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

[Pntgrd]

well my high is always set to 100%...

What I was talking about is that there is a button that you click that finds the Maximum/Minimum sppeds the fan will work at. You have to click that first in order for uGuru to work right.

[mezryn]

Hey guys,

I've finally been able to get my FSB booting into Windows at 500MHz - the key for me was to change the RAM from Auto to Manual. I had figured since it was running on Auto, it was setting up the timings at 5-5-5-18 like I had been seeing it doing, but I suppose with increasing the FSB it was then attempting to tighten the timings on its own as I noticed it then eventually tried on Auto 4-5-5-18. After manually changing the RAM to use 5-5-5-18 it would then boot to 500MHz (along with some minor voltage changes that would never seem to have much rhyme or reason to them).

My issue at this point is that when I try to complete a 3dmark06 run with 500 FSB, there will be a minor, very quick frame stutter... then it'll increase to more stutters, and then BSOD or hang. There were other options in the RAM settings beyond the first four that I had to leave at Auto... does anybody know what defaults they should read for 5-5-5-18 2T?

Would anything else help with stabilizing the FSB? Is "mch" the only voltage involved with hitting a high FSB? I tried tweaking GTLRef between 60 to 70%. While doing this I'm leaving the CPU at 6x, so it's at 3GHz, and running the RAM 1:1

Thanks in advance

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E8400 | Abit IP35 Pro | 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix 1066 | Antec 900 w/ ZeroTherm NV120 | EVGA 8800GTS 512MB G92

[Ace-a-Rue]

try 63% CPU GTLREF

try increasing MCH, ICHIO 1.5, vdimm and vcore to complete 3d2006...i would try vcore first.

[Cpl Ledanek]

...after clearing the CMOS again, reset,battery off for 30 sec, reboot, change boot to DVD---which drives me nuts, it shows in BIOS but not in Windows....now I've resulted into Repairing Window...maybe that would help.
Once I get the drivers from Window/Device Manager, hopefully it would recognize my USB thumbdrive, THEN, I could go into flashing thru USB thumbdrive....
...off to work for 8 hrs biting time....then it looks like an all nighter again

which original BIOS came with the board version 1.1?

Consensus wise: which BIOS is most stable at the moment?

advance thanks

[Cpl Ledanek]

After you installed the new bios did you do a reset back to factory defaults either via the jumper / switch or in the bios by loading defaults on the first menu?

It sounds like your cd rom drive is an IDE drive and maybe the IDE controller (JMicron controller) is turned off in the bios. Do a reset to defaults and then check and see if the IDE controller is turned on and it should be found by windows then. If not you've got something strange going on...

Also just so you know in the future, you can use a USB flash drive to boot from and do the bios updates. That's how I do mine and it's alot easier to deal with then a floppy. I use an old 512mb drive for it, not good for too much else. Take a look in Ace-a-rue's signature for a link on how to update the bios, and at the bottom of his post is instructions on where to get the HP format utility and such.

...so I did a Window Repair...now the it recognizes my USB Thumbdrive...good I can do USB flash....but my DVD rom is still not recognized...something about the JMicron not installed accdg to Device Manager---which is working now btw

advance thanks

[Ledge]

Well, I got to do some more tweaking last night and the new beta 16.B09 BIOS is the bomb ! I am now able to OC my E8400 like mad! I hit 4.7Ghz on 1.42v in BIOS 1.40-1.39v after drop but that was unstable but dropping it to 4.5Ghz I was able to run some benches but it still was a little unstable. I still have allot to learn about this BIOS. Does this board not like tight memory trimmings? With the memory at 1080Mhz I could only run 5-5-5-15 and on my 680i I could hit 1170Mhz on 5-4-4-12?

[wilson]

Has anyone used this..
MIPS MCH144 Abit IP35 Mosfet Freezer

Is any body interested in the above item as i cannot use copper in my loop!!!
I will sell for £15 with free postage or may swap for something.

[Ron 61]

...so I did a Window Repair...now the it recognizes my USB Thumbdrive...good I can do USB flash....but my DVD rom is still not recognized...something about the JMicron not installed accdg to Device Manager---which is working now btw

advance thanks

For DVD rom in bios go to integrated peripherals>onboard PCI device and enable storage controller and set controller mode to IDE. Then reboot and your IDE DVD drive should be listed.

[Ace-a-Rue]

...so I did a Window Repair...now the it recognizes my USB Thumbdrive...good I can do USB flash....

doing a windows repair has no affect on using an USB drive to flash the bios in DOS....you have to first format the USB drive and then install the boot commands before even thinking about flashing with an USB drive...second, you have to set the bios to boot from the USB drive which has at least the bios and awardflash.exe on that USB drive...read over my guide at the bottom for flashing with USB drives.

[wilson]

Hi Ace i need your advice as you seem to know everything i want to know and more . So is it possible to back up my raid 0 config with another single hdd or run two raid 0 configs on the same system so i can run duel boot up. And if so how do i do it????
Cheers Paul

[Cpl Ledanek]

doing a windows repair has no affect on using an USB drive to flash the bios in DOS....you have to first format the USB drive and then install the boot commands before even thinking about flashing with an USB drive...second, you have to set the bios to boot from the USB drive which has at least the bios and awardflash.exe on that USB drive...read over my guide at the bottom for flashing with USB drives.

when on initial install of XP and everything on retail CD-ROM, everything was working fine...except the uGuru in Windows, it would close itself...only accessible in BIOS (including Abit EQ).

then I thought about the flashing.

that was the original problem...I didn't have a floppy drive...until I realized I got an older Win98PC that has a floppy drive.

that worked until I flashed it with the 16.B09.

after reboot, no clearing of CMOS, it booted fine but my DVDROM (via IDE) would not autoplay at first....then on 2nd reboot, DVDROM was no longer in My Computer...I checked the Device Manager...nothing would show inside it.

I cleared CMOS, took off battery, ate something (15 mins), reinstalled battery, reboot, C1 came on, went to Windows, but still no DVDROM in My Computer.

Rebooted, DVDROM was in BIOS.

So I went, 1st boot DVDROM (WinXP CD-ROM), Repair Windows, entered my XP ser no., went to Windows, Device Manager showed everything, error was in the JMicron driver not installed, but cannot install driver coz, the DVDROM is not showing.

Now I insert USB thumbdrive, recognized, did the HPTool prior to that, d/l 14.B06??? (in Ace's link) and may flash that tonight after work (8hrs and counting ).

Thanks for everyone helping, really appreciate your time and effort

[Dr_at_Home]

just a heads up, with b04 I, and a few others, get the annoying high temp readings for CPU, b03 I get normal readings...so for q6600 i suggest 16b03

I get this with b04. It was quite a bit lower with whatever official BIOS was on it before. CPU shows 51c idle, while the 4 cores are 38c.

I'm curious, should I just subtract 10-15c and go with it? Also, where is this temp sensor located?

q6600 G0 , L748A with a 1.325 vid

[Ace-a-Rue]

I get this with b04. It was quite a bit lower with whatever official BIOS was on it before. CPU shows 51c idle, while the 4 cores are 38c.

I'm curious, should I just subtract 10-15c and go with it? Also, where is this temp sensor located?

q6600 G0 , L748A with a 1.325 vid

which temp sensor are you referring to?

uguru cpu temp will be about 10-13C lower than coretemp...i believe in coretemp...i think abit and other board makers try to approximate Tcase temp versus absolute temp that coretmep reports from the DTS sensors embedded in the cores.

[HaTaX]

Hi Ace i need your advice as you seem to know everything i want to know and more . So is it possible to back up my raid 0 config with another single hdd or run two raid 0 configs on the same system so i can run duel boot up. And if so how do i do it????
Cheers Paul

If your board will let you set the raid controller to only certain ports there is an easy way to cheat. Make a disk to disk image of your current HD onto an external using ghost or like utility. After you've got it on that HD, setup the raid on the ports with the HDs you wish to run in raid. Make sure the extra HD containing your backup is set to bootable and boot from it. Once in the OS it should find your raid controller and look for drivers for it, get the drivers installed, reboot once more to make sure that the OS sees the raid controller.

Reboot and go into the raid controller config, from there setup the raid as you'd like (striping or mirror) and get the array built. After it's built and ready to go, boot into your disk imaging utility again and re-image the backup HD onto the raid array. Go into the bios and set the raid to be the first bootable HD and to make sure it's all happy I would shut down the backup HD at this point. You should be able to boot from the raid controller at this point and you will have moved the OS easily.

This has worked on a few systems for me, normally the easiest route as it only takes an hour or two to do it all. If this doesn't work you've always got the option of trying to slip the drivers into the OS before you image it or by using the SYSPREP utility and add in your own drivers (The raid controller drivers)

Hope this helps

[Dr_at_Home]

The one in the red box titled "CPU" Sorry I didn't specify what app I was using
"CPU" shows up as the same temperature in uguru as well. It was much lower on the previous BIOS, which fell in line with the 10-13c lower than coretemp. Going from what you've said about this reading being an approximation, I really have nothing to worry about. It was way off before, and still is.

Hardware monitor and coretemp show about the same for the 4 cores, and i'm not worried about those readings. PWM has a fan over it now and idles at 38c instead of 55.

thanks for the help

[Cpl Ledanek]

ok, now that I flashed it with v16b.09, and the USB thumbdrive is finally being recognized....I decided to download anything related to this board.
I downloaded all of Neely's posting on all drivers related to my XP and uGuru 3.107
THEN, I added some protection: free AVG,free AVG-Anti-Spyware, free SpyBlaster, latest CPU-Z, & latest version of FireFox.

I'm still trying to figure which software I could use to capture screenshots: Should I go with Gimp?

I don't OC so I'll just take some screenshot and y'all tell me what setting should I be using if y'all see something that's not supposed to there

What other softwares should I download and install?

In the mean time I'm going to go thru all my postings here and Abit's Official Forum (coz there's a few y'all that shows up there too.) so I can compile all the peps that helped me along the way so I can thank y'all.

see y'all in a little bit.

[HaTaX]

Hmm, kinda confused here. Gimp is a program normally used on linux, and is for the editing of a picture. You shouldn't need any additional software to get this done.

You can do a screen capture really easily in windows, just layout the screen how you'd like and press the "Print Screen" key on your keyboard. Then goto the built in Paint program (Under accessories) and goto edit -> paste. Answer yes to have the bitmap enlarged and voila, you've got your screen shot you can save as a JPG or GIF or whatever.

[NapalmV5]

this turned into a real nice pita mobo @ usb wired/wireless keyboard

to get into bios/raid card bios i have to clear cmos

if its not to much to ask.. more usb keyboard support/or fix please

[Cpl Ledanek]

btw...my screen would freeze if i rub cpu-z 4x to show all tabs...y is that?A

[NapalmV5]

so far stable @




but why was cpu vtt lowered to 1.47? not challenging enough?

1.6+ badly needed please

[xrayhead]

Guy's I’m have some issues with the onboard audio. I've done a search in this thread but can’t seem to find anyone with the same problem.
I cannot get the Realtek to install, the installer from the CD rom that came with the motherboard runs ok, but there’s no audio listed under windows (I've run the install twice now)!

How do you install it and get it to work? This is a brand new install of windows XP SP3 (only other drivers I have installed are for the graphics card)

In BIOS I have "OnChip Audio Controller" Enabled!

Only other card I have installed at present is an EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS (512-P3-E841-AE-CrysisUK)

Any Ideas ?

Xray

PS. I’ve also tried installing a newer driver (WDM_R186 2.11.15.0) that I found at that doesn’t work either.

[Tsuchiro]

btw...my screen would freeze if i rub cpu-z 4x to show all tabs...y is that?A

they said cpu-z cannot be open at the same time with uguru it would eventually crash

[Cpl Ledanek]

they said cpu-z cannot be open at the same time with uguru it would eventually crash

Thanks, learned something new again

[Ace-a-Rue]

Guy's I’m have some issues with the onboard audio. I've done a search in this thread but can’t seem to find anyone with the same problem.
I cannot get the Realtek to install, the installer from the CD rom that came with the motherboard runs ok, but there’s no audio listed under windows (I've run the install twice now)!

How do you install it and get it to work? This is a brand new install of windows XP SP3 (only other drivers I have installed are for the graphics card)

In BIOS I have "OnChip Audio Controller" Enabled!

Only other card I have installed at present is an EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS (512-P3-E841-AE-CrysisUK)

Any Ideas ?

Xray

PS. I’ve also tried installing a newer driver (WDM_R186 2.11.15.0) that I found at that doesn’t work either.

could be a problem with XP SP3 interfering with the install...

to eliminate a bios corruption problem, i would clear CMOS with the battery out for about 5 minutes...don't forget to unplug the PSU power cord and push on the power button to unload the caps.

[xrayhead]

Hi Guy’s

Can someone help me out with a small overclock, I’m not looking to push my system to the max just want to get the FSB up some and the CPU to around 3000Mhz or 3.2.

I’ve been looking through a load of the IP35 forums and everyone is going into so much detail I can’t seem to get the basic information for a small overclock.
My last system I had was an ASUS P5B and I struggled to get that to run at stock and was hoping I would have more luck with the Abit BIOS.

Anyway any information would be really appreciated indeed, by system spec is as follows;
Abit IP35 (not PRO)
Q6600 Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8000C5 1000MHz ReaperX
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS
Western Digital Raptor

Even if you could point me in the right direction to some links that would really help.

Thanks

Lee