I came home from work just a few hours ago and found that my pc could not boot. Nada, nothing. Not even the mobo spash screen. So, after panicking, I tried to reset cmos. Nothing. So I took the entire thing apart, and put it back together. I put the sound card and ram in different places than before, and everything booted. Now it works. It can't be sound or memory because they worked fine before. I did nothing to it (no new hardware/software installations) so why did it do this? Now, though, I notice that in the post screen when everything is booting (the one that checks out how much ram you have) it has a new line added near the bottom that reads: "Primary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed." What the heck is this? Why was it not there before? Will it damage/slow down my system in anyway? I've checked my system and everything is as it was before. Thanks very much.

Something had worked loose, which happens.
If your hard drive is ATA/66 or ATA/100, then it needs an 80 wire cable for max performance. Otherwise, it will perform slower. Check that the hard drive's ribbon cable has 80 wires and is securely connected at both ends. If that's ok, then it's possible the cable is bad and has to be replaced. If the computer is under warranty, have the supplier take care of it.

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