I’ve had numerous issues with stability on this board that were hard to pin down because of their randomness, to the point where even a CMOS battery was suggested. Well I think I’ve pinned it down to the USB.
My configuration as it currently stands is 9820x, 64gb RAM, XFX 6900xt, nu audio, WD sn730 256gb boot drive, team 1tb SATA m.2 PSU is one of the many EVGA ones I’ve bought from a sale, I think it’s a GQ 850w.
Most of these problems have persisted though several hardware changes. The video card I switched out from a 1070ti recently.
I finally isolated this when using an external USB SSD. From a cold shutdown the PC never boots without some sort of blue screen. Well when you added the USB SSD you trigger some random sequence of beep codes at post. Through a bunch of testing I’ve concluded this all has something to do with the USB. Usually I’ll have a wifi, keyboard, mouse, and controller plugged in. What seems to throw it for a loop is switching what port the USB devices are plugged into. While it beeps a bunch doing this it doesn’t ever freeze with a code, it instead boots to windows then freezes or on occasion black screens with no video. Most of the time it works on the reset. Worst case I have to unplug all USB stuff, plug it back in at the log on screen or just the mouse then reboot.
It’s like it can’t sync the USB devices during the POST sequence. The closest comparison I can offer is I have a bunch of JBOD HDD docks hooked to one of my media computers and if the drives occasionally don’t seem to sync properly despite assigned drive letters then go offline.
I did the resizable bar BIOS upgrade but was only whatever BIOS the board shipped with since got it prior to that.
But I’m out of ideas what to do to try and correct it. Other than just resetting it whereas once it works it works fine.
post edited by man114 - 2021/06/17 05:13:59