You can use SATA 3 drives in a SATA 1 or SATA 2 machine, ignore advice claiming otherwise. You can plug a top of the line new SATA 3 SSD into an old piece of junk A1150 and it will function just fine from modern Crucial SSDs to Seagate 1 TB SSHDs to 320 GB WD blacks. I do it everyday. I would be bankrupt or too busy fighting chargebacks to post here if this were not possible.
Your issue is most likely related to one of the following.
a) Those drives are developing bad sectors. Can you even buy 160 GB drives anymore? How old is that thing?! Old enough to be DEAD is the right answer. And for !&&*'s sake, you bought it on EBAY!!! and they TOLD you it was new... so it must be, right? ;) eBay is the WORST place to unintentionally buy BROKEN CRAP!!!
hard drives in laptops have an average shelf life of 3 years before failing or starting to kick the bucket. ANYTHING PRODUCED that is 160 GB is already outside that timeframe.
b) Your X1600 chipset is failing. They are all dead by now, there are no new ones so I cannot even recommend you TRY replacing the GPU on that. Even if you were able to find a new GPU for that thing, the Samsung VRAM will die while you try to replace it, so absolutely no point to even try.
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c) The drive cable is bad. Highly unlikely, the only ones that die without reason are the 13" Unibody cables.
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c) The drive cable is bad. Highly unlikely, the only ones that die without reason are the 13" Unibody cables.
Do this.
Buy a NEW drive from NEWEGG, NOT EBAY!!!!!!!! SATA, 2.5" - this is all that matters. Use a WORKING MACHINE to put 10.6 snow leopard on this drive - any other Macbook Pro from 2006 to 2011 will work fine for this(but core i models will only boot from 10.6.8, not 10.6.3). Then place that drive into your A1150.
If it works, you know the issue was you have bad installation media or a bad drive.
if this does not work, it's time to toss that A1150 in the bin. But really, if ANY X1600 based machine isn't at least a little dead by now, I will be very surprised. Those chipsets were junk when they were new, and do keep in mind that at this point in time, they are nine years old.
You can use SATA 3 drives in a SATA 1 or SATA 2 machine, ignore advice claiming otherwise. You can plug a top of the line new SATA 3 SSD into an old piece of junk A1150 and it will function just fine from modern Crucial SSDs to Seagate 1 TB SSHDs to 320 GB WD blacks. I do it everyday. I would be bankrupt or too busy fighting chargebacks to post here if this were not possible.
Your issue is most likely related to one of the following.
a) Those drives are developing bad sectors. Can you even buy 160 GB drives anymore? How old is that thing?! Old enough to be DEAD is the right answer. And for !&&*'s sake, you bought it on EBAY!!! and they TOLD you it was new... so it must be, right? ;) eBay is the WORST place to unintentionally buy BROKEN CRAP!!!
hard drives in laptops have an average shelf life of 3 years before failing or starting to kick the bucket. ANYTHING PRODUCED that is 160 GB is already outside that timeframe.
b) Your X1600 chipset is failing. They are all dead by now, there are no new ones so I cannot even recommend you TRY replacing the GPU on that. Even if you were able to find a new GPU for that thing, the Samsung VRAM will die while you try to replace it, so absolutely no point to even try.
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c) The drive cable is bad. Highly unlikely, the only ones that die without reason are the 13" Unibody cables.
Do this.
Buy a NEW drive from NEWEGG, NOT EBAY!!!!!!!! SATA, 2.5" - this is all that matters. Use a WORKING MACHINE to put 10.6 snow leopard on this drive - any other Macbook Pro from 2006 to 2011 will work fine for this(but core i models will only boot from 10.6.8, not 10.6.3). Then place that drive into your A1150.
If it works, you know the issue was you have bad installation media or a bad drive.
if this does not work, it's time to toss that A1150 in the bin. But really, if ANY X1600 based machine isn't at least a little dead by now, I will be very surprised. Those chipsets were junk when they were new, and do keep in mind that at this point in time, they are nine years old.
You can use SATA 3 drives in a SATA 1 or SATA 2 machine, ignore advice claiming otherwise. You can plug a top of the line new SATA 3 SSD into an old piece of junk A1150 and it will function just fine from modern Crucial SSDs to Seagate 1 TB SSHDs to 320 GB WD blacks. I do it everyday. I would be bankrupt or too busy fighting chargebacks to post here if this were not possible.
Your issue is most likely related to one of the following.
a) Those drives are developing bad sectors. Can you even buy 160 GB drives anymore? How old is that thing?! Old enough to be DEAD is the right answer. And for !&&*'s sake, you bought it on EBAY!!! and they TOLD you it was new... so it must be, right? ;) eBay is the WORST place to unintentionally buy BROKEN CRAP!!!
hard drives in laptops have an average shelf life of 3 years before failing or starting to kick the bucket. ANYTHING PRODUCED that is 160 GB is already outside that timeframe.
b) Your X1600 chipset is failing. They are all dead by now, there are no new ones so I cannot even recommend you TRY replacing the GPU on that. Even if you were able to find a new GPU for that thing, the Samsung VRAM will die while you try to replace it, so absolutely no point to even try.
Do this.
Buy a NEW drive from NEWEGG, NOT EBAY!!!!!!!! SATA, 2.5" - this is all that matters. Use a WORKING MACHINE to put 10.6 snow leopard on this drive - any other Macbook Pro from 2006 to 2011 will work fine for this(but core i models will only boot from 10.6.8, not 10.6.3). Then place that drive into your A1150.
If it works, you know the issue was you have bad installation media or a bad drive.
if this does not work, it's time to toss that A1150 in the bin. But really, if ANY X1600 based machine isn't at least a little dead by now, I will be very surprised. Those chipsets were junk when they were new, and do keep in mind that at this point in time, they are nine years old.