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Yanked the cable and the pastic thing came off the pins that stick out from
the m/b. Fixed it once before by bending the pins back and putting the plastic
connector (that you plug the cable into) back over the top, but the second
time it happened the pins snapped off.

Is there a good chance of this being fixable by any computer servicer? The
pins are gone so they'd have to solder some replacement pins onto the
motherboard.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:45:03 +1200, steve wrote:

> ugh! wrote:
>
>> Yanked the cable
>
> This is your problem right here.

Not quite, it was the *second* yank that did it

ugh! wrote:
> Yanked the cable and the pastic thing came off the pins that stick out from
> the m/b. Fixed it once before by bending the pins back and putting the plastic
> connector (that you plug the cable into) back over the top, but the second
> time it happened the pins snapped off.
>
> Is there a good chance of this being fixable by any computer servicer? The
> pins are gone so they'd have to solder some replacement pins onto the
> motherboard.
If you have a spare pci slot, get a sata adapter card. Safer than having
the mb fried attempting a tricky repair job.

Rob

In message <>, Gordon wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:45:03 +1200, steve wrote:
>
>> ugh! wrote:
>>
>>> Yanked the cable
>>
>> This is your problem right here.
>
> Not quite, it was the *second* yank that did it

One good yank deserves another.

Ah, you're nothing but a yanker.

And other yank jokes at your expense.

On 2006-09-26, ugh! <> wrote:
> Yanked the cable and the pastic thing came off the pins that stick out from
> the m/b. Fixed it once before by bending the pins back and putting the plastic
> connector (that you plug the cable into) back over the top, but the second
> time it happened the pins snapped off.
>
> Is there a good chance of this being fixable by any computer servicer?

sure, If you can find one that does component-level repairs.

> The pins are gone so they'd have to solder some replacement pins onto the
> motherboard.

It might be cheaper to use a PCI SATA card.


Bye.
Jasen

ugh! wrote:
> Yanked the cable and the pastic thing came off the pins that stick
> out from the m/b. Fixed it once before by bending the pins back and
> putting the plastic connector (that you plug the cable into) back
> over the top, but the second time it happened the pins snapped off.

The second time? You chose your nickname wisely.
--
Shaun.

> Is there a good chance of this being fixable by any computer
> servicer? The pins are gone so they'd have to solder some replacement
> pins onto the motherboard.