***ABIT BE7 i845pe***

[THUGSROOK]

nope, im using factory washers~
musta R&R'ed the HSF at least a dozen times already ~ no problems.

 

[Exec]

Looks like you have tightened the nuts pretty well then If you use just "hand-force" as the Alpha guide says, the nuts get unscrewed quite often when you take the screws off.

There's quite a few reports of BE7 cold boot issues at newsgroups, so I am definately not the only one with this problem.

 

[THUGSROOK]

still no boot issues here ~ lets see what PJ comes up with in his thread...

 

[Mikki]

Looking forward to PastorJay's results also....

Exec, can you hook us up with some links? We might be able to figure out what's going on.....

 

[DoobieOnline]

Yeah! pastorjay's had 24 hours to play with his new toy so I hope everything is going well.

Thugs, what kind of wire did you use for the U-mod? I definitely want to try that when my board comes in this week. Thanks!

 

[THUGSROOK]

a strand of very thin soft copper wire from a telephone cable.

 

[DoobieOnline]

Merci beaucoup! I have a few extra phone cords lying around so that will be easy enough. I ordered a 32CFM fan to slap on the 8942 and have an important question - sucking or blowing? Reviewers vary on that one, but the last one I read at FrostyTech said they got lower temps, about 2c, with the fan sucking. Thoughts?

 

[THUGSROOK]

mine blows

 

[SupermanCK]

that damn sucking or blowing question again...
can't yall just ask yourself which is better? lol

 

[Exec]

Originally posted by: Mikki
Looking forward to PastorJay's results also....

Exec, can you hook us up with some links? We might be able to figure out what's going on.....

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104

There's also stuff at the newsgroups, fastest way to find them is use Google's newsgroup search with "be7 cold boot".

 

[oldfart]

The cold boot problem seems to be the one fly in the ointment on this board. Abit has had this issue on all their 845 boards dating back to the BD7.
BE7 review

At default speeds, the system is stable and performance was good. There wasn't any real problems ... Windows and all the drivers installed without a glitch. Overclocking has always been a problem with most boards. Careful adjustments are needed in the BIOS to make an overclocked system stable. While the system was overclocked, sometimes it would not bootup after restart. It would be OK after switching it off at the mains first ... then switch it back on. I mean, what kind of motherboard would it be ... if it never had any problems. That would be the day ;-)

I had a Gigabyte S370 board that had very serious cold boot issues when overclocked. Drove me crazy. I did a wire mod, which solved the issue.

 

[Mikki]

Cool, let's see if we can all get together and find out what's going on...

 

[jpetermann]

I posted this in my thread on this board as well. But I have had NO COLD BOOT PROBLEMS at all. Great board. Hopefully will have it all tweaked and sorted out tonight. Things are lookin good!

PJ

 

[oldfart]

If you do have cold boot issues, a wire mod will fix it up.

 

[THUGSROOK]

...assuming its a cpu problem ~ yea.

 

[SupermanCK]

so where is that 2.26b?
is it there yet thugs?
so you got 5extra fsb over of the wire mod...not too shabby...

 

[THUGSROOK]

havnt got it yet, but the 2.26b will be reviewed on a granite bay board.

 

[oldfart]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
havnt got it yet, but the 2.26b will be reviewed on a granite bay board.

If Abit doesn't come out with one, what are you leaning towards? ASUS or Gigabyte?

 

[THUGSROOK]

Asus ~ i liked Evan's review even tho he only goes to 160fsb.
if the voltage flux (from idle to full load) has been fixed it will be a nice board.
link to Asus P4G8X pdf file

(right now im getting 1.71v idle 1.69v full load)

 

[oldfart]

I'll concur. The ASUS looks very nice!

 

[THUGSROOK]

ok this is interesting...
im getting reports that the wire mod is not fixing the "no boot problems" :Q
(and its not a no boot problem, its a no video problem)

im gonna go out on a limb here and say this IS NOT a cpu problem.
but rather an AGP lock problem, or a memory problem.

if anyone is having this problem please try running in 1:1 memory ratio and see if that fixes it ~ thx

symptoms are:
~no vid during boot
~loss of vid during reboot
~loss of vid drivers

 

[Mikki]

Interesting find, I wonder if it only affects certain cards? Like maybe certain cards can't handle the speed?

 

[THUGSROOK]

havnt heard back from anyone yet...

sounds very odd to me too ~ the eating the vid drivers thing keeps me thinking its an AGP problem.
PJ has also not experienced any problems as of yet

 

[Mikki]

...and he's using a GF4 Ti4400....

 

[Exec]

Using Ti4400 as well. If you read the newsgroup messages, you'll notice there's people with Radeon 7500s, 8500s, 9700s GeForce 3&4 cards and have the problem regardless of the vid card. I've been running 1:1 high for a few days now and haven't had any boot problems. Last weekend I had boot problems at this setting, so it seems to be quite random. Just have to hope Abit releases new bios soon.