I´ve just bought this unit. Installed a Kingston SSDNow 300 and 4Gb of Crucial DDR3L, and started by simply trying to install Windows 7 from external DVD. As installation didn´t detect any disk, I started troubleshooting and discovered, that I´m not the first having trouble installing Windows 7 on this unit...
...so I went on with updating BIOS to 039, made the required settings in BIOS, changed from SSD to HDD, tested both disks in another computer, wiped the disks. I even made a bootable USB and tried to install from that instead of the DVD. Nothing worked!
I might have found an explanation:
I can see, that under legacy mode, the BIOS states that SATA port 0 is [not installed].
When I connect a disk (HDD or SSD) via external SATA to USB case, the disk is recognised correctly - but connected internally, the disk is absent. I´ve already tried to disconnect and reconnect both cables to the disk frame. Only thing i havent tried, is to connect disk to the Black SATA port with another cable and external power (as I haven´t got a desktop PC at this location).
Do I really have a hardware failure on this brand new unit - or is there something I´ve missed?