willem445
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So I have an EVGA Z68 Micro in my main rig and have had it for 2 years or so. Last night I was playing ARMA 3 when my game suddenly froze. I couldnt CTRL ALT DEL or anything but I know it wasnt a hard freeze because Coretemp was still updating temperatures. I then reset my computer and was greeted by a message saying Boot MGR missing. I was freaking out because this is my main rig that I use for school etc. It wouldnt even let me get into the BIOS which I thought was weird. I then tried disconnecting one of my secondary HDDs and connected my SSD to that SATA port and my computer booted up 100% fine. My computer is working great again but I have my secondary drive disconnected because all of my SATA jacks are being used with the one jack not working. So what in the world would cause a single SATA jack to die? I noticed zero performance issues prior to it failing.
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/25 14:04:38
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Hmmm... Chocolate milk, boogers, paperclip, gum... On a serious note, have you tried swapping cables to make sure it is not a bad sata cable? Sata ports do die and from what I know, it's usually a cap on the board going bad or a bad connection/solder point. It is very frustrating when all of them are used up. I always lol when I see some boards with so many sata connectors but then I am thankful when something like that happens.
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willem445
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/25 14:09:55
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agent8 Hmmm... Chocolate milk, boogers, paperclip, gum... On a serious note, have you tried swapping cables to make sure it is not a bad sata cable? Sata ports do die and from what I know, it's usually a cap on the board going bad or a bad connection/solder point. It is very frustrating when all of them are used up. I always lol when I see some boards with so many sata connectors but then I am thankful when something like that happens.
I guess it could have been the cable as well. I never tried it. The drive just had random video clips and whatnot on it so I wasnt too concerned. I just wanted it to get in working condition ASAP.
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/25 14:14:06
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I would also recommend checking the cable. It is pretty unusual for a port to just fail, but if it did, then it could be that the channel on the controller had a problem.
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/27 20:49:53
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+1 to checking the cable. If that turns out not to be the issue, you can try the same drive on another port. I recently had a bad HDD cause all sorts of problems on my system; RAID not working right, previously stable OC failing, errors in OS, long load times on games/freezing, other drive failing to be detected. I thought my mainboard or SATA controller was failing but after removing the bad drive all issues vanished. The big clue came when SMART was red and I heard the drive clicking...
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/28 10:31:48
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slayer_27 +1 to checking the cable. If that turns out not to be the issue, you can try the same drive on another port. I recently had a bad HDD cause all sorts of problems on my system; RAID not working right, previously stable OC failing, errors in OS, long load times on games/freezing, other drive failing to be detected. I thought my mainboard or SATA controller was failing but after removing the bad drive all issues vanished. The big clue came when SMART was red and I heard the drive clicking...
It was the sata port connected to my main SSD drive with windows installed on it. Plugged it into a different jack and worked 100% so I doubt it was the drive that caused it.
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/28 12:37:55
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My bad. I re read your post and it seems I missed that part.
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/28 12:45:51
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Try a fresh cable as everyone recommends and also reinstall the chipset motherboard drivers.
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/28 16:22:14
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Thanks for the advice. Next time I clean out my computer I will try it and see if that fixes it.
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Re: What would cause a SATA jack to suddenly fail?
2016/04/28 16:27:34
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slayer_27 My bad. I re read your post and it seems I missed that part.
It is interesting though that one of your drives was causing issues with everything.
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