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

[skillystons]

D'oh......I just re-read my post...I meant the xtra beep is a little longer than the post beep lol.

Than that is exactly what I get. lol. Did you ever get an error while in uGuru?

Someone suggested to me I should hook up a UPS because it might be voltage spikes or drops. I hooked up the UPS and didnt hear the beep for about a week The extra beep just came back yesterday. Although I think the battery in my UPS is dead so that probably defeats the whole purpose of it.

[Dawgdoc]

Regarding the floppy drive, just go purchase a USB floppy drive.

Plug it in, rest it on the top of your case, and then when you are done unplug it and store it away until the next time you need it

Ive LOVED the fact that I have a USB floppy drive at my disposal whenever I need it for BIOS flashes/etc......

Is it 100% necessary? No....but it sure does make life easier sometimes

[myerz635]

The days of the floppy are over Im glad they are....such a pita, im glad we can flash from USB flash drives now

[dsg2003gt]

Ok guys, I think I have my overclock set stable and at the speed I want.

I am currently at 378x9 = 3.4ghz.
I have core voltage at 1.3175. Lowering the voltage 1 notch will result in significant errors in Wprime and Prime

I have run prime95 for over 4 hours on this O/C with no errors. Wprime will do the little test in 12 sec and the longer one in 400. My temps are in the high 30s at idle running up to high 50s under full load.

anyways, my question is regarding my ram. I currently have my timings set at 5-5-5-15 running in 1:1 mode with 2.1 Vdimm. I cannot raise my ram multiplier at all or the computer will display POST error code C1. If I set the timings to auto I can run up to ddr 968. I believe my benching scores were a few seconds faster with timings set to auto and using a higher multiplier. My Gskill ram is supposed to me pretty good, any ideas????

one other thing. I have a WD 500 gig that is hooked up via SATA and I am running Windows XP. I believe I had to set the drive up in a certain way that it is slowing it down. I cant really explain this any further because I really dont understand it. Something to do with XP and Sata drivers...

[scaryogre]

The days of the floppy are over Im glad they are....such a pita, im glad we can flash from USB flash drives now

Yep...not only did I get my OS (and new build) up and running without one...now I have an ISO bootable WinXP SP2 CD with the drivers built in in case I ever need to reinstall.

Also...I updated my BIOS before installing last night with my USB flash drive as well so...

[Pederrs]

Check that ALL CPU Features are disabled and then try BIOS 16.B04

That bios does some nice things

This one is done on the old box cooler :
http://www.gotweak.dk/Filer/2.PNG

[scmoky]

Hello...
I have one question
In next day i will buy scythe infinity, and I don't now if have problems to install that cooler?

[JuliM]

Hi
I have the Scythe Infinity. There are no space problems. You can install the cooler either way. (blowout top or back). Keeps my E6300@3.28Ghz quite cool (coretemp 45C, ambient 18C).

JuliM

[Spyrus]

Just do it out of the case. You have much clearer picture there.
Be careful with the capacitors (like in any other mobo)!

[myerz635]

anybody know which version of the thermalright mosfet cooler fits on this mobo? http://www.petrastechshop.com/rahesp.html

[fatal_error]

err i need help guys

i was trying to flash my bios, and everything went fine until this screen came up and asking me to input file name? On top theres a box that already has the file name m629b)14.bin...

on the bottom the sentence "please input file name" just keeps flashing, and the computer seems to be on halt... what do i do? help plz!...

[scaryogre]

err i need help guys

i was trying to flash my bios, and everything went fine until this screen came up and asking me to input file name? On top theres a box that already has the file name m629b)14.bin...

on the bottom the sentence "please input file name" just keeps flashing, and the computer seems to be on halt... what do i do? help plz!...

Hm....It should say M629B_14.bin. The ")" might be the problem.

[fatal_error]

nvm i restarted and tried it again, this time it worked and updated perfectly

thanks scary but that was a typo =P

[ncsa]

Glad you got it sorted ... nice modules there

That bios does some nice things

This one is done on the old box cooler :
http://www.gotweak.dk/Filer/2.PNG

[maxwedge]

Yeah, thanks...That was pretty much a worthless post. Assuming I want to save $6 wasn't (and isn't) the issue. I don't have space for it in my chassis.

In an attempt to actually help others I figured it out with the assistance of the below link and am posting in case it helps someone else in the same situation.

http://www.msfn.org/board/Integratio...s-t107504.html

-scaryogre

There is another way too.

Move your non raid drive with the OS off of the Intel controller and onto the Jmicron. Then enable raid on the Intel controller and install the raid drivers. Now move your OS drive back to the Intel controller and if you want to make your OS into raid you can use the migrate feature of the Intel matrix utility to do it.

[maxwedge]

That bios does some nice things

This one is done on the old box cooler :
http://www.gotweak.dk/Filer/2.PNG

Glad you got it sorted ... nice modules there

So what are they?? Nice!

[maxwedge]

The board ROCK's... Abit has had a rough few years yet this board seems to be their redemption and indicates that the came back to the party... It's money well spent!

QFT

Money well spent no matter what you do with this board.

[JoeBar]

Just updated to 16.B04 and i have a problem. DDR2 and DDR2 VTT alarms are set quite low (2.2v for DDR2) thus i get the alarm beep when booting and warning message in uguru. I can get beep to stop if i disable it but i would like to know if it's a known prob with this beta bios?

[myerz635]

i had that same problem....i just had to manually set the voltage to 2.1 in bios and then when i restarted the alarm was set to 2.55 lol? makes no sense to me....so im assuming its a known problem

[JoeBar]

Thanks for the tip. I'll try it.


edit: Just tried it. No go. I ever cleared cmos again, load defaults but all i did is mess it up more. Now temp alarms have gone to 255'C... :p

Going back to 14 bios for now...

[Ace-a-Rue]

Just updated to 16.B04 and i have a problem. DDR2 and DDR2 VTT alarms are set quite low (2.2v for DDR2) thus i get the alarm beep when booting and warning message in uguru. I can get beep to stop if i disable it but i would like to know if it's a known prob with this beta bios?

i ignored the beep and it went away...smile...don't know how but it did go away!...maybe it was the voltage adjustment...who knows...grin

[JoeBar]

I can ignore the beep. Have it disabled...

However i have uguru loaded on tray and it turns on/off. That's a bagger...

[Khaotic]

The days of the floppy are over Im glad they are....such a pita, im glad we can flash from USB flash drives now

How did you get your BIOS to flash from a USB flash drive? I tried, and can't.

not that i'm bagging on this abit board, but my Asus boards can do it. To flash the IP35 Pro, i had to use my USB FLoppy drive and build a boot disk. That sure did seem a bit '80s to me

[AstroCreep]

How did you get your BIOS to flash from a USB flash drive? I tried, and can't...

Follow the directions in Ace's sig labeled "ABIT IP35 PRO BIOS FLASHING PROCEDURE"; he has the steps spelled out there.

[Khaotic]

EXCELLENT! Thanks.
It was right under my nose the whole time.

Sure would be nice if Windows could do that with its own native utilities.
Or if the Abit board just SAW a USB drive attached to it like an Asus board does.