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Lanx

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make sure you didn't accidentally ground your mb, maybe you put too much pressure somewhere when you tried to plug in your sata cables b/c you couldn't find the hole cuz they are right angle and you put too much downward pressure and the mb screws shorted or whatever
 

Animosity

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I replaced all the cables and that worked to get it to turn on. But it still won’t detect any of my SSD or HDD. Not sure what to do from here.
 
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jooka

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Check page 32 of the manual to make sure you are using the right ports in the M.2 & SATA combination table
 

Denamian

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I replaced all the cables and that worked to get it to turn on. But it still won’t detect any of my SSD or HDD. Not sure what to do from here.

Some mobos disable certain SATA ports if it runs out of PCIE lanes, especially older ones like yours. Are you using the M.2 slots as well?

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This is page 33 of your manual.
 

Lanx

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I replaced all the cables and that worked to get it to turn on. But it still won’t detect any of my SSD or HDD. Not sure what to do from here.
did you check your bios and make sure you don't have it set to something like RAID?
 

Animosity

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Ok forum bros. My “new” build is still not working. I can’t even enter Bios now. I hit the button to enter and I just get a black screen. Any ideas on how to fix this?
 

jooka

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Flash the bios to latest version would be first thing I’d try
 

Daidraco

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Flash the bios to latest version would be first thing I’d try
His Mobo shouldnt need a "latest version" as it ships with it. Unless you mean refresh to default settings, then idk.

Ok forum bros. My “new” build is still not working. I can’t even enter Bios now. I hit the button to enter and I just get a black screen. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Do you have a second computer to hook this stuff up to so you can rule out each part as you go?
 

Animosity

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His Mobo shouldnt need a "latest version" as it ships with it. Unless you mean refresh to default settings, then idk.


Do you have a second computer to hook this stuff up to so you can rule out each part as you go?
No I dont. The HDDs were from my previous computer so I know they are fine. And all my "new" parts I bought from a friend who is constantly upgrading his PC. So I know everything works. I just cant get BIOS to work now so I can keep trying to trouble shoot it not detecting my HDDs.
 

jooka

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If he can't even get into the bios, he needs to flash it to see if it can at minimum be accessible.
 
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Daidraco

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If he can't even get into the bios, he needs to flash it to see if it can at minimum be accessible.
True. But at that point, Im usually returning the part rather than continuing to fuck with it. Some shit leads to a void in warranty and I try to stay far tf away from that for obvious reasons.
No I dont. The HDDs were from my previous computer so I know they are fine. And all my "new" parts I bought from a friend who is constantly upgrading his PC. So I know everything works. I just cant get BIOS to work now so I can keep trying to trouble shoot it not detecting my HDDs.
See if he's friendly enough to troubleshoot it with you. I mean, at this point.. Im starting to believe its just the motherboard - or something isnt seated right, but I have more faith in you* than that.