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shd17

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I just built a new system and I noticed that when I boot, bios gives this line:

"IDE channel 1 no 80 conductor cable installed"

Anyone know what this means?
 
Do not really have a clue, but where could it be referring to? Do you have IDE hard disks or IDE optical drives? Maybe the data cable is plugged in the wrong way... If your using something on your IDE1 port, are the jumpers set allright? Does the BIOS fully detect the device....?
 
That channel is connected to a DVD burner and it's set to master and it's on the ide cable by itself(there's no slave connected). Drive is detected in Bios just fine. Pretty sure the cable is connected rite, but i'll check that next.
 
Silly question, but are you using a 80-pin (ATA100) IDE cable or a 40-pin? The system may expect you to use a 80-pin cable no matter what type of device you have connected to it.
 
Modern bioses want 80 conductor cables, and they want the cable correctly installed end to end, and they want masters on the end and slaves, if any, in the middle...

They seem to prefer cable select settings, too...
 
You need that 80-conductor cable if that DVD drive supports UDMA mode 3 or higher (45 MB/s and up). Most don't, simply because it'd be rather pointless, given the actual transfer rate from/to DVD media.

If you use one, you also need to connect it the right way round - blue or otherwise colored connector toward the host (mainboard).
 
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