Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
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- Concord, NH, USA
System Name | Apollo |
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Processor | Intel Core i9 9880H |
Motherboard | Some proprietary Apple thing. |
Memory | 64GB DDR4-2667 |
Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2 |
Storage | 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External |
Display(s) | Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays |
Case | MacBook Pro (16", 2019) |
Audio Device(s) | AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers |
Power Supply | 96w Power Adapter |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 3 |
Keyboard | Logitech G915, GL Clicky |
Software | MacOS 12.1 |
Make sure you keep the USB 3.0 drivers up to date. The P9X79 uses external USB 3.0 controllers since X79 doesn't actually have on-PCH USB 3.0. Mine in fact has 3 independent controllers and they loved acting up without drivers and was the most finicky under Windows 7. Ironically, I've had the least number of issues with USB 3.0 on my board when running Ubuntu and before that Windows 10 seemed more stable (with respect to USB 3.0 drivers,) than Windows 7 was.Well....
I think my board is definitely one foot in the grave and there is no way to bring her back unless I get her recapped...
I noticed yesterday that the USB 3 ports on the back stopped working again. At first i thought it was just the external hard drive that I had hooked up that was borked and tested a load of other devices... Not surprisingly, none of them worked either. This is the same problem a few months back and replaced the PSU.
This has to be the 3rd or 4th time its happened and its just too much of a coincidence. Last time the PSU got replaced, but this time its definitely the not the PSU. I guess i'll have to start saving the pennies for a new machine.
If the P9X79 Pro is like the deluxe, there are 3 controllers which means that it should be incredibly unlikely for all of them to fail simultaneously.