Just a heads up to anyone with the Asus P5QL-EM – installing Windows 7 RTM without an addon graphics card (so essentially using the onboard graphics) will fail miserably. On the first boot, the display is corrupted (at least over DVI) and while booting in safe mode avoids this problem, the installer won’t continue properly. [...]
Also tagged bios, graphics, intel, motherboard, p5ql-em, windows 7This Friday I received a box with several new computer components from our supplier NXSource, the business end of NCIX. I’m currently in the process of performing several new system builds and overwhelmingly chose the Asus P5Q series, in both -VM and -E based configurations.
As per its extension, the P5Q-VM will be going in an [...]
I experience this issue every time I go to seek a pre-Windows Vista driver for an Asus motherboard: their download servers always peter out at about 100KB/s, regardless of which mirror I choose. I have half a mind to set up mirrors of the most popular drivers – even if a LAN or audio driver [...]
Also tagged bios, download, driver, server, speedQuite a number of new systems I’ve built have included the P5B Deluxe or P5B Deluxe-WiFi motherboards. After an aggravating experience with a new build today – really out of the ordinary for the hardware – I figured I’d write up my experiences to save other people a potential issue.
Symptoms: When installing Vista x64 on [...]