I 'inherited' an old office hard drive with NT on it, and assembled a
machine from older parts, stuff that used to work--just old.  The
machine will boot perfectly into NT with no problems, and the A floppy
works in File Manager and the NT/DOS shell.  No problems at all.

However, even with only essentials connected [floppy drive, video
card, keyboard, RAM, it will not boot to ANY floppy disk [tried
everything from bootable 6.0, 6.22, win95, etc--all of which work]

The screen goes through settings, video numbers, RAM numbers,  then a
hangup.  Nothing happens.  CMOS is set right, red traced wire on
floppy drive is on #1 on both ends of the ribbon cable,, and the disks
are good. [tested elsewhere]

Changed floppy drives---no help.

Kind of stuck here----[evental purpose is to kill NT and install
win98, but I have to boot to A: to delete NT first]

advice?

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