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Hi,
So just taken delivery of my Titan Onyx from OcUK. Been a while since I got a new machine, so slowly getting to grips with the new hardware and Win 7.
However I have a few immediate questions, that seem to be mostly related to the motherboard.
Firslty when starting up, I notice two screens where it (the BIOS?) reports no harddrives installed. First time I booted I was naturally concerned, but there is a hard drive and its connected, which and found and booted the pre-installed win 7 off fine.
Is this expected behaviour? I guess the board supports seveal harddrives and RAID(?) so maybe its just checking through the available hardware? I assume more information would be avialable from setup, though i've not built up the courage to delve into that yet
The second issue is that win 7 warns me to troubleshoot the installed 500Gb Seagate Barracuda. From what I can see its complaining that there are no RAID drivers installed. But I don't have RAID, so not sure whether I should or not? I'm wondering if this is also related to the start up errors/warnings above?
Finally i'm searching now, but would welcome suggestions for monitoring software to check temps and clock speeds. Not sure if there is anything on the ASUS disk, i'll have to check. One thing I want to confirm is that the i7 920 is over-clocked to 4Ghz as the only info i've found in Win 7 reports it at 2.66Ghz.
thx
Edit:
Ok I see from reading some reviews of this board that it comes with a host of software and drivers and the OC Palm looks cool.
Is there any reason not to install these programs?
So just taken delivery of my Titan Onyx from OcUK. Been a while since I got a new machine, so slowly getting to grips with the new hardware and Win 7.
However I have a few immediate questions, that seem to be mostly related to the motherboard.
Firslty when starting up, I notice two screens where it (the BIOS?) reports no harddrives installed. First time I booted I was naturally concerned, but there is a hard drive and its connected, which and found and booted the pre-installed win 7 off fine.
Is this expected behaviour? I guess the board supports seveal harddrives and RAID(?) so maybe its just checking through the available hardware? I assume more information would be avialable from setup, though i've not built up the courage to delve into that yet
The second issue is that win 7 warns me to troubleshoot the installed 500Gb Seagate Barracuda. From what I can see its complaining that there are no RAID drivers installed. But I don't have RAID, so not sure whether I should or not? I'm wondering if this is also related to the start up errors/warnings above?
Finally i'm searching now, but would welcome suggestions for monitoring software to check temps and clock speeds. Not sure if there is anything on the ASUS disk, i'll have to check. One thing I want to confirm is that the i7 920 is over-clocked to 4Ghz as the only info i've found in Win 7 reports it at 2.66Ghz.
thx
Edit:
Ok I see from reading some reviews of this board that it comes with a host of software and drivers and the OC Palm looks cool.
Is there any reason not to install these programs?
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