primary IDE channel no conductor 80 cable installed

[Matt]

System Specs

Gigabyte 7VAXP MoBo
512MB DDR SDRAM
120GB Maxtor DiamondMAX+9 133/7200
64MB nVidia GeForce 2 MX400

This has only happened a few times in about 3 and a half
weeks since I built my computer. The computer is running
fines and just shuts off and restarts itself up again
with tthe error message below

The error message primary IDE channel no conductor 80
cable installed comes up on the first BIOSy screen when
the PC boots up.

Anyone know what the cuase is and how to resolve it,

Thanks in advance

Matt

<[email protected]>

 

[Andrew E]

IDE 80 cable simply means the cable has 80 leads on it,
some use the 40 type.They look the same,but you can count
the wires for which one you use,if 40 replace them.

 

[Jim Macklin]

Get an 80 conductor cable. Probably the 80 conductor cable
is in a box with the hard drive or it is on the secondary
IDE with the CD/DVD.

This would be a good time to get a round cable and improve
the air flow.


| System Specs
|
| Gigabyte 7VAXP MoBo
| 512MB DDR SDRAM
| 120GB Maxtor DiamondMAX+9 133/7200
| 64MB nVidia GeForce 2 MX400
|
| This has only happened a few times in about 3 and a half
| weeks since I built my computer. The computer is running
| fines and just shuts off and restarts itself up again
| with tthe error message below
|
| The error message primary IDE channel no conductor 80
| cable installed comes up on the first BIOSy screen when
| the PC boots up.
|
| Anyone know what the cuase is and how to resolve it,
|
| Thanks in advance
|
| Matt
|
| <[email protected]>

 

[Malke]

System Specs

Gigabyte 7VAXP MoBo
512MB DDR SDRAM
120GB Maxtor DiamondMAX+9 133/7200
64MB nVidia GeForce 2 MX400

This has only happened a few times in about 3 and a half
weeks since I built my computer. The computer is running
fines and just shuts off and restarts itself up again
with tthe error message below

The error message primary IDE channel no conductor 80
cable installed comes up on the first BIOSy screen when
the PC boots up.

Anyone know what the cuase is and how to resolve it,

Thanks in advance

Matt

Do a hardware diagnosis on your motherboard and hard drive. Replace the
cable. Do one troubleshooting step at a time.

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It means that when you installed your new hard drive you used an
old 40-conductor IDE ribbon cable, rather than a newer, 80-conductor
IDE cable that your new hard drive needs to attain optimum
performance.

Bruce Chambers

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