Floppy Drive Help?

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  1. skytech76

    skytech76 Geek Trainee

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    I install new floppy drive and my computer doesn't detect it. The light on the drive is on. Could someone help.
    Here what i have:
    win xp sp2
    azza 693btx mb
    Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
    chip set:VIA 82C691 rev 68
    VIA 686 rev 64 found at port 7h
    bio id:02/20/2001-693A-686-2A6LGP8NC-00

    I don't know if is the bio problem or not. thank.
     
    skytech76, Oct 17, 2004
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  2. Anti-Trend

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    Is the light on constantly? If so, the floppy cable is connected upside down.
     
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  3. skytech76

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    Yes the light is on constanly. You mean the cable is updown, could you explain it more thank you.
     
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  4. Anti-Trend

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    The cable to the floppy drive should be oriented so that pin-1, usually the end of the cable with a red stripe, is facing towards the power connector on the floppy. In other words, just unplug the cable, turn it 180 degrees, and plug it back in. :)
     
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  5. Sniper

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    man I hate the floppy! it always took me a couple of goes to get it the right way round! hehe
     
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  6. Anti-Trend

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    Yeah, me too. That's why I could diagnose it so quickly!
     
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  7. skytech76

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    Thank you Anit-Trend for you advise. I turn it 180 degree and it still not work, then I check the cmos. drive A was not enable and set it 1.44. and it working now. thank you for your help.
     
    skytech76, Oct 17, 2004
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  8. Waffle

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    How come the cable is allowed to go in like that? Surely in the early days of computers, the egg-heads could have invented a cable that only goes in one way?
     
    Waffle, Oct 17, 2004
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  9. Addis

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    Yeah, like the IDE cables have the notch at the top that will only go in one way.
     
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  10. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    Or, you can be 1337 like me and get rid of the thing.
     
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  11. Addis

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    It was said that the foppy was dead a long time ago, but i'm still at school and we don't really have much choice other than cd-r. But that only works one way because we can't write data to cds from school. It would be a lot better if they splashed out and got a MMC/SD card reader or a more expensive multi-card reader for the computers because the only other option to transfer big files is online storage. But that has its own problems because of transfer speeds etc. So we're stuck with the floppy for a few more years.
     
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  12. Waffle

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    Memory sticks are a great alternative. I keep mine with me all the time. Even at parties and social events :p
     
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  13. Anti-Trend

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    I had a lady almost kill me the other day because of memory sticks... she apparently dragged her feet on the carpet or something, and lost all the data on her pendrive. I said, "No problem, we'll just pull a backup off the server." She gave me that deer-in-the-headlights look, and said "I never save anything on the server. I'm afraid I'll lose it that way!" :swt:
     
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  14. Waffle

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    really? My pendrive has a rubber case and end (ahem), so i guess it's anti-static.
     
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  15. Anti-Trend

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    Yeah, pendrives sure beat storing your important data on a hardened Linux server with a RAID-5... or something. :p

    Sorry, I've gone off topic a bit. Some moderator, eh?
     
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  16. Big B

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    The concept of backup has no meaning for this lady.
     
    Big B, Oct 17, 2004
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