Heads-up on SATA II SSDs and Z87

I just bought haswell and was planning to port my old setup , hard drives and SSD to the new machine, I have the Asus Z87-PRO mobo and i just cannot get windows to install and then boot reliably, which is a pity because the board features are seemingly great, but if i cannot install an OS and have it survive a reboot then what is the point ???

The Sata drives just disappear after a reboot and BIOS/UEFI says they don't exist.

Sata 2 compatibility should be a given, its ridiculous that drives 2 years old are incompatible ...

I'll reply with any news if i manage to get my Asus Mobo to behave.
 
Yeah I was trying to build a new ig for a friend all weekend and was having ssd problems due to the sandforce controller on some of these sata 2 drives. Only just found out about this so hes going to return the drive and get a replacement :)
 
I encountered this problem last week,have a Samsung 840 as boot drive which is fine,but added a sata 2 ocz 480gb ssd drive and bios wouldn't recognise it sometimes,plus windows when I tried to get it past showing as raw data was unable to format with error msg.
Using z87x-ud3h mb I have two Marvell sata 6.0 ports,was able to format drive and been using it ok since.
Strange thing is the 3d bios decided it wasn't going to show the ocz drive,switched to classic view and bobs your aunty drive was there lol?
 
Well as I have just found out, this isnt just SSDs, SATA2 HDDs specifically both my 1tb drives are urecognized on my z87x-oc, which is a sucky issue, because the oc has no other sata controllers
 
wazza300 said:
tried latest f5q beta bios?

GA-Z87X-OC - F5q http://download.gigabyte.asia/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_ga-z87x-oc_f5q.exe
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Tried them all. It's the weirdest issue ever.

If I power the drives from another PSU ( not the one powering mobo etc) the drives turn on and get detected.

If I use the PSU that does everything else they don't startup.

Unless I disconnect the data cables fro them when doing so then they spin up, but are not connected :/

Been through almost every BIOS, main/backup on board, cmos reset nothing, looks like its down to the older sata2 support.

Funnily enough my sata 2 vertex 60gb drive gets picked up everytime.
 
Cr4zy said:
Tried them all. It's the weirdest issue ever.

If I power the drives from another PSU ( not the one powering mobo etc) the drives turn on and get detected.

If I use the PSU that does everything else they don't startup.

Unless I disconnect the data cables fro them when doing so then they spin up, but are not connected :/

Been through almost every BIOS, main/backup on board, cmos reset nothing, looks like its down to the older sata2 support.

Funnily enough my sata 2 vertex 60gb drive gets picked up everytime.
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What HDDs are you having problems with?

Hey, maybe there was a reason to get SATA3 mechanical drives after all!
 
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