soyo mb...udma problem

[ron2368]

I installed a Soyo mb that supports udma 33/66 and am using a maxtor udma 66 hd. The bios is set to auto detect for the harddrives. When the computer boots up I notice that the drive is only detected as udma 33. I am also getting a line message during bios boot up saying
"primary IDE no 80 conductor cable installed"
Whats the deal with this message?

Is there a special cable type for udma 66. I am assuming the above 2 things are related. I dont see a specific bios setting for udma 66 instead of the auto setting. Do I need a new cable I am using the one supplied with the new mb?
Thank you

RC

 

[Motorheader]

I'm not sure what Soyo board you have or what cables are supplied with what Soyo board, but from my experience, you are not using a UDMA66 cable for the main drive and primary ide on the motherboard. That is the only time I have ever seen that message. Check to make sure you have the proper high density cable - get with where you got the board and make sure you get the correct one if not.

 

[4824guy]

To have the HD work in ata66 mode, you will have to use the 80conductor IDE cable, not the normal 40 conductor ata33 cables the we normally use.

 

[ron2368]

Thanks, though I am not sure of the solution, I am getting a new udma 66/100 cable. Using the system now is fine, BUT Norton 2000 keeps losing dll's and becoming partially unusable. If I use speedisk, NU gets totally wacked, a few seconds later Explorer crashes and I have to reinstall win 98.

These problems only happen with these disk intensive programs, everything else works fine. I think after I get the new cable I will put NU back on it to see if it crashes. Hope it goes away!!!

 

[ron2368]

Never use soyo again, I have a gigabyte and very smooth. Why would soyo provide a udma 33 cable with a motherboard that they rate at udma 66????

 

[Kanly]

First off: What Soyo Mobo are you using?

2nd: What IDE connector do you have this drive on. I believe 3&4 are for 66, 1&2 are for 33. Check your manual though because I could have that switched.

3rd: Are there HighPoint drivers you need to install? If you don't install them, your drive will be operating in MS-DOS compatability mode, which could be the cause of your Norton problems.

4th: Soyo usually ships an ATA-33 and 66 cable with it's boards. The 66 is blue, the 33 is grey.

5th: You're cetainly welcome to never use Soyo again. However, a lot of people on this board and others think Soyo makes a grat board. The Soyo 6ba+iv is probably one of the better BX boards ever produced.

 

[ron2368]

the board is a sy-7IWM/L. I fixed the problem and it was cable related.

This is my first time doing this and I really had many problems but learned alot from having them. Also forum members have been really helpful whenever I ran into problems. Most were due to my inexperience.

There is no new bios for the board as far as I can tell. I did download a few driver/chipset updates but may wait till next week to install since as of this am I think everything is ironed out .

I am still not impressed with soyo, I called their tech support 3 times and other than 1 straightforward answer felt they were as lost as me. Some may be my fault too. Besides they had such heavy asian dialect I could hardly understand them. Ended up ok though and learned alot.
biggest lesson I learned....thought I just would plug in the parts and it would work.....wrong pay attention to details.