Ok i noticed ocuk had these going cheapish in B grade so purchased one, installed it everything working fine. Had it for a couple of days, decided to try some overclocking.
Managed to clock a celeron that i'm using as a stopgap cpu better than an AW9max that i had borrowed from a friend for a while previously (2.9GHz @360fsb stable instead of 2.2GHz).
After that i decided to try and find the FSB limit of the board, droped the mutliplier on the cpu from 8 to 6 (the bios says it disables all speedstep features if you set this value), and then set the FSB to 450, as i have read these boards often hit 500+. Saved and exited, board reset once, no screen output, then reseted itself again and had reverted to the previous overclock. So ok, can't do 450 tried 400, same thing happened. After a bit of experimenting discovered that lowering the multiplier in the bios didn't change the actual multiplier, ie 360x7 in the bios still gave 360x8 in cpuz via windows. After discovering that i decided to disable all the speedstep features manually in the bios, found c1e but couldn't find eist, after a bit more digging found a picture of where it is supposed to be in the bios:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/abit-ip35-pro_7.html
^bottom picture, cpu features. Only thing is in my bios the last two options arnt even there!
I have even tried flashing the bios to the latest version from the abit website, the options still do not appear, nothing else in the bios appears to be missing. The only other abnormality i have found with it is the uguru monitoring tool in windows instantly causes windows to say the program ended unexpectedly. I have tried installing the lates version.
Not really sure if these problems warrant trying to return the board, as their may be other problems i have so far overlooked.
Any comments welcome!
Managed to clock a celeron that i'm using as a stopgap cpu better than an AW9max that i had borrowed from a friend for a while previously (2.9GHz @360fsb stable instead of 2.2GHz).
After that i decided to try and find the FSB limit of the board, droped the mutliplier on the cpu from 8 to 6 (the bios says it disables all speedstep features if you set this value), and then set the FSB to 450, as i have read these boards often hit 500+. Saved and exited, board reset once, no screen output, then reseted itself again and had reverted to the previous overclock. So ok, can't do 450 tried 400, same thing happened. After a bit of experimenting discovered that lowering the multiplier in the bios didn't change the actual multiplier, ie 360x7 in the bios still gave 360x8 in cpuz via windows. After discovering that i decided to disable all the speedstep features manually in the bios, found c1e but couldn't find eist, after a bit more digging found a picture of where it is supposed to be in the bios:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/abit-ip35-pro_7.html
^bottom picture, cpu features. Only thing is in my bios the last two options arnt even there!
I have even tried flashing the bios to the latest version from the abit website, the options still do not appear, nothing else in the bios appears to be missing. The only other abnormality i have found with it is the uguru monitoring tool in windows instantly causes windows to say the program ended unexpectedly. I have tried installing the lates version.
Not really sure if these problems warrant trying to return the board, as their may be other problems i have so far overlooked.
Any comments welcome!
