Any Asus P8P67 owners with 1253 bios having HDD problems?

[Anomaly1964]

A new Bios for the Asus board is forth coming from what Asus tech said over at HF. It should address alot of the issues people are having..

Hallelujah!

Do you know how MIND WRECKING THIS IS TO SOMEONE DOING THEIR FIRST BUILD IN OVER FIVE YEARS ON A NEW CHIPSET AND MOTHERBOARD...????

My caps aren't yelling they were just a small "freak out," I'm feeling better now...

**EDIT - also, is this issue limited to ASUS boards or ALL P67 boards...?

 

[Lee Saxon]

P8P67 owneres with 1253 bios are having [lots of stuff] problems, yes. Last time I buy a board the day it's released.

 

[Anomaly1964]

P8P67 owneres with 1253 bios are having [lots of stuff] problems, yes. Last time I buy a board the day it's released.

Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep exhale...

 

[Anomaly1964]

THIS is so beyond me...

Only SSD and OPTICAL show from COMPUTER, but...

Go to Device Manager:

Shows SSD and HDD, AND...

This even shows where I (with the help of Banker) formatted and partitioned the HDD

So WHY the FREAK can't I access it from Windows or have it show up in the Asus UEFI????????????

 

[d4a2n0k]

Does it show up in disk management?

 

[Anomaly1964]

Does it show up in disk management?

Bankster took me through the process of renaming the drives to D, E, and P (dvd), did reboot, they show up!

Can save to them and everything...

 

[Doggiedog]

THIS is so beyond me...

Only SSD and OPTICAL show from COMPUTER, but...

Go to Device Manager:

Shows SSD and HDD, AND...

This even shows where I (with the help of Banker) formatted and partitioned the HDD

So WHY the FREAK can't I access it from Windows or have it show up in the Asus UEFI????????????

That's the same problem I had/have. Plus my shortcuts to those drives would not work.

 

[Anomaly1964]

That's the same problem I had/have. Plus my shortcuts to those drives would not work.

What Bankster had me do was go into computer management, rename the drives, reboot, and now they show up...

 

[Twsmit]

Just chiming in with a Intel SSD, 2TB SATA 3.0 Western Digital, a SATA DVD burner and a SATA 1.5 Seagate 250GB.

Everything works great on bios 1253 using ACHI. No problems so far.

 

[Anomaly1964]

Just chiming in with a Intel SSD, 2TB SATA 3.0 Western Digital, a SATA DVD burner and a SATA 1.5 Seagate 250GB.

Everything works great on bios 1253 using ACHI. No problems so far.

It's odd, I still don't see the HDD on the first page of the UEFI...

 

[pitz]

Did this problem ever get resolved? Or is the root cause, Intel's problem with the chipset?

Just interested... We might have to revisit a few of these threads to find out the truth.

 

[Anomaly1964]

Did this problem ever get resolved? Or is the root cause, Intel's problem with the chipset?

Just interested... We might have to revisit a few of these threads to find out the truth.

All the drives show in Windows but the HDD still does not appear in the UEFI main screen, just the SSD and the Optical drive...

 

[Majic 7]

Don't think it has anything to do with chipset problem. I have had my SSD (System) and HD(Storage) on the Sata3 ports since day one. The ports that aren't affected by this problem. My HD never shows up in the boot order. It's DVD, SSD, printer that's hooked by UBS. Seems like a bios oddity to me. It does show on the boot page of the uefi.

 

[Doggiedog]

I'm using bios 1204 now. It still does the double reboot but I haven't had a drive shut down yet. I still am missing the drives in the bios though. Sometimes my RAID is there, sometimes the SSD is there sometimes my other drives are there.

Very strange. The system works outside of that so I guess it's OK.

 

[Doggiedog]

This explains it. I just saw this in the CPU forum.

Missing drives

 

[bankster55]

nah, I dont think so - too soon
still working out this issue (no time) but..........
In any drive showing in advanced mode "BOOT" tab you will see the (Windows) bootmanager option. So lets say you have an SSD drive you want to add, you make the #1 first selection "bootmanager", then stuff appears on main menu page with that UEFI strap on it.

For example from the AT review of ASUS Pro VS Gigabyte P67
we see this:

Notice with bootmanager selection of first drive - everything thats bootable on front page now has that UEFI strap - which I think means not UEFI
Heres how I interpret this setup

Empty (or with Win 7) SSD HDD
USB bootable stick (with Win 7?)
USB stick

Now I bet not a single person on AT used the bootmanager option at any time
Also notice at the very bottom is the "boot override" option devices
ALL your devices are always listed here
This is the detection area
And you can boot to these at any time (if possible) instantly by just clicking them

i am sure either the bootmanger option and/or the boot override option will fix all drive dissappear or not show issues. Its not those dirty rotten ASUS mobo, its that dirty rotten manual that says nothing about this
If anyone can, I think they should contact Ian Cutress who wrote the ASUS vs Gigabyte article and ask him how he got around to using bootmanager
I also suggest reading about the boot override option in the manual (over and over)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4130/the-battle-of-the-p67-boards-asus-vs-gigabyte-at-190/4