- Joined
- Jul 16, 2012
- Messages
- 7
- Motherboard
- Z87X-D3H
- CPU
- i7-4771
- Graphics
- GTX 760 2GB
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
@atreyu187
Initially I did not install "3rd Party SATA" and everything was fine apart from the freezes / crashing.
I did some research and it looks like a lot of Z87X Gigabyte boards suffer from this problem when loaded with four DIMM's. Some people have tried increasing the voltage and other settings on the DIMM sockets with mixed results meaning that the machine still crashes, but not as often. The only sure fix is to remove two DIMM's and only run one bank of memory. With one bank of memory installed my machine has been stable for several days, but now only has 8GB.
Sleep - If I start the machine up from the Unibeast USB stick and then select my Mavericks install everything is stable, and sleep worked perfectly meaning that I could put the machine to sleep from the keyboard and wake by pressing any key on the keyboard. Currently my machine will sleep from the keyboard (option, command, eject) or after a pre-determined amount of time, but will only wake by pressing the power or reset keys on the front panel. I can live with this.
Sound - I don't know if this works, as after it failed to work once on waking from sleep I reverted to using a USB sound stick that I have been using for years. With the USB sound stick, sound works perfectly.
One other issue I have had is that initially my keyboard, mouse and Unibeast were plugged into the two USB 2 plugs on the back panel. After trying to boot into my old OS by mistake (10.6.8 for the P55 board) the board stopped recognizing the keyboard and mouse, but continued to see the USB stick. When I tried to plug the keyboard into another socket when the machine was running it was not recognized, but was recognized on the front panel USB 2 or any of the rear USB 3 sockets if is installed before starting up the machine. "Enable legacy USB" is enabled in the BIOS. All very strange.
Initially I did not install "3rd Party SATA" and everything was fine apart from the freezes / crashing.
I did some research and it looks like a lot of Z87X Gigabyte boards suffer from this problem when loaded with four DIMM's. Some people have tried increasing the voltage and other settings on the DIMM sockets with mixed results meaning that the machine still crashes, but not as often. The only sure fix is to remove two DIMM's and only run one bank of memory. With one bank of memory installed my machine has been stable for several days, but now only has 8GB.
Sleep - If I start the machine up from the Unibeast USB stick and then select my Mavericks install everything is stable, and sleep worked perfectly meaning that I could put the machine to sleep from the keyboard and wake by pressing any key on the keyboard. Currently my machine will sleep from the keyboard (option, command, eject) or after a pre-determined amount of time, but will only wake by pressing the power or reset keys on the front panel. I can live with this.
Sound - I don't know if this works, as after it failed to work once on waking from sleep I reverted to using a USB sound stick that I have been using for years. With the USB sound stick, sound works perfectly.
One other issue I have had is that initially my keyboard, mouse and Unibeast were plugged into the two USB 2 plugs on the back panel. After trying to boot into my old OS by mistake (10.6.8 for the P55 board) the board stopped recognizing the keyboard and mouse, but continued to see the USB stick. When I tried to plug the keyboard into another socket when the machine was running it was not recognized, but was recognized on the front panel USB 2 or any of the rear USB 3 sockets if is installed before starting up the machine. "Enable legacy USB" is enabled in the BIOS. All very strange.