Abit IP35-PRO

[mry716]

Has anyone built a PC based on this board and found BSOD problems stemming from a PCI or PCIe1 WI-FI card or has anyone fitted an ATI X1800XL graphics card and found problems.

 

I am finding a crash results in a degraded HD setup on SATA Raid.

 

I am unable to source help on PC forums - besides I am too much of a novice to understand most of the replies anyway and just wondered if someone here may be able to help.

Thanks

M

[paulos]

 

PIIIIINNNN!!!!!!!??

[Paul223]

No takers on this subject??

[myuserid]

I've built a few with that board, not the best in the world but never had any problems.

Disconnect everything apart from memory, HD, power button. Connect the HD via IDE and miss out the raid and see what happens. Gradually connect one piece of hardware at a time as one could be conflicting with the other.

 

How many Watts is your PSU?

Is it a PCI or AGP graphics card?

[mry716]

Thanks for the replies.

System as it stands is:-

 

M/B Abit IP35-PRO

 

Memory = Corsair DDR2TWINX 2GB PC6400C4DHX

4010215704, 0010215700

 

2 off WD 250GB H/Drives as SATA Mirror RAID ARRAY

 

2 off Optiarc AD7173S x18 SATA

 

M/B and Graphics card OK so installed Windows XP (incl SP2) on to a Mirrored Raid array. All went fine and system seemed ok at that point.

Installed drivers as per CD that came with M/B as except for one they were all latest versions. PC would not boot. Found after a while the Dram Voltage on auto was only 1.8 so uped it to 1.95 and all ok again.

 

Installed Graphics card driver/utility software.

 

Decided to then get onto internet and update windows so installed BitDefender 10.

 

All still 100%

 

Reset memory in BIOS manually to 44412 and 2.1v

 

Installed Abit PCIE-1 WI-FI card and stared to install drivers and PC crashed and one HD was degraded so PCtook about 1 hour to rewrite drive.

Tried again drivers installed so tried to setup and log on to internet BSOD and HD degraded again. Let PC restart and HD rewrite then changed card to PCI Netgear card.Installed drivers and all still OK.

 

Updated Windows and Raid drivers. and tried Orthos for about 1 hour - all OK

Checked SuperPi and all looked good as speed was still twice that of old PC with more to come.

 

Decided to check some of the VIVO functions of graphics card with utility and another BSOD when I tried to scan for TV progs.

 

Let HD rewrite

 

I do not have another PC to test the card but have checked Direct X and changed Memory for identical pair and all seems fine.

 

I do have another more basic Graphics Card and will be trying that next.

 

What foxes me is the BSOD causing RAID to degrade one drive.

 

On restart this was the error report PC wanted to send to M/soft

 

 

Error Signature

BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 9BBFBDDB BCP3 : 99633298

BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

 

Error Report

C:\DOCUME~1\Wendy\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1753.dir00\Mini 111307-02.dmp

C:\DOCUME~1\Wendy\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1753.dir00\sysd ata.xml

 

 

 

THANKS for your interest - it is much appreciated.

M

[myuserid]

So what are the problems you have now, did you managed to fix the raid issue?

[mry716]

How many Watts is your PSU? Is it a PCI or AGP graphics card?

 

For some reason when I posted above I missed PSU and Graphics Card details.

 

I am using a Corsair HX620 watt

and the Graphics Card is an ATI X1800XL All-in-Wonder card PCIE16

 

 

The above is the stage that I am at. The PC seems to work fine on the Internet - my wife has used it for about 20 hours all told downloading School type work and it has performed without a glitch.

 

 

So what are the problems you have now, did you managed to fix the raid issue?

 

No, it is not fixed as I have not bothered to try the TV or Radio aspect of the card software again but did try to add a VHS recorder as an input and all was OK until I started recording and the same thing occurred. Raid array was compromised on restart after BSOD.

 

The problems with Raid is not something i have ever come across before so am at a total loss as to where or why. Could it be a M/b problem - hardware or simply a driver problem? If the later it was the same with the driver on the m/b utility disc and with the downloaded Intel update.

 

Before I strip and rebuild I would like to try all eventualities and gain as many comments as possible re the Raid problem. Abit have no idea as they haven't had similar reports.

 

 

I shall try a different Graphics card and add a TV PCI card or USB input for VIVO and see if the problem still occurs and if so must assume it to be m/b based. Do you concur?

[myuserid]

I take it you are using the built in raid on the motherboard and not a separate raid card?

Another suggestion, back-up all data, format both hd's (scan the disk for errors as well) using maxtor powermax or something similar, re-install windows, update windows, download all the latest drivers (raid etc) and go from there.

[mry716]

Update.

 

I changed the Graphics card and only installed the necessary drivers. I uninstalled the Netgear Wi-Fi card and installed the Abit card that I believe caused the first crash. All ok.

In fact nothing seemed to be a problem. 1 hour of Orthos was fine.

 

So I was going to reinstall the ATI card when I had an email from ATI Support re drivers.

 

It seems as if I was extremely unlucky. My disc that came with the card must be faulty and the latest Catalyst Centre (Oct 31st 2007) I downloaded from ATI site was incompatible to the UK TV media centre driver anyway (only just realised that). New driver now posted on site so I reinstalled everything from scratch and.........

 

Card now works fine on TV - I cannot get it to crash PC.

Next job to test all aspects of TVIO which is why I bought this card.

 

Thanks again for your help and support it has been much appreciated.

 

By the way you said

I've built a few with that board, not the best in the world but never had any problems.

I bought the board on the basis of the glowing reviews from all sources - why do you feel it is not as good as others and can you suggest a better alternative because as soon as this setup is finished I need to replace the one I am using at the moment for this post as it is now rather slow in comparison to the latest offerings.

 

 

Thanks again and Good shooting!

[myuserid]

I prefer the Gigabyte and MSI motherboards, they often have more features and are more reliable.

[Hardy]

Glad you're all sorted. I'm a huge fan of Abit boards - had loads with no problems at all - I used to do a lot of overclocking & they own for that so I'm probably just biased I've never got on with ATI graphics cards though - They seem to bash out new cards too quickly before any form of testing has been done on the drivers.

[mry716]

Funnily enough it was because I am presently using Gigabyte GA-8AENXP-D and MSI 875Neo and KT3 all of which were troublesome (and still can be) with TVIO which I use a lot for my wifes work that I chose ABIT. The reviews seemed to offer stability esp in graphics area.

 

I also would not normally choose ATI but this particular graphics card seemed to do all I wanted of it and the few UK reviews I read were particularly encouraging.

C'est la Vie.

[myuserid]

Funnily enough it was because I am presently using Gigabyte GA-8AENXP-D and MSI 875Neo and KT3 all of which were troublesome (and still can be) with TVIO which I use a lot for my wifes work that I chose ABIT. The reviews seemed to offer stability esp in graphics area.

 

I suppose it depends what you are familiar with, and what you are going to use the M/B's for.

 

Some of the XFX cards are quite good quality, I would recommend one of those if you decide to upgrade.