I have a DH57JG with an i3 on it.

I have a OCZ Agility 2 60 GB SSD and a Western Digital Green 1 TB.

Ever since I have had this setup the SSD would intermittently not be detected by the BIOS and now not it will not show up at all the 1TB drive always shows up. I was going to RMA the SSD but today I tried to connect a Samsung 250GB SATA drive (SP2504C) and it also will not show up in the BIOS. I have tried different SATA ports and cables and have updated the BIOS.

The 1TB drive always shows up but I don't think both of the other drives can be bad. So what should I try next ? Is there something I can change in the BIOS to get it to find my drive ?

The gen-1 OCZ drives have troubles with some SATA controllers, but I've not heard any issues like that for the gen-II drives.

And seeing as how the Samsung drive also has issues there, it's got to be a bad motherboard or BIOS.

Boot from a Linux USB stick (or LiveCD) and see if that finds your drives or not. If it does (quite likely), then the BIOS is probably programming the SATA chip (PHY registers) improperly.

Cheers

I put parted magic on a usb drive and booted into that. My 1TB western digital drive shows up but neither the SSD or the Samsung drive do. I am just looking at the drives in the GUI using mount-gtk.

I would think if the motherboard was bad the 1TB drive wouldn't show up either but I can't believe both of these drives are bad. The Samsung worked my my Shuttle not too long ago.

I suppose I should plug them into something else to see if they work.

I kept messing around and now can get both mechanical drives to show up but never the SSD.

So I'm pretty sure the SSD is bad hopefully the mother board is ok.

I kept messing around and now can get both mechanical drives to show up but never the SSD.

So I'm pretty sure the SSD is bad hopefully the mother board is ok.

Do you not have a second system around somewhere that you can plug the SSD into ?

Yeah I have the old shuttle still but didn't feel like messing with it I probably should try it in that too. Maybe just buying a USB to SATA thingie would be easier

The last stage of my OCZ dying was the BIOS no longer seeing it. Before that, it started having all kinds of errros that I never saw before.

Since it was only 120G, it wasn't large enough to worry about fixing yet. I do miss the speed, though.