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    Asus G73JH ? AHCI problem with new hard drives ? ok with IDE

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by omn, Dec 27, 2014.

  1. omn

    omn Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello.

    I find myself tired to search for a solution for this problem over the internet, I searched a lot, without positive results. I found someone with the same problem, but topic went to no solution, so I’m opening this thread, hoping someone could give me some help!
    I’ve a Asus G73JH which is already 4yrs old, but works great for me. It came with 2 HDD’s, 500gb (Seagate). There are 2 bays in the G73, and from factory, the BIOS is set o AHCI Sata control. If I dig a little more in the BIOS, there they are, the 2 HDD 500gb and the DVD unit.


    I’ve bought right now 2 new hard drives, an 250gb SSD (Samsung) and a 2TB HDD (Samsung/Seagate M9T). The problem starts here.
    Now with these upgrades something odd is happening. I found out that only bay 1 recognizes any of the both new drives, but bay 2, only detects the 500gb original HDD. I also tried with my last laptops’ discs (one 250gb and other 500gb) and those are also detected in bay 2, but none of the new ones are able to do the same.
    However, if I change to IDE controller, any drive would appear in BIOS, in any bay, the old and new hard drives.



    I’ve moved hard drives, I’ve worked in the regedit, I installed the lastest version of the Sata AHCI controller, but the problem continues.
    BIOS is the last version, which I’ve updated when it appeared in ASUS website, so the last version is installed for at least 3yrs.

    Let me say that BIOS is sincronized with disc management, DOS, everything, when they are detected in BIOS, they are available everywhere, when not, they are not available anywhere. I’m just saying this because I found some other people talking about this in the internet.



    So, unless I can find out why, I would only be able to work with 1 new hard drive, or both new, but in IDE control.
    Can please somebody help? I would like to have the both new drives installed with AHCI.


    Best regards.
     
    omn, Dec 27, 2014
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