[SOLVED] MSI B350M Gaming Pro not connecting to Silicon Pro S55 SSD

[harrisonqui]

About 2 years ago, I bought a prebuilt pc that came with an MSI B350M Gaming Pro Motherboard. Recently, I purchased a Silicon pro S55 SSD to boot Rainbow Six Siege and some other games off of. However, when I plug the ssd into either SATA port, it is not detected by the computer. Is there something wrong with the SSD, or am I just missing an obvious problem?

 

[Barty1884]

How are you determining that it's not being detected?

Inside Windows, does it show in Disk Management? You'll likely need to initialize the drive & assign a drive letter for it to show up in Windows Explorer etc.

 

[harrisonqui]

How are you determining that it's not being detected?

Inside Windows, does it show in Disk Management? You'll likely need to initialize the drive & assign a drive letter for it to show up in Windows Explorer etc.

In the Bios function, it is only showing my hard drive as connected, it says for all other Sata slots that they are empty.

 

[Barty1884]

That is very strange.

Do you have any M.2 drives installed? They may disable certain SATA ports.

You are connecting a SATA cable & a SATA power cable from the PSU though, correct?

 

[harrisonqui]

That is very strange.

Do you have any M.2 drives installed? They may disable certain SATA ports.

You are connecting a SATA cable & a SATA power cable from the PSU though, correct?

I do not believe I have any M.2 drives. All I have is a Seagate Barracuda 2tb hard drive and this ssd I'm having the problem with.
However, I am unsure of what you mean when you say "SATA power cable". All that I recemtly connected is a SATA cable going from the SSD to the MoBo.

 

[Barty1884]

Then that's why the drive is not showing up.

Take a look at your Barracuda - there are two cables connected to it. One transfers data (connected to the sata port on the motherboard), the other is power - from the PSU. Most PSUs should include cables/connectors for at least two SATA devices.