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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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kilowatt1

· #12 · Jan 15, 2005

I ran across a very similar problem a while back. What I found was that the mobo had the usual 2 IDE ports, however only one of them was for use with the ULTRA specifications (seems like the mobo connector was blue or red). Anyway. whoever assembled the computer actually had the hard drive cable attached to IDE 2 which apparently was not rated for ULTRA. Once I swapped the connection the error disappeared and performance improved.

Just thought I'd throw that out at you.

Good luck.

Kilowatt

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