Connecting two motherboards

[GPedia]

Can someone tell me what will happen if I use a dataSATA cable to directly connect my laptop to my main computer's motherboard? will the two motherboards communicate and run smoothly?

EDIT:
Can you tell me a way to link two separate motherboards together so that they use the same RAM over both devices, then?
Thanks!

 

[proon]

Interesting question... can you chain a bunch together ?

 

[Eximo]

I guess a better question is what are you trying to accomplish.

How would you connect a SATA cable from your motherboard to your laptop? Are you talking eSATA, no, it doesn't work that way.

 

[gerald191146]

Firstly, what reason would you want to do this? Secondly, no I don't believe you can. A SATA cable is used for HDDs and DVD drives.

 

[GPedia]

If you are thinking of connecting two computers together via eSATA, don't! SATA/eSATA is not a network connection. It is for hard drives. Tie two computers together this way, and you stand a good chance of frying the SATA controllers on one or both motherboards.

I dont know waht eSATA is, but I mean the SATA cable with the smaller jack.

 

[GPedia]

I guess a better question is what are you trying to accomplish.

How would you connect a SATA cable from your motherboard to your laptop? Are you talking eSATA, no, it doesn't work that way.

I mean the smaller SATA cable, which connects the the motherboard directly.

 

[mgilbert]

If you are thinking of connecting two computers together via eSATA, don't! SATA/eSATA is not a network connection. It is for hard drives. Tie two computers together this way, and you stand a good chance of frying the SATA controllers on one or both motherboards.

I dont know waht eSATA is, but I mean the SATA cable with the smaller jack.

eSATA is simply a SATA connector that is external - on the back of the computer. Regardless, my answer is the same. If you connect a SATA connector on one motherboard to a SATA connector on another motherboard, the best that can happen is nothing. The worst that can happen is that you'll fry the SATA controllers on both boards. SATA controllers expect to see a storage device on the end of the cable. If a controller were to see another motherboard, it would have no idea what to do with it. The SATA interface is for transferring data to and from a storage device. It is not for networking.

 

[GPedia]

If you are thinking of connecting two computers together via eSATA, don't! SATA/eSATA is not a network connection. It is for hard drives. Tie two computers together this way, and you stand a good chance of frying the SATA controllers on one or both motherboards.

I dont know waht eSATA is, but I mean the SATA cable with the smaller jack.

eSATA is simply a SATA connector that is external - on the back of the computer. Regardless, my answer is the same. If you connect a SATA connector on one motherboard to a SATA connector on another motherboard, the best that can happen is nothing. The worst that can happen is that you'll fry the SATA controllers on both boards. SATA controllers expect to see a storage device on the end of the cable. If a controller were to see another motherboard, it would have no idea what to do with it. The SATA interface is for transferring data to and from a storage device. It is not for networking.

Oh dear. Well, then, can you try answering my other question? Is there any way?

 

[GPedia]

If you are thinking of connecting two computers together via eSATA, don't! SATA/eSATA is not a network connection. It is for hard drives. Tie two computers together this way, and you stand a good chance of frying the SATA controllers on one or both motherboards.

I dont know waht eSATA is, but I mean the SATA cable with the smaller jack.

eSATA is simply a SATA connector that is external - on the back of the computer. Regardless, my answer is the same. If you connect a SATA connector on one motherboard to a SATA connector on another motherboard, the best that can happen is nothing. The worst that can happen is that you'll fry the SATA controllers on both boards. SATA controllers expect to see a storage device on the end of the cable. If a controller were to see another motherboard, it would have no idea what to do with it. The SATA interface is for transferring data to and from a storage device. It is not for networking.

Oh dear. Well, then, can you try answering my other question? Is there any way?

I'm not aware of any motherboard that is designed to be connected to another motherboard for purposes of sharing RAM, or anything else. Exactly what are you trying to accomplish???

I have this non functional motherboard (I think the problem is the either the graphics card, the VGA female jack, or the Processor itself, because the monitor din't communicating with the CPU) and I was thinking if I could use the RAM Its got on it for my laptop somehow...