NF980-G64 SATA controller failure ?

Hello all, been a while. I have seemingly had a failure of the SATA controller on my board. I came home to find my system locked up and upon reboot, not a single SATA device was detected. This includes 2 SATA 2 HDD and 2 SATA DVD drives. I have tried everything I know to do... exchange/move cables, switched to AHCI, cleared BIOS, Updated BIOS, all drives power up but in the BIOS I see "not detected". Any one have any similar experience? Any suggestions???? Got an ASUS in the mail but BF3 came out today and I am POd that this happened right after the DL. Would love to cancel that order and resume business as usual..... don't think its going to happen but I thought I would ask.
Thanks

I asked because it sounded as if someone been at the system, and kicked it dead.
If noone lives nearby it must have been a ghost. Could it have been an electrical ghost? A power surge or similar.
An automatic ghost?! Why don't you turn the system off when leaving it? An automatic update downloaded something, an automatic restart of the system and...
This is very old, and may not be about your system at all really. The northbridge of old handles SATA things. Can you check if there has been a problem with the cooling or something. It's a bit of a long-shot really.

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I am having a problem with Storage Spaces - it won't start recovering the mirror set.
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Case Problem: I have an MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR Socket A motherboard with an onboard Promise FastTrack 376 SATA RAID controller. I wish to continue booting my OS from a single SATA drive on this controller, while using a RAID0 array on my FastTrack TX2200 controller. When the TX2200 is installed and the array is attached, it is detected as C: by the motherboard BIOS and the active boot drive as D:. The TX2200 is detected during boot (after POST) first, the onboard contoller second. I have tested the TX2200 in...
Case Solution: Hi Sorry for the late reply. Are you by any chance running both the FT 376 embedded controller along with the FT TX2200 if so than you will run into bios or driver conflict when both controllers in the system. Promise only recommend and support one cards pre system. Thank you.
... and MSI
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Thank you for contacting MSI Technical Support.
As onboard SATA controller and PCI controller are both promise. It exits compatibility between them. You could try the following procedures to check if they could solve the issue:
1. Please contact the PCI card vendor to ask if there is relative firmware update
2. Please disable all the onboard devices which you don't want to use in bios setup.
3. You could try different MB bios version to have a check. You could download these versions from here.
Please feel free to let us know if you still have any further issues or inquiries
So that leaves me 3... downgrading my BIOS is not worth the risk just to make this work. Looks like its time for a full migration plan so this issue becomes moot.

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On-Board IDE
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Dear all,
I have a MacBookPro8,1 with an Sandisk 256G Ultra SSD instead the HDD (the HDD is moved to the DVD bay).
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signed...frustated NOOB
PS I have the most recent drivers/ bios etc according the MSI's Online S/W synch tool (which I run in XP Pro as the vista version fails.... DOH)
MB --> K8T NEO FISR2
Memory 1GB
Appreciate your help ..... TA

I agree with Hans, as far as we know there are no drivers for Vista to use the Promise controller, yet.
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