P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP - SATA Issue

[Tegeril]

So until about an hour ago, I was running a P5W DH Deluxe. I swapped it out for the P5K and upped my RAM from 2GB to 8. Vista booted up like a champ and went to work installing 58 drivers. Two restarts later and video/sound were functioning and the computer is as it was, save one thing.

In the BIOS (and subsequently Windows) SATA 2 and SATA 4 do not detect the drives that are connected to them - two 400GB Seagates. SATA 1 detects the Raptor, SATA 3 and 5 detect the other two 400GB Seagates no problem. All I've done is just reconnect the same SATA cables as before. I'm wondering if there is a setting that is keeping all the SATA connections from being active? I have two devices on the IDE bus but I wouldn't have expected that to matter.

Any insight would be great

Thanks.

 

[ccarpenter1]

I have the exact same problem as you describe on my board as well (P5K-E). If I move the SATA connection over from SATA #2 to #3, the drive is recognized. If I move it back over to #2, the drive is not recongnized either in the BIOS or Vista. I also noticed that the hard drive light stays on constantly in this mode when on #2.

Did you ever find a solution to your problem?

 

[Tegeril]

I gave up trying last night. Gonna screw around with it tonight at some point and mess with the BIOS settings.

It sits on the bios splash trying to detect extra devices until it times out...so something weird is going on.

 

[Tegeril]

Small update - read through a 36 page thread on another forum. My board was purchased pretty much the moment they became available and it is still running the pre-release 0123 BIOS which you can't even download from ASUS's site. I'm gonna be flashing the BIOS tonight to a newer one to see if the problem miraculously solves itself. And if it doesn't, then I'll play with some BIOS settings.

 

[Tegeril]

Well my problem seems to be solved by a bunch of restarts. I went to restart finally to update the BIOS, and on the post for that time, it detected the drives correctly. I updated the BIOS to 0404 anyway, and rebooted. Video drivers had unloaded as had sound. They reloaded and another two restarts were needed and I'm back in business with all the drives detected and the video card/sound card working fine.

I wish I could give you some better advice, but try a BIOS update.

 

[mikeyikeey]

I'm glad at least something worked for you man! I've been watching this thread since I'm about to buy a P5K myself. This SATA problem was one of the few things holding me back.

 

[lyerx]

bios may be have probleem

 

[Tegeril]

Well, the problem fixed itself before I actually flashed the BIOS. When I hit DEL to get into the BIOS in order to do the flash, it picked up all the drives

Worth noting that last night one of them randomly unmounted. My 8800GTX is against one of the cables pretty hard and might be making that one slightly loose, so I have to investigate that.

 

[Tlaloc]

I have a different problem.

my ordinary caviar sata discs works on SATA1-6, but it won`t find my 2 raptor discs

I have 2 Wd raptor discs, one 36gb and the other 150gb
the normal caviars are 500 and 250

anyone encountered this problem? or know how to install raptor discs

 

[Tegeril]

My raptor is connected to SATA 1 and is working fine. Not sure what's up.