ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe error on startup

[jycmp]

2 CD-R devices plugged into the supplied IDE cable into IDE Channel 1.
The manufacturer states to plug the black ended cable into this port for IDE HD/CD-R master/slave devices.
On boot I get this error message after the POST test:
IDE Channel 1 no 80 conductor cable installed
The system continues to boot without (usualy) incident.

Both devices are set acordingly (Master 1st., Slave 2nd.) and are seen by windows and appear to work, although I have not tried burning yet.

When I remove the cable end from the mother board I don't get this error message

ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe ROM bios 1008, using default setup parameters excect I turne off the Sil RAID which I don't use.

 

[mechBgon]

1) of the three plugs on the cable, one is further from the other two. Plug that one into the motherboard.

2) use an 80-wire cable if you aren't already: second photo on this page shows difference Maybe one of your optical drives is an ATA/66 model, there are some out there.

 

[jycmp]

The plug furthest on the cable is the one in the motherboard, the cable is the 80 pin cable that came bundled and it is tagged "ASUS CD-ROM Cable"

I don't know if the optical is ATA/66 but the IDE support on the board is supposed to work with ATA/66

 

[PsYcHoCoW]

I had the 80 pin cable error message when I first installed my comp. I had 1002 back then, when I flashed to 1008 the problem was still there, and then I found the 1011 and it fixed my problem.