Software

Unfortunately, VIA doesn’t develop various utilities for their chipsets like NVIDIA. In fact, the only VIA”s own utility available for ASUS A8V-E Deluxe mainboard is VIA RAID Tool. That is why the software bundle included with the mainboard contains mostly ASUS?own utilities.

Among them are:

• ASUS Probe.
  

  
  

  This program is intended to provide hardware monitoring. And it copes with this task just perfect! Among all the hardware monitoring utilities we have come across so far, ASUS Probe is definitely the best. It can not only display the current temperatures, voltages and rotation speeds of the cooling fans, but can also provide information about the system hardware and record a log-file.

• ASUS Update
  

  
  

  This utility serves to update the mainboard BIOS from Windows. It can grab new BIOS versions from files, from ASUS web-site online.

• ASUS Cool’n’Quiet
  

  
  

  The developers intended this program to show the current processor working frequency and core voltage, so that the user could watch AI NOS and Cool’n’Quiet at work. However, you will not be able to actually use this tool, because it doesn’t display correct values all the time.

Besides the above listed utilities, ASUS A8V-E Deluxe also comes with a tool replacing the start-up screen image displayed during POST procedure, and with a tool for voice messages editing in the diagnostic system of this mainboard.