Floppy hell! Help

[MorbidDog]

I have a Soltek K333 motherboard running XP1800 overclocked to 2000. My floppy is not working. It worked originally and I bought a new one. Just to be safe. I also changed the cable. It will not read a disk at start up and the light is always on.

I am running Windows XP and it tells me that everything is fine. When I put a disk in it never reads it and tells me to insert disk in drive A.

Any help is appreciated!

 

[kd7fhd]

The light always on USUALLY indicates that the data cable is on backwards. Flip it over and see if that fixes it.

 

[Von Ribbentrop]

As mentioned above, the cable is backwards. If it won't fit because of the tab, take a razorblade and shave it off. I've had to do this with a handfull of floppy cables.

 

[MorbidDog]

Just tried it and no luck.

 

[amdskip]

Replace the cable and test the floppy drive in another computer. If that doesn't make a difference, your floppy controller could be fried or there is something set wrong in the bios.

 

[CotswoldCS]

Other comments are correct and well worth checking. Just wanted to add: check that no pins are bent, either on the drive or on the motherboard.

 

[NuovoTech]

Which cable connector ya using? For single floppy it must be the last connector, which is just after the 1/4" cable twist...