Primary IDE no cable 80 Conductor installed message??!

[DinoGucci]

i get that in my bios right after checking my existed IDE, does anybody know why?

 

[Nate420]

Simply because your not using a 80 conductor cable on the Primary IDE channel, which will limit you to UDMA 3 I believe.

 

[Viper GTS]

<< Simply because your not using a 80 conductor cable on the Primary IDE channel, which will limit you to UDMA 3 I believe. >>



Bingo. You need a 40 pin/80 conductor cable to get UDMA4/5.

Viper GTS

 

[DinoGucci]

but i only got this message when i swapped CPUs from 1 gig to a 1.4 gig amd. is it still an IDE cable problem? thanks

 

[Jackman]

yes i got it yesterday, i knew when i saw it what happened, i used the wrong ide cable {40pin}, I needed my ATA100 80pin cable so i could use the ATA 100 conection to my RAID & harddrives.

 

[John]

<< is it still an IDE cable problem? >>



Yes.

 

[Sundog]

Yeppers, switch to the correct cable and see your problem go away.

 

[DinoGucci]

ok problem solved thanks guys!

 

[bacillus]

shouldn't that limit be udma2??