More Troubleshooting For Your Drives; You Can't Use The Euro Symbol; Your Floppy Drive Is Not Working Properly - HP Vectra VL600 Supplementary Manual

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More Troubleshooting for Your Drives

This section provides more information on how to solve problems with your
drives. It covers problems with floppy drives, hard drives, CD-ROM, CD-RW
and DVD drives.
Be sure to disconnect the power cord and any telecommunication cables from
your computer before you remove the cover to check the cable connections
or jumper settings.
To avoid electrical shock and harm to your eyes by laser light, do not open the
laser module. The laser module should only be serviced by service personnel.
Do not attempt to make any adjustment to the laser unit. Refer to the label on
the CD-ROM for power requirements and wavelength. This PC is a class 1 laser
product
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More Floppy Drive Troubleshooting
Checklist
1 Ensure you are using a formatted diskette and it is inserted correctly.
Make sure that the Flexible Disk Drives ð Floppy Disk Controller option in the Setup Advanced menu is
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enabled. Refer to page 124.
3 Check that correct floppy type is highlighted in the Legacy Diskette A field in the Setup Main menu. It should
read 1.44 M, 3.5 in. You may need to configure this differently for use in Japan. See the Setup help for more
details.
4 The Flexible Disks field should be unlocked in the Hardware Protection submenu of the Setup Security menu.
5 The Start from Floppy field should be enabled in the Boot Devices Security submenu of the Setup Security
menu.
6 The Write on Flexible Disks field should be unlocked in the Hardware Protection submenu of the Setup Security
menu
7 Clean the floppy drive using a diskette cleaning kit.
8 Check that the drive's power and data cables are correctly connected as shown on page 52 (DT) or page 87
(MT).
9 Run DiagTools to see if it detects a problem with the floppy drive (refer to page 14).
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