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June 6, 2013 6:40:50 AM

I have Windows 7 installed (64 bit). For some reason, the hard drive "disapears" and the system will not start up. This happens about once a month. I have a PCI SATA card, if I put this in can I just boot from it to test whether it is the hard drive or the SATA ports on the motherboard? By the way, this is a new ASROCK motherboard with UEFI. Thanks.

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a b V Motherboard
June 6, 2013 7:17:29 AM

That depends on the PCI SATA card.
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June 6, 2013 7:25:45 AM

noidea_77 said:
That depends on the PCI SATA card.


So it depends on whether Win 7 has the drivers? Is there anything else I should be looking for? Note that the hard drive is an older drive, tests have come back fine on the drive. I seem to recall reading somewhere, that if you set up an older drive (in the BIOS) a certain way, this can happen?
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a b V Motherboard
June 6, 2013 7:41:41 AM

mattm16 said:
noidea_77 said:
That depends on the PCI SATA card.


So it depends on whether Win 7 has the drivers? Is there anything else I should be looking for? Note that the hard drive is an older drive, tests have come back fine on the drive. I seem to recall reading somewhere, that if you set up an older drive (in the BIOS) a certain way, this can happen?

It depends, if it is a bootable PCI card. A driver doesn't help, if you want to boot from it, because there is no driver loaded. Some card have there own bios, some are recognized by the mobo bios.
The problem you ar refering to is the spin-up time of older drives. Sometimes the disk needs to long to spin up and send the ready signal to the bios. I remember old mobo's that had a spin-up time setting in bios, but i haven't seen that for long.
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June 6, 2013 7:47:11 AM

noidea_77 said:
mattm16 said:
noidea_77 said:
That depends on the PCI SATA card.


So it depends on whether Win 7 has the drivers? Is there anything else I should be looking for? Note that the hard drive is an older drive, tests have come back fine on the drive. I seem to recall reading somewhere, that if you set up an older drive (in the BIOS) a certain way, this can happen?

It depends, if it is a bootable PCI card. A driver doesn't help, if you want to boot from it, because there is no driver loaded. Some card have there own bios, some are recognized by the mobo bios.
The problem you ar refering to is the spin-up time of older drives. Sometimes the disk needs to long to spin up and send the ready signal to the bios. I remember old mobo's that had a spin-up time setting in bios, but i haven't seen that for long.


I have booted off of it before, when I had WinXP. I just remember with that I had to hit the F7 or F6 key and install drivers. Didn't know if I had to do that with Win7, or I could just plug in the HD and go. Thanks.
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