AsRock B75M-GL R2.0 doesn't find all SATA drives

[FlashLighter]

I have AsRock B75M-GL R2.0 (BIOS v1.60) mother board and I would like to connect additional drive to my setup.

There is a problem, as if I hot connect a new drive, nothing happens, or older drives are lost in Win7.

If I restart the PC, BIOS doesn't recognize any drives except main OS SSD, and Win7 doesn't boot up.

Until now, I had connected:
- OCZ VERTEX3 128GB (SATA3)
- WD 250 GB (SATA2)
- WD 500 GB (SATA2)
- WD 1TB (SATA2 - new drive)

The same thing happens if I connect one internal DVD drive on sata2 port, so I didn't use DVD for last year or two.
If i disconnect two older drives, and connect a new one, it works perfectly, but if I then hot connect one of the drives, they are not recognized.
Has anyone got any idea, is maybe my power unit to weak? I have PowerLC LC5550, i5 3470 processor and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series.

Now I can't get two older drives to work again, I get only OS SSD and 1 drive, and not on all sata ports, just two work
It depends, sometimes afte4r swaping cables enough, i manage to get another drive online, but after .random time it just vanishes.

Thanks for any ideas.

 

[cin19]

I think those old drives are going to die, if you have other pc that can recognize those HDDs, you can use the WD Data LifeGuard Diagnostics to test the HDD. http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?lang=en Otherwise nothing you can do.

 

[FlashLighter]

So, after fiddling with sata cables, I managed to get all drives online. It is possible they are going to die, eventually.

 

[FlashLighter]

You won't believe that i still have this issue, installed 2 new drives, one still goes missing occasionally, have to unplug sata cable, and after few replugs, it becomes visible again.

It started to drive me nuts. HD are OK, sent new WD 1TB Black them to service, they replaced with new, still the same issue. Any other ideas? Is it possible that my MB is defective? Its SATA ports?

Thanks

 

[cin19]

Recommend to update the intel chipset driver, you can get it either from asrock or intel. Also may try use other SATA port, because the MB has 5X SATAII, and 1X SATAIII.
So connect the SSD into the SATAIII, try the rest HDDs in the SATAII.

 

[FlashLighter]

SSD is already on SATAIII, that is my C drive.

Out of desperation I disconnected one HD and one DVD, so running one more SSD and one HD on remaining SATAII ports. I had a felling that too many devices worsened the issue.

Just installed Intel chipset driver, lets see what happens.

Have to admit, until 2 days ago when this issue caused my Dropbox account be emptied, I somehow admitted to reconnecting. But the scare it caused with lost files was too much. Because it didn't start correctly, on one occasion my drive was active, had all folders, but no files there. Consequently, DropBox synced new status and completely deleted all my and other shared files from folders. That was fun for an hour

 

[cin19]

And you may try to disconnect to the Dropbox, and to see what happens, can the PC recognize all your HDD?

 

[FlashLighter]

Recommend to update the intel chipset driver, you can get it either from asrock or intel. Also may try use other SATA port, because the MB has 5X SATAII, and 1X SATAIII.
So connect the SSD into the SATAIII, try the rest HDDs in the SATAII.

Ahh, so far so good, no drives missing since chipset update, I am tempted on connecting additional drive, which is still mounted in case, but disconnected, as it seemed that it causes more often freezes. 😉

 

[cin19]

You may just connect other HDD one by one, also use the HD Tune to check the HDD S.M.A.R.T. to see the HDD is fine or not. I think one of the HDD may has problem. And do those HDDs have any OS in?
HD Tune http://www.hdtune.com/

 

[FlashLighter]

You may just connect other HDD one by one, also use the HD Tune to check the HDD S.M.A.R.T. to see the HDD is fine or not. I think one of the HDD may has problem. And do those HDDs have any OS in?
HD Tune http://www.hdtune.com/

Only one OS on first SSD connected to SATAIII. All the rest are just data, i have 3 connected, one in air, will connect it next week, waiting to see if any issue arise after driver update.