Hi everyone,
Another plea for help from me I'm afraid!
I received my replacement mobo yesterday, and I'm delighted to say this one lets me get into the BIOS! I was very relieved and happy.
After testing the components were okay I went ahead and installed the rest of my bits into the case. Still booted okay, so next I tried to load an OS, but this is where things went a bit pear-shaped.
Windows can't load as it can't seem to find the driver needed to use one of my hard drives. It asks me to provide the driver, but I've no idea what it needs - is it a mobo driver, or for the SSD, or HDD? Or something else? It also does not show any hard drive to install onto.
When I checked in the BIOS, in SATA devices, again nothing was there - it just says empty next to all 6 slots.
I have a Corsair Carbide Air 540 case, which has 2 hot-swappable trays in the bottom. I have a Seagate Barracuda 2TB connected to the left one and a Samsung 840 EVO connected to the left one. They are powered by a SATA power cable from the PSU (although I think both drives are on the same cable (it has 3 SATA power connectors - could that be the problem?) and plug into the first row of the bottom two SATA connectors on the mobo. My optical drive (which DOES show in the BIOS) is plugged in behind one of the drives.
I also have AE on the Q-Code display.
I'm so confused as I don't know if I can solve this issue with some kind of driver that Windows is asking for, or if actually I need to get the hard drives to show in the BIOS before I can even attempt to load the OS.
I'd be ever so grateful if someone can help me with this. I really hope it's not another case of faulty hardware and it's just me being dense. Any tips/advice very gratefully received!
In case it helps, here is what I'm running:
Intel 4670K
Corsair H100i
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X (2133MHz, C11, 1.5v)
EVGA 780 Classified
Cooler Master V1000 PSU
Pioneer Blu-Ray/DVD
Seagate Barracuda (2TB)
Samsung 840 EVO SSD (250GB)
Thanks, everyone.
Adrian
