Strange USB 3 problem

[russtobin]

Got a x58a-ud3r running with i7 950/6GB Corsair/OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot 120GB 3.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive/Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache/Win 7 64bit.

Had a problem I think from first build whereby writing to external hdd via usb 3 port causes freeze. ctrl/alt/delete to end task causes all desktop icons to disappear.

Bios is uptodate as is the NEC usb 3 driver.

Anybody got any ideas??

[dmdilks]

Just asking if you plug it into a USB-2 port does it freeze?

[russtobin]

usb 2 ports work perfectly with usb 2 or 3 devices.

problem only seems to be whilst writing.......

[dmdilks]

To be honest that I had 6 of those boards and never had problems with the USB 3 ports. Here is another thread on the problem.

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=4630.0

[russtobin]

Thanks for that.

All the signs seem to be pointing towards a hardware issue.

I'm going to try a pcie card over the next couple of days and see what happens.

Should I disable the onboard usb3 in bios before i try the card option??

[dmdilks]

I would try it disable first.

[russtobin]

Disabled onboard usb3 in bios and installed cheap vl800 based card and everything seems to be aok(500GB in <1.5hrs)

very strange........