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Bill Ridgeway

During the boot up (before Windows kicks in) I get a message "Primary IDE
channel No80 conductor cable installed"

What does this mean please (and I appreciate that this is not, properly, a
Windows query)

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway
 
During the boot up (before Windows kicks in) I get a message "Primary
IDE channel No80 conductor cable installed"

What does this mean please (and I appreciate that this is not,
properly, a Windows query)

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway
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No, it's not Windows, i's a bit 'techy'.

When faster hard drives were introduced a couple of years or so go
(ULTRA ATA 133) they needed an 80 conductor cable to connect them to
the computer to achieve their full transfer speed. Up until then the
IDE cables had 40 conductors.

What is means is you have a newer/faster drive connected to the old
style cable. It won't do any harm, and frankly you'd be hard pushed to
notice a speed difference.

Has the message always appeared or have you added a new hard drive
recently?
 
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