This is a bit technical, no doubt most people won’t know a single thing about it and to be fair, I’m on the edge of my knowledge about motherboards.
But… A week or so ago, I had a real nasty computer problem, the computer just went black and started to reboot, over and over. I took one of the drives out, it was dead in the water. Luckily I have one of those external docking stations. But regardless, I had to reinstall Win7 back on the good drive.
I was a bit puzzled about it, and when I plugged the second drive into the external station, Win7 said it was an ‘invalid drive’. I reformatted it and continued to use it, but in the docking station.
Today, I thought that I’d fix it permanently, and put the drive back into the computer. Using the same slot, the same SATA port, I booted the computer up, but Win7 didn’t think anything was there. Moving cables around, testing different things, I moved the SATA cable to another port on the motherboard and voila, it saw the drive, everything is fine.
So this great Republic of Gamers Maximus III Formula motherboard now has a wonky SATA port. Anyone come across this? I know I have six more ports, so it’s not a great issue, and I can live with it until I get a new computer put together in a year or so, but still, it’s strange and something I’ve never experienced before. Is this a common failure?
Btw, this isn’t overclocked. Chip (i7) wasn’t affected, nor was the memory.
Tags: maximus iii formula, republic of gamers, rog, sata