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Dead SATA Port on my motherboard? [going nuts for 4months due to this]

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I get multiple BSODs:

1E
4A

IRQL_Not_Less_or_Equal

Usually it takes three hours to get my computer to post (luck).
My motherboard has LEDs that illuminate to let me know voltages and what's working.
I can't get the CPU/SB/NB/MEM to light up (only the white ROG logo lights up).
When I do get a successful post, they do light up but not for HDD activity and that's when my monitor says "Power Save" and I'm back at square one. I pretty much just unplug the PSU plug, plug it back in, and press the mobo power button to hope I get a post.... and when I do get it to post, and I'm on my desktop.. if I access something that has to do with my HDD/SDD my program freezes or my computer freezes and I have to shutdown (and when I power up, I usually get Power Save on my monitor due to no post or I don't even get the normal voltage LEDs to illuminate).

Do you think it's a SATA port issue? Sometimes, I get a successful post and I can surf the net with no problems, but as soon as I open up my fraps video folder or play my video game it crashes. I'm thinking about trying to boot from all of them with just my HDD, and see if only four of them are damage out of six. (but I think the other two are E-SATA, not sure if I should try those).
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yeah i would definitely try booting with only 1 drive to find out if any port(s) are bad. also try different sata cables.

if all the ports and cables seem fine, it might be one of the drives. iirc, IRQL_Not_Less_or_Equal bsod's are driver related, so i think it makes sense that it crashes if a drive is faulty.
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Try one thing at a time. Unplug all of your drives except one and see how the boot goes.
    
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I tried three different SATA cables and four different locations with two SSDs to chose from along with one HDD (I only plugged one in at a time).

I have no clue what the problem is, and I'm not sure why it's a luck thing? Takes like 100 boot attempts, but usually I'm more successful trying once a day. Furthermore, when it does boot I either get a BSOD or my computer/screen freeze/lockup.
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