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you would most likely be better off replacing the motherboard. The damage

you can’t see can definitely sneak up to bite you and create system instability.

If you have a component failure, you can often replace the component

with an add-on card that will be as good as or better than the failed device.

Adaptec, for example, makes fine cards that can replace the built-in SATA

ports on the motherboard (see Figure 6-44).

Figure 6-44 Adaptec PCIe SATA card

If your component failure is more a technology issue than physical

damage, you can try upgrading the BIOS on the motherboard. As you’ll

recall from Chapter 5, every motherboard comes with a small set of code that

enables the CPU to communicate properly with the devices built into the

motherboard. You can quite readily upgrade this programming by flashing

the BIOS: running a small command-line program to write a new BIOS in the

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