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No SATA hard drives

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September 5, 2011 10:53:19 PM

I have an ASRock 780gmh/128 motherboard with Windows 7 that has been working just perfectly.

I decided to add another hard drive, so I powered down, attached the SATA cable/power and booted up, and now the BIOS doesn't see the hard drives.

However, it does see my SATA CD drive.

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September 6, 2011 12:58:25 AM

Did you try unpluging the new hdd and see if the bios will go back to seeing the other drives ? What did you have for hdd's and what did you add. When you pluged in the new drive did you accidently loosen any of the other sata cables. Are all the drives on the same power cable from the psu , trying to see if you overloaded the ps rail. Did you try unpluging anything to see if the bios will see anything besides your cd-rom.
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September 6, 2011 2:23:27 AM

1. Yup, when it didn't work, I went back to the original setup and nope it stop seeing the original hard drive.

2. First hard drive I have in there is a Samsung HD103SJ, which had been working just fine
a) tried to add a WD WD3200 to it.

3. I unplugged everything and made sure all connections were firmly pressed in, with just CD drive and original hard drive in it without video card.

4. Tried all SATA rails, does CD drive but not hard drives.

5. It seems USB thumb drives and the CD and thats it.

So either the BIOS just went on a fritz or the power supply isn't supplying enough power for hard drive. The PSU is only 9 months old. Its a Coolmax CU-700b
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