*** Official ABIT IS7/G/E (865PE) Thread ***

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: Nyquest007
Do you actually have to have TwinX mem or dual channel mem? Or will two identical sticks work? I got two 512 sticks of kingston value ram 2700 that will oc to atleast 3200 speads, but will they work if I upgrade?

They will probably work but you may not get them to OC the same

 

[kumarakn]

Hi All:

I have a ABIT IS7 motherboard (which we bought 4 months ago) and while using WinBond Hardware Doctor (the diagnostic tool that came with the motherboard), I discovered that the NB Fan is not working. I opened the case and found it to be true. It has stopped working. I tried to nudge it and it started going very slowly and then it stopped.

Should I replace the fan? If so, how do I contact ABIT and get a new fan under the current warranty I have.?

All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks
Karthik.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: kumarakn
Hi All:

I have a ABIT IS7 motherboard (which we bought 4 months ago) and while using WinBond Hardware Doctor (the diagnostic tool that came with the motherboard), I discovered that the NB Fan is not working. I opened the case and found it to be true. It has stopped working. I tried to nudge it and it started going very slowly and then it stopped.

Should I replace the fan? If so, how do I contact ABIT and get a new fan under the current warranty I have.?

All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks
Karthik.

Go here and buy this one. Don't wast your time with Abit's RMA. They will want you to send in your board.

 

[lkaufma1]

OK I have a question. I'm setting one up for a friend. IS7, SATA drive and 2 IDE drives. SATA is the boot drive with XP SP1. Works great when connected alone. But when I connect the two other older HDDs to IDE 1 (Master and slave) Windows XP won't load. Now one of the other two older drives does have Windows 98 SE on it. Would that make a difference?


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[RaymondY]

A warning to IS7 owners: I recently went to upgrade my main rig and when I pulled the side panel off my case and what did I find?? My northbridge HSF hanging by one mounting hook. Upon a more detailed inspection, I found that one of the motherboard mounting loops for the new northbridge HSF had failed completely and now my northbridge HSF was hanging from one hook and sitting on my GF4 Ti4600. I reattached the HSF with two other hooks but I will be checking it every so other. This system is not a LAN party system. It is all housed in a Chenbro Genie case that hasn't been moved since I installed the IS7. The new northbridge HSF was factory installed because I got it back when I RMA my original IS7.

Everyone should check their northbridge HSF every so often to verify that it is attached/mounted.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: RaymondY
A warning to IS7 owners: I recently went to upgrade my main rig and when I pulled the side panel off my case and what did I find?? My northbridge HSF hanging by one mounting hook. Upon a more detailed inspection, I found that one of the motherboard mounting loops for the new northbridge HSF had failed completely and now my northbridge HSF was hanging from one hook and sitting on my GF4 Ti4600. I reattached the HSF with two other hooks but I will be checking it every so other. This system is not a LAN party system. It is all housed in a Chenbro Genie case that hasn't been moved since I installed the IS7. The new northbridge HSF was factory installed because I got it back when I RMA my original IS7.

Everyone should check their northbridge HSF every so often to verify that it is attached/mounted.

Unfortunatly this has been brought up before and not just on the IS7 but the IC7 as well. The only option is to send it back to Abit for an RMA or do the mod mentioned in the Abit forums on their site.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: RaymondY
A warning to IS7 owners: I recently went to upgrade my main rig and when I pulled the side panel off my case and what did I find?? My northbridge HSF hanging by one mounting hook. Upon a more detailed inspection, I found that one of the motherboard mounting loops for the new northbridge HSF had failed completely and now my northbridge HSF was hanging from one hook and sitting on my GF4 Ti4600. I reattached the HSF with two other hooks but I will be checking it every so other. This system is not a LAN party system. It is all housed in a Chenbro Genie case that hasn't been moved since I installed the IS7. The new northbridge HSF was factory installed because I got it back when I RMA my original IS7.

Everyone should check their northbridge HSF every so often to verify that it is attached/mounted.

Unfortunatly this has been brought up before and not just on the IS7 but the IC7 as well. The only option is to send it back to Abit for an RMA or do the mod mentioned in the Abit forums on their site.

 

[RaymondY]

Was thinking about upgrading my video card on my IS7 system. Is there any compatibility issues with using ATI Radeon 9800 with the Abit IS7?

 

[Dunadan]

Just installed my IS7 and I am running a 9800 Pro . No problems so far, but it's only been a day .

 

[RaymondY]

Thanks for the heads up orion7144 on the fix for the NB HSF mount. I think I will just leave the NB HSF mounted using the other diagonal mounting loops and hope they don't pull out too. If they do I guess I will be RMA the IS7 back to Abit and probably purchase a new IC7-G or IC7-Max3 and then sell the IS7 on the forums.

 

[RaymondY]

Thanks for the heads up orion7144 on the fix for the NB HSF mount. I think I will just leave the NB HSF mounted using the other diagonal mounting loops and hope they don't pull out too. If they do I guess I will be RMA the IS7 back to Abit and probably purchase a new IC7-G or IC7-Max3 and then sell the IS7 on the forums.

 

[HardWired]

Man I miss my Asus P4PE already.

The overclocking on it is/was so simple. You set the FSB mhz. that you want and you choose out of 3 settings the mem MHz. that you want. Too easy.

I just installed my IS7 last night and quite frankly I don't know where to begin when overclocking it. I don't understand what the game modes are about, nor the references to dividers.

Can someone give me quick starters guide on how to sucessfully o'c a 2.6c? Assuming the CPU will cooperate

Which do I start moving in which direction?

The rundown on my system is a IS7, a 2.6c, two 256MB sticks of OCZ PC4000 EL Gold, and a 9700 Pro modded with all four hard mods. This is all being powered by a new Antec TrueControl 550W, which I must say is the sweetest PS an overclocker could ask for

I can get some hints from browsing through the 16 pages here, but nothing real concrete that will sharpen the learning curve in a short amount of time.

THX!!

Edit: P.S. What's a good setting for the CPU THRM Throttling? I've never seen that reference in a BIOS before...

 

[kumarakn]

Help!

I have a IS7 MB running P3 3.06 533 FSB. The last few days it seems as if my fans are making too much sound than ever before. May be they did for ever, but I am noticing it only now. The sound is like my wife is running the vaccum in another room.

I pulled up the winbond utility and saw the speeds of my fans. My cPU fan is running at 4444 rpm and that is the fastest fan. The other fan is running at about 2900 rpm. Are these normal speeds? Particularly the CPU, is it normal (acceptable) for it to run at such speeds? Or is something wrong?

My CPU temp is static at 47 degrees Centigrade and the system is at 38 degrees.

Kindly share your expertise!

Thanks,

kumarakn

 

[HardWired]

That's strange kumarakn...

I'm just getting to learn and understand this board (installed it Thursday night) but for me, the fastest fan in the system in the stock Abit fan which comes mounted on the NorthBridge chip. It jumps around anywhere between 5800 RPM and over 6000 RPM.

You don't mention what fan you're using on the CPU. Is it the stock Intel heatsink fan? If so, and if I'm not mistaken, that is a variable speed fan that can run as low as the high 2000's something RPM and as high as over 4000 RPM depending on the heat of the CPU.

I use a SLK-900 HS solution with a low RPM Panaflo 92 mm fan, so I can't tell you for sure since we're not running the same cooling solutions on our CPU's. Hopefully someone running a stock Intel HSF with that board will see this and chime in.

 

[Nucleas]

hi, long time never drop to this room, very busy lately.

Orion, I just found out there is new bios ver is7g16. Is it stable? anything to benefit much from it? currently using ver is7g14. I'm using IS7-E mobo. 2.4Gig (B) OC to 2.7Gig. I could OC to max 2.9Gig. I stay lower coz need stability...doing video...

 

[jusval]

Let me start by saying I am obviously new to this forum. Thanks in advance for reading my post and for any help you may be able to offer...

My System:
600W PS
Abit IS7-E
P4 2.6C - Stock P4 cooler+Speeze fan on top of stock fan.
Generic (Mwave) DDR400 mem/ 2- 512mb sticks (Dual DDR)
FX5900 128meg.

Bios Settings:
Chip manually set = 230x13
Strap = 800
DDR = 5:4
AGP/PCI = locked 66/33
Mem timings set by SPD - 2.5/8/3/3
GAT = Auto
Newest bois vers-16
SATA disabled
Lan disabled
Voltages - CPU 1.625 / mem=2.65 / AGP 1.6

Problem is that my machine will run fine and then just shut down and reboot. I can hear a click inside the case and down it goes. No bells and whistles, no temp warnings. (CPU temp shows to be 48*C average, 56*C high). This may happen 1 minute after I boot it up, or 1 hour after I boot it up, no real cause that I can see. It can be in a game, sitting idle, browsing a web page, etc? Does not seem to matter if anything is under a load or just at idle? Upon reboot, XP gives me the old ?send error report? screen. Sometimes it shows a ?driver error?, but can?t tell me which one, sometimes it shows ?unknown cause?, but it?s not the same each time? (This will happen even at ?stock settings? in Bios)?.
I haven?t seen a lot written on this problem, here.

I?ve run Passmark?s Benchmark software ?BurnInTest Pro ? and it has never failed during testing, never an error. I always liked that program, due to the fact it will test every component at the same time. Processor, mem, video, audio, drives, cd/dvd, etc? All are stressed at the same time. It always passes this testing, whether it runs 15 min, or 15 hour, but the darn thing will just crap out any other time. I do not see any signs of overheat and I would think a ?driver? would be tested out during a benchmark, if it?s a driver issue?
Anyone got any ideas? I would appreciate it?

 

[HardWired]

Hi Jusval...

I noticed you haven't received a response yet. I'm sure it's been read by a few people, it's just that yours is a good question and there may not be a good reply to lend you any help w/ your problem. I just installed this board last week so I haven't had enough time w/ it to give you any help.

Good luck though...

 

[jusval]

Well it's got me stumped so far... I have been communicating with a tech and tonight I am going to try one stick of memory at a time, to see if one of them is bad... It does not really act like memory to me, but it's possible.
I have tried manually setting memory timings and at (3,5,4,4) it did ok untill I opened IE. Then it rebooted after about 3 minutes. I have everything set "stock" for a 2.6C right now. Most times the first boot will get into windows and then it "beeps" and reboots just as everything finishes loading. I had even suspected the Nvidia driver, due to the fact that I let XP update that driver, form the MS website, but the version is 45.23, which is what I had found to work the best...

Boosting the voltages does not seem to have any effect either.... In testing settings, I had it set at 220x13 and let the memory run 1:1 (220/220) it didn't seem any worse, so I don't necessarily believe it's the memory... I'm going to try to find the Bois original 1.3 and see what it does. I "updated" that Bios right away, so I never really tried the 1.3 version... Maybe it would work better... I'm afraid I just don't know enough to accurately troubleshoot this one...



Bios Settings: (right now)
Chip Default = 200x13
Strap = Default - 800?
DDR = Default - 200 (dual DDR)
AGP/PCI = Default 66/33
Mem timings set by SPD - 2.5/8/3/3
GAT = Auto
Newest bois vers-1.6
SATA disabled
Lan disabled
Voltages - CPU 1.575 / mem=2.6 / AGP 1.6

 

[Garster]

If i had to guess i would say it's a memory problem, did you try running 1 module only. Also moving them from the #1 and #3 slots to the #2 and #4 slots. i have 2 IS7 boards and neither one will run my Crucial modules in dual channel mode, but they work fine by themselves. Trying to run them together i get reboots with the clicking like you. But using Corsair modules, both boards run with no problems in dual channel mode.

 

[jusval]

Originally posted by: Garster
If i had to guess i would say it's a memory problem, did you try running 1 module only. Also moving them from the #1 and #3 slots to the #2 and #4 slots. i have 2 IS7 boards and neither one will run my Crucial modules in dual channel mode, but they work fine by themselves. Trying to run them together i get reboots with the clicking like you. But using Corsair modules, both boards run with no problems in dual channel mode.

I will be trying that this week end. I hate to think of putting out the bucks for Corsair... but It may have to be that way. I started out with an Nforce/AMD set-up, but I wanted to try the P4. I think P4 is a better performer than AMD, but I don't want to spend a lot more money on different memory. The mem sticks I have, worked well with the Dual DDR Nforce, but it may very well be "less picky", than this chipset is...
Anyway. I will try all of that and I will post results. Worse comes to worse, I'll sell the Abit/P4 combo and go back to the AMD, but I do like the stronger performance I've seen so far... Thanks for the suggestions...

 

[HardWired]

Depending on price, you might check out OCZ memory too. It's highly rated stuff and my new IS7 seems to like it (dual mode, 2 x 256MB) just fine. I'm running some PC4000 EL Gold (DDR500) at 3GHz (1:1 ratio so far) without a single hiccup. I'll be moving up slowly but surely...trying for 3.5GHz. stable.

 

[Nucleas]

 

[Nucleas]

Paging Orion...

I got a big problem here!

Last nite I installed "Flashmenu 130" to update BIOS "is7g16" but failed. I'm using IS7-E. The BIOS I downloaded from ABIT site.

From the Flashmenu software, I update the ".BIN" file. After finished, I was asked to reboot, then I hit "yes".

Then I can't get into my BIOS setup after reboot, screen show nothing.

I clear the CMOS then reboot again, I got a loooooooooooong "beep". I can't do anything now.

Pls help me, I'm in the middle of a project....

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: Nucleas
Paging Orion...

I got a big problem here!

Last nite I installed "Flashmenu 130" to update BIOS "is7g16" but failed. I'm using IS7-E. The BIOS I downloaded from ABIT site.

From the Flashmenu software, I update the ".BIN" file. After finished, I was asked to reboot, then I hit "yes".

Then I can't get into my BIOS setup after reboot, screen show nothing.

I clear the CMOS then reboot again, I got a loooooooooooong "beep". I can't do anything now.

Pls help me, I'm in the middle of a project....

How did you clear the CMOS? With the Jumper IO suppose.... Did you remove the pwr cord too? When you did the flash it said completed correct? The Loooong beep is usually memory related (especially if it is loud as well). I would try and remove one stick first. There is a thread over at Abit forums that may be able to help you better. Just search for BIOS.

 

[DGath]

I posted this in the General Hardware forum, but no response yet, maybe you guys could help out a bit more...



Problems getting my SATA hard drive to work
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Right now I have a 120 and 80 gig ATA drives. The 80 needs to be sent back for a replacement cause it sounds like it is about to die as it vibrates a lot, hums loud, then quiet, LOUD, then quiet, LOUD, then quiet. Motor? Anyways... I'm borrowing this 120 gig maxtor SATA to backup my data until it gets replaced. I guess the important peice of info would be that I have an A-Bit IS7 motherboard. So how do I get it to work with my system? Unlike pata HDDs, this one wouldm't work when I simply plugged it in and booted up.

Who out there has experience with an IS7 and SATA?