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Thanks for the replies, I'm now up and running with the SATA in a gaming dock and an IBM laptop and Access installed. One day completely shot, but at least I'm up and running.
A clarification. the computer is 5 years old, that is the case, the hard drive, DVD and floppy drive are all 5 years old. Dell, under warrantee, replaced every single board in the computer 2 years ago.
Environment: basic office desktop, my laptop is 5 feet away.
I think the boards defective. When I was troubleshooting with Dell Support, all we did was unplug every drive, plug the computer in, read out the ABCD colors and he instantly says it's a bad integrated voltage regulator...over the phone. My guess is their CS software gives them past incidents on which to draw conclusions. The speed of and lack of actual testing with such a precise diagnosis leads me to believe this model suffers consistent failure. Just a guess.
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