I bought an EP43T-UD3L from Newegg about 3 years ago, and well due to overclocking of a quad core, the 12v outlet burned out when I ran a maximum power and heat consumption test with prime95 to check for stability. I recently replaced the motherboard and it was the exact same one, the only difference now was that the 6 SATA ports that were orange were now blue. Everything always worked when I did a new installation of Windows 7, but now I can only run the OS in IDE mode even though the bios has an option to switch to AHCI.
I'm not sure what drivers are missing from this motherboard with the blue sata ports, but the one with the orange sata ports immediately let me install the intel rapid storage software after installation of windows 7. Now it says the system doesn't meet the minimum requirements to install the software. I know that something is missing about this motherboard with the blue sata ports because when the one with the orange sata ports burned out I switched them on the same installation without having to even do a repair install and it was running in ahci mode, still.
Now that I've done a new installation (when I did the installation it was already in ahci mode) ahci doesn't work anymore it gets stuck on the bios loading screen and hangs there forever.
For anyone that works here and has worked on the EP43T-UD3L motherboard with the orange sata ports, do you know what was taken away from the EP43T-UD3L board with the blue sata ports? If I can figure that out I may be able to get sata and ahci working like it did on the orange sata port one.
I'm not sure what drivers are missing from this motherboard with the blue sata ports, but the one with the orange sata ports immediately let me install the intel rapid storage software after installation of windows 7. Now it says the system doesn't meet the minimum requirements to install the software. I know that something is missing about this motherboard with the blue sata ports because when the one with the orange sata ports burned out I switched them on the same installation without having to even do a repair install and it was running in ahci mode, still.
Now that I've done a new installation (when I did the installation it was already in ahci mode) ahci doesn't work anymore it gets stuck on the bios loading screen and hangs there forever.
For anyone that works here and has worked on the EP43T-UD3L motherboard with the orange sata ports, do you know what was taken away from the EP43T-UD3L board with the blue sata ports? If I can figure that out I may be able to get sata and ahci working like it did on the orange sata port one.
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