I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard. It
has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

I don't have a manual for this mobo and haven't been able to locate
one on the internet yet. It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it
still goes! Seems a shame to junk it.

MM

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:03:05 +0000, MM wrote:

I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard. It
has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

I don't have a manual for this mobo and haven't been able to locate one
on the internet yet. It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it still
goes! Seems a shame to junk it.

Often, that's a 6Mb/s port. Still works normally.


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On 25/03/2017 12:24, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:03:05 +0000, MM wrote:

I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard. It
has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

I don't have a manual for this mobo and haven't been able to locate one
on the internet yet. It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it still
goes! Seems a shame to junk it.

Often, that's a 6Mb/s port. Still works normally.



What he said
Gigabyte are pretty good at having old manuals on their site though,
should be there somewhere

MM wrote

I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard.
It has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

Quite a few motherboards do have more than one SATA controller and
the color often does indicate which controller the connector belongs to.

I don't have a manual for this mobo

That should be available from the Gigabyte site.

and haven't been able to locate one on the internet yet.

What is the motherboard number ?

It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it still goes! Seems a shame to junk
it.

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:38:41 +0000, Lee
wrote:

On 25/03/2017 12:24, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:03:05 +0000, MM wrote:

I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard. It
has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

I don't have a manual for this mobo and haven't been able to locate one
on the internet yet. It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it still
goes! Seems a shame to junk it.

Often, that's a 6Mb/s port. Still works normally.



What he said
Gigabyte are pretty good at having old manuals on their site though,
should be there somewhere

Well, I tried searching. I've searched for hours and have so far found
exactly nothing. The motherboard is stamped GA-8TRC410M-NF and, now
that I have restored all BIOS defaults and can see the startup logo,
have discovered that the PC was originally a Packard-Bell.

MM

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 04:25:25 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

MM wrote

I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard.
It has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

Quite a few motherboards do have more than one SATA controller and
the color often does indicate which controller the connector belongs to.

Right, but there is no SATA drive in this PC yet. I've ordered one.
The four SATA ports are currently not connected to any drives.

However, others in this thread have said the blue one denotes it as a
6Mb/s port.

When I get my new SATA drive I'll need to plug it into one of the SATA
ports. Given what Bob Eager commented, I'll probably go for the blue
one, since the new drive is a brand-new WD Blue 500GB SATA 6 drive.

I don't have a manual for this mobo

That should be available from the Gigabyte site.

Nope. I've searched high and low for it.

and haven't been able to locate one on the internet yet.

What is the motherboard number ?

GA-8TRC410M-NF

MM

MM wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:38:41 +0000, Lee
wrote:

On 25/03/2017 12:24, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:03:05 +0000, MM wrote:

I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard. It
has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

I don't have a manual for this mobo and haven't been able to locate one
on the internet yet. It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it still
goes! Seems a shame to junk it.

Often, that's a 6Mb/s port. Still works normally.



What he said
Gigabyte are pretty good at having old manuals on their site though,
should be there somewhere

Well, I tried searching. I've searched for hours and have so far found
exactly nothing. The motherboard is stamped GA-8TRC410M-NF and, now
that I have restored all BIOS defaults and can see the startup logo,
have discovered that the PC was originally a Packard-Bell.

MM


I wonder if PB had custom made motherboards for their PCs and consequently
were *supposed* to provide all further support?

Tim

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 06:46:45 -0000 (UTC), Tim+
wrote:

MM wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:38:41 +0000, Lee
wrote:

On 25/03/2017 12:24, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:03:05 +0000, MM wrote:

I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard. It
has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

I don't have a manual for this mobo and haven't been able to locate one
on the internet yet. It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it still
goes! Seems a shame to junk it.

Often, that's a 6Mb/s port. Still works normally.



What he said
Gigabyte are pretty good at having old manuals on their site though,
should be there somewhere

Well, I tried searching. I've searched for hours and have so far found
exactly nothing. The motherboard is stamped GA-8TRC410M-NF and, now
that I have restored all BIOS defaults and can see the startup logo,
have discovered that the PC was originally a Packard-Bell.

MM


I wonder if PB had custom made motherboards for their PCs and consequently
were *supposed* to provide all further support?

Tim

You're right. I used Belarc to find as much info about the mobo I
could and Belarc determined it to be a NEC Computers International
product (made by Gigabyte). Then I found a Packard Bell
serialnumberdetectiontool.exe via an ftp link and this told me that
the board was in a PB iMedia 1529 PC, Model/Type UTOW-RIO
S/N 0498-19220547. In fact, the board was commonly referred to as a
Rio GA-8TRC410M-NF. On the way I read a number of comments that this
board was one of the worst Gigabyte ever produced, although the PC I
was given runs very well.

Further searches on the Wayback Machine found a lot of detail about
this board, though still not the actual motherboard manual. However,
later I found loads of full colour high res images of the board, some
with the various pins and connectors clearly labelled. So I know a lot
more about the board now than I did yesterday!

However, time to save up for a mobo bundle, methinks. £139.99 for
this, for example:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skylake-Pen...erboard+bundle

MM

On 25/03/2017 12:03, MM wrote:
I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard. It
has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

I don't have a manual for this mobo and haven't been able to locate
one on the internet yet. It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it
still goes! Seems a shame to junk it.

MM


ON mine, ga-p55m-ud2 (Circa July 2009), the difference between the 2 blue and 5 white seems to be to do with raid.

Both appear to do raid just different types. They call them GSATA and P55 SATA, I guess different controllers like Rod mentioned.

https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/sata-vs-gsata-gigabyte-sata-284816/

Both are SATA 2 (3Gb/s).

As your MB is earlier I doubt it is SATA 3 (6Gb/s). Maybe even SATA 1 (1.5 Gb/s)

On 10/04/17 18:23, Nick wrote:
On 25/03/2017 12:03, MM wrote:
I've been given an old tower computer with a Gigabyte motherboard. It
has four SATA sockets, labelled 0, 1, 2 and 3.

SATA socket #0 is coloured blue, the other three are black.

Is there any significance to the blue one, other than it is SATA-0?

I don't have a manual for this mobo and haven't been able to locate
one on the internet yet. It's a very old mobo, circa 2006, but it
still goes! Seems a shame to junk it.

MM


ON mine, ga-p55m-ud2 (Circa July 2009), the difference between the 2 blue and 5 white seems to be to do with raid.

Both appear to do raid just different types. They call them GSATA and P55 SATA, I guess different controllers like Rod mentioned.

https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/sata-vs-gsata-gigabyte-sata-284816/

Both are SATA 2 (3Gb/s).

As your MB is earlier I doubt it is SATA 3 (6Gb/s). Maybe even SATA 1 (1.5 Gb/s)



As a general point, entering the motherboard type number into google
with the word 'manual' should net you a good PDF that will tell you
exactly what the hardware and connectors are, and do.


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