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Has anyone had SATA ports die on a motherboard?

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I am running Windows 7 on an AMD FX-8150 with a Gigabyte GA-970-D3 motherboard. My Seagate 2T 7200 RPM HDD kept randomly dying. I could not even select it in the BIOS. I tried a bunch of different SATA ports, and after 3 fails, one worked. The motherboard is only two years old. This is crazy. 

 

Am I missing something? What am I doing wrong?

 

PSU: XFX 850W

Graphics: EVGA 660ti

RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance

I was using a Sandisk Ready Cache 32gb SSD, but now i am using that SATA port for my main drive, and it seems like none of the others work, so it is not longer recognized.

 

I am hoping that this is some fixable situation (that that my motherboard is not toast).

 

Thanks.

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I had an issue the other day where it couldnt find the boot drive i reset the bios and its fine so try that and see what happens

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Thanks. I tried this, but I still get the same situation. The only way to get it to work is to use this one SATA port. 

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looks like you PC is telling you to upgrade him/her lolz

 

 

ok back to the topic

 

I think you can't do much either, I will suggest getting a new mobo

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