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Broken sata connector M4A89GTD PRO


joeyke87

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Since the beginning i've had a lose sata connector on this motherboard, however it worked fine (until now). Unraid said a disk was missing, i knew it was that disk who was connected on the lose port. So i tried plugging the cable out and in but then i had the connector in my hands...

 

So i'll guess i'm asking for an rma. However i wish i could fix this myself so that i don't have this hassle wich will cost me a few weeks. Is there any way to put the connector back on? And if i do choose to rma this motherboard, will the new (same) motherboard works out of the box with unraid? I haven't got any data on my disks yet, just an empty parity and disk one, and two more that just have finished preclearing.

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The same thing happened to me.  My wife had enough patience to put it back on (God knows I would have thrown my whole server over a cliff if it wasn't for her).

 

The main thing is not to bend any of the connections and go slow.

 

If you do want to replace the whole board - a direct swap will work fine.  And as for the same thing happening again - I would say it's very possible, those connectors seem to be fragile.  Especially if you have a SATA cable with a lock and you try to yank it off the MB - THAT IS A BIG NO-NO.

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The same thing happened to me.  My wife had enough patience to put it back on (God knows I would have thrown my whole server over a cliff if it wasn't for her).

 

The main thing is not to bend any of the connections and go slow.

 

If you do want to replace the whole board - a direct swap will work fine.  And as for the same thing happening again - I would say it's very possible, those connectors seem to be fragile.  Especially if you have a SATA cable with a lock and you try to yank it off the MB - THAT IS A BIG NO-NO.

 

Respect for the wife, a bit to late about not bending the connections...RMA it is!

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