Hi, the floppy drive runs continually (it's very noisy!), and ever few minutes the green light comes on. Should I just disable the floppy drive? Thanks
I assume it is a 3.5 floppy , it will need to be replaced. you can attempt to disable but some motherboards require it to pass the bios screens. I assume it is a 3.5 floppy , it will need to be replaced. you can attempt to disable but some motherboards require it to pass the bios screens.
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Your computer is looking for a Floppy diskette drive. If you entered the BIOS ( setup menu ) and selected default settings to be applied it selects the first boot-table drive as the floppy diskette drive. You have to disable the floppy drive if you don't have one.
If the green light is constantly on then the ribbon cable has been fitted the wrong way around.
To fix some ribbon cables have a twist in them this side goes to the floppy drive and not the motherboard. The red line on the ribbon cable corresponds to number 1 on the drive itself.
The "floppy" disk-drive (3.5-inch diskette) on your computer is broken.
Press F1 to ignore the error, and to boot from your C: drive.
Or, press F2 to enter BIOS SETUP, and then navigate through those "setup" screens to tell the computer to "disable floppy seek", or change the setting from "3.5 1.44Mb drive" to "none".
Or, take the computer to a technician, and buy a replacement disk-drive, and get it installed.
Got to BIOS by pressing F2,check or any floppy setting and disable it even in boot order setup.This will solve your problem otherwise replace the lithium CMOS battery.
As you have reset the BIOS setting to it's default setting.Floppy drive is enable by default whether your system have a physical floppy drive or not.
Hello,
This error comes due to the Floppy Drive error..pls check the floppy drive cable connector prperly connected or not ...If there is no floppy drive ..Go into BIOS setup and disable the floppy drive..Then this error wont come again ..
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sounds like your floppy drive is failing, you could get it replaced or simply turn it off via the BIOS. to turn it off simply hit the F2 key. On the first screen usually it will list your Hard Drives, CD ROMs', and the Floppy. scroll down to the floppy and hit enter ot the corresponding key form the bios's legend at the bottom or right hand side of the screen untill you see disable. Next you can navigate to Save & exit or hit F10 to do the same. G/L.
Press F2 to enter the Bios, on the first screen navigate to the floppy A: drive select disable and the error should go away.
From the sounds of it your Floppy drive is damaged or just bad. you can take it for repair or purchase a new one fairly cheap and replace it yourself. But just disabling it should do the trick since floppy's are pretty much obsolete.
the recovery Disk wont help you unless its an error you get in windows itself btw.. (unless its a OS start problem which this doesn't seem to be)
First check to see if a drive died. Unplug all the drive Floppy, hard and dvd or burns. I have come across many time that a drive will die and keep motherboard from booting. Being that you say you get a green light on the motherboard shows that the power suppy is providing some power. But for some reason the internal self test is faulting the power suppy. I have not come cross any bad power supplies killing a motherboard. But I have come across power supplies killing drives. The power switch is a normal open switch so the only time you be able test continuity on it is if you hold the switch in, or the closed position.
CHECK THE CABLES..
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