Recent content by MendoPaul

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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    It has nothing to do with it. If you'll read here you'll find many different issues presented as the days go by. This pertained to a much earlier post about the power supply connection.
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    I think you'll find fineprint in the manual that says to take off the cap and use all 8 pins. That's what I did in mine.
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    P5B and Antec PSU compatible?

    I'm using a PS2 keyboard and the manual says to hold down the <Delete> key at Power ON. However, the keyboard has NO effect on the boot at all. The manual says one beep can mean either "Keyboard controller error" or "no Master drive detected". I don't have a hard drive ("master drive")...
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    P5B and Antec PSU compatible?

    I just installed the MB outside the case and it powers up with a single beep, then goes to the ASUS screen, then to a text screen with Optical drive driver version info and in blue letters, offers my dvd rom drive as a boot choice, and then eventually goes to a text screen that says "Reboot and...
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    P5B and Antec PSU compatible?

    Thanks for that post. That's sure an interesting point! Both Antec and ASUS support people were adamant that the two were incompatible and I wonder why. The other thing ASUS stressed was grounding of the MB but I've wondered if that isn't a catchall excuse to keep you from immediately asking...
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    P5B and Antec PSU compatible?

    I've just assembled a P5B MB with an E6700 which won't POST. After powering up, Beep, then ASUS screen comes up, then BIOS Version screen comes up, no keyboard action works (can't make "del" happen) and the BIOS screen shows my boot option as my only IDE drive, a DVD ROM optical. After a few...