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Below are some symptoms of incorrectly installed floppy drives. While they are minor and
installing them incorrectly doesn’t cause severe problems, it may cause your system to freeze or
crash when trying to read and or write to disks.
Symptoms of incorrectly installed floppy drives
Drive is not automatically detected
Usually caused by faulty cables, cables put in
backwards or a bad floppy drive or
motherboard. Try another floppy drive to verify
the problem if the cable is properly installed or
try replacing the actual cable. Also check to
see if the onboard floppy controller is enabled
in the BIOS setup.
Drive Fail message at bootup
The cable, floppy drive or motherboard may be
faulty. Try another drive or cable to verify.
Drive does not power on
Check power cable and cabling. Maybe a bad
power supply or drive cable problem.
Drive activity light is constantly on
Usually signifies that the cable on the drive is
on backwards, which is a common issue.
Reverse the cable at the floppy drive end and
try again.
NOTE
Before continuing onto Connecting External Devices, make sure everything is
properly connected. Things like jumpers and case wiring are the most common
causes of troubleshooting frustrations, both for the end-user and for any
company doing technical support.