SATA connection failing

Supernova

Hi,

I bought an internal SATA disk from PC World last year and quite often my eight year old P4 BIOS will fail to recognise it. I have tried swapping cables and SATA ports in the machine to no avail.

Restarting from Windows invariably fixes it.

Is this the machine's fault or the disk's?

Thanks

Shimrod

What rating is your power supply? I had a similar problem after upgrading my graphics card a couple of years ago - two (of my four) hard drives would disappear at random while windows was running. It turned out my power supply no longer had enough oomph and it was the hard drives that were losing out. A power supply upgrade fixed the problem.

banger9365

it's because your using new teck on a old pc ,
see if there a jumper on the sata hdd that can turn it in to sata instead of sata II that might help
and you might be really lucky and have a jumper that limits the drive to 137 gb for old stuff ,put not seen one of then for a long time

Supernova

I upgraded to a Xilence 480W last year too - should be plenty, no?

daniel_owen_uk

Hard to say without knowing what else you are running, but I would hazard a guess and say that will be fine.

Do you have another PC you could test it in?

Supernova

banger9365 wrote: »

it's because your using new teck on a old pc ,
see if there a jumper on the sata hdd that can turn it in to sata instead of sata II that might help
and you might be really lucky and have a jumper that limits the drive to 137 gb for old stuff ,put not seen one of then for a long time

Ah, you might be right. I have a SATA I that does work but it's the SATA II that sometimes doesn't.

I'll check the jumper if there is one

I don't have another PC to try.