THE Asus P5E X38 Thread

[x7337H]

anybody use the AI Suite stuff? I tried setting the performance on the AI Gear3 to "Turbo" and it bluescreened my PC...i guess i'll leave it to "High Performance" and overclock manually...

[Sikozu]

I installed the AI suite soon after building my pc. However (running 64 bit vista) when the background processes were running, if I typed in any window it would cause the window/application to lock and force me to kill it in task manager. Killing the AI suite processes in task manager made everything right. Stupid buggy software.

I'm yet to overclock yet, sitting at stock but my cpu idle's at room temp pretty much (30) and then on full load its like 42 degrees centegrade.

[cerealk1ll3r]

After updating the BIOS, Asus AI Suite was completely unusable. Upon double clicking the application, I got a program error every time. No point using that, just overclock through the BIOS.

[malik22]

Hi guys I just got this board with these components
Q6600G0
Asus P5E X38
4gb 6400 800mhz 44412 of corsair
seagate 120gbHD
2 3870
PSU 700 TT Toughpower

To begin with I had problems starting up so I took out 2gb and installed vista 64 without a problem now I havent intsalled anything yet driver or windows update becuase im trying to get the full 4gb working 3gb work without problems but when I put a fourth stick in it doesnt matter which one I get no beep on startup everything else starts up but I just get a black screen I put dram voltage in bios to 2.1 but still a no go the board came stock with the 402 bios.And also another porblem Im having is a message saying no ide H.D.D detected on startup its not a big deal i just press F1 and its start but I would like to know what it is.

[malik22]

I fixed the 4gb problem but im still getting no ide H.D.D detected! on every startup any ides what the problem might be?

[ericeod]

Originally Posted by malik22

I fixed the 4gb problem but im still getting no ide H.D.D detected! on every startup any ides what the problem might be?

If you have a SATA HDD connected and not using the IDE on the motherboard, you need to disable the IDE. Just go into the bios and go to on board device configuration and disable the J-micron PATA controller.

[malik22]

I fixed that issue one last problem when I boot up from a shutoff pc the 120mm fan on my heatsink will turn on for 2 seconds then shutoff then turn back on like 2 secs after then the pc starts normally.Any Idesas what this could be?

[ericeod]

Originally Posted by malik22

I fixed that issue one last problem when I boot up from a shutoff pc the 120mm fan on my heatsink will turn on for 2 seconds then shutoff then turn back on like 2 secs after then the pc starts normally.Any Idesas what this could be?

I have the same issue. I just atributed it to how the PC starts up with POST.

[malik22]

The only issue I have left is no ide H.D.D detected on startup and it prompts me to press F1 any ideas to this problem?

[cerealk1ll3r]

Make sure it is one of the boot drives? Make sure all your connectors are secure?