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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: natemac on May 08, 2012, 05:45:37 pm

Title: USB 3.0 external drive not availabe on start-up
Post by: natemac on May 08, 2012, 05:45:37 pm

I'm using a GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 board with an i7-3770k ivy bridge processor. I've just built this computer and one issue I'm having is that I have a external USB3.0 drive that isn't recognized on start up of Win7 Pro 64-bit. It will show up if I turn off and back on the power of the drive though while in windows. It DOES shows up in the BIOS info on start-up. I've updated the drivers from gigabytes website with no luck, and am just not familiar with this issue enough to troubleshoot it, so I came here. This issue occurs in IDE and ACHI mode (I switched to ACHI because this is a dual boot Hackintosh, but this issue was occurring before OSX was ever introduced).
Any thoughts would be great, thanks.

Title: Re: USB 3.0 external drive not availabe on start-up
Post by: Fatman on May 09, 2012, 12:21:29 am

Do you have the Etron driver installed?

Title: Re: USB 3.0 external drive not availabe on start-up
Post by: natemac on May 09, 2012, 06:10:59 pm

yes i do

Title: Re: USB 3.0 external drive not availabe on start-up
Post by: Fatman on May 10, 2012, 12:04:17 am

USB-3 controllers enabled in Bios?