I just bought a mostly complete system (- the hard drives)from my buddy. And I went to install a new Sata hard drive in the system and the bios would not see the drive. Could I have a bad cable or is the motherboard bad? I'm using a double cable for both power and the regular conection.

Hi the most common problem with the power splitters is the pins pop out of place when connecting check them all and make sure all pins in power sockets are connecting. Is the drive spinning? there are no jumper so should just plug in and see.

Thanks. I found a old Sata cable and I used the power from my power supply and got it running. Got new probles now.

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