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Thread ID: 93508 2008-09-20 06:27:00 Only 2 SATA Devices working at a time Swarms (14153) Press F1
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706489 2008-09-20 06:27:00 I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem for my brother in New York so forgive me if I'm slow to get any information....

He just added a 1TB internal sata drive, he has another internal sata drive, and a sata dvd-rw. He says that only 2 devices will work at a time. With the 2 hard drives in, it won't recognize the burner. With a hard drive and the burner, it won't recognize the third hard drive etc.

It's an Asus P4c-800e motherboard, running windows Vista.

The third drive doesn't show up in the bios, it's not just windows.
Swarms (14153)
706490 2008-09-20 08:21:00 Try a BIOS update (support.asus.com) seems to have been problems detecting SATA drives that 1021 fixed. stormdragon (6013)
706491 2008-09-21 01:57:00 Try looking in the BIOS as well to make sure all the SATA Connectors are actually enabled.

Just been working on a customers PC last week -same problem, the main drive & DVD writer both SATA both worked, the other 4 connections on the board were disabled - enabled them and additional drives worked fine.
wainuitech (129)
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