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?)






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Please forgive me if I can't respond right away.

I can't see the writing on my friends monitor and my friend isn't around to help all the time!

My monitor is a 60" and I can BARELY make out anything on it .. When my pc is working!No it does not matter which port you plug into. The blue colored port looks like a faster one than the black ones. You can plug the hard drive to that port. If you see carefully, the ports are marked with SATA 1, SATA 2, SATA 3, SATA 4. This can be seen some where around the ports. Best would be to plug the hard drive to SATA 1 and the DVD drive to SATA 2.
Quote from: mrclose on October 24, 2013, 08:05:56 PM

My monitor is a 60" and I can barely make out anything on it .. When my pc is working!

Btw, I can't make out if its the reflection of light, but the capacitor above the CMOS battery looks blown.

This picture is of a board similar to mine ...