Gigabyte Sata Cables

Today I went to Microcenter and bought parts to build my mother a new computer.

Left with this:
-i3 2100
-Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2P-B3
-Corsair XMS 1600 2x2gb
-Thermaltake V4
-CM Hyper 212+
-WD 1TB Green
-Win7 Pro 32bit

So the build went together great and I went to load the OS and it cant read the DVD drive...Ended up that the Sata cable was bad, so I swapped it for a spare I had.

Try to load the OS again. Now it cant read the HDD... Now the other Sata cable is bad.

This is the 2nd Gigabyte board that all the bundled sata cables are DOA...
Pretty poor stuff...

Thank god for spares!

[Rant Off]

Maybe you plugged them in backwards

tool_462 said:

Maybe you plugged them in backwards

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Dang why didnt I think about that!

onefstsnake said:

Dang why didnt I think about that!

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Come to think of it, I had a Gigabyte combo from MC that the SATA cable was bad. Was it a black cable with a little white around the connector end?

That is very unlucky! One of my cables ended up failing because it was bent too much by my graphics card :s

Thats bad luck...

All blue cables. Other cables were all Orange.

I have a few Gigabytes mobos. No bad sata cables in the bunch except the one I broke the end. Sata cables are loose anyway, sometimes don't make good connection.