Re: Can a weak CMOS battery prevent detection of a drive

CMOS battery? Crazy idea, I know.

It took me all day to solve this problem. My Samsung SATA 2.0 boot drive 
always work. The Barracuda SATA 3.0 SSD is finicky. I thought maybe a SATA 
3.0 cable would work. Wrong. SATA 2.0 and SATA 3.0 are electrically 
identical. The SATA 3.0  cable I tried had an elbow that made it 
troublesome. SATA 2.0 cable is not.

I thought why is Barracuda SATA 3.0 SSD is finicky? Maybe bigshot does not 
want to be slave. I rearranged the cables in the six available SATA ports. 
Then I renamed drive E: to drive D: in Win10 and everything worked.

I ran CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalDiskMark and everything was fantastic.

Saved me a bundle of money not buying a new PC workstation. 12GB of RAM 
works good.


>I read that weak CMOS battery can prevent detection of a drive. I have two 
>SSD drives. One an old Samsung 500GB boots reliably. Drive D: is a new 
>Seagate Barracuda, 500GB that is not detected reliably. I've done 
>everything conceivable with the cables. I've read bad reviews on the 
>Barracuda.
>
> BIOS program says CMOS battery is 3V whereas 3.3V might have been when it 
> was new.
>
> Is it worth my time to buy a new CMOS battery?
>
> Thanks
>