P67A-UD7 Sata Problems

Heatproofsean · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:11

Just bought this mobo with an i7-2600k CPU. Ive connected 6 Sata drives and 2 eSata lines (SSD Port0). But upon booting, it says only 4 devices are connected. I'm only getting drives on ports 0, 2, 4 and 6. ports 1, 3 and 5 are empty.

I'm going to do some more testing later on but I cant go online atm, so I thought I'd ask while i'm at work.

Is there anything that needs to be done to activate some of the sata ports? or anything like that?

bilko100 · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:24

did you not read this? its all over the net like white on rice
Potential Sandybridge issue:
- In some cases, motherboards featuring the 6 Series Chipset (P67 & H67) that have Sata devices connected to ports 2-5 could potentially degrade over time.
- Motherboards with devices connected to Ports 0 & 1 remain unaffected or using the 6Gb/s ports.
- Please note if your board is affected by the above issues, your statutory rights remain to RMA the board.
- Tests have found that under 5% of boards are affected.
- PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO POTENTIAL ISSUE TO SANDYBRIDGE PROCESSOR

Heatproofsean · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:28

bilko100 said:
did you not read this?
Potential Sandybridge issue:
- In some cases, motherboards featuring the 6 Series Chipset (P67 & H67) that have Sata devices connected to ports 2-5 could potentially degrade over time.
- Motherboards with devices connected to Ports 0 & 1 remain unaffected or using the 6Gb/s ports.
- Please note if your board is affected by the above issues, your statutory rights remain to RMA the board.
- Tests have found that under 5% of boards are affected.
- PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO POTENTIAL ISSUE TO SANDYBRIDGE PROCESSOR

Yes i did. But as i posted, I'm having problems with ports 1 and 7 (6Gb/s). It also says over time. I haven't even gotten into windows yet. So I doubt it that problem.

1Day · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:30

If you have AHCI enabled what do you see in windows? Are all the drives there?

Heatproofsean · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:36

1Day said:
If you have AHCI enabled what do you see in windows? Are all the drives there?

I only got into windows once, but only the drives that were shown in the bios/post screen were displayed in windows. Then everything was in the default IDE mode. I changed it to AHCI to see if that would help and it made no change.

Heatproofsean · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:04

i took all the sata cables out and re-connected them and they all show up now.

1Day · 17 Feb 2011 at 14:10

Good to hear mate. Pleased you are getting sorted.

Heatproofsean · 17 Feb 2011 at 14:59

I I cant seem to get dual channel ram. I've swapped the sticks from 1+3 to 1+2 and cpu z leaves the channel blank.

can anyone confirm the correct slots?

1Day · 17 Feb 2011 at 15:36

dual channel is as the following

1 ---- 3

or

2 ---- 4

Channel one is the slot closest to the CPU and two is next to it, then three... You get the picture.