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

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From: Soujurn
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 04:02

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This is a simple fix so you will probably get  a ton of replies.
A floppy cable has a "twist" in the end going to the drive.
I'd recommend buying a good book on building PC's like
Scott Muellers book, Upgrading and Repairing PC's.
Many pictures and a wealth of information.


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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