Intel G33 motherboard's AHCI not detecting hard disks

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 8/10/2013 7:25 PM, Flasherly wrote:
All things considered, the price of such a computer, as well as
rebuilding a replacement, though, is very reasonable. So is being
accustomed to a five years computer life expectancy, except I've never
had a computer, such as it is, capable of heavy loads and degrees of
program processing I'm now used to in a manner of course for
multimedia.

I was/am still being puzzled by the mysterious loss of CMOS data in that
motherboard. I had replaced the power supply with a Antec 430D as well
as the CR2032 battery, didn't help. Note that it didn't happen
frequently, just a few times.

I do/did assume that the user didn't play tricks on me.


That would be hard to track down, even in a
fully equipped lab. Especially as it could be
a hardware issue or a software issue.

Paul

On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 23:47:52 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:


I was/am still being puzzled by the mysterious loss of CMOS data in that
motherboard. I had replaced the power supply with a Antec 430D as well
as the CR2032 battery, didn't help. Note that it didn't happen
frequently, just a few times.

I do/did assume that the user didn't play tricks on me.

That is strange, and not something you want to see stay around. It'll
turn it into a computer you never want turn off (you'll get tired soon
of setting up the CMOS every time it boots).

I may have a little of that weirdness accompanying a 2-SATA header on
my AMD Gigabyte -- though more to do with these large terabyte drives
(and an extra PCI SATA controller slotted). Next board is going to
have 6 or 4, at a minimum, SATA headers.

Just lost my NEC 40" display after about 5 years use, in between that
last post to you and now. Took a 32" SYNTAX LCD display across the
room and now I'm back on a 19" Samsung.

Talk about weird - that SYNTAX is almost twice as old as the NEC.
Almost jumped on a new 32" LG LED, but it was HDMI only and I want a
VGA connector included. Take a little getting used if I stay at 32"
on the multimedia, but I want something bigger for here. Might be
time to think IPS, not just that, but a 26" display I think I'd like
(the 32" was a hair too big for close-up computing).