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

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From: Jay Lu
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:01

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Could it laso be that the floppy drive is set to another floopy setting
instead on 3 1/4' floppy in BIOS. I had this problem ages ago and I pondered
on it for too long.



"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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