The First Touch of Abit IN9 32x Max

[Onepagebook]

Board is well-design and built for sure besides the 4 pins molex located at the last PCI slot.:ocx48: , also the bios is so easy to corrupt. The first one let me install everything fresh and without any difficulty, but after couple hours, power off and power on, the on board debug led just show "8E" then automatically shut down.
After RMA to Newegg and receive today, samething happened ; even I just adjust some parameters of uGuru options, then directly went down exactly same as the first board.

Let's see the parts of this board:

This figure is from Ancient China era, means fortune and luck.


http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board01.jpg

Very well pack it!!:ocx22:

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board02.jpg

Accessories

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board03.jpg

Wifi

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board04.jpg

THe Board

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board05.jpg


the heat pipe...welll:ocx48:

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board08.jpg

all the high end electrical board elements placed.

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board09.jpg
Cpu socket area is pretty good for going extremely cold insulation job.:)

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board10.jpg

wow, this chip is vista certified no problem

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board11.jpg

the I/O area

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board12.jpg

here is the big big mistake, if user need to use the extra power when apply SLI operation, what should they do?

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board13.jpg

nice, big NB heatsink but did not block

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board15.jpg

Test set up:)

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board16.jpg

the area after install memory and ultra 120 heatsink with 120mmx38mm

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board17.jpg

power up ..:D

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/board/board18.jpg


We will go on for Bios page!:ocx04:

[Onepagebook]

What about BIOS?
For me , the bios is quite rich and in details.
very nice uguru bios page;)
**OH MY GOD...there are bunch of people DO NOT what is EPP SLI memory...
please before you ever think about play this, DO THE HOME WORK. , if you ever wanna OC, you need to disable
SLI memory setting, otherwise you can't change the profile setting by epp.


http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios01.jpg

this is the beta bios, abit adds the 1333 strap already.

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios02.jpg

every OC Voltage option you need is here;)

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios03.jpg

here are the minum and maximum voltages for all you need to go extreme.

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios04.jpg

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios05.jpg

CPU basic settings, the last one is very interesting;)

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios06.jpg

see the explanation on the right side?

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios07.jpg

hoho, I prefer the memory page has current value and setting value, that would greatly help user to think how far or how do they need to set the timings.

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios08.jpg

some on board devices setting.

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bios/bios09.jpg

other than these, I don't think they are important to mention.
we will keep going to see how good it is.

[Onepagebook]

ok here we go, for the basic consideration about fsb and memory settings, this would be the topics every user focus on,
for me, I already checked couple nv680i board; here we are not doing the review in details, so we go more real OC type.

Testbed:
memory: Team Group PC9600 C5 and PC8500 C4
power: Tagon 1100w
OS: Windows Xp Sp2
HD: Western Digital raptor 150g 10000rpm single drive
cooling: Air cooling from Thermalright Ultra 120.

** This board is by far that I can drectly set this setting (in general) without any problem.:)

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bench/spi1m.jpg

dno't have to change anything, directly go for 32m:

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bench/spi32m.jpg

check out the pifast.:D

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bench/pifast1066.jpg

after quick check of DDR1066 and fsb 1500+;
I just restart and set: fsb as 1500mhz and ram go for ddr1200 4-3-3;)

here is my setting details:

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bench/ddr1200settingagg.jpg

try the pi1m;)

http://www.opbcorner.com/HWbench/in932xmax/bench/ddr1200spi1m.jpg

after that, that day I gotta lab project went to school, so I power off, when I back home, everything is gone .
and today I got the same problem, we will see you here when I got bios chip working.

THanks

OPB

[Sam]

looks really nice apart from that 4-pin molex ... someone wasn't thinking for sure ...

looking forward to some "results" :ocx44:

[Johnny Bravo]

The 4-pin molex is only for cards WITHOUT external power connectors, so you don't have to worry about it then using bigger cards that would block access

If you need any pointer OPB give me shout, I've been playing with this board for some time now :)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=130375

[Onepagebook]

hey buddy, is there any way I can fix the bios chip? I am quite in rush:(

The only thing I need is new bios chip I think, would you have anyway to help or who I can contact with.:)

[Johnny Bravo]

I think it's been mentioned before but a hotflash from another suitable board would probably be the best way. Might be a stupid question but......that error can be caused if you don't have a cpu fan plugged in (PWM model) and you try to boot. Clear the BIOS attach a PWM fan and try again.

[Johnny Bravo]

if this is the problem you can go into uGuru and disable fan monitoring in there, then it won't be a problem anymore!

[Onepagebook]

nah, should not be the case, I have that fan plug in though:(

[Johnny Bravo]

what were you doing prior to this error code occurring?

[Onepagebook]

nope , only regularly reboot would like to change bios parameters.
MSN can't log in at this moment, I will add you in after my ISP come here and fix cable;)
thanks very much for the help.:)

** I found that looks like chip burned little bit.

[JasonDTM]

Oooh, can you post a picture of the burned chip? I want to see what componet went. :S You'd think with an enthusiast board they would make sure some bugs are worked out.

[Predator]

Also, i think you may want to contact conman (http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/member.php?u=222) , he might be able to grab a bios chip i think he works in abit forums :ocx44:

[Onepagebook]

OK, I finally figured it out, will post the solution later.:D

[NiKKE]

Also, i think you may want to contact conman (http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/member.php?u=222) , he might be able to grab a bios chip i think he works in abit forums :ocx44:

Hm I think he just is a regular Swede but I could be wrong.

[Onepagebook]

well still the same situation happened,
after boot qz6700 into windows with default speed, then I restart that, immediately saw 83 then 8e---> shut down.:(

[jackc00]

faulty board??

[Onepagebook]

no, not a defective, just the matter should be guru chip problem again.:)