife

game guru

that memory shouldnt be a problem with this board. Clear cmos via battery method+dipswitch. Install only one stick in dimm slot 4. see if you can get in bios and set your vdimm to 2.1v. And vcore to stock

see if that helps. if not, leave the battery out over night. IF thats not working, if u have the board installed try removing it from case and running on a mat...if u cant get it to post then, i would either try some diffrent memory/psu. Or just return/rma. Thats weird, ive had 2 of these boards without much hassle as far as booting. They boot everytime, always. except for a C1 error, but that was due to posting with 4 sticks my first time getting it, booting with 2 and setting voltage cleared it up right away.

I will try this as well, thanks for the tip

[ante_ante]

Anyone know if there is a new bios coming soon ?

[Pntgrd]

If they are all 1066 tracers then why would you even ask the question in the first place? Based on your earlier post I was under the assumptin you were going to try 2 sticks of one type/brand and 2 of another which would certainly have potential for problems. But 4 sticks of the same brand/type is the fundamental way of running 4x1GB modules. Many people do so without issue.

I got confused by what you said here:
Originally Posted by FlimFlam00

You can, but it is not recommended. If they are totally different IC's then you may get tons of errors. If they are the same brand and same IC's then you have a good chance, but it would not be good to overclock in four dimms for many sticks. For example, I have Corsair pc8500C5's and Dominator pc8500C5D's. In 4 dimms, it runs stable at ddr800 although it can go up to 1066, but overclocking is not becoming of this setup.

I thought you were meaning even with the same kind of sticks. Sorry, my mistake.

[Pntgrd]

Can anyone tell me why I cannot set the vCore above 1.4925 either in bios or through uGuru? If I try it I get an instant reboot if done from uGuru and if I try from bios the o/s will not load completely. 1.4825 gives me 1.37 actual and I can't get totally stable above 3.5 ghz (8x425) at that setting. Or maybe I have just found the limit of the cpu? But I would think I could set the voltage higher since so many are above that around here. I was having this problem with an OCZ 520 so I picked up the 850 to make sure I had enough power but I am still stuck at the same place. Any ideas?

[Ace-a-Rue]

what OS are you using and what version of Uguru are you using?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ah man, where do I begin? The first board was the worst. Crazy post errrors, could not save any bios settings. I could not even set the time. The time in the BIOS borked out Vista too, and invalidated my activation. The video would go out, and had serious i/o errors with my drives. Just crazy stuff that I have never seen, and I TS'd it for hours. Then I rma'd it, and got a board that booted but still had problems. So after spending about 20 hours messing with it, I packed it in, and popped in a trusty 680i board.

Sometimes the hardware gods try to give me every possible problem there can be.

Oh well. I loved the layout and features of the board, and this was my first actual Abit board, so I am kind of bummed. But Nvidia c72 is around the corner. ;-)

i had an older asus board that was not cooperative so i gave up like you did...i did not want a replacement...i went for a refund.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Well...I tried that 2nd to bottom PCI slot and it shared IRQ with my nic (really don't like that).... after some enable/dissable of usb and nic in bios/device manager etc. the X-Fi is now sharing IRQ with different USB controller (onboard header not in use as best I can tell) and the back USB ports now work.

Still have some sharing I don't like (namely video card) but it's not giving me any problems.

the driver for the X-Fi card is most likely the culprit...does creative have a WHQL released driver?...one that has been certified in MS's labratory?

[Pntgrd]

what OS are you using and what version of Uguru are you using?

XP and Vista dual booted, both 32bit. I will have to check to make sure when I get home but I think uGuru is the latest version.

[new-b]

the driver for the X-Fi card is most likely the culprit...does creative have a WHQL released driver?...one that has been certified in MS's labratory?

Just checked in device manager and all the driver files for the X-Fi are WHQL.
After some more tinkering, it seems to be a problem with my Nostromo N52 drivers and those two USB ports . Joystick/mouse all work in those 2 ports, but 1 sec after device drivers are loaded for the nostromo it BSOD's.
It works fine in all the other USB ports so....it's a quirk I can live with.

[strange|ife]

get rid of that xfi anyway. they are poo

[GameGuru]

get rid of that xfi anyway. they are poo

What are you smoking

[Jodiuh]

Eax2

[Ace-a-Rue]

XP and Vista dual booted, both 32bit. I will have to check to make sure when I get home but I think uGuru is the latest version.

here is the latest Uguru (3.104): ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/u...s/uguru/3.104/

if you are using 3.104 then i would clear CMOS with the battery out for a few minutes...also push your power button and reset button to unload the capacitors while clearing CMOS.

BTW, what bios are you using on your board?...did you flash it with the "wb" (write boot block)...that area stows the voltages and NB memory strap settings...it is not normally flashed

if you are using the 11 official bios and clearing cmos does not take care of your issues, i would think about RMA'ing the board...but, try re-flashing and use the "wb" switch...follow my link in my signature to get the instructions on how to flash.