clarence12 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Just bought a new Force 3 120 GB drive (serial 1204) to replace my 1.5 TB seagate but couldn't get it work with my asus p5k premium Wifi MB (latest BIOS) - neither in AHCI nor IDE. I pretty much tried everything... Switching around ports, cables (tried 3 different) and power connectors. My seagate and DVD drive are detected, but my SSD won't show up (neither alone nor with the 2 drives mentioned before). Strange thing is that the SSD is detected on my even older nforce4 board PC (IDE only, since there was no AHCI back then). Does anybody have an idea what could be the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malign Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 did you initialized it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarence12 Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 What do you mean by 'initialize'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Where is not showing up? BIOS or Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarence12 Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 It's not showing up in BIOS on the Asus p5k premium (neither with AHCI nor IDE), but shows up on the much older nforce4 board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 -Have you tried different SATA port? -Latest BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarence12 Posted February 20, 2012 Author Share Posted February 20, 2012 Yes, I've tried all 6 sata ports and the latest BIOS is from 2008. There is an unofficial one, but that only updates the raid controller within the BIOS, which I don't need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILLER_K Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20101011060727637&board_id=1&model=P5K3+Deluxe&page=1&SLanguage=en-us This is a custom bios to make the ssd work on your board. Look for "Smushin" and the download link is there. You can also check your bios against the current on on asus's official page and try it also if you're behind on the version. Also are you using XP by chance? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.