asrock z170m extreme4 motherboard intermittently finds seagate drive

Erivus

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May 24, 2016
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I am currently in the process of building a new computer and the bios will intermittently find the hard drive that i am trying to install windows 10 on. I have switched out the sata cables 3 times and changed the power cable to the drive twice. The UEFI will occasionally show the sata drive, but only as 4gb not the 3tb it should be. I have changed the port that the Sata cable is plugged into from 0-5 with no changes other than the drive is not recognized at all in 4-5.

It has been years since I last built a computer and the parts have evolved a lot, so I am a little lost as to what could be the cause.

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
Erik



ASRock Z170M Extreme4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
EVGA SuperNOVA P2 750W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal

Currently have a GTX760 installed until the GTX1070 or GTX1080 is released.
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
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is it a new drive? Can you put it in another pc and see if it has same behaviour there? Try to run http://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/downloads/item/seatools-win-master/ on drive.

perhaps motherboard needs a bios update
 

Erivus

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May 24, 2016
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It is a new drive out of the box and into the computer. The only other computer I have is a laptop.
If the motherboard is new shouldn't the bios be up to date?