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Old May 11th, 2005, 02:15 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Floppy Disk fail

When ever I would turn on my pc, it would boot straight to wins desk top. Now when I turn it on it goes into a black sceen that saids Floopy Disk(s) fail 40
press F1 to continue. I press F1 and it goes to my desk top. I need to know what can I do to fix this please
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Old May 11th, 2005, 02:33 PM     #2 (permalink)
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either the floppy cable came loose....

or maybe the floppy controller on the board died.

or the floppy could have died

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you can troubleshoot it by checking the connections and maybe swapping out the floppy etc



if the controller is bad you may be able to boot into the bios and turn off the floppy controller so the message goes away...but then of course you wont have a floppy...but you can always get a usb floppy
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Old May 11th, 2005, 02:42 PM     #3 (permalink)
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I don't understand, my floppy disk is working fine. Why would I get that error message?
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Old May 11th, 2005, 02:51 PM     #4 (permalink)
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weird huh...maybe it is going bad


go into the bios and see if the setting "floppy seek" or "boot floppy seek" is on...if it is on turn it off
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Old May 11th, 2005, 03:13 PM     #5 (permalink)
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I went into the bios and do not see anything that says Floppy Seek.
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Old May 11th, 2005, 03:21 PM     #6 (permalink)
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Try checking the boot order in the Bios. it may be trying to boot from floppy. Is there a floppy in the drive?
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Old May 11th, 2005, 03:52 PM     #7 (permalink)
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I believe this is a POST test that is failing. Sounds like a dead floppy controller. You may need to disable the floppy drive in the BIOS.
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Old May 11th, 2005, 11:53 PM     #8 (permalink)
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Sound like a floppy drive controller failure. What you can do is put the floppy drive on "B" connector of the data cable and swap floppy drives in bios. There you'll be back with "A" floppy drive. Don't forget to define the "B" drive and turn off "A" drive in bios.

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she said the floppy was working though.....I wonder if she has tested it after she started getting the messages?
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Old May 12th, 2005, 02:25 AM     #10 (permalink)
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Everything worked before they crapped JP.

The code 40 mean controller failure whether they're floppy or mainboard controller. I could be wrong but in my experiences they crapped without warning and I've had plenty of them. In most cases it's the floppies that crapped.

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