Floppy Drive light ALWAYS on

[CityRoamer]

I have just started up my new computer and have set all the BIOS settings. I am ready to load Win2k and tried inserting the first boot disk, but its not reading it from my floppy drive. For some reason my floppy drive light is always on. I checked the wiring and it looked right. Im using one of the power wires that is branched off from the ones that are connected to the CD-RW and the DVD-ROM. What could be the problem?

The floppy is correctly connected to the board.....

 

[Head]

Sounds like the cable into the back of the floppy is backwards....turn it 180 degrees - the red stripe should be OPPOSITE of the red stripe on the hard drive IDEs

 

[Jerboy]

<< I have just started up my new computer and have set all the BIOS settings. I am ready to load Win2k and tried inserting the first boot disk, but its not reading it from my floppy drive. For some reason my floppy drive light is always on. I checked the wiring and it looked right. Im using one of the power wires that is branched off from the ones that are connected to the CD-RW and the DVD-ROM. What could be the problem?

The floppy is correctly connected to the board..... >>



Most probably cause is you have the cable in backward at the drive side. NEVER insert a disk like this as you're risking total data corruptoin.

 

[theplanb]

I had same case, only that swapping calbes didn't fix it. The light doesn't go out with any combination of cables.. After a while, floppy can't even be accessed.. I think its gone.. (the light is still on though)