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: 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: 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 ...
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: Per Soyo, your MOBO is good to ATA 66 ... unless a BIOS version alows it to do ATA 100. This is controversial but I've noticed a big performance diffe...
Summary: Which hdd are you putting the OS onto ? 1)Connect it to the primary IDE connector. 2)Connect the seccond hdd and CD drive to the seconday IDE connec...
Summary: HI all along with being sure that there is a active partion on the drive, but do not think you would receive that error message, test the drive with ...
Summary: It will run at ATA66 unless you install a PCI/ATA adapter card. A 80-wire, 40-pin IDE cable is recommended but a 40-wire cable will work at ATA66. ...
Summary: The way Windows identifies an optical drive isn't really important. Does the drive read both CD and DVD media? Have you installed a burner program...
Summary: An 80 pin cable has a 40 ground wires, and 40 signal wires. A regular 40 pin IDE cable does not have the extra ground wire for every signal wire. Bott...
Summary: IDE cables are 40 and 80 wire but are 40 pin. You probably want a 80-wire 40-pin cable. Changing the cable should be pretty straight forward. I doub...
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: You didn't post any hardware specifications. If your cables are different then you probably have one older style 40 wire/40 pin cable and one 80 wire...
Summary: Try using the IDE cable from your old computer. The newer PC is prolly using an 80 wire forty pin IDE cable and the bigfoot may not be setup for that....
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: I ran a simple test with a PCI Ultra ATA 133 RAID IDE contoller card.The OS is Windows 2000.The PCI card shown in Control Panel has the following chip...
Summary: A standard 40-wire IDE cable WILL work with ATA-33, ATA-66, ATA-100 or ATA-133 drives but it will only allow 33MB/s performance. However, it is recomm...
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: YOU PEOPLE ARE INCREDIBLE They are NOT NOT NOT "80 pin cables"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The connectors all have ...
Summary: IDE/EIDE/ATA/ATAPI are basically all compatible. Like RAM, installing a faster transfer mode drive in a system with slower transfer controllers will ...
Summary: There may be a couple of different things wrong. First the second IDE controller may be disabled in the BIOS (setup). Second, you may have the jump...
Summary: Thank you so much for your time and interest. I agree with the point about "factory built" systems. I have seen the dispare when a friend/relative do...
Summary: No, its 80 conductor 40 pin. If you are sure you have an 80 conductor 40 pin cable, I would suggest opening the box and reseating it at both the mothe...
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