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GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H New hard drive

GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H New hard drive
« on: July 17, 2010, 04:39:17 am »
I know this is probably so simple...but any help would be appreciated.

I just added a new hard drive to my GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H

It wont recognize any drive on SATA ports 3-6. What am I doing wrong?

Setup is two IDE channels for DVD

OS drive is SATA 1, New Drive on SATA2. If I plug either the old drive or the new drive into 3-6 it isnt recognized in BIOS or the OS.

I dont plan on running RAID, but would like to add more drives to the system.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
T

Re: GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H New hard drive
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2010, 06:50:15 am »
Could you give system specs? How many hdd are in you system.
NZXT M59
GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H
OCZ Fatal1ty OCZ550FTY 550W ATX12V v2.2 / EPS12V
Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB)  DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
Intel X-25V 40gb SSD----FREE
WD Caviar Blue 500gb s

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Re: GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H New hard drive
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2010, 07:46:37 am »
Firstly have you tried a new data lead to rule that out? Secondly what are the SATA ports 3-6 set to in the BIOS? It's possible that it's a fault on the motherboard but it's far more likely to be just a setting or BIOS problem. Can yopu give us a detailed list of your hardware and any changes you have made to the settings/BIOS?
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H New hard drive
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2010, 06:44:50 pm »
Firstly have you tried a new data lead to rule that out? Secondly what are the SATA ports 3-6 set to in the BIOS? It's possible that it's a fault on the motherboard but it's far more likely to be just a setting or BIOS problem. Can yopu give us a detailed list of your hardware and any changes you have made to the settings/BIOS?
Yes Dark mantis is completely correct. Also is there a bios update for your motherboard. Just curious. Because i had a similar issue with my seagate but my turned out to be bad, with a bad controller board on the drive.
NZXT M59
GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H
OCZ Fatal1ty OCZ550FTY 550W ATX12V v2.2 / EPS12V
Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB)  DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
Intel X-25V 40gb SSD----FREE
WD Caviar Blue 500gb s