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It’s been almost a year since we lost Michael, I learned about it on Facebook shortly after he passed. He was an excellent member of the LEM Community, and a good friend. Still hurts to think about it. He was truly one of a kind.
Here’s my comparison video on the Intel transition
by the way, it really doesn’t matter what the cable is. I’m pretty sure all SATA cables are created equally. They’re all copper wire on the inside.
So if you guys are curious early SATA I chips didn't play nicely with forward compatibility most will work with SATA II but not SATA III. Lots of SATA III and some II drives have jumper pins to force the drive into SATA I speeds which fixes the compatibility with newer drives.
In my experience once they do thermal shutdowns like that the cards are usually pretty toasted. If the cards were not cleaned perfectly the first time around, they just start calming apart with heat cycles and shorting and stuff. I would look over the both cards as closely as I could. It may do...
So I dedicated most of this month on my channel to the PPCChallenge upgrading systems and testing weird stuff. Here's the first video on the Sonnet G5 Jive