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Maximus VIII Hero noisy board clicks/pops

Let me start right away by saying that I am 100% sure the clicking/popping noises I am hearing are not coming from fans, hard drives or my power supply. I have tested the whole system outside the case with no spinning drives connected, no case fans c...

Keyboard not working, can't enter UEFI

I have a new system with a Maximus VIII Motherboard and for the life of me, I can't get the keyboard to work during boot. It's detected fine but F2/Del don't work to enter BIOS and occasionally, I get this wretched annoying message and can't move pas...

MEI and INF drivers for 'MAXIMUS VIII HERO' Please Help!

I know this motherboard is very old now so I'm not expecting the support page to continue to be updated, but can someone help.https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/All-series/MAXIMUS-VIII-HERO/I want to know where I can get the...

Question about Optical S/PDIF.

Question about Optical S/PDIF.This may sound silly, but I haven't found any information about it anywhere.When the computer is turned on, the optical S/PDIF have red light. Is it ok for this out port?

Ritter by Level 7
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4TB SATA drive and Windows 10

Greetings. I am finally getting around to swapping out one of my 2TB Barracuda data drives (so no OS on there) for a 4TB drive.Do I remember correctly that there is a bios setting or something I need to do special with setup if I go over 2TB or is t...

BJBBJB by Level 7
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2nd pcie slot not working maximus viii hero

Hi,I have an Maximus VIII Hero that the 2nd pcie slot didn't recognized anything. There's the full system specs:-Maximus VIII Hero motherboard-Intel core i7 6700K-16GB RAM G-Skill 3200mhz-Corsair RM650 PSU-Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 (X16 slot)-GPU tryie...

Safe to download Maximus Viii Gene BIOS?

I know asus was hit with shadowhammer 2 years ago but the BIOS file I want to use has not been signed nor does ASUS provide an MD5 to check if the file is valid. Is it safe to download the latest BIOS from 2018? I'd hate to flash a board that has a B...

Selected file is not a proper bios

Hi people,I downloaded bios 2001 for my maximus viii ranger and before flashing with EZ flash 3 utility it told me :"selected bios is not a proper bios file". I m sure i downloaded it from http://www.asus.com/support. So i tried to flash it to usb ...

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Pch temperature improvement

Hey,finally a motherboard that runs fine after having only problems on rve, the maximus viii extreme, perfect temps for vrm 30-40 degrees c, perfect cpu temp @ 20 in idle and 30-35 degrees c in stress of course after setting vcore to adaptive and eve...

sucka by Level 7
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