Biostar NF325-A7 Question

[falkenauctions]

Hi, hopefully someone here can help me with this. I have a Biostar
NF325-A7. I am trying to add (2) 500GB Seagate SATA hard drives. With
one drive attached the board boots fine, with both drives attached the
board hangs on boot. I have tried swapping drives and swapping cables,
same problem.

I have the latest BIOS installed (which specifically mentions it
corrects a problem with 2 SATA drives connected). I am stuck. Does
anyone know if this board supports (2) 500GB drives? If so, what steps
are necessary to make that work?

I have posed this same question to the Biostar support address and to
the Nvidia / Hardware / Mboard board and so far have not gotten an
answer. Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

 

[Paul]

Hi, hopefully someone here can help me with this. I have a Biostar
NF325-A7. I am trying to add (2) 500GB Seagate SATA hard drives. With
one drive attached the board boots fine, with both drives attached the
board hangs on boot. I have tried swapping drives and swapping cables,
same problem.

I have the latest BIOS installed (which specifically mentions it
corrects a problem with 2 SATA drives connected). I am stuck. Does
anyone know if this board supports (2) 500GB drives? If so, what steps
are necessary to make that work?

I have posed this same question to the Biostar support address and to
the Nvidia / Hardware / Mboard board and so far have not gotten an
answer. Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Have you tried limiting the cable interface to 1.5Gbit/sec ?

http://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagate.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3178

It is hard to believe, if it is just a capacity issue, that a single drive
does not suffer from the same issues. (I.e. BIOS parses first drive, and
gets stuck.)

Have the drives ever been used in a RAID array ? (Theory being, there
is metadata that a BIOS module is becoming confused about.)

If the drives are connected to another motherboard,
are there any issues ?

Paul

 

[falkenauctions]

Have you tried limiting the cable interface to 1.5Gbit/sec ?

http://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagate.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.p...

It is hard to believe, if it is just a capacity issue, that a single drive
does not suffer from the same issues. (I.e. BIOS parses first drive, and
gets stuck.)

Have the drives ever been used in a RAID array ? (Theory being, there
is metadata that a BIOS module is becoming confused about.)

If the drives are connected to another motherboard,
are there any issues ?

Paul

These are brand new Seagate ST3500630AS drives and by default set to
1.5.