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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: russtobin on December 17, 2013, 01:58:54 pm

Title: Strange USB 3 problem
Post by: russtobin on December 17, 2013, 01:58:54 pm

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??

Title: Re: Strange USB 3 problem
Post by: dmdilks on December 17, 2013, 02:17:08 pm

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

Title: Re: Strange USB 3 problem
Post by: russtobin on December 17, 2013, 02:19:39 pm

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

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

Title: Re: Strange USB 3 problem
Post by: dmdilks on December 17, 2013, 04:50:46 pm

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

Title: Re: Strange USB 3 problem
Post by: russtobin on December 17, 2013, 04:59:43 pm

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??

Title: Re: Strange USB 3 problem
Post by: dmdilks on December 17, 2013, 07:24:52 pm

I would try it disable first.

Title: Re: Strange USB 3 problem
Post by: russtobin on December 21, 2013, 11:13:39 am

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

very strange........