Intel Motherboards : How do i deactivate the SATA Hotplug in Bios

Author: parsec
Subject: How do i deactivate the SATA Hotplug in Bios
Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 10:01am

DonFale wrote: Hello, like mentioned above im searching how i can disable the Hotplug Feature of the ASMEDIA Controller my Board uses. Windows detects Hard Drives conncted to the Asmedia Controller als external Drives and not intern drives wich bugs me a lot. I need to use the asmedia posts since i dont have enough of the Intel ports since M2 disables them. i looked in the BIOS/UEFI and i can only find the option to disable hotplug on the intel controller wich does not cause the problem. Is there a solution for my Problem so that Windows detects my Hard Drives like it should? Thanks! MB i use "Fatal1ty Z170 Professional Gaming i7"

You are using all three of the M.2 slots? That's the only way all of the Intel SATA ports would be not usable.

If you have three M.2 SSDs, using an M.2 to PCIe slot adapter card for one of the M.2 SSDs would free up two Intel SATA ports.

What driver are you using for the ASMedia SATA ports?

This may be another wonderful Windows 10 thing. Like Win 10 breaking Teaming of multiple network chips on a board. Intel still has not found a way to fix that situation since Win 10 was introduced, and over six new Intel network driver releases.