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All hard drives and dvd drive disappearing randomly
To start with, about 3 weeks ago I installed a new wireless adapter, Asus PCE-N53 Dual-Band Wireless-N600 Adapter. My computer froze up while installing the driver, but after I rebooted everything seemed fine, so I tried to install the drivers again. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I ended up doing a system restore to before I tried installing, and was able to get the adapter working fine.
After that I found that my second HDD, WD2003FZEX 2TV 7200 RPM, would suddenly disappear, along with my dvd drive. Sometimes going to disk management and rescanning would fix it, otherwise I had to do a full reboot. The issue went away when I moved the wireless adapter to a new slot, but came back a few days ago. I tried everything I could think of or find online to fix it, including buying a new hard drive, Samsung SSD 850 Evo 500gb. Problem still persists, except now even the new ssd disappears too, and my computer has started locking up for 3-5 minutes at a time before they disappear.
Things I've tried so far are
Changing out cables and ports
Reseating all of the drives
Taking out wireless adapter
Reformatted both boot drive (adata 64gb ssd) and the WD drive
Updated bios to latest version
Installed sata drivers from the motherboard website, seemed to fix it for a day but then came back again.
At this point I'm just considering buying a new motherboard, but I'd prefer not to fork out the money for that and have to rebuild it myself if I don't have to.
Intel i5-4670K Haswell Quad-core 2.4GHz LGA 1150
Asus Z87-A LGA 1150 Intel Z87 motherboard
16GB DDR3 1600 RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
Adata 64GB SSD - boot drive
WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM
Samsung SSD 850 Evo 500GB
Corsair HX750 750W power supply
Forgot to mention that all the drives show up just fine in the bios. Sometimes don't show up even after a reboot now, even after rescanning disk.