Floppy Disk

[miriam]

After booting up a get a message "Floppy Disk(s) Fail (40)". What does this mean and what can i do?

[Foggy]

http://www.motherboard-forum.com/asu...40_556924.html

[miriam]

thanks i already change cable still same problem

[JacobM5727]

what motherboard? how old?
how old is the floppy?

[miriam]

Bios ,year 2000

[Bovon]

The floppy drive could be defective (not likely..but possible.)

The ribbon cable could be turned over 1/2 way, and #1 wire is on # 30?? pin... turn the cable over at the back of the drive to see.

The A: drive may be connected into the ribbon cable at the B: socket. The A: drive must always be on the end socket.

The power cable may not be making good contact..unplug and replug it in...hard!

Go into BIOS, Standard CMOS Setup and near the bottom of the menu is a setting that says something like "stop on all errors".. you can change that to not stop on any errors. Of course, that will not correct the floppy drive problem..but it will allow the machine to bypass that error and continue to boot.

[jmichna]

Originally posted by miriam
thanks i already change cable still same problem

One of my favorite sayings is that there are at least four ways you can hook up a floppy drive cable, and three are wrong

You may want to double check...

There is a twisted section of wires near on end of the floppy drive cable. The cable connector end nearest the twisted section gets connected to the floppy drive. Usually, the number 1 wire is colored red, and (almost) always the red wire is oriented toward the center of the floppy drive when connecting the cable to the drive.

Your mother board should have a tiny "1" printed on the motherboard itself, to show you were the red wire gets oriented.

If the cable is installed correctly, then try another cable (eliminate cable), or perhaps the drive has gone belly-up (they cost about $10, so no big loss). Less likely is that the floppy drive controller on the motherboard itself may be malfunctioning.

[miriam]

ok i turn over the cable, unplug the power cable. I push the power cable in very hard until i heard it click in. Booted the pc back on and the message was not there. Thanks alot

[jmichna]

Glad you solved your problem!