My new PC is an upgrade of a gaming case. The items upgraded were Motherboard, CPU, and Ram. I had chosen this case as it provided lots of space for my Video collection which now extends to 4 conventional Hard drives, of varying capacities. I was not interested in gaming, so I thought the existing power supply would be sufficient, although , I was told on this forum, it was of poor quality.
CPU AMD Ryzen 5
MotherBoard B450 AORUS ELITE V2 (AM4) Rev 1.2
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750
RAM Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16 Memory
PSU WIN Power AD-E500AE-A5/A6
The Motherboard has 6 SATA ports, though 2 were not available if an SSD drive of type m2 was installed. Neither of my SSD drives were of this type. I had also brought from my previous PC a PC Express card which supported an additional 4 SATA ports.
The upgrade seemed to go well after ironing out a problem in connecting the wiring of the front panel.
I had initially installed only two SSD drives, one of which was the system drive, the other used for data. However when I installed the DVD drive and three other of my drives only the DVD drive and one of the SATA Drives was recognized by Windows. I had been invited by Windows to upgrade to Windows 11, so I decided to do a trial, thinking it might help solve the drive recognition problem. It didn’t help and as I did not wish to tackle the complexities of the new system as well as the problems of SATA drive recognition, I have reverted to Win 10.
Reviewing the situation I felt that it might be a power supply problem, however the situation was not improved by reducing the number of SATA drives connected. The voltages reported in Bios and by Speccy seem regular
Another oddity was that the PCIe Card was initially recognized by Bios and flagged,during the boot sequence, with the i.d. of the drives attached, but this ceased after a while. In my previous PC the PCIe card and its drives was always flagged on boot.
I have discussed the situation with the sellers of the upgraded items. Their initial conclusion is that the motherboard is faulty. However if anyone can suggest an alternative solution before I dismantle the whole assembly I would be very grateful,
CPU AMD Ryzen 5
MotherBoard B450 AORUS ELITE V2 (AM4) Rev 1.2
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750
RAM Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16 Memory
PSU WIN Power AD-E500AE-A5/A6
The Motherboard has 6 SATA ports, though 2 were not available if an SSD drive of type m2 was installed. Neither of my SSD drives were of this type. I had also brought from my previous PC a PC Express card which supported an additional 4 SATA ports.
The upgrade seemed to go well after ironing out a problem in connecting the wiring of the front panel.
I had initially installed only two SSD drives, one of which was the system drive, the other used for data. However when I installed the DVD drive and three other of my drives only the DVD drive and one of the SATA Drives was recognized by Windows. I had been invited by Windows to upgrade to Windows 11, so I decided to do a trial, thinking it might help solve the drive recognition problem. It didn’t help and as I did not wish to tackle the complexities of the new system as well as the problems of SATA drive recognition, I have reverted to Win 10.
Reviewing the situation I felt that it might be a power supply problem, however the situation was not improved by reducing the number of SATA drives connected. The voltages reported in Bios and by Speccy seem regular
Another oddity was that the PCIe Card was initially recognized by Bios and flagged,during the boot sequence, with the i.d. of the drives attached, but this ceased after a while. In my previous PC the PCIe card and its drives was always flagged on boot.
I have discussed the situation with the sellers of the upgraded items. Their initial conclusion is that the motherboard is faulty. However if anyone can suggest an alternative solution before I dismantle the whole assembly I would be very grateful,