Gene-z eSATA ports issue and a weird double boot problem

[dolande]

Hello people form the ROG. I'm a new owner of the gene-z and I'm having a few issues in a mostly pleasant experience with your product:

eSATA doesn't work. I've tried isntalling the Jmicron drivers but nothing. It doesn't show errors in the device manager. Checked the bios an it is on AHCI mode. I'm using win7 x64. I checked with two external drives that also have usb and they work fine.

Are usb 2 devices recognized in the usb 3 ports? I don't have any usb3 devices but none of the my usb 2 devices work in the blue port.

Lastly my pc reboots one time before booting into windows. When I switch it on the lights come on and I can see the status changing in the numeric LED display, it goes to a "70" code and reboots immediately, the second time it goes all the way to that code but continues all the way to windows. If I manually re-start the pc it does the same procedure: all the way to the 70 code, reboots and then all the way to windows. This happens after I used the auto tune feature that overclocked my 2500k all the way to 4.6Ghz and I left it there (it is "bronze" stable since it passes LinX 5 times and two hours of prime95 small fft and 100% memtes). If I load the "asus optimized parameters" it boots just fine. This is not really causing a problem but I want to know if this is normal or somebody else has seen this behavior.

System: Fractal Design Define Mini, Asus Maximus IV gene-z, Intel 2500k, Noctua NH-D14, G.Skill Ripjaws 16GB, Intel 510 120Gb SSD, NZXT 750w, Asus BD burner, Seagate Barracude 2T.

Thanks for your help

[Spathi]

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/SATA_Controller/Windows/

There are old threads here about the double post, you basically have to set the bus clock to 100 manually or it posts twice as a safety feature.

[dolande]

Spathi wrote:
ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/SATA_Controller/Windows/

There are old threads here about the double post, you basically have to set the bus clock to 100 manually or it posts twice as a safety feature.

Dude thanks the new driver did the trick. And also checked the BLCK back to 100 and no double boots.:)

[Spathi]

How did you get eSata to work? I tried it today and no go.

When you install windows I read you need to install the raid drivers (or AHCI) and set the bios to one of those or else you have to reinstall windows or hack the registry. I think I installed windows right but JMicron is still installing as IDE or something, maybe.