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Hi everybody!

Ok so I recently imagined myself a brand new PC. I selected all the parts and now put them all together. But a problem happened. I have and WD m.2 ssd which works fine and is my boot drive. I had no issues with it thus far. I also got na 480Gb Kingston SSD and a 2 TB wd blue HDD. These two buggers are giving me an headache!!! At first they didnt work. Didnt see them in bios nor WIN 10. Then the SSD statred to show up but it was not initialised and had a capacity of 20MB. It also showed up in BIOS as P3101 ( or something like that...). Next i wanted to check if its a good drive so i put it in my old computer and there it was the same thing also not initialised and 20 MB of capacity. But then i rebooted the old PC and voila the SSD was there and I could Initialise it no problem. Then i put it in the new computer and again nothing. Cheched all the sata ports and i only got those damned 20 MB... So i tried putting my old SSD into the new computer and boom it works no problem any port any sata cable. Then i put the new SSD in and it didnt' work. At this point im confused as hell. Then I swaped sata cables no effect and then finaly the power cable. Magicaly it started working. The current setup is that I have two sata power cables. On one of them i have plugged In the water pump and the new SSD and on this one it works fine. On the other one I have plugged in case power and the old SSD and that also works. If I swap the SSD the new one won't show in bios nor Win 10 the old one works fine but if i only have the old SSD it works anywhere. The HDD went threw the same process but didn't show up anywhere no matter how it was plugged in the new or old PC so I'm guessing its dead on arrival :/ 

So my question would be does the order in which you plugged certain things into sata power cable matter? Like the cabel has 3 power thingies does it matter if lets say 1 and 3 are occupied ( 1 beeing at the end 2 the middle and 3 at the beggining) or does it have to be 3 and 2 then 1 empty ? Did I connect something wrong? 

The relativy specs are:

MOBO: gigabyte B360N wifi ITX no bios upgrade

Power: corsair TX650M

New SSD: Kingston 480 Gb

Old SSD: Intel 530 series 180 GB

Coller: NZXT kraken X52

 

Any ideas would be very helpful!

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On 5. 8. 2018 at 1:51 PM, Blazz said:

Hi everybody!

Ok so I recently imagined myself a brand new PC. I selected all the parts and now put them all together. But a problem happened. I have and WD m.2 ssd which works fine and is my boot drive. I had no issues with it thus far. I also got na 480Gb Kingston SSD and a 2 TB wd blue HDD. These two buggers are giving me an headache!!! At first they didnt work. Didnt see them in bios nor WIN 10. Then the SSD statred to show up but it was not initialised and had a capacity of 20MB. It also showed up in BIOS as P3101 ( or something like that...). Next i wanted to check if its a good drive so i put it in my old computer and there it was the same thing also not initialised and 20 MB of capacity. But then i rebooted the old PC and voila the SSD was there and I could Initialise it no problem. Then i put it in the new computer and again nothing. Cheched all the sata ports and i only got those damned 20 MB... So i tried putting my old SSD into the new computer and boom it works no problem any port any sata cable. Then i put the new SSD in and it didnt' work. At this point im confused as hell. Then I swaped sata cables no effect and then finaly the power cable. Magicaly it started working. The current setup is that I have two sata power cables. On one of them i have plugged In the water pump and the new SSD and on this one it works fine. On the other one I have plugged in case power and the old SSD and that also works. If I swap the SSD the new one won't show in bios nor Win 10 the old one works fine but if i only have the old SSD it works anywhere. The HDD went threw the same process but didn't show up anywhere no matter how it was plugged in the new or old PC so I'm guessing its dead on arrival :/ 

So my question would be does the order in which you plugged certain things into sata power cable matter? Like the cabel has 3 power thingies does it matter if lets say 1 and 3 are occupied ( 1 beeing at the end 2 the middle and 3 at the beggining) or does it have to be 3 and 2 then 1 empty ? Did I connect something wrong? 

The relativy specs are:

MOBO: gigabyte B360N wifi ITX no bios upgrade

Power: corsair TX650M

New SSD: Kingston 480 Gb

Old SSD: Intel 530 series 180 GB

Coller: NZXT kraken X52

 

Any ideas would be very helpful!

Ok so I got the SSD to work now somehow but now just to be sure i put my old HDD in the new PC and It didnt work nor did it show in bios no matter which port or power cable i used. So I put it back in my old PC and now it stopped working there also. It doesnt show in the bios anymore :S Did I kill the HDD somehow? I'm runnig out of ideas on what could be the problem? Please someone some insight

 

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