Clean Build ASUS P6x58D/Hard Drive Problem

Yes, I changed it over to AHCI. I disabled the Marvell 9123 Controller and Windows picked up the drive..trying to install Windows now.

Change of problems. The Solid State Drive is detected, I've booted windows from it, it works fine. I still get an annoying No Hard Disk detected message when starting up (dk why?), and now I've inserted my Samsung Spinpoint 500Gb HD and it is not detecting that. I've set Marvell 9123 controller to the AHCI mode, and the BIOS SATA controller was set to AHCI as well. How can I get it to pick up the Samsung?

The OCZ vertex was put in SATA 1. I DID NOT put it into one of the grey 6.0 Gb/sec slots..it's still on 3.0 Gb/sec. The Spinpoint is in SATA 2. I can pick up The spinpoint in BIOS and now also in printers and devices-->PC-->Hardware in windows. However, it doesn't show in Computer, and so I can't write anything on it.

If there are no devices connected to your Marvell 9123,
try disabling it for now in the BIOS. You can always
re-enable it later, when your system stabilizes.

Then, try the advice above i.e. by hooking all storage devices
to the ICH10R controller, then booting into the BIOS, then
enabling RAID mode. At this point, you may also need to launch
the ICH10R Option ROM, as described in your User Manual,
in order to initialize all drives cabled to SATA 1 thru 6 (SATA/3G only).

I don't have experience myself with Win7, but I am told
that you don't need to invoke the F6 option any longer
in order to load the ICH10R device driver when installing Win7.

Good luck!

MRFS

Okay, thanks for the input. It's getting late tonight, so I'll have to dig in more tomorrow. To update the current situation-

1. Built new computer
2. Started up, but did not recognize any drives outside of BIOS
3. Got 100Gb OCZ SSD to work, recognized in Windows 7 Ult x64
4. Installed Win 7 Ult x64 on said drive
5. Installed 500Gb Samsung HD (all of these are hot swap)
6. 500Gb Samsung recognized in BIOS and in Win 7 under the directory Printers and Devices -> PC -> Hardware. However you cannot write to it. It does not show up in Computer.

I'll try swapping it to another SATA port just to see if it happens to be the port, even though it is unlikely. Overall, the build went very well except for this one problem. I actually hooked it up to the internet and played a round of Battlefield Bad Company on it and it just cut through max settings like butter. I just wish I knew how to fix this! Any additional input would be greatly appreciated!

p.s. Also, does your Samsung use a SATA/3G or a SATA/6G interface?

ICH10R only supports 3G interfaces. We only buy Western Digital here,
because we've had a lot of success with them, and we're very familiar
with them by now.

Check to see if there is a jumper setting for that drive,
and/or if it defaults to SATA/3G (3 Gb/s / 10 = 300 MB/second).

While on this subject, if I were you in your present situation,
I would pull the OCZ completely, then wire your Samsung
to SATA port 0 on the ICH10R and try doing a fresh install
of Win7.

If that succeeds, I would then connect your SSD and
run any OCZ utility(s) that will restore it to factory original.

Also, while Win7 is running off the Samsung, then
download the latest version of RST from Intel's website,
and archive that software for later, e.g. to a USB thumb drive
in case you need to re-format the Samsung at some point.

Also, please describe your optical drive: it must be working
because you installed Win7 already.

MRFS