It means it didn't find an 80 conductor cable connected to the drive on that channel. A regular IDE cable is 40 conductor. Enhanced IDE requires the extra 40 conductors as shielding between the other 40 conductors. If IT IS an 80 conductor cable and the machine isn't seeing it that way it could be a bad or poorly connected cable. In that case it could cause all kinds of problems. Usually however channel 2 is used for CD ROM drives and such and doesn't require the 80c cable. Kind of vague answer but the best I can do without seeing the machine.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Lasse Karlsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: OT Windows help needed > > > Hi all, > > When booting Windows XP I get the following message: "Secondary > IDE channel > no 80 conductor cable installed". > Can anyone explain what this actually means, possible cause and effects? > > Would it have anything to do with a number of programs starting > to freeze on > me, like the ACDSee, RegCleaner and Windows "Search"-program? > > Thanks, > Lasse >
