Summary: It's referring to your 80 pin IDE cable on the secondary device, not the primary. But it sounds like you don't have any connections on the secondary? ...
Summary: Ever since i bought my NEC drive about a year ago it would not read any type of CD, pressed data, audio, nor blank cd-r/cd-rw. It is as no cd is prese...
Summary: A 160 GB hard drive would normally be sold with a PCI IDE Ultra ATA controller card with its own bios to detect the drive.Computers with a bios date J...
Summary: "Although when I boot I do see a message that says something about no 80-conductor found, if that helps.: Yes it does. That's a problem! They are both...
Summary: Like many, I have CD-ROM problems, but mine is a little unusual. I have a 58x vanilla CD-ROM chained as a slave to a master Plextor 708-A DVD writer. ...
Summary: The disk drives need an IDE cable that has 80 wires in it. The CD rom drives will work OK with an older 40 wire cable (count the wires in the cable to...
Summary: If you still get this trying to boot "Searching For Boot Record From CDROM...Not Found" that idicates to me, the bios is going to CD first to read bu...
Summary: No offense, but cable select is for pussies...lol. Use the "hard" settings (master/slave) instead. Actually, using cable select may be what's causing ...
Summary: I have an error Primary IDE Cable no 80 comductor cable installed. I don't have an 80 pin cable installed, I have a 40 pin for me IEDE HD. What the ...
Summary: if its a flat ribbon cable you count the number of ridges going accross it. reach ridge contains a wire. If it is one of those fancy round cables then...
Summary: The new cable has 40-pins, but 80-wires, that's why the ribs are smaller. The 80-wire cable MUST be used on newer HDDs to get them to transfer data at...
Summary: I have the same problem. i have the 80 pin to 68 pin converter. When i plug in the drive it doesn't spin up. the LED on the drive comes on but the dri...
Summary: My name is Thomas and I have a problem. I am planning on buying a new DVD drive So I opened up my computer to see if it could allow the expansion. I ...
Summary: First from the manufacturer. Second you could try making one from a regular IDE cable. The procedure is simple, crimp a 40 pin IDC the correct dista...
Summary: I was hoping to buy some new IDE Cables for my computer. Right now they are the regular 40 pin cables. The cables that i plan on buying are the roun...
Summary: Having had a problem with increasing bad sectors/blocks on my new HDD, I was wondering if the type of IDE cable would have anything to do with it. Her...
Summary: "this drive is running fine in my other system and the ide cable is also from the older system.the master slave has been assigned through the bios." T...
Summary: Just wondering if anyone has ever experienced this problem. I plug in the power cable to an IDE drive (molex plug) and turn on everything, and the har...
Summary: I'm glad that helped part of the problem. Make sure you are using a 80 pin/80 wire IDE cable and make sure you load your MOBO chipset drivers ASAP. ...
Summary: you changed the ide cables and that didn't help, i'm concerned about the boot problems and stop errors. check the ide connection on the new drive for...
Summary: Ok, I've been working on my freinds computer, and it's really buggy. My biggest concern is that the CD roms just disappear when they please. I had to ...
Summary: Machine was originally set up with hard disk attached to a SCSI or SATA card in a PCI slot, and two CD-ROM drives attached to the motherboard's standa...
Summary: I'm getting a raptor SATA drive to replace main HD, and keeping my other 200gb HD. The only IDE Cable I have right now is set up for 2 hard drives (ha...
Summary: I am wondering if anyone has an idea what is wrong with my computer. It's a PC100 motherboard, 800 mhz, with more than 400mb of rams in it. Syntoms...
![[higher confidence]](http://static.computing.net/img/AT-red_x.gif)
- higher confidence, ![[lower confidence]](http://static.computing.net/img/AT-black_x.gif)
- lower confidence
