Apologies if this has already been answered.. couldn't find it. Googled for hours and looked all over this forum.
I just bought 2x Samsung EVO 840 250GB SSDs. After plugging one into one of the standard black SATA ports on this EVGA X58 SLi mobo it wasn't detected in the BIOS, but in windows it was detected in Disk Management. I just couldn't initialize it. It was saying something like "Couldn't find the specified file". After plugging the SSD into one of the red jmicron ports it now works just fine.
My drive settings in the BIOS are set to AHCI and all SATA ports are enabled and working (I had 5 standard HDDs attached before removing them all.. all functioning + DVD drive) and both red jmicron ports are now populated with SSDs. The BIOS just refuses to recognize the SSD when it's plugged into a black sata port.
What's the situation here? Has anyone else experienced something similar? Or has anyone else been able to get an SSD to work in one of the black SATA ports on this X58 mobo? I really appreciate any help.