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aaron158
07-19-2005, 11:48 PM
is there some kinda program that i can download that can test ide cable to see if they are bad or going bad?
AMD
07-20-2005, 12:13 AM
lol
Don't waste your time - just replace it. I have never seen an IDE cable fail though.
aaron158
07-20-2005, 12:18 AM
ya but it could be one of 4 ide cables and i don't have the money to waste on buying 4 new ide cables just to fix one bad one
AMD
07-20-2005, 12:26 AM
How could it be one of four cables? Motherboards only have two IDE channels. (with very few having more)

If you're having trouble with one particular drive, open up the system and swap the cables around - if nothing changes, that's not the problem.

Odds are, the both cables are fine and there's another problem.
Cat person
07-20-2005, 01:15 AM
How do you know it's the cable? Do you get any error messages?
What's the other two cables connected to, a Promise card?
More details would help. :)
zerocool24
07-21-2005, 12:02 AM
How could it be one of four cables? Motherboards only have two IDE channels.

If you're having trouble with one particular drive, open up the system and swap the cables around - if nothing changes, that's not the problem.

Odds are, the both cables are fine and there's another problem.

Not true, my asus has 3 channels (6 drives) also another way is add an ata card it will add a couple of channels as well

aaron158, you don't have any extra cables lying around? with most hard drive purchases you should get one, unless you threw them out. What exactly is happening that makes you think that one of your cables is bad?
aaron158
07-21-2005, 04:47 AM
no i have no extra cables and the windows event veiw is flooding with disk errors and when i go to the detals of the error it says that its is caused by a failing ide cable but it don't tell me witch dirve or cable is doing this.
woodpusher
07-21-2005, 07:43 AM
Did you run checkdisk (form a command prompt type chkdsk /?)?
aaron158
07-21-2005, 03:20 PM
chkdsk would just test the hard dirves there is nothing wrong with the hard drives
David
07-21-2005, 04:08 PM
It could be as simple as it coming loose from the connectors.
Unplug the ide's from the mother board, and devices.. Check for any damage to pins, etc...
Then reinsert.
aaron158
07-22-2005, 12:05 AM
I have look over all the cables they look perfect