DFI LP SLI-DR not seeing SATA drive

[WigglePuppy]

Not sure what happened, I was just rebooting the computer when it read BOOT DISK FAILURE, ..well i thought i would just do a repair of windows...WRONG...the BIOS wont recongize the SATA drive(which windows is on) anywhere in the BIOS....it can find my IDE drives no prob....BTW...its a 250GB WD SATA II 16MB cache...was working great earlier now its not even found...i tried to move it to other sata connections but no avail...its still gets power and tried another cable and still does not work...any help appreciated.

thanks in advance.

 

[rise]

yikes, sounds like the old problem with the maxtor drives. theres some info in there but i think its a firmware update.

may want to try a clear cmos and/or visit the WD site and see if they have any info.

 

[WigglePuppy]

oh, great....well I called tech support at WD, but they dont know exactly what it may be either, i actually purchased another SATA drive from newegg monday and it should arive today, so i wil test that one, and if that one is not recognized then i will assume its the mobo with the prob

 

[WigglePuppy]

Nope, 2nd drive in and its not recognizing that one either....next? i guess a call to DFI!

 

[rise]

why don't you make a thread at dfi.street? the mods Rgone and AngryGames are dfi support guys. they'll help you out. one of them is almost always hanging about.

just be sure to put your specs in your sig over there like here, with your bios rev. its under the user cp in the top left of the forums.

btw, what bios do you have anyway?

 

[WigglePuppy]

I already have a thread there
dfi link

and put my specs up, also i have the most recent bios 6/23...my sys was installed by monarch as a combo and it was working just fine with one SATA 250MB till yesterday when i rebooted the sys and gave me a DISK BOOT FAILURE error

 

[rise]

thats bizarre. yep, looks like a call or a PM to Rgone or AG.

 

[WigglePuppy]

It looks as though it recongnized the drive(s) with the second SATA controller but not the original. Not sure whether I should RMA it or just use the second for the computer...I would prefer the ist but it does not matter, as long as it works.

 

[rise]

why would it happen though? doesn't make sense unless the controller bit the dust.

i'd still PM one of them to see what your options are. they've been known to advanced rma boards so you won't have the down time.

 

[WigglePuppy]

Well they would not ship me another MOBO and its on its way back to monarch on an RMA...I think from now on , I buy local and for go the wasted time on taxes

 

[nealh]

why would they not RMA the mobo...sounds like a controller chip failure on the mobo

where you using the Silicon SATA controller or NForce

 

[WigglePuppy]

I was using the Nforce originally but that seemed to have died, so i checked oh the Sil SATA and it found the drives no prob. I could have just done with that but I wanted the best out of my board so I would prefer using the Nforce with 300 m/s

 

[nealh]

I agree if it does not work..not acceptable

so Nforce sata is SATAII?

 

[WigglePuppy]

Nforce SATA II

 

[bjlowe66]

i had the same problem with my dfi all of a sudden not working with my wd sata drive re.laced dfi's sata cable with my own and it worked

 

[WigglePuppy]

how did you relace it?..or replaced?

 

[rise]

i think he means just tried different sata cables.

i also stumbled across something that may be worth trying- in advanced bios i think is the option for delay HDD at boot. someone used that, setting it like 2 to solve some boot up problems he was having. i forgot the option was even there.

 

[nealh]

I really want to get this mobo but it sounds like a PITA to setup

 

[palouse]

OP,

Did you clear CMOS?

Clear it using the seemingly drastic measures recommended by AG on DFI-Street (...unplug power cord, popout btty, jumper, WAIT 10 MINUTES,...)?

I had a similar situation. Following a disc corruption and Windows crash, BIOS could not find any drives on boot. (Issue ultimately caused by too many crashes trying to OC system while using some recently replaced BH5-based memory.) I cleared CMOS 'quickly', reset favorite BIOS values, then BIOS could not find the IDE DVD drive! I wasted time rebooting over and over, looking at BIOS settings, and checking for drive/cable problems. Then, I finally remembered AG's recommendation, and all the drives were recognized after proper CMOS reset. I was then able to move on to fix the disk and re-image the drive.

Nice memory, by the way.

Also, have you installed the NVidia 6.66 chipset drivers? New as of 7-15? I like 'em, and I can't seem to 'break' my current sig rig.