Re: Hardware Problem

[Ryan Matteson <x96matteson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is the floppy drive connected correctly?? Make sure the plug is
plugged in correctly to teh motherboard AND to the drive. I have
had this exact thing happen to before because the cable was
plugged in backwards. Just a possibility.

Ryan

Rev_Icon@Bigfoot.com wrote:
> 
> By the way, this is Matt, I am sending this message with a different
> email address listed.  Sorry for any confusion.
> 
> Rev_Icon@Bigfoot.com wrote:
> >
> > Ok, as most of you have heard I have been having some hardware problems
> > lately, first with a hard drive, and now with my floppy drive.  The hard
> > drive issue seems to be a problem within the hard drive, but the floppy
> > drive issue is somewhat baffling to me.
> >
> > Originally, I had one 2.1g hard drive, and one 3.5" floppy drive
> > installed in my computer.  The hard drive was installed on IDE1 and the
> > floppy drive was connected to the floppy plug on my motherboard.
> >
> > I removed the hard drive, and installed a 4.3g hard drive in it's
> > place.  This drive would not work correctly.  It would error out when
> > ever I tried installing Linux, Windows 95, and Windows NT.  I went to
> > the Maxtor web site (Maxtor made this drive) and found a program that is
> > supposed to aid in the setup of the hard drive named "MaxBlast".  I
> > installed this program but it did not help matters at all.  As far as I
> > can tell it didn't do anything.
> >
> > I talked with Maxtor and they believe that the drive is to blame, and
> > not a setup issue.  They suggested sending the drive back to them and
> > they would replace it.  That sounded like a plan, so I pulled out the
> > 4.3g hard drive and put my old 2.1g drive back in.  I turned the
> > computer back on and the light on my floppy drive came on and stayed
> > on.  I tried reading a disk from dos but I got an error saying that
> > there wasn't a disk in the drive.  I put a boot disk into the drive and
> > rebooted the system and the computer just started reading the disk and
> > never stopped.  I could hear the Floppy drive spinning, but the computer
> > booted like there wasn't a disk in the drive at all.
> >
> > I went into the bios setup utility and checked my settings and
> > everything was exactly the same as when I started.  From the way the
> > disk drive was acting, I would have thought that the cable was on
> > backwards, but upon careful examination of the cables, they were as they
> > should be.  I got on the phone with Gateway 2000 technical support (my
> > computer is under warranty with them) and they said that it sounded like
> > the disk drive had gone bad.  They sent me a new one, and I replaced the
> > old one with the new one.  I powered the system back up and the same
> > thing happened again.  The new drive had no effect on the problem.  I
> > called Gateway back again and they said that they thought it was still a
> > bad drive issue and that they were sending me out a THIRD drive.
> > Somehow I am starting to doubt that the floppy drive is at fault.
> >
> > Has any one had this problem before?  Does anyone have any ideas on how
> > to fix it?

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