[MaadDaawg]

I just put my gamer back together with a P67 v3 MIVE, 2600K, and tri sli 580s. When I first turned it on it went to setup (as expected) but I noticed it wasn't recognizing the SSD, only the storage HDD. So I set it on defaults, saved it, then shut it down.

Turned out the hot swap bay the SSD was in had a broken SATA connector, so I moved it and tried it again.. and again.. and again...

Board keeps holding up on A2 (IDE detect) and will not boot. Neither BIOS results in a boot, clearing CMOS doesn't do shit. It won't even go back into SETUP with only the storage HDD attached like it did the first time

Have swapped boot SSD for boot Raptor.. no difference. Doesn't seem to be able to find any IDE drives.

Any ideas let me know

thanks

hate the thought of draining it and tearing it apart if I don't have to

[kikicoco1334]

could it be the settings in the drive section?
you know, IDE/AHCI/ect try swap around and see what's up.

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by kikicoco1334

could it be the settings in the drive section?
you know, IDE/AHCI/ect try swap around and see what's up.

Can't get into the setup, hangs before it'll let me in.

[Kal-EL]

Hangs without any drives plugged in?

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Hangs without any drives plugged in?

Haven't tried that... will check it out and see if that makes any difference. Doesn't see any drives that are plugged in, but... maybe I can get to setup this way? tks, I'll let ya know

Ok, tried it

with no sata drives conected it now hangs on A0 (IDE initialization is started). If I press "del" repeatedly it hangs on b6 (cleanup of NVRAM)

???

Reconnected the optical drive and it went back to hanging at A2

Notice it spends a lot of time during the boot sequence on b2 (Legacy option ROM initialization).

no change when trying the second BIOS.

pull the battery for a few days?

[kikicoco1334]

I am not 100% sure what A2 is but A0 on my little book is saying keyboard

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by kikicoco1334

I am not 100% sure what A2 is but A0 on my little book is saying keyboard

This the P67 version of the MIVE, is that what you have, or are you looking at the MIVEz?

Got even stranger. Thinking it might be a corrupt BIOS, I used the crash free BIOS utility to update the BIOS. Put the install DVD in as per instructions and a thumb drive in the ROG connect port. Started the computer and it went straight into BIOS SETUP !!! YAY! This without any hard drives installed.

Updated the BIOS successfully, then shut down the rig to hook in the SSD and it's refusing to boot, hanging at A2 again.

Put the install disk into the drive again and did a cold boot... straight to A2 again, no setup

PS, I'm using a PS2 keyboard which worked fine the one time it went into setup, so don't think I have a keyboard issue

STRANGER STILL

Ran the BIOS routine again, got it to reset and go through the entire boot sequence - still no bootable drive installed. Hooked up the storage HDD and it went through the entire boot up until it told me to select a bootable drive.

So I hooked up a bootable drive - NO BOOT .... AE - legacy boot event!! This is with the SSD that was formatted for this system.

new

Got it restarted with the install disk, reinstalled the new BIOS, it restarted itself and hung on AE which is a "legacy boot event"

[Kal-EL]

Somethin's pooped up.

[MaadDaawg]

yeah, but what?? thought it might be my hot swap bays, so I bypassed them and still the same shit

No probs booting with a non bootable HDD in the system

PLUS in BIOS, it only indicates two video cards :( all switches are ON

[kikicoco1334]

id say unplug every single SATA drive in your rig and see what's up.
and is it under warranty? I'd say just RMA the sucker if your board is still under warranty.
this is my way of fixing stuff :p oh it is taking too long to fix? alright i'll kill it completely and send it to the manufacture.

I have a universal boot code book, it has AMI, AWARD, Phoenix and IBM codes, too bad its in Chinese or i'd post it on here already. I picked it up when I was in China 2006 and for all the years i've been using it it hasn't failed me once