I'm going a bit crazy here and I'm hoping someone can help me... For context I have an Asus Z170-AR mobo.
I have an Unraid server with 4 drives and I attempted to add several new drives to it. My original 4 drives consisted of 1 parity drive and 3 storage drives. I'm attempting to add 4 more drives.
The first thing I did was move my GPU to a different PCIe slot in order for the new drives to fit. I installed the drives and attempted to power things up. The PC would not power up. I have an 850w PSU and an older 1060 GPU, so I really didn't think I was trying to pull too much power. After lots of trial and error I found that one of my power cables is bad. The PC will not power on at all if I attempt to power my drives with it, even on its own.
After that, I replaced the power cables and the computer powers on just fine... however... 1 of my original drives (my parity drive), and none of my new 4 drives are seen by the BIOS. I have tried everything. I've swapped power and data cables between the drives the spin up and the ones that don't. I've moved my GPU back to its original spot in case of some odd power management thing. I've set all SATA ports to Hot Plug enabled. I've reset the BIOS to factory settings. I've changed cables. I've plugged the HDDs to different spots on my PSU. I've even mounted 1 of these hard drives to a different computer and was able to mount it and format it without issue.
What else could I possibly try? Would wouldn't I at least be able to mount my original parity drive? I'm grasping at straws here. Please help!
PS. I do also have an NVME drive installed, in case that makes any difference..
I have an Unraid server with 4 drives and I attempted to add several new drives to it. My original 4 drives consisted of 1 parity drive and 3 storage drives. I'm attempting to add 4 more drives.
The first thing I did was move my GPU to a different PCIe slot in order for the new drives to fit. I installed the drives and attempted to power things up. The PC would not power up. I have an 850w PSU and an older 1060 GPU, so I really didn't think I was trying to pull too much power. After lots of trial and error I found that one of my power cables is bad. The PC will not power on at all if I attempt to power my drives with it, even on its own.
After that, I replaced the power cables and the computer powers on just fine... however... 1 of my original drives (my parity drive), and none of my new 4 drives are seen by the BIOS. I have tried everything. I've swapped power and data cables between the drives the spin up and the ones that don't. I've moved my GPU back to its original spot in case of some odd power management thing. I've set all SATA ports to Hot Plug enabled. I've reset the BIOS to factory settings. I've changed cables. I've plugged the HDDs to different spots on my PSU. I've even mounted 1 of these hard drives to a different computer and was able to mount it and format it without issue.
What else could I possibly try? Would wouldn't I at least be able to mount my original parity drive? I'm grasping at straws here. Please help!
PS. I do also have an NVME drive installed, in case that makes any difference..
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