F-i90HD Many problems

[j1979]

Why are so many F-i90hd boards failing?

What is the fault that the returned boards have?

[gilgamesh]

Why are so many F-i90hd boards failing?

What is the fault that the returned boards have?

Very strange on this one the F90HDis a nice board imreviewing one now. It has a couple of problems, but that is due to the baord being shipped out with a BETA bios.

THere is a new BIOS now, but their remians one issue to be addressed and that is the problem with Windows vista and the graphics apature being set to 512mb (caused vista to crash) abit are aware of this issue and the problem will be solved forthwith.

Here are the known problems with this board.

Board being shipped with a BETA bios
cannot install vista with this bios (please install latest bios update)
512mb issue in vista (gpu apature, al ready been solved now i believe)
Ppowering back on by the psu switch without shorting the power on connectors.
You sure your not confused with the FP-IN9? as there are a great many problems with that board, however for its price point the IN90HD is a nice board.

Review out soon
gilgamesh

[j1979]

no i definitely mean the F-i90hd.

ive had 2 die on me, going from working fine to dead with no pysical contact, im not the only one with 2 dead in a row and others report have three in a row that die. These are not DOA boards but they work fine then die.

here is the poll on H forum
it is only a small set of voters so far (22 upto now) but the ratio of live to dead boards is about 60% alive and 40% dead. And also bear in mind that people with more than one dead board can only vote once, that makes a very high percentage of dead F-i90HD's over 50% (in the poll). also some of the live boards will also fail soon in my opinion.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1176367

[ABIT Sean]

Who is juding these boards as dead? abit has had a very small number of F-I90HD return so far. I see lots of boards return to abit as "dead" but only a small percentage are in fact dead.

[j1979]

Abit have judged them as dead on my part. i cant speak for others boards

[ABIT Sean]

I know your case is different and that abit has confirmed the boards to be faulty. I would be interested to know what other components you are using, there maybe a reason why 2 of your motherboards have died.

[gilgamesh]

I know your case is different and that abit has confirmed the boards to be faulty. I would be interested to know what other components you are using, there maybe a reason why 2 of your motherboards have died.

Have to agree with Sean on this mate, I have upped my board (dimm voltage) so as much as 2.4 and I had no blow-out. As Sean has stipulated please list all your components so Sean and I can investigate the matter.

gilgamesh

[j1979]

the first board:

CPU pentium D 805
Memory OCZ OCZ2P8002GK 2x1gb (1.8v for two days until problems started)
GFX: on - board
Bios Evaluation Rom
PSU: ezcool 550w
OS: XP64

After 3/4 days of trouble free running it crashed while playing GTA san andreas, i then rebooted and it crashed again soon after windows loaded, i did this several times until it would not boot, i reset cmos and took out battery, it rebooted but would crash quite often, i contacted abit and was told to up the voltage to 2.1v
the board then died.

Second Board :


CPU pentium D 805
Memory Geil GX22GB6400DC (1.85v for two days until problems started)
GFX: ati x850xt
Bios second bios dated 22/2/07
PSU: ezcool 550w (voltages seemed stable) within 3% according to abitEQ
OS XP64 would not work from the start so i installed XP32 SP1

Board again ran fine for 2/3 days i the ran prime95 and it failed after 7/8 hours, it would then crash time after time very soon after loading windows, i called abit ad was told to boot at DDR2 2.1v again, the first time it booted, the second time it was dead.

on both boards the voltages seemed stable, within 3% under load according to abitEQ

i really want this board to work for me as it really is exactly what im looking for but they seem to die on me.

[Agent]

ezcool 550w

Dont use a rubbish PSU with systems like that. I wouldnt let an "ezcool" power a pentium 2.
Froogle is showing thse "550w" PSU's coming in at about £18. Chuck it in the bin and buy a proper one

[j1979]

ezcool 550w

Dont use a rubbish PSU with systems like that. I wouldnt let an "ezcool" power a pentium 2.
Froogle is showing thse "550w" PSU's coming in at about £18. Chuck it in the bin and buy a proper one

find that im always repeating myself to you:

voltages within 3% under load.

please dont add comments on a whim

[Agent]

find that im always repeating myself to you:

voltages within 3% under load.

please dont add comments on a whim

Voltages on their own mean utterly nothing. Especially when it’s coming from a software reading.

There is *far* more to a PSU than offering a “stable” voltage.

It wasnt a "commont on a whim" - so being so blinking stuck up. You clearly dont understand PSU's if you think that its the only factor thats important.

Perhaps if you listened to the advice of others that do know what they are talking about, your problem might get solved a lot quicker

Heck, it might not be the PSU, but "ezcool" are known to be a poor brand. With this in mind, wouldnt it make sence to start trouble shooting there?

[j1979]

but the fact remains that the PSU passes the european standards and has 34a @ 3.3v / 38a @ 5v / 36a at 12v

and it is extreamly doubtful that this is the cause as with the first board there was not even a gfx card.

plus many people are reporting dead boards as much as 50% from the first batch.

if you were trying to help thanks put the PSU was the first thing i tested and has never give any problems with my old motherboard.

[Agent]

"European standards" are fairly limited in what they specify in regarding electronic ripples, length of fluxuations, and PFC efficiency, so in all honesty, they mean very very little.

If it was a simple fact of it being certified to European standards, we wouldn’t have so many different brands competing.

But anyway, if you’re happy it’s not your PSU, we’ll leave that one there.

Good luck sorting it

[j1979]

im quite sure its not the PSU but if it turns out you were right, ill send you some free software in the post, it will only cost the resources of one blank CD and a stamp.

[BUFF]

plus many people are reporting dead boards as much as 50% from the first batch.

I'll bet you that it's nothing like that.
50% of those posting, perhaps, but it's well known that people are far more willing to post when things aren't working than when they work as advertised ...

[j1979]

I'll bet you that it's nothing like that.
50% of those posting, perhaps, but it's well known that people are far more willing to post when things aren't working than when they work as advertised ...

true......i dont doubt that for a second, but for me and many others the faults that have been reported are unlike anything ive seen before. ive built a few systems before this one dating back to 94, but in my opinion this board is just plain strange.