I did my first build last night and it went swimmingly. It easily recognized teh SSD my OS is installed to but it's not seeing my 2 TB second internal drive. Doesn't surprise me given it was the area I was most lost at; even the Newegg video kind of glosses over the actual hookup of the HDDs.
In the BIOS I do not have it in my boot priority list but if I go into advanced options it does appear for boot override.
Possible things I can think of as the problem:
I have one long SATA power cable with three connectors on it; that is going into both of the HDDs. Do they need separate power cables instead?
The drive in question has a 4 pin connector next to the SATA connectors. (pictured here) Was there something that is supposed to plug in here that I failed to plug in?
This is where they are plugged in on the motherboard. The white port is labeled as SATA6G_12, the blue port immediately to the right of it is SATA3G, and the one furthest away is SATA3G as well.
Currently plugged into the 6G is the fully functioning SSD. The orange cable is to an optical drive, and the SATA cable beneath it is the current problem drive. I've tried it in the 6G port as well, since the hard drive lists 6G as its interface type, but still do not have it being recognized by the computer.
And anything else. I'm very new to all of this so it's possible I just forgot to switch an on switch! No troubleshooting question is too silly!
Motherboard.
Drive.
In the BIOS I do not have it in my boot priority list but if I go into advanced options it does appear for boot override.
Possible things I can think of as the problem:
I have one long SATA power cable with three connectors on it; that is going into both of the HDDs. Do they need separate power cables instead?
The drive in question has a 4 pin connector next to the SATA connectors. (pictured here) Was there something that is supposed to plug in here that I failed to plug in?
This is where they are plugged in on the motherboard. The white port is labeled as SATA6G_12, the blue port immediately to the right of it is SATA3G, and the one furthest away is SATA3G as well.
Currently plugged into the 6G is the fully functioning SSD. The orange cable is to an optical drive, and the SATA cable beneath it is the current problem drive. I've tried it in the 6G port as well, since the hard drive lists 6G as its interface type, but still do not have it being recognized by the computer.
And anything else. I'm very new to all of this so it's possible I just forgot to switch an on switch! No troubleshooting question is too silly!
Motherboard.
Drive.
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