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Aug 3, 2003, 9:28pm

hey would you know what would make a floopy drives green light stay on? I
tried 2 of them in one of my computers and the green light stayed on both.
I did reboot many times and there is no OS on the computer the BIOS does not
see the floopy drive.

Aug 3, 2003, 9:45pm

Sounds like a good bet would be to replace the floppy drive flat ribbon
cable. I've had this happen before, when one of the wires shorted to the
chassis.

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Aug 4, 2003, 2:22am

It is usually what a floppy drive does when you plug
in the data cable in the wrong way.

While it does that, it can even destroy data on write
protected floppy disks I heard.


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Aug 4, 2003, 7:32am

Never had the latter myself...but yep... cables the wrong way.

~John

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Aug 4, 2003, 10:48am

Yep ananas's theory is correct check that....I always try to use ones with
lil bump in it or block out pins so i cant put it in the wrong way up

Aug 4, 2003, 2:26pm

[View Quote] Aren't they standard now?

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Aug 4, 2003, 3:29pm

Yes... but not all cables have them nontheless.
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Aug 4, 2003, 3:58pm

They used to have one red wire, all others are grey.

The red wire is cable #1 and has to be the one that
is closest to the power plug. This is valid not only
on floppy drives but on HDs too.

The notch came later because too many ppl. didn't know
about the pin 1 rule.


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Aug 4, 2003, 3:59pm

The drive's power plug of course, not the PCs.

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Aug 4, 2003, 7:02pm

The cables I use to have a little triangle to match up. Some cables are
polarity protected too, especially when it connects to the MotherBoard.
Something I've noticed about floppy disk drives, when you remove a floppy
disk after transferring data, make sure you scroll out of the floppy drive
in your browser, that way it doesn't remember that something might be there
and load it when you open the browser again...also you can control the boot
sequence in the BIOS.
Weebs
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Aug 4, 2003, 8:51pm

Thanks for the adivce but none of it has helped i have the cables the right
way only one way to put it in it has a block on it.
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Aug 4, 2003, 9:00pm

Let me do a little research fer ya :)
Post your floppy drive specs and your system specs...will try to help :)
You can find your system specs thru your system management or going to the
start menu, run, dxdiag, [press the enter key]
Weebs

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Aug 5, 2003, 3:04am

[View Quote] LoL, I was about to say. :)

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Aug 5, 2003, 3:43am

weebo like i said before there is no OS on this computer. I been
rebuilding. I know it a pentuim it a packer bell it came out of the trash
lol when I find a computer out in the trash I give it a home:) This the only
one what is giving me a hard time lol I didn't have this floopy drive
problem before but when I got new harddrives for it this problem came up
lol. Oh let me throw out another question for you how do you get power back
to a hardrive when the area you hook the power is gone?
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Aug 5, 2003, 3:13pm

Then I would be thinking of changing the power supply if it doesn't have
auxillary connections. If you need a M/B ide pin arrangement let me know.
Weebo
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Aug 13, 2003, 7:36pm

That is definately standard. I have NEVER seen a cable without some shade of
red there.
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Aug 13, 2003, 7:37pm

Is there a gap in one of the wires on the cable? I've noticed a lot of
cables missing a piece of a wire, and none of them worked.
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