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

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From: Conor Turton
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:56

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In article <3b2af7dc@grissom>, baz@powerup.com.au says...
> 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 ???
>
Yep..floppy cable wrong way round. Change it at the floppy drive end an 
give that man a cigar :-)


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From: Conor Turton <conor.turton@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: Too good to be true -- floppy light stays on permanently
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:56:50 +0100
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