Help with drive A

It could be that your Floppy A, is defective. Or one of the cables has come loose from the back of the drive. Open the case and check the cable connections. If that still will not let it boot, then ....
1. change the boot sequence in the BIOS to boot from the hard drive first, not the floppy
2. disconnect the floppy and see if the boot sequence will procede.

If neither of these work, then we will need more information on the nature of the issue. I hope this helps.

Try flipping the cable on floppy drive.

The orientation may be that pin 1 is on the opposite side.

First make sure that your BIOS configuration of the Drive A: is properly configure....

Standard BIOS Setup : make sure Drive A: is enable,
Integrated Peripherals : make sure FDD controller is enable,

..At the boot sequence First boot will be the drive A: (to allow floppy drive to boot).

If your done with that configuration and still problem.

Are you sure the floppy disk is clean, without corrupted DOS system file?
Check the floppy cable for the designation?

...and Your new floppy drive get same result, is it with the same disk that you used in the old floppy drive?

Pinoy_Teknik

I have encountered this problem many times in the past and the first thing you need to ask your self is "What was changed just before this problem started" This problem is most commonly the result of using a bad/wrong cable, incorectly plugging in the connector backwards or wrong location in relation to the twist in the cable.

I agree with turn the floppy cable around. You can also set the BIOS to NONE for Floppy drive and your system should boot up normally unless something else is wrong. It is a good way of testing to see if the system or floppy is the problem. I dont think its anything more than the backwards cable or a bad cable though, but I have been fooled before.

I have come across the floppy drive bein on all the time a few times.. The problem may be that you have the ribon in the back to connect it to the hard drive on wrong.. You see on your IDE and hardrives you have some thing called Pin 1... It is on the hardrive and the mother board and you have to match them or it does not work probperly. Well, on the floppy it is the same way.. Look on the ribon and usually one of the sides are lined red.. It is a little bit hard to see. If there isn't one on there then look at the ends of the ribon and there is a small arrow looking thing on one of the sides. That endicates pin on on the ribon. OK.. then look on the mother board and there should be a tiny number like right next to where the floppy pluggs into the mother board. On one to the sides it has a one and the other it has a bigger number.. those indicate the pin numbers... Well match the arrow or the red line up to pin 1 on the mother board and on the floppy there should be the same. Do the same.. That might work.... Also check your bios and make sure that the floppy is enabled. That might work... it might not.. Never know till you try. Good luck.

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