one the other check if you have selected the right kind of floppy drive in
disk A in the BIOS,also the floppy has to be connected at the twisted end of
the cable if there's only one floppy on the cable,the pin one has to be in
the pin one slot,if the cable is connected reversely the light goes on
forever...

Mandar Naik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Sheaffer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 9:24 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 3.5 Floppy Problem


> I have 2 ASUS boards, one a socket 370 and one a socket A.  I can not
> get the 3.5 floppy to respond on either.  One the light stays on, but
> can not be read.  The other nothing happens at boot up.  All cables
> correct and bios identifies both and lists them as the first boot.
> Working 3.5s I replaced them with do the came thing.  Bad Mobo?  Is this
> a problem in Mobos that go bad?  Other than these two things, the
> motherboards work fine.
>
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