Connecting two motherboards

GPedia · Oct 21, 2014

Can someone tell me what will happen if I use a dataSATA cable to directly connect my laptop to my main computer's motherboard? will the two motherboards communicate and run smoothly?

EDIT:
Can you tell me a way to link two separate motherboards together so that they use the same RAM over both devices, then?
Thanks!

proon · Oct 21, 2014

Interesting question... can you chain a bunch together ?

Eximo · Oct 21, 2014

I guess a better question is what are you trying to accomplish.

How would you connect a SATA cable from your motherboard to your laptop? Are you talking eSATA, no, it doesn't work that way.

gerald191146 · Oct 21, 2014

Firstly, what reason would you want to do this? Secondly, no I don't believe you can. A SATA cable is used for HDDs and DVD drives.

GPedia · Oct 22, 2014

mgilbert :

I dont know waht eSATA is, but I mean the SATA cable with the smaller jack.

GPedia · Oct 22, 2014

Eximo :

I mean the smaller SATA cable, which connects the the motherboard directly.

mgilbert · Oct 22, 2014

GPedia :

eSATA is simply a SATA connector that is external - on the back of the computer. Regardless, my answer is the same. If you connect a SATA connector on one motherboard to a SATA connector on another motherboard, the best that can happen is nothing. The worst that can happen is that you'll fry the SATA controllers on both boards. SATA controllers expect to see a storage device on the end of the cable. If a controller were to see another motherboard, it would have no idea what to do with it. The SATA interface is for transferring data to and from a storage device. It is not for networking.

GPedia · Oct 22, 2014

mgilbert :

GPedia :

eSATA is simply a SATA connector that is external - on the back of the computer. Regardless, my answer is the same. If you connect a SATA connector on one motherboard to a SATA connector on another motherboard, the best that can happen is nothing. The worst that can happen is that you'll fry the SATA controllers on both boards. SATA controllers expect to see a storage device on the end of the cable. If a controller were to see another motherboard, it would have no idea what to do with it. The SATA interface is for transferring data to and from a storage device. It is not for networking.

Oh dear. Well, then, can you try answering my other question? Is there any way?

GPedia · Oct 23, 2014

mgilbert :

GPedia :

I'm not aware of any motherboard that is designed to be connected to another motherboard for purposes of sharing RAM, or anything else. Exactly what are you trying to accomplish???

I have this non functional motherboard (I think the problem is the either the graphics card, the VGA female jack, or the Processor itself, because the monitor din't communicating with the CPU) and I was thinking if I could use the RAM Its got on it for my laptop somehow...

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