**Official ABIT AB9 QuadGT Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

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Official Abit Forums

http://forum.uabit.com/

Reviews

Anandtech Review
Tweaktown
Nordic Hardware Review
Hardocp Review

Compatable Ram List

OCZ 2GB FlexXLC Edition DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4
OCZ 2GB Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4
OCZ 2GB ATI CrossFire Edition DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4
OCZ 2GB SLI-Ready Edition DDR2 PC2-8500 (2x1GB) CAS5

Patriot 2GB Extreme Performance DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4
Patriot 4GB Extreme Performance DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x2GB) CAS5

Crucial 2GB Ballistix Tracer (with LEDs), DDR2 PC2-8000 (2x1GB) CAS5
Crucial 2GB Ballistix DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4
Crucial 2GB 10th Anniversary DDR2 PC2-5300 (2x1GB) CAS3 (Limited Edition)
Crucial 2GB Ballistix DDR2 PC2-5300 (2x1GB) CAS3

Team 2GB Xtreem DDR2 PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS3

Kingston 2GB HyperX DDR2 PC2-8500 (2x1GB) CAS5

Mushkin 2GB DDR2 EM2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS5

Corsair 2GB Dominator DDR2 PC2-8500 (2x1GB) CAS5

CellShock 2GB DDR2 PC6400 (2x1GB) CAS4

G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400 (2x2GB) CAS5

Official BIOS

WARNING:- DO NOT USE THE WINDOWS FLASHMENU METHOD TO UPDATE YOUR BIOS, HIGH RISK OF BIOS FAILIURE!

CPU support list
How to update the BIOS?
How to boot an Abit board from a USB flash drive
 AWDFLASH revision 20061017172020 - 13/10/2006

BIOS ID:10

1. First release.
2. BIOS compiled date: 12/11/2006

BIOS ID:11

1. Enhanced overclocking ability.
2. Modify the Voltage adjusting function.
3. Fixed an issue that the system hangs during Vista installation, when using a Kentsfield CPU.
4. Fixed an issue where the system sometimes hangs on POST code 2A.
5. Fixed the JMB363 performance issue.
6. JMB363 now works as intended when enabling ICH8R RAID ROM.
7. The "EIST adjusting" function now works as intended.
8. BIOS compiled date: 3/27/2007

BIOS ID:13

1. Fixed the onboard Ethernet may disappeared after running mem86.
2. BIOS compiled date: 04/18/2007

BIOS ID:14

1. Support FSB1333 CPUs.
2. BIOS compiled date: 06/21/2007

BIOS ID:15

1. The ICH8R AHCI function now works as intended.
2. BIOS compiled date: 07/18/2007

Beta BIOS

WARNING:- DO NOT USE THE WINDOWS FLASHMENU METHOD TO UPDATE YOUR BIOS, HIGH RISK OF BIOS FAILIURE!

DISCLAIMER:
Universal abit will not be held responsible or liable for any damage made with using a BETA BIOS.
Please proceed with discretion and do not attempt to use unless you know what you are doing!

Instruction Manual

English Version (Revison 2) - 8th May 07

DRIVERS

RAID/AHCI Software - Intel® Matrix Storage Manager v 7.6.0.1011 for 2000/XP/2003/64bit - 2nd August 07 *NEW*

INTEL Chipset Driver v 8.3.0.1013 for 2000/XP/2003/64bit - 22nd June 07

Intel ICH7R/8R Raid Installation Disk V1.03 for 2000/XP/2003/64bit

JMicron Installation Disk V1.02 for 2000/XP/2003/64bit

JMicron SATA Driver V 1.17.21 for 2000/XP/2003/64bit - 23rd July 07

Realtek 8110SC Gigabit Lan V6.73 Driver for Win9x/Me/2000/XP/2003 - 20th August 07 *NEW*

Realtek 8110SC Gigabit Lan V6.196 Driver for Vista 32bit / Vista 64bit - 20th August 07 *NEW*

Realtek High Audio Definition R175 Driver for 2000/XP/2003/64bit - 31st August 07 *NEW*

Realtek High Audio Definition R175 Driver for Vista 32bit/Vista 64bit - 31st August 07 *NEW*

Abit AirPace Wi-Fi Card Driver V1.0.116.20 for XP / 2003 / 64bit

Abit AirPace Wi-Fi Card Driver V1.0.116.20 for Vista 32bit / Vista 64bit

Utilities

Abit uGuru 3.1X v3.104 for 2000/XP/2003/Vista/64bit - 7th June 07
 
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Update:

1) Added Ram Compatability: Will add more as I an when. . .
2) Beta Bios M621E_11.B07 + Fixes table.
3) Updated latest drivers for Win XP & Vista.
 
BUFF said:
How to boot an Abit board from a USB flash drive
http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=121953

The links in the first post should get you an appropriate BIOS (if it's a beta you will probably have to change the file name to .bin from Bxx)
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Added to the first thread where the bios is. . . ! :cool:

Richh said:
Seemed to be time to do a walkthrough on this. Booting to a DOS prompt from a USB key is easy to do, is the best way to flash your BIOS, and has a load more uses. Hell, you can even put an entire OS on a big one if you want - which can make a really neat option for, say, an in-car PC. No need for a shock-prone conventional hard disk.


Anyway. To do this, the first thing you need to find is the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

Install it, and then use it to format your USB key as a DOS startup disk like this:
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You can select FAT or FAT32 as the file system, but do not select NTFS! The HP utility installer package should come with the DOS system files, or you can use your own.

Note that Windows built-in format utility will not create the necessary active primary partition on your drive key, so go get that HP tool, it works, the Windows one doesn't!

If you are going to use the drive to flash your BIOS, copy over the Awdflash, binary file, batch file or however else you want to do it.

Once done, restart your system with your USB drive connected and DEL into the BIOS.

The key setting is in the Hard Disk Boot Priority section:
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You need to put USB-HDD0 - your flash drive, above your primary boot hard disk. In the image above, the disgo has been moved up above Intel Volume0, which is the OS boot volume.

Once done, make sure that Hard Disk is one of the three boot device options, and it might also be worthwhile disabling the "Boot Other Device" function, as this is often a cause of weird boot problems.

F10 and exit, and when your system restarts, it should boot from your USB drive. Simple!
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Would be nice to see some overclocking results. . . .

Ammendments:-

1) Under Official Bios added - How to boot an Abit board from a USB flash drive.
2) Added driver list for Abit AirPace Wi-Fi Card Driver.

trojan698 said:
I'm being kinda lazy by asking this but what FSB are these boards hitting?
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Upto around 525FSB but dont quote me & thats on the 1066 FSB Strap, I'll get around to posting my own results soon.
 
Wow! Excellent news! funny really because I made a sarcastic comment on the Abit forums saying that the info they gave me regarding an official bios being released on tuesday! oh well only a day late! :) :)

Updated the bios details on the original post. :)

I'll start doing my build now. . . lol
 
Just for infomation purposes:-

The links to the ftp servers for downloading the Bios ID: 11 (Latest Official Bios) have now all been fixed:- So basically if you go onto this website clicking on the Asia/Europe/US now works http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/uk/mot..._NAME=AB9+QuadGT&fMTYPE=LGA775&pPRODINFO=BIOS I sent the webmaster a couple of e-mails.

The following directory on the ftp servers will hopefully be removed bios/qb9quadgt/ as that was the typo error directory it was created to in error.

Hope that makes sense.
 
Update: Added a new beta bios to the original thread, relating to the issue of a minority of people losing the lan port which should be resolved.

Remember this is a beta bios & use at your own risk.
 
May I ask, if any of you have used ram with this board that isnt on the above compatability list which fully works, please let me know by adding which ram your using to the thread, I'll then add it to the original post.

Thanks.
WJA96 said:
Thanks for that. I haven't seen this issue myself, but you're doing a sterling job of keeping that 1st post up to date. This is definitely the tidiest of the official threads, and I think it's because that initial post answers so many questions in one place.

Thanks - please keep it up!
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No problem at all, infact I'll probally do this for any future boards I aquire, next will be the DFI P965-s Dark Infinity - I'll definitly keep this thread upto date. :)
BUFF said:
that issue seems to have largely involved running memtest - a weird 1 for sure.
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Oh right, didnt know that is that using the dos version? any more info would be appreciated & I'll add it to the info I compile with the beta bios in question.
 
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UPDATE: 27/04/07

I requested a revision of the manual earlier this week, I have now recieved Revision 2, which adds another 12 pages including a bios section.

Instruction Manual

English Version (Revison 2) 27/04/07

Abit will include this on their website in due course, I have added a personal link for you to download it from.

Regards,

Nelly.
 
Duke said:
Found the problem - my GSkill 2GB PC6400 kit. It boots fine with a generic 1GB 6400 stick in it!

Bit annoying as it does list my ram on the opening post :confused: I'll flash to latest BIOS and try it again later.
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Indeed quite a few people are using the G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 Kits on numerous forums. Infact it should boot at the default 1.8v because it did for me when I owned the QuadGT & HZ's. Have you adjusted the voltage to the reccomended spec 2.1v?
 
Have you managed to sort the G.Skill HZ ram out yet?
Duke said:
You can just use the FlashMenu flasher which is part of uGuru, in Windows. I didn't realise this until spending the last hour fiddling with booting cd-roms and usb pens! I thought it was odd Abit didn't have a Windows bios updater!
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I will never use a windows version of a bios flasher, have seen too many bad flashes including one of my own back when I had an Asus A8V Deluxe.
 
Duke said:
Used the windows flasher to put on the beta bios - it shows version 10 again (?).

Not overly impressed with this board so far. I hope a future bios will fix the ram and the disappearing lan card - can't use the web on my system now.
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Hi, I've just updated the beta bios link - see if that bios reports the same, it is supposed to fix the disapearing lan.
Duke said:
Ok I put on the latest official (11) bios and swapped back to the GSkill - didnt work. Put the generic back in, set 2.0v on VDIMM, put GSkill back in - didn't work.
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When the system fails to boot, what numbers came up on the LED post code on the motherboard itself?

Also try posting the problem on here:- http://forum.abit-usa.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48

Email:- [email protected] or Technical Support:- 01438 362088
 
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Duke said:
Running the beta bios now but gskill ram still doesnt work with this. No major problem as I have 2x1GB DDR800 anyway.
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Thats really weired seen as it works on your DS3, I had the very same ram working on the QuadGT. . . :confused: very puzzling.
 
danielmayne said:
:confused: any 1
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I havent got this board anymore otherwise I would have a dabble. . . .

Try here:- http://forum.abit-usa.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48

If you havent registered, maybe worth doing so. . . all the Abit fanboys/ experts/fanatics use those forums & 9 times out of 10 you will get a reply explaining things to sort out your problem.

Can anyone check the latest :13 bios & see if it only recognises the default cpu voltage & defaults back to the mininum for the cpu?
 
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