ARE YOU F****** kidding me???!

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by IThurts

Yea. The problem is the error is very inconsistent...it comes maybe 2hrs after the pc is on, maybe 1hr maybe never, but its been there once or twice and thats enough for me as a warning.

Like i said, i have 6 sata slots...and 6 cables all labelled with "SATA1" "SATA2" etc etc...so i got the spare cables, and i should have the spare "red" cables that plug into the mobo too. Its "safe" to just take my primary hd out of SATA 2 slot and simply plug it into SATA 3 i assume...? It wont blow up will it...

Also sparky- when you say spare sata cables...are you refering to the ones that go into the mobo (red ones) or the ones labelled "sata1" "sata2" etc...or both?

Yeah, try swapping the HD into SATA 3 and see what happens. Is there only one cable going into the HD? Just wondering if you have a seperate molex power connector, this was used on early SATA devices.

If you only have one red cable going into the HD then you should be ok to unplug it and plug in a cable from another SATA port (SATA 3 in this case)

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by Stoney

I think he just means do you have any other SATA cables other than the ones that are currently plugged into your hard drives. It's probably worth connecting some different cables to eliminate that the problem you are experiencing is not to do with the SATA cables.

Oh ok, if thats all was meant then :

i have 6 sata slots...and 6 cables all labelled with "SATA1" "SATA2" etc etc...so i got the spare cables if thats what you mean, and i should have the spare "red" cables that plug into the mobo too. Its "safe" to just take my primary hd out of SATA 2 slot and simply plug it into SATA 3 i assume...? It wont blow up will it...

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by Sparky

Yeah, try swapping the HD into SATA 3 and see what happens. Is there only one cable going into the HD? Just wondering if you have a seperate molex power connector, this was used on early SATA devices.

If you only have one red cable going into the HD then you should be ok to unplug it and plug in a cable from another SATA port (SATA 3 in this case)

both my SATA HD's have two connections that need to be made. One is the red cable that goes from the HD to the mobo. The other is the one that is labelled "sata2" (at the minute) and that goes into the HD to whereever the other end goes to..lol.
both of my harddrives are connected in this manner...ie: primary HD has 1 red cable going to mobo/1 "SATA2" cable, and the other HD also has 1 red cable going to mobo/1 "SATA6" cable connected. So 4 cables are being used in all.

Is it a problem that i have 1 red cable going to the mobo for the 1st HD and another red cable going to the mobo for the 2nd HD?

[Stoney]

Originally Posted by IThurts

both my SATA HD's have two connections that need to be made. One is the red cable that goes from the HD to the mobo. The other is the one that is labelled "sata2" (at the minute) and that goes into the HD to whereever the other end goes to..lol

.....the power supply!

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by Stoney

.....the power supply!

What he said

[IThurts]

just another thing please...

I remember when i had my old HD that it had a seperate partiton within it (poss system files/mbr?). When i transfered my backup onto the new drive, i only now have 1 partition which is obviously my backup. Is it important that the new drive does not have this old parition? Im pretty sure the partition held important data..i hadnt put it there, it was there when i bought the machine. It had around 2GB of data on it but i wasnt sure what it was at all..

any ideas? and is it an issue that on my new harddrive which i now use that the said 2GB partition is no longer there?

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by IThurts

just another thing please...

I remember when i had my old HD that it had a seperate partiton within it (poss system files/mbr?). When i transfered my backup onto the new drive, i only now have 1 partition which is obviously my backup. Is it important that the new drive does not have this old parition? Im pretty sure the partition held important data..i hadnt put it there, it was there when i bought the machine. It had around 2GB of data on it but i wasnt sure what it was at all..

any ideas? and is it an issue that on my new harddrive which i now use that the said 2GB partition is no longer there?

When you backed up with Acronis did you select the extra partition? It might just be a recovery partition.

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by Sparky

When you backed up with Acronis did you select the extra partition? It might just be a recovery partition.

the only option was for me to select the c:, so thas what i picked.Im sure my query has nothing to do with anything, but just wondering.

[BosonMichael]

If the drives work in another computer, then it's probably the fault of the controller on the mobo. Simple as that. Which is what my gut tells me, since it's unlikely that a second drive would be similarly bad.

Could be the PSU... I've seen flakier things happen because of a substandard PSU. Wouldn't be my first thing to check, though.

[IThurts]

guys just out of interest..and because im an ignoramous, My sata controller on my mobo...If i have 2 drives and 6 sata controller slots in my mobo...how many cables (the red ones with black ends) should i be using...ie: how many controller ports should be in use??As at the minute each HD i have (2) are plugged into seperate controllers...is this ok? Should there be 1 cable going into the sata mobo controller for each hard drive? im pretty sure thats right.

I have changed the cable from the sata HD > sata controller on the mobo (red cable with black ended connectors)...see if that makes a difference.? I have also moved the cable to a different controller slot on the mobo.
i have left the cable in that says "sata3" on it which is inside my HD.(goes from HD to power suppy)...as i dont feel necessary to change this...could be wrong?

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by BosonMichael

If the drives work in another computer, then it's probably the fault of the controller on the mobo. Simple as that. Which is what my gut tells me, since it's unlikely that a second drive would be similarly bad.

Could be the PSU... I've seen flakier things happen because of a substandard PSU. Wouldn't be my first thing to check, though.

im no expert asu can tell..lol...but if i have 2 HDs and BOTH are using cables going into 2 seperate controller ports on the mobo using the same main controller, but im only getting errors from 1 HD..? Surely this cant be the controller in that case? Or did you mean the specfic PORT on the controller the error prone HD/cable is going into?

[BosonMichael]

Originally Posted by IThurts

im no expert asu can tell..lol...but if i have 2 HDs and BOTH are using cables going into 2 seperate controller ports on the mobo using the same main controller, but im only getting errors from 1 HD..? Surely this cant be the controller in that case? Or did you mean the specfic PORT on the controller the error prone HD/cable is going into?

Might be something messed up on the mobo itself. Who knows, a bad trace, perhaps? Or maybe the controller chip is flaking out only for that port. Do you have a spare port to use? Again, it's just a gut instinct thing...

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by BosonMichael

Might be something messed up on the mobo itself. Who knows, a bad trace, perhaps? Or maybe the controller chip is flaking out only for that port. Do you have a spare port to use? Again, it's just a gut instinct thing...

Yea like i say, i have one controller but within it has 6 ports. So i have tried using a different port within that controller...i was using number 2 i think, iv moved it to num 4. Done a defrag last night too and changed the cable. Left the PC on all night to do its defrag and didnt get any errors throughout the night.

Seems to me that i get the error when im doing my day to day tasks of web sites/net surfn/opening random folders etc etc. I notice that on AVGs daily scan it tells you which files have been "changed" or "modified" my main sys files are almost always on there but i assume this is normal ie: files like kernel.dll or whatever its called etc. I noticed though that my MBR partiton is on there too now and another which i forget now. Im pretty sure this is due to the fact that i have reformatted and now the small partition which was once there is no longer there. Anyway, will see how things go with my new cables/controller port.

Thanks for the help...always appreciated.