Thanks for the info. I've had no trouble with this board at all except for this single SATA driver issue. It seems very stable, no problems.
Solved! I went to Gigabyte's site and installed a new Intel driver. Boom. All SATA ports work. Here's the site: <they won't let me post a link...
Exact same issue - 2, 4, 5 SATA ports don't work I was encouraged to see I'm not the only one. I'm running the same MB: GA-Z97X-SLI and...