fatal1ty fp-in9 sli

[BUFF]

that's odd because there is at least 1 guy on OcUK running an FP-IN9 with an E6400 ...

[Nickg]

erm i run an E6400 ... (and am on OCUK)

okay so it doesnt boot 1st time @ 3Ghz, but hey, who's counting.

[gilgamesh]

that's odd because there is at least 1 guy on OcUK running an FP-IN9 with an E6400 ...

erm Im running it on one of my cpu's which is a 6400 and although there is some problems with this board that needs adressing due to the BIOS I have also tried the same thing on my 6600 and the same issues occur.

So obviously someone is telling you porkies mate!

gilgamesh

[danroyle]

that's odd because there is at least 1 guy on OcUK running an FP-IN9 with an E6400 ...

i also am running it with an e6400 and my my problems are no worse than anyone elses if anything i have been lucky only 5 failed bott ups in about 3 weeks

[jimborae]

Yep I'm running a 6400 in it right now. I have got a new issue in that it suddenly doesn't like my Team Xtreme 5300 D9 ram. It was fine but now it won't detect it. The ram is good as I've tested it in my P5W-DH.

Yet another problem with this bloody board.....

[Nickg]

erm Im running it on one of my cpu's which is a 6400 and although there is some problems with this board that needs adressing due to the BIOS I have also tried the same thing on my 6600 and the same issues occur.

So obviously someone is telling you porkies mate!

gilgamesh

Gilgamesh how likely do you think it is that these bootup/coldstart issues and POST crashing and stuff will be fixed via BIOS update? im starting to get a little concerned with this product!

[gilgamesh]

Gilgamesh how likely do you think it is that these bootup/coldstart issues and POST crashing and stuff will be fixed via BIOS update? im starting to get a little concerned with this product!

I beleive so, the chipset ittself is not the problem the chipset is very stable and runs cool, it is the BIOS itsself and indeed the issues involved tpyically are the result of a immature BIOS.

There are some things about this board that was I going to put in the review of this board still even ifthese problems are fixed, however I believe the board is still a viable product, but abit just need to getthe BIOS right, this time.
GILGAMESH

[MarcusDelirious]

Has anyone here had success installing raid with the provided drivers doing a clean install?

[BUFF]

apparently the MSI 650i has a similar problem with RAID.

[danroyle]

Has anyone here had success installing raid with the provided drivers doing a clean install?

yeah i did raid on win xp pro but i didnt need to install raid drivers for some reason but it works fine

[danroyle]

I beleive so, the chipset ittself is not the problem the chipset is very stable and runs cool, it is the BIOS itsself and indeed the issues involved tpyically are the result of a immature BIOS.

There are some things about this board that was I going to put in the review of this board still even ifthese problems are fixed, however I believe the board is still a viable product, but abit just need to getthe BIOS right, this time.
GILGAMESH

GILGAMESH

would i be right in saying that the bios for this is the same as the one for the early 680 boards and thats why we are having so many problems the bios date is novemeber time and that would put its creation in around the time of the 680 boards and there problems

[MarcusDelirious]

yeah i did raid on win xp pro but i didnt need to install raid drivers for some reason but it works fine

Well that's a weird one...you just popped in the WinXP CD and no "F6" during initial screen? And it recognized the array? I tried several times and every time it would fail during the file copy process. Even tried my IN9 MAX drivers which got me all the way through to the desktop but failed on the first reboot...

[Nickg]

also - Gilgamesh -

will we be effected by the Rev 1/Rev 2 issue with the 680i and Quad Core ocing?

i think EVGA or ECS are infact recalling all rev1 boards to replace by rev 2 boards as it requires a solder mod to make work.

can you ask Abit what the situation is with the 650i whether this is going to be an issue (quad core ocing), if so will they plan on a recall of early boards or will they junk us for being early adopters?

[BUFF]

would i be right in saying that the bios for this is the same as the one for the early 680 boards

no 650i & 680i BIOS are different.

[danroyle]

Well that's a weird one...you just popped in the WinXP CD and no "F6" during initial screen? And it recognized the array? I tried several times and every time it would fail during the file copy process. Even tried my IN9 MAX drivers which got me all the way through to the desktop but failed on the first reboot...

i was as surprised as you ARE it also did the same on vista install as well

normally i make the raid configuration by f10 or whatever then killdisk the drives then install windows and f6 but i didnt need to this is the first time ever its happened although i did install over the windows vista installation to put win xp on

[danielstucke]

well it must just be some processors then cos they had 2 boards that would not post with a 6400 installed, and all my components run and oc well on another board.