SATA Hard Drives

[Karl Larsen]

Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
   I got one data cable and out of one, I have 1 bad data cable :-)

Karl


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