i have an MSi gaming board and cant seem to be able to use the software for the 920.keeps saying no I think sata .i have all plugged in any help?
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I plugged into one of the two 4-pin sata terminals on my Asus P5N-D M/B. These are not the colored SATA sockets. I can't remember if I used the provided disc or downloaded the cooler software from the manufacturer's website. In any case, the program didn't start right away. After a couple of repeated computer shut downs and start ups it suddenly began working, and has been ever since. Keep trying.
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Just a checklist of some basic stuff: a) Drivers? Are you using the stuff your OS auto-detects and installs (Windows 7 defaulted to VGA drivers in my installation), old/new/beta AMD, or modded/custom drivers (e.g. Omega) b) stock settings or overclocked? Some cards come OC'd by default, which can cause poor performance and crashing if your system is not prepared to deal with excess heat and power drain. c) single card or running in Crossfire? Again, having two cards can cause heating and power issues. Also make sure the bridge is firmly seated on both cards. Of course there are other things which can go wrong (failing memory and such), but thought I would cover the basics and the easiest to fix. What specific error message is your BSOD giving you? Are you sure it is directly related to the card, or did it perhaps exacerbate some other underlying issue? Does it happen when trying to run certain programs? The most common hardware related causes I've had in the past were either driver related or due to failing hard-disks and faulty RAM. The first steps I would take would to be to remove and re-seat the card, preferably into a different PCI-E slot if available, check to make sure the power supply is rated sufficiently high enough to meet the card's demands, make sure the case is clean and the fans are properly circulating air. Start the PC in safe mode, uninstall the old drivers, install the new ones (maybe experimenting with different versions) and then reboot. On the off-chance it is memory related, also try swapping out your RAM sticks from the DIMM slots as to test each to make sure both they and the slots themselves are in working order. Typically if I wanted to test if it was hardware related or some quirk with Windows or its drivers, I would boot into a Linux flash disk and see if I could get everything working there all right. Take this with the caveat I'm not a professional in this subject, but just drawing from my years of personal experience.
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need more information than this to give an exact answer. My best suggestion would be to contact MSI's helpdesk.
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Gigabyte supports card less than three years old just record card serial number should you need to call them. I've called them about their used cards I've purchased and have gotten good support. I'm using three of their video cards and a couple of motherboards and got excellent support on all of them. Haven't had to return anything so far, its always been software or installation issue. I've always had good luck with Gigabyte and will continue to use them for all my PCs. Good luck.
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Thank you. The board is an ASUS Sabertooth Z87 with a RAID controller onboard. I want to use both a RAID data array and SSD drives for OS. I am told the board can do this but I'm unsure about setup of this feature and thought the card may be an easier way to control the array and set the BIOS for hot swap SATA and let the card control the array. Maybe I should look at a different RAID card.
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i did buy revision 1.1 but both board had the bios problem,i had gigabyte motherboard for 10 years and had difficulty handling this z77 model.bios read error,which made me switch the power switch reset 15 times and then it turns on.i gave up and bought asus gaming board .really not happy for the gigabyte board
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Hi Z I would have to agree with R. Davis You may want to check your mother board settings as i had some problems having six sata devices connected. The drive has no drivers that come with it only some cheep burning software if you buy retail, Bulk drives is all i buy.
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In my case I have using an IDE DVD drive connected to a SATA socket on the motherboard and it works perfectly. Good luck.
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What I would build that one with is a 990 series mb which is a am3+ series mb's. MSI has them Gigabyte,Asrock just look for AM3+ and you will see the 990 number in the descriptions.
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What's the chipset of the card? According to this page from VMware, your card may not be supported out-of-the-box on a clean install. Mine is 82571EB which is deprecated. Link: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd;=displayKC&externalId;=2056935
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Yes, any SATA drive will work. If you want a detailed list of the tested drives go to the MSI website and look for the MoBo model. You can check at tested compatible CPUs, Memory, HDD, etc
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If you have this drive installed in your pc with the drive utility software there should not be a problem. What type of motherboard and CPU are you using?
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It turns out the SATA port is just a pass through for the eSata port on the outside of the card. There is no built in SATA port on this board.
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make sure it is the only mem chip that is on the mb if it still bsod's then try a different slot if none work check with amd you might also have a bad chip but i see no reason why it will not work unless your using it with different mem chips one more thing if you go to newegg.com pull up the mb it will tell you what will and won't work with that board.
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Not sure, I do know this board has TONS of problems, way beyond Firmware. I have been a huge EVGA fan for many years, but this board changed all that. I would not consider this board at all. I returned the one I ordered and installed after having multiple severe problems. One problem was almost none of the USB ports worked, and the ones that did were flakey. These problems were not minor and if you read through user reviews you will see similar complaints. I ended up ordering and installing this board which has worked flawlessly (see link). I have an Intel i7-3930K with a single GTX690 in it and it's a fantatic gaming rig. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064L8UJM/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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I spent a lot of time researching memory. Board and memory manufacturers don't list all compatible modules. The best thing to do is contact both vendors to check before making an expensive purchase that is critical to your machine. Hope that helps
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Go to the manufacturer website for a list of compatible MB's. I got an MSI MB. Gigabyte makes a good one too.