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

You are either very brave or seriously in need of adrenaline rushes. There have been many boards borked using the windows utility, I've heard of none using the dos based one.

It's very easy to use a USB flash drive to flash the bios. I have an old 64Mb one that I use. Has space for all the bios versions which I keep in individual folders on the drive. Makes it easy to flash a new bios and go back to a previous one if it causes problems.

Biggest problem is having to have to go into the bios each time to change the boot order of the hard disks to get it to boot from it, takes a whole 30secs ;)
 
RonanH, OK I have made a bootable USB key and I have loaded the following files onto it: awdflash,M629B_14.BIN,& RUNME.BAT, I have never used dos so I am not sure what to do at the command prompt. Oh and how do you save/use a bios profile. I have also just checked in my boot options with the USB key plugged in and the only thing I can see that looks right is USB-CDROM in the list of boot order devices, is this my USB key?

Thanks

Paul
 
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The bios is usually downloaded as a zip or rar archive. There are 5 files in the archive, copy all of these onto the usb key. Beta bios files are slightly different as they are shipped as just the single bios file and have to be renamed. If you can't do this you shouldn't be messing with a beta bios in the first place :D These are the files from the bios ver. 11 file.

Code: 
abitfae.bat
awdflash.exe
M269b_11.bin
M269b_11.txt
Runme.bat

To boot from the usb key you need to change the hard disk boot priority in the bios. This is a little non-intuitive as it is not the boot order. The usb key will be listed after your hard-disk(s), just move it to the top of the list and it will be the first (hard drive) boot device.

When you reboot you should be taken to a C:\ prompt. Type DIR to make sure that you are looking at the USB disk (it should list the 5 files above) and then type runme which will start the flash process.

If you want to keep different versions on the USB key I suggest putting them in seperate folders as the "runme.bat" file is called the same thing in each version but each calls only the bios version that it was downloaded with.

If you're not familiar with dos just type cd <foldername> to change to the folder you want. Keep the folder names below 8 chars and no spaces or non alphanumeric characters. eg ver11 or ver12 would be good folder names. Run the runme.bat file from within the appropriate folder. "cd.." will bring you back up to the root folder.

Hope this helps, let me know if you need more info.
 
Thanks RonanH, so to run the runme.bat file just type runme from within the correct bios folder if I store more than 1 on the USB stick. The typing of "cd" to bring me back to the root folder is that just cd without the quotes? Also I take it I should return my clocks to default and set my memory to recommended manufacturers volts before flashing? After flashing boot into windows and then reboot and enter bios to change settings and overclocks?
 
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yup runme or runme.bat will run the batch file. the command is cd.. ie with the two periods.. (cd\ will return you to the root folder, cd.. returns you to the parent of the current folder)

so it would look like this (ish)

Code: 
C:\>
C:\>cd ver11
C:\ver11>
C:\ver11>cd..
C:\>

thinks that's right...

Yeah you should flash at default settings. It's also a good idea to wipe the CMOS (using the little switch on the backplate, VERY handy). My pc halts after the flash too and has to be powered off to reset, don't panic if this happens.
 
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OK thanks for your help. I don't actually need to flash ATM but want to be sure about how to go about it if I do need to. I always used windows with my Asus board, but peeps have had a mare with this board and the Abitflash (why do they release a flaky programme that can kill your board?)
 
Bony Maloney said:
. I always used windows with my Asus board, but peeps have had a mare with this board and the Abitflash (why do they release a flaky programme that can kill your board?)
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I think that you will find that Flashmenu is actually less problematic than Asus' & the P5K, P5N etc. & indeed MSI's equivalent plus at least with abit you can replace the BIOS chip if necessary rather than the whole mobo.
There is no getting away from the fact that flashing in Windows is inherently riskier than doing it in DOS though.

As for your earlier question about saving & reloading BIOS profiles F6 to save & F7 to load - it's in the manual ;)
 
Finally got round to installing this board last night without any hiccups, pleased with it so far :)

Quick question though, on my last rig (P5W DH Deluxe) I had the BIOS set to have the intake, exhaust and CPU fans spinning at 100% and then if need be I adjusted these in windows via Speedfan

My exhaust fan is connected to SYSFAN1
CPU fan connected to CPUFAN1
I've connected the intake to AUXFAN3

exhaust & CPU fans are both spinning (definitely not at 100%), and seem to be controlled by parameters in the ABIT EQ menu in the BIOS - the Intake fan is static

I had a quick shot at replicating exhaust and CPU fan parameters with AUXFAN3 via the 2nd FanEQ Group but it set an alarm off presumably because the fan wasn't spinning.

I'm going to have another shot at it tonight, but I'm a bit confused after reading the manual and looking at the BIOS options.

How do I get all three fans going at 100% without their speed being influenced by system/CPU temperature? Is it just a case of having the fans plugged in and having FanEQ set to disabled?

Thanks in advance
 
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iGiDK said:
How do I get all three fans going at 100% without their speed being influenced by system/CPU temperature? Is it just a case of having the fans plugged in and having FanEQ set to disabled?
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basically yes, but even with FanEq running you shouldn't have a fan static - can you try another fan on that header to test whether it's the fan or the header that's faulty?
 
Thanks for the reply, I'll have another look at it this evening.

It was too much of a stretch for the fan's cable to reach that particular header on its own so I've used an extension which could also be a factor as to why this fan is static
 
The default speed for the fans in EQ control is between 8 and 12V. I presumed that if you disabled fanEQ the fan ran at 12V but maybe not... It is possible that your fan is not able to start at 8V and is stalling. Would be odd though as I think all my fans spin up to full speed on startup and then throttle back down again. It makes a racket for about 3-5 secs when I power on then quiets down to a gentle hum.

The extension shouldn't make any difference provided it has a good connection... I'd try the fan on a different header and try a different fan on that header to eliminate both fan and header problems. Hopefully it's just the fan. Giving the fan a gentle "nudge" when powered up could kick start it too...
 
Has anyone had the problem of the cpu temp being wrong when coming out of standby? Happened twice to me so far.

The pc will be in standby for 12+ hours I'll wake it up and the board will start beeping kinda like an ambalance siren and uGuru reports the cpu temp of 85degrees!

Theres no way this is true though as I opened the case and felt the heatsink and it wasn't the slightest bit warm and getting up to 85degrees in a second is a little extreme seeing as it gets no where near that when I stress all 4cores (Q6600)

That and the temps it reports are around 10degrres colder than coretemp's readings. Which one should I be going by?
 
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