cpjitservices Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 Hi all, I have the above motherboard, having some fun with it thats for sure. On board it has 2x SATA 6 ports (Grey) and 4x SATA 3 ports (Blue). ALL the SATA 3 ports seem to be dead. I have tried changing SATA cables to no avail. The 2x SATA 6 ports work perfect. I have tried the Controller settings in the BIOS on IDE, AHCI and on RAID and the list of devices in the connected list stay as "Not Detected" on those Sata 3 ports. Apparently, this board suffered the Cougar point bug, but this is the Revision B3 board which shouldnt be affected as it was the replacement board. Any Ideas ? Anyone had this board ? Thought about shoving a RAID card in there with 2 ports on.... would that work ? Thanks in advance all.
cpjitservices Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 Yep, I went on the Asus website and put all the Bios revisions on USB, Went to the first Bios Rev right up to the latest version. No change.
newpersn Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 Have you tired different hard drives and DVD Drives?
cpjitservices Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Yep, tried all of that. If I plug in the drives to the Sata 6 ports they work. Then back to Sata 3 and nothing. The main hard drive is in the sata 6 and works, system boots up. Switch it to sata 3 and the drive isnt recognized as being connected to the sata 3 ports. Have tried all manner of drives new and old and also DVD drives. Problem is, I want to use this board in a storage box but 2 sata ports isnt enough. Might have to try a RAID card....? Edited April 13, 2015 by cpjitservices
newpersn Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 Yep, tried all of that. If I plug in the drives to the Sata 6 ports they work. Then back to Sata 3 and nothing. The main hard drive is in the sata 6 and works, system boots up. Switch it to sata 3 and the drive isnt recognized as being connected to the sata 3 ports. Have tried all manner of drives new and old and also DVD drives. Problem is, I want to use this board in a storage box but 2 sata ports isnt enough. Might have to try a RAID card....? Is there not anything in the chipset settings for the SATA3 ports? (Long time since i had to mess in a ASUS Bios 1
cpjitservices Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Not that I can see, at the moment im only playing about with things in the BIOS. BIOS reports that drives are plugged into sata 6, but if i plug those drives into any sata 3 ports it reports as no drives connected. I have tried the ports in IDE Compatible mode, ports runs off of two controllers. Sata 3 and sata 6 both off different controllers. Ive had both set to IDe compatible and nothing. Same result on AHCI and RAID. Its a right pain. Cant afford a new board really so need to get this working somehow!! Edited April 13, 2015 by cpjitservices
cpjitservices Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 I presume if I whack a RAID card in that should work shouldn't it ? I could even put a couple of 4 port cards in and disable the sata 3 controller ?
cpjitservices Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Thanks for that, however my board was the one that was shipped as a replacement board to the B2 version, I have the B3 which is reported to not have the bug - This is why Asus shipped the B3 as a replacement. Weird!! Im presuming now a fault with the controller. Edited April 13, 2015 by cpjitservices
newpersn Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 Thanks for that, however my board was the one that was shipped as a replacement board to the B2 version, I have the B3 which is reported to not have the bug - This is why Asus shipped the B3 as a replacement. Weird!! Im presuming now a fault with the controller. Get in touch with there support. It may be still under the 3 years (if it was continued on the replacement) 1
cpjitservices Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 Yeah might have to contact them, 20110-11 I think it was purchased. Dont have the receipt anymore. If I Can find a link to get in touch with them I think I might, although I kept getting asked for serial numbers. Which is on the back of the board lol.
newpersn Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 Should be a ASUS tool you could use to get the info off the board. (or it will be in the bios) 1
cpjitservices Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 Got it, have sent them an email. A Replacement board would be nice but I reckon its too far past the time now.
cpjitservices Posted April 14, 2015 Author Posted April 14, 2015 (edited) Hi, Installed A Raid card last night and seemed to work fine, only a 2 port so now need to get hold of another 2 port or 4 port RAID card that will be compatible with Server 2012. Thanks for all of your help. PS - if anyone has one that works on 2012 you want rid of... Let me know Edited April 14, 2015 by cpjitservices
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