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whenever i use an 80wire 40pin ide cable on my system i would either get my hard drive not detected or installing windows xp would get errors. when i change it to a regular 40wire 40 pin ide cable everything's ok. any ideas why this is happening?
CPU : AMD Athlon XP 1800+
MOBO : Asus A7V266
RAM : Nanya 256MB DDR SDRAM
Kingston 128 MB DDR SDRAM
Hard drive : 40GB Maxtor 5400RPM
20GB Seagate 5400RPM
Video Card : Jet/Sparkle viiGeForce 2 MX 32MB
make sure your system BIOS is up to date. I sort of had the same problem with my Western Digital hard drive not being detected by the system. Turns out there's a timing issue with the drive in combination with my specific motherboard. The solution was to carefully cut the #1 wire (the one that's colored). After doing that, the drive worked fine. But that was specifically for the Western Digital drive I was working with in conjunction with my MSI motherboard. You might have the same problem but I would double-check with Maxtor and/or Seagate to be sure that might be the issue.
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that's too extreme! let me check seagate and maxtor this issue. but hey that might solve the problem. thanks..
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Are you connecting the cable correctly. Blue to MB, grey to slave, black to master. Also would suspect defective cable.
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it wasn't all that 'extreme'. I just took a razor blade and carefully cut thru wire #1. Turns out Western Digital has a 'special' 80-pin cable that they could 'sell' me. No thanks, it'll probably cost me $20 + shipping.
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If you use a 40-wire cable instead of a 80-wire cable for your hard drive it will only run at ATA-33. The specification requires this. If your drive is ATA 66, 100, or 133 then you must use a 80-wire to get full speed.
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How do you have your devices configured? Make sure you're using the master/slave jumpers...don't use cable select!
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40gb as master 20gb as slave. tried the regular 40wire/40pin ide cable and everything seems to be ok. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................
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How many IDE devices do you have? If you have 3, the HDD w/OS should be alone on the primary channel as the master. The CD drive should be the secondary master, & the 2nd HDD should be the secondary slave. You should use 80-wire cables for both channels.
If you have 4 devices, the CD drive should be primary slave & CD burner should be secondary master.
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