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

[silverphoenix]

How is the beta bios? also would I need to reinstall my fresh copy of vista after flashing?

[Ace-a-Rue]

I was using Bios14 that came with the board, then it went really bad at one point and would not accept any changes anywhere in the bios, so I reflashed it with Bios14 that I downloaded. It worked for a bit. I've gotten some uguru settings to stay put by changing them, saving the changes in the bios profile and loading the profile from a clean reset. This will actually boot through about every other time. But the other time the machine tries to boot then shutsdown then tries to boot again but no screen and the bios code stays stuck at 90, which is the code for uguru is switching control over to the award bios, then I have to use the jumper... I've already reset the damn time and date in windows over 10x. And I'm not even overclocked yet!!!

upgrade to 16.B03...link in my signature.

[Ace-a-Rue]

How is the beta bios? also would I need to reinstall my fresh copy of vista after flashing?

flashing to a new bios will do nothing to your vista install...follow my flashing guide.

[joshuaboston]

How is the beta bios? also would I need to reinstall my fresh copy of vista after flashing?

I got my board two weeks ago and also had bios 14. I find this new bios MUCH better. I find it more stable, even when I am not overclocking. My Vcore drop has also has gone from .09 to .02 it jumps between 1.39 - 1.41 (mostly stays at 1.39 and jumps up to 1.41 for a secon and goes bock to 1.39 for few seconds) in Uguru, before it use to jump around like CRAZY with huge jumps. These valuse are when I am at idel. I have my Vcore actually set in the bios at 1.4550.

[scwam]

Just flashed to Ace's 16B03 bios. My raid boot time dropped from 14 seconds down to 8 seconds! I didn't think that would be affected. I don't understand what these "switches" are even when I followed your guide. I only changed the bios name and it flashed, was I supposed to change some other parameters?
Also, this bios is allowing my ram to boot at 590 mhz with 4 sticks in when I couldn't even barely get 560 to boot with 2 sticks. CPU overclock is noticably higher. Seems to have jumped about 100mhz. I could barely get orthos to run at 4030mhz for a second or two. Now 4120 mhz runs for several minutes. But something does seem flakey with orthos. I get usb/mouse lockups even as orthos still runs at 3950 overclocks that were stable on my bios 10. Maybe because of the 4 sticks in. Uguru temp seems too low at idle now, but I could care less about that since I've got a thermistor under the cpu itself measuring the temp.

[Ace-a-Rue]

16.B03 is not my bios...that came from Bingo13 with Anandtech website...he receives those beta bioses directly from abit...he worked with them to tune that bios to the optimum...you need to thank Bingo13 for his hard work with getting abit to tweak that bios...without Bingo13, we would not have the best P35 board out there!

[scmoky]

Hello
I have one question.. Can I flash this beta bios from windows tool.? And what I must do to do in bios, to be flash ok?

[Ace-a-Rue]

do not use windows to flash a bios...to many horror stories of it going bad using that method...follow my flashing bios procedure link in my below signature.

[scmoky]

I have floppy the next problem is.. I don't have two floppy disc.. And i don't now how rename bios and other stuff... Your guide going to be better when you have pcitures too... For some people don't now lash bios...

[jtf2]

i just flashed my bios to the b03 beta using aces guide with a usb drive.
works great.
thank you for such a detailed guide.

[maxwedge]

I have floppy the next problem is.. I don't have two floppy disc.. And i don't now how rename bios and other stuff... Your guide going to be better when you have pcitures too... For some people don't now lash bios...

Make your boot floppy with drdflash ftp://ftp.veracomp.pl/mirror/abit/pu...s/drdflash.exe
Add the awdflash utility from an official bios pack and the beta bios file to the floppy. You don't need to rename it! Those are the only files you need on the floppy.
Set your bios to boot from floppy 1st and when the A prompt comes up, type: awdflash M629B_16.b03 /py /sn /wb /cd /cp /cc /cks /r

Sit back and wait. Don't do anything until it finishes and restarts. After it restarts turn the power supply off for a minute and then back on and your good to go. No go and re-setup your bios because it will be back at default.

[scmoky]

Ok, a few minutes later I'v propely done.. I'm happy now..
And next think is OC.. With 12 beta bios a can do 4ghz with €6600, maybe with new one can I pass 4,1ghz
Thanks all

edit: I have problem.. Now i have Uguru 3104 but i want to switch to 3106.. And here is a problem. I unistall old verison, and instal new verison, but still write 3104? Is that a bug or what I'm doing wrong

[Ad1tya]

Any1 have a Changelog for BETA 16.B03 BIOS?

Already flashed, but nothing seems different. Lol.

[joshuaboston]

I have floppy the next problem is.. I don't have two floppy disc.. And i don't now how rename bios and other stuff... Your guide going to be better when you have pcitures too... For some people don't now lash bios...

I think you can make a boot CD. And then use your one floopy... Just a suggestion.

[Kolian]

Looks like 16.B03 is not compatible with OCZ memory. I've upgraded bios to this version, and now I'm getting C1-error . I'll have to find some other memory module and downgrade to 11 version of bios...

[jtf2]

Looks like 16.B03 is not compatible with OCZ memory. I've upgraded bios to this version, and now I'm getting C1-error . I'll have to find some other memory module and downgrade to 11 version of bios...

i am using ocz pc8500 reaper 2x1 gig,and it is working fine with the b03 bios

[sean_php]

Guys, I planning to buy two HIS Radeon 3850 For install in my IP35 pro...dose anyone tried crossfire with this mainboard here? is it worth it to put another same card in 4x PCI-E and using Crossfire? dose it affect in performance greatly?

[Evilsizer]

Guys, I planning to buy two HIS Radeon 3850 For install in my IP35 pro...dose anyone tried crossfire with this mainboard here? is it worth it to put another same card in 4x PCI-E and using Crossfire? dose it affect in performance greatly?

if your running the bridge from card to card it should show much difference. for cf though i would really being using a board that can do 8x/8x in cf.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Looks like 16.B03 is not compatible with OCZ memory. I've upgraded bios to this version, and now I'm getting C1-error . I'll have to find some other memory module and downgrade to 11 version of bios...

did you clear CMOS with the battery out for about 5 minutes?

[sonofander]

Has anyone been able to run a raid set while also running a HDD that is not in a raid set?

I'm having some serious problems here... I have enabled raid to run my 2 raptors in raid 0 and everything has been fine w/ no problems. Today I installed a new HDD by itself and tossed an OS on there.

after instalation of the new os, I re-enabled raid and set my single drive as primary boot device. Wouldn't boot. It got to the windows loading screen then bsod. did this over and over till I gave up.

I changed my primary boot device back to my raid array and I can't get into windows. its FUBAR

So now i'm trying to recover data, but i think it's a lost cause at this point...

My question remains... after I put my messed up life back in order, is there a way to run a raid set AND a non-raid HDD???

[Ace-a-Rue]

did you detach your raid array while running setup on the single drive?

what bios setting did you use when running setup on the single drive?...IDE or AHCI?

[sonofander]

Yes I disconnected mmy raid drives while installing the OS on the new drive, and I had it set on IDE.

then after reconnecting my raid drives, i put it back on raid

[strange|ife]

are you still using four sticks of memory?..could be the problem with the board MCH having a problem corrdinating all four sticks to work harmoniously on your board.

what's your MCH set to?

does it with 2 sticks aswell. I thought IDE was stable, but i get lock ups now also, i set the fsb to 333, mch 1.29, vtt 1.23, vdimm 2.125 with 2 sticks still cant get intel raid to work anymore. I tried my other working psu, no go still same problem, memory is error free on a diffrent board. I sent in for cross ship with ABIT, they have the worst RMA dept, its like one guy working there and he doesnt answer his phone or emails at all, the site said they charged my credit card wedesday, but i have yet to get any mail saying they have shipped my replacement.....getting worried here

[Ace-a-Rue]

Yes I disconnected mmy raid drives while installing the OS on the new drive, and I had it set on IDE.

then after reconnecting my raid drives, i put it back on raid

did you select the correct drive or raid array to boot in "HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY" within the bios under "ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES"?

the other thing...to switch between raid array and IDE drive, you need to take it out of the raid mode to boot from a single IDE drive.

[Ace-a-Rue]

does it with 2 sticks aswell. I thought IDE was stable, but i get lock ups now also, i set the fsb to 333, mch 1.29, vtt 1.23, vdimm 2.125 with 2 sticks still cant get intel raid to work anymore. I tried my other working psu, no go still same problem, memory is error free on a diffrent board. I sent in for cross ship with ABIT, they have the worst RMA dept, its like one guy working there and he doesnt answer his phone or emails at all, the site said they charged my credit card wedesday, but i have yet to get any mail saying they have shipped my replacement.....getting worried here

MCH might need to be higher...i would have it set to at least in 1.4x area.

also, what is your ICHIO set to?