Floppy Disk not starting
I have a new K8N Neo2-fx mainboard with NVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb Chipset.
I installed an IDE hard drive and everything worked fine as far as I was aware.
I am now trying to install a SATA drive but have found that the floppy disk will not start up, and is not recognised as a drive.
I have set the BIOS to the enable floppy disk drive seek.
I have alo reversed the cable and find that in that position the activity lights stays on so I know that the connections are correct.
I have uninstalled and re-installed the floppy disk driver twice with no success.
I have also now noticed that the USB mouse does not always start on system start up.
The whole installation is surge protected and otherwise works fine.
Does this perhaps suggest a fault with the mainboard ?
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
PS I have replaced the floppy drive with the same result.
Cheers
Also be sure the cable is not the wrong way around. Switch the connector from the MB and the Floppy drive.
Take the end now plugged to the floppy and plug it to the MB and vice versa.
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Hi,
I've tried several floppy disks (all of which work in other computers), and also flashed the bios to the latest version, and cleared the cmos.
What I'm still getting is this: I put a floppy disk into the diskdrive (in Windows, in DOS it seems to work... ), and get the following error: 'the disk is not formatted, whould you like to format it now?'. The disk works in other computers (tested).
I already tried the things mentioned above, and also replaced the FDD cable, and turned both the sides around (checked all possible combinations there). ...
Still, the same problem .
Has anyone had this before?
Or has anyone an idea how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Jeroen ter HeerdtAs I didn't yet get further replies...
Please help me!
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I've also update the motherboard to the latest BIOS.
In DOS the floppy diskdrive works correctly. What can be wrong?
I've tested it in Windows XP, Windows 98 and Windows 2000, but nothing works.
Can anyone give me a clue? Should I return the motherboard?
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Hello,
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Do you think that a new Bios will solve this issue?
Thanks by advance.
Best regards.I've tried to reinstall Windows XP... same problem
I've tried to change my floppy disk reader and the cable... same problem.
I've upgraded my bios this evening... same problem.
I don't understand why....
If I try to format the floppy disk, windows says Impossible to format ! and after the floppy is unreadable even with another computer.
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I've connected on the first IDE :
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after writing an html report on a floppy disk and removing it, labview shows an error message window: disk not present.
My pc is based on asus motherboard. Labview 7 and Windows 2000 sp4 installed.
The error message continue also if i stop the application that generated report on a: .
I've got this problem only on a pc: on other machines i don't have this problem (Labview only continues to access floppy but it doesn't show any window).
Find below an example: first press the button to create a report on a: then remove the floppy, after 30-35 sec i've got the error message
Attachments:
prova.vi 55 KBHi,
I tried your vi: I don't get any error message after removing the disk but LV7 keeps on accessing the drive at regular intervals even if you stop the vi and close it!!! This is not supposed to happen.
The only way to stop it is exit LV7.
If you don't use the file dialog and you wire a full path, you don't get any problem.
I also created a very simple vi that conditionally writes a text file on a: and I got the same behaviour.
This problem occurs only with LV7, I tried the same examples in LV6.1 and everything was fine.
If anybody wants to try I attach this simple example,
Alberto
Attachments:
salva_testo1.vi 22 KB -
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1) Could not start up os x
2) Only could start bootcamp
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Error: Live file system repair is not supported
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11) /dev/disk0
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14) 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
15) 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 80.1 GB disk0s2
16) 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
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18) /dev/disk1
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21) 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
22) 2: Apple_HFS BOOT 14.8 GB disk1s2
23) 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
24) Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil cs list
25) No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
26) Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
27) Password:
28) gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=160041885696; sectorsize=512; blocks=312581808
29) gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
30) gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
31) gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 312581807
32) start size index contents
33) 0 1 PMBR
34) 1 1 Pri GPT header
35) 2 32 Pri GPT table
36) 34 6
37) 40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
38) 409640 156394528 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
39) 156804168 1269544 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
40) 158073712 56853648
41) 214927360 97652736 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
42) 312580096 1679
43) 312581775 32 Sec GPT table
44) 312581807 1 Sec GPT header
45) xxxx-MacBook:~ xxxx$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
46) Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 sectors]
47) Signature: 0xAA55
48) Starting Ending
49) #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
50) ------------------------------------------------------------------------Thank you -
I booted from external USB. The diskutil list output is from OS x booting from the USB, which shows the following:
Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 80.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 50.0 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *15.6 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS BOOT 14.8 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3172
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This site provides more information, but lacks security.
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http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/Desktop/index.php
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tljtommy
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Local Disk C
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Adobe
Adobe Premiere Elements 13
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Common
NewBlue
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gotten the No Disc error in Premiere Elements 13.
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"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. "
My hp mini notebook 100-300 is continues reboot, i have done format os and try to install window xp thorough bootable pendrive, after finished installation, system is restart as show message as " "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."
so please help me what i do next...........AmitNandha wrote:
My hp mini notebook 100-300 is continues reboot, i have done format os and try to install window xp thorough bootable pendrive, after finished installation, system is restart as show message as " "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."
so please help me what i do next...........
Here's the problem XP will not install and work correctly that is why your getting that message.....Stay with the O/S that came with the laptop if you want to have stability in software and hardware operations.
I am a Volunteer to help others on here-not a HP employee.
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