Been having what seems like alot of niggling stability issues with the RIVE. This is my third one, the other two didn't make it out of bios before having issues, and this one is an older repair replacement from Asus.

I will start off by saying when it works its fine, but if it BSoD fom to higher clk, the restart doesn't do a thing neither does the start button held down for 4secs. The only way to reset it is to turn the power supply off completely and even that can take 2-3 times before it will boot again

If I do a normal restart off windows, it will fail to boot and need to be power cycled as well, although that seems a bit better of late. Although today on restsrt it failed and started doing an irog2 update which was looking to take about 4hrs. I turned it off and when trying it a few hrs later its all good again

The only thing I have found thats a little strange was touch checking heatsink while having some of these problems, I touched the PCH sink, and noticed the SATA led lit up dimly, infact touching the board with light pressure anywhere round that corner makes the led light. Sounds like a PCB problem but I just wonder if that happens with other boards?

System details

3930k @4.8g 1.385 watercooled 60-65c
RIVE 3204 bios
64g 2133 GSKILL kit XMP settings
GTX 580
SEASONIC 1000w platinum

testing on bench

will running fine no crashes benching but tring to setup a RAM disk so I need it to be 100% reliable starting restarting etc