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runLoganrun

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I moved my floppy drive in my case, plugged it back in, and now it stays on all the time. I switched the end of the cable to make sure that wasn't it.
 
Usually that means you plugged it in backwards. Flip the cable over and try again.
 
I had a bad floppy drive that did that once. I don't think it went bad when you moved it but it's a possibility?
 
It is the cable.

Try not only turning it around - but flip it over as well.

Keep screwing with the cable - that is the culprit here.
 
runLoganrun said:
I must have not written that clearly, I already did flip the cable around, it's still on.
thx.
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If I understood your post, you took the end that was plugged into the motherboard and plugged it into the drive and vice versa. They're saying take the connector out of the drive twist it over and plug it back in while leaving the motherboard end connected. (In other words, you've got cable twisted in a way that causes the motherboards's Pin 1 to be connected to the Foppy's Pin 34). Also some cheap floppy have no guide for the connector and it's possible to "miss" the half the pins.
 
ryan_975 said:
If I understood your post, you took the end that was plugged into the motherboard and plugged it into the drive and vice versa. They're saying take the connector out of the drive twist it over and plug it back in while leaving the motherboard end connected. (In other words, you've got cable twisted in a way that causes the motherboards's Pin 1 to be connected to the Foppy's Pin 34). Also some cheap floppy have no guide for the connector and it's possible to "miss" the half the pins.
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no, all I did was unplug the floppy drive end, move the floppy and plug it back in. when the light stayed on I thought I must have accidentally put it in backwards, but rotating the plug 180d did not fix it. Will keep playing around with it..... maybe I did take the mobo end off too, idk.

thanks
 
runLoganrun said:
no, all I did was unplug the floppy drive end, move the floppy and plug it back in. when the light stayed on I thought I must have accidentally put it in backwards, but rotating the plug 180d did not fix it. Will keep playing around with it..... maybe I did take the mobo end off too, idk.

thanks
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I've tried that cable every which way possible, with same results, the light stays on, it even stays on with the cable unplugged.
 
I've had this problem too, even swapped the floppy, problem persisted, never found out why. :confused:
 
Going to ask the obvious, did you have the power off to the PC when you plugged and unplugged it? If not, the drive is more than likely fried.
 
Floppys are so cheap (heck, why do you even have one?! :D jk), just get another one and be done with it.


Sounds like a dead one to me.
 
Just some FYI here - the end of the floppy cable with the twist near it is the end that goes in to the floppy drive, the other end goes into the motherboard. The motherboard end will have a Pin1 side which is marked with red edging along the length of the cable. The Pin1 side should obviously go into the Pin1 side of the connector on your mobo (see your manual if you can't see clear markings on the mobo itself for the Pin1 side).

Back on the floppy end the twist side generally goes on the side that the power connector is on. Sometimes the power connector is right over the ribbon cable, so you have to try one way and then the other if it doesn't work.

The only other thing I can think of to check, and I'm not even sure this would make the light stay on, is to check in the BIOS for a setting called "Swap Floppy Drive". It should be set to disabled. Here's an explanation why.

All that said, do you really need a floppy drive? Flash drives are much handier!
 
It took me 3 hours to flash a bios on one of my servers the other day.. Becuase I COULDNT FIND A FUCKING FLOPPY DRIVE. I was trying everything possible but it just wouldnt take it.
 
ring.of.steel said:
It took me 3 hours to flash a bios on one of my servers the other day.. Becuase I COULDNT FIND A FUCKING FLOPPY DRIVE. I was trying everything possible but it just wouldnt take it.
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I just flashed the BIOS of an 8 year old computer from a bootable CD I burned. You just have burn the CD with Floppy emulation and use a bootable floppy image as the boot file.
 
Yeah thats what i normally do but awdflash was refusing to find the bios file when it was on a cd, but it was there when i browsed in windows, strange thing is it worked fine on another machine. I tried using dummy files on the cd and everything.
 
oboyco said:
Going to ask the obvious, did you have the power off to the PC when you plugged and unplugged it? If not, the drive is more than likely fried.
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Uh, yeah, I was really impatient and just plugged it back in, I thought it would be fine, like a fan connector.
 
ring.of.steel said:
Yeah thats what i normally do but awdflash was refusing to find the bios file when it was on a cd, but it was there when i browsed in windows, strange thing is it worked fine on another machine. I tried using dummy files on the cd and everything.
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You have to put awdflash and the BIOS file in the boot image before buring it to CD.
 
Yeah i did that, it just didnt want to find the .bin for some reason.
 
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