GA-EP45C-UD3R: AHCI mode stuck

[ortango]

Hey I have a ep45c-ud3r that is getting stuck during the sata ahci bios.

I am using the 6 sata connectors in ahci mode, no raid, and have the onboard gsata chip off.
It is one specific drive that is stopping the boot process. I can boot with ahci off, or with that drive unplugged. I tried resetting the cmos and also updated from f2 to f5beta (cleared dmi and reset cmos after this also).

Originally the only thing that changed was i formatted and repartitioned a drive already on the running system. The drive had contained an installation of grub and until recently was my main disk. It already had been booting fine with a new disk, all i did was format and repartition the old one, then i rebooted and got stuck.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

On the face of it I would say that the hard drive is faulty or at least breaking down.

[ortango]

I would hate to think that is the case, but i can't argue against it.

if that were the case, that would mean 3 out of 4 of the last harddrives i've bought (not counting a ssd i just got) where faulty off the get go. All purchased within 1 year. i first got 2 TERRIBLE seagate drives (there is no way i will ever be a customer again), i had got the same problem with one of those drives after setting up a software raid0 and rebooting (drive worked again after full format) - these drives have degraded at a crazy rate since i got that and seagate support has been a real pain until recently. the next 2 are samsungs one of which is causing my problem, i really feel like a full format will fix this but i don't have the hardrive real estate to do that right now.

considering i'm probably just going to keep ahci mode off, should i connect esata to a gsata port? and also i have a new ssd, is there any point on putting it on a gsata port also?

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should say since its my first post, i am a long time gigabyte customer last 4 boards where 3 gigabyte and 1 xfx matx board. i never even knew that gigabyte even had a forum - looks like you do a pretty good job here, thanks for the help.

[Dark Mantis]

Well I am glad that you found the forum ok and are happy with it.    We do our best to give a good service and save people waiting for GGTS to answer their questions.

It does sound a little coincidenatl but soetimes these things are. What model of Samsung drive was it ? Not the F1 by any chance, because they had a load of trouble with them. The F3s are fairly good by all accounts.