• Reviews around drive (1.24 of 5)

    Gigabyte AMD AM3+ / ATX / 4xDDR3/ HDMI/Realtek ALC892/ 2xPCIE/ 8xUSB 2.0 / 4xUSB3.1 Gen 1/ LAN/Motherboard - 78LMT-USB3 R2

    • Power light comes on but hard drive never spins up
    • However, you really need to finesse the boot up timing and the BIOS settings if you want to plug in a blank hard drive and install windows from USB
    • Blue hard drives,
    • It's running with a GTX 1060, 2 physical hard drives, 8GB RAM, and Windows 10 as smoothly as you can with a fragmented 1TB hard drive
    • If you encounter that issue (where BIOS does not recognize the USB stick), plug in only the keyboard and USB stick in the USB 2.0 slots in the back at book, then F12 to load Boot Loader, select Hard Drive, then you should see your usb stick in the list of hard drives
    • I've swapped the power supply, memory, and hard drive with no change
    • Everything from the PCI slots to the SATA cables is very well organized and my client was even able to install an additional hard drive without any assistance with ease
    • Not flash drive, not Hard Drive, not SSD, not even from the actual Windows DVD.
    • Their official FAQ says it supports eDrive (self-encrypting drives) and yet Secure Boot is not an available option (and I'm on the latest revision and BIOS).
    • If I did not have a hard drive clone to recopy before updating I would have to reinstall windows and all my applications
    • Six SATA portsSix USB portsIncludes USB 3.0 ports on an AMD Phenom 2 systemCons:PCI-Express slot cannot handle modern graphics cards (PCI-E cards that fail to post: nVidia 750 ti, nVidia 1050, nVidia 8800)I did finally get an RX 460 to post and run in LinuxMint and Win7, but only after major effortWorks with dinosaur graphics cards such as nVidia 9300