i guess the real answer for you question ( not the problem) is buy a hard drive other than Hitachi <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Karl Larsen <<a href="mailto:k5di@zianet.com">k5di@zianet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 know a lot of people are using SATA drives now. How did you get them to work in a reliable way? Karl -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 <a href="http://counter.li.org" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org</a>. PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>