RIVE no Intel Sata after bios flashback on new board

[Intel_of_Borg]

Hi all
I just purchased a 2nd new board to send my other away for RMA as it was doing hard shutdowns randomly.

I bought a new 4960x to go into the new board and needed to update bios for support of ivy-e.
I did a bios flash back to latest version over the shipping bios.
I couldn't check the shipping bios because of new unsupported CPU, so I don't know whether it needed Cap conversion.
After the update everything powered up normally but hung a long time at IDE detect, eventually giving A2 error and red led for boot device error
I've tried everything to get the drives detected (6 xSandisk 120gb SSD) including individual drives.
I'm stuck!


ps. Ive even tried rolling back the bios to an earlier 1404 pre CAP Bios and doing a CAP conversion and upgrade to 4403 and 4502. I popped my 3930k in and tried all 3 bioses and couldn't get Intel Sata ports to detected any drive I plugged in.
The Asmedia do still work however with the external Esata array.

Ive tried disabling each of the GTX580 video cards with the dip switches, looked for bent CPU pins, change ll the RAM out and even swapped the bios chips from the old board. It's as if the intel controller part of the bios has gone by-by. I can change the Intel controller to IDE/AHCI/RAID and it never detects any drives.

From what I can tell everything else is working.

Its pretty damn frustrating that I may now have to RMA the new board that I wanted to use so I could send away my other board for RMA. Is there anything else I can do?

[HiVizMan]

Please remove all your SATA connections.

Now place one stick of ram in system and the 3 series CPU.

With a single video card and only the keyboard and mouse connected via usb please boot to BIOS.

Flash to the desired bios, and or do the CAP conversion again if needed.


You can always check your shipping bios by looking at the last 4 digits of the white sticker that is found near the SATA ports/24 pin PSU connector.

[FireRx]

:cool: You Da Man, HiVizMan.

still trying to tweak mine voltage for 5ghz operation on that 1.4 volt thresehold. LOL

[Intel_of_Borg]

Thank's I have gone back to my older RIVE and everything is working again. I tried all that anyway.. Im an old boy; used to be a tech back in the early 80's building and repairing XT's 🙂 That's the first thing you do is remove as many variables as possible and rebuild the system up.

It might just be a board with some poor QC, so I'm just going to send it back rather than stuff around anymore. My system is a nightmare to pull down all the time with 4way SLI watercooled everything and 4way VGA hotwire.

I also found plastic around 2pins slightly melted on the PSU 24pin connector and on my old board so the 3930k CPU's been pulling some current. 🙂 I've replaced the 24pin on the PSU and cleaned up the connector on the old board and the old workhorse seems stable again now with the 4960X in it.

Hopefully I'll just get a replacement for the new board under RMA and I can then sell it and get a Black. 🙂

Thanks for your help!

Here's the old workhorse.

[HiVizMan]

Cheers mate for the feedback, yeah half our job here is stating the obvious - good luck with the next build and let me just say the BE is the real deal.

[Intel_of_Borg]

HiVizMan wrote:
Cheers mate for the feedback, yeah half our job here is stating the obvious - good luck with the next build and let me just say the BE is the real deal.

Do you know what happened to my last post?

[HiVizMan]

Er the one with all the pictures?

Or? Think the gremlins ate it mate. Sorry no idea.