ABIT IP35-E $60 AMIR ($96.60 Shipped)

[MustangSVT]

finally the price went down.

ordered it

now e2180 from tiger

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: LordGestle

Originally posted by: Engineer
Abit still has no information on my rebate from this deal and told me to wait just a little longer to see if it shows up. Damn abit rebates! :|

:thumbsdown:

Same here from the deal in late november. I called them as I got no response to emails, and they indicated they are back logged on the rebates due to the holiday season. Think they indicated something like 13K they had backlogged (recalled it was a huge number) Either case I asked to see if I should re-submit or call back. The person on the phone indicated they will get to it eventually as they seperated stacks for each rep so some are processed sooner and others later just due to the distributed stacks (which I can confirm as I had another abit rebate that was sent at the exact time that was processed 2 weeks ago). I asked again "should I call back in 2-3 weeks?" They sound hesitent and mentioned even if they processed 100 a day they were unsure if they would get to it in that time frame. I left it at I was going to call back in the end of March (once again purchased in november and sent in the first week in december).
So essentially I'm already past the 12 weeks and looking at another 4 weeks before they "might" process it.
In short anyone expecting a quick turn around on this rebate may reconsider.

Almost word for word the same response that I received from calling them. I'll give them two more weeks. They should hire more people if they are going to be that late on rebates. I guarantee that I'll get my rebate from them one way or another even if that means going through corporate managers to get it (just ask ATI and Office Depot how far I'll go to get MY money :Q ).

 

[tomt4535]

Originally posted by: Doomguy
Great board, except for the fact that P35 boards DO NOT work with many Western Digital Raptors! I wish I knew this before I ordered this board. Otherwise, I would have ordered a board with a Jmicron/Marvel Sata controller.

Can anyone elaborate on this? I have never seen or heard anything about this issue before

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: tomt4535

Originally posted by: Doomguy
Great board, except for the fact that P35 boards DO NOT work with many Western Digital Raptors! I wish I knew this before I ordered this board. Otherwise, I would have ordered a board with a Jmicron/Marvel Sata controller.

Can anyone elaborate on this? I have never seen or heard anything about this issue before

Yea.. it sounds pretty ridiculous that the Raptor won't work with P35 boards.

 

[Doomguy]

Originally posted by: tomt4535

Originally posted by: Doomguy
Great board, except for the fact that P35 boards DO NOT work with many Western Digital Raptors! I wish I knew this before I ordered this board. Otherwise, I would have ordered a board with a Jmicron/Marvel Sata controller.

Can anyone elaborate on this? I have never seen or heard anything about this issue before

Check out threads on many different forums. It appears to be a problem with the ICH9/9R southbridge and the Raptor's firmware. I first noticed the problem when my P965 installation wouldn't boot on my P35, even though both were in IDE mode.

The problem was finally recognzed after hours of reboots, seeing that the drive would lock the BIOS at times, and Windows XP setup said the hard disk was "damaged", when it clearly was not and passed all diagnostic tests.

I'm selling the drive and replacing it with a 6400AAKS, in which I'll short-stroke the the OS partition.

 

[lilsprout82]

Originally posted by: Doomguy
Check out threads on many different forums. It appears to be a problem with the ICH9/9R southbridge and the Raptor's firmware. I first noticed the problem when my P965 installation wouldn't boot on my P35, even though both were in IDE mode.

I am intrigued by this as I have a Raptor and am anxiously awaiting my board. There's some great information in the A-Bit forums about this. Here were my findings:
This thread suggests the problem is related to Vista & chipset drivers
The last post is particularly interesting - switching SATA ports helped the OP out.

This is the best thread I've seen yet; suggesting the ICH voltage is the problem and it can be solved by increasing it slightly.

Another interesting thread

Nonetheless, I'm going to try out my Raptor on this board when it arrives and will confirm my results soon.