Chaintech 9EJS1 boot problem

Hi. I'm running a Chaintech 9EJS1 nobo with a 2.4ghz celeron. My problem is
it takes over a minute to boot past the bios. I get a message from the bios
about an 80 contudtor cable not being installed. What is an 80 conductor
cable? Also is it possible to stop automatic detection of ide devices and
set them up manually. Finally is it possible to run an 8x agp card on this.
The card I'm looking at says its 2x and 4x bus compatible.
Thanks in advance.

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:36:59 +0100, "Muttly" wrote:

Hi. I'm running a Chaintech 9EJS1 nobo with a 2.4ghz celeron. My problem is
it takes over a minute to boot past the bios. I get a message from the bios
about an 80 contudtor cable not being installed. What is an 80 conductor
cable? Also is it possible to stop automatic detection of ide devices and
set them up manually. Finally is it possible to run an 8x agp card on this.
The card I'm looking at says its 2x and 4x bus compatible.
Thanks in advance.


80 conductor cables are those with, oddly enough, 80 conductors.
Often called ATA66, ATA100, ATA133 cables, visually they have thinner
and more wires compared to the older 40 conductor cables, and
typically blue, black, and grey colored plugs.

It should not be necessary to disable automatic IDE detection. More
likely would be that there's a jumper problem, power supply problem
(so drives aren't spun-up by the time the detection is underway) or a
drive malfunctioning. Try running the drive manufacturer's
diagnostics, available for download from the respective websites.

The motherboard will work with 8X AGP cards, but at 4X of course.


dave

Cheers Dave.

"kony" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:36:59 +0100, "Muttly" wrote:

Hi. I'm running a Chaintech 9EJS1 nobo with a 2.4ghz celeron. My problem
is
it takes over a minute to boot past the bios. I get a message from the
bios
about an 80 contudtor cable not being installed. What is an 80 conductor
cable? Also is it possible to stop automatic detection of ide devices and
set them up manually. Finally is it possible to run an 8x agp card on
this.
The card I'm looking at says its 2x and 4x bus compatible.
Thanks in advance.


80 conductor cables are those with, oddly enough, 80 conductors.
Often called ATA66, ATA100, ATA133 cables, visually they have thinner
and more wires compared to the older 40 conductor cables, and
typically blue, black, and grey colored plugs.

It should not be necessary to disable automatic IDE detection. More
likely would be that there's a jumper problem, power supply problem
(so drives aren't spun-up by the time the detection is underway) or a
drive malfunctioning. Try running the drive manufacturer's
diagnostics, available for download from the respective websites.

The motherboard will work with 8X AGP cards, but at 4X of course.


dave