Z77A-GD65 SATA Hot Swap Issue

Hi folks, hoping someone can help with this.
I have attached a 2-port rear eSATA bracket to my Z77A-GD65. When I connect and power up an external drive to either of these ports, W7 recognises the drive just fine, but it does not appear in the "safely remove hardware" menu, nor is it ejectable by right-clicking the drive's icon in Windows Explorer.
I initially connected the bracket to chipset SATA ports 4 & 6, with the "hot plug" feature for these ports set to "enabled".
Intel Rapid Storage drivers are installed and the main system drive is RAID0 (2x256GB SSDs) in 6GB/s SATA ports 1 & 2.
What I have tried so far:
- Update the motherboard BIOS (v10.0 to v10.5)
- Disable write caching on the drive in question
- Use a different drive (in an eSATA caddy)
- Connect the bracket to the ASmedia controller (SATA ports 7 & 8) in AHCI mode, instead of the Intel controller
So far nothing has made the drives show up in the "safely remove hardware" menu.
Any ideas?

For anyone interested, I found the solution.
Connect and power on external HD
Go to my computer
Right-click the external HD icon
Click properties
Select "Hardware" tab
Click on the entry for your external HD
Click properties
If not logged in as admin, there is a button in the "General" tab that says "Change Settings" - click it and and dismiss any UAC message
Go to the "Policies" tab
Select "Quick removal" option
Drive now appears in "safely remove hardware" menu and is ejectable from Explorer right click etc.

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Ever since I've had this board, it's been problomatic getting it to start at times. Most of the time it starts just fine, other times the fans just barely spin and it fails to start. Repeatedly pressing the start button usually gets it going after maybe a dozen rapid pressings (think Morse Code).
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Quote from: xmad on 02-August-12, 03:27:35
What is the ME version in bios?
If you remove the OC does the problem go away?
I'm at work right now, not sure about the ME version. Can you elaborate what that is?
OC has no effect, it's been doing this since long before I even attempted to OC anything. It's a fairly random issue. I could, for example, take the OC out and maybe it'd boot issue free for a number of tries, I'd think the issue was resolved. Then, without changing anything, it'll go back to doing it. I had this happen when I read that RAM slot 2 was determined to be the primary slot. I loaded one stick of RAM into slot 2 and got several clean starts. I was convinced I had resolved the issue, only to have it fail on the next attempt.
One thing, time appears to be an issue. I can play around with it in the evening, make multiple cold boots no problem. Then it won't start up in the morning. Or maybe it will start up in the morning, but not at lunch. Or not in the evening. But if it's just a couple or a few minutes, it'll start. And restart.

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USB devices work fine. Is there a bios or nvidia setting?
If other USB devices work fine, then its not a problem with the board. There won't be a BIOS setting either that will make it work. And why Nvidia? You have an AMD chipset-based mainboard.
I think you'd be best off asking your EZ-Swap manufacturer for support with this device.
http://www.vantecusa.com/front/support/index

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Quote from: flobelix on 01-March-14, 03:07:25
No, it doesn't. Froggy just chose the wrong board by accident.
That's the right one: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=163874.msg1279183#msg1279183
So..... I need to flash update the bios even though I'm using 10.11? Wow thanks Msi for telling me I was already using the current and correct bios.
You flobelix, I will see about doing that, it will fix a lot of unnecessary stress

Re: Z77A-GD65 Intermittent Power Up Issue

Hey JRAuger,
I have the exact same problem as you: I have the same motherboard and the same BIOS version (although I had the same problem before updating, and nothing is overclocked). I RMA:ed my first motherboard and received a new one from my supplier, but the problem persists. I've bought a new PSU and tried replacing every component with ones I know for a fact are 100% OK.
The computer still boot loops. Once (and if) I somehow manage to get it to POST, the system is as stable as could be. I've successfully run Prime95 and Memtest86 for hours without reboots or errors. Once the computer has successfully started it will an can both shut down and restart without any problems. However, it seems if I leave the computer off for a couple of hours, the problem reappears. I have no idea what's going on but it's starting to get quite irritating.
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1. Try your ram with just one stick in slot DRIMM-1
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Got a real weird issue going on
Randomly when playing games my computer will shutdown and reboot. When it boots up the video card is blurry during Post and bios splash screen. Once windows attempts to load the computer reboots again.
Changing to the onboard video card works fine
If I swap the PCI-E to another slot it will work again but the issue will reoccur in a matter of time - can be days or minutes
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Video: GTX 580
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Any help or ideas would be awesome
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If I connect the 500GB drive then windows starts rebooting as soon as the Windows logo comes up.
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If I leave the 500GB standard sata drive off and only use 3 sticks of RAM... well we get a solid system and I am writing this message on it.
3 sticks of ram appear to work in any 3 slots and allow the system to boot, except 1,3,4. That combo also resulted in the reboots at the windows logo.
I first thought it was RAM, originally I was using Corsair Vengeance. I saw some posts here about people having the same problem, and noted that the Corsiar RAM was not tested and switch to a the tested G.Skill instead.
Any ideas? It does not completely seem like a System board issue, but it certainly should not be power. All heat levels are well within normal and as I said the system works great if I leave off the drive and one stick of RAM.
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System torn down, and put back together. (Found out I was out of Thrermal Compound, so I had to run to the store to get some.)
No long leads, only 9 stand offs matching each mount point on the systemboard.
Back together... problem is the exact same.
However, back to the hard drive issue. I decided to play with that since I was getting no where with 4 sticks of RAM.
What I have discovered is that with NO sata cable connecting the drive to the system board, if I try to power the two 250GB standard sata drives the system reboots just as the Windows logo should come up.
The fact that this behavior is so close to the RAM behavior... I am back to thinking its a power issue, though system board is still a chance... its just easier to buy a new better power supply than the Antec Neo Power 620 that came with the case. (I have not ever had a problem with Antec before, and will likely just buy one of their higher end power supplies to replace it, but I think I will try it next, just in case.)
I am not seeing any strange behavior power wise as far as any monitor shows... but connecting power to a sata drive that is NOT connected with a sata cable and causing a reboot just screams power at me.
Anymore thoughts today. In the mean time off to play Secret World with just the SSD and two sticks of RAM, which still runs rock solid.

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