P II 400Mhz problem

[Jav]

The drive light will stay on if the cable for the floppy is backwards. try flopping it around and see if it happens. Then check the bios to see if Drive A: is detected as 3.5" floppy

[jokostel]

also the cable usually has two places for the 3.5 or 5/1/4.....
at least my cable does.....
the first on the cable leading from the mb is B:/ the second is A:/....... the cable has a "master-slave" function....
i don't remember the master slave order but try this and let us know.....

[Stevo]

I also think that you have to plug the floppy into a connector after the cross over twisted point in the cable

[Greg5150]

This is a weird problem.
I am assembling a machine yesterday with the following componets: Pent. II (400), Seattle se440bx-2 Motherboard, 128 Mb DRAM, 4 GB HDD, Floppy, 32x CD-ROM, and video card.
All this stuff is brand new.
Anyway I was going to install win95, but on boot-up I get an error message "wrong drive type A" , also the floppy light stays on ALL THE TIME. I checked all cables and connections. Checked all pins. Checked that the BIOS was right.
Then I put the processor in another machine which I knew was working fine, same problem again. Then replaced original processor in that machine and problem ramained.
What am I doing wrong here?

[Roy]

Floppy cable, starting at the motherboard:

Mobo ----- B: --x-- A:

Floppy LED stays on if connector is upside down.

[philipg]

Roy is right this is a common error when people connect the Floppy cable to the drive the red line must face away from the power connector on most floppy drives.

[Greg5150]

Thanks everyone. Who ever heard of the red line going away from the power?
It fixed the problem. Thanks again.