Curious problem with Rampage II extreme when installing Win7

Flibbles

Flibbles

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So I built my i7 a few days ago with that motherboard, all was well until I attempted to install windows; it wouldn't detect the DVD! After a little fiddling inside the case I discovered that the SATA ports wouldn't work correctly with my DVD drive (optiarc 7241). The only way I managed to fix it was to use the e-SATA port on the board, then windows installed correctly.

The drive did work fine on the standard ports once windows was installed, which is odd.

I did everything I could do in the BIOS to attempt to get the drive to boot windows from the standard SATA ports but no luck; I'm posting this here to see if any of you have ideas as to why this happened.
 
I'm afraid not, it's not really a problem unless I need to reinstall windows; the drive does work perfectly fine in windows. Would just be nice to know if I'm missing anything obvious, though I don't know what else I could have done.
 
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