ga-x58a-ud3r

[Rumpelstilzskin]

Hi all, Dark Mantis.  You seemed to have helped so many here I hope you can asist me with some problems I have decided not to give up on my  GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard just yet. 

Actually have had some luck with it since I disabled the profile1 settting for XMP and set the config manually.  It is certainly stable enough that I have successfully loaded windows and for the most part it works well. I still have one a few issues though which though seem infrequent, are bothersome to say the least. I will try to give you as much info as possible as I know this helps, so here goes.

My System.  Rev 1.0 motherboard. 12 gb Corsair ram (6 sticks), rated at 1600mhz, 9-9-9-24 1.65v These ram settings are for 3 sticks which is what I oringially had in the system.  Thiis worked fine when i had the 3 stics and the problems have largely evolved since I have bought another pack of ram (same spec) and doubled the capacity from 6 to 12GB.  I'm not sure if I should ramp up/down some of these settings to compensate for the incresed number of sticks, but it certainly seems so. 
I am running the latest bios which is  I belive  version f6

Anyway Ram tests show the memory is fine BTW.  The problem is after about 20 minutes the usb ports stop working.  I have two D-link 7port usb hubs which work without issue. There is an LED indicator for each usb device that is connected to the hub.  After about 20 - 30 minutes all the lights go out and none of the USB devices work. REmoving a device and reconnecting it makes no difference, i simply have to reboot to get my pc working again.  The pc is working away in the background, it is just that the USB ports have died. 

I appreciate your help as always.

[absic]

Hi there,

If you are using Windows 7 or Vista check the Power Options. By default it will shutdown USB and other devices if they are not accessed for a while.

[Dark Mantis]

You snuck in there just before me absic.

Another thing is are the hubs powered or not?

As far as the memory goes you will probably need to increase the voltage slightly to compensate for the extra loading ...just be carefull not to go too far. Your QPI/Vtt voltage must be kept within 0.5v of memory voltage so that may need increasing in line. You may need to increase this voltage anyway again to compensate for the extra load to 1.2v or even more.

[absic]

Well, you keep jumping into the AMD side of things I thought I would see how it worked on the Dark Side! 

[Dark Mantis]

Feel free my friend

[Rumpelstilzskin]

Thanks guys.  Firstly these are both powered hubs.  They have worked fantastically till now so I doubt they are fault.  I use Windows 7 ultimate.  Unfortunately I doubt it is a power saving issue as this happens even while I am in the middle of using my mouse keyboard or any of the other devices.  It is not something that only occurs during periods of activity.

I have actually set the vram voltage at 1.66 volts becasue 'if I'm not mistaken'  the increments increase in steps of .02 volts and not .01  I figured if it is rated at 1.65 I'd better of going to 1.66 rather than 1.64 with the 6 sticks.

I have not changed the QPI voltage at all. It is  set to auto, though I couldn't possibly say exactly what the voltage is I 'think'  it was 1.175.  I have not looked but again if I am not mistaken, the increments buy which the voltage increases are far higher than that with the ram.  Do you suggest I simply take this from the default auto setting to the next increment up? 

Thanks again and no fighting over who provides the support here.

[Dark Mantis]

If your memory is specified at 1.65V then you could even go a little higher if it benefits you(maybe 1.68V) although you will get the red warnings.
Your QPI/Vtt would be better taken off auto and set manually. As I said before make sure that it is within 0.5V  of the memory voltage. It can be less.
As usual it will probably take some playing around to find the optimum settings.

[Rumpelstilzskin]

Great I will I will give this a shot and let you know how it turns out.  Incidentally, how can I save the BIOS config or I should say 'back up' the BIOS config  once I have things how I want them? 

[Dark Mantis]

I would say the best way is to just take notes. You would think in this day and age someone would have come up with a way of just being able to save the BIOS settings to a USB drive or something. You can of course save your settings but that will only last until you clear the CMOS or update the BIOS.