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Floppy disk(s) fail (40)

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Name: cooney
Date: December 8, 2000 at 21:44:24 Pacific
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What does floppy disk(s) fail (40) meen?
And how do I fix it.
I tryed several floopy drivers and still it don't work



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Response Number 1
Name: phillip
Date: December 11, 2000 at 01:06:50 Pacific
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hay i have the same problem as you do you know how to fix it yet i would like to know

please message me back


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Response Number 2
Name: Lorna
Date: December 11, 2000 at 14:14:32 Pacific
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What did this message mean floppy disk fail 40? I would like to no to.


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Response Number 3
Name: deejay
Date: December 11, 2000 at 17:46:14 Pacific
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when you boot up your floppy drive does the light stay on all the time if it does then you have connected the cable to the floppy drive upside down just reverse it if this is not the case then you either have a broken floppy or a faulty cable


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Response Number 4
Name: Ian(in trouble)
Date: December 13, 2000 at 04:19:21 Pacific
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look im a complete beginner at this when I put the floppy in and try and get it to work it says "no associate file " what the hell does this mean.................please explain like im a three year old
.............thanks


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Response Number 5
Name: Ian(in trouble)
Date: December 13, 2000 at 04:53:13 Pacific
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also while Im at it. when itryu and play my cd rom ............nothing!!!something about a driver error not loaded is the only thing thats out of the norm on the screen. but when I try and play audio/cd its o.k. its a
an old 486X33 and it has win 3.1 installed
would it help to upgrade to win98 or wouldnt it be able to load that much............once again explain to the three year old.


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Response Number 6
Name: Kerstens
Date: February 16, 2001 at 13:40:16 Pacific
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Hi, there floppy blabbla 40 also
things I tried :
- Bios-settings
- cable-connection
- other diskdrive
- other cable
- other card
- other slot
- other me (hehe)
I'm out of ideas ...


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Response Number 7
Name: earthwire
Date: February 23, 2001 at 20:34:41 Pacific
Reply:

Hi, Just have this message;
Floopy disk(s) fail (c0)

Anyone know what it means?


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Response Number 8
Name: Mats
Date: February 27, 2001 at 01:46:03 Pacific
Reply:

Maybe a: is working, but the message (40) is for b:. Check in the bios if the b: is enabled. Maybe that will work(?)!


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Response Number 9
Name: TONNY OMWANSA
Date: March 15, 2001 at 00:35:16 Pacific
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I HAVE THIS PROBLEM OF FLOPPY DISK FAIL (40) I HAVE TRIED TO CHANGE THE CABLE, THE FLOPPY B IS DISABLED. SO I AM STUCK.
I WILL APPRECIATE IF YOU SEND ME AN IDEA!


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Response Number 10
Name: Jerome
Date: March 15, 2001 at 19:27:35 Pacific
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Floppy Disk Fail! Error 40

Got that message; I swithed the floppy to another machine and found it was working fine. So I put it back in: it failed again.
I then switched the cables and the floppy now works... The problem was the cable (or the connectors)!


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Response Number 11
Name: Daryl Hathaway
Date: March 16, 2001 at 09:20:29 Pacific
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Error (c0) means that the floppy disk drive controller is disabled in the BIOS of the PC.


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Response Number 12
Name: Joey Gummeson
Date: March 20, 2001 at 13:38:13 Pacific
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Common problem is faulty connectors/cable. If that isnt a problem that you know of, flip your cable upside down, see if when you power it on if it gets the light staying on. If no light, then its garbage, other things to try, in the bios make sure it enable, make sure it the right size desired, and try the B instead of the A at time it works, especially with old computers using I/O cards. If anyone is interestd in more help, drop me an email. Later folks.

P.S i am getting my web page up asap for my business, there is a web form ill be constantly attending to if you need more help as well. Thanks


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Response Number 13
Name: Tyler Gauthier
Date: May 2, 2001 at 06:23:14 Pacific
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All i had to do was push the cable into the mother board. It was only out a little bit.


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