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[wazza300]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

glad you fixed it without the need to rma the mb,yh gigabyte boards are picky with psu's,same thing with certain ocz and zalman psu's,best to avoid

[!Xabbu]

PCI Slots & their controllers

Hi,

i have a question concerning my GA-EP45-DS3 mobo.
As i look on the block diagram inside the manual i can see that...

1. PCIx16 , PCIx8 are connected to Northbridge
2. PCIx1 1-3 are connected to Southbridge ( via PCI Express Bus )
3. PCI CLK 1&2 are connected to Southbridge ( via PCI Bus )

LSPCI gives me the following adresses for PCI Controllers

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:3a40]
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:3a46]
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:3a48]

I would like to know which of these controllers is responsible for which slots ???

I'd highly appreciate it if someone could answer this question !!

Thanks

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: PCI Slots & their controllers

Thanks to all, waaaa300, gigabyte guru, ezz1r etc.
I did everything you guys said to do before I posted this thread. Pulled the memory, video card etc. Finally I pulled everything off the board except the cooler master but I disconnected the fan. Only thing going was the 8 pin ATX 12v main connector and the large 24 pin ATX. Same problem. It had to be the power supply or the board. I had a friend come over with his power supply from his I7-920. Disconnected mine, hooked his up and the machine worked fine. Took my power supply out, took it back to micro center, got another unit a 750W this time, installed it and I am up and running. The guy at micro center said this is a new unit and they just started selling it. Guys thanks for all the feedback. You confirmed what I thought and I also learned from your respones. Again thanks and regards, Bob

Nice to see you got it all sorted out easily!!

Hi,

i have a question concerning my GA-EP45-DS3 mobo.
As i look on the block diagram inside the manual i can see that...

1. PCIx16 , PCIx8 are connected to Northbridge
2. PCIx1 1-3 are connected to Southbridge ( via PCI Express Bus )
3. PCI CLK 1&2 are connected to Southbridge ( via PCI Bus )

LSPCI gives me the following adresses for PCI Controllers

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:3a40]
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:3a46]
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:3a48]

I would like to know which of these controllers is responsible for which slots ???

I'd highly appreciate it if someone could answer this question !!

Thanks

PCIE x8/x16 slots are routed though the P45 Chipset

PCI and PCIE x1 are all routed through the ICH10R

There is a diagram on page 8 of your manual

[!Xabbu]

Re: PCI Slots & their controllers

PCIE x8/x16 slots are routed though the P45 Chipset

PCI and PCIE x1 are all routed through the ICH10R

There is a diagram on page 8 of your manual

@ LSDMEASAP
Thanks for answering but..

I know that , as you can see in my last post !!

I was asking a question about the Controllers !

There are 3 Controllers ( see my last post in codebox ) for PCI Express Slots
( PCIx16,PCIx8 etc... )...

in the block diagram we can see that PCIx16 and PCIx8 are individually routed/connected to Northbridge/P45...
and the other 3 PCIx1 are routed/connected via one PCI EXPRESS BUS to Southbridge/ICH10...


3 Connections and 3 Controllers !!!
For me that looks like each one of these controllers is responsible for 1 connection, that is what i'm looking for !!

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

Sorry, I still am not really sure what you are after here?

There is only two chips (Controllers), not three. ICH10R and P45

[!Xabbu]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

Sorry, I still am not really sure what you are after here?

There is only two chips (Controllers), not three. ICH10R and P45

Actually there are much more chips on a mobo then just P45 & ICH10.... i.e most have a chip ( some winbond, others have intel ) to read out system data like fan speed/cpu temps/Vcore, there are chips for firewire, audio, ethernet , 2 bios chips.... etc... etc...

The 2 main chips aka P45 ( called NORTHBRIDGE ) and ICH10 ( called SOUTHBRIDGE ) have or are connected to several controllers ( chips ! )...

You can find out about these by booting a Linux Live distro or Ubuntu i.e. , go to terminal and run lspci -nnnvvvxxx

My GA-EP45-DS3 has 23 of them... ( there are 8 for USB only !!!! )

In Terminal you can get a lot of information about the apci tables ( RSDT, FACP, FACS, HPET, MCFG, SSDT, DSDT ...)
These tables are written "basic software code" and without them no operating system would fully work on our mobos , most of them not even boot at all
( damn... where are all the drivers i need to boot ? ) !!!! They're telling all OSs like Windoof / Linux / MacOS etc what hardware is available and at which adresses it can be found...


Anyway... looks like i'm in the wrong thread/forum to ask these kind of question

No offence...

[artdrivers]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

Just a thought. Can you find a PCIE card and drop it in one of the slots and see if it narrows it down for you? You know process of elimination?

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

I do know what you mean, about tons of chips and controllers on the board, I guess I am just not fully sure what you are asking as I do not use those systems.

As for what you asked about, they are controlled by the two controllers I mentioned but as far as what else they are routed through before/after I couldn't say but the diagram provided makes it look like nothing else.

[!Xabbu]

PCI Slots & their controllers

@ artdrivers

Yes, thought about it but no go.
In the DSDT table ( Differentiated System Description Table ) we can tweak behaviour of all the different slots etc... and by commenting out the definition blocks and their related Power Managment Registers we can "see" their location but unfortunately nothing about the controllers.
I.e. you can disable almost everything except for basic stuff like PM and system still boots though...

@ lsdmeasap

...but the diagram provided makes it look like nothing else.

That's why i asked you to look at my codebox from 1st question. This snippet is an output from Terminal which clearly states that there are 3 controllers in duty for pci not 2.

Here you can see all Controllers of a GA-EP45-DS3 mobo....

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Eaglelake DRAM Controller [8086:2e20] (rev 02)
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2e29] (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:3a37]
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:3a38]
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:3a39]
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a3c]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:3a3e]
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:3a40]
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:3a46]
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:3a48]
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a34]
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a35]
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:3a36]
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a3a]
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller [8086:3a18]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3a22]
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:3a30]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800 GT [10de:0611] (rev a2)
03:00.0 IDE interface [0101]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE controller [197b:2368]
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
05:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8024]

All of them are either inside of P45/ICH10 or located somewhere on the board.

P45 & ICH10 are only "team managers" coordinating all in/output from these chips, controllers or whatever one might call them...
This becomes obvious when you start digging deeper and be courious enough to find out what is really going on.

I want to know and i want to get the best performance out of my machine....

and before you even start thinking.... no i'm not a

have a nice one...

[yuu]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

Xabbu

2 of them are ethernet, you have disabled one. and one seems empty, that is what everest says.

""PCI Express Controller
PCI-E 1.0 x1 port #1 Empty
PCI-E 1.0 x1 port #4 In Use @ x1 (JMicron JMB368 SATA-II RAID Controller)
PCI-E 1.0 x1 port #5 In Use @ x1 (Realtek RTL8168C/8111C PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Adapter)
PCI-E 1.0 x1 port #6 In Use @ x1 (Realtek RTL8168C/8111C PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Adapter)""

one is the jmicron ide controller. in fact it is a sata raid.
the usb and sata perhaps using the 2 invisible Pcie's #2 and #3
the firewire seems to be legacy pci connected to the ich10.
the sound probaly connects to a codec.
the bios or the ITE chip are lpc connected, then the 2 bioses connected to the ITE?

Despite so many inerrupt request lost to the USb, 6 irq's at least, some of them are being shared with ide, eth, vga or sound, disabling the usb and therefore making the cpu more responsive may not result a performance boost at all.

[artdrivers]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

By the block diagram it does appear that the Realtek RTL8168C/8111C PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Adapter is on the same line as the PCI express bus.

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[Taurus]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

Greetings all :)

New build here, having some voltage issue ATM, problem is that my 1600 ram shows up as 1066, from what i have seen this isnt uncommon. i will post my BIOS template below and my Sig contains my system setup, other than the fact that im running WIN7 64bit
Checked each stick by removing them all and rebooting with one at a time, all went well

If something seems amiss could you help me out please

for the time being theres no OCing going on, but any thing that could help with the voltage issue would be Great........Thanks


BIOS Template - Gigabyte GA-X58 - UD3R MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)

 
CPU Clock Ratio [21x] 
CPUFrequency 2.8GHz (133*21)

>Advanced CPU Core Features [Press Enter]:
Intel(R) Turbo Boost Tech [Disabled]
CPU Cores Enabled [All]
CPU Multi Threading [Enabled]
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) [Enabled] 
C3/C6/C7 State Support [Disabled]
CPU Thermal Monitor [Enabled]
CPU EIST Function [Enabled]
Bi-Directional PROCHOT [Enabled]
 
QPI Clock Ratio [Auto] 
QPI Link Speed 4.8GHz 
Uncore Clock Ratio [Auto] 
Uncore Frequency 3200MHz
>>>>> Standard Clock Control
  
Base Clock(BCLK) Control [Enabled] 
(BCLK Frequency (Mhz) [133] 
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.) [Disabled]
System Momory Multiplier (SPD) [12.0] 
Memory Frequency (MHz) 1066 1600 
PCI Express Frequency (MHz) [100] 
 
>>>>> Advanced Clock Control 
CPU Clock Drive [ 800mV]
PCI Express Clock Drive [ 900mV]
CPU Clock Skew [ 0ps]
IOH Clock Skew [ 0ps]
 
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.) [Disabled] 
System Memory Multiplier (SPD) [12.0] 
memory frequency (mhz) 1066 1600
Performance Enhance [Standard]
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) [Expert] 
Profile DDR Voltage 1.5V Profile 
QPI Voltage 1.175V 
Channel Interleaving 6 [Auto] 
Rank Interleaving 4 [Auto] 
 
>>>>> Channel A 
>Channel A Timing Settings [Press Enter] 
>Channel A Turnaround Settings [Press Enter] 
>>>>> Channel B 
>Channel B Timing Settings [Press Enter] 
>Channel B Turnaround Settings [Press Enter] 
>>>>> Channel C 
>Channel C Timing Settings [Press Enter] 
>Channel C Turnaround Settings [Press Enter] 
 
Channel A
CAS Latency Time 8 [8]
tRCD 8 [8]
tRP 8 [8]
tRAS 20 [24]
 
Channel B 
CAS Latency Time 8 [8]
tRCD 8 [8]
tRP 8 [8]
tRAS 20 [24]
 
Channel C
CAS Latency Time 8 [8]
tRCD 8 [8]
tRP 8 [8]
tRAS 20 [24]
 
>>>>>Channel A Advanced Timing Control
tRC 27 [AUTO]
tRRD 4 [AUTO]
tWTR 4 [AUTO]
tWR 8 [AUTO] tWTP 19 [AUTO]
tWL 7 [AUTO]
tRFC 60 [AUTO]
tRTP 4 [AUTO]
tFAW 16 [AUTO]
Command Rate (CMD) 1 [2]

>>>>>Channel A Misc Timing Control 
B2B CAS Delay - [AUTO]
Round Trip Latency 51 [AUTO] 

Advanced Voltage Control [Press Enter]:
Load Line Calibration [Standard]
CPU Vcore 1.21250v [AUTO] 
X Dynamic Vcore (DVID) +0.00000V AUTO
QPI/VTT Voltage 1.175v [AUTO]
CPU PLL 1.800v [AUTO]

>>>MCH / ICH

PCIE 1.500v [AUTO]
QPI PLL 1.100v [AUTO]
IOH Core 1.100v [AUTO]
ICH I/O 1.500v [AUTO]
ICH Core 1.100v [AUTO]


>>>DRAM

DRAM Voltage 1.500v [1.600V]
DRAM Termination 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-A Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-B Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-C Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-A Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-B Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-C Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO] 
 
CMOS Setup Utility
Isochronous Support [Enabled] 
Virtualization Technology [Enabled]

Much Grass for the help

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Welcome to GIGABYTE Technical Support!

@ artdrivers

Yes, thought about it but no go.
In the DSDT table ( Differentiated System Description Table ) we can tweak behaviour of all the different slots etc... and by commenting out the definition blocks and their related Power Managment Registers we can "see" their location but unfortunately nothing about the controllers.
I.e. you can disable almost everything except for basic stuff like PM and system still boots though...

@ lsdmeasap

...but the diagram provided makes it look like nothing else.

That's why i asked you to look at my codebox from 1st question. This snippet is an output from Terminal which clearly states that there are 3 controllers in duty for pci not 2.

Here you can see all Controllers of a GA-EP45-DS3 mobo....

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Eaglelake DRAM Controller [8086:2e20] (rev 02)
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2e29] (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:3a37]
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:3a38]
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:3a39]
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a3c]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:3a3e]
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:3a40]
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:3a46]
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:3a48]
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a34]
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a35]
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:3a36]
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a3a]
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller [8086:3a18]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3a22]
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:3a30]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800 GT [10de:0611] (rev a2)
03:00.0 IDE interface [0101]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE controller [197b:2368]
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
05:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8024]

All of them are either inside of P45/ICH10 or located somewhere on the board.

P45 & ICH10 are only "team managers" coordinating all in/output from these chips, controllers or whatever one might call them...
This becomes obvious when you start digging deeper and be courious enough to find out what is really going on.

I want to know and i want to get the best performance out of my machine....

and before you even start thinking.... no i'm not a

have a nice one...

I got what you mean, I just can't find anything for windows that tells us what you are trying to find out.

I thought this might, but it's not giving the same output so I don't think it helps any

Greetings all :)

New build here, having some voltage issue ATM, problem is that my 1600 ram shows up as 1066, from what i have seen this isnt uncommon. i will post my BIOS template below and my Sig contains my system setup, other than the fact that im running WIN7 64bit
Checked each stick by removing them all and rebooting with one at a time, all went well

If something seems amiss could you help me out please

for the time being theres no OCing going on, but any thing that could help with the voltage issue would be Great........Thanks


BIOS Template - Gigabyte GA-X58 - UD3R MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)

 
CPU Clock Ratio [21x] 
CPUFrequency 2.8GHz (133*21)

>Advanced CPU Core Features [Press Enter]:
Intel(R) Turbo Boost Tech [Disabled]
CPU Cores Enabled [All]
CPU Multi Threading [Enabled]
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) [Enabled] 
C3/C6/C7 State Support [Disabled]
CPU Thermal Monitor [Enabled]
CPU EIST Function [Enabled]
Bi-Directional PROCHOT [Enabled]
 
QPI Clock Ratio [Auto] 
QPI Link Speed 4.8GHz 
Uncore Clock Ratio [Auto] 
Uncore Frequency 3200MHz
>>>>> Standard Clock Control
  
Base Clock(BCLK) Control [Enabled] 
(BCLK Frequency (Mhz) [133] 
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.) [Disabled]
System Momory Multiplier (SPD) [12.0] 
Memory Frequency (MHz) 1066 1600 
PCI Express Frequency (MHz) [100] 
 
>>>>> Advanced Clock Control 
CPU Clock Drive [ 800mV]
PCI Express Clock Drive [ 900mV]
CPU Clock Skew [ 0ps]
IOH Clock Skew [ 0ps]
 
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.) [Disabled] 
System Memory Multiplier (SPD) [12.0] 
memory frequency (mhz) 1066 1600
Performance Enhance [Standard]
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) [Expert] 
Profile DDR Voltage 1.5V Profile 
QPI Voltage 1.175V 
Channel Interleaving 6 [Auto] 
Rank Interleaving 4 [Auto] 
 
>>>>> Channel A 
>Channel A Timing Settings [Press Enter] 
>Channel A Turnaround Settings [Press Enter] 
>>>>> Channel B 
>Channel B Timing Settings [Press Enter] 
>Channel B Turnaround Settings [Press Enter] 
>>>>> Channel C 
>Channel C Timing Settings [Press Enter] 
>Channel C Turnaround Settings [Press Enter] 
 
Channel A
CAS Latency Time 8 [8]
tRCD 8 [8]
tRP 8 [8]
tRAS 20 [24]
 
Channel B 
CAS Latency Time 8 [8]
tRCD 8 [8]
tRP 8 [8]
tRAS 20 [24]
 
Channel C
CAS Latency Time 8 [8]
tRCD 8 [8]
tRP 8 [8]
tRAS 20 [24]
 
>>>>>Channel A Advanced Timing Control
tRC 27 [AUTO]
tRRD 4 [AUTO]
tWTR 4 [AUTO]
tWR 8 [AUTO] tWTP 19 [AUTO]
tWL 7 [AUTO]
tRFC 60 [AUTO]
tRTP 4 [AUTO]
tFAW 16 [AUTO]
Command Rate (CMD) 1 [2]

>>>>>Channel A Misc Timing Control 
B2B CAS Delay - [AUTO]
Round Trip Latency 51 [AUTO] 

Advanced Voltage Control [Press Enter]:
Load Line Calibration [Standard]
CPU Vcore 1.21250v [AUTO] 
X Dynamic Vcore (DVID) +0.00000V AUTO
QPI/VTT Voltage 1.175v [AUTO]
CPU PLL 1.800v [AUTO]

>>>MCH / ICH

PCIE 1.500v [AUTO]
QPI PLL 1.100v [AUTO]
IOH Core 1.100v [AUTO]
ICH I/O 1.500v [AUTO]
ICH Core 1.100v [AUTO]


>>>DRAM

DRAM Voltage 1.500v [1.600V]
DRAM Termination 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-A Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-B Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-C Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-A Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-B Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-C Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO] 
 
CMOS Setup Utility
Isochronous Support [Enabled] 
Virtualization Technology [Enabled]

Much Grass for the help

Please make a new thread with all your info here, so we can better keep track of this as we help.

Do you see a Red Warning box when you enter the MIT Section of the BIOS?

Can you please link us to your memory kit.

I see you are not setting your QPI/Vtt this may be the issue, and surely will be if you are seeing a red warning box.

I also see you have C1E and EIST enabled, Intel Speedstep, so your CPU and memory would be downclocked when idle so this may be the issue as well.

[wetfit9]

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HI,
Building a new system, X58a-ud5 rev. 2 with Corsair 2000mhz memory, have not decided on cpu, but thinking 980x, 5870's in crossfireX. HAFX case, corsair 1000w psu, LG blue ray player, X-Fi Tit sound card and 28 in monitor 1900x1200. WD 600gb VR sata 3 drives x2
Question is: running the WD hard drives off the sata 3 in raid 0, is it any faster then running them off the sata 2 and also can you use the sata 3 in raid 0 as a boot drive. Then if this is possible, is there any drivers you need to install and when? I have everything except the monitor and cpu, which I plan on getting next week and installing the week after. Windows 7 PRO 64bit.
Any help/questions...???

[wazza300]

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sata3 ports will be faster than the sata2 ports but the marvell drivers arnt very good,you will have to install the sata3 drivers and enable ahci mode in the bios before you install the os,yes you can use sata3 raid0 as boot drive,you will also run 2000mhz ram using a 980x better than you would with a 930/920 due to using less uncore freq