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IDE Channel no 80 conductor cable installed...memory check won't work? GQ 3121.

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DaFOBulous1

Discussion Starter · Jan 14, 2005

I was one of the crazy insane people who went to Fry's early in the morning and picked up those $99 computers. It had a 40 GB hard-drive so I replaced with a 160GB Maxtor. Then I noticed it gave me a IDE Channel no 80 conductor cable installed after it detected my HD and then booted as normal. Will it affect my performance?

Another thing I noticed is at times, after it detect my CPU at the bootup, it would hang and suddenly be at the Windows XP loading screen. It saids something like Sempron 2200+ CPU detected... Then where it should continue to do a memory check and detect my HD and DVD, it doesn't do that and freezes there.

I hope it's just a the memory and not the motherboard. I do notice it's VERY slow at times...slower than my 1GHz or even the P3s I use to have. Of course it only had 128MB RAM which I will upgrade VERY soon. Could that be the source of the slowness or could it affect it THAT much?

Any help is appreciated.

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winbob

· #8 · Jan 15, 2005

DF,

If there isn't a 80 wire cable, then the drive that came with the box was not a speedy one. The newer ones..for sure 100/133 (can't remember if it included the 66's) required the 80 wire cables.

With the 40's, all the wires are signal carriers (potentially). With the 80's, there is a ground wire between each signal wire to prevent bleed over. Bleed over can affect signal integrity, cause errors, and slow down performance.

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winbob

· #10 · Jan 15, 2005

DF,

If you compare the two cable types it is easy to see the difference. The wires in the 40 are much heavier (and there are 40 of them). The 80 cable has much finer wires (and you guessed it there are 80 of them).

Also the 80 wire cable generally has the MOBO end plug blue while the others are grey.

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winbob

· #13 · Jan 15, 2005

DF,

I'm thinking that when you said, " but I believe the cables should have been 80 pin." It was just a slip of the tongue...the connectors are not 80 pin, but the cables are 80 wire.

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winbob

· #20 · Jan 20, 2005

Dafob,

I've got to ask a crazy question. You didn't replace the preinstalled "Lindows" with XP did you???

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