P8P67 Pro - Hard drive clunking!

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Hey,

Received my Sandybridge stuff today, all went together ok (the bios I can't fathom but I'll get there!) and I have a problem already -

My 1tb F3 refuses to work on one sata port, another drive is fine but this one simply clunks constantly and doesn't spin up properly :eek:

Any ideas?

Thanks :)
 
Hey mate,

Honestly can't remember now! Not infront of the pc and after half an hour in the uefi bios I'm craving my old stuff back! I tried it on the intel 3g and the 6g ports - it was sat on what I believe to be the 6g ports because its my mirrored array.
 
I've had a lot of problem with this board as well, I wish I waited for the gigabyte one now.
Like you, most problems seem to be with the drives. Randomly it just suddenly decides not to see them any more. Also DONT use the "marvell" driver, just let it use the default windows one. Seems to cause a lot of problems (inc. bsod)

If it's actually making clunking noises it's more likely the drive though :P
 
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NasherUK said:
I've had a lot of problem with this board as well, I wish I waited for the gigabyte one now.
Like you, most problems seem to be with the drives. Randomly it just suddenly decides not to see them any more. Also DONT use the "marvell" driver, just let it use the default windows one. Seems to cause a lot of problems (inc. bsod)

If it's actually making clunking noises it's more likely the drive though :P
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Hey,

My drive clunked on one of the ports and its fine on the others. God awful board / chipset - one of the two and not sure which yet.
 
...and from another point of view I've had no problems what so ever.

The only problem I had was installing Intel Rapid Storage technology screwed the hot swap capabilities, uninstalled and it's all fine.
 
Every day theres some post about the asus boards having problems never use to hear this in the past well not the amount you see now.
Asus seem very slow at releasing new bioses for these problems.
 
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Yes worth trying a bios update, downloading latest drivers rather than use the stock off the dvd.

May get the same POS from a different manufacturer. In the end you will be knee high in POS.
 
TrojanWhore said:
hey, anyone experiencing this hard drive clunk problem with samsung F3's, when connected to the SATA3 (6Gbps) ports, I've just found this
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=31187916
saying that it is the drive that is at fault, and needs a firmware update. dont have time tonight but will test tomorrow, unless one of you beats me to it (in which case please post your findings)
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Hey mate,

The firmware update fixes the hard drive issues. My newer F3 doesn't have this problem, but the older one does. Flash away for clunk free-ness ;)
 
tommytinkle said:
Hey mate,

The firmware update fixes the hard drive issues. My newer F3 doesn't have this problem, but the older one does. Flash away for clunk free-ness ;)
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turns out I don't have time to test today either, so will have to wait till mid week, which gives you lovely people time to answer some more questions for me :p

1. any risk to data? ie will flashing the drives wipe them as well?
2. they are my RAID0 array, any way to flash them without having to swap cables several times? (as it says connect to primary in the bad engrish translation of the instructions)
 
FWIW, one of the two 1TB F3 drive which failed on me exhibited a weird issue whereby, if I booted with it connected it wouldn't be recognised at all but if I disconnected the SATA cable, powered on and them immediately plugged it in, it would be recognised and work fine.

I mention this as it's another example of a weird SATA connectivity issue I had with these drives and may be related to what you're experiencing.
 
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