Zenith Extreme & X399-E

Zenith II Extreme Alpha - SATA Ports

I just finished a build with an Zenith II Extreme Alpha. I have two M.2 SSDs mounted in the two slots on the motherboard. I also have a 12TB hard drive connected to the motherboard via a SATA cable. (No RAID.)My question is: Which of the 8 SATA po...

Zenith II Extreme Alpha - CPU Fan Error

Brand new build. Just turned it on for the first time. I got the following error message:CPU Fan Error!Press F1 to Run SetupThere are no details as to the nature of the fan error. I’m using a Corsair H115i Platinum liquid CPU cooler. The two fans...

Zernith II Extreme Alpha Bios problems.

I've been having a problem with my Zenith II Extreme Alpha's bios and outside of RMAing the board I'm out of ideas on what I can do to fix the issue.The problem is that any BIOS change that I make and save via F10 results in the machine rebooting and...

Max pcie cards this board can support?

I'm trying to figure out how many pcie cards I can slot into the board. Looking at it it looks like I could fit between 3 to 4 of these compute units I'm looking to add. The wrx80 would be ideal. Is there anyway to add five pcie 3.0 compute unit card...

Zenith II Extreme Alpha Microphone Doesn't work in Ubuntu 20.04

I have a Zenith II Extreme Alpha with NVIDIA RTX 2080ti graphics card that I use in a dual boot configuration (WIndows 10 / Ubuntu 20.04). Yes, I know that ASUS does not support this dual boot configuration. In any case, I've been using the system ...

Can enter BIOS

I received my replacement Zenith II Extreme Alpha motherboard. This is board number FIVE. There is no doubt Asus has a problem with this board as my luck is not that bad. In the past the boards would startup and work for a few days than fail wit...

Slow POST times solved (but I don't understand why)

This one is strange. I chased around this problem for a long time and fixed it but I'm not sure why the fix works. When I installed my Motherboard (Extreme II Zenith Alpha), everything worked BUT the POST took like 2-4 MINUTES to complete everytime...

Zenith Extreme X399 - 85 Min Post - Code 92 Load VGA Bios is updating LED firmware

***Repost - Moving to the Main SubForum*** (no responses previously)Fellow x399 enthusiasts,I've been up and down this forum searching and experimenting with different recommendations that have led me to essentially the same error.Bios is updating LE...

Zenith Extreme Alpha - NVME Maximum 2GB/sec Windows Copy Speed or Real Bench

Zenith ii Extreme Alpha of course.Thought I would start a thread with this issue.I wonder if you guys have experienced the same NVME bandwidth issue I am having.I have a hard limit in windows in terms of file copy speeds of a max. 2.1GBytes per secon...

Zenith II Extreme Alpha EATX12V connectors

Hello all,One qustion...which cable should I use to connect the EATX12V_3 6-pin connector ?Will an 8-pin EPS plug fit, leaving out the last two pins ?It look like there is only 8-pin or 4-pin EPS type of plugs...Thanks