OpenEuphoria

Re: Off topic: Real floppy problems

• Posted by Darth Maul <Prog_Matt at YAHOO.COM> Apr 07, 2000
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:20:53 -0400, Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM> wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:27:06 -0400, Darth Maul wrote:
>
>> What gives? Is this the end of my faithful floppy drive?
>
>Could be.  Sound's like something might be stuck in the drive, preventing
>the heads from moving.  (Something I saw frequently in my repair days,
>typically caused by a metal floppy protector that came off in the drive.
>If you have kids, then you never know what might be in there.)  You might
>have to pop the floppy drive out of your system and take the cover off of
>it to get a closer look.  If there are no obstructions, you might check
>that your BIOS has the floppy controller enabled and that drive A: is
>properly set for 3.5 inch 1.44 MB (I doubt that this would be the source of
>your problem, though.)
>
>-- Brian

i'm 12, so i qualify as a kid. and it's my PC. I checked BIOS and I didn't
see anything snarky...