990FXA-UD3 wont recognize dvd sata drive in bios but windows does fine WTFF?

[jbk]

Hey everyone, I am just stumped here, I need some fresh eyes. maybe I am doing something wrong.
I am A+ certified so please dont sugar coat anything.

so got this new board with 8 gig ram and phenom II X4 955 and its a beast.
but I cant get the bios to recognize the sata dvd drive. but luckily enough I was still able to boot my old win 7 install (series 8 chipset) so I guess thats why it still boot. and I can use the drive perfectly in win 7 X64

I have 3 sata 2  HDD drives in 0,1,2 ports,
I have tried the dvd drive in 3,4,5 ports with no luck. when I turn the power on, I get the light on the drive like its being checked/read 
I have also tried just running it in IDE only mode (it semi freezes on the bios post for a minute or 2)
I tried AHCI (this detects all my sata drives and posts well)
I tried AHCI and also tried setting the last 2 ports to either as sata, and also setting it to IDE mode as well
and also the same with Raid
I flashed the bios to F5 and even tried the Beta F6F

so to summerise it works beautifully in windows. but I cant boot from the bios due to non detecction. so I cant do a clean install. I had to do a crappy upgrade from my old install
anyhelp would be appreciated Guys

[autotech]

Well that is probably because sata dvds are old school in formatting. As for an answer i have no idea but mine does the same this. After some research i found that you can boot from a usb drive. So i put my windows disk on a bootable usb and i install windows 7 from the usb drive.

I will post back in a few something i want to try if it works i will let you know and that should solve your problems.

BACK

When you are booting and the bios post is up just hit the F-12 key it will show it there and allow you to boot from it. just use the arrow keys to highlight it as first boot choice and problem solved. What makes that nice is you arent making any changes in bios so after you boot from whatever choice you pick in that menu the next time it boots off default so you dont have to go back into bios and change boot order back. I hope this helps..

BTW mine is in my last sata port and set to sata. All hard drives are in the first sata ports.

[jbk]

hey Thx.
I also tried forcing it to boot from the cdrom drive using the boot menu, with no luck I will transfer my windows disk to usb and install it from there I didnt think of that Thanks.

[autotech]

you welcome, Best part of it is it is alot faster than dvd for me in 15 minutes i was doing updates but i use a SSD hard drive.

[Dark Mantis]

Often a lot of optical drives don't like being on an AHCI port and prefer to run on an IDE controlled one. That's why I usually recommend putting it on one of the last ports and setting it to IDE mode. Don't forget to put it where you want it on the drive boot priority list as well.

[jbk]

as I stated, I tried every single possible config, all drive modes etc, and it wont read it in the bios.
who cares anyway because of that I found a amazingly awesome way to install windows 7 in like 9 minutes flat haha
so I'm sort of glad it happened ;-)

Thanks  everyone