P5N32-E SLI issue

[zigzag03]

I have taken my rig, which includes the above mobo, and swapped it to a larger and better cooling case. It was working beautifully at the time of the swap. I changed no other components. The boot drive is a 320g sata drive, and there is a sata raid and a couple sata optical drives as well. Now, when i try to boot, the computer does not see the boot drive. Although the machine recognizes the sata raid and all the optical drives, no where; not at post, not in bios, does it recognize the boot drive. I've tried unplugging all but the drive in question. I've put that drive in another machine, and it appears perfectly happy. I've tried another bootable sata drive and it doesnt see that one either. My memory (questionable at best) recalls something about this issue somewhere along the way but I've searched the topic and don't find it. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? thanks zz03

 

[nenforcer]

Hmm... I have this motherboard as well and plan on moving it to another case as well soon.

Have you gone into BIOS and Reset to all Default Settings and saved? Then reconfigured the BIOS?

I assume that this SATA boot drive was not part of the SATA RAID.

 

[zigzag03]

no i have not pulled the plug on the bios as yet, i guess that is my next step. the boot drive is not part of the raid. just seems strange it should have had an issue, but i should i suppose know better. thanks, i'll post result. zz03

 

[FSH42NA]

have you tried another SATA mobo port and/or another SATA cable?

 

[zigzag03]

yes indeed i have tried all the ports, and another cable including one from the raid setup which it does see. so i'm comfortable with the fact that the ports all are working. i havnt got back to this problem and so have not reset bios yet, i'll try that and report, thanks all

 

[FSH42NA]

very odd, indeed. I had a problem with a different Asus board (P5Q VM) and Western Digital drives. In my case, the bios saw the drives, but the WD diagnostic software said I didn't have any WD drives attached. I tried diff ports and cables to no avail. I tried 4 diff 640gb and 1 500gb WD drives and NONE of them could be seen by the diag software. I contacted ASUS and WD. ASUS told me to update the bios which I did >> no help. WD told me they couldn't figure things out and wanted me to call and speak to them directly >> couldn't stand the wait. I ended up trying Seagate's diag software which apparently works on WD drives. Diagnostic ran fine and OS install was a breeze.

Sorry I can't be of any other assistance. Very odd your drive worked (and continue to work in a diff pc) and then stopped on your mobo. Your best bet may very well be to reset/ reconfigure your bios settings to relocate the 320gb drive and make it your boot drive.