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New computer Problem

  • 19-07-2004 10:01am
    #1
    Speedway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭


    Hey

    I just built a new machine and it's all working fine except the floppy drive.As far as I can see I have the power and IDE connections in correctly but the floppy drive busy light is on continually as if it is reading a disk and when in insert a disk it won't read it at all.The floppy drive and the floppy drive controller are appearing error free in the windows device manager.

    just wondering if anyone knows anything i could do

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Pauly26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭Pauly26


    Check in the BIOS, if whats ok make sure the cable is on the right way, if thats not it the floppy of feck
    But who uses floppys now a day anyway, just dump it and use the cd burner


  • #3
    Batbat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭Batbat


    floppy is broken probably, anyway who cares, theyre only usefull as a boot disk


  • #4
    cornflake666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭cornflake666


    Same thing happened to me. Try switching the ide cable around i.e. put the end thats in your motherboard into your floppy. Worked for me!


  • #5
    deckie27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭deckie27


    the cable is in the wrong way
    ie. pin 1 is on the wrong side

    Dec


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,360 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Pin 1 is the edge of the cable with the red stripe. There is a twist in the cable for some archane reason and it does matter which end of the cable goes to the FDD. Pin 1 should also be marked on FDD and M/B - sometimes it's the opposite way round to the HDD cables..

    warning - if you stick a floppy in the drive it will get corrupted .


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  • #7
    duridian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    Yep data cable is almost certainly wrong way around ....and BTW the data cable to the floppy isn't an IDE cable.


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