Okay, I've tried three different Blu-Ray drives now, from three different manufacturers, and for some reason, I'm getting a hard-hang in Windows when running certain tasks with a Blu-Ray drive attached to the discrete controller (gray connectors). I don't have the same problem if I disconnect the drive, and I don't have the same problem when I move the drive to one of the Intel controller (blue) SATA connectors. Unfortunately, I have six HDD/SDD and need each of the Intel/blue SATA connectors for drives, and want to resolve this very strange bug/issue. Could someone help me troubleshoot this? This is the only lingering issue with my new build.
Some background:
1) Hard-hang causes the motherboard to completely ignore the reset NMI switch (super bad), and I have to hold down the power button to force an ATX power supply shutdown. I don't like doing this when the operating system is up, but it's necessary. I've let it sit for an hour, it does nothing.
2) Some of the things that can make the system hang are: trying to run utilities that scan for new devices, particularly hard drives, such as Windows Drive Management, Samsung Drive Magician (to manage my SSDs), and even installing and uninstalling some Intel drivers.
3) I've gone through three different drives (Sony, Asus and now Pioneer), choosing the highest rated drives I could find. Three manufacturers, same issue. I don't think it's the drives' fault.
4) Back when I was first having this hard-hang issue, I wasn't sure what the problem was and kept having the issue. It caused my registry to become seriously corrupted, and made me waste an entire weekend trying to troubleshoot a weird driver issue.
So, I want to resolve this issue as soon as possible, and I'm not sure what I can do to fix things. Anyone? It sounds like the discrete controller is giving me issues, but I don't see where there are any controller drivers to be loaded as they are included in the operating system.