The cable never went all the way in, and the pins were not bent; when I realized my error and plugged it in the right way, the plug seated much more firmly in the jack. If any pins made any sort of connection at all, it would have only been the one on one end or the other of the connector, not all the way across.
With the system remaining off, I tried to duplicate the misconnection. Again, it did not and would not go all the way in; in fact, it felt more like I was flexing the backplate than plugging any pins.
A different diagnostic utility says that it passes the buffer memory test, and the configuration test, but fails the interrupt test. Controller gone bad, then? |
