Quote Originally Posted by -n7- View Post
The manual says you can do it.

The bios says otherwise.

I had two standalone HDDs in those ports working just fine up until a couple weeks ago.

Anyway, i just remounted my heatsink & did AS5 this time instead of ICD7, & swapped the SATA DVDRW for an IDE one.

That way i can use my HDDs & an optical drive.
I can't suggest anything for your HDD issue, as I only have one drive and you seem to have covered everything.

However I have a question - how good/bad was the contact between the NB and the NB heatsink?