Floppy drive unbootable == Bad drive?

[SnowEagle]

I have a floppy drive which can not boot the system floppy disk(which can be boot from another floppy drive). However, when I switch that floppy drive to another motherboard, it works and can boot a system disk. So what is the problem here? My motherboard or hard drive wrong or something else?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Thijssss]

Did u use the same cable to connect the drive to the motherboard? I think the problem is that the cable is not ok..
Can't think of anything else at the moment.

G'Luck

 

[stockjock]

This happens to me all the time, I put the cable on the wrong way on the back of the FDD. Switch it around. I can't tell you how many times I have done this. Hope this was your problem.


Just my .02

 

[SnowEagle]

Thank you for the reply. I tried that but it still does not work.

 

[Zach]

<< This happens to me all the time, I put the cable on the wrong way on the back of the FDD. Switch it around. I can't tell you how many times I have done this. Hope this was your problem.


Just my .02 >>


The light will stay in if the cable is backwards.

And, did you try a different cable? If so, check your BIOS. Enable floppy seek to make sure it's working right, and check that there is a floppy drive defined (and not auto!). 1.44MB Floppy should be in the standard setup.

 

[SnowEagle]

I checked BIOS, the floppy disk is there. The weird thing is that if I boot from the hard disk, I can see the floppy drive and can see the files on the floppy disk. However, this drive is not bootable even if I use a system bootable disk and change the BIOS to make it boot from Floppy.

 

[AnimeKnight]

You might have a bad motherboard..