Author: Mushu
Subject: Z170 Extreme4, m.2, etc. troubles
Posted: 08 Mar 2016 at 11:51pm
As long as the system is stable and you are happy with it - all is good.
Subject: Z170 Extreme4, m.2, etc. troubles
Posted: 08 Mar 2016 at 11:51pm
 domogled wrote:Thanks a lot Mushu  , the settings you've recommended indeed fixed all the issues i had. |
Great! So glad that you got your system stabilized.
| domogled wrote: The shutdown is done properly, the hibernation the same tho takes a bit longer to enter that state, longer that I was used to while using a Z77 platform, it is just fine, yet that hibernation issues i noticed while using various platforms persists. Actually the system wakes up out of the blue, no key or mouse button pressed. anyway that's not an issue of that new platform but something OS related i guess, or perhaps network (Wake on Lan) related as I have the network adapter connected directly to the ONT (fiber optics) equipment and perhaps it just gets woken up from GPON (ONT) device. So not a problem. |
I cannot comment on this since I disabled hibernation from windows. I only use sleep.
| domogled wrote: Then the system no longer hangs while POST-ing, no freeze while accessing windows login page. Indeed i had one freeze but it was my mistake and had nothing to do i guess with the platform. I had an old Samsung ssd pluged on SATA 3_5 and something is wrong with its MBR. It used to be part of a raid0 array long ago, then it worked as a single ssd bootable for couple of years. Any OS could be installed yet if the ssd is connected as an additional device (not booting the os from it) the system hangs and gives all kind of errors, the ssd is detected as an array having its capacity seen as double. So the freeze I've got, the old Samsung 830 is the culprit. |
Indeed, the uefi/gpt boot scheme is quite touchy and I can see it misbehaving with MBR raid disk as you discribed.
| domogled wrote: One thing I noticed tho, not an issue as it doesn't bother me at all... I noticed some sort of double start each time i power the system. It starts then quickly shuts down, the led's from power and reset buttons remains on, it shuts itself down then starts up again and the entire POST sequence is passing quickly and then boots up into Windows. Perhaps it is related to the slight over voltage settings I use for PCH 1.0V and VCCIO. |
Now, I am not sure but I think my system does this same dual boot after I have reset the CMOS. I believe it is some automatic process that adjusts voltages/memory timings etc. to facilitate a successful boot. It could be MB battery related, or maybe some memory setting is not sitting well with the MB.
| domogled wrote: I've got no bsod or hanged program so far, actually the sole reason I upped a bit the frequency was that I thought it will be more stable using the memory divider for 2800 than the one for 2666. |
As long as the system is stable and you are happy with it - all is good.