Asus Board Not Recognizing Sata drive.

Hey I recently upgraded tot he P5W-DH, but I also had this problem with my old P5W2-Premium.

I have a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 Sata HDD. Sometimes on reboots, I lose the hard drive, and I have to reboot multiple times before it recognizes it again. Anyone else have this problem or knof a fix for it?

have you tried to a new sata cable....or....a different power plug!

i had a similar issue with one of the raid drives not being recognize every so often...my solution was to use a "Y" adapter (Legacy power) to power both drives from a single source legacy plug.

I had a similar problem with an ASRock board (939Dual-SATA2). Sometimes the boot drive (a 250GB WD SATA drive) would not be detected after a reboot. Most of the time, on the second or third reboot, the drive was recognized just fine. I did quite a bit of searching for an answer, and I finally found a workround that helped for my particular setup: I changed the SATA mode to RAID instead of IDE (even though I was only using a single drive configuration). This way, the RAID BIOS loaded before the mobo tried to boot from the hard drive. I believe the extra time required to load the RAID BIOS helped the mobo to recognize the SATA drive in time to start the boot process. It's the only logical explanation I can come up with.

If you have a similar option in your BIOS, I'd suggest giving it a try.

Yea I have done some searching myself. I will give your suggestion a try and see what happens. It is just an anoyance!