SATA Problem

Martyn1989

Martyn1989

Martyn1989

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Hello,

I have a 'Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard'.

The time has come for me to add more hard drives to my system, but unfortunately I have run out of SATA ports. I have 6 in total, and I am currently using 4, but I have managed to pull the plastic caps off 2 of them meaning I can't actually use them!!

Can anyone help?

Cheers :)
 
The caps off the motherboard? So what's left? Just some random 'connector wiring' sticking out of the board?

If you have to, you could just buy a cheap SATA card, and run some drives off that.
 
grab a pci/pcie sata card i think most will suport between two to four for a small price any more drives needed it will be costly
 
Delvis said:
The caps off the motherboard? So what's left? Just some random 'connector wiring' sticking out of the board?

If you have to, you could just buy a cheap SATA card, and run some drives off that.
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Just metal pins sticking out of the motherboard. I tried to put the plastic cap back on when this happened, but I couldn't align them :(

The plastic caps came off VERY easily as well.

As for SATA cards, they are pretty expensive right?
 
Cheapest one they do here is £40, however that's a RAID card, and you don't really need it.

So I would look elsewhere for a non-RAID card.

I've had a couple of the SATA headers come off at work before, luckily managaged to get them back on though :p

Seen one for just under £20, however that is PCI-express interface...They are about, you just have to find them.
 
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You don't use locking SATA cables do you? Most of them don't really lock that well but others do and could be the reason why you've managed to pull the plastic surround off.
 
I'm looking for a PCI SATA Controller card. I was just looking what features I should look for on one? The speed of the card, would it make much a different? Also, I suppose they only support up to SATA I speeds?

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You don't use locking SATA cables do you? Most of them don't really lock that well but others do and could be the reason why you've managed to pull the plastic surround off.
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Yeah I do. Maybe that is the problem then? I didn't realise they were that suseptable to the problem?
 
Martyn1989 said:
I'm looking for a PCI SATA Controller card. I was just looking what features I should look for on one? The speed of the card, would it make much a different? Also, I suppose they only support up to SATA I speeds?



Yeah I do. Maybe that is the problem then? I didn't realise they were that suseptable to the problem?
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Heh, they're only a problem if you don't 'de-clip' them when you goto remove the sata cable :p

Depends what hard drives you have anyway, if they are SATA-I speed, then a card that does that will do etc.
 
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