Re: Too good to be true -- floppy light stays on permanently

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From: Peter Wood
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:00

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Lane Lewis wrote:

> My turn
>
> Congrats  and if you can't find pin 1 on the floppy drive, it's next to the
> power connector so put the red line of the ide cable there.

On Panasonic it is, but I think on Sony it's the other way round.


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> Motherboard
> pin1s are clearly or not so clearly marked but you can check the manual. Now
> are ya ready to overclock that baby :O)
>
> Thanks Lane Lewis
>
> "Barry Ward" <baz@powerup.com.au> wrote in message news:3b2af7dc@grissom...
> > This 55 year old "old fart"  put together his firat computer this morning.
> > A P3-1000 on an ASUS CUSL2-c board.
> >
> > And it worked first time!!! :)
> >
> > Well almost --- the machine starts up fine , I can access BIOS,  -- but
> the
> > Floppy is running permanently and when it tries to boot from the floppy ,
> I
> > get the dreaded "Floppy fail" message .. I think maybe I have connected
> the
> > cable up the wrong way around ???
> >
> > Any advice please/
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > barry
> >
> >
> >

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