SATA III Not Working

[loevenro]

Hey, I'm having some difficulty getting my new PC I've built to function when hooking the hard drive up to the SATA III connecter on the motherboard. Here are my system specs:

Motherboard - ASRock H61M/U3S3 Intel H61 Micro ATX DDR3 1333 Motherboard
CPU - Intel Core i3-2100 Processor 3.1GHz 3 MB Cache Socket LGA1155
RAM - Mushkin Silverline 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM
Hard Drive - WD Black 750 GB WD7502AAEX
Power Supply - OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W
Video Card - PNY XLR8 GTS 250 1024 MB VCGGTS2501XPB

So I put everything together, hooking the hard drive up to one of the SATAIII ports on the mobo. I went to do a fresh install on the hard drive with Windows 7 Home Premium, but the install kept hanging, usually during the completing install phase.

So after trying various things, I plugged the hard drive into one of the SATA II ports instead and tried again. Win7 installed no problem. So after installing windows updates, mobo drivers, etc, I tried switching the hard drive back over to the SATA III port to see if it would boot from there.

When I tried to boot into this configuration, I would get a blank black screen, except that my mouse pointer is on the screen and works. I then tried re-booting and was able to successfully boot into safe mode. This behavior is repeatable.

So I've been running for about a week now with the hard drive plugged into the SATA II port instead of the SATA III port. Haven't experienced any problems at all.

Would appreciate any suggestions on what I could try to get my hard drive working on the faster port.

Thanks for your Help

 

[StatikGP]

You have tried in multiple SATA III ports? Also I was checking out your board online... Can you maybe link me to the correct one? Cus unless I'm mistaken that board has 4x SATA 3gb/s ports (Blue) and 2x SATA 6gb/s ports (white)

 

[loevenro]

Here's the link to the motherboard.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157236&Tpk=ASRock%20H61M%2fU3S3

Good idea on the other port, I only tried one of them. I'll give the other port a try.

 

[suteck]

If plugging into a different sata 6 GB/s port doesn't work Then during OS installation when it asks you to pick a hard drive to install on you're supposed to click on the install drivers and install the sata 6 GB/s driver from the motherboard disk. It solved that same problem for me on a different motherboard. Go on Asrock's website to see which driver(s) should be pre-installed.