Hello Elizabeth,

This is reaching, but have you checked the pins on the motherboard
that the drive cable  connects to? Maybe one is bent down, and when
you push in the cable it might be causing the pins to short
together. Just a guess.
Good Luck,
Brian Fink

----- Original Message -----
From: Elizabeth Boston <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 2:14 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Floppy Drive controller?


> I've never seen this before, so I thought I'd ask for a second
> opinion before I drew my own conclusions.
>I removed the hard
> drive, to do this. In the process, I also removed the floppy
> drive cable.
> I tried > a new floppy drive, and new drive cable with no results. In
fact,
> if I have a floppy cable attached, but no drive on the end I
> still have the same problem.
>         Is it safe to assume that this is the floppy drive controller on
> the motherboard?
>
>         Elizabeth Boston

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