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Problem adding SSD to MSI 890GXM motherboard

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November 29, 2013 8:12:38 PM



I have a 890GXM-G65 motherboard. It says it supports 6GBs SATA. I'm trying to install a new Seagate 240GB SSD card as a boot drive. I successfully copied the OS from my previous C: drive partition to the new SSD, but when the PC tries to boot from it, it fails during bootup with the message "3rd Master: S.M.A.R.T. capable but command failed.' I checked out the new card using Seagate tools, and it said that it passed with no SMART errors, nor any other errors for that matter. I was at BIOS version 1.3 so I updated that to the latest 1.D which didn't make a difference either. Any clues as to what problem I'm having? I'm having a hard time believing this brand new SSD is bad, so testing out everything else first.

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November 30, 2013 1:09:59 PM

Did you connected the drive properly in SATA port ? Did you make it first boot device in BIOS ? And did you select AHCI for SATA ?

Try to install the OS with a bootable media(DVD/USB).
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November 30, 2013 1:15:38 PM

You said you 'copied' the OS; did you mean cloned the OS instead?

As for the smart issue, do you have the original HDD in a caddy in place of the optical drive? Not all laptops support Hdd's in the optical drive slot.
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December 3, 2013 12:05:24 PM

lonewolf7 said:
Did you connected the drive properly in SATA port ? Did you make it first boot device in BIOS ? And did you select AHCI for SATA ?

Try to install the OS with a bootable media(DVD/USB).


I fixed it. I had not set AHCI because I found the only setting for AHCI was under RAID in the bios,which turns on all drives for RAID. I guess that makes sense. To answer popatim, he was right as well. I had copied not cloned. I've copied images before in XP then set the MBR, make it active, and that's usually enough, but I guess that's not enough for Vista. On to Windows 7 now. Lol.Thanks.
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December 3, 2013 12:23:33 PM

You are welcome.
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