Who has experience with the IP35 Pro?

hello NG,
for my new PC which I will assamble shortly the Abit IP35 Pro is a hot
candidate. Does anyone know this board well and could tell me the good
sides (and, if there are any, also the "bad" sides)?
One thing that worries me a bit is that there are only 4 USB ports - this
seems a little low number of ports; or do I misunderstand something?
Thanks for your hints, best regards, Erich

Supposedly its very good

i have one

2 things i dont like

1) the reboot issue but mine is abou 99% better with ver 11 bios and the
write block for
bios upgrade - check this group for more info

"sussed it

ignore the abit switches to flash

use these

/py /sn /Wb /cd /cp /cc /CKS

clearing bootblock is key i think

hope it helps someone "



2) i find the sata sockets a real pain where they are but i can cope - you
get 6

but i like the passive cooling




"Erich Seidenschmiedt" <> wrote in message
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hello NG,
for my new PC which I will assamble shortly the Abit IP35 Pro is a hot
candidate. Does anyone know this board well and could tell me the good
sides (and, if there are any, also the "bad" sides)?
One thing that worries me a bit is that there are only 4 USB ports - this
seems a little low number of ports; or do I misunderstand something?
Thanks for your hints, best regards, Erich

The IP35 Pro has 4 I/O panel USB connectors, but it also has 4 USB headers
on board. Each of those headers supports 2 USB ports. I don't know whether
it would be possible to use the maximum 12 ports, but I expect that you
could.

Abit supplies a card slot USB/IEEE1394 bracket, so you can use 6 USB ports
without additional hardware. I also use two front USB ports on my case, so I
have a total of 8 available.

The 6 Intel SATA connectors all face the rear of the board, which isn't
always convenient. (It means that they don't interfere with a long graphics
card like an nVidia 8800GTX, though.)

The integrated gigabit LAN controllers are connected to the PCI bus rather
than the PCI-E bus, which limits their maximum rate. (I could care less, as
I'm not on a gigabit LAN.)

I got the board because I wanted a P35 mainboard, with the ICH9R RAID
controller, but without all the extras that Asus (for example) puts on their
high-end boards.

Asus has two features that I miss:

1) ability to update the BIOS using a BIOS-based utility (rather than
booting into an operating system like DOS)
2) BIOS recovery feature (probably related to feature 1)

I've been satisfied with the IP35 Pro. I haven't pushed the overclocking to
its limits, but it runs a Q6600 (G0) at 3 GHz without difficulty (air
cooling).


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"Erich Seidenschmiedt" <> wrote in message
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> hello NG,
> for my new PC which I will assamble shortly the Abit IP35 Pro is a hot
> candidate. Does anyone know this board well and could tell me the good
> sides (and, if there are any, also the "bad" sides)?
> One thing that worries me a bit is that there are only 4 USB ports - this
> seems a little low number of ports; or do I misunderstand something?
> Thanks for your hints, best regards, Erich
>
>

"Bob Knowlden" <> wrote in message
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<snip>
> Asus has two features that I miss:
>
> 1) ability to update the BIOS using a BIOS-based utility (rather than
> booting into an operating system like DOS)

That's odd. I just put together a Asus cheapie board and was able to flash
the BIOS from the BIOS screen you can use EZFlash 2 to do this using a thumb
drive, which I did.

In fact I'm sure I can do the same thing on an older Socket A board I have
here, but it only works with 3.5in floppy drives.

> 2) BIOS recovery feature (probably related to feature 1)


I don't think there are too many manufacturers who don't have some kind of
feature which does this.
Asus has Crashfree 2 where the BIOS will look for a ROM on a floppy or CD if
a corrupted BIOS is detected.

Not as convenient as boards that store their CMOS info locally, but how
often do you think you will need to recover from a corrupted BIOS?


<snip<

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:19:17 +0100, "ocotber" <>
wrote:

>
>Supposedly its very good
>
>i have one
>
>2 things i dont like
>
>1) the reboot issue but mine is abou 99% better with ver 11

You must have an IP35E or IP35. The Pro version never had an issue
with reboots.

I have an IP35 Pro - it does have the same issues

but bios 11 99% better



"Folk" <> wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:19:17 +0100, "ocotber" <>
wrote:

>
>Supposedly its very good
>
>i have one
>
>2 things i dont like
>
>1) the reboot issue but mine is abou 99% better with ver 11

You must have an IP35E or IP35. The Pro version never had an issue
with reboots.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127029

"ocotber" <> wrote in message
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I have an IP35 Pro - it does have the same issues

but bios 11 99% better



"Folk" <> wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:19:17 +0100, "ocotber" <>
wrote:

>
>Supposedly its very good
>
>i have one
>
>2 things i dont like
>
>1) the reboot issue but mine is abou 99% better with ver 11

You must have an IP35E or IP35. The Pro version never had an issue
with reboots.

Did I write unclearly?

EZFlash 2 and the BIOS recovery tool are Asus features that the Abit board
lacks. So, I miss them.

"SumGuy" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Bob Knowlden" <> wrote in message
> news:. ..
> <snip>
>> Asus has two features that I miss:
>>
>> 1) ability to update the BIOS using a BIOS-based utility (rather than
>> booting into an operating system like DOS)
>
> That's odd. I just put together a Asus cheapie board and was able to flash
> the BIOS from the BIOS screen you can use EZFlash 2 to do this using a
> thumb drive, which I did.
>
> In fact I'm sure I can do the same thing on an older Socket A board I have
> here, but it only works with 3.5in floppy drives.
>
>> 2) BIOS recovery feature (probably related to feature 1)
>
>
> I don't think there are too many manufacturers who don't have some kind of
> feature which does this.
> Asus has Crashfree 2 where the BIOS will look for a ROM on a floppy or CD
> if a corrupted BIOS is detected.
>
> Not as convenient as boards that store their CMOS info locally, but how
> often do you think you will need to recover from a corrupted BIOS?
>
>
> <snip<
>

Ocotber

Your posted Newegg link is for the Abit *IP35* NOT the IP35 Pro!!

Here is the link to the Abit I35 Pro:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127030
This Abit *Pro* MB seems NOT to have any "dual boot" issues!



"ocotber" <> wrote in message
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127029
>
> "ocotber" <> wrote in message
> news:9yvPi.579$...
>
> I have an IP35 Pro - it does have the same issues
>
> but bios 11 99% better
>
>
>
> "Folk" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:19:17 +0100, "ocotber" <>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Supposedly its very good
>>
>>i have one
>>
>>2 things i dont like
>>
>>1) the reboot issue but mine is abou 99% better with ver 11
>
> You must have an IP35E or IP35. The Pro version never had an issue
> with reboots.
>
>
>
>
>

it does but not anywhere as bad as the ip35

i'll give you the link though

i looked into this with mine a while ago

mine was bios 10 though so newer ones if they're 11 would be better

still think the sata ports are in a bad position at least for my case



"Mattrixx" <> wrote in message
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Ocotber

Your posted Newegg link is for the Abit *IP35* NOT the IP35 Pro!!

Here is the link to the Abit I35 Pro:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127030
This Abit *Pro* MB seems NOT to have any "dual boot" issues!



"ocotber" <> wrote in message
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127029
>
> "ocotber" <> wrote in message
> news:9yvPi.579$...
>
> I have an IP35 Pro - it does have the same issues
>
> but bios 11 99% better
>
>
>
> "Folk" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:19:17 +0100, "ocotber" <>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Supposedly its very good
>>
>>i have one
>>
>>2 things i dont like
>>
>>1) the reboot issue but mine is abou 99% better with ver 11
>
> You must have an IP35E or IP35. The Pro version never had an issue
> with reboots.
>
>
>
>
>