Hi, Stewart.
Here is my motherboard:
http://www.epox.com/showimage.asp?ID=EP-MF570SLI
It's 3 years old and the maker, EPoX, has gone out of business, but this
photo clearly illustrates the difference between PATA and SATA connectors.
On this mobo, there is ONE 40-pin PATA connector, turned vertically near the
left edge and colored yellow. (Not the yellow floppy drive connector along
the bottom edge.) This Parallel ATA connector type has been called IDE for
a dozen years or so. The mobo also has SIX SATA connectors, all grouped
near the bottom edge, just below the large square fan. Note that these
connectors are quite different. There's no way to confuse PATA connectors
with SATA connectors! The motherboard you've pointed to has NO SATA
connectors at all that I can see. Just 2 or 4(?) PATA connectors; 2 of the
4 are probably for floppy drives or optical drives.
The cables to the drives also are quite different. No way to confuse SATA's
narrow 5/8" cables with PATA's 2" wide ones. Power connectors and cables
are different, too.
>>>so I shall probably have to take the whole thing back to them and get
>>>them to sort it out.
That's definitely the right solution. And it would be a good idea to take
along a friend who knows what a SATA cable should look like. And take along
your HDD, not just a photo of it, to be sure that you can connect both data
and power cables.
RC
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"Stewart" <him@invalid.supanet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:hn3q16$jnq$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> Tim, I am a bit lost as you will see with this; if you go to this site
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=1672
> you will see a motherboard like mine.
> All 4 connectors are in use,
>
>
>
> "Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
> news:97qap5t4rr952sojfd1eq7knvo7t9blc89@4ax.com...
>> "Stewart" <him@invalid.supanet.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>just to update; I bought a 1GB ram to-day and it installed no bother
>>>bowever
>>>the shop sold me an internal hard drive with a "Sata" connection instead
>>>of
>>>serial
>>
>> SATA is *Serial* ATA, so your motherboard probably uses the older
>> Parallel ATA (PATA) connections.
>>
>>>so I shall probably have to take the whole thing back to them and get
>>>them to sort it out. I had taken the ilustration of the hard drive with
>>>me
>>>and showed them that as well as saying that I had bought the power unit
>>>from
>>>them with the ribbon connections.
>>>They tell me I can get an adaptor but there does not seem to be anywhere
>>>in
>>>the motherboard to connect to.
>>
>> It would be a SATA to PATA adapter. I don't really understand your
>> last line. There's got to be some kind of socket on your MB to connect
>> a disk to. Either the smaller SATA or the longer PATA socket.
>>
>> --
>> Tim Slattery