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I have a 1000 watt psu from Silverstone and two dedicated 6 pin wires connected from the psu to the video card. Can this Gigabyte GTX 470 1280mb video card run properly on this Asus P5K-E Wifi mobo that only has a PCI-E v1.1 slot? I read somewhere else that some mobos with v1.0/v1.1 PCI-E slots act up a bit with v2.0 cards (even though they should all be backwards compatible). Now my question is, because I haven't come into this problem before.
P5K E PC
I left the pc off until morning and tried to turn it back on and again video, crash, reboot, no more video (monitor's ember light turns on as well, instead of the blue power one, meaning no video connection).
P5K E WINDOWS 7
I got as far as the windows 7 boot screen and it locks up again, rebooted, again video is gone and isn't coming back on when I turn system off and on again. So at that time I put back my evga 8800 GTS 640mb and it showed up on the monitor instantly.Ī few days later I though it might be my hdd causing the crashes as it was acting up before hand (its been rma'd and new one is in machine now) so I took it out and tried the 470 again and I had video once again. I started to check each ram stick, using only one but it didn't help. I tried to reboot a bunch of times but no video, and I get the normal beep (sounds a bit different though) each time. I rebooted and thought it was maybe my OC on CPU so I adjusted it down a bit and when I exited the Bios the system rebooted and no video at all. So when I first installed it, everything seemed fine until 12 hours later, while surfing the web, my system just locks up.
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I did not have problems with video card hitting RAM slots either.I've been having some problems getting my Gigabyte GTX 470 1280mb video card working on my currently installed Asus P5K-E Wifi mobo. Also, ASUS is now supplying one right angle SATA cord to alleviate this. Overall Review: Some have complained of big video cards blocking SATA slots but this was not a problem for me even with my gigantic Radeon 3870. How hard would that be to fix for your customers, ASUS? :( To fix problem on floppy, simply create "A:\$OEM\textmode" folder, then copy iastor.sys. This really is inexcusable as I spent 8 hours trying to get past a problem that should have taken five minutes(on a Saturday). This really is an XP problem but ASUS should have corrected their "make disc" feature to compensate. The boot up floppy had to be manually modified for XP to read the iastor.sys file.
P5K E INSTALL
Haven't tried OC'ing yet.Ĭons: Installing RAID DRIVERS with fresh install of XP and "F6 boot" did not work with the supplied "make disk" process given by ASUS.
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Built in sound does Dolby Digital just fine. Just be sure to make the floppy before trashing your existing Windows installation. (Win Install said it couldn't find ANY hard drives - which is obvious once you think for a minute - or even read the manual! You need to install the RAID drivers before Windows installer will see them - doh).
P5K E DRIVER
Found I had to reinstall WinXP on that drive.Īlso, needed to do the F6 thing during WinXP install to load RAID driver from floppy. Configured my 2 Raptors for RAID 0, but then couldn't boot WinXP from the single drive. I wanted to use an existing Windows boot install on a non-RAID drive, along with a pair of WD Raptors in RAID 0 for performance. To do RAID, ALL SATA drives must be configured as RAID Apparently even non-RAID drives are managed by the RAID controller.
P5K E MANUAL
Had to find and download Intel's Matrix Storage Manager 7.0 User's Manual to understand RAID setup limitations for the P35. Overall Review: Upgraded existing PC - retained only the case, PS and hard drives from the old one. At least it doesn't get in the way of anything. Heat pipe plumbing is dorky overkill IMHO, but it apparently impresses the kiddies. (Would it have broken the bank for Asus to make both supplied cables be right-angle ones?)Ĭons: IDE connector is inconvenient for my DVD drive, which is in the very top of my case. One of the supplied SATA cables has a right-angle connector, but it wasn't needed. Was afraid that a 8800GTS would block some of the SATA connectors, but it doesn't. Pros: Hi quality solid board, great value. Learn more about the ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP Model BrandĬore 2 Quad / Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo / Pentium Extreme / Pentium D / Pentium 4Ģ x PCI-E x16 (blue x16 mode, black x4 or x1 mode)Īdditional Information Date First Available