First build & Software.

Luceamar · October 15, 2016

So I've managed to put my first build together and though the cable management is a wreck it boots and everything works so far!
Got a few questions now:

1) How do I get it to boot directly into windows? Now I always have to wait until it shows me a screen which says 'Press F1 to set up' (Press F2/DEL for BIOS screen comes before that but neither button takes me to the BIOS), then after pressing F1, I get to the Asus BIOS, then F8/Boot menu and then choose the windows drive. I've tried clicking most places but it always takes me that route.
2) I've installed windows10, the driver for my GPU from Nvidias page, firefox, antivirus, anti malware and exploit, and the stuff that came with my Asus X99-A II mobo on the DVD. What else do I need to install (other than the software I am going to use myself.) Some good program to stress test? Any other drivers than those?
3) Though I tried to click away all stuff I didn't want, the Mobo driver DVD also installed a bunch of stuff that I don't really need, can I just get rid of it? (Specifying this post soon in terms of which systems there are)
4) The Lights of the GTX1080. I wanna turn them off since my case has no window and comes under the table so it's a waste to have them on. Nvidias internet site says if I download Nvidia Experience, there's a tab for controlling the lightning. Well, Nvidia Experience installed with the driver for the GPU but there's no tab for the lightning... What can I do about that?
5) When in the BIOS or ASUS's software looking at the fan configurations, it say CPU fan is missing / not found - though all fan's in the build are well and spinning? Also, any way to keep the fans at the same speed all the time? I set them all to turbo mode (which was fairly quiet) in the BIOS, saved the settings aand next time booting they were back to pretty loud...

I would highly apppreciate it if someone could help me out here, building was fairly easy and it's quick to find solutions online but with this stuff I'm having a bit of trouble... (Just like choosing a CPU / Keyboard.....)
Spec list if needed: i7 6800K, Asus X99-A II, 4x8GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM, EVGA FTW GeForce GTX1080, Noctua NH-D15s.

barkloaf · October 15, 2016

8 minutes ago, Luceamar said:

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1) There should be a "boot order" put your windows10 drive first, you may have to look it up if you cant find it

2) Cinebench, AIDA64, and CPUID are some benchmarking software

3) You should be able to uninstall all of that within Windows. Go to control panel.

4) Not really familiar with that software, someone else might have to answer

5) Not familiar either

And since this is your first build... I want you to keep this in mind:

It is an older video, so ignore older product names

Luceamar · October 15, 2016

1 hour ago, EnemySp0tt3d said:

1) There should be a option on that boot page to boot directly to windows. If not, look at your boot priorities, and see if your operating system hard drive is put as the first one.

Make sure that the bios screen doesn't say there is a cpu fan error (As you specified in the post, you saw one in the asus software)

2) I would go onto asus site and download the most updates drivers from there. The drivers on the CD are usually a few months old. I would get a CPU temp monitor. I use real temp and its been great.

3) No. You can get rid of them from your system, but I would keep them somewhere safe in case you need them later if something happens. EX; you need to do a system restore but you can't get internet because you don't have the driver.

4) Download EVGAS software to control the lighting. http://www.evga.com/PXM/

5) Make sure that the header from your pump is plugged into the CPU fan header on the motherboard.

1) Haven't yet figured out how to get it to run, gotta probably ask someone with a little more experience to come by and have a look at it...
2) The Asus site has like 50 different driver and utility things to download so I though it'd be easier to get the stuff from the DVD than to look through all that

3) I mean systems like Asus cloud or Dameon or what it's name was that doesn't do anything useful on the PC

4) I'll check out that link but here, http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/geforce-experience-nvidia-geforce-gtx-led-visualizer-user-guide#3 it says I could control the light from Nvidia experience, however if I open Nvidia experince on the PC, there's only the 'home' and 'drivers' tabs, but no 'my rig' tab etc...

Many thanks for your time!

Luceamar · October 15, 2016

2 hours ago, AwesomeAustin226 said:

1) There should be a "boot order" put your windows10 drive first, you may have to look it up if you cant find it

2) Cinebench, AIDA64, and CPUID are some benchmarking software

3) You should be able to uninstall all of that within Windows. Go to control panel.

4) Not really familiar with that software, someone else might have to answer

5) Not familiar either

And since this is your first build... I want you to keep this in mind:

It is an older video, so ignore older product names

I think I'll try out AIDA64 - heard about it a few times now. The booting still doesn't work completely fine but I'll invite a friend over who hopefully can help me with it. I'm aware thats faar to much money spent for a gaming PC but this rig is for editing big photo files and raw 4k video so