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Yes a few years back now that fan siezed and Asus send me a new, slightly different type which has been fine ever since. I have checked the bios settings and sata is enabled, also i have swapped out both power and sata cables. The HD is a Seagate barracuda which i have recently read about the motors siezing inside which can only be repaired by a professional which im gussing will be quite expensive job. Like SYNACK said it could be the firmware which has got a bit messed up so i will leave it unplugged for a few days hoping that may fix it. Quite a few of the seagate models have had a problem with outdated firmware, however there is not an firmware update for the model which i have, which is heading me towards the fact the HD may be dead.

I will get one of those adaptors if none of the above methods solve the problem, at least i will be able to hopefully get my data off the drive this way. Thanks

No i have not got either another computer which supports sata or another sata drive. So yes its hard to eliminate which is causing the fault. I did remove cmos/bios battery, but only for about a minute of two so i could try taking it out like you say for an hour or two.

Thanks. I will try unplugging the power for a few days an see if that sorts it. The sata cables dont seem very good fit, i have had issues with them before just falling out, Il try a different cable.

Ive been running my sata drive fine for well over a year now, but yesterday the comp locked up so rebooted to find the message no device found. I have a standard ide hard drive which i use as storage but it has xp installed on it so once that message pops us it boots from the ide. I have checked all the connections which seem fine. raid is disabled, i have reset the bios What else could be causing this? faulty hd? I have searched the forums but still no luck with fixing this. Any ideas? Its a asus A8N Sli deluxe with xp running on the sata.

I can't see any labeling on any of the pins? I know the R, G, B thick wires go into pin 1, 2, 3 and the earths on those wires go into 6, 7, 8 but the other 6 thin wires i don't know? Basically the connection in the cable end which plugs into the graphics card was broken so i cut the connector off an bought another but when i wired it to a new plug i didn't get any signal. i tried to see what the existing wiring was on the old connector but all the wires was pulled out.

not on your first ever post..

How will i be able to tell what colour are the various pins eg Horizontal Sync/Vertical Sync etc... There is nothing on the pcb in the monitor to indicate what the various pins are?

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I've looked everywhere on the net for these diagrams which i can find but they do not correspond to the colours coming out of the cable. Could someone tell me which of these wires go into what pins. I will post a pic in the next post as i cannot post a pic with my first post. Try saying that after a few ha.. Thanks