Booting up problems

Hi, I'd be really glad of any advice on a problem I'm having with my Computer.
A friend of mine recently gave me a Motherboard and Processor, so I could upgrade my system; I've not done this before, but thought I'd have a go, I had no problems swapping over the motherboards and finding where everything plugged into, however, the problem arises when booting up, it only seems to read off the second IDE socket (IDE2), my hard drive and cd-rom are on seperate, single IDE cables, and I am aware that Windows will need formatting, but can only have one working at a time. When booting up, it says 'Secondary channel no 80 Conducter cable installed' Do I need to update my IDE cables? I've downloaded the manufacture's manual, and spend a long time making trail and error adjustments to BIOS, and even resetted it to default a few times, but to no avail. I would be really glad of any advice, as it's a good learning experince for me.

Cheers,
GT.

you might have the jumper on the back of your cd-rom and hardrive set up wrong...you might have it backwards or somthing of the like...you could try setting the jumpers on plug and play and see if that works...seems you have a conflict between whatever is on that one IDE socket. ON the IDE ribbon cable the master is in the middle and the slave is on the end...you have to have it all set up right as in...master drive on that ribbon cable set up as master on the jumper on the back of the hardrive/cd-rom and connected to the master on the ribbon cable...same for slave. You could be having a problem having your hardrive as maybe 33/66/100 ATA or other ata value and your mother board being only able to handle a lower value. You might have Serial ata set up and IDE off in the bios...that is if your motherboard is a Serial ATA board as well as IDE.

Havn't played with that stuff in a long time...hope i'm not forgetting or telling you somthing wrong...HAHAhaHA.

Everything Litical said, is right...

Make sure to look at the cables itself....make sure where the cable is crimped into the IDE plugs? Make sure it's not coming apart or ripping...

And look at the IDE Channel on the motherboard, make sure there are no bent/broken pins...

Actually, just to make sure....I just did a search for your error msg....return I got was:

One (or both) your IDE cables (the big flat ones that connect your HDD/CD drived to the motherboard) are 40 core when your motherboard supports 80 core.

You can tell the difference, the 80 core are finer, the 40 core are much like the cable on the floppy drive.

Chances are, you will notice a difference between the IDE Ribbon Cable that gives that error and one that doesn't give that error.

~Dan

Dan_shues<BR>
Actually, just to make sure....I just did a search for your error msg....return I got was:

One (or both) your IDE cables (the big flat ones that connect your HDD/CD drived to the motherboard) are 40 core when your motherboard supports 80 core.

You can tell the difference, the 80 core are finer, the 40 core are much like the cable on the floppy drive.

Thanks Guys, I just looked, and both cables are 40's, that would account for the problem.

Cheers,
GT