| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 22993 | 2002-08-05 03:37:00 | What does this Mean? | Laurie (485) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 68221 | 2002-08-05 03:37:00 | Have upgraded my computer (internal bits) and have built another for my daughter from the bits I took out of mine. Hers is working fine, but with one thing I would like to know. While booting and after comfermation on the drives, a message appears reading "Primary IDE Channel no 80 conductor cable installed". Then carries on with normal boot. What is this and how do I fix it. Running Win98, Celeron 400, 1 x CD Rom, 1 x 6gig HD 1 x Floppy. Can anyone help. |
Laurie (485) | ||
| 68222 | 2002-08-05 03:55:00 | To support faster Disk transfers (UDMA66 and up), the origional 40 conductor IDE cable has been replaced by an 80 conductor cable. If you bought a new motherboard (that is giving the message), you should have received an 80 conductor cable with it. The (80) cable still has 40 pin connectors - every second conductor is an earth, terminated by the special IDE plugs. The 80 conductor cable feels a lot more rigid and appears 'finer' due to 2x the number of wires in the same width. You motherboard is probably operating at UDMA33 due to detecting a standard cable. You can obtain an 80 conductor IDE cable at most computer parts suppliers. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 68223 | 2002-08-05 06:12:00 | Thanks Wuppo I will try it. The cable I fitted was one I had in my spare parts which fitted Ok. |
Laurie (485) | ||
| 68224 | 2002-08-05 09:41:00 | I have fitted another cable and all is OK - it has fixed my problem Thanks Wuppo |
Laurie (485) | ||
| 1 | |||||