dustingg

Are you running the memory to it's specs with the XMP profile or are you pushing them to run faster?

Also make sure you do not disable any of the onboard devices. Doing so will shut down some PCIE lanes that are shared and can cause USB3.0 sockets to not work. It's ok to disable the Blue tooth I found.

Also just a heads up to everyone. I noticed after I install the dark and installed all the drivers I was getting a weird response to the right click menu. It would lag out. It would take around 5-10 seconds to display the right click menu. This was happening on the desktop and any other location in windows. After doing some Trouble shooting using autoshell.exe I found that the Bluetooth driver suite was causing this weird anomaly. I unistalled the Bluetooth driver sweet and right clicking menu works fine.

I read on several forums that other user were experiencing this problem as well. Has nothing to do with the DARK. It's a Broadcom driver issue.

mlmadmax

After setting aside some time to try to work the bugs out I have come to find that all the problems I have been having with the motherboard where issues that where MY FAULT!

It turns out while I had my CPU at stock speeds I kept setting my memory to the XMP profile and that is what was causing the top Ethernet port to shut off and the USB 3.0 to not be recognized.

I am stoked that my board is OK but bummed a teeny bit because I thought that I was stable at an overclock of 4.5g and my memory at 2133.

Looks like there is more tinkering to be done to get a stable overclock but that is ok because the board works great and this is just another case of user error.

johnerz

It's great to read you are up and running, but I would PM Dave and give him all the details, as it may be a minor BIOS issue that can be resolved in the first update and get you where you should be, and if it is a board issue then it does need swapping out