Best DDR2 P35 Board??

[menthel]

My abit IP-35 has been great so far!

[Fraz]

IP35 Pro get my vote. Awesome board.

[shaithis]

what kind of bugs?

When powering down from within windows:

Press "power switch" - Windows hard locks

Use "Start > Shutdown" - Computer shuts down, then starts up again


Occasionally it also decides to power off completely for no discernible reason.

Have found a number of other ppl with the same issues as well, no solutions yet and as usual, Asus do not want to acknowledge the issues.

[derchris]

When powering down from within windows:

Press "power switch" - Windows hard locks

Use "Start > Shutdown" - Computer shuts down, then starts up again


Occasionally it also decides to power off completely for no discernible reason.

Have found a number of other ppl with the same issues as well, no solutions yet and as usual, Asus do not want to acknowledge the issues.

Sounds like some APM/ACPI Settings in the BIOS are not correct.
I wouldn't think that the board is causing this, sounds more like Windows itself.

[aidanjt]

Sounds like some APM/ACPI Settings in the BIOS are not correct.
I wouldn't think that the board is causing this, sounds more like Windows itself.

Could be a bug in the DSDT as well, you wouldn't know unless you decompile it and use an ACPI debugger. It's not exactly uncommon for motherboard vendors to slap together a non-compliant DSDT, even laptop vendors are very guilty of this, which is supprising given that they need their ACPI impilmenation to work correctly moreso than PC and workstations.

[Clunk]

I ordered one aswell, together with a Q6600. But not from scan.
Mine will be shipped from Germany

In stock and being picked - hopefully it will arrive tomorrow.

[Clunk]

When powering down from within windows:

Press "power switch" - Windows hard locks

Use "Start > Shutdown" - Computer shuts down, then starts up again


Occasionally it also decides to power off completely for no discernible reason.

Have found a number of other ppl with the same issues as well, no solutions yet and as usual, Asus do not want to acknowledge the issues.

Not sure about the first two, is it Vista? does it do it in XP?

The last one is what my G0 does when there isnt quite enough voltage, as in, there isnt enough for the given overclock - this can be as little as 0.025v that can cause it.

[shaithis]

It is Vista, haven't got XP installed any more to test. Fiddling with BIOS options has no effect either ACPI 2.0 toggled, S3 power toggled etc....No difference.

As for the voltage, I am actually 2 notches above the vcore I managed to run orthos for 24 hours at......very confusing, although hearing that another G0 user has the same issue on another board means I will probably let Asus off of the last point

[Clunk]

I would definitely say that the last point is a G0+Asus quirk as my B3 didnt do it at all. I can be priming and it just shuts down and restarts without warning...from testing this week, it is almost certainly to do with the voltage (or lack of).

It would be handy if you could try it out on an xp install though, that would rule out the board being faulty if it doesnt do it I reckon.

I'm also wondering about the RAID setup, vista was a bit of a pig with my original RAID drivers - does it do it with a single SATA drive?

Have you got a SATA optical drive? Unplug it and see if it still does it.

Disable legacy USB.

The last 2 are just stabs in the dark, and have been known to fix a shedload of things, so worth a try.