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My sincere greetings to all experts,

My annoying problem with the WD Black Caviar 1 TB drive and the ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP Mobo (I have it configured as SATA/AHCI, Jmicron controller is turned off in BIOS) is as follows:

When the PC starts for the 1st time after pressing the power button, it tries to detect this HDD but fails no matter what timeout I set in BIOS settings.

After hitting ctrl+alt+delete or pressing the reset button, the disk is recognized correctly.
This is the behavior I get in 100% cases.

I tried:

1. Flashing the latest BIOS version (1238).
2. Disconnecting my other SATA HDD.
3. Disconnecting my SATA DVDRW.
4. Connecting this HDD to all other available SATA ports.
5. Replacing SATA cable.

No luck.

These is description of exactly the same problem here, but no replies... http://forums.vr-zone.com/troubles [...] drive.html

Thank you guys in advance!

Message edited by Dmitry_N on 03-11-2009 at 11:38:14 AM

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Hmm, Hard to say. I think you've done a lot here, and still no luck. Where did you get the HDD from? you may just have a bad HDD. So, BIOS is up to date. SATA data cable is new. you have tried all the SATA ports on the motherboard. If your running Vista, you should be fine, I just setup a 1TB HDD yesterday, and no problem. My only thought is that it's a bad HDD, so you need to RMA(return) it. Maybe try a WD Caviar Green?? Hope that helps.

No, not Vista. It's Windows 7
But the problem is not system-related anyway.
Thanks for trying to help though.

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I had a problem with a WD Black Caviar on Gigabyte . The controller was not working right. After doing a test and generating a health report in Windows vista. The disk queue length trasfer is 2. It caused video card to crash in direct 10x. So I returned the whole computer. I will never use gigabyte motherboard again.

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