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Asus P7P55D-E Pro, couple questions
good morning,
i had a few questions i would like to resolve about my motherboard...
1. i have a sataIII 6gb/s hard drive and a sata optical drive, i have the optical drive plugged into the intel controller, sata port #4, and it shows up in my bios under the main screen and i can boot from it, etc... the hard drive however is plugged into the marvell controller, the 6gb/s port, and does not show up in my normal bios.. however when it posts a screen flashes with something along the lines of 'marvell bios'.. etc... and lists my drive as sataIII speed. i presume everything is ok with the way this is setup?
2. how do i go about setting up the 6gb/s sataIII in the bios? i change 'detect sata as' to AHCI, and put the marvell controller in 'AHCI mode'? i must do this before installing my OS correct?
3. this might not be mobo related exaclty, but it is hardware related... i noticed that in bios (no OS even installed yet) under the hardware monitoring tab my temps are as follows: CPU Temperature (PECI) 55C-56C / Motherboard Temperature 37C-38C - are these temps too high for just idling in bios? is my heatsink not seated properly? I have already tried to reseat it once. the stock thermal paste was evenly applied to both the processor and heatsink, but it was the stock intel stuff... i have an old (maybe a year.. year and a half) tube of artic silver 5 laying around.. should i remove it and apply that? how do i go about removing the old and applying the new if necessary?
appreciate the help