Need help with floppy drive!!! PLEASE!

[Jw_Leonhart]

Having a problem with my neighbors new computer I just built for her. The floppy drive which is a brand new Samsung doesn't seem to be working. When I click on the A: drive and I have tried this with *several* different disks it says "Please inserts disk in drive A:".

Motherboard is an Asus A7N8X-X with WindowsXP Pro. installed. Thanks for any help... maybe it needs a driver update?

Also, the floppy drive cable is installed correctly.

 

[Crashman]

Does the light come on? Does it stay on, or go out?

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[Rob423]

probley have the cable reversed, simple mistake you can make when building PC

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Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[Crashman]

He says he's absolutely sure it's on the right way, usually when someone says that it's because the cable is keyed, but the floppy drive isn't. Or they matched the red stripe up on the same side as the CD-ROM drives.

Floppy drives should have the key facing downward, with the red stripe on the left as you face the rear of the drive (as opposed the IDE drives which have the red stripe on the right as you face the drive, and the key pointing upwards).

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

 

[HammerBot]

He says he's absolutely sure it's on the right way

Where in the hell do you read that? He doesn't say anything about that atall!

<i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

 

[Crashman]

Also, the floppy drive cable is installed correctly.

He sounds like he's pretty sure of himself.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

 

[Rob423]

BLAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
200gb WD 8mb cache..
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[HammerBot]

OMG! I guess I read through that post too quickly (twice :redface: )

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[Rob423]

lol i just had to post again that was hilarious...

"he's abosolutely sure it's on the right way"

"where in the hell do you read that?"

classic!

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
200gb WD 8mb cache..
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[HammerBot]

Yeah. He must have edited the post after I replied. I can't believe I missed that :redface:

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[Rob423]

lol ok....... Does anyone ever use that Java Client chat? idn wtf im doing on it

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
200gb WD 8mb cache..
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2