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> Hardware wizards!! Can anyone translate this one? A friend of mine has
> installed a new hard drive. On the boot screen after the memory
checks and
> drive detections, he recieved this message after installing a new hard
drive.
> It reads "Primary IDE no 80 conductor cable installed.", and the drive
is
> useless. I'm left in the shadows. Anyone know what this means?
Sounds like it's an ATA100 Hard Disk on an ATA100 Controller - the
ATA100 (and I think maybe ATA66, can't remember). In older ATA/IDE
Drives, the Data and Ground cables were interleaved on the cable to
increase reliability, but ATA100 expects a lot of the 'extra' ground
cables to be connected as data cables, which in your case they aren't.
For the drive to work, you *might* be able to change the BIOS settings,
in 'Standard Setup' (For Award/AMI), or 'IDE/IDE0 Settings' (Fof
Pheonix/Apricot/Dell/Compaq), you could try changing the 'Drive Mode'
from 'AUTO' to 'PIO-4'.
If that doesn't work, your only solution is an ATA100 IDE Cable. This
would probably be the best choice anyways, since you will get a lot
better performance, but remember, don't connect an older drive to an
ATA100 cable, unless you want to fry rither the drive or your
mainboard...
HTH,
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