80 conductor cable not installed?
 

On my grandmothers computer, I get this message. It HAS an 80 wire cable installed, I even switched it out with a new one just to make sure it wasn't a defective cable.

I then updated the bios to make sure it wasn't a problem with that. Motherboard is MSI K7T Turbo 2 and the HD is a ATA-100 drive. Both MB and the drive are ATA-100, and because of this bios detecting this wrong, it's taking the mode down to 3 (33). Anybody have any idea why the bios isn't detecting this right?

needs bios update?
old bios is bugged?
this is a toughy

i cant think of anything
since its not drivers problems as it already detects it wrong in bios, i would have to say that there must be something in bios thats wrong
maybe even a setting

maybe your grandma can run faster than the HDD
lol

did you read it? I said I updated the bios

just offering more SOP for troubleshooting:

for shits and giggles, can you make sure the drive works properly on another channel or another mobo altogether. I suppose its possible for the board on the HD to be screwed somehow such that it goes to that level. Not likely.

Alternatively, or perhaps in addition to, using another HD on the same cable on that mobo to see if that works.

Maybe a pin on the HD or the mobo is bent or broken. I wouldn't suspect this behavior to cause that if that were the case, but i suppose its worth checking.

Is there a way to manually set the mode in the BIOS? What about booting a linux live cd and seeing if you can manually set the mode that way.

Are you SURE it's an 80 conductor cable?? :P

If not the drive, not the mobo, not the CMOS, and not the cable, then you've got me.

Make sure the right PIO mode is set in BIOS.

Are you using one IDE channel, or two?

If you are using two, do both channels have 80 conductor cables?

channel 2 had a 80 conductor cable, I replaced it with a 40 (cdrom & zip are 33)

Cik, you don't want it in PIO mode, you want it in DMA. The bios gives you settings for PIO, and then just Auto (Let the OS dedice, which would be DMA)

Yeah, I guess I should of tried it on IDE1

nothing was on channel 1?

no, the hd was on ide0
cdrom and zip on ide1

i wouldnt know what to suggest but first take away the cdrom and zip away first
make sure HDD is the first device on IDE0
do auto detect or whatever in bios manually

so does it work in ATA100 on IDE1?