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MachineKillx
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Hey guys, I have a seagate 1tb hdd, and I bought it and after about a month, every time I turn my pc off, and want to turn it back on, I have to unplug and plug my sata power cable, sometimes more than once, now, I was traveling and I came back to use my pc, and it doesn't post, tried unplugging hdd, not working, all fans working correctly and I can't even get to the bios, please help guys...

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this sounds like a ded motherboard to me, not a storage problem

How come, since I used to unplug and plug the sata power cable and the pc would boot normally

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Have you tried plugging it into a different Sata port on the motherboards?

 

 

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Have you tried plugging it into a different Sata port on the motherboards?

Yes

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Yes

Could be the motherboard...

 

 

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Could be the motherboard...

But the cpu fans were working fine...

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But the cpu fans were working fine...

Were? You should still be able to boot up into bios without the HDD.

 

 

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Were? You should still be able to boot up into bios without the HDD.

They are working fine, but it just won't boot...

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They are working fine, but it just won't boot...

Can you boot up into bios?

 

 

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They are working fine, but it just won't boot...

If you have one, hook up the HDD to a spare PC, mobo.

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If you have one, hook up the HDD to a spare PC, mobo.

No spare pc

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No spare pc

Maybe it's the Sata cable... If not maybe the power supply? What power supply do you have or what's your PC in a pcpartpicker link? Otherwise yeah its ports the HDD.

 

 

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I am going to unplug everyting and plug it again in the pc tomorrow

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Hey there MachineKillx,
 
I'd try another SATA cable on all the ports that are available. I'd also try booting into BIOS without the drive being attached. Try the other connectors on the SATA power cable that's coming from the PSU. 
You would ultimately want to test the drive's health and check it's S.M.A.R.T. status on an already working computer and see if the problem is coming from it or somewhere else in your build. :)
 
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Hey there MachineKillx,

I'd try another SATA cable on all the ports that are available. I'd also try booting into BIOS without the drive being attached. Try the other connectors on the SATA power cable that's coming from the PSU.

You would ultimately want to test the drive's health and check it's S.M.A.R.T. status on an already working computer and see if the problem is coming from it or somewhere else in your build. :)

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I resolved the problem, I uninstalled and installed the ram sticks, a rubbed some pencil eraser on it (according to what I saw on the Internet), and it worked

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