Recent content by tjescher

Hey, I have a Soltek DRV-5. The board has the'ABS-II' blah blah. I didn't really think too much at first, believing it to be the same thermistor controlled shutdown, but in reality it does read from the XP thermal Diode, and the new bios reports the xp temp from that under ABSII temp. So the...

hey, I downloaded and installed the new 1.2 bios for the DRV5 and it added two things, 1> shutdown temp for ABSII 2>(and most interesting) ABS temp reading. From what I understand the ABSII takes the temp reading from the XP cpu thermal diode, not the thermistor under the socket. That would...

hey, Got the DRV5 a week ago. It has been a very painless motherboard to use, fast and friendly. I like this one. Had an EPox (8K3A)that was giving me headaches, even without overclocking. I was having AGP gremlins, it would spontaniously reboot, and the temps were always reading very high (56c...