Quote Originally Posted by politenessman View Post
my bottom 2 sata ports do not work. (ports 5 &6)i have tried several devices and cables in them, still n/g. the intel matrix manager says that i only have 4 ports on this board. i am using the 10/19 bios, the drivers that came on the disc. i have 2 x raptor in ports 1 & 2, a seagate 500gb 7200.11 in port 3, and a sata dvd/r in port 4. neither hdd or opticals work in ports 5 and 6. the j.micron ports yellow ports 7 & 8) work fine. do i have to move a jumper to disable esata to enable these ports? my first board arrived doa. i just got this back after 2 weeks from newegg today. i would really hate to have to rma it again. other than that, it all works great.

btw, is there any reason to move the fsb jumpers? i have my overclock set in bios, and its working fine. is there some benefit to using these?

Thanx.
I think you need to have latest bios but no need to mess with the jumper. I did just that and all my sata works properly. I reckon that's a software problem, not a sata connector malfunction.
No need to move the fsb jumper, just overclock via bios. Haven't seen anyone use the jumper to increase fsb. Perhaps you could only use it if you have some older cpu with less fsb than the newer 1066/1333MHz Conroes's or quads.