*****OFFICIAL OcUK/JW IP35 Pro THREAD*****

LOL:) sorry about that. Could u have a look when u get home ?
@ Kenofstephen could u possible post a pic of points on the mainboard were i could measure vcore manualy with a multimeter??
 
Flashed with V1.3 BIOS - and it failed!

So I moved the jumper over (JB1) and it booted into the failsafe, then reflashed the primary BIOS. Moved the jumper back, then it booted back into V1.2. Excellent!

Anyway - it seems you absolutely do need to use the methods on J&W's tutorial page - earlier versions of WinFlash don't work.

So - what V1.3 like? - well, AHCI mode is definitely now supported and working in Vista. Very good.

The odd options for onboard graphics are gone. Also good.

C1E has appeared as an option to be disabled, along with EIST, and all of a sudden I can overclock my E2180 to 3.5GHz. Much better.

As far as I can tell, the various RAM divider options now work properly and you can safely leave it all on AUTO when you are overclocking the CPU at first.

I've yet to find any issue that I reported not fixed, which is really pleasing.

I'm going to prime the E2180 overclock, then put a Q6600 G0 in it to see if I can break 3.4GHz.
 
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Flashed with V1.3 BIOS - and it failed!

So I moved the jumper over (JB1) and it booted into the failsafe, then reflashed the primary BIOS. Moved the jumper back, then it booted back into V1.2. Excellent!

Anyway - it seems you absolutely do need to use the DOS floppy method.

So - what V1.3 like? - well, AHCI mode is definitely now supported and working in Vista. Very good.

The odd options for onboard graphics are gone. Also good.

C1E has appeared as an option to be disabled, along with EIST, and all of a sudden I can overclock my E2180 to 3.5GHz. Much better.

As far as I can tell, the various RAM divider options now work properly and you can safely leave it all on AUTO when you are overclocking the CPU at first.

I've yet to find any issue that I reported not fixed, which is really pleasing.

I'm going to prime the E2180 overclock, then put a Q6600 G0 in it to see if I can break 3.4GHz.
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this mobo is arriving tomorrow, i dont know how to make a bootable dos disk for flashing, can anyone guide me through step by step, i have flashed millions of things before but never in dos (i flashed gto2 in dos but that doesnt count all you had to do was press a number)and i tried making a bootable floppy but i couldnt do it
 
So the board is now a worthwhile purchase?

Choice of

Abit IP35 and the OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35

Would like IDE controller, as I have a 80GB HD and a Pioneer 112.
 
badbob said:
So the board is now a worthwhile purchase?

Choice of

Abit IP35 and the OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35

Would like IDE controller, as I have a 80GB HD and a Pioneer 112.
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if you want a more futureproof purchase with all graphics cards coming out in pci-e 2 , probably better off with the x38 board, but if you your on a tight budget, then the board is okay, but it will soon become outdated i reckon, i bought it for a budget build for my cousins who dont game much
 
WJA96 said:
Flashed with V1.3 BIOS - and it failed!

So I moved the jumper over (JB1) and it booted into the failsafe, then reflashed the primary BIOS. Moved the jumper back, then it booted back into V1.2. Excellent!

Anyway - it seems you absolutely do need to use the DOS floppy method.

So - what V1.3 like? - well, AHCI mode is definitely now supported and working in Vista. Very good.

The odd options for onboard graphics are gone. Also good.

C1E has appeared as an option to be disabled, along with EIST, and all of a sudden I can overclock my E2180 to 3.5GHz. Much better.

As far as I can tell, the various RAM divider options now work properly and you can safely leave it all on AUTO when you are overclocking the CPU at first.

I've yet to find any issue that I reported not fixed, which is really pleasing.

I'm going to prime the E2180 overclock, then put a Q6600 G0 in it to see if I can break 3.4GHz.
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very happy to hear that the new bios fixed all your reported problems :D
will check the flash problem you encountered.;)
 
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this mobo is arriving tomorrow, i dont know how to make a bootable dos disk for flashing, can anyone guide me through step by step, i have flashed millions of things before but never in dos (i flashed gto2 in dos but that doesnt count all you had to do was press a number)and i tried making a bootable floppy but i couldnt do it
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http://www.jwele.com/news_detail.php?id=214

Flash from floppy, windows or bootable card. I did find the Windows one a bit hit and miss though, but the 'spare' BIOS makes it reasonably safe. This is actually the best BIOS backup system I've used. The Gigabyte one is OK, but if you can't boot the system it doesn't work. This is actually a separate circuit, so it's pretty much guaranteed to work.
 
badbob said:
So the board is now a worthwhile purchase?
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It's too early to say, to be honest. I've ordered an E8400 for testing, so I'll be able to look at that early next week. It now clocks my M0 E2180 very well, (350x10 at 1.31V, no adjustment on NB or FSB voltages) I'm still stuck at 3.4GHz on my Q6600, but the E6750 is quite happy to be clocked to destruction on this.

What it does have now is all the features it's advertised as having. If you need Crossfire, then it's this all the way. For overclocking, it's a little bit hit and miss, but I think you have to forget everything you know about P35 boards with this one as it doesn't seem to needs lots of volts on the chipset for big clocks. It also has negligible vDroop which I personally value very highly.

I reckon if they'd put a few of these out on test prior to launch, and released the board with the v1.3 BIOS we wouldn't be having this conversation.

@kenofstephen - I will quite happily buy a pre-production X38 board from you if you want me to try it out for you;)

It's now an excellent value board in my opinion.

And if you muck up a BIOS flash, then it's really simple to recover it with the dual BIOS system.
 
@ kenofstephan the only problem i am now having is the vcore with my e8500, it behaves a little strange. Raised a couple of notches above default and the bios, speedfan and everest report vcore as 1.40 and the max vcore i can get with the 1.58 bios setting is 1.48 again acording to the bios and other software. Is every thing reporting voltage wrong?

When i had my e6850 in the max i could get with the 1.58 bios setting was 1.54.

Any ideas??
 
Not sure if this problem is specific to this board or if it's something else.

Today I kept getting the good old blue screen of death when playing games (after about 10-15 minutes) with the following error
Realtek 8101/8168/8169 PCI/PCIe Adapter Driver (RTLH86.SYS)
running vista home premium 64

Earlier I had moved my PC and when re-connected it I had put the lan cable in LAN2, I plugged it back into LAN1 and have not had any more BSD, all drivers are up to date.
 
sulli said:
@ kenofstephan the only problem i am now having is the vcore with my e8500, it behaves a little strange. Raised a couple of notches above default and the bios, speedfan and everest report vcore as 1.40 and the max vcore i can get with the 1.58 bios setting is 1.48 again acording to the bios and other software. Is every thing reporting voltage wrong?

When i had my e6850 in the max i could get with the 1.58 bios setting was 1.54.

Any ideas??
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no problems, will check for you.

might relate to CPU Microcode update.
 
Hi all

Great thread got me out of a sticky spot at the weekend,

Just wanted to add my experience with this board.

Firstly install was a breeze, board layout is actually excellent for a budget board , arctic cooling freezer pro 64 fits the board perfectly.

I have installed 2 gb of OCZ ddr2 800 ram. processor is e6400 conroe.

Got XP pro installed all a ok .

Now comes the fun part...!

Was trying to overclock the cpu on bios 1.2 - long storey short A no go.

So got up Sunday morning hmmm i'll flash bios to 1.3 had bios file ready downloaded winflash from J&W (i can here you cringe from here) flashed well to 20% windows hung oh crap !! bios is Fubar

Remebered reading this thread earlier about recovering to back up bios (not listed in manual at all J&W!!!) jumped JB1 booted - bios still fubar. (panic sets in !)

So used my noodle jumpered JB1 and cleared cmos.......... powered on recovery bios comes up (thanks the lord). So flashed the bios back from recovery bios all is well.

Made bootable floppy, put bios file on floppy and AWDflash (From J&W).

Flashed the BIos to 1.3 game on.

From this bios i am able to overclock my e6400 from 2.1ghz to 2.8ghz rock solid. temps are 31oc idle 50oc load (frosty)

The moral of this story is DO NOT USE WINFLASH TO UPDATE YOUR BIOS!!

Judging from the pounding i have given this board all I can say is wow!! for the price and the features provided this board is unreal, and as stated else where in this thread the recovery bios works and it works well.

So if you don't require raid or firewire, save yourself some money and get this the P35 chip is awsome and it overclocks like a trojan!!

Just a note for J&W

1 please put the recovery to 2nd bios in the manual (this feature is a great point of the board)

2 Take bios flashing from winflash out of the options in your guide man its dangerous.

Very please customer (so far only had 2days but great so far)

Paul :D
 
Scutter said:
Not sure if this problem is specific to this board or if it's something else.

Today I kept getting the good old blue screen of death when playing games (after about 10-15 minutes) with the following error
Realtek 8101/8168/8169 PCI/PCIe Adapter Driver (RTLH86.SYS)
running vista home premium 64

Earlier I had moved my PC and when re-connected it I had put the lan cable in LAN2, I plugged it back into LAN1 and have not had any more BSD, all drivers are up to date.
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obviously it is the Realtek driver issue.
Have you sent an email to Realtek reporting this issue?

if you are using the PRO, why don't you switch to the Marvell LAN and see??
 
After testing this out for 48 hours now, the new 1.3 BIOS is a vast improvement on the old one. I think the ability to disable C1E is the key to the improved overclocking with both quad-cores and dual-cores. The Q6600 that was previously stuck at 3.3-3.4GHz is now running quite happily at 3.6GHz and my E2180 that previously wouldn't move over 2.66GHz is now running very happily at 3.5GHz in the same board.

The RAM dividers are also much improved now - you actually get what you dial in. As Pauly B said - this is now a very good value board compared to most of the other P35 boards out there. It's just a shame we had to go through the V1.2 BIOS to get here.

I actually recommended this board to 3 people on here yesterday - not something I have ever done before.

Credit where it's due - J&W listened, and rewrote the BIOS very quickly - I'm looking forward to the X38 board now.
 
Top stuff :)

I am throughly looking forward to getting the x38/48 to test from J&W :) (Although to be honest, with the effort you - WJA - seem to be putting into the J&W 35 test, you'd make a better tester). Still looking forward to it however.

Matthew
 
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