Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 5, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 5, 2015 I have an old 775 Gigabyte board, with Intel Pentium Dual E2140, 4GB RAM, GTX-440. The problem I am having is that the AHCI (Bios iSrc 1.07) takes up too much time, and also sometimes doesn't detect drives. I can see one SSD fine, and then the next time I restart the computer it doesn't see it. It just pauses on the drive. I've tried different cables, power cords, different SATA slots to no avail. Should I look into a new motherboard, maybe something newer? Or is this baby not worth the upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoraptor Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 If you have free time why not. I would try the following things as they are cheap/free: 1. See if there is newer mobo bios 2. Maybe reset the bios to the default values too (if no newer), if flashed it will do that anyway 3. Swap the battery just in case You might get an used mobo from ebay, otherwise i wouldn't spend cash on it. Not sure what you plan for it, but it can become a decent multimedia/download/htpc/pfense/whatever kind of thing. Aergan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I would try what neoraptor suggested and then if that fails, find a new board. I dealt with a motherboard a few years ago where it did something very similar... it slowly stopped reading Sata hard drives/DVD-drives and occasionally gave an error and then a few days later just never read another hard drive again. I suspected something was wrong with the Sata controller because it worked fine with IDE drives but would not detect anything Sata. Aergan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 5, 2015 Author Moderator Share Posted April 5, 2015 Yeah, BIOS to latest (2010ish), tried setting to defaults, no diff. I am now removing the battery, but I can not see how that would matter. Anyway, I'll look around Ebay, see what I can find... Edit: Anyway, I was going to use this for home storage. Maybe stream movies off from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Could quite easily be a failing battery causing stored firmware values to become corrupted, I've seen similar issues with HP SFF machines with faulty KTS batteries, so it's worth a shot replacing it. I've had a brand new OOTB Lenovo E32 Workstation Tower (Xeon based) at work ship with one also but that caused the machine to fail to reach past POST. More recently though I've found some older Intel based boards firmware having issues with power management with more modern SATA peripherals. Turning off the firmware power platform management or switching options to "let the OS handle it" / disabling firmware controlled APM etc has solved it if no firmware update is available where the issue is resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 If it has an IDE port and it's not your primary machine (I wouldn't trust it for your main machine), you could possibly go the IDE > Sata adapter route. I've used this adapter before without issues with PCs and other devices (and shipped for under $3): http://www.ebay.com/itm/PATA-IDE-TO-SATA-Converter-Adapter-Plug-Play-7-15-Pin-3-5-2-5-SATA-HDD-DVD-SU-/201214643372? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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