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07-22-2018 09:53 AM
TOMULA wrote:
Hi My name is Tom
I'm happy owner of Asus FX503, ROG STRIX headphones,
and not very happy owner of SICA mouse because latest drivers ON THE WEBSITE ARE NOT WORKING! :mad:
07-22-2018 10:28 PM
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07-25-2018 08:55 PM
ddt000 wrote:
Long time ASUS user. My mobo has been a P8H67M-EVO for years. Finally upgraded to Win10 and then learned that Intel isn't writing drivers for Sandy Bridge chipsets. So I started looking for LGA 1155 CPU boards that support Win10 because my 2nd gen i7 chip works more than well enough for me. Graphics are from an EVGA 1050Ti SC.
Trying to stay with ASUS because the hardware has been good to me. Customer Support likewise. Thank you. So I looked into the ROG Maximus V Gene. Z77 chipsets have Win10 drivers (no more random kernel failures and BSOD). The actual in the box new MVGs are close to $300 on eBay. For an ancient board that's ouch. But the guaranteed working "new" are around half that - from China.
So I tried one, installed it, and it wouldn't do more than illuminate the board's "start" button. No POST, no readout on the diagnostic codes, no fans spinning. Nothing. I called ASUS tech support and the rep had me try the board outside the case (on the bench) and it was the same. Chipset got real hot too while we were trying this - he said that's bad: return it. So I did & got a refund. Weird thing was someone had blacked out the S/N - made me wonder if this was a salvaged "returned" board.
So I omitted China and got a used MVG from someone in the US. Installed it and the same thing happened. That's odd. Maybe there's something wrong with my setup? But when I reinstall everything on my P8H67M-EVO it all works (aside from the kernel failures due to chipset drivers not supporting Win10). So I searched and there was some talk of some CPU heatsinks being trouble. I have a Thermaltake Frio, which has a bracket that goes on the mobo's backside to support it. I removed the Frio and tried the mobo with my i7 and old working i5 CPUs - no difference.
So I'm thinking of giving up on the Republic. Been assembling computers for decades - never had this much trouble (well, not since trying a software RAID setup). I'll take my question into the forums if nobody answers me here. Cheers!
07-30-2018 11:20 AM
Alex0915 wrote:
Sorry for your bad experience, I'm a new ASUS customer and Portatech is doing my build for me with the Ryzen 7 2700X CPU and Asus ROG Strix X470-F Gaming Motherboard. My question is that I have the original build of Windows 10 Home (32/64bit version) on a USB 3 flash drive that I bought from a physical Best Buy store here in New York back in 2016. I had never used it and it just sat there until I decided to get a new build. It has the Certificate of Authenticity on the box and inside there's the Booklet and the Key and the USB 3 flash drive, the only thing is it's labeled "Puerto Rico" on the box but it also says English, so should this early build of Windows 10 Home work fine on my system and once I install it on my Samsung 970 EVO NVMe drive I can just go to the MS website and download the latest build? I called MS and they told me it should work but I wanted to make sure, or else I could just have Portatech install the latest build and pay an extra 100. But then the version I bought back in 2016 for 120 would have been wasted. MS also told me that as an alternative I could download the latest build of Win 10 Home on my laptop and save it to a newly formatted SD disk and run it on my new build. What should I do? I'm leaning towards just using my early version of Win 10 Home and updating to the latest build after it's installed and thereby saving $100 and not wasting the Win 10 Home I bought in 2016 for $120. Portatech told me that either way my build will be fully tested for stability, compatibility and temps and will be fully burned in. What should I do? Thanks!
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