Boot Device LED stays on

[wicknot]

Estisting system.  Asus Sabertooth 990FX, FX6300, SATA drives (2 SSD and one HDD), and a internal bluray drive.  The system has been stable for 4 months.

 

Today, it locked, blue screened and rebooted.  It could not find the the boot drive.  I booted into BOIS and the only drive the system saw was the bluray.

 

I walked away and let it sit, rebooted, and it saw all of the drives.  Launched Win7, and it locked/BSOD again after a few minutes.  Rebooted into BOIS, and it saw some of the drives, but not all.

 

Reflshed the BIOS, no change.

 

Anything posabiliies other than a bad board?

 

chad

 

[Archangel1994]

That sounds like a bad board if it worked for a moment after leaving it for a bit. You could try resetting CMOS (Doubt it will do anything though) and removing any drives you do not need (the non-OS Drive, the blu-ray drive). Also try swapping out your graphics card for a different one (maybe borrow from your friends or something). If you still BSOD after this then I smell a bad board.

[airdeano]

verify power to drive(s)

verify data cable connections

assuming the SSD (possible RAID) is holding the OS?

SATA controller sounds flaky if all connections are proofed.

 

try different SATA ports to see if problem moves with the port swap, if so, the

controller is dumping. unless the PSU isn't supplying voltage to drive(s).

[flibberdipper]

Maybe a bad motherboard or just a bad SATA controller? Do what @airdeano said to check them all.

[wicknot]

That sounds like a bad board if it worked for a moment after leaving it for a bit. You could try resetting CMOS (Doubt it will do anything though) and removing any drives you do not need (the non-OS Drive, the blu-ray drive). Also try swapping out your graphics card for a different one (maybe borrow from your friends or something). If you still BSOD after this then I smell a bad board.

Replaced the MB, and a HDD. Problrm solved, unfortunately.

Thanks

Chad