Sabertooth z77 Boot Device LED Solid Red

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samueljerri

samueljerri

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i5-3570k
Sabertooth z77
Patriot Viper 8GB (2x4GB)
MSI Twin Frzr III HD 7950
AX760


I recently got my PSU after an RMA. I installed it, and the computer didn't boot. I unplugged all but the MB/CPU and SATA connections.

The computer booted up, but never got past the POST screen. I can get into BIOS, but can't do anything about the boot. Also, the Boot Device LED is solid red.

I disconnected every SATA device and the system booted up into "No Boot Device Detected."
No Boot Device LED!

I connected my DVD SATA and put in a Windows 7 DVD. I get the Boot Device LED and it doesn't boot to the drive 🙁

I can still access the BIOS, however.

After all this, I cleared CMOS twice. Boot Device LED is still showing.

Also, on a side note, I installed my GPU and the PC does not turn on. I double checked all cables (and since I got a new PSU, I ruled out the PSU) and still couldn't turn on the PC. I am currently using an HDMI MB port to display on my monitor. No GPU since my computer doesn't even turn on with it installed!


Any help?
 
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ya if its a windows disk and you did a fresh install and still don't boot its hard to look at the windows files after that.. I wish my buddy and his son were members of toms so they can tell you there sabertooth experience.. my buddies was in the trash in 2 weeks his son and myself keeped ours going he went 4 months and I give it up in just a year and the only way I got it to work stasble was with 1 stick of memory and the bios at default settings anything more than that it would fall apart -- I got a box full of spare parts from it and with them all, all the parts that did not seem to work on the sabertooths went right on the replacement non asus boards and fired right up a ran stable first boot I'm using the memory and...
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The PSU died on me like 1 month ago. I RMA'd it immediately. After I sent it off, I just let my PC sit there, unused. I'm not too sure what happened :S

Should I take out the CMOS battery?


I tested it again right now, with every SATA unplugged, and I'm still getting the LED. When I went into the BIOS, it said the bootorder was a MultiCardReader...? My case has one, but seriously? lol
 
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between the memory led and the boot led we were glad to see them go mine lasted the longest we spent on them tinkered and just pulled the parts off them and chunked them in the trash but it seemed like I had to swap the asus sata cable with one from a gigabyte causer the fit in the port was so loose and when your in the bios is the hard drive showing up ?
 
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When I go into the SATA configuration, all my tested SATA drives show up. The problem lies with booting them. I've tried changing bootprder and everything, it just never seems to boot :/

Should I buy new SATA cables and test it out? Which ones do you recommend? If possible, can you go to the website memoryexpress.com and pick out the cables? Thanks.
 
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It is set to ACHI, I have two SSDs in the system 😉

I'm going to change the case tomorrow evening and hopefully I'll find a loose cable or something. This build was really expensive 🙁
 
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''This build was really expensive''
ya -so was our 3 sabertooths plus all the parts we got to swap around to try to make them work right in any way. hope yu find the issue when you swap things out and not end up down the same road as we did with ours ..
all them sabertooths did was sink there teeth in to our bill folds
 
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I'm going to take the motherboard out and test it on a test bed. I'm thinking it may be a loose cable from the PSU.
Thanks for the help, I'll report back my findings. Hopefully it worked :lol:
 
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It worked perfectly before it died mid-game.

I just want to say again that I can access the BIOS and I can see the POST screen. I just can't boot ANY sata drives. Even my DVD drive, let alone SSDs and HDD.
 
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ok , found it what abiut using the boot override?? where you select a drive and force it to boot off the selected drive? outher than that theres not much it says on this f your in the bios and it sees the drive and windows is on it for that board it should boot but if it going to the windows screen where it shows windows is loading and fails then you may need to reinstall if it just fails to find anything and its coming up as no device found it may be some kind of chipset controller thing on the intel part you can try to use the secondary ASMedia sata controller to see if it will go on it ... all there should be to it is you hook up the drive to sata1 go in the bios see its detected set up the drive as you want like ide ahci raid set the opt.drive to first boot with windows disk and point it to that harddrive load windows up and all should be good -- but like I said I done had my 3 and got nowhere with them just like with you it was all ways something with them... sorry I could not be more help
 
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Not a problem.

Amyways, I went out and bought a new PSU. The issue still stands.

However, it seemed to boot into my DVD drive and I was able to install Windows on my spare SSD, which it detects (it detected all my drives). After installing, I was thrown into the Desktop, however, the computer restarted itself 🙁

After that, I can't boot back into any SATA drive. I check the BIOS and they are all detected, but I can't boot any of them. All I get is a perpetual restart of my computer!

 
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I have the BIOS updated to current, but I'll try reverting it to revision 1 or something.

Also, would you recommend removing the CMOS battery? I tried shorting the pins, but it doesn't really help. I still get the Boot Device LED
 
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I have a Windows DVD.

I'm going to check today and see if formatting all my drives would help. Since my computer died midgame, there might be a corrupt file on the disks. Hopefully formatting them will help.


Will report back with findings.
 
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ya if its a windows disk and you did a fresh install and still don't boot its hard to look at the windows files after that.. I wish my buddy and his son were members of toms so they can tell you there sabertooth experience.. my buddies was in the trash in 2 weeks his son and myself keeped ours going he went 4 months and I give it up in just a year and the only way I got it to work stasble was with 1 stick of memory and the bios at default settings anything more than that it would fall apart -- I got a box full of spare parts from it and with them all, all the parts that did not seem to work on the sabertooths went right on the replacement non asus boards and fired right up a ran stable first boot I'm using the memory and vid-card from my saber on this intel build -0-issues

I hope you get it all worked out looking at page 1 ,2 and 3 of reviews at newegg has a couple of won't boot

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131821
 
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