Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
By default, PIX blocks icmp requests. You can also do a "debug packet outside" (and be ready to type "undebug all") on the interface to see if it's even receiving the pings..that's where I'd start.
The 40 and the 80 refers to the number of wires and pins in the cable. 40-pin IDE is the older kind and was used on the older ATA-33 and ATA-66 devices such as most CD-ROM drives and old hard drives. 80-pin IDE is the current IDE cable which is used on ATA-100 and ATA-133 hard drives and other...