GA-890GPA-UD3H + AHCI mode... The saga continues!

[crazylegs]

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That might have worked!

Updates to follow!

 

[crazylegs]

Been stable with AHCI mode working since i did that.

Can't believe it after all the wasted time :S Am sure i was running with it set the same to start with...

Thanks for the tip!

 

[clicq]

Congrats on not giving up . Glad you finally got it working.

 

[festering_leper]

A CD/DVD on port 4 .. yup same thing happened to me too. I have a GA-890FXA-UD5 (same SB) and conecting a Samsung SH-S223C on port 4 in IDE mode is all that's needed for my system to hang on every warm boot at the POST screen. Oddly enough, the Plextors that I bought as a replacement don't hang the system when connected to port 4 but they do negotiate an incorrect DMA mode. (DMA multiword 2 instead of UDMA-5 as it should be). The same ports in AHCI mode work properly and at full speeds.

I have since changed ports 4/5 to AHCI mode as a workaround but AHCI mode doesn't always play nice with boot CD/DVD's. Sounds like a BIOS issue to me.

 

[bargetrav]

I'm having the same issues with my Gigabyte P55A-UD3 board, when I try to enable RAID with my CD/DVD drive connected I hang on the post screen, wonder if it's a similiar issue?

 

[crazylegs]

The 'hang' was happenign to me regardless if i had device plugged into ports 4/5 :S

Oooh well, its working now and i've been able to start OCing... been an interesting process as not OCed anythign AMD since s939.

ATM i'm @ 4.2GHz on the core with 1.475v and @ 2600 on the CPU-NB link @ 1.2v

Loading to desktop with those speeds and SSD in AHCI with AMD driver installed (it benched faster than MS/Win7 auto driver...) is SOOOOO FAST XD

 

[festering_leper]

The 'hang' was happenign to me regardless if i had device plugged into ports 4/5 :S

Same here... ports 4 & 5 in IDE with ports 0-3 in AHCI will hang with just a single device connected to ports 4 or 5 (nothing on 0-3)

If ports 4-5 are set to IDE mode with NO devices connected the hangs can still happen. It's a bit more random in nature and more dependent on what/how many HDDs are connected but i was able to make the board hang with 2x1TB + 2x500GB seagate HDDs on ports 0-3 and nothing on ports 4-5. For whatever reason having the 500GB's connected seemed to "provoke" it more.

ATM i'm @ 4.2GHz on the core with 1.475v and @ 2600 on the CPU-NB link @ 1.2v

Nice OC! how warm does it get?

Loading to desktop with those speeds and SSD in AHCI with AMD driver installed (it benched faster than MS/Win7 auto driver...) is SOOOOO FAST XD

:biggrin: I think it's getting to be that time for me as well.. With all the hangs, etc I was holding off on the SSD upgrade.

 

[crazylegs]

Max temps = 52c, that was running IBT. Prime doesn't get so warm. When i was trying for CPU-NB @ 2800 (needed 1.4v) then temps hit a max of 55c.

The Corsair H70 seems to be doing quite a decent job!

 

[festering_leper]

Max temps = 52c, that was running IBT. Prime doesn't get so warm. When i was trying for CPU-NB @ 2800 (needed 1.4v) then temps hit a max of 55c.

The Corsair H70 seems to be doing quite a decent job!

It sure is nice when things actually work like they are supposed to...

 

[jonks]

Also avoid sandforce controller drives. The only one that is even decent stable is the G2 Microcenter (ADATA S599) with the latest firmware. And that's not 100% stable. wierd timing issues.

The official AT sticky on SSDs recommends Sandforce controllers. Should it not?