yes I have been plagued by this. The sheathing pulls off the board.
If it is intact you can slip it back on, but be careful or you will
break a pin. I lost one SATA connector on a top end ASUS board,
after a couple of pins broke due to repeatedly falling off the board,
straightening pins,and putting sheathing back on. This taught me to
use a trace amount of super glue to keep the sheathing on the board.
On another Intel board the sheathing came off and fell apart in two
pieces when I pulled the SATA connector off, so now I have the pins
sticking out of the board unable to connect to a SATA cable... so if
someone has a old board they are tossing it would be great if they
could pull the sheathing off the SATA port and mail it to me!
I also have issues with the SATA cables falling out of the ports
when the PC is just sitting. I know they make cables with clips but
they only work when the connector is pointing up and is out the
open, instead of stacked. I have also had a problem with the clips
pulling the sheathing off the board. SATA ports and connectors are a
poor design, and I am surprised they haven't fixed this in the last
eight years.
At 07:32 AM 1/19/2010, you wrote:
I was inside my PC last night....went to reconnect the optical
drives...noticed that one of the indexed sata power connector was
broken..the short part of the "L" was broken off...could barely get
the power connector to hold...even worse for the data cable. After
I got it all back together, the power to the drive is there, but I
can't see the drive, so obviously the data connector is hosed since
the cable won't grip. Anyone ever see this before? Are SATA
connectors robust? I have my doubts. This is a blu-ray reader / DVD
writer, so it's nearly $100 to replace....
