Question re sata cables

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 23:48 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I have a pretty expensive ASUS M2N-SLA Deluxe motherboard, and I am having 
> lots of log messages from the sata stuff, disconnects and reconnects/resets 
> virtually anytime the cat walks by.  Reaching in and just touching any of 
> the cables will fill a couple pages of the messages log.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this, and if so where did you obtain the 
> replacement cables that stopped this particular PITA.  Or, are we stuck 
> with it till the "Next Great Thing"(TM) comes out?

I had to put a dab of silicon at the connection. The socket male/female
connection is dicey. That fixes it. A loose solder connection was
suggested, but if that was the case, the silicon fix wouldn't have fixed
it. Ric

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