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Article #522Re: Too good to be true -- floppy light stays on permanently
From: David
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:44
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:44
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no this is definitely a case of Y2K or you need to upgrade your internet or your mouse is dirty, please clean it You have run into a problem that David cannot solve, please choose reply to start over again. sorry i'm just bored David Barry Ward wrote in message <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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f70d1,c4595bdf4ae4026c X-Google-Attributes: gidf70d1,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,c4595bdf4ae4026c X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,c4595bdf4ae4026c X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-16 02:44:12 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: "David" <dsetiawa@bigpond.net.au> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,aus.computers References: <3b2af7dc@grissom> Subject: Re: Too good to be true -- floppy light stays on permanently Lines: 30 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Message-ID: <LTFW6.135811$ff.1024270@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:44:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.144.237 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 992684651 144.132.144.237 (Sat, 16 Jun 2001 19:44:11 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 19:44:11 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)