Just reassembled an older PC, the hard drive is the master alone on the second IDE channel. When auto-detecting in the BIOS, it just sits there awhile "detecting" the divice. After awhile it finds ...

right when my computer is turning on and doing the system checks, I get the message "Primary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed" Then it goes right into WinXP Pro and seems to be working okay ...

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Over the years of computing, computers have always been known to have these ugly gray ribbon cables inside of them connecting there hard disks to the motherboard. Well recently people have been ...