Baldman6: Thank you for the info. Unfortunately that did not help with the resume after power loss issue. I did notice that the link in both Gigabyte sites (.us or .com) are pointing to the 10.1.0.1008 version. They probably just forgot to update the description in the .US site. If anyone does need this version, here's a link to the Intel site:
http://tinyurl.com/intel-irst-9-6-0-1014OK. Back to my testing. These are the last 2 replies I got from Gigabyte about a week ago:
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Dear Customer
We have tested it here in our lab without any issue going into and resuming from S3 mode with USB 3.0 enable/disable.
If there is an
spare hdd available please attempt to test with an clean OS installation then load up the USB 3.0 driver first to test the suspend mode?
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Dear Customer
Please examine all your hardware and make sure that there are no overclocking being applied. From there only have just the bare minimal components installed
- cpu along with heatsinkfan
- single stick of memory
- videocard
- single hdd and optical drive
Do attempt to reload the OS with it then test the standby mode before USB 3.0 driver then after with nothing else installed.
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I went ahead and bought a new hard disk to test this. I didn't have anywhere to put the data I have in the one I had.
NOTHING, absolutely
NOTHING they suggested has worked and at this point I'm giving up on this. I don't think there's anything left to test. Either the USB 3.0 driver or its firmware or the motherboard's firmware has to be fixed.
I installed as they suggested above only 4 components. The only driver I installed was my video card driver because without it the computer would not go to sleep at all.
I tested:
USB 3.0 driver: NO DRIVER / 2.0.4.0 / 2.0.30.0 / 2.0.32.0
I installed and re-installed windows 7 a total of 6 times.
There are two ways to have the system
resume from hybrid sleep after power loss successfully:
1. USB3 is disabled in the BIOS
2. USB3 driver is not installed
Either way, USB3 is not usable if you want to resume from hibernation. (power loss after hybrid sleep)
This is just totally unacceptable. This driver and/or firmware has to be fixed.