Re: Problems with floppy
Posted by gimpinthesink on
Thu Oct 9th 2003 at 5:23am
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I am having a problem with my floppy drive where it will read the disks while windows is running but it wont read them when I boot the PC but it detects the drive.
It also does the same thing with the cdrom
I have tryed changing the floppy drive with another and it worked once and before I could format I had to shutdown and fix a fan and then when I got that working again the floppy drive wasn't.
So I am woundering if any of you know of a solution?
Re: Problems with floppy
Posted by Sim on
Thu Oct 9th 2003 at 6:54am
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Isn't there anything about it in the bios?
Re: Problems with floppy
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Check the IDE cables which connect the floppy drive to the motherboard. If you find a fault, replace the cable, don't try to fix it. It just won't work.
Re: Problems with floppy
Posted by Monqui on
Thu Oct 9th 2003 at 2:27pm
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It sounds kinda like your boot order is ... out of ... order.
Try getting into the BIOS as your PC boot, and just look around in there until you find some list of items called "Boot Order" or somethin (can't remember exactly at the moment), and put the CDROM and Floppy drives BEFORE the Hard drive with the OS on it.
Although I thought floppies took precedence over the IDE chain, so it could be a bad connector on your board.
Re: Problems with floppy
Posted by gimpinthesink on
Thu Oct 9th 2003 at 6:32pm
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It says nothing about it in the BIOS.
The cable is fine I have already checked that when I was swaping the floppy drives.
and the boot order is
Floppy
CDROM
HDD
I think it probably is a bad IDE connector.
Re: Problems with floppy
Posted by Orpheus on
Fri Oct 10th 2003 at 12:35am
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whenever you have issues with hardware you do these steps..
1) check all connections
2) take it out, and put it back in, somethings there is dust between the contacts.
3) go into properties, and uninstall it, shut down, and restart, allowing windows to reinstall it..
do these steps in this order, usually this is all you need, assuming the hardware is not broken..
hope this helps.
Re: Problems with floppy
Posted by gimpinthesink on
Tue Oct 14th 2003 at 5:30am
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I have tryed all them but now it refuses to work with windows now
Re: Problems with floppy
Posted by gimpinthesink on
Tue Oct 14th 2003 at 5:37pm
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No it detects it but it desnt try to read from it or the cd.
The cable isn't upside down cos I checked.
Re: Problems with floppy
Posted by Orpheus on
Tue Oct 14th 2003 at 6:08pm
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if you somehow disabled the drives in your bios you need to turn them back on.. find out which "F" key will boot you into setup and make sure they are on..
it will tell you..
I always used to get the cable going into the floppy drive upside down, it would still have power but wouldn't otherwise work.