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[Me2Ewe]

When I boot up my computer I get a message that says:
Floppy Disk(s) fail (40)
Press F1 to continue or Del to enter setup.
Any idea how to get rid of this because it comes up every day now and I
don't know why
Thanks for any help
Bruce

 

[Dave Patrick]

Sounds like hardware failure. Check your mobo manual.

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| When I boot up my computer I get a message that says:
| Floppy Disk(s) fail (40)
| Press F1 to continue or Del to enter setup.
| Any idea how to get rid of this because it comes up every day now and I
| don't know why
| Thanks for any help
| Bruce
|
|

 

[QT]

If your floppy disk is no good you can go into set up (cmos) and disable
it.Alternately you can also open the case and disconnect it as well. I know
this doesn't solve the problem but if you want the error message to go away
or don't care about your floppy drive....................

 

[Me2Ewe]

The floppy 3 setting in MOS is disabled but the floppy drive itself works
fine, its just that F1 to start that pisses me off

 

[Bruce Chambers]

When I boot up my computer I get a message that says:
Floppy Disk(s) fail (40)
Press F1 to continue or Del to enter setup.
Any idea how to get rid of this because it comes up every day now and I
don't know why
Thanks for any help
Bruce

Either disconnect or replace the defective floppy drive, or simply
disable the device in the computer's BIOS.


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[QT]

Thats why your getting the f1 prompt. If you disable it in the cmos and
still have it comnnected to the motherboard, it will prompt you.

 

[Richard Urban]

The error message tells you "exactly" what the problem is. What do you think
you should do about it; replace the floppy drive? How about the cables?
Maybe a bad floppy port on the M/B!


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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Me2Ewe]

I think we are mistaken about something, the floppy drive has always worked.
In the CMOS there is a setting to enable floppy 3 and it is disabled, but
found out it has nothing to do with anything. The cables are hooked up
properly too.
Thanks

 

[Paul]

Faulty or disconneted floppy drive.....

 

[johnf]

I have similar? problem.
On boot-up, I get the message -
NTLDR is Missing

"err 5 : error finding v floppy.sys
err8 : fake floppy driver not found" message appears,


This has me completely confused, for if I F8 at startup & select my Sata OS
drive from the drop-down menu, it boots fine and the floppy drive works as
normal.
What the hell is it looking for & how do I rectify it?

 

[Jerry Ryba]

Bruce.
If the term "floppy 3" that you mentioned is in reality the "floppy 3 mode
support" you are looking at the wrong setting (as you found out).
You will have to dig a little deeper into your CMOS settings.
As an example: my Phoenix/Award BIOS has the setting to disable the floppy
in "Integrated Peripherals-->Super I/O Dev-->Onboard FDC Controller.
In your Bios it might be in a different section.
Also you may have to eliminate the floppy as a boot device, from the boot
priority list.
But before you do all that, check to make sure that the cables are seated
properly in the floppy and MoBo, you might also try to re-seat them a couple
of times, just in case this is due to dirty contacts.
HTH
JerryR

 

[QT]

Don't hijack another persons thread. It pisses some people off and yor
problem will get lost in the shuffle. Post your problem on it's own.

 

[johnf]

Sorry,
I had posted it previously without any helpful response, & re-posted here
because this thread was getting good responses, so I thought it would have
more chance to be read by OP who are interested & knowledgeable in boot-up
probs.

 

[QT]

No problem. It's all about getting problems fixed

Sorry,
I had posted it previously without any helpful response, & re-posted here
because this thread was getting good responses, so I thought it would have
more chance to be read by OP who are interested & knowledgeable in boot-up
probs.