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Another issue, none of my USB3 ports at the back of the board are working either, hate this board at the mo

USB issues can be as much a board issue as a bad Win7 Install. UgH!

If you get to a point of RMA, I would first take the time to do a fresh Win7 install. With no other drives attached and after writing zeros to the drive twice. Then boot to the Memtest86 CD before loading and run it good.

I know its a pain. Also a bad stick of RAM can cause a bad Win7 install. Thats why with a fresh build I run the Memtest86 CD thoroughly before loading Windows.

Good on stock clock and bad on tweaked clock is a good one though.

Perhaps you can compare Even viewer in each clock for errors and warnings. WHEA hardware warnings after running tests can indicate a bad clock and your be your woes.

Good luck

Some stupid questions, just because I've gone through this before and you didn't provide details.

1. is it an actual monitor or a TV you're using as monitor?
2. is there an alignment button or feature you can use? I know hdmi isn't supposed to need it but perhaps in this case it may help.
3. i notice you're using video cards, could you perhaps try on the onboard video, just to see if it may be something with the cards vs. the board?

Initially for some reason during the bios phase my smaller lcd didn't auto line up, which was new to me because in every other system it did - the difference is that mine is using the vga port, hdmi is supposed to self-align.

Also, re: the USB - I think it show UD3H in that pic which I have as well. The VIA USB are notoriously tricky inside of windows. You MUST install drivers to use them once it gets into Windows. You can use them at the BIOS screen to get in, probably 100% every time but once inside windows the 4 USB (not under the LAN) will not work natively. The Intel ones will work (the ones under the LAN port) in Windows but there's a 50/50 chance they won't work at the BIOS screen. I don't know why.

So the best thing to do is to keep it on the Intel port until you have the Windows driver installed and then move it to the VIA port. I moved mine to the VIA port to the left of my LAN port and it's worked fine there. Either way, the ports are tricky and I can't use more than 2 of them without problems. There's a new driver available for the VIA USB 3 on the GB website. I can't use it since I'm on Windows 8.
Edited by neoprimal - 8/8/12 at 8:07am

I don't mean wiping one you're actually using or using the spinner as the main drive, I meant like using an older spare drive just to see if it runs on it. I guess I shouldn't assume everyone has extra hard drives sitting around. I have 5 just chilling out, lol.

That's how I had to test mine. I now have 2 drives, one with fresh+all updates Windows 7 and fresh Windows 8 RP sitting down in addition to the drive I'm actually using ATM with Windows 8 so I can test to see what's working from what isn't. I have an OCZ Agility 4 on the way but I don't think it will fare any better than the Sandforce; it seems Marvell SSDs are the way to go with these boards.

(I wanted to roll this into my last post but I don't see a way to actually delete posts so I'll leave it as separate, sorry for the double post - didn't see what bark said till afterwards.)
Edited by neoprimal - 8/8/12 at 8:19am

oh these new via drivers are nice i have no mouse lag on screen now thanks via

I had an issue with the USB ports randomly not working, sometimes mouse and keyboard would work, sometimes only 1, sometimes neither. I updated to BIOS F11 and I haven't had the problem since.

Will these work on the UD5H?

I believe it won't. UD5H has Via hubs, but not VIA USBs.

I had been reading so much about problems with sleep. Since I've been leaving my rig up all day (UD5H) I decided to enable sleep and I'm happy to say it works perfectly, isn't affected by my overclock at all. Once in a while, not often I'll get a Windows message about one of the VIA USB 3.0 hub ports. Mostly I use the USB 3.0 off the Intel port and no problems but occasionally I use the rear ones and I may/may not get the message. pita.

@2therock: he's right the UD5 has the VIA hubs, you don't load a driver for those.

what are the settings (bios/windows) ?,i like to try the sleep but most of the settings on UD5 i'm not familiar with