This will be long so I'll just get started by listing the components.
2600k stock speeds
2133 g skill ripjaws 8gb
Evga hydro copper gtx 590
Max iops vertex3 120gb ssd
600gb velociraptor
Corsair obsidian 800d case
2 loop liquid cooling
The problem(s):
•i first set up and started the system with the ssd as boot drive. Windows installed on it, but system was unstable and would hang and hang harder after restarts. After I put the velociraptor as boot drive and installed windows, same thing happened. Sometimes the Bios would see both drives, sometimes not. These drives are installed in a hotswap bay in the 800d case, so I had swapped their positions in the bay before installing win7 to the 2nd hdd. When the 2nd hdd showed the same symptoms of hanging like the first, i pulled the ssd out of the hotswap, and immediately all problems were fixed. Im thinking that the hdds arent getting enough power since the hotswap bay and her 4 hdds are powered by a single sata3 cable.
So my questions are: does this hotswap bay only need power from the one cable? And if so, what could be causing the hangs etc?
I would like the ssd to be the boot drive. Does it matter which sata3 plugs i plug eah device into? Marvell or intel... And what about the optical drive as well...
On a side note, when I installed drivers for LAN, usb 3.0, marvell ahci sata3, bluetooth, and hd audio, computer failed to load windows after the restart. Tonight i will install the drivers one by ome to find the culprit.
Hopefully somebody that has experience making ssd's work will read this... I've heard they can sometimes be difficult.
Thank you for reading.