So a hilarious update about my hack-from-hell ……
RMA’d my ASUS X299 Sage/10G - they elected to replace it. I install all the 128 gigs of Corsair Vengeance LPX (8 x 16 GB) booted up, did all the BIOS tweaks and enabled XMP at 3200 and booted up.
All worked………………… until I opened FCPX and went to export a project and it rebooted at random. So I figured out my PSU triggered a protection. (PSU is a Seasonic 1300W Platinum)
So - I start removing ALL my PCIE devices one at a time. And every time I go to export this project, it would just about to start and then reboot.
Last card left before I get to the new Sapphire Toxic Air 6900XT - a USB card I purchased to give myself a USB 2.0 header for my Gigabyte Titan Ridge. I pull it, everything worked. I actually had 2 separate adapters (one for my Fenvi Bluetooth PCIE adapter) and this one.
Finally was able to order an NZXT internal USB 2.0 hub which should arrive tomorrow. For now I’m on wired devices as I need Thunderbolt for projects (UA Apollo x4 needs Thunderbolt) but beyond that- it’s working!!! I was able to run Unigine Heaven and Cinebench for 12 hours on a second monitor - while doing display capture at 4K / 60 to Twitch and it ran without issue at all. I’ve done about 20 quick FCPX projects this morning and it’s amazing. I feel like I have Stockholm syndrome for computer issues because I feel “incomplete” at the moment. This has been an ordeal.
The reboot issue was happening about once a month since 2020 but it never really interfered with work so I never dove deep…. Until the machine stopped posting correctly. So for 2 years- this has probably been an issue and probably destroyed my old Vega 64 and my motherboard over time.
Now, something I’ve never bothered with as it used to just work is USB mapping. This board doesn’t seem to pick up all the ports (even though they all function in the bios) - and with all the iterations of boot loaders, is there a proper guide for the current OC implementation to properly map all my USB ports?