Hi,
I just built my new system around the Crosshair V Forumula-z Mobo a couple weeks ago. And I have been having problems with sleep from the start. I have ruled out the ram and video card. Oddly enough, I think its the hard drives doing it, but the hard drives are good. Here's whats going on:
I have 1 ssd and 2 seagate 2tb disk drives.
I start off by booting my computer up. The disk drives time out after 20 minutes idle. If I put the computer to sleep after the drives have already spun down, it goes to sleep fine. BUT now here is the kicker, when I bring the computer out of sleep I can hear the disk drives spin up, but then after only bout 10 seconds I hear them spin back down. This is both drives, one after the other. NOW if I put my computer to sleep with the drives spun down, it will hang. Screen will go blank, and it will just sit there, unresponsive, and I have to hit reset.
IF I go into each drive, to make them spin back up, before I put it to sleep then it will sleep fine.
Since it is both drives I can assume the problem is not the drives. So is it something in the bios? Is this board incompatible with the drives? Why would it spin the drives back down right after it has started back up?