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Gigabyte Aorus B450 Pro-CF Motherbaord - Issue?

Anomnomnomaly
By Anomnomnomaly
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Hi all, just finished a new build today using this board... and I've run into a minor problem that I can't figure out.

 

There are 6 SATA sockets, 4 black ones grouped together and 2 grey ones a little further up the board by the power connector.

 

Now anything I plug into those grey sata sockets... isn't recognised in the BIOS.  I've tried an SSD, a HDD and a BDrom

 

The other 4 devices plugged into the main 4 sockets.. works perfectly as does the NVME M.2 drive.

 

It's going to be a major issue as I have all 4 of the other sata sockets filled with drives... and I need my BDrom too.

 

BIOS is F2 - AMD AGESA PinnaclePI=AM4 1.0.0.4  Dated 8/8/18

 

I haven't yet checked for an updated BIOS as I only got the build finished this evening and I'm just setting things up... Had to pull a drive to get the BDrom working so I could install the chipset and audio drivers.

System 1: Gigabyte Aorus B450 Pro, Ryzen 5 2600X, 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200mhz, Sapphire 5700XT, 250GB NVME WD Black, 2x Crucial MX5001TB, 2x Seagate 3TB, H115i AIO, Sharkoon BW9000 case with corsair ML fans, EVGA G2 Gold 650W Modular PSU, liteon bluray/dvd/rw.. NO RGB aside from MB and AIO pump. Triple 27" Monitor setup (1x 144hz, 2x 75hz, all freesync/freesync 2)

System 2: Asus M5 MB, AMD FX8350, 16GB DDR3, Sapphire RX580, 30TB of storage, 250GB SSD, Silverstone HTPC chassis, Corsair 550W Modular PSU, Noctua cooler, liteon bluray/dvd/rw, 4K HDR display (Samsung TV)

System 3 & 4: nVidia shield TV (2017 & 2019) Pro with extra 128GB samsung flash drives.

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OK, so I think I've figured this out... having an M.2 NVME drive in the A slot disables 2 of the sata ports...  I wish I'd frickin known that before buying the damn thing...  I was going to swap out this board into my mediaserver later in the year... But that has 6 drives installed... So I guess I'm gonna be needing a SATA expansion card.

 

Is this the case with ALL motherboards, or a quirk of this one or the B450 chipset?

System 1: Gigabyte Aorus B450 Pro, Ryzen 5 2600X, 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200mhz, Sapphire 5700XT, 250GB NVME WD Black, 2x Crucial MX5001TB, 2x Seagate 3TB, H115i AIO, Sharkoon BW9000 case with corsair ML fans, EVGA G2 Gold 650W Modular PSU, liteon bluray/dvd/rw.. NO RGB aside from MB and AIO pump. Triple 27" Monitor setup (1x 144hz, 2x 75hz, all freesync/freesync 2)

System 2: Asus M5 MB, AMD FX8350, 16GB DDR3, Sapphire RX580, 30TB of storage, 250GB SSD, Silverstone HTPC chassis, Corsair 550W Modular PSU, Noctua cooler, liteon bluray/dvd/rw, 4K HDR display (Samsung TV)

System 3 & 4: nVidia shield TV (2017 & 2019) Pro with extra 128GB samsung flash drives.

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