Question How to fix ASUS motherboard not seeing any HDD in SATA ports?

[RedFox_Nightfox]

I have recently fixed/upgraded my PC to a Asus PRIME B650-PLUS ATX AM5 Motherboard, but it refuses to acknowledge the esistance of anything other than my OS m.2 and my bluray drive. all other harddrives do not show up, even in bios. I've never seen this problem before, and can't find any info on how to fix this.

For reference, my PC before the fix/upgrade was this: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/RedFoxNightfox/saved/#view=fvPd6h

and now this is the new build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/RedFoxNightfox/saved/#view=rWxRzy

I have tried changing sata cables, power plugs, ports, even using the same exact plugs that the bluray was using and plugged in one of my data hdd's, and it still does not want to acknowledge it existing, even in bios.

I updated the bios, installed all the drivers, and still nothing. I even removed my 10 sata port pcie card to see if that was the problem.

I'm honestly at a loss as to why this new board doesn't want to see anything besides the m.2 and the bluray drive.

EDIT:

I also tried turning off the SATA controller, rebooting, turn on SATA controller, Rebooting.

 

[KingLoki]

You could try totally disconnecting the m.2 and blue ray drives. Connect one of the other drives and see if the bios picks it up. That will tell you if the other drives are causing issues or maybe settings in the bios need changing.

 

[RedFox_Nightfox]

You could try totally disconnecting the m.2 and blue ray drives. Connect one of the other drives and see if the bios picks it up. That will tell you if the other drives are causing issues or maybe settings in the bios need changing.

can't get to the m.2 drive without disassembling the quite beastly cpu heatsink, but I have disconnected the bluray and tried several of my drives in various sata ports.

what bios settings could need changing?

 

[KingLoki]

The m.2 is the most important one to remove.
Are you running windows 11 with GPT partition?

 

[RedFox_Nightfox]

The m.2 is the most important one to remove.
Are you running windows 11 with GPT partition?

Win11 Pro, M.2 is the OS, and it's an NTFS The system will not boot into Windows without my m.2

 

[KingLoki]

Yeah it wont boot but its to see if the bios can see the other drives

 

[RedFox_Nightfox]

I don't have the thermal paste to reattach the cpu heatsink right now, and I'm in the middle of a deep freeze so I can't get more for a few days. I don't see why the m.2 has anything to do with anything, as the motherboard doesn't say that the m.2 slot impacts any sata/pcie slots, not to mention the fact that it's just hdds that are not being detected, while my blueray drive is being detected.

EDIT: assume, for a possible solution, that the BIOS does not see the drives even without the M.2, but can see the bluray drive just fine. What then?

 

[KingLoki]

No problem, what are the other drives ?

 

[RedFox_Nightfox]

I have them all listed in my pcpartspicker link, and they are all formatted the same as the OS m.2