ASUS Z87 Motherboards - Overview, Guides and Official Support

[cadaveca]

I'm running a Z87-Deluxe and seem to be experiencing some kind of BIOS/hardware incompatabilty(?) using the Intel yellow SATA ports and an OCZ Vertex2 SSD. The board doesn't seem to recognize the drive correctly... sometimes the drive doesn't even show up in UEFI. I wasn't successful at loading Windows either (kept getting bluescreens). However, the ASMedia brown SATA ports do work with the OCZ drive so I've been using those. I don't currently have access to my other hdd drives at this time and I haven't been able to do further troubleshooting on the native Intel ports.

I have this, Sandforce-based drives have issues with some BIOSes. Same issue was present on Z77 for me, but was fixed with BIOS updates. NOt all boards have this problem for me, only two out of 7 so far.

Not just an "ASUS issue".

[Raja@ASUS]

I have this, Sandforce-based drives have issues with some BIOSes. Same issue was present on Z77 for me, but was fixed with BIOS updates. NOt all boards have this problem for me, only two out of 7 so far.

Not just an "ASUS issue".

Some of these Sandforce controllers are non compliant with SATA spec for startup according to Intel. Not much we can do about that part, it makes their detection flaky.

[cadaveca]

Some of these Sandforce controllers are non compliant with SATA spec for startup according to Intel. Not much we can do about that part, it makes their detection flaky.

Such is life. It's only these older drives, so oh well. Secondary controllers sometimes or using USB 3.0 dock works just as well. :p