some help please

[George (2)]

I was having some problems with my motherboard, and went into the menu and selected, Restore BIOS defaults and Restore CMOS defaults. Now, when booting up, I get Floppy Disk Failure (40). Can someone tell me what happened and how I can correct this.

thank you,
Geo

 

[Danger Mouse]

Sounds like it's trying to boot from floppy.
I think you should go into your bios settings and change the first boot device to your HDD.

HTH

"George" wrote:

I was having some problems with my motherboard, and went into the menu and selected, Restore BIOS defaults and Restore CMOS defaults. Now, when booting up, I get Floppy Disk Failure (40).
Can someone tell me what happened and how I can correct this.

thank you,
Geo

 

[TomG]

that would indicate that either the floppy drive has really failed for some reason or that the ribbon cable has been plugged in backwards.

 

[Bill Davis Jr]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:42:33 -0400, "TomG"
wrote:

that would indicate that either the floppy drive has really failed for some reason or that the ribbon cable has been plugged in backwards.

I suspect a drive failure. I once installed the ribbon cable in backwards and usually what happens is the drives light stays on.

Bill

 

[TomG]

no argument... unless he had been in there messing with the cable then it would likely point to a drive failure or the power being accidentally pulled from the drive.

 

[Colin Smith]

Try clearing your bios.

"George" wrote:

I was having some problems with my motherboard, and went into the menu and selected, Restore BIOS defaults and Restore CMOS defaults. Now, when booting up, I get Floppy Disk Failure (40).
Can someone tell me what happened and how I can correct this.

thank you,
Geo