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

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From: Peter Wood
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:01

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deecups wrote:

> 55 years is not too old. My uncle is 71 years old and he has assembled
> Pentiums and AMDs for his own purposes. He sold his business and is now a
> paid manager of the same business. In facts you are still a youngster.
> Between 60 and 63 my grandfather fathered two children. My grand-uncle
> fathered a girl at aged 69!!

Ahhh... there's hope for me yet!

>
> 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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