What the hell is wrong w/ my floppy drive!?!?!?! HELLP!!!

[Tekk]

I just got my Abit BF6 and installed everything. Drooling when I started it up, just waiting to start o/cing for the first time and playing some Q3 at some high res. So I start it up and setup through the SoftmenuIII and then reboot. I checked some warning things in the BIOS to tell me if anything was wrong and one was the FDD checker (it checks for a floppy drive on startup) and when I rebooted it said floppy disk error (40). "WHAT THE $*#&!" was my response. I took it to someone and they checked the wiring and it was A-ok. So I rebooted and that dumb little light on the floppy light (ya know the green one) was on and it stayed on. "($)_@#($@#!!" was again my reaction. I have waited weeks for this!? Now my question is, what the hell is wrong? All of the other peripherals seem to work (HDD I know works and CD seems to be working ok). Is it somehow possible that I got one of those "bad-egg" products that companies sometimes can ship out or is it something else. I tested my own floppy on someone elses computer and it worked fine and I tried his floppy on my computer and it had that "green light stays on" syndrome just like before. I like the looks of the Abit so far and I just got it from an internet shop that is reputable so the exchange should be ok. But is there anything I should do to try otherwise? Is it possible the m/b got shorted somehow? It seems strange to me that everything else works except the floppy and I need that **** floppy to install windows from a clean HDD. Thanks for any help.

[Ke01]

Your floppy cable is on backwards, turn either your cable to your floppy OR controller around, this should work unless it can only go on 1 way....which would mean you need a need floppy..

Ke01:>

[Dave_H]

Also check that your plugging the cable into the floppy after the twist in the cable. The far end that pluggs into the board could be the one plugged in backwards also, It may look a different than the hard drive cable when it is plugged in.(the cable could come off the plug on different sides of the connector).
Dave

[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

Remember that the red wire on the floppy/ide cables always go towards the power connection on the device itself.

Jim

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[Banti]

Actually, NavyDood that is not true. Your post should read 'usually' not 'always'. I have ownwed some floppy drives that have pin1 on the far side of the power connector.

Banti

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[Nixona]

I thought all floppy drives had the red wire farthest from the power. All mine are like that. I just bought 2 or 3 different ones and they are all like that.

[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

Ok ok ok...... sorry. I've built 3 systems and mine have always been red towards the power connector. Sorry. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Others may be different. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Jim


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[commodsquad]

I dont want to make things sound any worse here but I had a similar prob recently with a system I was trouble shooting for a friend..all the connections were correct, meaning that the cable was connected to mobo and floppy drive the right way according to specs not backwards. the drive worked before according to him but for some reason it began to work only sometimes..and the **** light would stay on and sometimes the drive would spin constantly...swapped out cables 4 times, tried 3 different floppy drives in it and same story each time even though the same floppies and cables worked in other systems before and after the swaps...well after doing some extra checking and 2 days of arguing with the prob I found that, on the mobo in the floppy controller port, one of the pins were missing on the opposite side of the #1 pin.. thought to myself (AHA!) and figured that whoever originally put in the cable may have loosened the pin enuff so that it would eventually break it off a little too easily..I never found the lost pin though. I even checked in the original cable to see if it was stuck in there. It's probably on the floor somewhere LOL...By the way, just to let you all know, I NEVER rock cables back and forth when I take it out or install them..just a straight pull or a straight push ..I may get some scraped up knuckles but at least I know that I dont bend pins or have a chance of breaking something other than my fingers LOL...
good thing I had an extra IDE card with a floppy controller onboard so I just disabled the mobo's floppy controller in the bios and set it up for the card and the original floppy drive is working great now...
Dont know if I helped any but that was my recent experience with the floppy prob from hell LOL...

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