I suspect my Asus Maximux Vi Hero's SATA controller might be going bad. Recently I moved my computer into a full tower case and added a custom water loop. Everything went fine until I noticed that none of my 4 hard drives are recognized by the BIOS anymore. Then two days later my SSD became extremely slow and laggy and Windows 7 blue screened every time I tried to start it. Now it is "locked" and I can't do a secure erase or access the drive, but it does show up in the BIOS. I have to live boot Ubuntu from a USB drive to even use the computer now. Yesterday I bought a brand new hard drive and it is not recognized by either the BIOS or a USB HDD dock.
The problem could also be the power supply. Maybe it surged on the SATA rail. It is also worth noting that my DVD drive also doesn't work. It just flashes the light when I try to open it. It shows an error when I try to open it from the operating system. I manually opened it but it wouldn't even try to read the DVD. It is really weird that all of my SATA devices are dead while everything else is working perfectly. I had no problems, then I moved everything to a bigger case and suddenly I have no working SATA devices...
The problem could also be the power supply. Maybe it surged on the SATA rail. It is also worth noting that my DVD drive also doesn't work. It just flashes the light when I try to open it. It shows an error when I try to open it from the operating system. I manually opened it but it wouldn't even try to read the DVD. It is really weird that all of my SATA devices are dead while everything else is working perfectly. I had no problems, then I moved everything to a bigger case and suddenly I have no working SATA devices...