Changing SATA 3gb cable with 6gb cable

[Vellaura]

Hello all!

 

I had a very basic question, I was just wondering will there be any issues with simply changing a 3gb sata cable with a 6gb sata cable?

 

My MOBO (Asus rampage 3 formula) has 6 Grey sata ports (I think 3gb) and 2 Red sata ports (I think 6gb). I swapped out the 3gb cable with a 6gb cable in the red sata port. Do I need to do anything in BIOS, any further steps? Does it matter which red port I plugged it in? 1 of 2?

 

When I first booted I got a post and everything, then just as the windows logo came up to load my pc shutdown instantly.

 

Then when I booted it up the 2nd time it booted into windows all sweet as per usual, very strange. Would changing sata cables have anything to do with this?

 

The only other thing I did was clean up all the extra hard drive power cables I had, the cable that has 6 or so hardrive power plugs and replaced that with a cable that only has 2 power plugs, obviously because I wont be needing the other one since I only have 1 harddrive.

 

Thanks

[Staidey]

no, just boot.

[Vellaura]

4 minutes ago, Adkatka said:

no, just boot.

okay sweet! Any idea why my pc shutdown the first time when windows logo came up?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

8 minutes ago, Vellaura said:

Hello all!

 

I had a very basic question, I was just wondering will there be any issues with simply changing a 3gb sata cable with a 6gb sata cable?

 

My MOBO (Asus rampage 3 formula) has 6 Grey sata ports (I think 3gb) and 2 Red sata ports (I think 6gb). I swapped out the 3gb cable with a 6gb cable in the red sata port. Do I need to do anything in BIOS, any further steps? Does it matter which red port I plugged it in? 1 of 2?

 

When I first booted I got a post and everything, then just as the windows logo came up to load my pc shutdown instantly.

 

Then when I booted it up the 2nd time it booted into windows all sweet as per usual, very strange. Would changing sata cables have anything to do with this?

 

The only other thing I did was clean up all the extra hard drive power cables I had, the cable that has 6 or so hardrive power plugs and replaced that with a cable that only has 2 power plugs, obviously because I wont be needing the other one since I only have 1 harddrive.

 

Thanks

It shouldn't cause any issues in theory. Now if it was a bad cable, or you bumped something in the process, that might be the cause of that strange shutdown.

[Vellaura]

3 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It shouldn't cause any issues in theory. Now if it was a bad cable, or you bumped something in the process, that might be the cause of that strange shutdown.

It was a completely new sata cable, but I did move the harddrive power cables around. I'm fairly certain I made sure everything was plugged in correctly. Maybe it just needed to re-initialise the change in power cable or something, after all I've had the same power cable plugged in for the past 10 years so it probably was like "WOAH WTF IS THIS...oh its another power cable, sorry, freaked out, yh just boot me up again, we sweet" lmao.