I know that I'm not alone with having SATA3 drives not recognized by an Asus motherboard.
Here are the specs:
Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard with 6 SATA3, 6 GB/s ports, BIOS 2101 (updated from original 1906)
AMD 1100T 6-core AM3 processor
G.Skill 16 GB DDR3 RAM
Cooler Master CM690 II case
Antec Earthwatts 750 Watt power supply
Hitachi DeskStar 7K3000 7200 RPM SATA3 drives, 64 MB Cache, 6 GB/s transfer (three of them, intended for RAID 5)
ASUS DRW-24B1ST DVD drive
Using on-board video -- this is going to be a SharePoint development platform, not a gaming box
OS will eventually be Win2008 R2, but once I hit the "problem" reverted to testing with Win 7 Ultimate 64
Here is the problem:
BIOS will not recognize the SATA3 drives. I've tried all three DeskStars, together and separately on every SATA port with every SATA cable (both 3 and 2) with every drive configuration (IDE, RAID and ACHI) and every power connection to no avail. I've even tried a new Western Digital 250 GB SATA2...same results. Ironicallly, the ASUS DVD drive shows up in BIOS on every port with every cable. And I've set the ports to 6GB/s,3GB/s and Auto with no impact.
I've tried installing Win7 but it can't find any harddrive. I even tried installing from a USB flash drive so I could use the ASUS DVD to try to install HD drivers...nothing.
I've read all of the similar cases (I think) on this site but the ones closest seem to be unresolved. I have submitted this case to ASUS tech support but I thought this might be quicker, and without prejudice.
Thanks in advance.
Here are the specs:
Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard with 6 SATA3, 6 GB/s ports, BIOS 2101 (updated from original 1906)
AMD 1100T 6-core AM3 processor
G.Skill 16 GB DDR3 RAM
Cooler Master CM690 II case
Antec Earthwatts 750 Watt power supply
Hitachi DeskStar 7K3000 7200 RPM SATA3 drives, 64 MB Cache, 6 GB/s transfer (three of them, intended for RAID 5)
ASUS DRW-24B1ST DVD drive
Using on-board video -- this is going to be a SharePoint development platform, not a gaming box
OS will eventually be Win2008 R2, but once I hit the "problem" reverted to testing with Win 7 Ultimate 64
Here is the problem:
BIOS will not recognize the SATA3 drives. I've tried all three DeskStars, together and separately on every SATA port with every SATA cable (both 3 and 2) with every drive configuration (IDE, RAID and ACHI) and every power connection to no avail. I've even tried a new Western Digital 250 GB SATA2...same results. Ironicallly, the ASUS DVD drive shows up in BIOS on every port with every cable. And I've set the ports to 6GB/s,3GB/s and Auto with no impact.
I've tried installing Win7 but it can't find any harddrive. I even tried installing from a USB flash drive so I could use the ASUS DVD to try to install HD drivers...nothing.
I've read all of the similar cases (I think) on this site but the ones closest seem to be unresolved. I have submitted this case to ASUS tech support but I thought this might be quicker, and without prejudice.
Thanks in advance.