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**mairving** · 01-18-2001, 12:31 PM

Dave,

First thing that I would try is to make sure that pin 1 on your floppy lines up with the pink edge of the cable. If the light on the floppy drive is always on, then the cable is backwards.
Then I would make sure that the floppy that you have is bootable. Try it in another machine to make sure.
If both of those fail, then I would try another floppy drive.

If all of those fail and it is set to boot off of the floppy first, then you more than likely have a bad FD controller on the MB.

01-18-2001, 12:31 PM	#2
mairving Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: Arlington, TN Posts: 5,538	Dave, First thing that I would try is to make sure that pin 1 on your floppy lines up with the pink edge of the cable. If the light on the floppy drive is always on, then the cable is backwards. Then I would make sure that the floppy that you have is bootable. Try it in another machine to make sure. If both of those fail, then I would try another floppy drive. If all of those fail and it is set to boot off of the floppy first, then you more than likely have a bad FD controller on the MB.