Have you replace and cloned you hard drive recently ? if yes, the reboot problem probably happens because of a problem during the disk cloning.
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Primary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed
When I boot up I will get this message "Primary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed" when my system is doing its post. I will go into windows xp pro. When I choose a user it will reboot or it will go in for a second and reboot. I need to get this fixed. Any help would be great. Thanks,
M1Bill
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I guess the read write heads on my hard drive went out. All I started to get was alot of clicking noise. I replaced my hard drive with an older one that still worked and formated that and installed my Windows XP Pro. I just replaced the IDE cable and I'm not getting the error. I guess when Windows was re-installed I got the wrong video driver. My system is still rebooting. When I go into windows it is saying that I have the wrong driver for my ATI All-In-Wonder video card. That is what is causing the instabillity. There are other times the screen will just turn black and then a message will just pop up in the center saying "Video Scan Out Of Range" and my system doesn't restart.
When your system starts, go into safe mode by pressing F* right after POST.
Uninstall you current Graphics driver, and restart your system.
Get the recent driver from www.atitech.com, or from you Graphics Adapter vendor's site.
Reinstall the driver, and you're done.
Hope that helps,
Zvitam.
>> Primary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed << this is just what it says : you should install a 80 - conductor IDE cable. (in your last post, you probably did) there are 2 kinds of ide cables : the older ones are 40-pin, the newer ones are 80 - pin - these have an extra ground wire between each 2 wires for crosstalk elimination, when using the higher IDE sspeeds (100 and 166 MHz)
>> All I started to get was alot of clicking noise << this is called the click of death : and signals the drive is dying or complertely dead - replace it asap.
>> There are other times the screen will just turn black << at what times?
also : >> and installed my Windows XP Pro << did you install the motherboard drivers, and all device drivers?
"... there are 2 kinds of ide cables : the older ones are 40-pin, the newer ones are 80 - pin ..." ==> NO !! Both have 40 pins; but one has 80 WIRES and the other has 40 wires. But as nobus said, you most likely switched to a correct cable when you swapped the drives above.
"... message will just pop up in the center saying "Video Scan Out Of Range" and my system doesn't restart." ==> Your system's running fine here, but it's using a display resolution that's out of the range of your monitor. You should boot into Safe mode and change to a supported resolution; then reboot. I would also download the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI's site (http://www.atitech.com/) and install them. Read their instructions carefully -- ATI drivers have to be installed in a specific order or you can have issues.
I was able to start my computer in safe mode without it restarting. I wasn't able to download from www.atitech.com because just going into safe mode I could not take my DSL and go on-line. I had to reboot and go into safe mode and have it load the network also to do this. I downloaded the file from this site to get this fixed. Now my system works. Thanks,
M1Bill
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by: tfjeffPosted on 2006-02-07 at 23:54:40ID: 15900348
boot to safe mode and see if it still restarts. You can fix the bios error message by installing an 80 conductor cable on your primary ide channel, but this probably won't fix your rebooting problem.