Asus p6t dlx v2, possible broken sata controller

setter · 26 May 2011 at 23:21

I installed a third hdd earlier, after putting the drive in on rebooting, all six of my sata ports show as not detected. Ive tried with my os drive on its own, get the message, reboot and select proper boot device. Ive tried loading bios defaults, no joy, different brand new sata cables, still nothing.

Plec · 26 May 2011 at 23:53

Sorry to hear your having problems setter.

You've probably tried this already - but have you done a good-ol'-fashioned CMOS reset?

setter · 27 May 2011 at 00:07

Yep, tried clr rtc, my blu ray drive is showing up in bios though, connected to sata port 2, storage config set to ide in boot config.

Plec · 27 May 2011 at 17:00

bump

Any joy setter or are you looking at a MB rma?

setter · 27 May 2011 at 17:32

No joy at all. My blu ray drive shows up fine on all 6 sata ports. My os drive, (samsung f1 320) doesnt register on any. Last night when i installed my new hdd, a sammy f3 1tb, along with my old western digital 250 gb, on boot none of my 3 drives were listed in bios. Cant understand what would cause 3 drives to die in one night, power shouldnt be a problem as im running an 850w psu, the drives were first powered via molex - sata adapters, tried the modular sata power cables themselves, still no joy. Got another western digital 250 gb drive from a second rig, gonna try it later.

setter · 27 May 2011 at 20:35

Bit of an update, tried the old caviar 250gb from my second rig, recognised in bios straight away. Seems that all 3 of my hdd's may have died at once.

Plec · 28 May 2011 at 09:31

setter said:
Bit of an update, tried the old caviar 250gb from my second rig, recognised in bios straight away. Seems that all 3 of my hdd's may have died at once.

You've probably tried this - have you tested to see if any of the 3 HDDs are recognised in your second rig?

setter · 28 May 2011 at 12:39

Already tried plec, none show up at all mate.

Plec · 28 May 2011 at 19:16

Ouch! :/

Have you inspected the MB closely for damage?

I would also consider testing the PSU if you haven't aleady. Admittedly, it would be a strange symptom for a PSU - but then so is the problem(3 dead drives). I would want to double check it's integrity before putting into a new rig (just seen your MB thread above.).

You could have just been incredibly unlucky - in that the added 3rd drive caused a temporary short which killed all of them. Perahps a flakey SATA port or cable or even the 3rd drive itself...

Lots of ifs and maybes i'm afarid

Good luck, setter, hope you find a difinitive solution.

Plec · 2 Jun 2011 at 00:35

Have you had any luck trying to identify the cause setter?