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

I'm having a problem creating a bootable floppy and adding the BIOS files to it.

When I create a bootable floppy in XP, and then try to add all 5 BIOS files there floppy is full before all the files are copied.

I can't quite understand how I'm supposed to add all 5 files to a bootable floppy that is only 1.44Mb.

Am I doing something stupid?
 
ugly,

you need to delete some of the files off of the disk, make sure you keep autoexec.bat config.sys and msdos.con, you can delete the keyboard files and a few of the others. free's up enough space. Just done it myself :D
 
uglyohyeah said:
I'm having a problem creating a bootable floppy and adding the BIOS files to it.

When I create a bootable floppy in XP, and then try to add all 5 BIOS files there floppy is full before all the files are copied.

I can't quite understand how I'm supposed to add all 5 files to a bootable floppy that is only 1.44Mb.

Am I doing something stupid?
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make a dos boot disk and then put your bois on a seperate disk :)

1 disk for startup files
1 disk for bios update
 
Thanks for the help everyone. I went with exus and made two floppy's. First time messing with updating bios though so I'm feeling a bit happier. I'll try some of the other methods to build my confidence. Sounds a bit crazy but I had the same (original) bios on my previous motherboard and I could never get the bios updated over the 2 and a half years I've used it.

thanks again.
 
Hi folk - I am a little baffled. Had my board/chip/mem for about 3 weeks. Upped the ram voltage to 2.1 set timing to 5-5-5-15 left the vcore default set the multi to 355x9 and have been happily running at 3.2 with absolutely no problems and temps well under 50c even after hours of gaming. Suddenly I am not getting a post and I dont know why? Bios version 11. Reset cmos etc - could something be failing if so what and how do i test.

Any ideas?

Sorted - upped voltages another notch - just confused as to why it should suddenly stop being stable at the ones I had:(
 
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Guys it seems running four sticks of the OCZ PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) - my system freezes.

If I take one stick out and leave 3, it gets into booting my Vista disc fine.

The is an IP35 Pro, out the box. Any ideas?
 
n3crius said:
Guys it seems running four sticks of the OCZ PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) - my system freezes.

If I take one stick out and leave 3, it gets into booting my Vista disc fine.

The is an IP35 Pro, out the box. Any ideas?
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try increasing CPU VTT & MCH voltages


swanny said:
Do any of the latest BIOS fix the cold boot reboot issue?
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don't think that the Pro does that?
16 beta supposedly does away with the BIOS save stop/start which is an interesting fix.

beta 13 for the IP35/IP35-E supposedly resolves the cold boot double boot for them except if the board has been disconnected from power in which case the first boot after power is re-applied it will double boot but thereafter won't (unless disconnected from power again).
 
n3crius said:
Yes, it seems increased the voltage for the DDR to above 2.0 has fixed this.

Which BIOS is everyone running here? Which version is recommended?
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The board seesm to default to 1.8V for the memory, bit low for some sticks, probably made worse if you have 4 sticks in.

I'm on bios 14, seems fine so far, solved a problem with resuming from suspend-to-ram with uGuru (wasn't reporting the cpu clock speed).

If they'd get rid of the JMicron delay on boot I'd be really happy.

Great board though :D
 
BUFF said:
don't think that the Pro does that?
16 beta supposedly does away with the BIOS save stop/start which is an interesting fix.

beta 13 for the IP35/IP35-E supposedly resolves the cold boot double boot for them except if the board has been disconnected from power in which case the first boot after power is re-applied it will double boot but thereafter won't (unless disconnected from power again).
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Sorry I thought this was the IP35 thread for the whole range, just noticed it is pro only. :o

Thanks for the info anyway sir. :)
 
does this board come with a esata cable??
i wanna know if i can connect my WD book via esata to the mobo, which i saw has esata sockets already on iT?
 
n3crius said:
Guys it seems running four sticks of the OCZ PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) - my system freezes.

If I take one stick out and leave 3, it gets into booting my Vista disc fine.

The is an IP35 Pro, out the box. Any ideas?
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nope, running 4 sticks of 1GB Platinum rev2 both set bought on OCuk. no problem what so ever.

although the only problem is that i can't use a Freecom USB 2.5" disk drive. is my motherboard's USB to blame?
 
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