HD only spins up if power plugged in after boot?

Weird problem. Just upgraded my MOBO, CPU, RAM and added an SSD as primary boot (not the problem drive). The drive in question is a secondary 1TB drive for storage.

The problem drive (1TB SATA), PSU, and video card are all from my previous build and worked absolutely fine.

After making these upgrades, I noticed my trusty 1TB drive wasn't recognized in BIOS and wasn't even spinning up. I tried a bunch of stuff, and running out of ideas, I tried plugging in the power connector to the drive AFTER the system was turned on and POSTed. If I do that, it spins up.

So I have a weird sequence I have to do now if the computer is off: Turn it on with the drive unplugged, plug the SATA power connector into the drive, let it spin up, and then use the reset button to reboot without letting the drive spin down. If I do that, it works like a charm. But if I do a cold boot, it won't even try to spin up.

I've tried different SATA cables (known good ones), different power connectors on the PSU (known good ones), and multiple SATA ports on my MOBO (ones that work fine with my SSD).

Ideas?

Here are the new specs (I'll put *** next to the new parts I just installed when the problem started):

1TB SATA HD103SJ 7200RPM (about 7 years old but worked fine before I swapped parts)
*** 120GB SanDisk "SSD Plus"
Antec VP450 PSU
*** 2x4GB Crucial RAM
*** Intel G4560
*** MSI B250 PC Mate MOBO
GeForce GT730 card

Unfortunate.
Does it work ok in another PC?
If so it might be a PSU issue.

You can try unplugging everything that isnt needed to get the PC running, ram, gfx card etc etc.
If this helps it also points toward PSU.

I similarly have a 1TB drive that clicks like fury when powered up with the PC.
But if powered up after boot it works great.
I relegated it to backup storage with a note how to power it up.

The system is drawing a lot of power on boot. It would be interesting if you had two hard drives on that system and swapped the power cables around to see if the one that previously worked now doesn't power up.

bigdogchris said:

The system is drawing a lot of power on boot. It would be interesting if you had two hard drives on that system and swapped the power cables around to see if the one that previously worked now doesn't power up.

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Hmm. I do have two spare drives... Worth trying to see what happens.

Maybe related to this?
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223631en

I googled around a bit, and it seems like there was a problem with the drive not being detected by Sandy Bridge mobos, so stands to reason the problem would likely still exist on newer mobos. It does seem like the type of problem a firmware update would fix, so probably wouldn't hurt to try it.

Edit:
Here's a forum thread at Anandtech with some more info, I'd say there's a good chance the firmware update will fix it.
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/solved-samsung-f3-hdd-on-sata-3-0-6gb-s-of-p67-chipset.2140227/