

Just saying that (at least as of Win7/8/10) you can't always expect things to play nice when you move your drive hardware around. Not helped by the fact that Windows also creates an extra (hidden) partition, Recycle Bins and System Volume Information (and other) system folders onto each drive, etc etc. Windows often makes things blurred and complex when swapping drives around from port to port, it puts physical drive IDs and logical drive IDs and all sorts of (permanent or session) tables and boot data onto boot records. I have 5 SSD's, 2 HDD's hooked up to the motherboard, I have always connected the drives from the top to bottom orientation on the SATA ports.ĭo all of your drives have active bootable system partitions? Chances are that you've installed your WinOS on one bootable system ( C: ) drive and Windows then automatically configured/mounted all other drives as non-system storage disks. SSD Boot drive: Samsung EVO 960 NVMe 500gb Is this an issue which can be resolved via new BIOS drivers? or is this a hardware issue? I've restart my computer several times, and have not had any further issues.No other changes were done except for this.I then switched the orientation of the SATA connections to be from bottom to top.I tested each drive 1 by 1, and same issue as it seemed like a hard drive issue.It seems when I have the drives connected in this way, I'll get a BSOD on startup, Startup failed or freezing load screen.


There is an issue with the 10 SATA connections, I'm not sure if this is just me, but I've spent 3 hours testing. software would no longer open.Discovered an issue with the Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard.

The Device Manager did find an Intel driver it liked for the Standard SATA AHCI Controller…the RSTe v4.? I installed it but my RST(e) v14. I checked my Device Manager/Storage Controller section/Intel Chipset SATA RAID Controller (HardwareID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822) and it reflects the correct driver v14. Thinking it would find what it needed in the 14. The reason I ask is when I went in to the Device Manager/IDE ATA/ATAPI section, I thought I would replace the Standard SATA AHCI Controller’s (HardwareID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8D62) Microsoft driver with the Intel one. In the beginning I noticed that my R5E initially had a version 13 of the RST(e) AND and version 4 of the RSTe? I eventually removed/replaced the RSTe v4 chain with the RST(e) v14 chain. On your R5E’s, way back in the beginning when you first got your boards did they have BOTH RSTe & RST(e) in the BIOS?
