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Floppy drive no go

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TruculentTucan

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I finished putting together my new computer today. Everything went fine except for two small things, the first is my fans take too much current to run off the motherboard (whatever, I can fix that) and the second is nomatter what i tried every time i run through BIOS it says floppy drive(s) fail (40). Well, first I thought i had used an old floppy so I wasn't too surprised it was dead. I took another floppy (that i know works) and put it into the computer. Same problem. I tried switching around the cables every which way and to no avail. I finally got it to stop b!tching at me during BIOS by telling it not to check the A: drive in the BIOS settings. I think that either I have a bad cable or my motherboard got messed up.

I'm running
1.2 gig athlon
iwill kk266 mobo
256 megs crucial ram
sony 52x cdrom drive
Radeon LE 32 meg ddr


Anyone got any ideas?
 
Are you sure you got the floppy cable on right? Floppy should be using the connector at the end after the twist in the cable. Also, pin 1 on the drive will be on the side closest to it's power connector. Anyway, it's worth a shot.
 
I've found that the floppy drive is the hardest drive to install. Mine doesn't even have the plastic borders around the pins so sometimes I plug the cable in off center. Usually, I have the cable backwards or upside down. Try tons of different combinations before you throw away the drive. I threw a drive away once only to find out later that the ribbon wasn't connected correctly.
 
It seems like this question comes up atleast once a day. Damn Floppy cables suck! There is no one correct way to do it. :|
 
I'm having the same problem and I'm using the Iwill kk266 as well. Tried everything you said so far and still the same. However, I didn't try a bios upgrade yet.

Did you solve your problem yet TruculentTucan?

Edit: BTW, I used the same floppy and cable on the epox 8k7a, and it works fine there. So it verifies that the drive and cable is good.
 
Aiya - are you trying to boot from floppy or just access it in Windows? If you are trying to boot from it problem could be bios.
 
I got the floppy error (80) instead of (40). It is bios and not windows.

On the Epox board at first, I got the same errors, but after fiddling the the cable and bios, that worked. I guess I should update my bios of the iwill board. Hm... I wonder if I first need a floppy drive to do so?🙁 I know that I do for the epox board.
 


<< I finished putting together my new computer today. ...and the second is nomatter what i tried every time i run through BIOS it says floppy drive(s) fail (40). Anyone got any ideas? >>



I have this problem too. I put together a computer today (Iwill KK266, Duron 800, 256MB PNY RAM, Antec KS282 w/ their 300 watt power supply) and right from the first time I booted it up, I got the Floppy Drives Fail (40) error. I changed the bios so I could boot from cd-rom and I installed Windows 2000. In the Hardware Device Manager it says the both the Floppy drive and floppy controller are working fine. The floppy's LED is always on. If I put a disk in, nothing happens and Windows asks me to put a disk in drive a: if I try to open drive a:. The only response I can get from the floppy drive is when bootup is stopped at the error and I pop in a floppy, the drive will make a nasty sound and then a sound like it's trying to read the disk. Just for a few seconds and then it stops. Anyone got an ideas? Thanks.
 
light always on is general indication of a backward cable. Make sure that the Pin 1's are in the correct place. Don't go my the little notch not all FDD's are created equal.
 
Wow. This is actually pretty funny because I went through almost the same thing.

I put together my first rig this past Saturday, and of all the things that I expected to go wrong, it definitely was not getting my floppy drive to work. Plugging, unplugging, rotating, switching floppy drives, etc. Nothing seemed to work as it simply refused to boot from the floppy, made this wretched noise, or stayed lit but no activity.

Finally, totally frustrated, I went and grabbed a floppy cable from a Dell machine and popped into my motherboard. Lo and behold, it worked! I guess the original floppy cable that came with my motherboard was bad. :frown:

I personally cannot wait until the floppy drive goes the way of the dinosaur.
 
Ok, I flipped the cable and that solved the problem. But, and this is a big but, when I tried to boot the computer into Win2000, I got some BSOD about missing some registry key or file and the computer automatically reset itself. After this happen a couple times, I just reinstalled Windows 2000, which I was going to do anyway, because I screwed up my hard drive partitions the first time. So now I have my floppy working. Thanks.
 
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