Asus P6T Deluxe V2 and IDE DVD drive problem (& solution)...

[tickleonthetum]

When I first set up all my new parts the motherbpoard wouldn't post and the CMOS needed to be reset every time. I tracked it down to only happening when my IDE DVD Drive was connected.

After a great deal of searching on the net using Asus Express Gate's browser I discovered this to be a common problem with this M/B, but I found a single post saying that IDE drives often clash with Express Gate, and to disable Express Gate in the BIOS. Once I did this the system works perfectly with the IDE DVD drive attached.

Hopefully Asus will fix this in the near future as there are a lot of people who still have older IDE drives.

[armoured_smiler]

Thanks for the info, if I ever get round to enabling it on my M3N7 I know of a possible problem I might encounter

Cheers
Paul