Intel D975XBX (Bad Axe)

[Sandog]

BIOS updates are no longer available.

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d975xbx2/tools.htm

Hope this is temporary. Intel did have two seperate links for BIOS and drivers that each showed both so maybe they are just in the process of straightening out the web page.

Sandog

[TQ]

That's weird...

[Tenchi Muyo]

Does the BX2 Board support the next FSB1333 CPU's ??

I ordered a Gigabyte DQ6 Board, but now i heard from the PCI-E 1 Bug!
So i think about to cancel my order and order the BX2.

It's not clear if it's a 965P Chipset problem, so i think the 975x is well engineered.

But i don't know if the 975x has a long future...

[crabber]

BIOS 2674 is now available

[Sandog]

Originally Posted by Tenchi Muyo

Does the BX2 Board support the next FSB1333 CPU's ??

I ordered a Gigabyte DQ6 Board, but now i heard from the PCI-E 1 Bug!
So i think about to cancel my order and order the BX2.

It's not clear if it's a 965P Chipset problem, so i think the 975x is well engineered.

But i don't know if the 975x has a long future...

Hi Tenchi Muyo,

The BA1/2 ICH7R chipset officially supports up to FSB1066 but the BIOS will let you strap the FSB for either 800/1066/1333/1600. I believe when Intel says 'officially supports' this means this is the frequency the chipset was certified at but it can go higher.

Sandog

[Sandog]

New audio and RAID (Marvell chip) drivers for the BA2.

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[dubobo2]

Has anybody had any problems with TigerDirect.com? They have the D975XBX2KR for $199 now for the retail boxed version. I'm thinking of snagging it and 3 of the 20" Samsung LCDs ($289 ea. after mail in rebate)

NE has the Corsair DHX XMS2 Twin 2X2048 6400C4D for $213 (after $40 mail in rebate). Seems like this would make a nice start for a new build. Well, new for me that is :-)

[RJ]

When I purchased my Bad Axe II, I sure thought about Tiger Direct compared to NewEgg, but I stayed with NewEgg because I have read where Tiger Direct's customer service sucks if you have problems. I had a problem with them myself years ago and it appears they have not learned anything yet. To have low prices, you have to cut corners somewhere, and I think I know where they did it. I purchased memory from Zip Zoom Fly as they were much cheaper than the Egg. This was just over a month ago, and I am still waiting for them to return my phone messages and e-mails because of problems with the shipping and FedEx. FedEx lost the shipment and Zip Zoom Fly has to file the claim, and I couldn't. I had to get my credit card company involved. They will have to listen to them. They are probably fine if you have no problems, but if you have problems, forget it. I have had very good results with the Egg.

[dubobo2]

Thanks RJ. I was reading thru this thread and it looks like NE was price gouging a little. But i too have had very good luck with them. I only had one occurrence thru all the times i bought from them. It was a new Seagate 320G that came DOA. I talked to a live person who apologized, and sent out a new drive overnight. Whenever their price is right, i buy from the egg as much as possible.

[joster.macedo]

Hi, I´m having a strange problem. I changed my computer motherboard to an Intel BX2 but I can not change the boot order in the bios. I have three sata drives connected in the black connectors, a DVD Writer connected in the ATA and another PATA drive connected as slave in the same ATA connector. If "boot from optical drive" is enabled the computer boots from the optical drive. I can not change the boot option to Hard Drive. If I disable the boot from the optical drive option, the only hard drive I can boot from is the PATA drive. The only way I found to boot from a SATA drive (drive 0 only) was to disconnect the pata drive. Here is my info:

====== Board ======
Manufacturer Intel Corporation
Product Name D975XBX2
Version AAD53350-504
Serial Number BQB26470012T
BIOS Version BX97520J.86A.2674.2007.0315.1546
BIOS ROM Size 1024 KB
BIOS Release Date 3/15/2007

====== Processor ======
Manufacturer Intel(R) Corporation
Processor Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2 Cores)
Bus Speed 800 MHz
Processor Speed 2.8 GHz
Stepping 2
Form Factor Other
Hyper-Threading Technology Status Not Supported

====== Cache ======
L1 Cache Data Cache 16 KB, Execution Trace Cache 12 K Micro-ops Per Processor Core
L2 Cache 4096 KB Unified Cache (2048 KB Cache Per 1 Core)

====== Memory ======
Error Correction Single-bit ECC
Maximum System Memory 4 GB
Memory Slots 4

---- CHAN A DIMM 0 ----
Socket Designation CHAN A DIMM 0
Current Memory Type DDR2
Installed Size 1024 MB
Memory Speed 533 MHz

---- CHAN A DIMM 1 ----
Socket Designation CHAN A DIMM 1
Current Memory Type DDR2
Installed Size No Module Installed

---- CHAN B DIMM 0 ----
Socket Designation CHAN B DIMM 0
Current Memory Type DDR2
Installed Size 1024 MB
Memory Speed 533 MHz

---- CHAN B DIMM 1 ----
Socket Designation CHAN B DIMM 1
Current Memory Type DDR2
Installed Size No Module Installed

====== Onboard Devices ======
#Device Type Ethernet
Device Description Intel (R) 82562 Ethernet Device
Device Status Enabled
#Device Type Sound
Device Description Intel(R) Azalia Audio Device
Device Status Enabled
#Device Type Other
Device Description Marvell 6145 SATA RAID Controller
Device Status Disabled
#Device Type Other
Device Description Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 1394A/B Controller
Device Status Enabled

====== Hard Drive ======
#Model ST3120827AS
Max. Transfer Mode UDMA 6 (ATA/133)
Active Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA/100)
S.M.A.R.T. Status Enabled
Size 111.79 GB
#Model ST3320620AS
Max. Transfer Mode UDMA 6 (ATA/133)
Active Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA/100)
S.M.A.R.T. Status Enabled
Size 298.09 GB
#Model ST3120827AS
Max. Transfer Mode UDMA 6 (ATA/133)
Active Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA/100)
S.M.A.R.T. Status Enabled
Size 111.79 GB

[SpeedDMN]

You SHOULD be able to change the boot order or keep any drives from booting at all. I disabled the floppy boot for example. It confused me for a second because i was used to using the up and down arrows to switch order on my Fatality board but with the BX it's the +/- keys (I think)

[tiberius69]

I purchased my Bad Ave 2 from Micro Center @ $175.00 for the full retail boxed version. It had gon eback up to $199 since.

Always had good experiences buying from NewEgg too.

[tiberius69]

While I'm here,

Has anyone had experience getting the Bad Axe 2 sound to play nice with a 4.1 speaker system? I've been fooling with settings in the Intel Audio Studio with mixed results. The different settings are a nightmare to keep track of.
The help documents on the Intel site say to use a different port for the rear speakers and to "retask" the port with the software. Danged if I can find where retasking any of the ports is an option.

Using the 4 speaker settings and ports, I can get vairous types of "broken" output like no sound from the rears when playing an MP3. Settings that fix that cause the loss of the L and R Main channels when playing a DVD. I think the center channel is played through the mains however. There's no sound when someone is speaking from the left or right side of the screen.

Also noticing that much of the rear speaker output (when it's there) is distorted, scratchy, intermittent...etc. Strangley enough the speaker test signal from the Audio studio sound great.

If I play an MP3 with no sound from the rears and test the rear speakers with Audio Studio the music is also played throught the rears with the test sound and sounds quite clear.

I've been baffled by this behavior to the point of preparing to stuff my old SoundBlaster Live PCI in the machine so I don't have to deal with this foolishness.

Use a Klipsch Pro Media 4.1 speaker system.

Thanks in advance

[joster.macedo]

Originally Posted by SpeedDMN

You SHOULD be able to change the boot order or keep any drives from booting at all. I disabled the floppy boot for example. It confused me for a second because i was used to using the up and down arrows to switch order on my Fatality board but with the BX it's the +/- keys (I think)

I hit the Enter key to enter the submenu and then choose the specific drive that I want to boot from, but the order on the menu does not change. I tried different bios versions with no luck. I don´t even understand how this can happen.

Joster

[SpeedDMN]

After you hit the enter key to open the drive order submenu. Highlight the drive you want to move with the arrow keys and then hit either + or - to move it up and down. I have a BX1 but I doubt that part is any different.