You can't be sure what ports go to which chipset so take your finding and like the doctor said to "Doc, it hurts when I do this."
"Don't do that."
This post is going to be long and detailed as I have now had this problem for over 2 months.
Let me first define what I mean by "freezing".
Freezing, in this case, means my monitors get stuck (freeze) on whatever is on the screen at the time. Not a pixel will change. Audio cuts out as well. Everything else works fine though, my mouse and keyboard stay turned on and all components/lights inside the case remain working normally. Even the light on my headset.
That being said, it leads me to believe its a graphical issue. However, I've tried multiple monitors, different coords, etc. Everything just short of replacing my gpu.
The first freeze occured about 5 minutes in to my inital boot when I was installing windows. It took 3 tries before it went fully through the install without freezing.
Additionally, I can get it to freeze about 90% of the time I plug my phone in to the usb 3.0 slot and about 70% of the time in the 2.0s. Sometimes it takes a few minutes after I plug it in but you can't hide from the innevitable.
Pre RMA'ing motherboard:
-Froze about 3-4 times per day.(Almost unusable)
Post RMA:
-Did not freeze after I got the new one for 2 weeks!!
-Froze after I bumped the case. (not even very hard either)
- Froze numerous times after that until it slowed down to the current 1-2 freezes per day. (excluding the few where I had my phone plugged in)
Other Things I've tried:
-Reseated both sticks of RAM and cpu multiple times.
-Made sure everything is plugged in. 99% sure its plugged in RIGHT as this is my first build.
-Made sure the motherboard was in the case correctly (standoffs, tabs on the i/o shield, etc)
-Built the full thing outside of the case. (Eliminates the mobo shorting out on the case)
Full build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Tempers/saved/NpFxFT
My ram is not listed on pcpartpicker so here that is:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Any help is greatly appreciated. Every time it freezes, my stomach just drops with defeat as I am completely lost on this problem..
-Thanks

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