Possible to repair a bad SATA port?
- Thread starter Robert P
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What motherboard is it? Some of the early 1155 boards had a SATA port recall where they'd fail over time.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall
I was wondering if it might be due to some bits/bytes software issue that could be remedied. I assume what you're talking about is some kind of actual hardware fix - going in and soldering something or the like?
A Gigabyte LGA775 board, don't have the exact model immediately at hand.
If the Drive works fine on another port as you say, then it's not software related.
Okedokey
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Not sure about this assertion. Each SATA port has its on driver stack.
Jamebonds1
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You would need rework system that cost almost 2000 dollar. So trying repair SATA port is not worth it. Each years, SATA port's pin will downgrade slower until it stop let data flow throught. I would recommend to get new motherboard.
Okedokey
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What?? Can you provide any evidence to support this?
Jamebonds1
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Simply......TOO BAD. You are not adove everyone.
I don't need to proven evidence to you. I see you have been always challenged me, you can't win. I also see you like to argument with me in public, using PM instead. Act like adult, or leave me alone.
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I hadn't heard such degradation claims either, it'd be nice to back it up with some hard data other than you might have witnessed a hard drive fail at some point and blamed the SATA interface.
Jamebonds1
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They can degradation very slower ever if you take care of your computer. I will make simply, USB port does not lasting longer, HDMI does not lasting longer also, copper does not lasting longer too, and cable does not lasting longer either. Ever if you take care of your computer pretty well. I have tower case for longer than 5 years, and my audio, USB port and few SATA are broken. So, that is why I told Okedokey that I don't need to proven evidence at time, it is very easily to tell if you have same metal pin on any interface for 7 years. No metal pin for interface will stay best quailty for over 10 years. That is why his SATA port are bad and it is older motherboard.
Everything he do is not defense. What I said is make any sense. SATA port will degrade slower. That mean data tranfer will become slow over a years.
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I've got to say that this doesn't make any sense at all. Just because you have bad experiences with your motherboard, doesn't mean everyone else will. Heck, I've worked on systems years old that still work well.
Jamebonds1
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I do not physically broken it. I have 5 years old tower as said adove. They stopped work ever if I take care pretty well. Thermaltake Case are sometime known to be break easily for some time. You do not know about my computer at anything. And yes, data tranfer will become slower if SATA port are bad.
That is not only happened to me but it happened to my other friend who came to me. I had to told them to change SATA port, network port or cable, they got better data tranfer rate and back to normal. I saw what OP said and that mean SATA port is bad, and that is called being degraded. I do not saying it would degraded in one years. I do saying it would degradation slower each years. My point, speed trasfer would not stay same for 10 years.
Believe whatever you want, but there is absolutely 0% fact behind anything you're saying.
Jamebonds1
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What I said is true, I never post false statement. You can't keep same transfer speed for 10 years. As I said adove, data transfer will became slower if SATA port are bad. Data transfer will getting slower a bit each years. That is called degradation, it mean data tranfer became slower.
That will proven that I'm right about SATA port being degraded.
http://techlogon.com/2011/09/24/troubleshooting-a-faulty-sata-port/
Jamebonds1
Active Member
You don't have to agree with me fine, but don't talk to me if you don't like my post. I do not care what you think about. I still called bad SATA port as degradation, unless you have different evidence for me.