No 80 Conductor Cable Installed - What???

[Texun]

Built my MSI K7T 266 Pro2 a few weeks ago and used rounded cables that are ATA 100 okay. However, when booting up the BIOS returns the message: Primary IDE- No 80 conductor cable installed.

The drive is a 7200 Maxtor 45g that is ATA 100. It was when I had it in my iWill KK266. Figured it might be a problem with the round cable so I swapped it for the OEM IDE cable that came with the MB. You guessed it... "Primary IDE - No 80 conductor cable installed."

The drive is certainly on the primary IDE channel and I didn't notice anything in the BIOS about enbling that feature. Would not expect to see it either since that's the trend now days.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

 

[mindslash]

Just saw that with my MSI KT7 Pro2A Board (MS6330)-- boots and runs fine otherwise -- Wonder what the deal is? MicroStar snafu?

 

[Pederv]

Is the blue connector plugged into the motherboard?

 

[RPB]

i have a 15gb maxtor that shows No 80 conductor cable installed when the blue end of cable is on the mainboard and works ok with the black end on the mainboard. downside is that i can't run it with another drive on the same channel. this happened on an abit ka7 and msi 6167 but not on abit be6 or dfi ca61

 

[Texun]

Pederv

Okay... You nailed it, and it was an embarrassingly simple error. The BLUE end of the cable must be connected to the MB... Duh!

Thanks,
- R

 

[corkyg]

Right! ATA 100 cables are "Cable Select" - - - Blue to mobo, black to Master and gray to Slave. If you do that, you can set all your drive jumpers to CS and not worry about Master or Slave . . . the cable location will figure it out.

 

[Texun]

corky-g

I appreciate the info. I am almost ashamed to admit that I did not know about the black \ grey connectors and their relation to the CS option. I generally ignore the CS setting on the HD and set them as M or SL. This is a lesson I will not forget.

Pretty new to this board, but I appreciate the opportinity to read and learn from the combined info of all who post and reply.

Thanks - R