I have an Asus B85M-E motherboard and my D drive randomly disappears. I use to be able to go to device manager and scan for hardware changes and it would be back. It no longer does this. I have checked the disk with crystal disk and it says everything is good with the drive. Also I put a different drive in and it did the same thing. These drives are installed inside as sata. I have switched the power supply cables with the dvd drive (which has never disappeared) and replaced the sata cables, also updated all drivers including the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and it still does it. Could my motherboard be going bad or could it be something else. Thank you for any help.
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Asus Motherboard Question
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Did you try a different power supply? Power supplies on the verge of failure will often present by dropping random devices, usually drives.
But I would recommend pulling the drive out of the machine and backing it up on something else ASAP if you have data you care about on it.
But I would recommend pulling the drive out of the machine and backing it up on something else ASAP if you have data you care about on it.
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do you have another sata plug on the motherboard you could use ?
your troubleshooting sounds pretty comprehensive so you would have tried that, probably.
isolating the problem to a specific sata plug would make me think motherboard malf.
your troubleshooting sounds pretty comprehensive so you would have tried that, probably.
isolating the problem to a specific sata plug would make me think motherboard malf.