SSD does not work.

Amajed · Oct 28, 2013

Hi Smiley

I bought GA-B85M-D3H and a couple of SAMSUNG 840 PRO SSD 128GB

they both seen in the BIOS of the motherboard, but when I wanted to start setup a fresh Windows 7 64bit installation the starting of the setup hangs for about 2 minutes , then after that the install process continue but you can't see nether of the SSD
I looked for them in the DISKPART (by clicking on Shift+F10) they both are not listed in the Disk list

I was on BIOS F4 , so I upgraded to F7 and still the same exact problem,
I tried to connect a HDD to see if it can be seen, and wow the installation does not hang of the start of the setup and the HDD is seen in the DISKPART without any problems

I thought the SSD (both of them) were dead or something, so I tested then on other system to see if they work, I guess you know the answer, they did work without problems at all ( on a Z77M-D3H-MVP motherboard)

so am I missing something that I need turn on/off in the GA-B85M-D3H BIOS ? cause its detected there but not in the DISKPART at all,
the weird part for me is the HDD works fine, but the SSD not, didn't know its even possible for something like this to happen if everything is working probably

what can I do to fix this ? thanks

Amajed · Oct 28, 2013

Branson dumisani :

Thanks, I did try the SSD alone and still the same, each SSD alone will trigger the problem and they won't show in DISKPART (but each one of them will show in BIOS)

I even tried the SSD alone on every SATA port , none worked.

I did not try to switch to IDE yet, I will try , but if it did work what does that suppose to mean ?

isn't the SSD and HDD are the same? I mean if DISKPART can see the HDD , it should be able to see the SSD too right?

btw when I tested the SSD on the other motherboard (Z77M-D3H-MVP) it was on RAID (not AHCI or IDE)

popatim · Oct 28, 2013

I'm not sure whats going on myself. What port was the SSD installed on? What mode was teh sta ports set to? I'm thinking maybe you had it set to raid since you bought two which would mean you would need to setup the array in the raid bios {ctrl+i} before the install process would see them.

Trent Quan-Sing · Oct 28, 2013

Amajed :

Branson dumisani :

Thanks, I did try the SSD alone and still the same, each SSD alone will trigger the problem and they won't show in DISKPART (but each one of them will show in BIOS)

I even tried the SSD alone on every SATA port , none worked.

I did not try to switch to IDE yet, I will try , but if it did work what does that suppose to mean ?

isn't the SSD and HDD are the same? I mean if DISKPART can see the HDD , it should be able to see the SSD too right?

btw when I tested the SSD on the other motherboard (Z77M-D3H-MVP) it was on RAID (not AHCI or IDE)

In windows could you check disk management for me and see if they are initialized.

I'm not sure why they aren't coming up in DISKPART regardless though.

Amajed · Oct 28, 2013

popatim :

This motherboard does not support RAID, so it was set to AHCI
I tried all SATA ports

Trent Quan-Sing :

There's no Windows yet, I can't install Windows since I can't see the SSD in the first place , the DISKPART that I'm using is in the Windows Setup

Trent Quan-Sing · Oct 29, 2013

Amajed :

popatim :

This motherboard does not support RAID, so it was set to AHCI
I tried all SATA ports

Trent Quan-Sing :

There's no Windows yet, I can't install Windows since I can't see the SSD in the first place , the DISKPART that I'm using is in the Windows Setup

I have an issue on my motherboard where my SATA2 ports were being disabled in Windows when used as AHCI. This is a fault says AsRock but I have no warranty.

Perhaps this is similar.

If you had a motherboard exactly the same brand and model perhaps you could diagnose.

Amajed · Oct 29, 2013

Trent Quan-Sing :

Amajed :

I have an issue on my motherboard where my SATA2 ports were being disabled in Windows when used as AHCI. This is a fault says AsRock but I have no warranty.

Perhaps this is similar.

If you had a motherboard exactly the same brand and model perhaps you could diagnose.

Mine detect HDD but not SSD , if the whole port would be disabled on AHCI then the HDD won't show up too.

the real problem is, why SSD is not detected when HDD is detected?

Trent Quan-Sing · Oct 29, 2013

Amajed :

Trent Quan-Sing :

Amajed :

I have an issue on my motherboard where my SATA2 ports were being disabled in Windows when used as AHCI. This is a fault says AsRock but I have no warranty.

Perhaps this is similar.

If you had a motherboard exactly the same brand and model perhaps you could diagnose.

Mine detect HDD but not SSD , if the whole port would be disabled on AHCI then the HDD won't show up too.

the real problem is, why SSD is not detected when HDD is detected?

It could very well be product incompatibility.

It's not unheard of but it is rare.

There's nothing on these drives yet?

I would advise to boot to a Ram based operating system such as MiniXP or PartedMagic and format the drives as NTFS just to see what happens.

Amajed · Oct 29, 2013

Trent Quan-Sing :

Amajed :

Trent Quan-Sing :

Mine detect HDD but not SSD , if the whole port would be disabled on AHCI then the HDD won't show up too.

the real problem is, why SSD is not detected when HDD is detected?

It could very well be product incompatibility.

It's not unheard of but it is rare.

There's nothing on these drives yet?

I would advise to boot to a Ram based operating system such as MiniXP or PartedMagic and format the drives as NTFS just to see what happens.

Yes they are untouched yet, I will create a NTFS partition and see what happens

Thanks

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