Last week I built up a new system using a GA-Z68XP-UD4 motherboard and i5-2500K CPU. The build went fairly smoothly, apart from a few boot looping problems which I solved (fingers crossed). I'm currently running at 4.6GHz (46 x 100), and am experiencing two problems related to sleep (S3), running Win7 Pro x64.
Problem #1: If I set the Marvell controller for the eSATA ports to AHCI mode in the BIOS everything works fine except when I put the machine to sleep. When I wake it up it blue screens. To get around this, I'm currently running the Marvell controller in IDE mode, which allows me to wake the machine up without crashing, but of course I lose the hot swap ability. However, I've noticed something peculiar. When I first boot into Win7 and look at Device Manager, the Marvell controller shows up along with the Intel controller using the Microsoft driver. If I try to get the Marvell controller to use the Marvell driver, Windows says that the driver is incompatible with my hardware. However, after putting the machine to sleep and waking it up, the Marvell controller now shows up under Storage Controllers as "Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller" and functions as if it were in AHCI mode. I can turn my external eSATA drives on and they mount automatically.
Problem #2: As I mentioned previously, my BIOS is set for a multiplier of 46. However, when I wake the machine up after going to sleep (S3), CPU-Z reports a multiplier of 16 (running LinX). After waking the machine up, I have to run ET6 to bring the multiplier back up to 46.
Are these common problems, or is there something wrong with my motherboard? I have only seen one person complaining of problem #2 (with no solution that I'm aware of), and nobody complaining about problem #1. Thanks for any assistance you can give me.
Problem #1: If I set the Marvell controller for the eSATA ports to AHCI mode in the BIOS everything works fine except when I put the machine to sleep. When I wake it up it blue screens. To get around this, I'm currently running the Marvell controller in IDE mode, which allows me to wake the machine up without crashing, but of course I lose the hot swap ability. However, I've noticed something peculiar. When I first boot into Win7 and look at Device Manager, the Marvell controller shows up along with the Intel controller using the Microsoft driver. If I try to get the Marvell controller to use the Marvell driver, Windows says that the driver is incompatible with my hardware. However, after putting the machine to sleep and waking it up, the Marvell controller now shows up under Storage Controllers as "Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller" and functions as if it were in AHCI mode. I can turn my external eSATA drives on and they mount automatically.
Problem #2: As I mentioned previously, my BIOS is set for a multiplier of 46. However, when I wake the machine up after going to sleep (S3), CPU-Z reports a multiplier of 16 (running LinX). After waking the machine up, I have to run ET6 to bring the multiplier back up to 46.
Are these common problems, or is there something wrong with my motherboard? I have only seen one person complaining of problem #2 (with no solution that I'm aware of), and nobody complaining about problem #1. Thanks for any assistance you can give me.
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