Just picked up an x58M board i7 920 cpu and ocz1333 ram. This board takes a long time to post, by that I mean you turn on the power there is a small pause then the fans and leds come on. About 30-45 seconds (or more) later you get a bee-bee-BEEP then the video card kicks in then the normal BIOS visual post (hit del to enter setup etc). What's weird though if I hit ctrl-alt-delete it will not POST again. I have to hold the power button down for 4+ seconds then the machine turns off then when I hit the power button it all starts again.
All settings set to default. I noticed that the BIOS picks up my memory as 1066, so i tried manually setting it to 1333 and got the same results. Anyone else having this problem? I really hope this isn't normal operation of these boards.
Update: I think I have either have a bad board or bad power. I cannot even boot the Vista installer without a blue screen. Sometimes I have to power the machine on and off 8 to 10 times before it will post at all. Anyone seen this before?
All settings set to default. I noticed that the BIOS picks up my memory as 1066, so i tried manually setting it to 1333 and got the same results. Anyone else having this problem? I really hope this isn't normal operation of these boards.
Update: I think I have either have a bad board or bad power. I cannot even boot the Vista installer without a blue screen. Sometimes I have to power the machine on and off 8 to 10 times before it will post at all. Anyone seen this before?
Both my Eclipse Plus & Pro-E are slower to the Windows Welcome screen than my past Duo Core & current Quad Core machine. I attribute this to a greater number of 'checkdown' functions the bios is doing.