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Floppy hell! Help

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MorbidDog

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I have a Soltek K333 motherboard running XP1800 overclocked to 2000. My floppy is not working. It worked originally and I bought a new one. Just to be safe. I also changed the cable. It will not read a disk at start up and the light is always on.

I am running Windows XP and it tells me that everything is fine. When I put a disk in it never reads it and tells me to insert disk in drive A.

Any help is appreciated!
 
The light always on USUALLY indicates that the data cable is on backwards. Flip it over and see if that fixes it.
 
As mentioned above, the cable is backwards. If it won't fit because of the tab, take a razorblade and shave it off. I've had to do this with a handfull of floppy cables.
 
Replace the cable and test the floppy drive in another computer. If that doesn't make a difference, your floppy controller could be fried or there is something set wrong in the bios.
 
Other comments are correct and well worth checking. Just wanted to add: check that no pins are bent, either on the drive or on the motherboard.
 
Which cable connector ya using? For single floppy it must be the last connector, which is just after the 1/4" cable twist...
 
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