Re: FD error on reboot?

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From: Sam Holloway
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:37

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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Must have had some power surges in last nights storm because the
> computers were all haywire this morning.,.well the WEIN 98 PC rebooted,
> but it shoudln't as its NOT set to autoreboot on power loss..
>
> The linux server was dead tho - that shouldn't have rebooted EITHER but
> was stuck saying 'floppy drive error (40)' or somesuch..
>
> Hitting a key (F1) to get it to restart worked fine..but a forced reboot
> still shows the same error..anyone got any clues? power surge striped
> the flash BIOS settings maybe?

I can think of three possibilities here, starting with the most likely:

1) The BIOS has got a bit zonked, and is expecting a different sort of
floppy drive to the one you have connected.
2) The FDD itself has been fried
3) More serious frying to the motherboard or similar that's manifesting
itself in this way.

Check your BIOS settings for 1), do a save all settings, and reboot. If
it's still doing it, you could look at replacing the FDD. Or just
remove it entirely (do you ever need FDDs these days?). Either way, you
can tell the BIOS to ignore the check for the drive. This is a one-time
job, so you'll have to rustle up a keyboard and monitor and then you
should be OK again.

Good luck,
Sam

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