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Loss of SATA connections
Recently I installed a four port card to get extra USB 3.0 access at the back of the Ivy.
Since then my two front docks SATA ports do not show up with a drive in them and I have tried the remaining internal SATA ports with the two hard drives I have - one that was in the dock and one I had spare for a while ago (1TB Seagate). Both have not been used very much at all and the dock drive (500GB Seagate Barracuda) I transfered data to to unclog the original 120GB SSD I had as the boot drive.
Have tried all the three empty SATA ports on the board (one gray two blue) and although the drives are spinning there is no recognition in Computer or the BIOS?? I have also tried new cables and even ran SFC and a chkdsk with no errors.
The only drive that do show up are the C: boot SSD and an external I have connected to the rear four port card for my regular system image.
Have checked the Device Manager and the only yellow triangle is the Netwrok one it has always been there causes no problems.
Could the add in card be cutting out the internal SATA ports I have been using - unlikely I am thinking but am at a loss as to what is happening.