Question I'll try again, maybe I do better explaining

[ronb1955]

Disk 0 is Samsung 850 500GB EVO with Win 10 64
Disk 1 is used for backups
Disk 2 is Samsung 870 EVO 1TB With Win 11 64
I have Samsung 850 evo 120gb with Mint installed
Intel 160gb with Unbuntu installed
Intel with no OS installed
Other than the intel 160gb with Ubuntu I get no video
Remove Disk 0,1, and 2 then the PC see's the other drives
bad MB? The drives are fine

 

[SkyNetRising]

Are any of those drives M.2 ?
What motherboard model?

Using M.2 drive can disable some sata ports on motherboard (and connected sata drives).

 

[rgd1101]

so what is the issue? can't boot win 10? win 11? or Unbuntu ?
sound like you mixed up too many os with boot partition

 

[ronb1955]

Are any of those drives M.2 ?
What motherboard model?

Using M.2 drive can disable some sata ports on motherboard (and connected sata drives).

gigabyte z590 ud ac

 

[ronb1955]

so what is the issue? can't boot win 10? win 11? or Unbuntu ?
sound like you mixed up too many os with boot partition

I can boot to win 10 win 11 and Unbuntu
but when I remove the Unbuntu drive and try one of the other Linux, no I get no video remove disk 0, 1 and 2 then it will boot

 

[SkyNetRising]

gigabyte z590 ud ac

And how many of those drives are M.2 ?
M.2 sata drive in slot M2A_SB disables sata port SATA3_1.
(manual page 18)

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileL...e_1103.pdf?v=c53c273970923ede10ed12877ddb933a

 

[ronb1955]

And how many of those drives are M.2 ?
M.2 sata drive in slot M2A_SB disables sata port SATA3_1.
(manual page 18)

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileL...e_1103.pdf?v=c53c273970923ede10ed12877ddb933a

none

 

[SkyNetRising]

none

And how exactly are you installing 6 sata drives, if motherboard has only 5 sata ports?

Anyway - disable secure boot.

 

[ronb1955]

And how exactly are you installing 6 sata drives, if motherboard has only 5 sata ports?

Anyway - disable secure boot.

I'm not
Disk 0 installed inside pc
Disk 1 installed inside pc
Disk 2 installed insdie pc
when I try the others (one at a time) it is in a eSATA case
I have to remove one the drives inside the pc and run the one remove from the eSATA case...still no go, unless I remove all the drives inside the pc from the MB

 

[SkyNetRising]

when I try the others (one at a time) it is in a eSATA case
I have to remove one the drives inside the pc and run the one remove from the eSATA case...still no go, unless I remove all the drives inside the pc from the MB

What is "esata case"? Link to the product?
How are you connecting this "esata case" to your pc?

Your motherboard doesn't have any esata ports.

 

[ronb1955]

What is "esata case"? Link to the product?
How are you connecting this "esata case" to your pc?

Your motherboard doesn't have any esata ports.

Man it a case that houses SATA drives "e" = external it then connects to a standard SATA on MB

 

[SkyNetRising]

Man it a case that houses SATA drives "e" = external it then connects to a standard SATA on MB

Can you provide link to the product page?
or find model name for that thing?

 

[ronb1955]

Can you provide link to the product page?
or find model name for that thing?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/515276-REG/Antec_MX_1_MX_1_Actively_Cooled_USB.html

 

[SkyNetRising]

So - you have esata bracket installed and that is connected to one of sata ports on motherboard.
And esata case is connected to this esata port.
Correct?

 

[fzabkar]

Is this the main chip on the PCB inside the enclosure?

Silicon Image SiI5744 Storage Processor:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080430023020/http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=105

 

[Pextaxmx]

I think your boot partition is trying to boot from a wrong partition in a wrong drive. Then when you remove the drive that has that wrong partition, the boot is forced to use the second choice which happens to be the right one.

But in this scenario, you still have to see some sort of error message that OS was not found.

So.... maybe I am wrong. But it might be worth considering backing up all the data and fresh install multiple OSes by connecting only one drive at a time, then add rest of the drives later.

 

[ronb1955]

So - you have esata bracket installed and that is connected to one of sata ports on motherboard.
And esata case is connected to this esata port.
Correct?

no bracket, my pc case has esata port by the USB's

 

[ronb1955]

I think your boot partition is trying to boot from a wrong partition in a wrong drive. Then when you remove the drive that has that wrong partition, the boot is forced to use the second choice which happens to be the right one.

But in this scenario, you still have to see some sort of error message that OS was not found.

So.... maybe I am wrong. But it might be worth considering backing up all the data and fresh install multiple OSes by connecting only one drive at a time, then add rest of the drives later.

When I got this MB I did just, only had one SSD installed, installed Wind10, remove that one and installed the other ssd then installed win11, did the same with the Linux SSD's
I thinking maybe bad MB
Now that one linux ssd did at one time had Win 10 on it but I don't diskpart clean many times in it since

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you try disabling secure boot?

 

[ronb1955]

Did you try disabling secure boot?

yeah didn't help

 

[ronb1955]

I done everything I can think of to do, seems like it has to be MB...crap