Problems Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 v2.0 & Samsung HD103UJ
 

Hi There,

If somebody can help I'll appreciate it.

I have a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 v2.0 with a Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATALink Controller included.

I have two IDE HDs and a SATA HD (Seagate ST332062). I tried to add a new SATA HD (Samsung HD103UJ) and the systems stops when the SATA controller detects the Samsung. It recognizes it (show the name) but stops when should show the size of the disc. I changed cables, unplugged the Seagate, cross check everything and nothing works.

I sent the disc to the shop and they tried it and works fine. I upgraded the BIOS of the system form version H to K, one version after antoher, and check if recognizes the disc and it's impossible.

Somebody can have an explanation?

Thanks.

Aturdido.

I'm not 100% sure on wether this is relivent to your board but............. On some of the older boards , when SATA was still a new technology, you could only use one SATA port if you were using all the IDE ports. You can test this by unhooking one IDE cable and then see if both SATA ports are detected and letting the pc boot up properly.

I tried plug only one SATA disc and does not work anyway.

Just for the records.

After searching for all helps I tried several discs and only a Seagate ST375064 worked. Note that this is an IDE disc.

I tried the next SATA discs:
Samsung HD103UJ (1 TB)
Maxtor STM31000340AS (1 TB)
Seagate ST3750330AS (750 GB)

All stoped during booting while the SATA Controller (Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATALink) showed their names but not their size.

Finally an 750 GB IDE disc was recognized by the computer.

So my diagnostic is that the Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATALink Controller embeded in this motherboard can not manage discs bigger or equal to 750 GB.

Why? I do not know.

Glad you got it working. You might check to see if there's and BIOS or driver updates to take care of this issue