BIOS not detecting my drives

Jenga14

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Jul 22, 2014
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My BIOS isn't detecting any of my Drives (except my optical). I have a SSD drive that I installed windows 7 on, installed my Motherboard drivers, completed all the Microsoft updates, then was working on installing my graphics drivers, was doing that when I got the blue screen of death, (couldn't read the error), restarted, and went to BIOS where I cannot detect my SSD or my HDD (which I plugged in after install windows 7). It only sees my Optical Drive in the SATA connections...Any ideas? I checked the SATA cable connections they are good, and the power cables are modular coming from the PSU that then splits into 3 nodes to plug into SATA power ports, I have two of those connected to my SSD and HDD.
 
Solution
power completely off and then back on after a minute; does the bios see them now?

if not power down again and disconnect the hdd and power back on; does the bios see the SSD?

Jenga14

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Jul 22, 2014
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turns out that the power cable I was using to connect the SDD and HDD was faulty...swapped that cable out with another one and it works. Thank you for you suggestions and help.