Motherboard sata ports won't work

Hello, my motherboard went dead recently, luckily my laptop was still in warranty, so they replaced it with a new one. I got it back yesterday and right away spotted some problems: 1) The usb ports on the right side next to the cd drive do not work at all, they don't even give out power, I've...

This is a brand new custom built PC for web browsing for a motel lobby. Win7 Home Premium AMD A4-3300 Llano MSI A55M-P33 FM1 Rosewill FBM-02 MicroATX Mini Tower Running latest BIOS and latest drivers downloaded directly from manufacturer's website. I tried switching between all 3...

A few days ago I installed a USB 3.0 card (to be precise, this one: 2-Port USB 3.0 SuperSpeed PCI-E Controller Card - Free Shipping - DealExtreme). It uses the very common NEC µPD720200 USB 3.0 controller. I installed the required drivers for Windows 7, and the card worked fine for the first...

Yesterday I had a PC technician around to see why my PC was not booting-up properly and also to change my SSD to a larger SSD. As I am visually challenged I cannot do hardware upgrades etc, so I got a Techie guy in. We used Zinstall HDD by-the-way and I would highly recommend this application...

Relatively new hdd disappears after some time. (1Tb WD black sata3 jumpered to sata2) All cables are sata click. The drive is used for storage and is accessed only few times a month. So is any way to test somehow what is the problem hdd, cable or mb sata connector (GA-EP43-DS3L). It's all...