So I do own Asus P5K mother board and last week, once it took me like good 90 minutes to boot that whore. Problem is on that all you can hear fans spinning and so but it won't go further. You have to restart computer as long as it decide to boot up. I think I wasted over 200 hours on it already. Sometimes it can start after couple of restarts sometimes it takes forever. Question is: Can I fix it myself or should I get new mobo, wait till I turn 25, buy a gun and shoot a bullet for each reboot I have made? rig: q6600, 4gb ram, 9800gtx+, 600w corsair, multiple HDDs.
Process of elimination. First disconnect all hard drives and then boot. If it boots fine then there is a problem in that area. Connect the OS drive alone and then take the rest from there!
I think here's a problem with mobo itself, did some research long time ago.. ended up with no results. Will do as you said Blogins on fresh boot, EDIT: Cleared the comos - nothing. I afraid to flash bios, but if I won't have no options in two days - i'll go for it. X.M.P - never heard of it.
Removed RAM, removed HDDs. From cold boot it won't start instantly, need to be rebooting that thing for ages.
Only time I've had issue like that it was due to a bad voltage for the CPU, have you overclocked? Make sure you are running the stock setup for your CPU (and that the heatsink is still firmly attached with the fan spinning)
NO OC at all till like 3 days ago, mobo won't let OC CPU either (spoilt?). I ma running custom OC, 35'C idle, to high temp?
I've got the same mobo, and had the same symptoms: Turned out the PSU had failed - swapped it out and all is well.... Jeff
What play_boy_2000 said. Plus another possibility - plug in a PS/2 keyboard. No need to use it, just plug it in. No, that is not a joke. My former P5K-E/WIFI-AP required PS/2 keyboard for not showing issue like you describe.
