Hey all, I'm Chris, long time reader, first time posting. So heres the deal....
About this time last year I picked up a cheap Dell Optiplex 9010 for a xmas gift for my son. Before he recieved it, I cloned the HDD it came with over to a new SSD, and wiped the HDD and moved it down the line to serve as a secondary storage drive, and I bumped the ram up from 8gb to 16gb. No issues with any of that. It actually far exceeded my expections..
Fast forward to his birthday in May when I added a Gigabyte GTX 1050ti GPU, a Coolermaster CPU Cooler and case swapped into a Coolermaster Case. All went well, and everything was still running perfect.
Fast Forward again to late Oct. - early Nov. when one day he fired it up as normal but music wont play, games arent launching, etc.. everything on the secondary HDD. The disk wasn't showing up anywhere in windows, its like it vanished. Everything on the SSD was running great as normal. I pulled the HDD that was no longer being detected and plugged it into my dock then into my laptop and its reading it fine, everything I expected to see on it was there, no issues.. I plugged the dock into my Desktop, same thing, read the drive just fine, accessed everything, no problem.. Plug it into his Dell via the dock. nothing...... not there at all.. pull it from the dock and plug it in via its origional sata port followed by the remaining 2 available sata ports and nothing..
Ive been in and out of the bios and everything looks good to me, but obviously I'm missing something.... The one thing I havent tried was a different drive in his Dell, I just wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions or could maybe shed some light before I pull a drive from my pc to test on his.
Thanks very much in advance.
Chris
About this time last year I picked up a cheap Dell Optiplex 9010 for a xmas gift for my son. Before he recieved it, I cloned the HDD it came with over to a new SSD, and wiped the HDD and moved it down the line to serve as a secondary storage drive, and I bumped the ram up from 8gb to 16gb. No issues with any of that. It actually far exceeded my expections..
Fast forward to his birthday in May when I added a Gigabyte GTX 1050ti GPU, a Coolermaster CPU Cooler and case swapped into a Coolermaster Case. All went well, and everything was still running perfect.
Fast Forward again to late Oct. - early Nov. when one day he fired it up as normal but music wont play, games arent launching, etc.. everything on the secondary HDD. The disk wasn't showing up anywhere in windows, its like it vanished. Everything on the SSD was running great as normal. I pulled the HDD that was no longer being detected and plugged it into my dock then into my laptop and its reading it fine, everything I expected to see on it was there, no issues.. I plugged the dock into my Desktop, same thing, read the drive just fine, accessed everything, no problem.. Plug it into his Dell via the dock. nothing...... not there at all.. pull it from the dock and plug it in via its origional sata port followed by the remaining 2 available sata ports and nothing..
Ive been in and out of the bios and everything looks good to me, but obviously I'm missing something.... The one thing I havent tried was a different drive in his Dell, I just wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions or could maybe shed some light before I pull a drive from my pc to test on his.
Thanks very much in advance.
Chris