Will I continue to have problems?

[DarrisBard]

My parents asked me to help them because their store bought HP computer would no longer start. I took a look inside and all the fans were spinning and the cd drive was functioning. Only the hard drive light (plugged in) wasn't working so I determined the hard drive was the problem. I switched the SATA connector to a different SATA port on the motherboard and the machine booted fine. I was then able to back up some files.

I'm wondering if this means the hard drive will eventually fail? They don't have an OS cd, because there is a recovery partition, so I was worried that simply getting a new hard drive wouldn't help.

DarrisBard

 

[sirmonkey1985]

best suggestion would be if you have an extra hard drive to try plugging it into the sata port that wasnt working.. if it works then you can tie the problem to the hard drive or the sata cable.. if its the port thats bad then most likely at some point the motherboard will eventually die.. how long til that happens it all depends..

 

[DarrisBard]

Oh right, I left that part out. The cable wouldn't come loose and I pulled so hard that the port came right off the motherboard. Thanks for the suggestion though, I bet the motherboard will die since some weird stuff had been happening previously.

 

[engiNURD]

lol... are you sure the cable didn't have a locking latch?

 

[DarrisBard]

lol... are you sure the cable didn't have a locking latch?

Must have. At the hard drive I depressed the little button and the cable pulled right out. On the motherboard end even pressing the button (locking latch?) I couldn't get the darn thing off...

 

[sirmonkey1985]

oh well.. that wont cause as much of a problem then as a port that was dying.. tell em to start looking at computers they might want and wait til that computer dies..