[SOLVED] New board won't recognize Sata hard drive

[johnz_]

Hi guys,
I had an AMD system with windows 7 32bits installed in a Samsung SATA hard drive.

I changed the board, cpu and memory.
Now I have an AsRock FM2A88M-HD+ board with an AMD A4 APU and new memory.

In the BIOS the board dont recognize the sata hard disk.
I think I tried all combinations and no luck:
Sata Controllers: enable / disable
Sata Mode: AHCI / IDE / RAID
Sata IDE Combined Mode: eanble / disable

In the boord order settings I have only two options: disable or UEFI shell.

I am pretty sure the the hard drive is good (it was a day ago in the old system) but I dont hear anything coming from the sata drive.
Dont know what to do.

Thanks in advance.

 

[popatim]

Sometime people forget to connect the power cable to the drive again, If it is connected and the drive isnt making a spinning noise or vibration you can feel then try swapping the power cable with the dvd drive (assuming your dvd drive opens and closes just fine (ie - it has power))

 

[johnz_]

I tried with another power cable, but no luck.
Thanks.

 

[johnz_]

It is possible that only the SATA power cables are not working?
Maybe the PSU cant deliver the power to sata drives.

But everything else is working.
Is a bad PSU.... ps jet 500w.
But working 2 days ago with the other board.

Thanks.

 

[popatim]

Plug in only power to the drive, you should be able to feel it spin up and hear it make a few clicking type noises as it aligns the heads and reads a bit of the drive.

If it doesn't, then don't forget to check the entire cable all the way back to the power supply. Sometimes there's a power splitter that came loose or a modular power supply cable that came unplugged.

 

[johnz_]

Hi,

I finally resolve the problem.
Not the PSU, not the board and not a bad disk.

With only the power cable connected the disk spins. With the power cable and SATA cable connected the disk did not spin.

The problem was a bug in the firmware of the disk ( a samsung F3 spinpoint 1TB HD103SJ).

I did a firmware update on the disk and everything works like a charm.
They say that is a problem with the AMD SB850 chipset. My chipset is a AMD A88X but the update works.
http://jack-brennan.com/samsung-firmware-update-for-p67-and-sb850/

Thank you very much for the inputs.