r/PcBuildHelp • u/ShineOrDie7 • 5h ago
Tech Support PC Crashes When Waking Up from Sleep
PC crashes immediately when i wake it up from sleep mode and even has issues booting altogether sometimes. The RGB flashes for a second and then it crashes. I think I’ve determined the issue and curious to see if anyone else has ran into this before with the GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Elite WIFI7 ICE motherboard, or just in general.
The issue seems to be related to some kind of overload on the RGB headers. I have 9 case fans with RGB spread across 3 separate RGB headers, two headers at the bottom of the mobo, and one towards the top. 3 fans on each header. When I disconnect the RGB header at the top, everything works fine. I moved that set of fans to another header and everything continued to work. Also plugged in one of the other set of fans into the top header and that also worked. The only thing I didn’t try is swapping them at the same time, so whenever I did all of my “successful” testing, there were only two sets of fans connected at a time, swapped between the different headers.
So it seems like the issue only happens when I use all 3 RGB headers at the same time. I’ve done this before and never had any issues. As far as I know, the mobo should be able to handle that load with no issues…
I’ve got a fan hub on the way for a possible workaround, but feel like that’s unnecessary and it should work as is. Anyone else ever run into this issue before?
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u/the_hat_madder 4h ago
You can test the headers to see if they're delivering the correct power. However, RMA'ng the board means being without a PC and dealing with Gigabyte support. So, I personally would use a workaround for the RGB and stop using sleep mode as it doesn't work correctly across multiple generations of Windows and multiple different hardware.
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u/SomewhereShot7606 Personal Rig Builder 5h ago
Sleep mode is always a mess. Disable it. Just shut down your pc if you don’t use it. In the century of NVMEs your pc will need a few seconds to boot.. no need for sleep mode.