- Floppy drive not working
- Posted by John Stahl on February 7th, 2004
I just installed a Gigbyte GA-7VT600-L motherboard in my system.
Everything is working fine except the floppy drive.
The drive is detected by the bios but can't read any disks. The drive
light is continuously on even when no disk is in the drive. I
installed a new floppy drive and the same thing happens.
Any ideas?
- Posted by Unknown on February 7th, 2004
Check to see if the floppy driver is compatible with your new board.
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- Posted by Steven Pilbeam on February 7th, 2004
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Make sure the ribbon cable is plugged in the right wayt round
- Posted by Phil® on February 7th, 2004
Your cable is installed backwards.
http://www.computing.net/hardware/ww...rum/20774.html
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- Posted by ñKs on February 7th, 2004
Make sure the ide type cable isn't plugged in incorrectly...
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- Posted by ErmYouKnow on February 7th, 2004
lol, a little knowledge......
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- Posted by Kráftéé on February 7th, 2004
John Stahl wrote:
Normally caused by either the plug on the back of the drive being on the
wrong way around or the plug on the board being the wrong way around, easily
solved by using a screw driver (to open cabinet) a torch & a little sense...
- Posted by Patrick on February 7th, 2004
John Stahl wrote:
The light allways-on, indicates that the cable is the wrong way round !
- Posted by Craven Birds on February 7th, 2004
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Plenty but can't be published;-)
It's the bloody cable that's not inserted the right way round!
Do a google search! Oh dear I'm becoming sanctimonious:-(
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- Posted by Professor on February 7th, 2004
Make sure you have the cable turned in the right direction. There is a
color on the edge of the ribbon cable which shows where you connect pin one
make this correspond with pin one on the floppy drive and on the board there
should be an indication of where pin one goes and if you can't see it on the
board find it in the manual.
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- Posted by Wal on February 8th, 2004
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As has already been said you have your ribbon cable the wrong way around.
But you now have another problem.
Any disks you have put in your disk drive when the light was permanently on
will have been wiped.
Regards
Wal.
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- Posted by John F. Stahl on February 8th, 2004
Thanks to all. I thought that I had tried this already but I guess I didn't
do it correctly.
John
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