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?

  • msdesignfotoOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thing is… My previous motherboard had 6 sata connectors so I assume it should have been able to connect 6 sata drives. But I never made them all work at once.