Weird USB & overclocking issues with Z97 Gaming 7 board

I just had to replace my trusty Z77-G45 board with a new Z97 Gaming 7. The board itself looks fine so far but some things just don't work as I'd expect them to.
1. USB -> as soon as I connect a USB stick, Windows will drop me a blue screen. This only happens with sticks! Memory cards, external hard drives and so on are fine. It doesn't matter whether I use the front or back ports, problem remains the same.
I even tried to re-set the bios USB settings (they were enabled by default), but even disabling them doesn't do any good.
Yes, current Intel and ASMedia drivers have been installed prior to this.
2. Overclocking. I can't change several values in the bios. Values in brackets can be changed, as usual, but many others remain to be "fixed". Starting with the "optimized defaults", could there be anything that blocks these settings?
Bios is current, version 1.8, and CMOS was cleared completely (jumper set, battery & cord removed) after flashing.

Yes, well partly at least:
- found my USB ports to work after I enabled all the options there were in bios (that's a start!)
- found USB sticks to work normally after uninstalling the USB port drivers (ASMedia)
So far, so good at least.
Then I remembered my short "voyage" with a Z87 board. Simply entering numbers seems to work. I like the idea as it keeps total newbies away, but I hate it for not seeing any kind of range.
Especially now, as the platform is totally new to me, and even the default values show up in bright red when I enter them manually. No sort of documentation to be found in the manual, so I hope I'll stumble across something like a "MSI-specific" OC tutorial (most of them seem to concentrate on Asus and Asrock, as usual).
Thanks for trying to help though I couldn't find a button to delete the topic so I thought locking it would be a good alternative.
PS: I'm on Win 8.1 now, which updated my previous Win 8 installation, and it's running fine now. Using things like "show hidden devices" & uninstalling old drivers has helped me to keep my installations for quite some time normally. Often across various platforms even (used to be far more years ago as I don't upgrade as much anymore).

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Yes, well partly at least:
- found my USB ports to work after I enabled all the options there were in bios (that's a start!)
- found USB sticks to work normally after uninstalling the USB port drivers (ASMedia)
So far, so good at least.
Then I remembered my short "voyage" with a Z87 board. Simply entering numbers seems to work. I like the idea as it keeps total newbies away, but I hate it for not seeing any kind of range.
Especially now, as the platform is totally new to me, and even the default values show up in bright red when I enter them manually. No sort of documentation to be found in the manual, so I hope I'll stumble across something like a "MSI-specific" OC tutorial (most of them seem to concentrate on Asus and Asrock, as usual).
Thanks for trying to help though I couldn't find a button to delete the topic so I thought locking it would be a good alternative.
PS: I'm on Win 8.1 now, which updated my previous Win 8 installation, and it's running fine now. Using things like "show hidden devices" & uninstalling old drivers has helped me to keep my installations for quite some time normally. Often across various platforms even (used to be far more years ago as I don't upgrade as much anymore).

Re: Presentation and first issue with Z97 Gaming 5, I5 4690K, DDR3 Gskill Ares 1600

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Overclocking issues with Neo2 Platinum

hiya nocturnal
1st in Integrated Peripherals / IDE Function Setup....disable sata1/sata2 dma transfer and enable sata3/sata4 dma transfer...sata 3 is top on left side of board one closest to cpu.
2nd ... Cell Menu / DRAM configuration is where you set memory timing 1T/2T
3rd...Cell Menu / AGP Frequency ..set it to 67
just My 2 cents but why don't you take Everything back to stock (cpu & vid card) , Do the above and see if it will boot. the biggest problem you have (my opinion) is your memory...you do not state if it is pc3200/400 ...if it is go 200 Max Memclock (step 2, 1st option)
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I recently bought a Z97 Gaming 3 Board and installed all the drivers with the CD and live update 6.
Whenever i open Sound Blaster cinema 2 it says that theres no audio device available.
I've tried the following thing a couple of time wich i found on this forum.
i've uninstalled the realtek Audio program, SBC2 and deleted all the audio devices in Device manager.
reinstalled the Realtek audio (from website and antoehr time from the update tool again) After that reinstalled SBC2 (also from website and update tool) and i still get the same message.
HD sound is enabled in the BIOS
I hope someone knows a way to get my SBC2 working, because it improves sound.
Im using a 5.1 Headset( connected the Sound optimised USB, and a 2.1 audio set connected to the 3.5 jacket on the back
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BOSD with z97 gaming 5

I buy a new PC and after installing windows i get random BSOF. I try change all my hardware like disk hdd , Ram( Gskill 2x2 1333), vga msi r9 280, vga on board, PSU, i try deactivate lan killer, reset the bios, installe win7 and it do the same.
My current PC specs:
Board: MSI Z97 gaming 5
Bios: Version 1.8
VGA: Sapphira R9 285 oc
PSU: Lepa B700M maxbron
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k
MEM: Kingston Hyperx Fury 8gb 1x8
FDD: Sand Disk ultra 2 240gb
OS: Windows 8.1 64bit Professional
My problem is the same problem of daniel.burgess.338863. ======> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=181419.0
Please help.....
TKS

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system service exception(dxmms1.sys)
kmode exception not handle (win32.sys)
system service exception(fltmgr.sys)
system service exception(luafv.sys)
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irql not less or equal
unexpected kernel mode trap (ntfs.sys)
attempted execute of non execute memory
system service exception (netio.sys)
do a new fresh OS installation and do not install any 3rd party programs
this refer to norton AV application
do a new fresh OS install
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Since I installed Maverick I have numerous issues with my Macbook Pro-Retina mid 2012.
When I connect my usual USB drives they don't react the first time. I always have to deconnect and immediately reconnect to make it work.
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Hey guys, first time I've posted since I got my board, because I have had zero issues with it. But that, unfortunately, was at stock settings. The minute i overclocked the board, I loved its stability. A Q6600 to 3.0 GHZ on stock voltage and auto everything! However, I have run into a problem...
When I boot up with a 1420 FSB, I get a clock speed of 3.19GHZ in the POST info, and it loads windows (Vista 32bit) instantly, no problems. However, all of my applications (CPUZ, windows system properties,, etc) show me at 3.0GHZ still. I have run benchmarks between 3.0 and 3.2 and I see no variation in points, at all. I'm booting into windows fine with is overclock, but windows is not accepting and applying it!
Any info that anyone can give would be much appreciated. FYI, I am running the current 2.1 bios from this site, actually the board came with said bios installed. Thanking you all in advance...
-Slamd-

OK guys, just a little update. My OC is now showing up in Windows and is now making a difference in my benchmark scores. All I had to do was drop the multi to 8 and then up the fsb to 1600 (for 3.2 ghz) and it booted normally. It's passed prime for 8 hours now, so I have no reason to believe its not stable.
Still not sure why my OC wouldn't work in windows until I dropped my multi tho, any suggestions?
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No signal with Z97 Gaming 5 + HD7850

Hi,
First post here so if there's something to add to it, tell me
So I bought an upgrade kit which had an i5 4670k with a Z97 Gaming 5 and 8gb RAM. It looks like this now :
Board: MSI Z97 Gaming 5
Bios: Version 1.2
VGA: Sapphire HD7850 2Go
PSU: Corsair TX650w (52A - 624W)
Intel Core i5-4670k
MEM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 2x4Gb
HDD: Samsung 840 120Go + Seagate Barracuda 4To + SanDisk SSD 120Go
COOLER: all stock
OS: Windows 7 64bit Professional
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I checked with an old HD4850 and it seemed to boot up correctly, but not with the HD7850.
Something I don't understand is it worked one time. I could play 4h straight with the new Wolfenstein, then the next day the same thing happened.
My motherboard shows no error code on the LED chip, as it boots up as usual except there's no video signal.
I'm asking here some help since I have no clue of what is happening
Thanks

So I tried to CMOS, I guess it changed something because it booted and I could use Windows until I launched World of Warcraft.
BlueScreen with "Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed", so I guess there's a problem somewhere :p
I checked my graphic card downloads options, and there's only downloads like "Catalyst" and HydroVision thing. So I guess there's no options for a vbios update. I'll send them a mail but a 2-year old graphic card and from what I saw on Internet and forums, they really don't care about it :/

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Hi Jim,
Thnaks for your feedback.
Here is a link to download some footage : WeTransfer
But you know, I done some test this morning. If I put my footage on my SSD system or on my NAS with RAID 5, no trouble with playback.
But if I let my footage on my Raid 1 Media volume (mirroring), the problem still be here... I think it could be the disk speed... What do u think about that ?

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hi guy
im wonder to know if i had intel i7-5th generation can i apply on my 1150 socket mobo?, because i had msi z97 gaming 9 ack. as i seen that in the description show it support
MSI Z97 Gaming 9 ACK
Supports 4th and 5th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1150 socket
pls correct me im wrong

i7 supported:
Bios 1.0 (all boards have it at least)
i7-4771
i7-4770T
i7-4770S
i7-4770K
i7-4770
i7-4765T
i7-4790T
i7-4790S
i7-4790
i7-4785T
Bios 1.1 (board made after 2014-06-04)
i7-4790K
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All,
Been banging my head against the wall all night on this. Hopefully its something easy. Got my new rig assembled:
I5 4670k
MSI Z97-Gaming 9 AC LGA 1150 Intel Z97
MSI Gaming N780 TF 3GD5/OC GeForce GTX 780 3GB
Have a M.2 intel SSD installed
Windows 8.1 64 installed no issues
For the life of me, I can not get the motherboard to detect the 780, I updated to the latest bios using the USB flash utility, no issues. Completed successfully.
Using the Board viewer it shows nothing in the PCIE slot, I have also tried SLOT 2 still no luck.
The MB still does not show anything inserted into the slot.
Any suggestions would greatly appreciated...
Thanks in advance

Well, wish I had good news, but not so much. With everything setup on a test bench the board wont even post with a card plugged into the PCIE slot. Remove the card post, and into the bios every time. Tried clearing CMOS, all 3 PCIE slots just a no go.
RMA is issued and it will be going back tomorrow.
*Fingers crossed on the new board*
Thanks for all the suggestions, will let you know what happens when the new board arrives.
Cheers

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Back in the Fall of 2012, I copied some data onto a USB thumb-drive from my laptop, then a 15-inch MacBook Pro (I bought it used, I think it was 2006 or 2007 vintage). There was a large amount of data transferred. The copying process took about half and hour. I took the thumb drive to a friend with a much newer computer. My friend told me the transfer took a few minutes. I knew something was wrong then. The MacBook Pro was running MacOS 10.6.8.
The MacBook Pro died March, 2013. I was able to hire a specialist to extract the internal hard disk from the laptop, put it in a USB case, and transfer the contents verbatim to a newer machine; I had to buy a refurbished late-2012 iMac. running MacOS 10.8. (Now runs 10.9)
I have noticed peculiar behavior in running this iMac. USB thumb drives and other USB hard drive transfers can occasionally seem sluggish. Weirder still, if I put the iMac to sleep overnight, waking it up in the morning causes a very strange "wake up" process where the display is greyed out and a progress bar lets me know it is slowly waking up. This wake-up process takes one to two minutes. This only happens when there are no USB peripherals connected to the iMac. If I put the iMac to sleep with a thumb drive plugged in, it wakes up instantly.
I have long suspected the iMac had some kind of software bug or corruption that was brought over from the MacBook Pro in March of '13, when I hastily transferred everything over in the midst of the laptop's breakdown crisis.
Recently, I ran Software Update on the iMac to get Epson and Security updates installed. I repeatedly was greeted by the warning message: "System extension cannot be used The system extension "/System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext" was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product's vendor for an update." I have no idea what this means, but it does seem to confirm that there's some weird bug loose and it has to do with USB.
The only question is: what can I do about it? Would calling AppleCare for advice help?
I am my own "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer", in that I do my own I.T. most of the time. I've been using Macintoshes since 1986.

Hi Walt_Atwood,
I'm sorry to hear you have been dealing with this issue for so long. If you are getting error or alert messages about a deep system file (like a System .kext), you may want to try reinstalling your OS. This should not affect your files or user settings (as noted in the following article), but just to be safe it is alway a good idea to have a backup of your data prior to these kinds of troubleshooting steps.
OS X Mavericks: Reinstall OS X
OS X Mavericks: Back up your Mac
OS X Mavericks: Alternatives for backing up your Mac
Also, regarding the unusual wake up process that you noted, from your description it sounds like your machine is waking from Safe Sleep. This may be normal for your model (Late 2012 iMac) if it has been asleep for more than 4 hours and there has been no USB activity:
Mac computers: Progress bar appears after waking from sleep - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

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