pcchip bios doesn't detect hard drive

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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Hi.

I have a pc chip A21G v.1.1 motherboard that wasn’t using for a couple of months, i try to assemble it and sudenly stop working correctly, doesn’t recognize sata hard drives, i tried with 3 different disks in different sata plugs, i also reset the bios (jp2 jumper), take out the battery, load optimal settings from bios setup, even i considered update the bios butthe last version is already installed (current tools work on windows or dos but i use gnulinux), please my mainboard is dead?, bios seem to load normal when i unplug all sata hard drives when one sata drive is plugged bios seems to hangup, please help.

Thanks.

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How many sata hard drives do you have connected?

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Some older motherboards had issues with SATA II (300) drives when they first appeared and had a jumper setting to render them in a SATA I (150) mode. I don’t know if this comes into play with a SATA III (600) drive, so check the drive/manual about this.

Also, try a different SATA data cable just in case.