Hi,

Hopefully someone can help with this random problem that i'm having with the above board.
if i use a pcie sata addon card (additional to the 6 onboard sata ports) the machine does not recognise any hard drives connected to the sata addon board and will not allow me to boot to that drive over the ones connected to the board. (the drive is not seen in the bios)
I have tried a Highpoint Rocket 620, a generic 1port internal / 5 port esata card and with an pcie HP SAS HBA - the bios does not allow me to boot to any of those cards. I have tried the same cards in another system and they allow booting to a drive connected to those cards without any fuss.

has anyone got any ideas?

Spec of the machine;
Asus E35M1-I
6 * Samsung 2tb 204UI
Corsair CX 430
4Gb Kingston Ram
Highpoint Rocket 620 / HP SAS HBA / generic card
120gb 2.5inch drive / 64gb crucial ssd as a boot drive connected to one of the above addon cards.


cheers