Motherboard cannot find hdd or ssd, help!

[adamtwomey]

Just finished putting together my friends pc, and after a little noob error being sorted it started up properly.

I am using the Asus Sabertooth Rev2 which has UEFI, and I'm being met with a "The current bios setting do not fully support the boot device. Go to Advanced > Boot > CSM Parameters, and adjust the CSM settings to enable the booth device." message.

Under Sata configuration it lists not present next to the 6 sata connections.

When I go to the CSM I do not know what to do, the options are:

Launch CSM
-Disable
-Auto
-Enable

Enable
-Boot Device Control
--UEFI and Legacy OpROM
--Legacy OpROM only
--UEFI only

-Boot from storage devices
--Both, Legacy OpROM first
--Both, UEFI first
--Legacy OpROM first
--UEFI driver first
--Ignore

-Boot from PCIe/PCI Expansion Devices
--Legacy OpROM first
--UEFI driver first


Selecting UEFI for PCIe brings me into the American Trends screen which informs me that the VGA isn't UEFI compatible and that CSM options have been changed, then I can continue into the EUFI where I am faced with the bios setting doesn't support boot device message.

Clearing the CMOS doesn't help.

Removing the hdd/ssd still gives the same bios setting message.

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Eximo]

First off, what drives?

You'll want everything set to EUFI for ease of use.

For SSDs it will pretty much have to be in ACHI or RAID to detect.
For Drives larger then 2TB look for the term GPT under the controller section. If you only have very large drives to boot from, they may not be supported until you get to Windows.

 

[adamtwomey]

If I set PCIe to UEFI it gives the VGA does not support EUFI message and then it changes the CSM option back.

Corsair Vertex 3 120gb
Toshiba 3TB
GTX 760

Also I can't find the GPT term.

 

[Eximo]

Please provide the model of motherboard so I can take a look at the BIOS manual. Something obvious is still set incorrectly.

Okay, step one, remove the 3TB drive. It will be unnecessary for installing the OS. Put that in once you have Windows on the SSD.

Somewhere your primary display must be set to VGA, maybe the motherboard has a vga output? If you CPU supports onboard video, disable it as well. The output needs to be changed to PCIe so that at first attempt it will try to use the GPU.

Also be sure you have the monitor plugged into the GPU and not the motherboard.

 

[adamtwomey]

I will be back at my friends house later on but I tried it with both hard drives removed and it still gave me the message, and with just the SSD it still gave me the message and still didn't detect the ssd.

The motherboard has no video outputs so I'm assuming it has no on board gfx, also the motherboard didn't come with a system speaker so could there be some beeps I'm missing?

I read the manuals that came with the mobo and they simply mentioned the csm without elaborating on anything, and the only newer BIOS update doesn't have any compatibility or stability fixes.

I don't see how it could be a faulty motherboard but I can't see what else I'm doing wrong; there isn't some simple n00b install step I missed is there?

All cables are plugged in and the drive led light on the case has activity briefly when the computer is first turned on, but the boot device led on the motherboard shines red while the computer is on.

There are 8 sata ports with 6 being Sata 3 and 2 being Sata 2, however in the Sata connections it only lists the 6 Sata 3 connections, don't know if this means anything?

If it is a faulty mobo then it will take to long to get a replacement before my friend leaves for uni! For my first build this sure isn't going smoothly!

 

[Eximo]

You'll want to switch to advanced mode.

Under NorthBridge options select PCI/PEG rather the the default PEG/PCI for oot up graphics.

SouthBridge Options set yout SATA controllers to AHCI mode.

I don't really see anything else that could be causing this much trouble, it could be faulty.

 

[adamtwomey]

Ha ha, well in the Asus forums I was told that when I insert the windows install disk then I can select the drive and all will be fine.

I probably should have mentioned that the disc and disc drive aren't coming until today so I havn't yet had the chance to do this.

So it seems it is a N00b error then?

I guess the windows disk allows me to create a bootable drive so yeah... ha ha n00b error.


Well one last thing, would you be able to tell me why some of the case fans will show that they are shooting up to the max rpm of 65,000rpm briefly every few seconds? Obviously they are not spinning this fast and nor does their speed/noise change.

They are all 3 pin going into the 4 pin and their rpm is shown and being changed, but 2 out of the 3 case fans have this weird thing going on.