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| Topic | Anyone had experience with DOA HDDs? |
| Sahuagin 01/23/21 6:08:02 PM #4: | ReturnOfFa posted... I decided to install a PCIe USB port expansion. When I rebooted after installation, two of my drives weren't working, along with my RGB lighting.difficult or impossible to troubleshoot online, but it "sounds" like maybe you damaged the motherboard somehow. two drives should not fail simultaneously, especially with other things like lights, and a third drive not working in the same place means that it's probably the port(s). if you know you have at least one working port (the one with your system drive), you should be able to connect one of the "dead" drives to that port and see it in the BIOS (after boot). if you have a known working port, and one drive shows up through it, and another does not, then the one that doesn't is likely truly dead. (this is a bit tricky/scary to test though since it involves disconnecting your system drive temporarily.) another good way to test/confirm is to connect the drive to a secondary port on any other known working computer. the drive should appear in the BIOS, and should also become available in Windows. (it is possible to receive a DOA hard drive, but the fact that you have at least some damage to your motherboard, and multiple failing drives, including a new one, would indicate to me that you have failed ports before it would mean that you had three drives all failing for separate reasons.) --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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