Hello!

I have an issue with my computer. There are 4 sata hard drives installed + 1 M.2 NVMe. The whole set work nice without issues. Now, I added an USB PCIe card and it requires SATA power. I plugged the wires but USB devices plugged in the PCIe card do not work well.

I have an Asus motherboard with an Intel i5 12400F, but before this set, I had a Gigabyte motherboard with an AMD 6350 Six-core CPU. I tried to plug an expansion bay for sata hard drives and it also doesn’t work. If I unplug one hard drive, whatever it is, the drive bay will work and read the inserted hard drive.

Likewise, if I unplug one hard drive now and plug an USB device into the PCIe card, it will work.

Seems lack of power but my PSU is 850W.

Any explanation for this?

  • msdesignfoto@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes, when I had the other mb I tried a bunch of several connectors, sata power, flipping cables through different drives, you name it. Now I am using an M.2 NVMe so its one less sata power needed. The previous arranjement was an SSD but sata-powered. Plus the 4 sata drives. All worked together. Whenever I wanted to plug a 6th drive or the Hard drive bay, didn’t work. I had to unplug one of the others.

    With the Asus mb, which has only 4 sata ports, I can’t connect a 5th sata device. So I also feel this is mb issue. This mb has less USB ports so I got a 7 port PCIe card, but it needs power from a sata cable. USB devices plugged there… They just don’t work. Unless I unplug one sata drive.

    Still searching…