GA-P67A-UD4-B3 compatibility with DWA-556

[baoren]

Hi there, I have a ga-p67a-ud4-b3 motherboard. I bought some days ago a ssd drive, a corsair gt 120GB. It arrived 2 days ago. As it arrived, I plugged it in one of the 2 sata3 intel ports, and installed system (w7 x64). All went fine, and system seemed really fast. I installed drivers, and all worked perfectly. However, as I shutted it down, it rebooted. At 1st I thought I missclicked somewhere. But all time I pushed shut down, it just rebooted.

I tryed installing another OS (unixbased, so completely different architecture). When I shutted down, again, it just rebooted. I opened the case, and tryed to change sata port: again rebooted. I tryed then to change sata cable. this time, it shutted down. I thought I found the mistake, but then, when I installed back W7, it again rebooted. and rebooted, and rebooted. I tryed to plug off all other disks. nothing changed. I tryed to remove ram sticks. No change. I tryed to plug it in in all other sata ports, all times with a different cable: no change.

With a normal disk, all works perfectly. So I thought it was the ssd. Checked sectors: all ok. I tryed to put it in my laptop. Installed system, shutted down: and ssd worked flawlessly. SO, it must be something between mobo and ssd. what, I have no idea right now.

I also tryed updating bios to f6 (was f5). Nothing changed...

Suggestions?

[baoren]

update -

I tryed to install windows on a regular disk. now it gives the same problem the ssd gave. Before yesterday, windows worked just fine. I don't understand..

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome.

The first thing you need to do is an extended clear of the CMOS. Follow these instructions exactly.

Remove the power cable from the mains supply and then press the power switch on the case for a few seconds just to drain any residual energy in the PSU capacitors.

Once done remove the motherboard battery for at least one hour before replacing it.
 
Next plug back into the mains supply and boot.
 
You will now need to enter the BIOS by pressing DEL and load Optimised BIOS Defaults.

Make any other changes to the BIOS settings to suit your self like disabling the floppy drive, disabling the full screen logo and making the HDD the primary boot device and then press F10 to save and exit.

[baoren]

thanks for tips. I'll try it right now

[baoren]

SOLVED!

not that way though. I tryed it, but problem remained. I found the problem was something completely different. If any forum administrator could change title to the post, it could be renamed: "GA-P67A-UD4-B3 compatibility with DWA-556".

This wireless card, which I mounted the day before of the ssd, was the problem. I couldn't think of it, because I plugged it in the day before, but in fact, I didn't use the pc that day, so I wasn't able to check it.

That card wakes pc. Plugged off it, system worked. I found on another forum people with same issue. Disabling PME wake up in bios, solves it. At least it did for me

[Dark Mantis]

Glad to hear that you found the fix for the problem and I have altered the titles of the posts as requested. Good luck for the future.

[baoren]

thanks a lot!