Problems

[maglue]

Hello.

So recenlty i thought my crucial m4 128gb ssd died. It use to sometimes not sure up but after a power cycle it would work. Then it would only show up as a PATA drive follow by the same weird symbol over and over. So now a month later I have bought a samsung evo 120gb and it is also doing it, has not even worked yet. Could my motherboard be stuffed i have tried different sata ports and cables. My normal mechanical drive works perfectly.

 

the specs are.

Specs:
Psu: corsair tx750
cpu: fx 8320
motherboard: asrock 970 extreme 3
GPU: radeon 7950

[rcarlos243]

is the SSD connected directly to the motherboard or through hot swap bays?

 

have you tried swapping the SATA cables (especially the one used by your working HDD)?

 

are you sure you have correctly set in the BIOS that the SATA controller is set to AHCI instead of IDE or RAID (if you are not configured to use it)?

 

are you using the latest BIOS for your motherboard (it might have fixes for bugs like SSD not getting detected properly)

 

you mentioned the drive shows as PATA with weird symbol, where do you see that exactly? is it on the BIOS? Windows?

[maglue]

Yer it is directly to it. I Have swapped cords and ports, i have set it to achi aswell. i see it at the bios screen if it even shows up at all.
I check it on my media pc and it shows up on that one.