"Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, > >When booting Windows XP I get the following message: "Secondary IDE channel >no 80 conductor cable installed". >Can anyone explain what this actually means, possible cause and effects?
This is a warning that indicated you have an old-type IDE (hard drive) cable installed, rather than one of the newer high-speed type (which have 80 conductors). If you've just done a hard drive upgrade you need to buy the proper cable - your present one will work, but will limit your data transfer rate. If you *haven't* just upgraded something and this message has never appeared before, something's developed a fault; your mother board, hard drive or cable. If you're lucky it's the cable, since that's cheapest to replace. >Would it have anything to do with a number of programs starting to freeze on >me, like the ACDSee, RegCleaner and Windows "Search"-program? Could be.
