benjyyyy

My system specs are..

Gigabyte Z77P-D3 running F8e BIOS
i5-3570k
Samsung 840 120GB SSD
Samsung HD103 1TB HDD
8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
ATI Radeon 7950 3GB (unplugged currently until I have 10.8.3 running again)


I've been having some frustrating issues! I was running 10.8.3 off the Samsung SSD and then I started receiving the "still waiting for root device" error, I eventually managed to fix this I think by updating the firmware through windows. After a while the root device error came back and I was unable to resolve it by reinstalling the firmware, although the SSD was viewable through windows with the file structure intact and everything, so it's definitely not the drive.

After this I wiped the SSD thinking I'd just reinstall. I downloaded 10.8 from the app store again and used ##### 1.7 to make an install USB. When I get to the installer I can't see either disk detected to install on either the disk utility or the main installer, yet both are definitely present in the BIOS and in windows.

So far I've tried / checked

BIOS definitely in AHCI
Booting with -f -x -v
Unplugging the SSD / HDD and using one or the other only
Unplugging one 4GB stick of RAM

If anyone has any ideas I'd be eternally grateful, I need to get back on Logic pronto!