No 80 conductor cable installed?

[optimistic]

The computer works fine, but at boot up I get a message saying "No 80 pin conductor cable installed"
It appears right after it detects all the IDE devices.


Does anyone know what this means?

 

[Mikendi]

Your cable may be bad, or your ATA/66/100 drivers are not loading, or loaded. Check in device manager and make sure everything is Jake there. Also let us know what type of board/setup you have. You may need to jumper something.

 

[hominid skull]

I had this when i installed my KG7, it was a bad cable..

 

[4824guy]

Also make sure the blue end is plugged into the controller card or mobo and other end on the HD.

 

[optimistic]

System 1: (37 miles away)
TB 1ghz
ECS K7SEM
40gb Seagate 5400rpm

System 2: (15 miles away)
Duron 800mhz
ABIT KT7A
40gb Maxtor 5400rpm

Man, I gotta go drive there now to replace one cable:frown:😱

What kinds of problems can a bad cable cause?


thanks to all who replied