IDE Channel 1 no 80 Conductor Cable Installed - A8N-SLI Premium

[HST]

At the bottom of the first bootup screen after the POST test (on my
A8N-SLI Premium) I get this message:

IDE Channel 1 no 80 Conductor Cable Installed

The system continues to boot without incident and I do have the IDE
cable that came with the motherboard (blue end) plugged in the primary
IDE port with two devices installed as well as the secondary IDE port
with two devices installed, master and slave's are all set
respectively.

Could it be that the two IDE cables that were supplied with the mobo
are different as one is 40 conductor and the other is 80 conductor?

HST

 

[Peter R. Fletcher]

I think that the message refers to the secondary channel (numbering
starting from 0). The difference between 40 and 80 conductor cables is
usually obvious (count the wires!), but I have seen this message when
a very old drive is connected to a MB with a perfectly proper
80-conductor cable. Presumably the MB requires some "co-operation"
from the drive to correctly identify the cable.

At the bottom of the first bootup screen after the POST test (on my
A8N-SLI Premium) I get this message:

IDE Channel 1 no 80 Conductor Cable Installed

The system continues to boot without incident and I do have the IDE
cable that came with the motherboard (blue end) plugged in the primary
IDE port with two devices installed as well as the secondary IDE port
with two devices installed, master and slave's are all set
respectively.

Could it be that the two IDE cables that were supplied with the mobo
are different as one is 40 conductor and the other is 80 conductor?

HST

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

 

[Mark A]

At the bottom of the first bootup screen after the POST test (on my
Most Asus boards come with 40 wire and 80 wire IDE cables. If you have an
ATA-100 or ATA-133 disk drive (anything purchased new in the last 4 years),
you must use the 80 wire cables (the extra wires are grounds to lower
interference), or the drives will not be configured with the speed they are
capable of.

The 40 cables are for older CD-ROM or other optical drives. Some newer
optical drives will work better with 80 wire cables also.

 

[Egil Solberg]

Could it be that the two IDE cables that were supplied with the mobo
are different as one is 40 conductor and the other is 80 conductor?

In all boxes from ASUS that I've seen, there is one of each. You need to buy
one extra if you want speed over UDMA2 /ATA33 on both of your IDE channels.

 

[HST]

Thanks for all your responses, that was the obvious answer (DUH to me)
because I changed the cable in question with an 80 conductor and the
message at bootup went away.

)

HST