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Re: New AsRock H67M-GE/HT build unstable
I have a similar build to you, but with an i3-2100. The problem that I initially ran into is that when doing movie playback in XBMC the machine, after warming up for a while would start buffering the playback. All indicators pointed to a problem with motherboard temperature, even though the case had adequate cooling for this kind of build.
I have since re-built the machine into an enclosure with an external pico-psu and from what I can tell the heat problems have disappeared.
However, I do notice a couple of other annoyances with this build;
1. The onboard NIC is VERY slow to come back after waking the machine up, taking up to 30 seconds to renew a DHCP lease.
2. The vaunted "good night" LED feature is worthless. The way the feature is worded for other ASRock motherboards is that it will shut the LEDs off when the machine is SLEEPING but with this board it simply shuts them off at boot up... which is worthless. I want the LEDs on when it is in use and I want them off when it is sleeping, is that so much to ask?
3. The machine seems to have problems with sleep. I will put the machine to sleep via USB IR and then inevitably I will later hear the machine huffing and puffing, like it is running at full load. The case is very hot and I have to manually turn the machine off. This particular problem is really the most annoying one, because I don't know how to troubleshoot it. I suspect that there is a problem in the UEFI with windows sleep mode, but have not had time to dig into it, and honestly should not have to. I've used tons of motherboards over the past several years for which sleep works perfectly.
I have a similar build to you, but with an i3-2100. The problem that I initially ran into is that when doing movie playback in XBMC the machine, after warming up for a while would start buffering the playback. All indicators pointed to a problem with motherboard temperature, even though the case had adequate cooling for this kind of build.
I have since re-built the machine into an enclosure with an external pico-psu and from what I can tell the heat problems have disappeared.
However, I do notice a couple of other annoyances with this build;
1. The onboard NIC is VERY slow to come back after waking the machine up, taking up to 30 seconds to renew a DHCP lease.
2. The vaunted "good night" LED feature is worthless. The way the feature is worded for other ASRock motherboards is that it will shut the LEDs off when the machine is SLEEPING but with this board it simply shuts them off at boot up... which is worthless. I want the LEDs on when it is in use and I want them off when it is sleeping, is that so much to ask?
3. The machine seems to have problems with sleep. I will put the machine to sleep via USB IR and then inevitably I will later hear the machine huffing and puffing, like it is running at full load. The case is very hot and I have to manually turn the machine off. This particular problem is really the most annoying one, because I don't know how to troubleshoot it. I suspect that there is a problem in the UEFI with windows sleep mode, but have not had time to dig into it, and honestly should not have to. I've used tons of motherboards over the past several years for which sleep works perfectly.
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