Sata ports problem

[McGreggor]

So I have big problem.  I cannot plug any SATA drives into the SATA ports on my ASUS strix b550-f gaming wifi motherboard.  I have 1 NVME drive, but I can't get any of these extra drives (two 1TB SSD's and a 8TB HDD) to work, it acts like there is a short in the board as soon as the sata cable is plugged in.  It refuses to turn on.

 

This board is a pain to get at the SATA ports as they sit right behind my monster of a GPU.  So I have to keep pulling the card out to test ports, and let me say that gets tiring real quick.

 

I don't know if it is a setting in the bios i need to change, or just buy a pci-e sata card.  I'm lost as this is far from what I know.

 

My only other option is to return it to the company I bought it from which is ibuypower.

[Windows7ge]

Did you try:

1. All 6 ports?
2. Different SATA cables?
3. Different PSU cables?

Depending on the slot you used NVMe can share bandwidth with two SATA ports but that shouldn't impact all of them.

 

Only other control you might tinker with is IDE vs AHCI but that won't cause failure to power on.

[McGreggor]

Power cables are fine.

Sata cables are fine

I think I tried all 6 ports, I'll make sure to try the bottom ports

 

[McGreggor]

So I tried all 6 ports.  Found out I had a bad sata cable and got rid of it.  System now powers on but the drives do not show up in the bios.  Says disabled by each port yet "Sata: ENABLED" is turned on.  So I'm wondering if I have a bad sata controller.