Loose sata port on motherboard?
I don't believe so, I think as long as you don't keep touching it and disturbing it you should be fine. If you have spare SATA ports spare I would use them and leave the loose one alone or the last one I use so it doesn't interfere with your using the PC. If you have to use that SATA port I would suggest having it power your DVD drive as a loose connection on DVD drive will mean DVD drive won't work (so you know what the issue is). A loose connection if it connects to your hard drive means data loss and a whole heap of other issues and inconveniences. Hope I've helped
Does my ASUS P4S8X-X motherboard has SATA port?
it does not appear to. you do have 2 IDE ports tho. you will need to get an IDE hard drive.
Would a SATA 2 motherboard limit the performance of a SATA 3 SSD? My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad Y500. Its motherboard is SATA2. I am considering buying a Samsung 850 pro to replace the HDD. Will there be a significant loss in performance?
It will limit the "maximum" throughput. NB there are 8 bits in a byte (not 10) so crunch numbers accordingly. Be aware that the speeds quoted by the manufacturer are "up to" and not always experienced. You will saturate the SATA2 bandwidth most of the time, but your OS will buffer writes and prefetch reads (Linux buffers writes really well). On the other hand, Windows performace will increase dramatically if you have the paging file on this. It does not matter what you do, something is going to be saturated. There is not going to be a SATA4 so I personally would ride it out. You will only notice a significant difference for very large files of non compressible data. Sata 3 will have something like 250-300mb/s of unused overhead for an uncached 500MB/s SSD. This is not taking into account CPU saturation or thermal trip. If you are risk averse and run with TRIM disabled, SATA3 is nowhere near double the performance as you might optimistically expect.
My motherboard is not detect the sata hdd what i can do?
Hi I own a MSI 875P Motherboard Regarding yr problem i know what caused it First i can be becos u did not set the BIOS to use SATA so press delete during boot to enter bios scroll through the menu until u see a menu saying what harddisk controller to use Default shld be PATA only set to SATA + PATA Save and exit See if it works if not follow the steps below VIA SATA by default the driver is not included in windows XP You can get the driver in the website below But since because you have a problem even detecting it installation in windows is impossible so what you can do there is 2 methods 1) Check you have a floppy diskette that is labelled "VIA SATA" You probalby got this diskette along with yr motherboard when u boot windows XP from CD there is a Press F6 to install RAID Driver etc so insert yr floppy and press F6 the windows install shld succeed 2)Boot and install yr windows XP from another PC with Intel SATA after u install windows successfully download and install the driver from the page below then plug back to yr mainboard to boot it should work
I can't locate SATA ports on my motherboard. My hard drive has failed?
Looking at Gateways motherboards for this serious... it looks like the SATA ports are in the bottom right corner underneath the Molex Power input. If you orient the board so that the CPU is at the top and the memory slots are at the right, look in the lower right hand corner from there, should be black plugs. Link is to an image of your motherboard.
Motherboard doesnt have a Secondary IDE port?
This is the way most new Motherboards are going to be going. SATA or SATAII is the new format for Hard Drives. You have limited options at this point. 1. Install one CD-ROM and one Hard Drive Cost: Free 2. Install an IDE controller card. One of these can plug into an available PCI slot and will add two more IDE ports to you system giving you a total of three which will support six IDE devices. (Promise is a good brand) Cost: $45 at newegg.com for a Promise ULTRA133TX2 3. Use an external USB CD-ROM. You can get just the shell only and use your existing CD-ROM drive. Cost: $32 at newegg for a Coolmax CD-510B-U2 4. Use SATA Hard Drives. Cost: $??? - Varies greatly based on desired size and speed The IDE format is slowly being phased out. Some of the newer CD-ROM drives installed in Dell systems are now SATA and the Motherboards have no IDE ports. This is the nature of technology. As newer connections are pushed out, older ones are dropped. I installed a PC for a client a couple of days ago and it had no Parallel, serial or PS/2 ports. Only USB, Audio, and Network ports on the Motherboard (and *zero* IDE in the case since the CD/DVD drive was SATA) Hope this helps. Good luck.