Re: Problem with ide cable

Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales wrote: 
Hi

I couldnt get XP to install, i was using the 40pin idex2

Someone said try the 80 pin, so i put the hd to master and dvd to slave, now
they are not picked in bootup, if i put both to cs the same thing happens,
only if i just have the hd then it detects it.

Have you got the correct end of the cable plugged into the motherboard? It does matter... 

Reason i tried that was i was getting the same error when it got to i think
57% of trying to copy the files, tried it 10 times and last time i tried it
that took 6 hours to get that far.

Obvious things like the CD itself and the optical drive out of the way, check that the HDD itself is healthy (use the manufacturer's test program if necessary) and run memtest and something like Prime95 to check the cpu/board.

Also, check the bios settings regarding ACPI/APIC, and PnP settings, and try removing any additional IDE cards - just in case XP is getting hung up on installing and it just *looks* like it's having trouble copying files ;)

You can always manually copy the files to the HDD and run the install from there, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem...

Lee
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