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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: edwardsmarkf on November 16, 2014, 01:52:52 am
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hello all -
i ran into an issue trying to install any win-OS on the 890xfa-ud5 rev-2.1 (bios 7) - it appears the board was very particular about installing on sata-0 and not sata-1. has anybody else observed this behavior? with sata-1 i was getting bizarre errors like bad sectors, missing files, etc. sata-0 was absolutely no problem. it didnt seem to matter if it was win-7 or 8 - same behavior.
suggestions?
side-note - i went ahead and purchased a drive 'sata switch' http://www.satacable.com/4posaiisw3ba.html (http://www.satacable.com/4posaiisw3ba.html) just in case i learn this behavior is normal.
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It isn't normal I have that board and have no problems with either of the sata connectors and my hard drives. Only difference is revision mine is an earlier revision.
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i was a bit surprised too. but i could not get a clean install to work on sata-0 but i could on sata-1. it didnt seem to matter which SSD i was using or which power cable. i tried this on both win-7 & win-8.
double-checked the bios version; F6.
i was able to get vmware installed on sata-1 earlier. i might try centos-6.5 and see what happens.
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Sata0 and Sata1 is the same controller so I am thinking it would be more of a hardware problem with the board. All I use are SSD's and I always install on Sata0. If it has a bad Sata port fine if you can live with it but I couldn't. Things like that bug me but that is the way I am....lol.
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All 6 sata ports on off of the AMD SB850 controller. So it really doesn't matter which port your use.
Yes you like to start with 0 port, but it really doesn't matter with today's boards. Like autotech said it sounds like you got problems with the board.