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Below are some symptoms of incorrectly installed floppy drives. While they are minor and
installing them incorrectly doesn't cause severe problems, it may cause your system to freeze
or crash when trying to read and/or write to diskettes.
Drive is not automatically detected
Drive Fail message at bootup
Drive does not power on
Drive activity light is constantly on
Symptoms of incorrectly installed floppy drives
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Usually caused by faulty cables, cables
put in backwards or a bad floppy drive
or motherboard. Try another floppy
drive to verify the problem if the cable
is properly installed or try replacing the
actual cable. Also check to see if the
onboard floppy controller is enabled in
the BIOS setup.
The cable, floppy drive or motherboard
may be faulty. Try another drive or
cable to verify.
Check power cable and cabling.
Maybe a bad power supply or drive
cable problem.
Usually signifies that the cable on the
drive is on backwards, which is a
common issue. Reverse the cable at
the floppy drive end and try again.
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