Remove disks or other media

Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work - except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom... I have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes start up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem with the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known good
ones - still same problem.

thanks

try updating the bios and reset the bios.


"James" wrote in message
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Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work - except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom... I
have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes start up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem with
the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known good
ones - still same problem.

thanks

"Joseph" wrote in message
...
try updating the bios and reset the bios.


"James" wrote in message
...
Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work -
except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom... I
have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes start
up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem with
the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known good
ones - still same problem.

thanks





I have tried both - still no difference

lite on the floppy is on all the time? cable needs to be flipped around on the floppy connector


"James" wrote in message ...
Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work - except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom... I have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes start up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem with the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known good
ones - still same problem.

thanks

"JAD" wrote in message
hlink.net...
lite on the floppy is on all the time? cable needs to be flipped around
on the floppy connector


"James" wrote in message
...
Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work -
except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom... I
have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes start
up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem with
the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known good
ones - still same problem.

thanks





No - I checked that

whats bios say its recognizing the floppy as?
'Reset config data' to -YES?


"James" wrote in message ...

"JAD" wrote in message
hlink.net...
lite on the floppy is on all the time? cable needs to be flipped around
on the floppy connector


"James" wrote in message
...
Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work -
except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom... I
have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes start
up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem with
the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known good
ones - still same problem.

thanks





No - I checked that

"JAD" wrote in message
link.net...
whats bios say its recognizing the floppy as?
'Reset config data' to -YES?


"James" wrote in message
...

"JAD" wrote in message
hlink.net...
lite on the floppy is on all the time? cable needs to be flipped
around
on the floppy connector


"James" wrote in message
...
Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work -
except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data
and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a
bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom...
I
have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes
start
up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem
with
the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known
good
ones - still same problem.

thanks





No - I checked that





reset config is set to yes - and the bios sees the floppy -

ok

different drives
different cables
cable position
Shorted CMOS jumper? or just a reset to defaults? Floppy read /write enabled?
Configuration has been updated

I would say barring those questions above, the floppy controller is bad, can't think of anything else


"James" wrote in message ...

"JAD" wrote in message
link.net...
whats bios say its recognizing the floppy as?
'Reset config data' to -YES?


"James" wrote in message
...

"JAD" wrote in message
hlink.net...
lite on the floppy is on all the time? cable needs to be flipped
around
on the floppy connector


"James" wrote in message
...
Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work -
except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data
and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a
bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom...
I
have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes
start
up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem
with
the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known
good
ones - still same problem.

thanks





No - I checked that





reset config is set to yes - and the bios sees the floppy -

"JAD" wrote in message
hlink.net...
ok

different drives
different cables
cable position
Shorted CMOS jumper? or just a reset to defaults? Floppy read /write
enabled?
Configuration has been updated

I would say barring those questions above, the floppy controller is bad,
can't think of anything else


"James" wrote in message
...

"JAD" wrote in message
link.net...
whats bios say its recognizing the floppy as?
'Reset config data' to -YES?


"James" wrote in message
...

"JAD" wrote in message
hlink.net...
lite on the floppy is on all the time? cable needs to be flipped
around
on the floppy connector


"James" wrote in message
...
Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to
work -
except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool
data
and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a
bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive,
cdrom...
I
have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will
sometimes
start
up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a
problem
with
the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to
known
good
ones - still same problem.

thanks





No - I checked that





reset config is set to yes - and the bios sees the floppy -




yes I have done all of your list - didn't fix it...BUT - then I noticed that
it was only not reading 'Dos' based floppies. For instance it always starts
Partition Magic and Tufftest & MemTest etc - just not the 'dos' startup
disks - so I have come to the conclusion that the 'dos' disks are bad - so
I created a new one (which I had already done anyway) - and it started
lovely - then it didn't and the floppy would never read at all - then I made
another 'dos' disk and it did work, I installed Windows ME and have had no
other problems since - except on changing the CPU to test another one. Then
I got - 'invalid system disk'... I put the 1st cpu back in and it worked
fine again.... - any ideas - 2 different problems, or could they be linked?

"James" wrote:

Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work - except
the motherboard.

I didn't even know that they had invented the Pentium Eleven yet!

Jon