New assembly ready to be fired up for the first time

gregrocker said:

If you have no System partition besides C then you didn't install to UEFI so will not have all features of the BIOS.

Not sure what features your referring too :/
I don't want bit locker to ever get activated even on purpose :)
Otherwise bios looks pretty complete as is = actually way over my head as it is

I don't really want to go through all of the fuss of secure boot if I want to boot to a flash drive....
I'm guessing that is one of the features your referring too ?

I'm only using 1 ssd at a time with my easy hot swap evo pretty much why I got a 500gb ssd for this install

If I install win-8.1 pro it will also be installed the same way probably on a 256gb ssd but no system reserved partition
I love my hot swap evo
Doesn't look like much but it's awesome

derekimo said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

essenbe said:

Mike, on my board there are 2 lights at the bottom right. One is a Boot Device LED, which should only show if it can't find the boot device. The other is the TPU light (trusted Platform Unit (or something) which only comes on if it is enabled.) I don't enable it. As far as I am aware it is for automatic overclocking.

You are thinking of TPM (Trusted Platform Module) which is used with Bitlocker. I don't know what TPU stands for but you are correct that it is for automatic overclocking.

TurboV Processing Unit.

ASUS Motherboard with Dual Intelligent Processors - TPU & EPU

Thank you! I was too lazy to look it up ('tis bedtime for Bonz...er...Jeannie).

derekimo said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

essenbe said:

Mike, on my board there are 2 lights at the bottom right. One is a Boot Device LED, which should only show if it can't find the boot device. The other is the TPU light (trusted Platform Unit (or something) which only comes on if it is enabled.) I don't enable it. As far as I am aware it is for automatic overclocking.

You are thinking of TPM (Trusted Platform Module) which is used with Bitlocker. I don't know what TPU stands for but you are correct that it is for automatic overclocking.

TurboV Processing Unit.

ASUS Motherboard with Dual Intelligent Processors - TPU & EPU

Dang that sounds like it came off a race car
Thanks a lot guys a lot of great help
I got the Corsair link software installed
Got security up and running MSE and MBAM Premium I only have 1 more license left

I guess I should see about asus utilities to check for cpu driver updates along with the chip set ?
The utilities themselves were not on the disk that I noticed :/
Mostly just outdated drivers I'm guessing ?

I would recommend being very careful of Corsair Link. Some report of nothing but problems.
That has been quite some time ago so they may have the problems worked out by now.

Take a look on the Corsair Forum in the Link section.

Thanks Jack yep I just use it to adjust the cpu fans and that's about it if I need to it's on default now so I did switch to balanced just to see if it made any difference and it did speed them up a bit or even them out = balance

Greg as far as I know the bios themselves is indeed UEFI it's just the os is in I guess legacy mode,
When I used 8-8.1 the install with no other drives connected made no difference in taking 8.1 ssd out and inserting win-7 ssd in they booted as if neither knew anything about each other = just the way I liked it,
whether doing it now like that makes any difference I don't know I have not tried

4th of July sells for win-8.1 pro might give me a chance to see because I'll get it if not to badly priced right now at 140.us is way too much 99.00 is more like it and lower is better

You can only upgrade to W10 RTM via W7 SP1 or W8.1 Update 1 (or whatever it is) Greg, if you have the Tech Preview you stay on the Tech Preview.