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10-08-2003, 05:09 PM
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98 settings....need help plzz!!!!
i have a old computer that has windows 98....i just made a 98 bootdisk on my other labtop but it is not reconizing the A drive so it wont boot....wut settings do i have to set in bios to get it to work???? it is already set fot boot sequence A, C, and something else.....
any suggestions...plzz help...just fooling aorudn with this computer btu need it to work????????? |
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10-08-2003, 05:19 PM
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Your BIOS boot sequence is correct. Is the drive cabled properly (cable twist at end by drive)? Does it have power?
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10-08-2003, 05:22 PM
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i think its wired correctly...but no lights go on even wen it starts up.......any ideas????
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10-08-2003, 05:36 PM
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Maybe the floppy drive is dead.
Open up the computer and make sure the power and data cables are attached properly anyway...something might just be loose.  Cricket
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10-08-2003, 07:48 PM
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there are no other settings in the bios that enable it or anything????
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10-08-2003, 07:55 PM
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Even if the BIOS settings for the floppy were wrong, it should still do something when you stick a floppy in (the light would come on). But if the settings in BIOS were wrong, you'd probably get an error message when the computer was booting up.
Check the power connector and data cable connections. Try the floppy drive in another computer. If it doesn't do anything there, it's dead. Cricket
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10-08-2003, 08:00 PM
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do iu ahve to set thematser or slave drives in the bios...i think i messed witht hat and screwed it up...lol any suggestions??
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10-09-2003, 04:12 AM
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Floppy doesn't have Master/Slave settings. They have A/B depending on location on cable. Rare PC will have B. Yours should be connected at end of cable after "Twist" for "A". But check the BIOS to ensure that you didn't change the denisty. Should be set to 1.44
Since the PC has WIN98 loaded what exactly are you trying to do? You can test the floppy by opening up "My Computer" and selecting your floppy and then select open. If you have a diskette in it should open and display what is on the diskette. Chas |
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10-09-2003, 05:36 AM
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well it wont start up...it gets to the 98 screen and doesnt go any further...so i figured i would put a different harddrive in it and bok from boot disk....but ill try wut u sed and if it doesnt work then aw well
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10-09-2003, 05:59 AM
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The floppy disk drive has no specific master or slave settings. If your floppy drive is dead, or 'mis-cabled' then there is nothing at all your BIOS can do about it rather than change settings generic to having a Floppy Disk Drive installed.
The only thing available for you to do is exactly what Cricket said. Check your power cable is in securley, check the floppy cable is in correctly, i.e twisted end into the floppy drive. However, to test that the floppy drive works, take the cable out of the drive, turn it upside down and put it in that way (if the connector will let you as some of them are moulded so this doesn't happen.) Then, when you turn your machine on, the floppy drive light will come on and stay on, under the assumtion of course, that the drive is not dead. Other than that, there is nothing really you could change in windows or in the BIOS that will affect the way the drive actually works. I hope this helped, because the floppy drive has been, if you could say, obsolete, it is still vital to gettting your computer going again, and is a real pain. AD 
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10-09-2003, 07:42 AM
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You still need to resolve the floppy problem though. Try Andrews suggestion about turning over the cable. Chas |
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10-09-2003, 01:46 PM
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ok i only have the disk for 98 second edtion..so if i put that in will it start up??? or do i need the 98 disk
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10-09-2003, 01:49 PM
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and exactly wut osd u mean when u say twisted end in????
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10-09-2003, 01:51 PM
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The Second Edition Full Install CD is bootable, but the upgrade CD isn't (at least mine isn't).
Cricket
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10-09-2003, 01:53 PM
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