Hi,
First post, long time lurker. Hello!
This is going to be a long one...
Concise: BIOS does not see 60g OCZ Nocti SSD - Intel RST Utility does not see it either.
Concise details: Had the SSD working caching fine when I had one HDD plugged in, plugged in a second (well aware you can only cache one) and it all fell over.
Long story: I have the mSata Nocti SSD on a P8Z68 V-Pro - I have it sat in an adapter so it plugs into a SATAII port - so effectively its just a regular 60GB SSD. (Got given the SSD for free before anyone asks why I have an mSata with a board with no mSata port).
When I first set up the caching - in my infinite wisdom I decided to unplug my second HDD and just keep the system HDD (partitioned 4 times) plugged in whilst I set up caching, thinking once it was all set up i could easily plug in my 2nd HDD and yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
With the one drive, caching set up fine. Followed the instructions on how to set up without reinstalling windows and it worked fine. I was caching! WAS being the keyword there. I only had it working for ten minutes or so but from what I could tell it was all bottoms up.
I then shut down, plugged in my second HDD, and it fell apart.
First I was greeted with a sort of BIOS level screen for the Intel RST drivers saying I had to disable acceleration before it would boot. So I done that.
Once I got into Windows the RST Utility saw all drives as 0GB with no acceleration tab. Driver reinstall. Now its showing both HDD's correctly, but shows the SSD as "Internal Empty Port" - or something to that effect.
I then done a full roll back, so all the steps I followed to set up, in reverse - making sure all trace of the RST driver was gone, then done it all again from the start.
Now (where i'm at currently) the RST utility doesn't even say I have an SSD plugged in. The BIOS says I have nothing plugged in other than my two HDD's.
Have I bricked the SSD? Is it something simple I have totally overlooked?
Any help is greatly appreciated, tearing my hair out here!
Thank you.
First post, long time lurker. Hello!
This is going to be a long one...
Concise: BIOS does not see 60g OCZ Nocti SSD - Intel RST Utility does not see it either.
Concise details: Had the SSD working caching fine when I had one HDD plugged in, plugged in a second (well aware you can only cache one) and it all fell over.
Long story: I have the mSata Nocti SSD on a P8Z68 V-Pro - I have it sat in an adapter so it plugs into a SATAII port - so effectively its just a regular 60GB SSD. (Got given the SSD for free before anyone asks why I have an mSata with a board with no mSata port).
When I first set up the caching - in my infinite wisdom I decided to unplug my second HDD and just keep the system HDD (partitioned 4 times) plugged in whilst I set up caching, thinking once it was all set up i could easily plug in my 2nd HDD and yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
With the one drive, caching set up fine. Followed the instructions on how to set up without reinstalling windows and it worked fine. I was caching! WAS being the keyword there. I only had it working for ten minutes or so but from what I could tell it was all bottoms up.
I then shut down, plugged in my second HDD, and it fell apart.
First I was greeted with a sort of BIOS level screen for the Intel RST drivers saying I had to disable acceleration before it would boot. So I done that.
Once I got into Windows the RST Utility saw all drives as 0GB with no acceleration tab. Driver reinstall. Now its showing both HDD's correctly, but shows the SSD as "Internal Empty Port" - or something to that effect.
I then done a full roll back, so all the steps I followed to set up, in reverse - making sure all trace of the RST driver was gone, then done it all again from the start.
Now (where i'm at currently) the RST utility doesn't even say I have an SSD plugged in. The BIOS says I have nothing plugged in other than my two HDD's.
Have I bricked the SSD? Is it something simple I have totally overlooked?
Any help is greatly appreciated, tearing my hair out here!
Thank you.
