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

[Ace-a-Rue]

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

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

[RAdoxx]

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

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.

[Ace-a-Rue]

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

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.

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.

[RAdoxx]

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.

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.

[Ace-a-Rue]

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.

[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?

[Ace-a-Rue]

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?

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.

[RAdoxx]

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.

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...

[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?

[AstroCreep]

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.

What kind of card is it? USB? PCI?

[gbglassen]

Oh, forgot. Its PCI.

[AstroCreep]

Oh, forgot. Its PCI.

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.

[gbglassen]

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.

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

[AstroCreep]

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

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).

[gbglassen]

It´s a Belkin Pre-N F5D8000

[Ace-a-Rue]

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?

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!

[Ace-a-Rue]

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...

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.

[pcdoc1]

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…

[gbglassen]

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

[Ace-a-Rue]

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.

[Ace-a-Rue]

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.

here is beta bios 16

[Ace-a-Rue]

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

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

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.

[vailr]

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

[tomati]

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...

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:



Now, all seems to be fine.

Hope it solve your trouble too.

[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.