Hello.
I'd like to report a very strange problem, in case someone has experienced something similar.
I've got an MSI Z87-G45 Gaming motherboard and a Corsair HX620W PSU on a system that had 4 SATA hard disks, 1 SATA DVD drive and 1 SATA SSD.
Things used to be fine for a while.
Then one of the hard drives started making a strange sound, like spinning up and then stopping, on repeat. And then one day, Windows could no longer see it. Soon after the BIOS couldn't either.
I assumed it was gone, so I disconnected it.
Some months later the same thing happened to my 2nd drive, then the 3rd and today it was the 4th that stopped working.
The SSD and DVD drive would always work fine.
I tried to troubleshoot the issue by disconnecting all drives and trying different combinations of power and SATA cables, connected to different ports.
Eventually, after many tries, I realised that my system could no longer operate with more than 1 HDD. All of the HDDs were fine, by the way, as I found out by testing them on another computer.
So, to summarise: the moment I connect more than 1 HDD to the motherboard's SATA port and power, the system doesn't recognise them. It only recognises the SSD and the DVD drive.
I suspect either the motherboard or the PSU is at fault.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks a lot!
Argiris
Full system specs:
I'd like to report a very strange problem, in case someone has experienced something similar.
I've got an MSI Z87-G45 Gaming motherboard and a Corsair HX620W PSU on a system that had 4 SATA hard disks, 1 SATA DVD drive and 1 SATA SSD.
Things used to be fine for a while.
Then one of the hard drives started making a strange sound, like spinning up and then stopping, on repeat. And then one day, Windows could no longer see it. Soon after the BIOS couldn't either.
I assumed it was gone, so I disconnected it.
Some months later the same thing happened to my 2nd drive, then the 3rd and today it was the 4th that stopped working.
The SSD and DVD drive would always work fine.
I tried to troubleshoot the issue by disconnecting all drives and trying different combinations of power and SATA cables, connected to different ports.
Eventually, after many tries, I realised that my system could no longer operate with more than 1 HDD. All of the HDDs were fine, by the way, as I found out by testing them on another computer.
So, to summarise: the moment I connect more than 1 HDD to the motherboard's SATA port and power, the system doesn't recognise them. It only recognises the SSD and the DVD drive.
I suspect either the motherboard or the PSU is at fault.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks a lot!
Argiris
Full system specs:
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