Hey all, I wasnt sure whether I should start a new thread or to post it here but Im guessing this is the best place to post all of my questions/issues for this MB. These are the following specs to my pc:

ASUS P5N32-E SLI (680i) ACPI BIOS Revision 0602
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB Forceware Version 158.22
Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 Conroe 1.86Ghz
Corsair XMS2 512MB DDR2 SS 800 PC2-6400 (x4)
Corsair 620W PowerSupply
Rosewill Dual Serial Ports PCI card
Lite-on 20x dvdR with lightscribe SATA
Windows Xp SP2 X64 Bit Edition


These are the only things that I have changed in the BIOS so far which are:

Memory Voltage [2.1] "Corsair specs"
OS/2 [enabled]
Primary Adapter [PCI-E]
Raid is enabled for SATA 1 and 2 where both HDD are raided using Raid 1 (Mirroring) and a regular format was performed for it.

The following are Benchmark scores (Please note that all Benchmarks were run with only 1 stick of 512 ram and everything else is stock)
3DMark2001SE Defaults - 35459
3DMark2003 Defaults - 30527
3dMark2005 Defaults - 12014
3dMark2006 Defaults - 8046, SM2.0 Score - 3811, HDR/SM3.0 Score 3870, CPU Score - 1678

My first and MAIN question regarding this motherboard is that when I turned it on for the first time I noticed that when the Asus Splash Screen Logo was appearing it seems as if its displaying it really sluggish/laggy. Then when I went into the BIOS, the bios seems rather slow as well. Is this how its supposed to be for this motherboard? If not, does anyone recommend that I update the bios to the latest stable version? Maybe that might help..Since i think its the motherboard that is defected Im kinda scared to update the bios since I think it might not boot up after that and I dont want to void my warranty.

As for the Ram I have 4 sticks of 512. The first time it booted up I had all of them installed and the PC would just restart right after the Asus splash screen would go away. Then sometimes it wouldnt even show video. I took all the ram out and left 1 stick in there and went ahead and checked it using quicktech Pro v5.51 and Eurosoft PC check v6.00 where 3 of my sticks passed all ram tests. The other ram stick just freezes the computer at the Asus splash screen so that one for sure is defected. When I ran Dual channel mode (1gb), after installing windows I would periodically get a BSOD "Beginning dump of physical memory" but then I put that same ram stick that was in the second bank in the 1st channel where i still have 1gb in total but instead there running at single channel memory and it works flawlessly without no loss of video or BSOD. So im wondering maybe my motherboard memory controller could be defected as well ? Or could it be that the corsair is incompatible with the Bios version and updating the bios would fix this issue (assuming that the QVL pdf sheet that i read for compability was done using a more updated bios than the one that i currently have) Btw, is it possible to use the 2nd and 4th slot to test out dual channel memory with having nothing in the 1st and 3rd ram slots?

My CPU came chipped right out of the package. On the top of the processor towards one of the corners its chipped.. Its really small though so i didnt think this would be an issue. Could this end up degrading the processor over time because of this? Im not sure if I should rma this as well since it passed all the processor tests in quicktech and PC check.

As for the ATX12V 2.0 specs I noticed that some people use the 8 pin over the 4 pin. Isnt the 8pin specifically for Xeon/Opteron? So wouldnt it be bad for the processor and the motherboard if anyone is using the 8 pin for there dual core?

My lite on burner seems to have something loose inside I could hear it moving around.. Regardless I still installed it and Ive already sucessfully watched a DVD, burned a regular CD and burned a DVD.. So im not sure whether to keep it or RMA this as well.

I installed PC Probe 2 and the only monitors in red are the DDR2 Term (currently at 1.09v) and 1.2VHT (currently at 1.52v), Am i suppose to set the values for those as well to 2.1 volts? Does that have anything to do with why it could have been crashing when I was running under dual channel memory mode? Also when I set the memory voltage to 2.1 its actually at 2.16 in PC probe and the BIOS should i set the voltage a bit lower in the bios so it rounds off to 2.1 volts in the monitoring software then ?

When I go into hibernation mode the pc will sometimes turn on by itself. I checked the bios to see if there was any alarm causing this to happen but nothing there. When I do a regular shut down this doesnt happen though. Not sure what to think in this case...

Lastly out of all the Diagnostics tests that were performed everything passed under PC check, as for Quicktech pro the only thing that failed was the tests regarding the SMbus controller where it failed in "Sm Bus Host registers test and Sm Bus Host registers status" but it passed on detecting that there was an SM bus host. Im assuming that maybe it failed because the version of quicktech pro that i had is from 2005. But then again I could be completely wrong here.

This question has nothing to do with this motherboard but i was wondering What should AGP aperture size be set at ? Am i suppose to set it to the same size of the video card memory ? or half its size? and Why though ?

So heres what im thinking, Im guessing I should update the bios for the motherboard and hope it boots and see if that helps in any way. (Im still scared of flashing it but i guess you all can give me advice whether i should just rma it or flash 1st just to check and then rma) let me know.

Im sorry for all the questions! I have a week left to start RMA'ing things so Id like to know by monday so i can start shipping out the defective products.. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Im pretty much not sure of anything right now.. So Please hepl me! : ( Imuh nublet : (