PP Mguire
Build Guru
- Messages
- 32,592
- Location
- Fort Worth, Texas
Sorry man, didn't even see you posted an issue.
Memory, dual channel or not
- Thread starter Dallas Jack
- Start date
Dallas Jack
Solid State Member
- Messages
- 10
- Location
- DFW area
pp_mguire you know ASRock boards well. I have a couple of questions about this one. First the USB has power even when the system is off. Is there any way to change this? Second, the SATA ports do not always detect the HD. What I mean by this is when I first started the system SATA port 0 did not detect the drive. I moved the drive to port 1 and the drive was found. Later I unplugged the power to install a wireless card and now port 1 would not see the drive. Moved the drive back to port 0 and it detected the drive. By detected I mean the BIOS would or would not see the drive. What could cause this? Thanks again for the help.
PP Mguire
Build Guru
- Messages
- 32,592
- Location
- Fort Worth, Texas
USB having power is a thing on some boards. There might be a setting in the bios to change this but I'm not sure. Consult the manual (online one would be better) to find out for sure.
As to the SATA thing, that sounds like a borked drive to me or maybe a bad cable.
As to the SATA thing, that sounds like a borked drive to me or maybe a bad cable.
Dallas Jack
Solid State Member
- Messages
- 10
- Location
- DFW area
I looked in the BIOS for a way to turn off the USB and haven't found it yet.
On the drive that was my first thought. I changed the SATA cable and it made no difference. Changed to Sata port 1 and it worked fine. Unplugged the power to make changes and it would not see the drive again. Back to Sata port 0 and it worked fine.
While it is running fine at the moment I think I will clone the drive to a different WD drive just to be sure. I have 2 WD blue 160 gb drives that I had plans to put in an extra Cisco NAS but I think I will repurpose one of them to be the OS drive for this system.
On the drive that was my first thought. I changed the SATA cable and it made no difference. Changed to Sata port 1 and it worked fine. Unplugged the power to make changes and it would not see the drive again. Back to Sata port 0 and it worked fine.
While it is running fine at the moment I think I will clone the drive to a different WD drive just to be sure. I have 2 WD blue 160 gb drives that I had plans to put in an extra Cisco NAS but I think I will repurpose one of them to be the OS drive for this system.
