Another Problem .. A bigger Mess Of Things! (Cable Connections) (desktop, hard drive, bios)
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Some of the folks on the board got upset with me because they felt that I wasn't taking their advice and troubleshooting the different parts of the pc as they advised.
Before putting out the money for another computer .. I felt it best to try everything.
I got a friend to help me .. which is where I have now made a bigger mess of things!
In trying to find a solution to all the other problems .. I've added another! 8(
My friend, who is trying to help me with my pc (I have a vision problem), accidentally unplugged a cable from the motherboard that goes to the hard drive.
Neither one of us is very knowledgeable with pc innards.
(In the one picture, where that red cable is plugged in .. that cable runs to the disk player.)
My question is .. does it matter which slot the hard-drive cable plugs into of the three (connection slots) that remain?
The slots are at the bottom right where one of them is colored blue.
The board is a foxxcon G33M05G1
(One of these 3 remainging slots is where I'm sure the hard-drive connects to?)
It really shouldn't matter .... The worst that could happen is that the BIOS doesn't automatically figure out that you moved it, and makes you select it again as the boot drive.
If you plug it in, and it gives you an error message (not sure why it would), just power down and move it to a different one .
That said; It could just be the angle of the flash, but the capacitor above the coin cell looks like it's bad to me.
It really shouldn't matter .... The worst that could happen is that the BIOS doesn't automatically figure out that you moved it, and makes you select it again as the boot drive.
If you plug it in, and it gives you an error message (not sure why it would), just power down and move it to a different one .
That said; It could just be the angle of the flash, but the capacitor above the coin cell looks like it's bad to me.
It really shouldn't matter .... The worst that could happen is that the BIOS doesn't automatically figure out that you moved it, and makes you select it again as the boot drive.
If you plug it in, and it gives you an error message (not sure why it would), just power down and move it to a different one .
That said; It could just be the angle of the flash, but the capacitor above the coin cell looks like it's bad to me.
Definitely looks like a blown cap.
For the OP, have your friend look at all the capacitors on the motherboard, if any are not perfectly flat on top you'll need to replace the board.
This is the same one with the Power Supply problem? It might be more cost-efficient to just buy a new desktop computer.
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