My floppy drive wouldn't flop!

[stancez]

I have a problem w/ my 1.44 floppy drive. There was once I pulled out the floppy cable attached to the mainboard, after attaching it back, I am unable to use my floppy drive. The light is on and the drive's running but whatever disks I placed in, it just prompt me over and over again to insert a disk thou there was one in it!
Anyway I thought it was a hardware failure so I swapped drive w/ my other PC, still the same error prompt.
To my dismay, when I attached the OK floppy drive back to my other PC, it started to show me error too! *groans*
It just keep on telling me to format my drive A: whenever I tried to run my diskette in it.
I've run out of ideas to fix these 2 floppy drives w/ 2 different errors for weeks. Is there anything I can do which I didn't? BIOS? CMOS setup?
Please advice. Thanks.

[This message has been edited by stancez (edited 07-15-2001).]

[SPEEDO]

If the floppy light stays on all the time during boot reverse the cable connection on your motherboard, Try this first and see if it helps!!!

[boran_blok]

the part of the cable with the little twisted piece has to be connected to the floppy, the other end needs to be placed on the mobo

[stancez]

hmm... so the light is supposed to be there only when there is a disk in it?

[This message has been edited by stancez (edited 07-15-2001).]

[boran_blok]

the light is supposed to be working only when there is a disk in it AND it is being accessed

[Fingers]

The "twist" should be on the end that connects to the floppy drive, and the colored wire represents pin-1. If you look carefully, you should see pin-1 specified on both the motherboard and the back or the floppy drive.

... and yes, the floppy light should only be on when the disk is actually being accessed.

[Joevegany]

If you have the cable attached correctly, try replacing the cable altogether.

[stancez]

Hey guys, doesn't work either way. The cable is connected correctly. It's still saying the device is not ready. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

And I did replaced w/ a cable that works fine.

[This message has been edited by stancez (edited 07-15-2001).]

[boran_blok]

hmm you might try to get a new floppy drive (only $10 at most .. these thingies go really cheap now ..)

and did you install all via drivers etc . (via4in1 etc .. ?)

[stancez]

I reformat, I tried a new floppy drive, the driver is correct but it just wun run....
Connector on mainboard spoil? How many pins are there? 31?