horseflesh
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Since the E8400s are hard to find I am thinking about the E3xxx Xeon version. Has anyone tried one in the Abit IP35-E?
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IP35-E and Xeon compatibility?
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I just set up that very combo today. Works great.
horseflesh
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Coincidentally I did too. The build went OK, but there were a few weird issues.
- BIOS config would hang with a USB keyboard! Never seen that before.
- After installing the latest Intel chipset drivers from their site, the USB ports all died. They weren't even getting power. Apparently there is some kind of serious software conflict, I googled up many similar stories but no solutions. I rolled back with system restore and just didn't install the chipset drivers... but surely I'm going to be missing something.
- cpu-z shows my proc at 6x mult and 2 GHz total speed. Windows itself sees it as a 3GHz proc.
But things are stable which is what is important.
- BIOS config would hang with a USB keyboard! Never seen that before.
- After installing the latest Intel chipset drivers from their site, the USB ports all died. They weren't even getting power. Apparently there is some kind of serious software conflict, I googled up many similar stories but no solutions. I rolled back with system restore and just didn't install the chipset drivers... but surely I'm going to be missing something.
- cpu-z shows my proc at 6x mult and 2 GHz total speed. Windows itself sees it as a 3GHz proc.
But things are stable which is what is important.
USB support set to "by BIOS" ?- BIOS config would hang with a USB keyboard! Never seen that before.
It's a Windows problem - theree's a knowledge base article about it.- After installing the latest Intel chipset drivers from their site, the USB ports all died. They weren't even getting power. Apparently there is some kind of serious software conflict, I googled up many similar stories but no solutions. I rolled back with system restore and just didn't install the chipset drivers... but surely I'm going to be missing something.
Are you using SP3 by any chance?
that's EIST at work - if you put load on the CPU you should see it increase in CPU-Z.- cpu-z shows my proc at 6x mult and 2 GHz total speed. Windows itself sees it as a 3GHz proc.
horseflesh
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I think I figured out the USB keyboard issue. At first boot I chose "Safe Defaults" in the BIOS and I bet that turned off USB. On a subsequent BIOS flash, it was set to "by BIOS" by default. I didn't test the USB keyboard at that time but I suspect it would have worked.
I think I found the KB article you are referring to.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921411
I scrounged up the hotfix but after installing it, no joy and that is when I did the rollback.
EIST--craziness! Every time I upgrade I am amazed at how much has changed since the CPU generation I am coming from, which is usually at least 18 months ago.
Thanks!
I think I found the KB article you are referring to.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921411
I scrounged up the hotfix but after installing it, no joy and that is when I did the rollback.
EIST--craziness! Every time I upgrade I am amazed at how much has changed since the CPU generation I am coming from, which is usually at least 18 months ago.
Thanks!