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| 46484 | 2002-05-01 05:54:00 | Thanks for all the help...... i was still unable to get into the bios. though carefull inspection showed that 1 of the floppy drive pins on the motherboard was broken, which leads to why it may recognise it but not be able to read or write to a:\ |
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| 46485 | 2002-05-01 06:14:00 | Even that might not be terminal. Only one of the two rows of pins carries signals: there are 17 earth connections on the other row. It could be a faulty drive. Try it on another computer. If the 'broken' pin is just missing there could be a keying plug in the cable socket at that position. If it is a signal line, and youi can't fix it, you can certainly find a jumper on the motherboard to disable the onboard floppy controller. There must be many old computers around -- the floppy controller on an 8-bit single board from an old XT, or one of the multi-I/O boards from the later ATs and 386 will plug straight in. With the multi card you will have to disable all the other interfaces (jumpers select them). Have a good look for that setup *programme*. |
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