GA-Z170-HD3 Disks Not Appearing In BIOS

[Shula]

I connect my OCZ Vertex 2 SSDs and they do not appear in Windows Disk Management nor BIOS. I'm wondering why.

GA-Z170-HD3 (rev. 1) BIOS v. F6
Intel Core i3-6100 3.7 GHz
Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB
Samsung HD204UI 2000 GB
Avexir DDR4 8 GB
Windows 7 Pro

[absic]

I connect my OCZ Vertex 2 SSDs and they do not appear in Windows Disk Management nor BIOS. I'm wondering why.

There is a known incompatibility issue with Vertex 2 drives and Intel chipsets from series 8. The only thing that you can do is replace the drive as there is no firmware update from OCZ for these drives.

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?34217-Sandforce-SSD-not-supported-by-Haswell&p=277220&viewfull=1#post277220

I tried to find other links to confirm this but, unfortunately, the OCZ site is being rebuilt since OCZ was recently taken over by Toshiba.

[Shula]

Thanks. The two OCZ SSDs now appear in BIOS. What I did was connect the two OCZs first, and booted with one of them into Windows, then I shut down, connected the Samsung, and booted into Windows again. After that, I checked the BIOS and all three were showing and have continued to show in BIOS and F12 boot menu through several boots. Why the procedure actually resolves I don't know. Thanks, again.

Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 (rev.1) BIOS vF6
Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
OCZ Vertex 2 60GB
2nd OCZ Vertex 2 60GB
Samsung HD204UI 2TB
Avexir DDR4 8GB
Intel HD Graphics 530
Apevia 640 watts
Windows 7 Professional