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A little help please!

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Limp Gawd
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Ok someone gave me this PC the other day nothing great but i'll fix it and give to someone that needs one. Anyway when I start the PC it says please remove disk and press any key to restart.As if there were a floppy in the drive but there is not.I tried unhooking the floppy drive to see if that helps but then the computer won't start at all just gives me a black screen no beeps or anything.So I hook the drive back up and it gives me the same error.I tried disabling the drive in the BIOS and I still get the error.

Any ideas what the problem could be.


TIA.
 
Make sure the IDE drive(s) are connected right. Clearing the cmos probably wouldnt hurt either.

I would first clear the cmos, disable the floppy drive, power down, unhook the floppy drive, boot, if no dice then i would try a differant floppy drive.
 
Yup everything is connected right and I did try a different floppy.When I tried the new floppy the PC did nothing at all it will only boot with the floppy that's in there for some reason.

It's an HP computer.
 
Did you try reseting the bios?

Did you make sure to put the floppy last in the boot ordeR?
 
Originally posted by Wixard
Did you make sure to put the floppy last in the boot ordeR?
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i was totally gonna say that...haha...great minds think alike
 
Make sure you have the floppy conector in the correct direction. The older HP's used a fairly cheap floppy and the cord will plug in either direction.

it will not work correctly with it plugged in wrong, but will do wierd things, reverse it and see if that will cure it.

and clear the bios, remove the power cable from the mobo, remove the battery, change the jumper if it has one from 0_0 0 to 0 0_0

go have a coke, change the jumper back after leaving it for a couple minutes ( hp mobo's seem to hold a residual charge ) plug the battery in, and hook up the power cable..

try it and let us know.
 
The cable only plugs in one way and yes I did try setting the floppy to boot last and not boot at all.

I will try clearing the bios next I never thought of that.


Thanks for taking the time to help I appreciate it.
 
did u try a new cable maybe if puttin it last in the boot order didn't work? there might be a problem with the ide connector on the mb tho
 
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