where to plug in hard drive?

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grazhopper

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I have an MSI X58 motherboard. On it there is a blue SATA port and then there are several more on the side of the motherboard. I currently have both my HDD and CD drive into the side ports but am having errors with my system. Would it matter at all if I use the blue port on the motherboard for my HDD instead of one of the ones on the side?
 
If memory serves, usually one color is for RAID while the other color are additional SATA ports, although you should be able to use any of them. What sort of errors are you receiving?
 
i get blue screen and rarely have a start-up on the first time, i always need to use system recovery to just get into windows. Also when I downloaded the western digital data lifeguard thing and ran a search for errors, it gives me an error saying "cable test error" then says check cables...? I am not sure what this means but the first thing that came into mind was to plug the SATA from the hard drive into the blue SATA port on the motherboard instead of one of the side ones.
 
What OS are you running? Check the BIOS to make sure that the SATA ports are set to SATA/IDE mode, and not RAID or AHCI if you run XP.
 
windows 7, i didnt see anything to switch to SATA/IDE so i assume its automatic. I did see an E-SATA port which had nothing under it, is this where the harddrive is supposed to be plugged into ?
 
No, you don't want to use the eSATA port. Are you sure you didn't see anything? The BIOS menu system drills down forever so it may be hard to find, but all of the ASUS motherboard's I've had have that feature.
 
Usually its referred to a Disable AHCI/ Native IDE mode or SATA IDE Emulation mode. Depends on the Bios.
 
What error code are you getting with the blue screen ..??

If your win7 boot files has been modified then windows update will eventually keep the os from running...
 
how did this problem start..? have you had this running before but it started to blue screen loading into windows..? What error code are you getting "system config error" something on those lines.. ?
 
yea sometimes some different things but mainly "system config error" and something about the memory. Im currently looking into if there is a harddrive problem but i dont think there is.
 
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