Motherboard sata ports won't work

farbods0 said:

nope i think my hdd is just DOA and that really sucks because i wanted to use it for christmas and try out my 5870

Oh, I thought that you said it worked when connected to another computer.

farbods0 said:

nope i think my hdd is just DOA and that really sucks because i wanted to use it for christmas and try out my 5870

I'm confused here, did you not type that the SATA connection was bad, and that you tried the drive on another pc?

farbods0 said:

Yeah I did but apparently it was the old drive in the computer =(

So your issue no longer exists?

farbods0 said:

well my issue is still there its just that no one can do anything about it because its defective

When you have it connected to another computer, check in Disk Management to make sure that the hard drive has been initialized and formated on it. A brand new hard drive is usually blank and has not been inialized or formated yet. This could be why it will not show up on a new system like this. Next, try it again to see if shows up with your motherboard.

farbods0 said:

bought the new hard drive but whenever i do boot from usb_Hdd it still boots from harddrive.

Farbods, If you are telling us that you bought a new hard drive and its USB, when you boot since the internal C drive is first boot thats in the first order of priority.
The USB drive has not been configured as a bootable drive so it will load up as a secondary /additional drive designated "D" drive.
In order to use the USB drive as a flash or you have executables that need to load after the bios posts before it boot straps and loads the OS you must make your USB drive bootable or go to your bios and change out the boot priority to your USB drive.

Best Regards from your friends at Windows 7 Support,
Adrian