Installing windows now on an Abit IS7

Nomjr · May 1, 2003

Just finished installing windows on it. Booted up and found no nic, so put in driver disk. Something popped up saying detecting ______. Not sure but anyways I thought it had a realtek nic onboard and xp would just install the drivers.

Well, it went into a 3com menu to install the nic after I clicked on install drivers and it says gigabit nic now installed. I looked at the board again and it does have a 3com chip on it just below the ethernet port. In device manager it says 3com gigabit nic.

Is there any way to tell if I really have gigabit ethernet?

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Mastametz · May 1, 2003

well, you could hook it up to another computer with gigabit lan, and see if you can transfer files, etc, at gigabit speed. which it probably doesn't achieve, but it should be much faster than regular lan anyway.

Also, the i don't belive that the gigbit part applies to your internet. It only applies to networking with other computers. and the other computer must have gigabit lan also.

Nomjr · May 1, 2003

yeah, that's the thing, I don't have another machine with gigabit lan. I guess I could look for something on the 3com site as I have the chip markings written down to go searching

Nomjr · May 1, 2003

well according to this http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtype=purchase&sku=3C940-MV00 it is gigabit lan.

Maxvla · May 2, 2003

well forget the lan!

how does it o/c?

Nomjr · May 2, 2003

this is where it's at so far, sorry for the bad pic

comments or criticism, suggestions even?(I come here to learn)

I'm going to let it run prime over night, going to bed.

thorn · May 2, 2003

That's a sweet OC, Nomjr. I was looking for this thread. How stable is it at that speed? I'm assuming that's an SL6RZ..

Nomjr · May 2, 2003

Thank you and yeah it's a costa rica sl6rz. So far it runs through both 3dmarks, 10 runs of sandra burn in, and I'm going to let it run prime over night. Hope it's still going in the morning and if so, I'll throw memtest at it before I leave for work.

I'm not sure if I'm using the settings right or not as there are a few new ones in there now, but it's beating up on my old bh7 so far and everything just feels faster. Can't wait to get a 800fsb cpu

thorn · May 2, 2003

If my DFI PRO875 Canterwood board ($220) doesn't pan out I'm thinking getting one of these. Is it a red PCB like I've seen pictured? and does it have any serial ports?

Csybe · May 2, 2003

I want this board

Nomjr, nice OC out there, great job. How about cooling and Vcore on that 2.4@3600?

Nomjr · May 2, 2003

thorn- yes, it is that orange that the bh7 comes in, and if your talking about a serial port, the nine pin thing right? It has one.

Csybe- vcore is set to 1.65, but it seems to undervolt a little and showing around 1.63-64 in mbm and bios. Woke up to prime still running this morning and my load temp is 29c. I have an aquarium water chiller on it and my idle temp is around 22-23c.

Going to run memtest and see if that's a go there. Will try to go higher if memtest has no trouble and will report what happens later.

Maxvla · May 2, 2003

very nice nomjr

your mips are way off, but multimedia is higher. strange. here's mine on my BD7II Brookdale (845E)

its nice to see that the board works up to 200fsb with 533bus chips. i might just hafta pick one of these up.

can you comment on any of the other bios settings? is everything easy to setup, change? good options? any gripes yet?

Nomjr · May 2, 2003

Is there a setting I should try to make up for that? I noticed that too. I'll play with it alot more when I get off work. I'll post some pics of the bios options along with my settings too and see if you can suggest something for me to try.

update: just changed from 1:1 to spd and now I get this for mips-

Going to mess with it some more, have to go back to work

Maxvla · May 2, 2003

very interesting.

so you had it on spd then changed to 1:1 and your score was that much different?? weird.

Rasputin'sLiver · May 2, 2003

nomjr you rule! you are owning most of the canterwoods out there right now.

Nomjr · May 2, 2003

Thanks Rasputin'sLiver, I haven't even looked around much to see how this is doing compared to the canterwood. This is one of those times that I do wish others had it already and I could learn from them though

Maxvla- I had it 1:1 then changed it to by spd and the mips went up as you can see. Like I said, wish others had this thing already so I could ask some questions

Just going to keep upping the fsb and testing for stability, sure to hit the ceiling here soon I would think. Any questions please ask as I'm not sure what I'm totally doing so experimentation is interesting so far

Maxvla · May 2, 2003

anything you've seen you'd like changed?

how are voltage adjustments?

baraka · May 3, 2003

Does the IS7 have 4-phase power like the IC7?

Csybe · May 5, 2003

Well on Abit's site it isn't mentioned. Can we figure it out from the picture?

http://www.abit-usa.com/images/IS7G_lg.jpg

baraka · May 5, 2003

I heard there was a way to tell by looking at the connectors or something but I can't remember exactly what to look for.

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