ASRock 970 Pro3 - SSD not recognized

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   Bought a ASRock MB with 16GB ram (2x8 1300 - Crucial), GeForce GT710 Video and 250gb SSD - Samsung SSD 850 EVO.
Installed all the parts but couldn't get the SSD to be recognized by the BIOS.  Read in a post that the BIOS needed to be updated so I did that and the SSD was recognized and I was able to install Win 7 Ultimate on the SSD  and everything worked great for 4 days then the SSD stopped being recognized by the BIOS.  I tried swapping SATA ports and new cables, reset the bios via the CMOS reset pins but nothing.  At a loss as to what the issue would be.  Has anyone experienced this issue and have a solution?

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Crossties Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 Jun 2016 Location: Dallas, TX Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote Crossties Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: ASRock 970 Pro3 - SSD not recognized Posted: 20 Jun 2016 at 4:02am
	Bought a ASRock MB with 16GB ram (2x8 1300 - Crucial), GeForce GT710 Video and 250gb SSD - Samsung SSD 850 EVO. Installed all the parts but couldn't get the SSD to be recognized by the BIOS. Read in a post that the BIOS needed to be updated so I did that and the SSD was recognized and I was able to install Win 7 Ultimate on the SSD and everything worked great for 4 days then the SSD stopped being recognized by the BIOS. I tried swapping SATA ports and new cables, reset the bios via the CMOS reset pins but nothing. At a loss as to what the issue would be. Has anyone experienced this issue and have a solution?

Crossties Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 Jun 2016 Location: Dallas, TX Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote Crossties Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jun 2016 at 5:10am
	Solved the problem. Turned out that the issue was in the SATA power cable. Was trying to splice together power cables of a Generic 4 pin power cable to SATA end. Moved the SSD to it's own SATA power cable from the 750w power supply and now it sees the SSD.

Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 23498	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jun 2016 at 12:13pm
	Thanks for getting back to us with your solution. The first thing to try with a problem like this is always checking cables