abit IP35 Pro XE and i5300 CPU temp error

GunRunner

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Hi

As the title says! I have just carried out a rebuild for my daughter using an abit IP35 Pro XE motherboard and a Dual Core E5300 (Wolfdale -2M). As soon as I booted up, I was greated with a continual repeated single beep.

I eventually tracked it down to an overheat warning. The board says the CPU is running at 93 degrees C! I was certain this was incorrect, as the CPU was not even warm, I was prettey certain I had installed it correctly, but to be doubly certain and to put my mind at rest, I refitted the CPU this time using MX-2 Thermal compound. When I booted it up again, nothing had changed, same reading and beeping. I looked on the abit website and found the latest BIOS and after consultation with overclockers technical support, I upgraded it. Well it definitely changed the reading...it now reads 103 degrees C and still beeps.:D . I have disabled this functionality in the BIOS along with the overheat shutdown parameters.

I advised OC of my findings and have installed coretemp and after running prime95 for 8 hours, the highest the CPU core temperatures recorded was 49 degrees. So all is well.

I have posted this information so that if anyone else is buys this board/CPU combination, they will know that there is CPU/board temperature reading problem and to use coretemp instead.

Oclockers did say they would alert abit to this, however, I feel I ought to also report this directly to abit. Has anyone ever directly reported problems to abit about BIOS problems?

I know abit are withdrawing from the Motherboard market, but I still think I should follow this up. By the way, this board is a steal at the latest price.
 
BUFF said:
5300 afaik is RO stepping & that isn't supported afaik by any abit public BIOS on any abit mobo & the 5300 isn't on the abit CPU support list (remember that they don't make mobos any more).
You may want to try http://www.abitshop.eu/bios/m629o_11.bin (this is different from the 1 on abit Taiwan) as it's supposed to have had EO support added so possibly may help with the temp report.
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BUFF. Thanks for the response. As you may well see from my original post, it is only the indication of the CPU temperature that is the problem, so switching it off in the BIOS and using core temp is not a big issue. I am sure you agree?

Could you please possibly supply the link that describes the additional data for this BIOS revision (readme file)?

Edited....This is the BIOS I used (see original post)....

Motherboard>LGA775>IP35 Pro XE
BIOS: m629o11.zip

Bios Issue Date:2008/05/26
Mirror Site: ASIA Europe US
BIOS ID:11


1. Fixed 45nm CPU compatibility and support CPU half multiplier.
2. Fixed the Wake Up by WAKE# of PCIe function abnormality.
3. Fixed system hang when used Intel PXE CPU series.
4. Fixed CPU temperature abnormality when S3 return.
5. BIOS compiled date: 05/26/2008.

I presume this is the same one that you are referring to?
 
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BUFF said:
No, I can't as it's effectively a beta adding EO support to the 11 BIOS.
It's a different version of the BIOS that you indicated.
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It wont be a problem then?...what I mean as long as I carry out the bios update procedure that I carried out before I will be ok?
 
For anyone interested, on boot up the system BIOS information states

"6a790a1o EVALUATION ROM NOT FOR SALE" :D

Who cares what it says, as long as it reports the temperatures correctly !
 
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