- Joined
- Nov 16, 2004
I got home today from work to find my computer unable to find it's boot device. I immediately figured Windows was at fault and somehow glitched itself from being seen, but alas the BIOS revealed that indeed my main SSD was not being detected.
I quickly swapped the power and data cables from my secondary to my primary and it booted straight into Windows. I then swapped the data cable from SATA1 to SATA0 on the motherboard to make sure the port wasn't bad and again got into Windows no problem.
Low and behold it appears the SATA cable went bad. I've never seen a cable "randomly" go bad ever in all my years so I'm a little perturbed.
Should this be cause for concern? I'm glad the issue was a simple fix, but now I'm slightly worried that maybe my motherboard could have an issue? That seems farfetched, but I'm wondering if anybody has ever experienced the same thing with a new motherboard? This MB is going on only 3 months and it happened to be "the last one" at MicroCenter sitting out on a table. I'm paranoid they sold me something they knew had minor issues.
I quickly swapped the power and data cables from my secondary to my primary and it booted straight into Windows. I then swapped the data cable from SATA1 to SATA0 on the motherboard to make sure the port wasn't bad and again got into Windows no problem.
Low and behold it appears the SATA cable went bad. I've never seen a cable "randomly" go bad ever in all my years so I'm a little perturbed.
Should this be cause for concern? I'm glad the issue was a simple fix, but now I'm slightly worried that maybe my motherboard could have an issue? That seems farfetched, but I'm wondering if anybody has ever experienced the same thing with a new motherboard? This MB is going on only 3 months and it happened to be "the last one" at MicroCenter sitting out on a table. I'm paranoid they sold me something they knew had minor issues.