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Floppy disk fail (40)
Name: Christine Date: March 24, 2002 at 11:12:10 Pacific
Comment:
good afternoon,
I am having a problem with an A: drive.
At system startup, after memory check, I keep receiving the following error "Floppy Disk Fail (40)".
I disconnected/reconnected the floppy... I change the floppy cable with a new one... I changed the A: drive with one that I know works... and I am still receiving the error message which also prevents me from booting
This problem is in a 486 running WIN95.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for your time.
Name: spot Date: March 24, 2002 at 18:12:49 Pacific
Reply:
You can find some information here: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000426.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: ASHLEY4 Date: March 24, 2002 at 18:49:11 Pacific
Reply:
Try removing the A: from the bios boot sequence. This sound get your OS runing and go from there.
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Response Number 3
Name: ASHLEY4 Date: March 24, 2002 at 18:52:40 Pacific
Reply:
Sorry 'sound' should be 'should'.
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Response Number 4
Name: Ron Date: March 24, 2002 at 19:10:57 Pacific
Reply:
Since you tried a known, working drive to replace the one you had and you still get the error there is a possibility your Controller is toast. Does the drive plug into it's own special card? or directly into the motherboard? Try what ASHLEY4 suggested to see if you can get the machine to boot at all.
Ron.
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Response Number 5
Name: fred6008 Date: March 24, 2002 at 23:30:37 Pacific
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I think the most probable cause is that your power supply is going bad. To eliminate a controller failure, see whether you can boot to C: when it is put first in the boot suquence in the BIOS.
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Response Number 6
Name: cubbieF1 Date: April 28, 2002 at 21:41:13 Pacific
Reply:
Funny, I am running into this problem this evening as well. However, in my case, it has to do with the presence of my SCSI card. My system boots fine with floppy detect enabled without the SCSI card. Then I insert the SCSI card and I get the Floppy disk fail(40) error. Turning off the floppy detect BIOS setting allows the system to boot, but then I can't use the floppy drive which I need to get the SCSI driver! Based on my experience, Christine, I don't think the problem is necessarily a controller failure. Do you have a SCSI card? In the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions for me, I'm all ears.
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