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I figured out the problem. For some strange reason, Windows installed a driver (Accusys 6xxx) for the PCI-PCI bridge! Once I uninstalled and deleted the driver from Driver Manager and rescanned devices, the JMicron SATA controller appeared (unknown). Then I was able to install the JMicron...

With my previous (B2) board, I was able to install the drivers and use the eSata ports. With my current B3 board, the JMicron controller is not visible to Windows. It is visible in the BIOS and I can see drives that are attached. Anyone else have the same problem? I did a completely new...

Link please.

Don't overclock beyond the point where you have to enable PLL Overvoltage. That should still get you to 4.6 GHz which is more than respectable.

Since it's possible to change the settings from Windows (via MEI), I would think that ASUS could write a driver/hook to downclock and disable PLL overvoltage prior to going to sleep, and restore the setting after waking back up. Just a thought.

I'm even closer to point of origin, but hope is out there. Mine arrived today, one day early. No rush for me though as I won't have time to swap it out before the weekend anyway. Oh, and thank you ASUS.

I got the MSI GTX560 Ti. It's based on the GF114 (GF104) Fermi chip and runs cooler than the 570. Also overclocked it is equal or better than the 570 for less power. And if you're interested in folding@home when not gaming, it generates many more points per day. My 560 is overclocked to 1000 MHz.

Those are capacitors. It's broken and the motherboard should be returned/replaced.

I will make sure to have several copies of BIOS on a USB Flash drive so that after swapping the motherboard I can reflash on initial boot up if necessary.

Who cares if it's collected on paper? Are people that averse to paper? What about, thanks Asus for allowing cross shipping and being one of the first (if not the first) mobo manufacturer to start offering this. It's very unlikely Asus (or any manufacturer) is prepared for such a mass...

Or patience. It seems to be in short supply, like the motherboards. Not a personal comment to you. :D

The heatsink should not obstruct the RAM, but the push fan will. Fortunately the push fan can be removed without having to remove the heatsink and it can also be moved up or down as needed depending on the size of the heatspreaders on the RAM.

Just because the HQ is in Taiwan does not mean that all work is performed there. It makes perfect sense to have a base of operations in Silicon Valley right near Intel and AMD.

This sounds like the same thing I'm observing. Mouse cursor moves but the windows don't respond. If I right click, the mouse cursor freezes. Something similar and possibly related is after initial boot, sometimes the GUI seems to freeze. I type CTRL-ALT-DEL and after a while I get a window...

Check your TPU switch and turn it off and see if that helps.