I was cleaning the dust off the inside of my computer with compressed air the other day and once i was finished and turned my computer on i got these errors:

1) Secondary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed

2) Floppy disk(s) fail (40)

I tried reseating the cables and even using different cables, but I still get these messages. I was running RAID 0 on my SOYO dragon k7v motherboard. Is the RAID controller dead along with my floppy? they are all adjacent on the motherboard. I have no idea wat is wrong with it. Anyone have any ideas?

Here are my specs:
SOYO dragon k7v
AMD 1.4ghz ahyja
512mb pc2700 ddr
msi geforce 4 ti4400
2 40 gig IBM deskstar 60gxp

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Is it possible that you blew away a small jumper either from the HD or from motherboard? The compressed air can easily do those sort of things.

Just cafefully check that all jumpers are in place.

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Last edited by Webmaster on 12-24-02 at 01:09 AM

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Check your IDE/floppy cables.

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lol, thanx webmaster, one of the problems solved...(floppy power was disconnected) how foolish of me. Anyhow, I still get the other error about secondary... I tried using different 80 pin IDE ribbons on the RAID controller. It doesn't even detect the drives. The thing is, right after I cleaned it, it used to get detected then all of a sudden it stopped. Also, I ran drive fitness test from IBM on one of the harddrives and there were some bad sectors(which i got fixed) so, I guess i can use the IDE1 for now. BUT i want my RAID~ Anyhow, if anyone else has any other ideas... thanx!

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