Summary: Stupid question here. In a 80 Pin IDE cable, should there be any part of the cable missing. There is 1 strand, of the 80, that is cut out about 1/4 i...
Summary: Is there any performance benefit in using 80-wire 40-pin IDE cables with CD or DVD burners instead of the standard 40-wire 40-pin IDE cables? Are ther...
Summary: I ahve already researches the responses to otger questions regarding 40-wire versus 80-wire IDE cables but haven't one similar to mine. I installed an...
Summary: Both 40-conductor and 80-conductor IDE cables use the same 40-pin connector. The extra 40 conductors on a 80-conductor IDE cable are additional ground...
Summary: Does it say something like "No 80 pin IDE Cable Installed"? If so, that just means that you probably have a 40 pin IDE cable installed instead of an 8...
Summary: has anyone seena 44-40 pin ide cable so i can connect my desktop harddrive to laptop i just need the data cable i got a small power supply for the des...
Summary: Hi, This is a bit long so please bear with me Today while I was copying media files from my cd to my new (that I got a month ago) 120 gb Western 120GB...
Summary: I would forget about making your own 80 pin round cable. These cables are put together by machine. Unless you have a very, very steady hand, perfect...
Summary: It's not 40-pin vs 80-pin...it's 40-wire vs 80-wire. The pin count is the same. The 80-wire IDE cable is designed for ATA66 & above, but can be used o...
Summary: Hi the 80 pin ide ribbon cables should come with the mobo pack, msi usually supplies them (uk). dont bother with the light ide up ones unless you hav...
Summary: I have a LG DVD/CD-RW combo drive (GCC-4480B) it's currently set as my secondary master on a 80 pin IDE cable, the other drive on this is a 30 gig HD...
Summary: yes. :) I have just test to boot the second hard drive(set as master) on the secondary controller without modifying the BIOS while the power on the ot...
Summary: Stuart, The reason for my earlier response was, I had a computer with the blue end of the 80 wire IDE cable going to the drive and the black end to th...
Summary: Run Samsung hard drive diagnostic program: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm... Disable Smart Drive annoying messages in bios. Boot up problems a...
Summary: hi all, do i need 80-wire ide cable for a 50x cdrom drive? or is there no different between 40-wire and 80-wire cable when dealing with cdrw/cdrom dri...
Summary: What's the difference between 40-pin IDE cable and 80-pin IDE cable? I connected an IDE cable to a 20 GB hard drive and the computer shows the cable t...
Summary: This 80-wire IDE cable is necessary for using devices that use the Ultra-66 and above interfaces. Your hard drive must also use this type of cable to ...
Summary: Meant to say it supports Ultra ATA. Here is a link for ya also. Notice the difference in data transfer rates between the 40 pin and 80 cables. 80 PIN ...
Summary: If its an 80 way IDE cable which most are these days the color of the connectors are important. They are colored Blue, Grey and Black. The Blue conn...
Summary: My old computer just had a makeover, but when I use a rounded 80-pin IDE cable, the mobo refuses to recognize the HDD(primary master). When I use an o...
Summary: Don't put the 2 HDDs on the same cable... If you have 4 devices, your setup should be: HDD w/OS & CD/DVD drive (primary master & slave) and CDRW & 2nd...
Summary: Does anybody know how to enable DMA in Windows XP? I've read many of the post and I've done it all. Here's my system specs: ECS K7S5A Pro Motherboard ...
Summary: Ok, here's a really weird one. A relative brought over her computer because it was acting up. I figured I'd do my standard wipe/reinstall, but the bl...
Summary: I doubt the 4k cluster size has anything to do with it...that's the default when using NTFS. Hooner, You're not posting any info about what's wrong......
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