My system will no longer boot after adding a 2TB Western Digital EARX hard drive. The bios still correctly shows to boot from the usb drive and even if I force the system to boot from the usb I get a message to reboot and select proper device. I have tried changing the usb port that the flash drive is in without any success.

 

Motherboard is an Asrock 880GM-LE. I currently have 11 other 2TB drives (all WDC EARS) running without issue using version 4.7

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

Try disabling INT 13h in the controller BIOS (which one do you have?)

 

Some motherboard BIOS don't handle more than 12 drives very well.

 

See: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2302.msg17662#msg17662

I am on Bios version 1.4. I tried to upgrade, but the system doesn't seem to recognize the update when I put it on a flash drive (fat32 format).

 

How do I disable INT 13h? I don't see this as an option anywhere.

 

If I remove an existing drive everything works OK, so the issue looks to be related to having more than 12 drives and not the drive itself.

What controller card do you have?

SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI Express x4 Low Profile SAS RAID Controller

 

and

 

SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132)

 

Hit Ctrl-M at POST to get into the MV8 controller BIOS settings.

 

See here:  http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.msg138464#msg138464

Excellent. Disabling INT 13H did the trick.

 

Thanks for the help.