Albatron PX865PE Lite Pro i848P

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Nicholas Hart
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Albatron
May. 14, 2004

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Bios

The driver software was not the only thing I found to be out of date on this board. The BIOS version shipped was 1.04 and the system would not boot to the hard drive in Enhanced mode. Fortunately the Albatron website does have a newer version of the BIOS, 1.10, and this fixed my problems.

The PX865PE Lite Pro uses a Phoenix Award BIOS. The "Main' tab shows standard items such as system time, amount of memory installed and detected IDE drives.

The "Advanced' tab contains the options for boot priority and the submenus to access the, you guessed it, advanced features of the board. The "Advanced BIOS Features' submenu lets you change such settings as CPU cache enabling/disabling, Hyperthreading technology enabling/disabling and Quick POST.

The "Advanced Chipset Features' submenu contains options to set DRAM timings and AGP Aperture size among other things.

"PnP/PCI Configurations' allows you set IRQs for your PCI slots if you so desire. Of course the default is AUTO and that should work for most users.

"Frequency/Voltage Control' gives you overclocking options such as FSB frequency, CPU, AGP and DDR voltage. You can also adjust the AGP/PCI/SRC clock rates. Leaving that option to Auto will cause the AGP/PCI clocks to increase in step with the FSB frequency. This is probably not the best option as many AGP cards don't appreciate being run past the standard 66 MHz clock. Of course your hardware will differ and if your card will support higher clocks, the adjustment is very fine grained allowing you eek the most out of your system. Voltages for CPU, AGP and DDR are adjustable in 0.1V increments. To change the FSB frequency you enter a whole number between 200 and 550. I can't imagine running a 2200 MHz FSB frequency, but hey, if it works for you I won't complain.

The "Peripherals' tab contains submenus to allow you to enable/disable the onboard devices.

"Power' gives you options for changing power management features. There is nothing worse than having your system decide its time to take a nap on you while watching a DVD.

The "HW Monitor' page lets you view current temperature and voltage readings as well as set case intrusion monitoring.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Board Layout / Features
Page 3: Accessories / Extras
Page 4: BIOS
Page 5: Test System / Benchmarks
Page 6: Benchmarks: PCMark04 / Aquamark 03
Page 7: Benchmarks: Aida32 / Sandra 04
Page 8: Benchmarks: SpecViewPerf 7.1 / ScienceMark 2.0
Page 9: Benchmarks: Winbench 99 / UT2k3
Page 10: Overclocking / Conclusion

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2 User Comments

1 - Posted by EmoMakesMeCry on May 16, 2004 - 12:48 pm

i have an Albatron 865PE Pro, not the lite variant, and i had a bit of a problem with it.

when i bought it with a processor i got a great deal on it so i figured, why not? but i also bought a SATA hard drive to use as my one and only drive since the board had the support for it. bad news when i put my machine together...the board's SATA ports wouldn't work. so i snooped around online looking for answers and guess what?....the board needed a bios update for the SATA ports to be functional...

makes me wish i had stuck with Abit like i had intended to.

but i must say, my albatron is excellent for overclocking.

2 - Posted by Nick on May 17, 2004 - 11:17 am

I had the same problem, although I won't say the SATA ports 'didn't work', I simply couldnt boot. I could see them in the bios, but when I had the system set to enhanced, it wouldnt boot. Leaving the system in legacy mode (as for linux or older OS's) the system would boot.

Same as you though, upgrade the bios and it works fine. A little too fine for an $80 board ;) I can honestly say I was surprised at how well the board worked being so cheap compared to the boards I was comparing it too.

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