On Friday 12 August 2005 09:27 am, Gil Weber wrote:
Yes, just looked. The ribbon cable is on correctly at both the floppy and MB. Both plugs are keyed and will only go 1 way.
So I swapped the ribbon cable just to see if that would make a difference. It did not. Still no floppy.
Now, by "...changing the cable around (180 degrees)..." did you actually mean reversing the connectors so that the one on the MB goes on the floppy and visa-versa? Could that make a difference???
I also just realized that when I power-up the pooter the floppy doesn't make the noise it used to make on power-up (sort of a cross between a roar and a grinding noise). I think that was the floppy drive doing a quick spin up??
The green light does come on as usual, but the floppy drive itself does not seem to be responding.
Gil =========
Gil, You have sparked another memory! The floppy check is usually set in the BIOS of the computer, so have another look there to see if that is turned on. Now the memory! I had an odd problem with a customer's computer here once that nobody else seem to be able to run down. Not patting myself on the back mind you, I just happened to be able to run it down. :o) What was the problem? Thanks for asking. The floppy drive! The drive appeared to work correctly in most aspects. Booting up, reading a disk, somewhat, just not everytime. Replaced the floppy and other things suddenly started working ok. I actually removed it from the system to test then replaced it, cable and all. Thing is, the system was behaving oddly and everybody thought it the OS or some other piece of hardware and that's the way it behaved! These computer things, such odd animals. ;o) Lee