Z87X-UD3H, no Vertex2 SSD from cold boot

[SneakyBastd]

I have a number of sata drives plugged in. DVD, Intel 520 240GB (running Win7 x64), Vertex2 120GB, and three standard HDDs.
On cold boots the Vertex2 is not found. It doesn't show in the bios, or in Windows. Any warm restart after that, and it shows up! Then works perfectly.
I have updated mobo bios from F3 to F5, and the Vertex2 firmware is up to date.

Never had any issues with any of these drives on my previous EX-58 build.

Oh, all drives on first 6 sata ports, not the Marvell.

Any ideas? Thankyou.

[Livert]

Intel SATA ports can't see my Patriot SSD too. Seems to be a major issue. I'm wondering if it's just Gigabyte boards or the Z87 chipset in general. Had to get a new Samsung SSD today  

Edit: I have a feeling the new chipset can't recognise Sandforce controlled drives.

Edit2: Confirmed. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=35105293 and http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1039946647

[SneakyBastd]

Unplugged my USB external HDD and guess what? Vertex works on cold boot! That is bizarre.

[The Wild Turkey]

Having a similar problem with my Z87X-UD3H.  It wouldn't detect my Samsung 840 120GB at all, no matter what I did.  I bought a Kingston 60GB which it detected and I was able to install Win7 to it, but only a few hours later it stopped detecting it, and nothing I do now is able to get it back.  I've tried swapping cables and SATA ports several times, clearing CMOS, changing BIOS settings, but nothing works.

I've emailed Gigabyte support (number 1367214), but that was just on friday, so I'm not expecting to get a reply until later in the week.  Really hoping this would just be a software fix as it would be a major pain to have to swap out the mobo and return it.

[ex58]

Somehow is INTEL issue.
Some of these Sandforce controllers are non compliant with SATA spec for startup according to Intel.
Hope,will be fix in upcoming Beta BIOS soon.

[ysw]

as i know, corsair memory has many different versions of the same memory modules.
memory chip device may be different.
you may check with gigabyte that QVL corsair memory version.

[JonZ]

had the same issue with Asus Z87 board.

[ysw]

a customer on the HardOCP forums (http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/06/03/asus_z87a_lga_1150_motherboard_review/7#.Ua3oxZxkm8M) posted the following:
 
Letting Intel know about this problem it originally expressed it had not seen any issues, but later came back to say:
 
We have seen some older SATA 2 devices that are out of spec (8-series has tighter tolerances to specs as platform power is much lower – but fully complies with all SATA specs) and have intermittent behavior, we are investigating whether this particular drive is one of those.
 
Obviously Intel is aware of a "problem" internally, although the fault may not be on its end.