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Son's computer was playing up so tried his graphic card in here .. nothing. But when I put it back in his system it worked - Miracle#1. Maybe reseating it did the trick?

 

After faffing about with graphics cards noticed this system wasn't POSTing very fast, disabled the HP (ptoi) splash screen in the BIOS and noticed memory etc was being passed immediately but the drives were taking a minute or two to be recognised.  Thought "oh *&^% something is going wrong with my motherboard" but thought I would have a look.  Have three drives in this sytem, an SSD, an HDD and an optical drive, the SSD was a recent addition and there were only two SATA data cables so a third had been procured from Amazon (took five weeks to get here, it must have been shipped all the way from China (the original slow boat to China). If I had known it would take that long would have got a cable locally.  75 P Amazon £1.90 local).

  Thought there must be a problem with one of the drives so plugged them in one at a time, no problem, then I thought must be one of the SATA ports, no problem.  Eventually thought "Mmmm must be that new cable" so tried each of the cables out one at a time seemed the new one was defunct in some way.  So decided I will bung it all back together then get a new SATA data cable tommorow to replace this 'iffy' one.

Lo and behold everything worked, wasn't keeping sufficient notes and memory certainly couldn't cope with what drive I had tried in what socket using what cable.

 

No idea what finally solved the problem, maybe a connector is/was 'iffy' in some way and repeated plugging and unplugging it has 'sorted' any problems.

 

 So what seemed a fairly major problem turned out to be a (possibly) faulty connector, Nil desperandum.  Cost was zero but could have been all of £1.90 instead of a new motherboard (and probably CPU and memory).

 Two motoes to live by   "Sometimes there are no shortcuts"

                                           "This too shall pass"

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You probably replaced a dying cable.

 That's just it though I replaced nothing, i.e. reused the 'iffy' cable.

 Two motoes to live by   "Sometimes there are no shortcuts"

                                           "This too shall pass"

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