I'm putting together a p-133 out of parts, on an old Intel Socket-7 motherboard - It's all looking good, except early on in the boot process the system hangs and I recieve this error message: Floppy disk(s) fail (40) It's a 3.5 that won't work. If I disable the FDD in BIOS the system boots up fine from HDD. But I'm going to need the Floppy. I've replaced the cable, I've tried several FDDs, and I have ensured the Drive is attached 'after the twist'. I've also tried using an old IO card and attached the drive to that (in case it's a faulty motherboard), but I'm having no joy. Any ideas?

Did you look at the jumper setting to make sure the floppy drive is set to be an a drive and not a b drive? did you plug the cable in with pin one towards the power plug? Are you sure it is a 1.44 floppy drive and not a 720 low density? I have seen a card destroyed by pluging the cable in the wrong way so be sure that pin one on the cable is on pin one on the drive. Owen Prince

Also check the Setup to make sure FDC controller is on "auto" detect

Hi, floppy blablabla 40 Things I tried : - checking BIOS-settings - reversed cable (also behind twist) - tried other drive, card, slot, cable If the drive gets fried, how do you notice that ? Where is the auto detect on a 486/DX2 I'm out of ideas