Ok so I have my nice brand new motherboard - EVGA 680i, and a new floppy and a new cable. I plug it all in and on the POST screen I get "floppy disk fail (40)" The drive shows up in windows but does not work. The indicator light is NOT solid green like it usually goes when the cable is in backwards, and there are only two possible ways the cable can go in as there are notches to align. Both ways have the same outcome. Any ideas?
first off go into the BIOS as startup and see if it is even reading your floppy driver. After that try a new ribbon and see if that helps. If that doesnt help then your probably just have a bad floppy drive on your hands. Is a floppy drive your only way of portable stroage. seeing how floppies are highly outdated you might want to look into something like a flashdrive or external HDD.
Yeah I have a flash drive so floppy isn't my only means, I just have one because I have one lol. I'll try that and see how I go. Thanks
Also, make sure the power plug is inserted all the way. They sometimes get pulled out a little, if you are messing around inside the computer. I have been there.
I had this problem and I had to solder the power connector tigher on the motherboard. If the power connector is shakey then it needs to be re soldered.
Be carefull when plugging in that power connector. If you miss one pin you could blow your power supply. I belive 40 means hardware not present. -Del
I think its the floppy drive power connector not soldered well. Try it in another computer and see if it works, if not then its the floppy drive. If it doesn't light up or seek in the BIOS its also the floppy drive.
woot it works! Turns out the power connector was bad, two of the pins weren't pushed in all the way so I just had to re-make it. Thanks for your help!
My guess would be the floppy drive, since the flat type floppy power connector has no "pins". I would think that it is quite possible that if that floppy power connector was disconnected, it could have pulled on the pins on the floppy drive.
