A few weeks ago I upgraded half of my System including the Motherboard and everything that was necessary for the new Generation.
Lots of issues, many rages, such anger, etc...
Most of the Problems I've been able to solve but one still sticks with me and that is Fast Boot not working while having a SATA Device attached which in my Case is 4x 1TB WesternDigital Caviar Greens.
With ANY number of HDD's attached to ANY of the SATA Ports AND Fast Boot enabled the Boot Process usually stops where normally the ROG/Windows 8.1 Boot Logo with the Spinner below it would appear - Most of the time It would show a Screen filling and cut off American Megatrends Logo.
I had all kinds of possible Error Codes showing whenever this happened with the most common ones I remember being 99 Super IO Initialization and, I believe, A2 IDE Detect.
System Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage V Extreme | BIOS: 1401
Processor: Intel i7-5930K
Memory : Corsair 32GB CMCD32GX4MA2500C14
Graphics Card #1: EVGA GTX980 SC
Graphics Card #2: EVGA GTX980 SC
Sound Card: Sound Blaster ZxR
Monitor: 3x DELL U3011 / 1x Wacom Cintiq 24HD Touch
Storage #1: Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB M.2
Storage #2: 4x 1TB WD Caviar Green
CPU Cooler: EKWB EK-Supremacy EVO
Case: Corsair 900D
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200i
Keyboard: 2x Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech G700
Headset: Ultrasone Edition 5
Mouse Pad: Logitech G440 Hard Gaming Mouse Pad
Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speaker
OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional
Network Router: Thomson
Accessory #1: Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard
Accessory #2: Saitek X-65F Combat Control System
Accessory #3: 3DConnexion SpacePilot PRO
PCIe Slots occupied as followed:
PCIE_X16_1: EVGA GTX980 SC
PCIE_X8_2: physically unoccupied
PCIE_X4_1: Sound Blaster ZxR
PCIE_X16/X8_3: EVGA GTX980 SC
PCIE_X1_1: physically unoccupied
PCIE_X8_4: physically unoccupied but PCIe Lanes used by Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB M.2
On the IO Shield I have 8 of the 10 USB 3.0 Ports in use including:
1st G710+ Keyboard
G700 Mouse
DELL Monitor USB HUB + 2nd G710+ Keyboard on Monitor HUB
SpacePilot PRO
G13 Keyboard
X-65F Joystick
Cintiq 24HD
Table mounted USB HUB
None of the External USB 2.0 Ports are in use.
Internally I use all of the 4 USB 2.0 Ports with the following Hardware connected:
Aquacomputer Aquaero 6 XT Fan Controller
Aquacomputer D5 Pump Controller
Aquacomputer Aqualis Reservoir Fill Meter
Corsair Link PSU Controller
