SATA Hard Drives

[Ari Torhamo]

su, 2008-06-22 kello 09:33 -0600, Karl Larsen kirjoitti:
> I have this computer on a SATA hard drive and it keeps failing. The 
> failure is in the data cable or the power cable and I can't tell for 
> sure which is bad. I am now using the old style power because the SATA 
> drive has this still. That stopped the failures for awhile.
> 
>     But this Sunday I booted up and got an error that has nothing to do 
> with a hard drive failure, but in an hour the screen lost all colors and 
> even the shapes of items on the screen were odd. I re-booted and it 
> would not reboot. I had to  turn off the computer with the power switch. 
> Then tried to come back up and it would not boot.
> 
>      I looked at the BIOS and it said NO hard drives! Turned off the 
> computer and pulled off the cover a giggled the two ends of the data 
> cable. Turned it on and it booted right up. It looks normal again.

I have had many bad experiences with SATA data cables. On one of my
motherboards, five of the six cables that came with it were bad. Also
the connection is not secure enough. A slight tension from another cable
may loosen the plug enough to cause problems. The same applies to the
SATA power plug. When you work inside your computer case, the last thing
to do should be to check that the SATA cables are properly connected.

Ari Torhamo