Dead sata ports or dead hdd?

[Biscuits8003]

So recently while I was working on my PC, either I or the pc itself had a derp moment that resulted in smoke coming from my cd drive. Afterward, my hdd stopped being detected in bios. After a few days of research I came to the conclusion my old hdd must have been taken down along with my cd drive. Now I've got the new hdd and cd drive, and they aren't being detected either. So now the question I have is: when my cd drive went down, could it have taken out the sata connectors on the mobo? Otherwise the thing works fine, just my cd drive and hdd won't work.

 

[Zerk2012]

Yes or the DVD burned up the SATA ports and your hard drive is still OK.
Not knowing your motherboard try all the ports first.

 

[Biscuits8003]

Six ports, none of them seem to work.

 

[IamTimTech]

I am afraid to say that I think you took out both your motherboard and your HDD, throw the HDD in another system and see if the bios sees it, but if none of your sata ports work your mobo is in computer heaven or hell....depends on if it believed in computer god or not.

 

[Ijack]

Smoke coming from a computer is fairly rare and is a sign that something is very wrong. I've never known a hard drive (or a DVD) to produce smoke, so I'm guessing that something has burnt out on the motherboard. I suspect that the DVD was just the easiest place for the smoke to escape.

If you have any friends with computers you could pop your hard disk(s) into one of those. That will at least tell you whether the fault is with the hard disk or not. And I guess another possibility is that something burned out in the PSU so it is no longer supplying current to the drives.

 

[IamTimTech]

I was working on my PC, either I or the pc itself had a derp moment

If you were working on your computer with it plugged in that is bad juju, and is probably why you are sitting in this predicament.

 

[Ijack]

Ah. I read that to mean that the OP was using the computer. It "working on it" means the computer was open and parts were being replaced that would throw a different light on things. I'd still guess that something on the motherboard has burnt out - possibly because of a short-circuit.

 

[Biscuits8003]

Ah yeah, could've used better phrasing there. It was indeed open, unplugged, and had all residual power drained. I was pretty much thinking the same thing here though. Ah well. Hazards of being a pc gamer

 

[IamTimTech]

I am glad that I misread that, it's a shame but it does happen. Sorry for your misfortune.