zoltanthegypsy
I've seen that when S3 sleep was  not working correctly.  After one or more _successful_ sleep wake cycles, a subsequent power off _might_ hang
as you describe.

I don't use S3, but I leave my machine long enough at times that Windows does its power saving thing and turns off the display etc. It would certainly be interesting to correlate whether the not-turning-off times correlate to these.
 

The "does it in Linux" may be a bit of a red herring.  If you had run Windows and rebooted to Linux without a full power off cycle (maybe including AC mains) the S3 quirks footprints in BIOS may have persisted across the reboot to the other OS.  I've seen that too.

I think you're spot on with this. There's another quirk where, when booting Linux, I notice the kernel pauses for a few seconds -- in places where it never does (usually at finding the CPU nodes, early on). Never seen this before in all my years of using Linux (we're talking back when Slackware came on floppies) on tons of system builds. However, if I boot Windows first and then reboot to Linux, the pause never happens. Something is definitely saved in the machine state between boots.

betatester
Remove each pci card and usb powered hub (if you have any) one at a time and see if this resolves your issue.  I've had a PCI modem card create the problem as well...the particular card also prevented it from sleeping (even though the ports were set to allow sleep).  I corrected the problem with a new modem card (used for faxing).
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martigen, I'm curious to know if you have additional USB powered hubs or what PCI cards may be used (if any).

I don't have any USB hubs connected. Don't even own any USB hubs (the standard ports on the mobo usually do me). In terms of PCI, the only cards in the box are two GTX 580s and an Auztentech HTHD, all PCI-E. Additionally, all on-board PCI devices I don't use are disabled, this includes the Marvell controller and USB 3.0 controller. It's a very lean, clean, system :)

Once installed this USB externally powered hub, every so often it creates the exact same scenerio where the computer shuts down but the case fans are still active.

Are you sure this isn't just a coincidence? Be interesting if it occurs if using your machine with no hubs connected for a while. The problem you describe is what I and it seems some others have been getting, but as above I don't use USB hubs (and in fact the only USB devices connected to my computer 90% of the time are just keyboard and mouse. The other 10% is the odd USB key. And this wouldn't be a factor -- the issue happens with just keyboard and mouse are plugged in).

This thread is going all over the place but here is where I am with my scenario. I reduced my bclock to 160 from 168 and the memory shows correct. Anything over 160 gradually reduces usable memory in Windows 7 properties. If I go to 162 it shows 16GB usable, 168 shows 7.99 usable. Odd! Tweaking timings also reduces usable memory. Voltages across the board do not seem to help any. Vdroop does not help. Guess I will stay with what I can get until the final version 80 arrives.

bostonbaab

This thread is going all over the place but here is where I am with my scenario. I reduced my bclock to 160 from 168 and the memory shows correct. Anything over 160 gradually reduces usable memory in Windows 7 properties. If I go to 162 it shows 16GB usable, 168 shows 7.99 usable. Odd! Tweaking timings also reduces usable memory. Voltages across the board do not seem to help any. Vdroop does not help. Guess I will stay with what I can get until the final version 80 arrives.

 
Yup, told you so on your own thread. It is your CPU's IMC that is causing this. Some settings in the BIOS may be contributing but for me, changing RAM/CPU has changed the clock at which this occurs too.

betatester
It's such a small issue to me though...it only happens about 1 in every 5 shutdowns as you mentioned...

Small, but annoying and possibly damaging. I came back home the other week to find my PC on, fans blaring, quite a bit of heat coming out -- and it had been like this for many hours. I had shutdown my machine before I went out, and of course it hadn't turned off like it should.
 
Now I need to stay around and make sure the machine shuts down properly before leaving the room. But is this what I pay for with my top-of-the-line Classified 3? I'm not aware of any other X58 board from other manufacturers with this many "small" but annoying issues -- like the double-pump VT.
 
 

zoltanthegypsy

JJVAL

sedril

For all those having trouble with the flash program sitting at the "please input file name" screen, I can tell you that I had the same problem when I first bought this board and found out eventually it was because I was using an IDE dvd burner....   Purchased a SATA burner and everything has went flawlessly since....  Just an option for troubleshooting...

You my friend are a Genius , went to BestBuy grabbed a sata DVD player and BAMMM!!!! Bios 80 installed !!!!
Thank you sedril !!!!!!!

and thanks to all for your help !!!!

Sweet!  At _last_ an explanation for all the random hangs at "please input"

For the record, did you just need to _boot_ your existing burned CD on the SATA drive, or did you have to actually _burn_ the ISO on the SATA drive?  (I see you said "player" but just  to be sure...)

Thanks, and congrats,
Z.

 
I just used one that I allready burned from my ide DVD player.. So its just the need to have a Sata player for the install not to burn it..

About the IDE vs SATA CD issue... before booting from the IDE drive, go into the BIOS and make sure the IDE ports are enabled and set to IDE mode. 

Jacob
 
Can you let me know if this updated Intel RAID Rom 10.5.0.744 will support a single RAID 5 configuration that's larger than 2TB?
I remember this being an issue for E759 with a previous firmware version. I currently have 4.5TB configured and would hate to lose it.
 
Thanks In advance

quattro1017

Jacob

Can you let me know if this updated Intel RAID Rom 10.5.0.744 will support a single RAID 5 configuration that's larger than 2TB?
I remember this being an issue for E759 with a previous firmware version. I currently have 4.5TB configured and would hate to lose it.

Thanks In advance

 
Unfortunately this is one of the draw backs of the new RAID rom, there are some limitations when going over 2TB.

(Sorry for my bad english)
EVGA_JacobF thank you again for your work with bios 80.

bios ROM 80 with 10.5 and SSD raid is ok, good job Evga.
Now for me (and others) remain two major problems to fix in the bios:

1) Be as simple ROM 10.5 with SSD (AHCI not raid).
2) The problem starts in 2 times.
 Bios 80 still have not fix the problem, why? the problem has long been known.

I expect that now impatiently, why not have a fix for this?
This is bad for the HDD, it should fix it if you like it Evga.

I have 4 raid on ARECA 1231ML, the new bios will always be ok with my 4 raid or should I redo the 4 raids?
We demandont much, but we Avont always wanted to have the highest performance for our computer.
Evga still continue your work, you are on the right path and we are very happy with your job.

I will receive a new chip bios EVGA (flash), and I really want to finish with the problems for 1 year with the start of my capricious 4 way sli.

 

I think that this is not the best performance for my SSD Corsair F60. any solutions for this

Baab,
 
Let me understand this... You just reset the CMOS and re-entered your settings manually and your problems went away?
 
 

Hmm I flashed with all the settings at default the first time but I still have problems going from a bclock of 141 to 142... 1MHz and it is night and day(1969MHz Vs 1983MHz DDR)... I can also create the problem by changing my tRFC from 88 to 79.

From my experience with 80, if your system is running fine just wait until the final release is ready. Unless you are bored and want to try things out. Although the performance is great, it is glitchy for now. Who knows though, a lot of folks here have had no trouble. Try it, only takes a few minutes to flash.

bostonbaab

From my experience with 80, if your system is running fine just wait until the final release is ready. Unless you are bored and want to try things out. Although the performance is great, it is glitchy for now. Who knows though, a lot of folks here have had no trouble. Try it, only takes a few minutes to flash.

I have seen beta BIOS's hang around for a long time on this forum. So, don't bet on a final release BIOS. It may not come!

bostonbaab

From my experience with 80, if your system is running fine just wait until the final release is ready. Unless you are bored and want to try things out. Although the performance is great, it is glitchy for now. Who knows though, a lot of folks here have had no trouble. Try it, only takes a few minutes to flash.

 
Like you I did a reflash but before i did i made sure I went to defaults in bios double checked that everything cleared and cleared cmos did a fresh Flash from Bios 78 to Bios 80 and everything is working SWEEET!!!
And my main drive which is a Crucial SSD 256 Gig picked up some good performance in the AS SS Benchmark , before my best score was a 670 now im hitting 690s on a single SSD..