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

[Ace-a-Rue]

Maybe it was about me? Cause I mentioned in a earlier post that I puched a Promise RAID PCI IDE controller card for my two IDE drives. The point being I want more harddrive speed, the mobo does not provide IDE RAID 0 and it was ony $20.00. Not installing it untill after I install Vista 64 and I am not installing that until I recieve my 8800GT in about two weeks.

don't worry about it...you're not responsible for someone elses reactions.

i have a $380+ 4 port Areca Raid card that i won't ever trade-sell-giveaway...it is a very nice card, albeit expensive.

the Areca card can change stripes on-the-fly without disturbing your current install...try doing that to intel!

AND...the best feature of all, it is transportable unless the bios of the new mobo is dorked up...i've seen that with a guy who has an Asus Maximus SE board...the board bios won't allow him to boot into the Areca raid bios...luckily for him, he can access the areca bios from windows...areca has an HTML prog that allows full access of the card bios...a very nice feature.

[AstroCreep]

I think he means that Raid 0 is not redundant.

Probably; RAID 0 isn't a "Real" RAID-level in the sense that RAID is supposed to provide 'Redundancy'.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i don't get your meaning in your sentence: "buy an expensive raid card to run a mode that isnt even recognized as a form of true RAID, RAID 0"...care to give me some insight in to that?

I think he means that Raid 0 is not redundant.

ahhhh..it is a form of Raid...it is just NOT fault-tolerant....so...it should never be used in mission critical environments.

that is why i store important data on a solo independent drive which has no OS...it is made into an extended partition with a logical drive.

[joshuaboston]

Thanks for your concern. I am not worried or insulted. But I am trying to refrain my self from making to many posts. I just want my posts to have substance, not like this one

Just to let you know I also plan to have a solo drive to back up my files. I use to use the two IDE as those drives right now. I am acutally going to buy one more drive to act as a backup. Whats CRAZY is I have over a Terabyte of space, have my computer for two weeks and I am starting to get nervous about not having enough harddrive space, hate deleting good movies. Hopefully this will be my LAST computer purchase besides the HR-03 Thermaltake GPU heatsink for my 8800GT, for a very long time. Just waiting for a good deal on harddrive, probably I will get a 400GIG.

[AstroCreep]

Thanks for your concern. I am not worried or insulted. But I am trying to refrain my self from making to many posts. I just want my posts to have substance, not like this one

Like I said before, the guy posted that comment after the post made by afireinside, not you.

[sean_php]

Guys I have a strange problem with my cpu fan and IP35 Pro that I never had such a problem in 20 years of working with pc's !

sometime when I reset my system within windows, the fan will not began to spin, and I must power down and power up my whole system to make cpu fan to spin.

anyone with similar problem out there? or I have a bad board?!


I really dont think the cpu fan have a problem itself.

[TheGooch]

quick question, planning to upgrade mobo, whats general consensus on this board? will it be as much of an annoyance as my current p5b dlx?

[babalouj]

I just got mine and I already love it. I switched from a DFI p965s and before that I had a p5b dlx. I am able to overclock the memory much easier on this board.

[joshuaboston]

I have mine for about two weeks. I am really supprised that I have running stable at 3.6Ghz, with limited overclocking experiance.

I do have a couple of quarks, such as my RAID drive gives me an error message at the boot screen but still works. I plan to fix it in about two weeks when I install Vista 64. The new beta bios is amazing and obviously amazing forum support. If you are looking for this mobo, its on sale at the egg right now.

You have to clear the CMOS and take out the battery for a few minites after you install the new bios. The thread is part of Ace's signature.

So even with my quarks, I totaly recommend this mobo.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Guys I have a strange problem with my cpu fan and IP35 Pro that I never had such a problem in 20 years of working with pc's !

sometime when I reset my system within windows, the fan will not began to spin, and I must power down and power up my whole system to make cpu fan to spin.

anyone with similar problem out there? or I have a bad board?!


I really dont think the cpu fan have a problem itself.

when you say reset your system from windows, are you talking about coming out of hibernation?

suggest you switch the cpu fan to either AUX 1 or 2 header.

[myerz635]

suggest you switch the cpu fan to either AUX 1 or 2 header.

Definitely, if that doesn't work you can try the sysfan header as well. Sean, are you using the stock intel heatsink and fan? Joshua, glad to see your overclock is working out for you! On the RAID screen during boot up is it saying "error occurred" on one of your drives in the array? Mine did that once when vista crashed due to an unstable OC, yet all of my data was still fine. I did a WD advanced diagnostics test and verified the volume data in the intel matrix storage console in windows and everything came back ok. To get rid of the error message, all i did was right click the port with the drive that had the error and selected "mark as normal" in the maxtrix storage console. Fixed my error during bootup and the status is ok now. Hopefully thats the error you are talking about or i just typed all of that for no reason lol....

[sean_php]

when you say reset your system from windows, are you talking about coming out of hibernation?

suggest you switch the cpu fan to either AUX 1 or 2 header.

Definitely, if that doesn't work you can try the sysfan header as well. Sean, are you using the stock intel heatsink and fan?

Thanks for reply friends,

It will occur randomly when I reset my windows (not resuming from s3 or hybernate)

and yes I am using a stock intel HSF and it works great for me as follow :
intel 6320 @ FSB 400 = 2800Mhz , 1.38v (guru reads 1.36 because of vdroop!) and it will max out @ 55c

since my HSF have a 4pin cpnnector, can I put it in a 3pin header?

Thanks again.

[myerz635]

since my HSF have a 4pin cpnnector, can I put it in a 3pin header?

Yes, but you will lose pwm speed control i believe....someone correct me if im wrong

[strange|ife]

i don't get your meaning in your sentence: "buy an expensive raid card to run a mode that isnt even recognized as a form of true RAID, RAID 0"...care to give me some insight in to that?

RAID 0 isnt redundant, is non parity and striped, and isnt very stable past a few disk. It isnt used generally inside of enterprise or soho at all, only some design studios may run raid 0 for the speed.

you know all this ace!

what i was telling him was, it is kinda of dumb to buy a controller if you plan to just run raid 0, i would only get a card if it was raid 10, 5 or 0+1, which are recongnized by the creater or the RAID system, unlike 0

sorry grammar wasnt my strong suite in school

[strange|ife]

Like I said before, the guy posted that comment after the post made by afireinside, not you.

yes thanks astro!

not trying to bust your balls joshua, the other guy!!

lol

[joshuaboston]

Definitely, if that doesn't work you can try the sysfan header as well. Sean, are you using the stock intel heatsink and fan? Joshua, glad to see your overclock is working out for you! On the RAID screen during boot up is it saying "error occurred" on one of your drives in the array? Mine did that once when vista crashed due to an unstable OC, yet all of my data was still fine. I did a WD advanced diagnostics test and verified the volume data in the intel matrix storage console in windows and everything came back ok. To get rid of the error message, all i did was right click the port with the drive that had the error and selected "mark as normal" in the maxtrix storage console. Fixed my error during bootup and the status is ok now. Hopefully thats the error you are talking about or i just typed all of that for no reason lol....

YES THAT HAPPENED TO ME THANKS!!! NOW I 100% RECOMMEND THIS MOBO . My raid is two 320gig maxtors (rebandaged seagates).

This forum ROCKS!! Will try it maybe this weekend... just so busy.

Hey I am looking for either a 400 or 500 gb harddrive to act a my storage area. Man, game files are BIG . Any recommendations? Fry's has a 500GB Western Digital for $100.00 that is kind of the best price I see.

[silverphoenix]

YES THAT HAPPENED TO ME THANKS!!! NOW I 100% RECOMMEND THIS MOBO . My raid is two 320gig maxtors (rebandaged seagates).

This forum ROCKS!! Will try it maybe this weekend... just so busy.

Hey I am looking for either a 400 or 500 gb harddrive to act a my storage area. Man, game files are BIG . Any recommendations? Fry's has a 500GB Western Digital for $100.00 that is kind of the best price I see.

Haha same thing happend to me with 320GB maxtors in RAID, I just got 4x of em from Fry's and 2 of them are in RAID, once during oc session one of the drives showed up as error occurred, luckily I had an acronis image backup of a fresh vista install on one of the non raided drives.

The new BIOS really helps with vdroop from idle to load, I mean my vcore is set to 1.4785 but shows 1.4-1.41 but that is where it stays idle or load. Currently 8x450 stable gonna push harder as soon as I see how hard I can push memory, see if memory can do 1080 and stay stable.

[Ace-a-Rue]

RAID 0 isnt redundant, is non parity and striped, and isnt very stable past a few disk. It isnt used generally inside of enterprise or soho at all, only some design studios may run raid 0 for the speed.

you know all this ace!

what i was telling him was, it is kinda of dumb to buy a controller if you plan to just run raid 0, i would only get a card if it was raid 10, 5 or 0+1, which are recongnized by the creater or the RAID system, unlike 0

sorry grammar wasnt my strong suite in school

grammar wasn't my strong suit, PERIOD!

no secret that i have an Areca raid card, which is pricey but worth every buck, IMO.

a dumb statement is expected from a non-beholder of a PCIe Raid card...if you owned an Areca raid card, you would immediately know that it is not a dumb purchase even if it is used for Raid 0.

[silverphoenix]

ooo another funny thing I noticed If I ever attatch my seagate external drive to the Jmicron esata ports it makes the Nvidia drivers go haywire in vista causing the OS to systematically crash. The screen will start to flicker every 10 seconds with a message saying video drivers have crashed and recovered, within a minute it starts flickering every 2 seconds and then crashes. I don't really mind having the seagate connected via usb for now. I'm thinking of the rocketraid Card for a more affordable $100 and it uses a pci-e x1 slot, 2 internal sata II for RAID and 2 esata ports!!!

[Ace-a-Rue]

are the nvidia drivers the latest WHQL?

you might want to download the latest Jmicron drivers to install into your vista setup.

[BenSanford]

sometime when I reset my system within windows, the fan will not began to spin, and I must power down and power up my whole system to make cpu fan to spin.

anyone with similar problem out there? or I have a bad board?!

I sometimes have the same problem, even when doing a cold boot. Right now I'm just rebooting and it usually is ok the next time. I'm using a Sythe 4-pin fan on a downdraft CPU cooler - with the fan attached to the 4pin CPU fan header, since I like the RPM feature with this header.

Hopefully a later bios might fix it. Using Bios ID:14 right now.
I've hesitated on the beta bios 16 because the file size is about half the size of the non-beta bios versions. Is this a concern?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hopefully a later bios might fix it. Using Bios ID:14 right now.
I've hesitated on the beta bios 16 because the file size is about half the size of the non-beta bios versions. Is this a concern?

the beta file is compressed so it will be smaller in size until it's taken out of the zip or rar file...if you are comparing the file size to abit's official bios releases, then yes, their will be a difference in file size...abit's official bios release includes 5 files where as the beta only has the bios file.

[myerz635]

YES THAT HAPPENED TO ME THANKS!!! NOW I 100% RECOMMEND THIS MOBO . My raid is two 320gig maxtors (rebandaged seagates).

This forum ROCKS!! Will try it maybe this weekend... just so busy.

Hey I am looking for either a 400 or 500 gb harddrive to act a my storage area. Man, game files are BIG . Any recommendations? Fry's has a 500GB Western Digital for $100.00 that is kind of the best price I see.

Glad i could help $100 for a 500GB is a great price, i have one hooked up to my eSATA for my dump/extracting drive.....grab one while you can

[Capt_Caveman]

can you update your signature with the new info.

how many and what kind of drives?

did you clear cmos with the battery out and power cord unplugged for about five minutes?...make sure you push the power button once after unplugging the PSU power cord to dump all the capacitors of any stored current...then go through the cmos clearing with the battery out.

if you unhooked the drives at one time, CMOS might still have that data stored and it is looking for the drives and other USB devices that were once attached....it sounds like a conflict of assigned resources.

Figured out. The issue was my USB card reader. With it detached, it booted-up fine. And then in the bios, I disabled the 'USB Storage Function' and now able to boot-up normally with the card reader.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[neonflx]

grammar wasn't my strong suit, PERIOD!

no secret that i have an Areca raid card, which is pricey but worth every buck, IMO.

a dumb statement is expected from a non-beholder of a PCIe Raid card...if you owned an Areca raid card, you would immediately know that it is not a dumb purchase even if it is used for Raid 0.

I like my posts to have "substance" , so i like to say the following

i have an areca arc-1210 and will never go back to onboard "fakeraid" controllers once you try one of this you will gladly spend the money for the performance it yields