Hi All,
I've been using this board for 9 months or so (it's been rock solid), but I have been unable to use S3 Sleep reliably. I recently found the F11 BIOS addresses some sleep issues so I tried it out. Sleep is working better for me, but now often times gives a BSOD and immediate reboot (too short to see the message) right after resuming. Sometimes the BSOD comes right as I am shutting down. I reflashed the BIOS and loaded optimized defaults as I read in this forum. What else can I try to alleviate this problem? I'm using:
Vista x64 SP1
8 GB G.Skill RAM (4 x 2GB) @ 400 MHz 5-5-5-15-2T (although I can't adjust now)
Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz (has run flawlessly)
Samsung F1 1 TB SATA HDD C: (and 2 other SATA drives)
8800 GTX
SoundBlaster X-Fi
BIOS settings I'm unsure of (and questions) include:
SATA: Disable, RAID, or AHCI (which should I use - could Disable help with S3 issues? I had been using AHCI)
SATA/IDE Control Mode: IDE, AHCI, or RAID/IDE (which should I use - could IDE help with S3 issues? I had been using AHCI)
SMART: Enabled
HPET: Enabled
HPET Mode: 64-bit
Several settings all enabled: No-Execute, CPU Halt, Thermal, EIST, Virtualization = Enabled (should I change any of those from default?)
Performance Enhance: Standard
CIA2: Disabled
Voltage:
DDR2: +0.10v
PCI-E: Normal
FSB: +0.05v
MCH: +0.050v
Loadline: Auto
CPU: 1.33750
I've noticed with F11 the RAM speed options are no longer available (or I'm not seeing how to enable them). I saw something in this forum about setting Trfc value to between 52-65 but have no idea how to do that now that I can't see the RAM settings. It sounds like that's supposed to help S3 issues?
One other note - an issue I have had with this board is that on restart, sometimes the system will restart repeatedly before even displaying the BIOS post screen, resetting the BIOS CPU speed settings in the process. Sometimes it may take 10 times before it successfully boots. After that it's fine though... This has only happened once so far after updating to BIOS F11 though.
Thanks in advance for any help,
--Kyle
I've been using this board for 9 months or so (it's been rock solid), but I have been unable to use S3 Sleep reliably. I recently found the F11 BIOS addresses some sleep issues so I tried it out. Sleep is working better for me, but now often times gives a BSOD and immediate reboot (too short to see the message) right after resuming. Sometimes the BSOD comes right as I am shutting down. I reflashed the BIOS and loaded optimized defaults as I read in this forum. What else can I try to alleviate this problem? I'm using:
Vista x64 SP1
8 GB G.Skill RAM (4 x 2GB) @ 400 MHz 5-5-5-15-2T (although I can't adjust now)
Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz (has run flawlessly)
Samsung F1 1 TB SATA HDD C: (and 2 other SATA drives)
8800 GTX
SoundBlaster X-Fi
BIOS settings I'm unsure of (and questions) include:
SATA: Disable, RAID, or AHCI (which should I use - could Disable help with S3 issues? I had been using AHCI)
SATA/IDE Control Mode: IDE, AHCI, or RAID/IDE (which should I use - could IDE help with S3 issues? I had been using AHCI)
SMART: Enabled
HPET: Enabled
HPET Mode: 64-bit
Several settings all enabled: No-Execute, CPU Halt, Thermal, EIST, Virtualization = Enabled (should I change any of those from default?)
Performance Enhance: Standard
CIA2: Disabled
Voltage:
DDR2: +0.10v
PCI-E: Normal
FSB: +0.05v
MCH: +0.050v
Loadline: Auto
CPU: 1.33750
I've noticed with F11 the RAM speed options are no longer available (or I'm not seeing how to enable them). I saw something in this forum about setting Trfc value to between 52-65 but have no idea how to do that now that I can't see the RAM settings. It sounds like that's supposed to help S3 issues?
One other note - an issue I have had with this board is that on restart, sometimes the system will restart repeatedly before even displaying the BIOS post screen, resetting the BIOS CPU speed settings in the process. Sometimes it may take 10 times before it successfully boots. After that it's fine though... This has only happened once so far after updating to BIOS F11 though.
Thanks in advance for any help,
--Kyle
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