So, I won't be able to post my exact specs till about 7pm PST but I wanted to post this now. I bought a new rig entirely over Christmas (Well it was paid for by Fiance for Christmas, best fiance ever) and I am having a majorly odd issue.
This install went really well with all parts being recognized by Bios immediately and no hardware hiccups. I am running:
ASUS x99-Pro board (Bios Vers. 1910 I believe)
G. Skill Ripejaw Ram (will get numbers later) (4 sticks equalling 16gb)
intel 5820k
MSI 980ti Sea Hawk
WB Black 1tb
Seagate Barracuda 1tb (this is the problem drive)
H100ti Corsair Cooling
Windows 10 Pro Full Version 64-bit
My two major issues are when I actually get into windows I can't see the old Barracuda Drive to reformat it and Bios has no way of reformatting (that I have found on this version of Bios so far). When I try to reformat it during the windows install (supposedly) it wiped the drive but when I looked into it later on in device manager it showed it had not wiped it. On all following installs of Windows it said the drive was inaccessible. I am thinking what is interfering is the old copy of windows on this old drive (Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Free Upgrade from Windows 8.1 64-bit ). What I had planned for this old drive was to become my extra space and completely wipe it. However this drive does show up in device manager AND bios so I am assuming the hardware is having no issue seeing the drive. Until I can wipe this drive though it causes a crash during boot up of Windows and make it so I have to re-install windows every boot up if I leave it plugged in after the initial install.
My second issue is I can't update bios on the Mobo (which is the other theory I had about not being able to format this drive). It keeps telling me the ASUS Bios updates are not Bios updates or "is unable to be read as a bios flash". I have not yet tried to rename it seeing as I was running out of time last night and woke up late today before work.
If anyone could help me with this I would greatly appreciate it.
P.S: I will update this more when I am actually in front of the computer working on it as well.
This install went really well with all parts being recognized by Bios immediately and no hardware hiccups. I am running:
ASUS x99-Pro board (Bios Vers. 1910 I believe)
G. Skill Ripejaw Ram (will get numbers later) (4 sticks equalling 16gb)
intel 5820k
MSI 980ti Sea Hawk
WB Black 1tb
Seagate Barracuda 1tb (this is the problem drive)
H100ti Corsair Cooling
Windows 10 Pro Full Version 64-bit
My two major issues are when I actually get into windows I can't see the old Barracuda Drive to reformat it and Bios has no way of reformatting (that I have found on this version of Bios so far). When I try to reformat it during the windows install (supposedly) it wiped the drive but when I looked into it later on in device manager it showed it had not wiped it. On all following installs of Windows it said the drive was inaccessible. I am thinking what is interfering is the old copy of windows on this old drive (Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Free Upgrade from Windows 8.1 64-bit ). What I had planned for this old drive was to become my extra space and completely wipe it. However this drive does show up in device manager AND bios so I am assuming the hardware is having no issue seeing the drive. Until I can wipe this drive though it causes a crash during boot up of Windows and make it so I have to re-install windows every boot up if I leave it plugged in after the initial install.
My second issue is I can't update bios on the Mobo (which is the other theory I had about not being able to format this drive). It keeps telling me the ASUS Bios updates are not Bios updates or "is unable to be read as a bios flash". I have not yet tried to rename it seeing as I was running out of time last night and woke up late today before work.
If anyone could help me with this I would greatly appreciate it.
P.S: I will update this more when I am actually in front of the computer working on it as well.
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