Official ASUS X38 Boards: P5E, P5E3 - Info/BIOS Thread

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ok just found a bug with the p5e bios, not sure if all bios revisions will have this , i think mine is 201. anyway my pc would work fine and then the next day my overclock (i thought) became unstable and wouldnt let me into windows xp or vista.
i could here this spinning which i thought was one of my hard drives trying to access data. well i was sort of right. if you have a disc in your dvd drive the bios for some reason starts to search for info from it. constantly spinning up and obviously failing as its accessing the wrong drive.
this is a really wierd one as i have never seen this kind of problem before or had a bios ignore my settings this way. i got my ear close to the pc and realised it was the dvd drive spinning up so i took out the W.I.Conflict disc and it booted up no problems.
i've had this issue every morning if i ran my ram above 1000mhz. but with disk out the problem is gone. hope this helps anyone else having similar issues booting up in a morning.
by the way my boot time into vista is usually 15 seconds....from bios to user selection screen.