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Floppy drive problem

  • 09-10-2005 7:54pm
    #1
    karltimber
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 1,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Have a new pc put together and have no floppy drive in it.

    When I start XP it pauses saying that there is no floppy and I need to hit F1 to continue.

    Which of these bios settings is the correct one to change.

    Integrated peripherals -ide devices
    IDE primary Master PIO - can change to auto/mode 1-4 ---auto
    IDE primary Slave PIO - can change to auto/mode 1-4 ---- auto
    IDE primary Master UDMA - can change to enable/disable ----auto
    IDE primary Slave UDMA - can change to enable/disable ---- disabled

    thx


Comments

  • #2
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,164 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    none of them, usually boot up floppy seek, or something on those lines.


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    all those are for your hard drives or cd drives. Floppy drives have separate controllers on the mainboard. It should be something like astrofool suggested.


  • #4
    democrates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭democrates


    The floppy drive controller is indeed a seperate circuit to that of the IDE drives.

    In the Bios setup program, look for a floppy drive enable/disable setting and if it has one set it to disable. Also look for the boot sequence settings. Here you can say what drives the bios should search for an operating system and in what order. Assuming XP is on drive C, and drive C is on the ide primary cable (standard config), make this the first drive your pc checks for an os, and after that let it check the cd drive. It will only ever check the cd for an os if the hard drive is out of commission or it found no OS there, so that makes it handy for a recovery job.

    Technote: The 'Press F1 key' message is from the bios program and not xp which hadn't yet been called for execution. What happens when you turn the pc on is that the bios program runs first and informs the cpu how to talk to the monitor, keyboard, ram, drives etc, otherwise it couldn't display boot messages such as the ram count, the number of drives etc. Once the bios has done the basics it then goes to load up an operating system such as XP, Linux, etc. Even mainframes (big iron) have a similar boot sequence except the bios is referred to as the bootstrap loader because it metaphorially pulls the system up by the bootstraps, and while you can't run a mainframe on XP, you can run Linux. :cool:


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