heroman87

Hey, I just installed hard drives in my computer, bringing the total to 6. All 6 of them are SATA2 Hard drives, and my windows only shows 4. Is there something I need to do to get them to show? All the cables are plugged in firmly, all powered. Any ideas are welcome, correct ones are preferred. :P

tosh9i

can your power supply handle 6 hard drives?

heroman87

it's a 600w thermaltake purepower power supply, so I was thinking it would have no issues. My computer's specs are in my sig, so that's the other stuff taking up power.

tosh9i

fill this out and tell me the results:

http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc/index.html

heroman87

I used that calculator, and it says 906w, which I dont think is right, seeing as with the hardware that's working right now (4 HDDs), it says 828w.

heroman87

Anyone?

Tumbleweed36

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a is not a great power supply. That model is one of the weaker ones by that company. The only great power supply by Thermaltake is the "Toughpower" series.

My second concern, if you are running dual 8800's in sli, you are way underpowered with a 600 watt power supply. You need a bare minimum of a 750 watt power supply at the very least. I suggest the Corsair 750 as the bare minimum or even the PC Power & Cooling 750.

One can not be sure if not seeing them is the cause of your problem, but it very well could be. My real concern is the possiblity that running this rig underpowered might cause you to burn up other components on your rig like video card(s), memory, motherboard.....and the list goes on.

IMHO, you need to take care of the lack of power first, and then you can deal with the hard drive issue if that is a problem after you fix the obvious lack of power in this rig.

heroman87

Would the Corsair HX1000 be overkill then? Because that's the one I've been looking at.

Tumbleweed36

No, that would not be overkill. That would be a great solution for you.

tosh9i

It's be an overkill for your wallet though. Don't those things cost about $200-$300.

You might be able to use Live.com's cashback program to get 30% off thru ebay.

heroman87

I'm not worried about the price point, Ive spent this much building the computer already, im not gonna stop when it comes to making it work properly :P

heroman87

So I bought the power supply... aaaand nothing. Is there any other reasons for six HDDs being hooked up and only 4 registering?

tosh9i

Do your drives appear in Disk Management (Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management)

dai

check if the 2 that don't show are on ports that need a chipset driver loaded to enable the ports

heroman87

That might be my problem... The two drives not showing up are not in the disk management, that was the first thing I checked, but when I get home I'll try checking for some drivers for it. I've got the Asus crosshair 2 mobo, so that very well might be the issue. Thanks

heroman87

Problem still exists, I didn't see any drivers or updates that would fix the issue. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, can someone else double check for me in case I missed something? It's Kinda starting to bother me.

dai

check for a bios update
have you installed the raid driver and set the drives as ide in the bios

heroman87

First of all, I refuse to do a bios update, that's why I have this mobo in the first place. Updating the bios bricked my last asus board and asus' 'brick fixer' didn't do crap. Second, where would I find a raid driver? I don't remember seeing it on the website or I would have tried that.

dai

on your m/b setup disk
there are 2 raid drivers on the asus site for your m/b
1 for the onboard slots
1 for the rear sata slots
with asus you can recover a bad flash from the m/b setup disk

heroman87

well thank you very much, I'll check that out when I get home, thanks again.