Satellite C660D-140 - no power SATA

Well, this is certainly a weird problem with portable Satellite C660D-140 of my father.

A few days earlier, he wanted to use it, but once started, it will attempt to start in PXE. In the BIOS, the hard drive could not be found and the hard drive was not a single sound. I assumed that the hard drive was done for, and since I was already counting on the laptop to give a SSD to speed things up, and had backed up data, I ordered a BX100 Crucial 250 GB SSD and installed in the laptop, with the screws in place. To my surprise, the BIOS does not pick up it is!

Then I did what I should have done before ordering the SSD: check the hard drive by plugging in my office. And would you believe: it worked fine. The conclusion is therefore that the laptop is defective power the player, then, the SATA power plug is no power on the drive, or is insufficient.

What causes this? Nothing weird happened to this laptop, it happened all of a sudden.

On the virtual path that is not easy to offer the exact diagnosis and we can is to speculate what may be the problem.
In my opinion, there is a problem with the HARD disk controller. I assume that it is defective so what you need is a professional help.

The warranty is still valid?

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