HP Compaq 8710P No Hard Drive found in bios

I have an HP 8710P, when I go into the bios info there is no HD found, but I can hear it running, also when you when I do an HD check it picks it up. I've taken it out and put it in another Computer, It detecs it. the poeple I got it from wiped it with the bios some I'm thinking they messed up the bios are something

More likely the motherboard is bad and the SATA port is dead.

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