can't see SSD drive in bios anymore

Raggs · 4 Oct 2017 at 17:38

had the corsair drive for 5 years suddenly pc wouldn't boot up today i just got a blinking white curser today on the screen.

Got into bios cant see it my other two HDDs are there as is my dvd drive, have reset bios removed my overclock still no joy tried the SSD drive on the cables that power my HDDs but still not visible.

tried the HDD on the SSD Cables and it's visible so cables are fine anything else i can try or does it sound like it's knackered ?

Had a power cut 2 days ago could that have damaged it some way ? but it did boot up yesterday okay so that might not be relevant.

Cheers.

Huntyz · 4 Oct 2017 at 17:49

When i had an SSD die it was exactly the same as you described.

Maybe try it in another pc if possible?

something daft already!! · 4 Oct 2017 at 17:53

Evidence provided would suggest the drive has gone to the place where drive's are eternally blessed.

BaroUK2 · 4 Oct 2017 at 18:02

When you try every thing else and it doesnt work you can try reflow technique incase its a soldering issue....You can use a heat gun, same principle...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportmacgyver/comments/33cnve/reviving_a_dead_ssd/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xanr4jkmEc

Raggs · 4 Oct 2017 at 18:38

Cheers for the suggestions guys don't have spare desktop but just installed in my laptop and not showing in the bios there either i guess it's dead

as per the instructions on reddit I'll bake it the oven for a laugh though

Raggs · 6 Oct 2017 at 15:22

as a last gasp try i bought a cheap SSD enclosure after a half a dozen tries unplugging the enclosure from the laptop i could finally see the drive in windows, popped it back in my desktop and it's now working so no idea what going on here :confused:

can't say i trust it as a boot drive on my primary pc now though.

BaroUK2 · 6 Oct 2017 at 15:46

Most likely solder / loose connection issue then. Did you try heat gun or oven method yet?

Raggs · 6 Oct 2017 at 15:56

BaroUK2 said:
Most likely solder / loose connection issue then. Did you try heat gun or oven method yet?

No not yet seems to be working okay at the moment I'll give it a go if it packs up again though.