Floppy Drive

[k2dirtrider]

I bought my mom a bare bones system from a local computer show and took it to her house and configured it. I finished and then got a floppy failure (40) error on boot up. It makes me hit F1 to continue. I swapped out the floppy and it worked fine for a while. Then all the sudden, you guessed it, another floppy disk failure (40). It is an off brand mother board and seems very finicky. It would not accept a creative labs modem blaster. It finally accepted a Diamond Supra. Any one have any ideas? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif

[mjc]

When you replaced the drive did you replace the cable?

Try here (http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000426.htm), and here (http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/fdd/index-i.htm) for troubleshooting tips.

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[k2dirtrider]

Well this is rather troubleing. this is already the second floppy drive I've installed. This doesn't look good does it?

[mjc]

Well if you replaced the cable with drive then I'd say no, not to encouraging but cheap floppies can be DOA.


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[k2dirtrider]

I'll try a new floppy and cable and see what happens. Thanks alot.

[mjc]

If you can try one of the other floppies in a different computer. That way you'd know if it is really the drive or something else.


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mjc
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[k2dirtrider]

Yea that is what I am going to do. I sure hope it doesn't work in the other computer. I would rather buy a floppy drive and cable than buy a mother board.