Ok First off this is major Human error. I already feel like a dolt so please do not remind me of my own failure.
I had a RAID ProRaid system fail and I was taking out the individual 3.5 inch sata drives in order to see if by connecting them directly to the computer I could rebuild the RAID with software... this is not the issue at hand however.
During this process, and the entire time I had the computer I had an SATA power cable that was plugged into my modular power supply. However when I went to plug in my Drive from the RAID, my computer would not boot. I tried a few times nothing.
Then when I unplugged my Raid drive, it would boot fine to OS on the NVME card-- just like normal. OK so something was up with the cable, so I checked it, plugged another sata cable into the modular PSU and this time it turned on but went to bios and I smelled some burning dust , Oh no BAD!
Turned it off, unplugged the cable but now my NVME OS drive is not even booting and it says no NVME device is connected.
I have tried swapping the m.2 slot of the drive, but no luck.
My question-- obviously the PSU cable did some bad things but it was only ever plugged into the 3.5 inch HDD, could the cable some how have fried my NVME drive? Could it have fried the controller on the mobo?
I am still booting to BIOS and it seems fine just no more boot device + OS and all the storage gone?
Never expected that. The drive looks fine and has no smell of burning or obvious dmg.
Also no more burning smell, once the wrong cable was out of the PSU. It was not the modular manufactureres PSU, so obviously a different wiring schematic.
Thoughts?
I had a RAID ProRaid system fail and I was taking out the individual 3.5 inch sata drives in order to see if by connecting them directly to the computer I could rebuild the RAID with software... this is not the issue at hand however.
During this process, and the entire time I had the computer I had an SATA power cable that was plugged into my modular power supply. However when I went to plug in my Drive from the RAID, my computer would not boot. I tried a few times nothing.
Then when I unplugged my Raid drive, it would boot fine to OS on the NVME card-- just like normal. OK so something was up with the cable, so I checked it, plugged another sata cable into the modular PSU and this time it turned on but went to bios and I smelled some burning dust , Oh no BAD!
Turned it off, unplugged the cable but now my NVME OS drive is not even booting and it says no NVME device is connected.
I have tried swapping the m.2 slot of the drive, but no luck.
My question-- obviously the PSU cable did some bad things but it was only ever plugged into the 3.5 inch HDD, could the cable some how have fried my NVME drive? Could it have fried the controller on the mobo?
I am still booting to BIOS and it seems fine just no more boot device + OS and all the storage gone?
Never expected that. The drive looks fine and has no smell of burning or obvious dmg.
Also no more burning smell, once the wrong cable was out of the PSU. It was not the modular manufactureres PSU, so obviously a different wiring schematic.
Thoughts?
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