Warning on ASUS P5E

[John]

Asus P5E; Take a look at location of battery. It is under Video card. I had to pull video card to pull battery


Asus P5E3 in second pic, battery in a place you get to it

[MahtaReika]

The P5K Deluxe is the same. I have to pull the GPU out just to reset the bios. I've only had to do it twice, but, what a pain in the ars!

[jebo_4jc]

thank god for automatic bios reset

[John]

When it works

thank god for automatic bios reset

[AmericanNightmare]

This is why I moved away from Asus boards finally. I am not familair with thier Intel models but it seems that in the last couple of years the boards are getting more poorly designed.

Even among the high end AMD models like the M2N32-SLI and the Crosshair irriating things like chipset heatsinks getting in the way of video cards and CMOS batteries being blocked have become more common not to mention a LOT of buggy BIOS's..

On the high end DFI is IMHO the only way to go. In the med. range Gigabyte and on the low end Biostar.

Don't even get me started on MSI or Abit..