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

[Yelf]

Sorry about that, I am using 16.

[theELVISCERATOR]

Anyone running RAID 0 on the IP35 Pro? I'm contemplating going with RAID 0 on my Summer build and just wondering what RAID support is like on the IP35 Pro

Thanks

I booted up first time into my raid install upon first assembly no issues.

I had no trouble pressing F6 at all!

I get great hd speeds with two 150 raptors sliced into the matrix baby!

[theELVISCERATOR]

I've about had it with Vista and am considering going back to XP. Vista mail support sucks, read SLOW (Outlook 2003, Live Mail, and Windows Mail). I need Hotmail support and Outlook Express so far is the winner. I've heard conflicting stories about hotmail support being phased out at the end of June for anything but Live Mail, it would suck to go back to XP only to have MS yank OE hotmail support. Any guidance one way or another?

OK back to my system: IP35 Pro, E8400, CORSAIR XMS2 DHX 4GB @ 4-4-4-12 2.2v Bios 16
Not much in this thread on 45nm CPU OC's, any suggestions on a starting point? Need to find some info on the gtl settings, think mine are at default 67% right now.

Thanks guys

so are mine at sigged speed.

[Pntgrd]

Help! I have been running for months with the system in my sig. Other than 3 rma bouts with my Ballistix all has been well. Tuesday night I started having trouble getting out of sleep mode, took a hard reboot. Last night it wouldn't come back at all but it was late so I didn't check what could be the cause, just figured it was the Ballistix again. I was so sure I even ordered up some Gskill this AM from the Egg. Whan I got home tonight I started looking for the offending stick. Last night when I tried I noticed that the bios had been reset. On trying to boot tonight I reset the bios but it would hang on the reboot. It did this with all 4 sticks one at a time. The error code at the hang is E4. I finally found that the code is for bios corruption (I think). So I pulled tha battery and rset the thing for 30 minutes and it still hung at E4. I went back to bios and changed the vdimm from Auto to 2.2v and for whatever reason it finally booted up. I put in another stick of ram and that booted fine as well. It is late and I am going to stop for the night. I will try adding the other 2 sticks and redoing my o/c tomorrow. What caused this episode and what the he** is an E4 code anyway? I really don't want to deal with this again.

[JeffLo]

has anyone gotten the ip35 pro with a q9450 to 4ghz stable?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Help! I have been running for months with the system in my sig. Other than 3 rma bouts with my Ballistix all has been well. Tuesday night I started having trouble getting out of sleep mode, took a hard reboot. Last night it wouldn't come back at all but it was late so I didn't check what could be the cause, just figured it was the Ballistix again. I was so sure I even ordered up some Gskill this AM from the Egg. Whan I got home tonight I started looking for the offending stick. Last night when I tried I noticed that the bios had been reset. On trying to boot tonight I reset the bios but it would hang on the reboot. It did this with all 4 sticks one at a time. The error code at the hang is E4. I finally found that the code is for bios corruption (I think). So I pulled tha battery and rset the thing for 30 minutes and it still hung at E4. I went back to bios and changed the vdimm from Auto to 2.2v and for whatever reason it finally booted up. I put in another stick of ram and that booted fine as well. It is late and I am going to stop for the night. I will try adding the other 2 sticks and redoing my o/c tomorrow. What caused this episode and what the he** is an E4 code anyway? I really don't want to deal with this again.

there is a 4E in the manual...suggest you read that one...it might be saying your vcore is insufficient.

for whatever reason, your memory is requiring higher than normal Vdimm...feed it what it wants!

[Pntgrd]

there is a 4E in the manual...suggest you read that one...it might be saying your vcore is insufficient.

for whatever reason, your memory is requiring higher than normal Vdimm...feed it what it wants!

Thanks Ace. I couldn't find the manual last night, I really need to straighten up a bit. I wonder why after almost a year it all at once wants more juice? It has been solid at 3.6 with 1.4325v in bios all that time. This is puzzling

[edit]
I have had a thought. System is back to running 3.6 and seems to be running like it should. I have an idea what may have happened. I was working with a wireless gaming adapter on the Tuesday when I started having the problems. I needed to plug in an additional network cable to the second nic and was leaning over the top of the case reaching over the back to plug it in. I had hit the k/b PS2 cable and was trying to plug it back in, kinda feeling around for the hole. Could I have hit the BIOS reset switch an moved it just a bit. Could that have caused a BIOS corruption, which seems to be what I had?

[Cob]

Has anybody else found that 17 B04 disables Virtualization?

[Cob]

has anyone gotten the ip35 pro with a q9450 to 4ghz stable?

Unlikely. You can't set the VTT high enough to do so. And tbh even if you could it would probably be beyond safe levels for the Q9450.

[jakiman]

hi all, I have a few issues ith my IP35 Pro and would like some ideas.....
It is using bios 16 and I'm using Q6600 B3.
Tuniq Tower is hooked up to CPU fan header.
One other fan are hooked up to Aux header.

1. Coretemp shows all 4 cores at 44 degreed right now.
But Abit uGuru shows it all at 59 degrees. Why such big diff?
It showed far less difference with Bios14 I believe. But B16 made it huge..
So if I try to change the FanEQ cpu temp values, I can't as it won't allow such high values to be set.

2. When I do a soft reboot, fan headers stop working under FanEQ.
So they don't speed up even when the CPU is under load..... Just runs at minimum speed.
But if I shut down my pc and also turn off my PSU then back on, it works.
So every time I reboot, I have to cut power from the mains so my motherboard gets no power for a while....
I've had this issue with original bios, bios 14 and now 16... Any one have this issue also?

[hokiealumnus]

1. Coretemp shows all 4 cores at 44 degreed right now.
But Abit uGuru shows it all at 59 degrees. Why such big diff?
It showed far less difference with Bios14 I believe. But B16 made it huge..
So if I try to change the FanEQ cpu temp values, I can't as it won't allow such high values to be set.

2. When I do a soft reboot, fan headers stop working under FanEQ.
So they don't speed up even when the CPU is under load..... Just runs at minimum speed.
But if I shut down my pc and also turn off my PSU then back on, it works.
So every time I reboot, I have to cut power from the mains so my motherboard gets no power for a while....
I've had this issue with original bios, bios 14 and now 16... Any one have this issue also?

This one is a known issue with BIOS v.16. It was tailor-made for 45nm CPUs and 65nm ones read incorrectly. IMHO, v.14 is the one to go with if you have a 65nm CPU.

2. When I do a soft reboot, fan headers stop working under FanEQ.
So they don't speed up even when the CPU is under load..... Just runs at minimum speed.
But if I shut down my pc and also turn off my PSU then back on, it works.
So every time I reboot, I have to cut power from the mains so my motherboard gets no power for a while....
I've had this issue with original bios, bios 14 and now 16... Any one have this issue also?

This one I've not heard of. The only fan issue I've seen (also well known) is with a 3-pin fan plugged into the CPU socket. The board will lose control of it occasionally and cause it to run full speed all the time. When that happens, it's necessary to power down, remove power and hit the power button (to discharge capacitors). After that, you can power back up and it'll regain control of the 3-pin fan. Your particular issue I can't recall seeing before though. Tried a nice, deep CMOS reset? Like so:

• Remove power from the system.
• Hit the power button to discharge the capacitors.
• Move the CCMOS jumper to the clear position.
• Remove the battery from the motherboard.
• Do something else for an hour.
• Replace the battery.
• Place the jumper back in the normal position.
• Restore power and boot up immediately into BIOS.
• Select "Load Optimized Defaults" and set the recommended voltage for your RAM
• Save & exit.
• On reboot, go directly into BIOS and set the recommended timings for your RAM and any other options you'd like to set (i.e. boot order, etc.).

[jakiman]

hokiealumnus - Hmm. I might then go back to Bios14 as it does get annoying seeing such high temps. =)

Also, yes, mine also does sometimes get stuck running at MAX fan speed as well. And I do need to shut down, cut power, empty capacitors then power it back up. Is this "only" for the CPU header? or is it for all headers? Hmm. So this is a known issue. But yeah. Mine suddnely also started doing the opposite also where it will get stuck in low speed and won't speed up when when max temp is reached. =P

[hokiealumnus]

hokiealumnus - Hmm. I might then go back to Bios14 as it does get annoying seeing such high temps. =)

Also, yes, mine also does sometimes get stuck running at MAX fan speed as well. And I do need to shut down, cut power, empty capacitors then power it back up. Is this "only" for the CPU header? or is it for all headers? Hmm. So this is a known issue. But yeah. Mine suddnely also started doing the opposite also where it will get stuck in low speed and won't speed up when when max temp is reached. =P

Yea; the one I referenced is only on the CPU header. To rid themselves completely of that one, some took their 3-pin CPU fan and put it on the SYS header. The other option is of course to get a 4-pin fan for the CPU.

[bigsnow]

Hi all,
I'm on my 2nd IP35pro. This time aiming for 3.6GHz on a Q6600 (using Xigmatek S1283, 4x1GB Crucial Ballistics, evga 8800GS, Raidmax RX-530SS psu).

So far I just have an IDE NEC DVD writer in slave, along with an IDE 80GB Seagate in Master, and no SATA devices. The DVD shows up in the list of bootable options (I set it to 1st), but the HDD does not appear to spin up or be recognized as a device, not to mention a bootable device. I selected 'hard drive' as the second boot option. It has XP installed from the previous PC. I thought it would at least boot into Safe Mode, but no luck.

When I place the XP disc in the optical drive it hangs while installing files.

Is it possible the IDE HDD is not being recognized because I've mis-set something in BIOS? Where do I read what BIOS version i have?

[Ace-a-Rue]

some of the IDE drives have a single drive jumper...you need to make sure you have that 80g ide drive set up as the primary drive...usually the easiest thing to do is set the drive and NEC DVD drive to CS (cable select) mode...then, primary and slave is selected by which cable plug is plugged into the IDE drive.

[bigsnow]

Wal, that was it, sort of, the DVD was set to Master. I set it to Cable Select and now the HDD shows up. Thanks.

Now for more fun...

[shoman24v]

Anyone have any recommendations to bringing up my ram speed? I have 1066MHz memory and it's running at 800MHz. Is it just as simple as changing the divider? If so what's a good recommendation for my ram?

[bigsnow]

It's looking like 3.2GHz (8x400) at Vcore=1.45 is sorta kinda stable.

the USB bus works well with a Flash drive, but won't recognize my Trendnet wireless adapter, so I can't access the internet.

Any ideas to get the TEW-24UB to work with the USB connection?

[hokiealumnus]

Anyone have any recommendations to bringing up my ram speed? I have 1066MHz memory and it's running at 800MHz. Is it just as simple as changing the divider? If so what's a good recommendation for my ram?

You'll need to do set the ratio to 1:1.5 and overclock a bit by raising the FSB to 356. Should be an easy OC for your E8400. Of course you won't be able to do any of this without raising Vdimm to the manufacturer's recommended value.

[strange|ife]

gtl ref setting should start at 63%...67% is for the 65nm cpu's.

as for vista, i use the 64 bit version and i use Window's Mail...it works well.

back to vista?

good to hear, its really not that bad..once you learn it's quirks

[18 is # 1]

gtl ref setting should start at 63%...67% is for the 65nm cpu's.

I have had mine set to 63% all along. If I wanted to play with it to increase my OC, would I raise or lower it?

[Ace-a-Rue]

back to vista?

been there for about 6-7 months...it just took a little teeth pulling to dive in.

good to hear, its really not that bad..once you learn it's quirks

agree, once you are beyond the quirks.

[Ace-a-Rue]

I have had mine set to 63% all along. If I wanted to play with it to increase my OC, would I raise or lower it?

that's because you are using the E8400 which was designed to work at 63% GTLREF

[bobn4burton]

have you looked at the board diagnostic LED to see if there is a code there as this happens?

try clearing CMOS with the battery out for about 5 minutes...when you put everything back to normal, make sure the switch on the back of the I/O panel is in the correct position and the jumper on the board is set correctly.

Took out the battery and that seems to have done it. Now it shuts down and stays off. Thanks Ace!

Took out the battery and that seems to have done it. Now it shuts down and stays off. Thanks Ace!

I have the same problem. After I shut the PC down...it turns back on after 5-10 seconds for no apparent reason. I've cleared the CMOS with no luck, I'll have to try and remove the battery for 5 min as suggested and I hope that works. This problem is drivin me nuts...!

If taking the battery out doesn't fix the problem, is there any other tricks I can try? I searched the thread but the above-quoted is the only thing I could find for this issue...

[Ace-a-Rue]

try the battery out first and then come back with your 2nd part of the question