My 6-year-old HDD recently died, taking Windows with it. Now I have a new one, and I'm keen to get it going. But my mobo (A7N8X Deluxe) is OLD: it has a Sil3112A SATA chip. I think this means I can only use SATA 1.5 Gb/s, so I made sure the new drive (ST3250410AS) would be functional with old SATA -- it has a jumper block whereby you can limit it to 1.5. BUT- it came without a jumper cap, and I definitely don't have spares! My question therefore is, can I steal a jumper cap from the wake-up jumper on the USBs I don't use without impairing the motherboard otherwise? And if not does my SATA chip-drive combination have any chance of working without forcible limiting to 1.5 Gb/s?
Thanks.
Thanks.