Board works great except for one faulty SATA port onboard.

ga-990fxa-ud3 usb ports not working" The solution is posted over in the Ubuntu forums

USB 3 ports didn't work out the box, Verifying DMI Pool message

Starting off with the pros, this motherboard provides 3 PCIE slots to put graphics cards in, It provides 4 ram slots opposing to 2 on other motherboards around the price range, it provides a proprietary HDMI port on the back which means that you don't necessarily need a graphics card to keep the PC running but other than that every thing is what comes standard on this chipset

the USB 3 ports could be activated, but then the USB 2 and LAN ports would be dead;(3) the USB 2 and LAN ports could be turned on,

By March of 2017 the USB 3.0 ports began to have problems as of July

Network Interface erratic, one usb 3.0 port did not work with external HDD, one usb 2.0 did not have power, no GIGABYTE support

n’t died on me