Quote Originally Posted by Raja@ASUS View Post
Having to hold the power button longer for the board to start: Are the onboard standby LEDs illuminated when you are pressing the power button? Might be a slight delay as the PSU switches on. Personally, I don't turn my PSU off at the wall every night - I utilize S3. ErP compliant means very low power leakage in S3 (standby) from these PSUs.
Yes I have seen the standby LED's illuminated. The reason why I was disconnecting it from the wall to begin with was as a extra precaution when swapping out hard drives (I'm using a Icydock FlexCage).



Can't really advise any more as I have to go by how you are describing the symptoms and that makes it difficult. I would not worry about overclocking your CPU until you've worked the basics of how the board works out and identified if there are any issues. The double-pump (restart) is normal from AC power cycle. The switch-on delay you are citing could just be your PSU getting power to the board after turn on, and you pressing the case power button too soon.

I wasn't looking at overclocking just yet, I was mainly interested in the most optimized settings for what limited hardware I have connected to the board. I've seen options in BIOS like ?memory scrambler? and haven't had a clue whether they should be enabled or disabled as an example.

Thanks again for the help.