motherboard failure?

tero · February 20, 2016

Hello

I experience strange behavior with my pc recently. It runs fine 'till it gives new the new-look blue screen of death from win 10 and restarts. Immediately after restart I get to BIOS and I see that one of my hard drives is not recognized. I have 2 HDDs and 1 boot SSD. It happened twice that it didn't recognize one of my HDD and this evening it didn't recognize my SSD.

I suspect the MB to be the fault. It is Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P rev 2.0. The only solution is to unplug the power or the SATA cable, turn the system on and everything is fine, until it crashes again

manikyath · February 20, 2016

try different sata ports, the port may just be iffy (or the controller)

tero · February 20, 2016

MB has 6 SATA ports. I use 3 now and the MB is 1 month old. Each time it happens to different drive. I was thinking about the controller as well, but no way to check that. I am afraid that if I go with it back at the store, they will put it on the bench, test it for 2 hours, say it works and gives it back to me.