P67A-C43 (B3) minor weirdness.

Hey all,
Got a system here that's solid as a rock, except for a few small issues:
1) Very occasionally, system refuses to POST on cold boot (hangs at status code A3 or B3).  I've had this about 3 times in the past 3 months, and a hard reboot always fixes it.  Could be high Vdroop on one of the rails, but I've never tested it.
2) Recently (just noticed it about 2 days ago), USB keyboard/mouse aren't recognized for about 30 seconds after boot to Windows 7 login screen, can't toggle Numlock/Capslock either during this time.  I noticed that this only started to happen when I plugged the hub into one of the USB 3 ports, so it might just be the Renesas USB3 driver taking its time.  Weirdly, keyboard and mouse both work in getting to/using UEFI BIOS, regardless of where the hub is plugged in.
Specs:
2500K OC to 3.8GHz (stepping down to 3.6, 3.4, 3.2), Hyper212+ HSF
P67A-C43 B3 fw. 1.B
Corsair 8GB DDR3-1333 RAM
EVGA GTX 560 Ti
Crucial C300 128GB SSD (fw. upgraded to 0007 from 0006)
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD
Bigfoot Killer 2100 NIC (latest fw)
HTO Stryker 7.1 sound card
Rosewill RCR-IC002 card reader
Antec Earthwatts EA500 PSU
Raidmax Smilodon case
Rosewill RHUB-300 USB 2.0 Hub
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 w/IntelliType 5, driver ver. 8.20.409.0
Logitech MX518 mouse w/SetPoint 6.32.7, driver ver. 5.33.14
Trivial problems to be sure, but is there anything I can do about them?  I just put together this system, and it doesn't seem right for it to have even minor problems right off the bat.

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Status code at time of hang was B4.
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Rosewill RHUB-300 USB 2.0 Hub
USB or USB compatibility problem of some kind.

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       Extended CPUID      6.2A
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       Tjmax         98.0 °C
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       L1 Instruction cache   4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
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       Max turbo ratio      60x
       Max efficiency ratio   16x
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       Ratio 2 cores      60x
       Ratio 3 cores      60x
       Ratio 4 cores      60x
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    Drive   0
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       Type         Fixed
       Name         WDC WD20EZRX-00DC0B0
       Capacity      1863.0 GB
       SMART Support      Yes
    Drive   1
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       Name         Seagate Desktop
       Capacity      1863.0 GB
       SMART Support      Yes
    Drive   2
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    USB Device         USB Input Device, class=0x00, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x045E, product=0x00CB
    USB Device         CanoScan 8800F, class=0x00, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x04A9, product=0x1901
    USB Device         USB Mass Storage Device, class=0x00, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x0BC2, product=0x3300
    USB Device         Generic USB Hub, class=0x09, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x8087, product=0x0024
    USB Device         Generic USB Hub, class=0x09, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x05E3, product=0x0605
    USB Device         USB Mass Storage Device, class=0x00, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x1058, product=0x1130
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    API            NVIDIA NVAPI
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    Display adapter 0   
       Name         NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
       Board Manufacturer   GIGABYTE Technology
       Revision      A3
       Codename      G72
       Technology      90 nm
       PCI device      bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)
       Vendor ID      0x10DE (0x1458)
       Model ID      0x01DF (0x3413)
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