Dont use any of the apps that make BIOS changes. I used AI suite on an M8E and it bricked both BIOS ROMS. At first I thought this was slick and had it running for several days and made multiple OC profiles. I had just finished an OC run, nothing else open, and simply set the saved default clock profile. Locked slam up and after a hard shutdown with the power button it failed to boot on either BIOS when the second one handnt even been messed with in the least. Fortunately for me the roms were still socketed and I found a pair of them on fleabay for $30 each and replaced them, flashed updated BIOS and was back in business. Ive not used anything that writes to BIOS while the machine is in the OS since. I gave up on other ASUS software as well. Aura that never worked correctly is now armory crate and it still doesnt work. GPU tweak also doesnt work as it should. Im still floored that I have to use software to run my GPUs at their rated OC speed. One would think whats on the box is what it will run with no software required. In the end I use MSI afterburner and it works 10% of the time. ASUS makes some great hardware but the software doesnt make the cut. Look though the forum, most of the posts are about some ASUS software failing. Right now the hot topic is Armory crate that I tried once, then ditched all my ASUS peripherals that were over priced and sucked anyway and went to all corsair for lighting, keyboard and mouse. It has a plug in for ASUS MOBOs and controls them just fine, with the exception of addressable RGB headers. I dont use them anyway as I went corsair with those too. Not a problem since.
