Boot failure

See if the floppy works on any other computer... if it does work, then replace the floppy drive on the first computer. If the floppy does the same thing in another computer, then the floppy itself has gone bad.

Enter BIOS settings, and verify that the floppy is set to the correct drive type.

Many systems default to a 5 1/4" drive, and not a 1.44MB 3 1/2" drive.

Make sure that the floppy drive cable is correctly connected at both ends.
Most floppy drives have pin 1 on the opposite side of the drive as compared to a hard drive or CD drive.

Chas

I,ve tried swapping out floppy, I,ve changed settings in cmos from disable onboard fdd control then I get floppy disk fail (co) then changed it to enable and get invalid system disk. Iv,e checked to see that it is set on 1.44 I just do,nt no what else to do?.

I,ve tried swapping out floppy, I,ve changed settings in cmos from disable onboard fdd control then I get floppy disk fail (co) then changed it to enable and get invalid system disk. Iv,e checked to see that it is set on 1.44 I just do,nt no what else to do?. But thank you for your time and suggestions.

Make sure all the pins 4 the floppy cable are up and strate [not bent over]. Do you have the right ribbon cable? Finally: You may need to start looking into upgradeing. What you have is very old H/W. Look around the CPU socket [a long shot]. See if you have any broken off or missing [hard to find] surface mount components....Just upgrade!