Asus

A difficult choise - Maximus Formula/P5Q Deluxe or P5K Premium Black Pearl
I am on the way of building a new box. I have narrowed the selection to the above mentioned boards. Yes, I know about the newer technology, but that's not all. I want the best possible board, which could possibly last later as a local server, when the time for a new upgrade approches. Besides, I am not interest... 4 Jul 2008 04:53

A8V-VM SE and blank screen with new ram
Hi! HOpe someone can help my cousin. He's got a A8V-VM SE with 1GB ram. He decided he wanted more ram so he bought 2 1GB sticks and put in. Now all he gets is a black screen from his gfx card (and no signal from mobo port). There's no beeps or anything and he says it sounds like it's satrting up OK, just no ... 1 Jul 2008 23:37

P5K DVD BIOS settings
I have just a clean reinstall windows XP. Installed Nero8 Downloaded and flashed the latest bios 8202. Now it takes 45 minutes to supposedly burn a DVD-R when before it was something like 14 minutes including verification. I have 2X TSST corp (samsung) SATA drives and they both are the same. Any Suggestions? TIA... 4 Jul 2008 07:57

M2V-TVM motherboard support disk
Due to inattention, my installation disk has departedl to the local dump. Anyone know where I can get a replacement? = Kev = ... 2 Jul 2008 19:06

P5N-D and e8400 overclock help please...
Hi, I have the Asus P5N-D mainboard and the e8400 (3.0GHz / 1333fsb) and am having problems overclocking. Anyone here have that combo, and are successful overclocking to 3.6GHz? I'm able to get it to boot at 3.6GHz (after some non-boot, restart issues) but when I run prime95 to load test, it freezes the PC after... 30 Jun 2008 12:43

P5E WS Pro BIOS
Asus has a new bios (0704) out for this board, but no docs as to what issues it may address, or fix. If it fixes the slow boot start problem (in a recent thread) that would be great. Does anyone have any info on this BIOS? ... 30 Jun 2008 09:37

power supply calculator
On the ASUS website, there's a PSU calculator, but it doesn't work. It always recommends 0 watts when I select all the options describing my cpu, number of drives, etc. http://support.asus.com/PowerSupplyCalculator/PSCalculator.aspx?SLanguage=en-us Is there another utility on the WEB to calculate a recommended ... 10 Jul 2008 08:14

P5E MB slow POST
I have a P5E Motherboard that only *begins* to boot after 45 seconds. It's fully booted in Vista64 in ~1.5 mins. Any suggestions on how to eliminate the 45 secs delay?. ... 13 Jul 2008 14:05

A7V333 questions
crustybutthole wrote: I have a machine with an A7V333 mb installed. Originally this had an Athlon XP 1800+ installed with (2) sticks of 256K PC 2100 memory. Board is an early version 1.01 with bios updated to 1017. About 2 weeks ago I was given a used - but known to be in good working condition - Ath... 29 Jun 2008 10:06

Reliable power supplies with LOTs of connectors
I need to power up about 9 or 10 hard drives in a tower case. Both regular ide (molex) and sata. I could probably get by with about 500W or above. I've been using Antec Neo-series power supplies, but have had some trouble with connector reliability. Which manufacturer's supplies would be most reliable? Among the... 29 Jun 2008 06:02