Hi all,
I'm having a problem where my GA-Z87M-D3H motherboard is randomly not seeing two of my 3 drives connected. When I power on the computer it will post as normal, then once the gigbyte logo disappears, it just hangs there with a blank screen. Now, when I hit F12 to select the boot sequence, I can then select my SSD or Bluray, and the system will boot as normal. Also, when I go into bios setting (DEL), can can see the drives - most of the time. Sometimes they do not appear. Sata cables have been checked to make sure that they are inserted securely in place.
I have checked my drives, GPU, memory and PSU on another gigabyte board (amd one) and they all work perfectly. My Z87 board had bios F8 - I have upgraded to F9a Beta. I get the same result with both.
So, I'm stuck and looking for suggestions. Once the system has booted up, it is stable and runs super fast and cool. Could this be an issue with the sata cables I'm using? Are there certain cables that this motherboard is not compatible with. I assumed that all sata cables were the same. Below I have listed my hardware in this build (in case any component is causing the problem due to compatibility issues).
System:-
Mobo - GS-Z87M-D3H
CPU - 4770s
GPU - GTX 560 ti
PSU - Cosair CX750
RAM - Cosair - 8gb
SSD - OCZ Vertex 100gb (system disk)
HDD - Seagate (games + data disk - NOT bootable)
Bluray - Pioneer
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