Sata II ports not working on Asus P8P67 motherboard.

[Arcadio]

Is this the Sandy Bridge defect? My dvd-rom drive stopped working. I tried a different drive (new) and a different cable, and still the drive is not detected by the Bios or by Windows.

 

[Zap]

Did you get your replacement B3 revision board?

Try the drive on another computer. Try another drive on this one. You need to make sure it is the motherboard and not the drive. The SATA bug only affects the SATA port on the motherboard, not the drive.

 

[Arcadio]

I didn't get the B3 revision board. As I said in my post, I already tried a different drive and a different cable.

 

[ensign_lee]

Yeah, that happened to me too. Congrats, you have the defect.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

The issue with the B2 stepping is that over time the drive data would start to be corrupted. The problem has nothing to do with a drive being lost or the system not seeing a drive http://www.intel.com/Consumer/Products/Processors/chipset.htm for more information or check with your motherboard manufacturer.

Try plugging the drive into a different port is the best advice that I can give you.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[Arcadio]

The issue with the B2 stepping is that over time the drive data would start to be corrupted. The problem has nothing to do with a drive being lost or the system not seeing a drive http://www.intel.com/Consumer/Products/Processors/chipset.htm for more information or check with your motherboard manufacturer.

Try plugging the drive into a different port is the best advice that I can give you.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

Thanks. That's good to know. I already tried all Sata II Ports, and none of them work. They are not disabled in the bios either (I don't think you can disable them anyways). I might try looking for a new Bios version...

Yeah, that happened to me too. Congrats, you have the defect.

Did you fix it? or did you get a new motherboard? Was it the same motherboard?

 

[imagoon]

Did you fix it? or did you get a new motherboard? Was it the same motherboard?

You RMA the systemboard. You can't "fix" it except by not using the SATA II ports at all. BIOS revs won't fix it either.

 

[Zap]

Have you verified that the drives which don't work on that board work on another board? Have you tried testing the drives on any of the SATA 6G ports?

 

[Arcadio]

Have you verified that the drives which don't work on that board work on another board? Have you tried testing the drives on any of the SATA 6G ports?

No, but both drives I've tried are brand new, from different manufacturers.

 

[ensign_lee]

Thanks. That's good to know. I already tried all Sata II Ports, and none of them work. They are not disabled in the bios either (I don't think you can disable them anyways). I might try looking for a new Bios version...



Did you fix it? or did you get a new motherboard? Was it the same motherboard?

There's no way to fix it. It's the Sandy Bridge flaw that initiated the recall. It kills ALL your SATA II ports.

I had to "upgrade" to the B3 version (which requires more voltages to achieve the same overclocks )

 

[Soundmanred]

Congrats, you have the defect.

 

[stag3]

so is my p6x58d-e affected by this also?
i could never get my c300 recognized by the sata3 ports, tried EVERYTHING

been using the drive on the sata2 ports the last year or so

 

[imagoon]

so is my p6x58d-e affected by this also?
i could never get my c300 recognized by the sata3 ports, tried EVERYTHING

been using the drive on the sata2 ports the last year or so

Check with the board manufacture. They will tell you how to find out. Likely they will have a new board rev because the b3 stepping is a chip revision and all existing older chip stock was subject to recall from intel.

 

[MrTransistorm]

so is my p6x58d-e affected by this also?
i could never get my c300 recognized by the sata3 ports, tried EVERYTHING

been using the drive on the sata2 ports the last year or so

X58 is not Sandy Bridge, so no. The problem you're having is related to the Marvell SATA 6Gb/s controller. I remember seeing posts on several forums related to Marvell and C300 incompatibilities. Gigabyte apparently released a BIOS update with an updated firmware for the Marvell chip. I would assume that Asus got the updated firmware too. Check their site for a newer BIOS.

 

[stag3]

thanks!

 

[Arcadio]

Ok, I tried my Samsung DVD drive in one of the Marvell Sata ports, and it's working. I thought those ports didn't support ATAPI devices....