Topic: General Hardware Questions

[aldog]

Any good place to get rid of an older MB & #.4 Ghz Dual Core AMD CPU?  Besides the dump.

[mephisto_kur]

->begin celebrity guest voice
As with all electronics, you should be paying attention to your local recycle center's schedule for taking electronics for proper disposal.  While many manufacturers are producing lead free designs now, there are many other hazardous chemicals used in the production of modern electronics that can be problematic.
->end celebrity guest voice

So ends your PSA for this Sunday.

As for a real answer... I dunno!  I normally take my cast offs and upgrade one of the other machines we own, with the lowest crappiest hardware making it to the dump, or if it isn't too old it sits in my spare parts bin.

[aldog]

Wow, that sounded just like Don Pardo.

To the recyclers then.

[GeNe]

Does anyone have a motherboard that uses a Marvell controller for SATA3?  I have a EVGA X58 FTW3, and it has 2 SATA 3.0 ports that are controlled by a Marvell controller.  The other SATA ports are 2.0 and are run by an Intel controller.  Yesterday, my computer froze while I was at work, and when I came home to restart, the Marvell controller failed to initialize, and so my RAID set up is no longer recognized at all.  I switched the 2 SSDs to the Intel SATA ports, but it doesn't recognize the RAID set up, and so it wants to wipe the drives to set up RAID again (which I would like to avoid). 

I haven't been able to figure out how to get the computer to start the Marvell controller up again -- it's like it just disappeared.

I tried resetting CMOS, power off for a few hours and then power on, unplugging and replugging in the drives (make sure cables are seated properly), removing other peripherals and restarting, going into BIOS and disabling and then reenabling the SATA 3.0 controller, but no effect.

Anyone else had this issue?  I saw some other folks had the same issue on some of the EVGA forums, but their fixes didn't help.  Any other ideas?

EVGA may have found the problem for my SATA drives-- when I returned the board for RMA, they found 3 damaged resistors, 2 for the SATA controller and 1 for something else.  Don't know how they got damaged, but they wanted $20 for it.  It's a bit of a pain, but considering I don't really have a choice, I paid it -- the alternative was to receive back a damaged motherboard.