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Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
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This board is still advertised on Abit's front page, its one of their flagship products.

Four months after its release, and no official BIOS updates. Yeesh. People are having issues with this board, the Abit forums have many posts about them.

Whats going on?
 
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CCityInstaller

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This the the exact reason why I dumped my AW9D (975X) and went with the MSI P6N SLI. It's sad that ABIT touts the 9D as an o/c'er MB yet it can't reach anything higher then a 375mhz FSB. You can buy a $99 DS3 and hit 450-500MHZ, yet a $180 Abit MB can't match that.
 
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gchanjam

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I think Abit fired their BIOS engineers. They keep pumping new motherboards but their BIOS'es are always immature and new BIOS'es are never released. It's sad because I genreally like their boards and their layouts are always good.
 
Puffnstuff

Puffnstuff

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The best bios writers left abit for dfi a couple of years ago. Remember when dfi all of the sudden released the lanparty ut ultra-d which was the s939 oc king? Abit has been on a downhill slide since then. I'm using a msi p6n sli platinum right now because I refused to buy another abit, especially after the poor bios support I experienced with my an8 fatal1ty.
 
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Heidfirst

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Originally posted by: Bateluer
This board is still advertised on Abit's front page, its one of their flagship products.

Four months after its release, and no official BIOS updates. Yeesh. People are having issues with this board, the Abit forums have many posts about them.

Whats going on?
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What's happening is that you are looking in the wrong places - there was an official 11 update in February & the latest beta (12B03 iirc) has met with pretty favourable feedback.


CCityInstaller - the AW9D can do over 400fsb - indeed a few people have got it over 500fsb in modded form. However, 975X just isn't as high an fsb overclocker as 965 so you can't expect abit or any mfr to overcome chipset limitations.

I do agree with you that BIOS updates have been slow but they do come & they are generally good & the hardware design since the USI investment has been very good.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Heidfirst
Whats going on?
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What's happening is that you are looking in the wrong places - there was an official 11 update in February & the latest beta (12B03 iirc) has met with pretty favourable feedback.
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How come thats not posted on the IN9's page under BIOS updates? I shouldn't have to dig through support forums and FTP sites to find a BIOS update.

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/bios.php?categories=1&model=333

Also, I'm not going to touch an MSI board again, not after all the problems that I had with my old MSI NV 570 based board. OF course, MSI did actually release BIOS updates, they just didn't fix the issue that I and others were having.

Edit - Additionally, though I am running the 1.0 Bios, Flashmenu tells me my BIOS is up to date when it looks for updates.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

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Heidfirst

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the simple answer is that nobody seems to be putting BIOS files into the Flashmenu folder on the ftp.
Now, whether there is a reason for this I don't know.
However, I recommend downloading files locally & using FlashMenu in updae from file mode rather than using 1-click update.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
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Originally posted by: FireTech
How did the BIOS update go Bateluer?
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Not very well. Seemed to flash just fine to the 1.1 bios, it flashed, told me to reboot. I rebooted and it successfully loaded windows. Windows then told me it had installed new hardware and needed to reboot, so I did.

After than it hangs every time after 'Verifying DMI Pool----Successful' after POST.

At first, I thought it may have had something to do with my USB KB and mouse, however, setting the USB KB/mouse to BIOS from OS doesn't seem to have any effect.

It just hits a blank screen. The BIOS post code on the mobo LEDs list 'FF', which simply means 'Boot Attempt' according to the manual.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Shimmishim
did you clear cmos? i usually do after a flash no matter what.
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Flashmenu cleared it after it did its flash. During my T/S I loaded fail safe defaults, and used the clear CMOS jumper. Still hangs right before the loading XP screen.

I'm going to try to see if I can boot into safe mode.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
Jun 23, 2001
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I can access the F8 boot menu, however, the system seems to hang at loading MountMgr.sys.

Edit - No matter what option I select in the F8 menu, it always hangs. I can boot from an XP CD though and access the recovery console, however, I don't know what to do from there.

I'll let XP try its auto repair function, see what happens.

All the BIOS settings appear to be good, the problem seems to be with XP. If this doesn't work, a format might be in order.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
Jun 23, 2001
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I'm back up now. Thats the first time I've ever had a BIOS update require a reinstall of windows. It somehow corrupted some XP system files preventing me form getting into windows at all.

After a reformat and reinstall, I'm back up. I lost some information, but nothing super critical. Lots of firefox bookmarks, and my most current budget spreadsheet.
 
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