SATA II causes system freeze

[Roger Heflin]

Power supply would be my only guess to cause system wide failures with
2 separate motherboards, both of which would be unlikely to be bad in
the same way.   I have used a number of the AMD build sata2/sata3 MB
controllers and never had them act up even when using all of the
build-ins at the same time heavily.

Possibly the sata3 uses a bit less power and that lowers things just
enough that it does not happen, or possibly the sata3 chipset will
survive with a lower voltage than the sata2 chipset.   Power problems
do weird things...whatever component is the most picky on its voltage
will be what flakes out, and it can be just about anything.    If both
of the MB's were a similar AMD chipset then likely the weak point is
the same.


On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:18 AM, David A. De Graaf <dad at datix.us> wrote:
>>
>> When the system freezes, if X is lit (not screen-saved) the LCD
>> monitor looks as if it had been hit a sharp blow on the right edge so
>> that all the pixels have been shaken loose.
>
> Sounds like a bad motherboard. It's managing to corrupt memory in such a way that you're getting video artifacts.
>
>
>> So, wizards, has any of you experienced a system freeze such as mine?
>> Can you attribute it to connecting a SATA II hard drive to a SATA II
>> socket?
>
> No.
>
> Chris Murphy
>
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