Does Your Floppy Light stay on all the time?

Post by **ccb056** » March 24th, 2004, 1:37 am

If your floppy drive light stays on all the time, then you have plugged the floppy cable in the wrong direction. Unplug the cable and reverse the direction (left-right). This should allow you to use your floppy drive and stop the light from staying on all the time.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » March 24th, 2004, 1:59 am

lol, thats what the red line on ur floppy cable on the right side is..

Sumpin_Wong · Post by **Sumpin_Wong** » March 26th, 2004, 7:53 am

My light doesn't stay on, but I was getting an error message of: Floppy Error (40) ... on startup. I disabled halt on all errors, and set it to halt on all but floppy errors.

Anyone have any idea what that might be?

Post by **ccb056** » March 26th, 2004, 11:48 am

The floppy error 40 refers to either a bad cable or a bad I/O which would be either on the motherboard or the floppy drive

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » March 26th, 2004, 1:05 pm

Yeah, what mobo are you runnning, some of the ide ect. imports die easily

Sumpin_Wong · Post by **Sumpin_Wong** » March 26th, 2004, 7:02 pm

I'm running an Asus A7N8X-Retail on that machine.
Darn good possibility it's the Floppy drive itself. It's more then 4 years old, and very rarely gets used, so I'm sure the Dust-bubbies have invaded and taken over.. lol

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » March 27th, 2004, 6:23 am

There has been an issue with one of the ASUS mobos when input ports die.. i dunno... 4 years isnt that old, but it depends on the company you bought it from...

Sumpin_Wong · Post by **Sumpin_Wong** » March 27th, 2004, 8:19 am

I think it's a PoS.. Mitsumi, was like $4.99 new

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » April 6th, 2004, 9:27 pm

Very intersesting. I thought they added that lip on them to stop that.

ThManDan22 · Post by **ThManDan22** » February 18th, 2005, 1:45 am

some of cables chamfers are so small anyone paying attention not could switch them around.