A friends computer was running smoothly until his the capcitors on his old mobo (GA-M56S-S3) failed. Most of the other components were fairly new so I figured I would build a new system using what he had while replacing the mobo (H81M) and upgrading the CPU + RAM.
The problem is his old drives (Corsair SSD and Seagate HDD) are inconsistently recognised/detected by the BIOS. Other drives I've tested have no issues.
For example, most times I boot the system with the old drives attached nothing is recognised and I get taken to BIOS. On the odd occasion one of the drives will be detected and the system will attempt to boot from it. Once I exit the BIOS 90% of the time both drives are recognised and the system attempts to boot correctly (but fails due to driver issues).
My guess there was some issue with voltage regulation on the board that damaged the disks.
So are these drives potentially salvageable for regular use? If not, storage is fairly cheap these days so not a huge deal.
I guess once I get the system up and running I'll just keep rebooting until the drives are recognised so I can attempt to recover some data.
The problem is his old drives (Corsair SSD and Seagate HDD) are inconsistently recognised/detected by the BIOS. Other drives I've tested have no issues.
For example, most times I boot the system with the old drives attached nothing is recognised and I get taken to BIOS. On the odd occasion one of the drives will be detected and the system will attempt to boot from it. Once I exit the BIOS 90% of the time both drives are recognised and the system attempts to boot correctly (but fails due to driver issues).
My guess there was some issue with voltage regulation on the board that damaged the disks.
So are these drives potentially salvageable for regular use? If not, storage is fairly cheap these days so not a huge deal.
I guess once I get the system up and running I'll just keep rebooting until the drives are recognised so I can attempt to recover some data.
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