ASUS Intel Beta BIOS Releases and Official Support

[mjgr33n]

There should be no loading limitation on the SATA ports per se. Were you running the system at stock or overclocked?

-Raja

I have tried both, also when it is not at load it can be on all week with no problems. Is there a fault with the board possibly? I am going to try some more testing with the new BIOS later.

Also would like to elaborate, it is not normal crashing per say, it is stuttering/freezing/locking up, sometimes it lets me shut intel burn test down, but cannot shut task manager down or close AIDA64 and it will definitely not let me shut the pc down without hard reboot, but can still move mouse around and open internet and some other programs. Just seems like everything has got bottlenecked but more extreme.

You can't rule out the PSU as an issue unless you try another, different, psu in the configuration that was causing issues before.

Initially when I first got this problem I did think it was PSU, CPU, Memory, MB, maybe one of my PCI cards or even the backplate on my EK waterblock, so I tested everything by swapping PSU to a Corsair HX750 which is with my R2E board in my other pc, tried a Sandybridge core i5 2400 from my HTPC, tried some spare Corsair memory, removed my ASUS pci sound card which needs a molex power feed, also got the new EK 115x true backplate and the new easy mount system for my waterblock.

Nothing made any difference, it still started freezing/stuttering at the same point every time, I probably could have timed it, but it was roughly 15 minutes into load testing, made no difference whether I was at stock (or with the i5-2400) or overclocked to 4.8Ghz.

At least at the moment, by moving 2 drives off the Intel ports onto the Marvell ports it works perfectly without crashing, have load tested it for an hour straight with no issues, also gamed all night and not a single stuttering episode.

Currently got, 1 SSD and 3 SATA HD's on the Intel ports and got 1 SATA HD and 1 SATA DVD drive on the Marvell ports.