One odd thing about our board is that it had a delay from the time you engaged the power button to the moment the system actually powered up. Sometimes this delay would be up to 5 seconds. Going back and talking directly to Intel about this, they mentioned that at one point in time that it was in fact part of the Canterwood chipset spec, but was not any longer. We advised ABIT of this and odds are you will be seeing this delay disappear in future revisions of the BIOS.
Dont know yet. I'll have all of this stuff next week sometime.3) The zalmans... Do you think the video card cooler will fit with the northbridge being that close to the AGP slot? I am going to replace the fan with the zalman northbridge heatsink, if that matters. I have a big 120mm fan and bezel blowing from over the CPU and northbridge (and partly the AGP slot) out the back of the case, and I think that should keep everything pretty cool. I do not plan on overclocking anything except the CPU as indicated above. Just hope everything will fit...
Originally posted by: oldfart
I'll have this board next week. That NB fan will be an issue that I'll have to fix. I have a Zalman ZM80A-HP on the way to replace the noisy arse fan on my 9700 Pro. My system is very quiet and I wont let that stupid NB HS ruin it. I also have a Zalman NB HS on the way. It looks similar in size to the Passive HS Intel uses I dont know if this will fit or work yet, but I'll give it a shot.
Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
oldfart: You wouldn't happen to be using a Zalman CNPS 7000 would you? I am just wondering if a Zalman NB HS will fit with one...
Originally posted by: oldfart
I'll have this board next week. That NB fan will be an issue that I'll have to fix. I have a Zalman ZM80A-HP on the way to replace the noisy arse fan on my 9700 Pro. My system is very quiet and I wont let that stupid NB HS ruin it. I also have a Zalman NB HS on the way. It looks similar in size to the Passive HS Intel uses I dont know if this will fit or work yet, but I'll give it a shot.
Not what I wanted to hear. I'm sure I wont like the noise of the NB fan. I'll figure something out. Epoxy is not what I wanted to do.Originally posted by: maxSe
Originally posted by: oldfart
I'll have this board next week. That NB fan will be an issue that I'll have to fix. I have a Zalman ZM80A-HP on the way to replace the noisy arse fan on my 9700 Pro. My system is very quiet and I wont let that stupid NB HS ruin it. I also have a Zalman NB HS on the way. It looks similar in size to the Passive HS Intel uses I dont know if this will fit or work yet, but I'll give it a shot.
I have the Zalman NB HS. I can tell you right now that you won't be able to use it unless you epoxy it... The clip design with BH-7 was a bit more accomodating to use this NB HS, but I think I told you about this big fiasco I had, which ended up me putting the Zalman on BH-7 via AS epoxy...
Originally posted by: lupohki
I went to update my bios today and my floppy wouldn't work. Is anyone else's floppy drive not working?
Originally posted by: Kovie
For those of you concerned about the NB fan you might want to try a fan resistor or controller. It would be a bit easier to use than having to change out the entire northbridge and void your warranty with epoxy. The NB connects to a standard fan header so this shouldnt be any kind of problem, albeit the cooling performance of the Zalmans would be superior.