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Article #520Re: Too good to be true -- floppy light stays on permanently
From: Jan Bauer
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 07:54
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 07:54
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Yes, definetely, when the cable is the wrong waya round, the light stays on permanently. -- Jan Bauer Webmaster of http://www.pchowtos.co.uk "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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