SSD not recognized in ODD bay

hey gang,

just upgraded my P150HM with a nice vertex 4 512 GB and installed win8 pro on it. everything went smoothly and i decided to keep my trusty "old" corsair force f90 ssd as a second drive in the ODD bay.
problem: the drive isnt recognized in the BIOS or in windows! heres what ive tried/checked so far:

- installed a WD scorpio blue 1tb hdd in the odd bay, works like a charm in windows and is also recognized in the bios

- swap out the WD hdd with the f90 ssd (using the same odd drive bay sata adapter) and the drive is neither recognized in windows or the system bios

- connecting the f90 via a sata/usb bridge works under windows, system bios shows "disk name" without any accessible disk details (number of sectors, dma mode etc.)

- installed the f90 ssd into the odd drive adapter and connected an optical drive sata/usb bridge to it. connecting that to a usb port in turn lets windows recognize the drive without problem.

so, the way i see it: the ssd works, the odd bay adapter works, my internal sata 2 port works (the one usually connecting the optical drive to the mobo) and the bios recognition works as well,but only with a regular hdd.
every single piece of hardware involved works,but once i connect the ssd in the odd bay nothing is recognized.

what the heck is going on???

would really appreciate any input on this folks, thanks in advance

PS:dunno if this info helps, but i did a secure erase of the ssd and formatted it to NTFS before trying to install it into the ODD bay

 

Maybe a firmware update on the SSD?
Odd stuff going on there....

 

i know right?

already checked, got the most current firmware version for the F90 (which is 2.4)

 

well, ill be damned!

i just restarted with driver signature enforcement disabled in order to install a 7900 MOD driver and look at that: the F90 shows up in windows! double you tea eff?

 

Driver signature......who does that? Why do we need things to have a signature on them? Just slap a jet turbine on that Volkswagen and let things roll.....

 

It's security measure... And a good one. Google it.

 

weird thing: even tho my F90 works like it should now it still doesnt show up in the system BIOS. now how is that possible?

ah well, i could surely do without those driver signatures also

 

ok so after a couple of days of testing it seems like my F90 SSD is only recognized in windows "every once in a while" so to say. i always have to restart/shut down/disable driver signature enforcement several times before i was access it in windows. so annoying! ugh!

 

Some old drives to work use two voltages 3.3V and 5V. ODD bay has only 5V.
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hmm, so ure saying that the SSD is either needing more or less than the actual current supplied via the ODD bay?

if thats the case, i really hope that that wont drastically shorten the life span of my ssd.... :-/