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September 5, 2012 1:41:46 PM

I recently purchased the 128 GB model of the Vertex 4 drive from newegg. Along with the drive, I picked up a cable Rosewill Sata II cables on accident, thinking that they were Sata III. I received the drive and installed it, and could not get it to be recognized in the BIOS. I tried switching the SATA cable to a different SATA II cable, switching the SATA power cable, and also switching the SATA port, all to no avail. Is this a dead drive or do I just need a SATA III cable to make the drive recognized in the BIOS? (I have a mobo that only supports SATA II speeds.)
Thanks in advance!

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a c 87 G Storage
September 5, 2012 1:49:19 PM

RMA it!
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a c 163 G Storage
September 5, 2012 3:24:57 PM

Do you format the SSD yet? If no, go to control panel>administrative tool>computer management>disk management> click the drive (SSD which will show something ~112GB) and then format.

Otherwise yes RMA.
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September 5, 2012 3:32:10 PM

if you boot into BIOS do you see it listed? do you have the controller set to AHCI or RAID? you won't see it if it's set to IDE.
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September 5, 2012 4:35:58 PM

Although I'm not near my computer now, I think the controller is set to AHCI. I know for a act that my OCZ Agility 3 60 gb boot drive was being recognized in the BIOS when the Vertex 4 was not. Defective drive?
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a c 87 G Storage
September 5, 2012 5:35:52 PM

cin19 said:
Do you format the SSD yet? If no, go to control panel>administrative tool>computer management>disk management> click the drive (SSD which will show something ~112GB) and then format.

Otherwise yes RMA.


He said "could not get it to be recognized in the BIOS." Why don't you read the posts before hit reply?
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a b G Storage
September 5, 2012 5:42:42 PM

if your bios is up to date, and you've tried the drive in another computer and it can be seen, then it's your BIOS that will not recognize it no matter what you do.
If you try it in another computer and you get the same dead results from BIOS, then 99% sure the drive is bad.
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