Motherboard possibly dying, weird symptoms.

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The problem shows signs of not enough power, but before i rma my two year old motherboard i would like to consult the forum.
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About half a year ago my optical drive stopped working so i just didnt think on it and used an external disk drive, now i have been using a regular western digital hard drive (7200) for the entire duration of my computers life, only recently upgrading to a 120 gb Samsung 850 ssd, hoping to use it to host my os and maybe a game or two, but when i plug both the hdd and the ssd into the power supply and press the power button, the fans spin around once and stop. I begin to worry and swap out the power supply (to a seasonic platinum 660w) and video card, the computer does the same thing so i switch back to my other power supply (Corsair CX750 watt) and unplug the hard drive, it then starts up with a longer boot for the first boot up after and everytime after it loads up faster. so i figured that when i would unplug the sata cables from my motherboard, it would start (unplugging all the other sata cables, optical drive, hdd) and it does, but now i have low storage, i swapped out storage because on my hdd, during heavy gameplay my computer would blue screen and cause me to have to restart completely, havent tested if it still does that with the ssd, will update on it though. so im not sure if it was the storage or the motherboard causing the blue screens but now i know that it's not a lack of power and i can only have one sata connection in at the time. Thank you in advanced :) (tried to be as detailed as i could. also i ran the memtest86 on each stick of my ram and they all passed every test, i tested the video ram also and it passed, along with running the western digital health test on my old hard drive, providing 0 errors)
 
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Hmm, that definitely sounds like a problem.

If the only variable that you control that seems to change that behavior is SATA population, then that is most definitely a board issue and something that I would RMA for.

Personal opinion of course.

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Hmmm. This sounds like a short on the board, or on something plugged into the board.

I have run into this problem previously with broken USB ports from trauma (a thumbdrive breaking off on one of the front panel 3.0 ports on the chassis).

Does the computer ever refuse to boot or tries to turn on and then doesn't? Many Asus and ASRock boards have the fans spin initially, stop, and then proceed with boot. Does yours proceed, or do they just spin and then stop?
 

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When there is multiple sata connections, all of the fans seem to have power and spin once, but then dont complete a full cycle and stop. Have never had that happen with only one sata connection though.
 

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Hmm, that definitely sounds like a problem.

If the only variable that you control that seems to change that behavior is SATA population, then that is most definitely a board issue and something that I would RMA for.

Personal opinion of course.
 
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Thank you! I know you really didn't put a solution up but you at least did help confirm my fears.
 

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