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Dputiger · 11-06-2003, 07:19 AM

Hard drive lights are often on the entire time during boot--or at least the LED is. Floppy drive lights, however, should not be. you've reversed polarity at one end of the cable. On a system that old there may be no lead-wires, so try reversing the cable first at one end, then at the other, etc, until you've tried all four combos.

This may or may not be your issue. On OLD systems a mis-hooked floppy could cause no- boot, newer ones report or ignore it. Regardless, it needs fixing. Its a good spot to start.

11-06-2003, 07:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
Dputiger Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Greencastle, IN Posts: 3,076	Hard drive lights are often on the entire time during boot--or at least the LED is. Floppy drive lights, however, should not be. you've reversed polarity at one end of the cable. On a system that old there may be no lead-wires, so try reversing the cable first at one end, then at the other, etc, until you've tried all four combos. This may or may not be your issue. On OLD systems a mis-hooked floppy could cause no- boot, newer ones report or ignore it. Regardless, it needs fixing. Its a good spot to start. __________________ "A ship in the harbor is safe--but that's not what ships were made for."