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Adding 7th HDD makes POST spinning 'forever'

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Forum Description: Question about ASRock Intel Motherboards
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Topic: Adding 7th HDD makes POST spinning 'forever'

Posted By: Pekotski
Subject: Adding 7th HDD makes POST spinning 'forever'
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2023 at 1:30am

MOBO ASRock Z790 Pro RS. BIOS from December 2022.
Ports are SATA 3_7 & 3_8.

First added a 16 TB from Seagate. Could not boot. Was spinning on POST. Then added another 20 TB - the only way to make it past POST is to kill it first time and then boot again. It takes approximately between 8-28 (Yes) minutes to boot. Ridicules isn't it?

All drives are healthy and the MOBO is also fairly new - from December 2022.

Without the new drive it takes usually between 2 - 5 minutes to boot - also ridicules but acceptable.

Any ideas?