The floppy dive is not working.

I installed a new floppy drive, changed the cables.

The settings on the BIOS are correct, and message displayed that the system has a floppy drive 1.44 MB.

However, the light on the drive does not light up on starting the system.

The problem indicates that the floppy drive controller on the motherboard has a problem.

How to check the floppy drive controller on the motherboard to rectify this problem?

Please advise.

Bhasker Raj
India

Does device manager show the floppy drive/controller working? Does the drive light up if you put a disk in? Do you get an error message? What error message do you get?

Need more info.

At this point w/o more info the only thing I could suggest is to try a different power connector from the power supply....

Dear Classic Software,

Thanks for the reply.

The details are provided for your guidance.

1. The Device Manager shows the Floppy drive is working.
2. The light does not light up when I insert a floppy disk
3. The message received is that there is aproblem with the floppy disk controller on the motherboard.
4.I tried using a different power supply connector.
5. The LEd lights up when I cloase the system.
6. The settings on the BIOS are correct.
7. The message displayed on booting up shows the flopy dirve 1.44 Mb,a login with the HDD drive.

Waiting for your reply

Yours sincerely

Bhasker Raj
India

When do you get the message?

Have you tried to boot with a floppy to see if it's the motherboard or the Windows drivers...

Also have you swapped power cords

Try the middle line of the three from ClassicSoftware.

Try to boot to a boot flopp diskette - since the DOS drivers may work when the Windows 32-bit drivers do not.

Dear Classic Software and Paul,

Thanks for the advise.

I cannot boot from the floppy. I changed the power cord and the light comes on. However, when I insert a floppy it is not able to open and the eror message is 'A:/is not working'.

Waiting for your reply.

Yours sincerely

Bhasker Raj
India

As a last resort,

Is the ribbon cable on correctly?

have you tried your floppy in a different computer? If the cable is right and the floppy works in a different computer, I think it's time for a new mobo....