HDD's are detected in BIOS but only 2 at a time can be functional in windows

[Wheeze]

I was tinkering with overclocking my CPU. From the way I understood it was that raising the Host Clock Override(BCLK) in the OC Tweaker in the asrock UEFI(which is basically BIOS for asrock motherboards) would result in an overclock. Afterwards my soundcard didn't work and I couldn't boot back into BIOS. So I updated the BIOS, was able to get in and put everything back to default and my sound card worked again.

But now only 2 of my motherboard SATA ports work for my hard drives. They are all detected in the BIOS but they don't show up in windows explorer or disk management. I've tried rearranging the chords that connect the hard drives, motherboard and power supply but there are always just those 2 sata ports that work.

TL;DR: All hard drives are detected in BIOS but only the hard drives connected to these 2 specific SATA ports on the motherboard actually work in windows. They don't show up in disk management either and I can connect different hard drives and they work fine but just not all of them at the same time(all of them being 4)

Here are my specs copied from speccy:
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.40GHz 32 °C
RAM
8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
ASRock P67 Pro3 (CPUSocket) 30 °C
Graphics
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (Gigabyte) 48 °C
Storage <-I only have one HDD atm because I was rearranging the sata ports
111GB KINGSTON SV300S37A120G ATA Device (SSD) 26 °C
Audio
ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device
Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/FsZJ8CZ.png?1
And here is dxdiag info: http://pastebin.com/8kT59VpB

 

[Paul NZ]

If they dont show up in windows if theres nothing on them, you have to format them first in disk management.

Before they'll appear in windows

 

[Wheeze]

If they dont show up in windows if theres nothing on them, you have to format them first in disk management.

Before they'll appear in windows

But I can connect different hard drives and they work fine. It's just that there are only 2 sata ports on my motherboard that make the HDD's work in windows otherwise they are only detected in BIOS. Sorry should have made that clearer in the post. And the other HDD's don't show up in disk management. I've also tried rescanning them from disk management.

 

[Paul NZ]

Theres more than 2 SATA ports on this mobo according to the site. There's 4 SATA 2 and 2 SATA 3 ports

4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Rapid Storage), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions

- 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Rapid Storage), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions (SATA3_1 connector is shared with eSATA3 port)

 

[Wheeze]

Theres more than 2 SATA ports on this mobo according to the site. There's 4 SATA 2 and 2 SATA 3 ports

4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Rapid Storage), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions

- 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Rapid Storage), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions (SATA3_1 connector is shared with eSATA3 port)

Yeah and only 2 of the 4 SATA2 3.0Gb/s connectors work.

 

[Paul NZ]

Well its faulty then.

 

[Wheeze]

Well its faulty then.

But I can see the hard drives in the BIOS and I think in the device manager as well: http://i.imgur.com/GBgVlW3.png?1

I'd like to exhaust all other possibilities before investing in a new motherboard. Thanks for your help though

 

[Paul NZ]

What does it say if you dbl click on the entries that have a ! by them. They've got a prob, thats why its showing a !

 

[Wheeze]

What does it say if you dbl click on the entries that have a ! by them. They've got a prob, thats why its showing a !

Here is an album with a screenshot of every tab: http://imgur.com/a/AOLKG

 

[Paul NZ]

Umm whats it on in the BIOS? IDE Or AHCI?? for the hdd's?

And are one of these hd's connected to the esata port? Or are both of them inside the case?

 

[Wheeze]

Umm whats it on in the BIOS? IDE Or AHCI?? for the hdd's?

And are one of these hd's connected to the esata port? Or are both of them inside the case?

It's on IDE(not sure what this is but I'm 99% sure it's IDE and not AHCI) and all HDD's are connected directly into the motherboard.

 

[Paul NZ]

I have a feeling it has something to do with it being in IDE mode. It should be in AHCI mode.

But you cant change it to AHCI mode after windows has been installed. It'll crash

Did you install this?? Intel® Matrix Storage Manager?

 

[Wheeze]

I have a feeling it has something to do with it being in IDE mode. It should be in AHCI mode.

But you cant change it to AHCI mode after windows has been installed. It'll crash

Did you install this?? Intel® Matrix Storage Manager?

Don't think I remember installing it myself no. When I google it the intel page just takes me to this: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=&ProductID=2101&ProdId=2101
And "Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver" is a driver that didn't work that I downloaded off the motherboard driver page(It said that my computer was incompatible with the software)

But which one do I download from that list?

 

[Paul NZ]

It said that my computer was incompatible with the software <- Thats because its not in AHCI mode. thats why this error comes up

Theyre on the Asrock site. Altho there are no Win8 drivers for this mobo either

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/P67%20Pro3/?cat=Download

Have a read of the pic where it says SATA 2 drivers. That'll be related to that error youre getting

http://www.asrock.com/support/faq.asp?c=HDD

 

[Wheeze]

It said that my computer was incompatible with the software <- Thats because its not in AHCI mode. thats why this error comes up

Theyre on the Asrock site. Altho there are no Win8 drivers for this mobo either

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/P67%20Pro3/?cat=Download

Have a read of the pic where it says SATA 2 drivers. That'll be related to that error youre getting

http://www.asrock.com/support/faq.asp?c=HDD

So you're saying that switching to AHCI might fix the problem but that would mean I'd have to format everything and start fresh?

 

[Paul NZ]

Thats right you would have to do a clean install. After enabling / turning AHCI on and turning UEFI / secureboot on

And once you install the chipset drivers after you install windows and win8 drivers for Matrix Storage Manager I bet those 2 hdds will work

Altho we may have to find the Matrix drivers somewhere on the Intel site. Instead of the Asrock site. The Win7 x64 drivers may or may not work

 

[Wheeze]

Thats right you would have to do a clean install. After enabling / turning AHCI on and turning UEFI / secureboot on

And once you install the chipset drivers after you install windows and win8 drivers for Matrix Storage Manager I bet those 2 hdds will work

Altho we may have to find the Matrix drivers somewhere on the Intel site. Instead of the Asrock site. The Win7 x64 drivers may or may not work

I can probably also buy another asrock motherboard and install it without having to do any re-formatting though right?

btw: Thanks so much for your help

 

[Paul NZ]

Umm well even if you buy another mobo it would still pick up that the hdd thats connected to it was installed in ide mode, and if you changed it to AHCI mode, it may still crash

So you would be wasting your money, if thats why you're buying another mobo

I suppose you could try one of these ahci reg hacks for your version of windows.

It MAY or may not work. Then Install the Matrix drivers, then change to AHCI in the BIOS.

It'll either boot into windows or it'll crash

Or try this

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1634729/boot-switching-driver-ahci-windows.html

 

[Wheeze]

Umm well even if you buy another mobo it would still pick up that the hdd thats connected to it was installed in ide mode, and if you changed it to AHCI mode, it may still crash

So you would be wasting your money, if thats why you're buying another mobo

I suppose you could try one of these ahci reg hacks for your version of windows.

It MAY or may not work. Then Install the Matrix drivers, then change to AHCI in the BIOS.

It'll either boot into windows or it'll crash

Or try this

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1634729/boot-switching-driver-ahci-windows.html

Well I decided to just took the risk and switched to AHCI in BIOS and it just bluescreened every time I tried to boot up windows(which is what you were saying I'm assuming) but I was able to switch back to IDE without having my hard drive wiped or something.

I guess it's come to the point where I just reinstall windows or something?

 

[Paul NZ]

It'll boot in IDE mode because it was on that originally

So you'll either have to do a clean install or try that link I posted, if you want AHCI mode