floppy disk error (40)

this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't know why,
but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several times,
then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up until this,
no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that, but to no
avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went wrong......................and how do
I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks

your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described properly
in bios?

"George" wrote in message
...
this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't
know why,
but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several
times,
then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up
until this,
no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,
but to no
avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went wrong......................and
how do
I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks

JAD,
Wouldn't I get other error messages if the batter failed. All I'm getting it
the floppy error and the floppy won't work.
thanks


JAD wrote in message
...
your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described properly
in bios?

"George" wrote in message
...
this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't
know why,
but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several
times,
then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up
until this,
no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,
but to no
avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went wrong......................and
how do
I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks

George wrote:

JAD,
Wouldn't I get other error messages if the batter failed. All I'm getting it
the floppy error and the floppy won't work.

Possibly but it's easy enough to find out. Simply go into BIOS and see if
it's configured for the right kind of floppy.


thanks


JAD wrote in message
...

your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described properly
in bios?

"George" wrote in message
. ..

this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't

know why,

but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several

times,

then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up

until this,

no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,

but to no

avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went wrong......................and

how do

I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks

JAD,
Nope, not the battery, any other ideas?
thanks


JAD wrote in message
...
your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described properly
in bios?

"George" wrote in message
...
this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't
know why,
but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several
times,
then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up
until this,
no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,
but to no
avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went wrong......................and
how do
I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks

It's configured ok. Sometimes it would work other times it would not. Now,
it's not working at all.
Any other ideas. I'm getting ready to just junk the thing.
thanks,
George



David Maynard wrote in message
...
George wrote:

JAD,
Wouldn't I get other error messages if the batter failed. All I'm
getting it
the floppy error and the floppy won't work.

Possibly but it's easy enough to find out. Simply go into BIOS and see if
it's configured for the right kind of floppy.


thanks


JAD wrote in message
...

your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described properly
in bios?

"George" wrote in message
. ..

this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't

know why,

but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several

times,

then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up

until this,

no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,

but to no

avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went wrong......................and

how do

I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks

I guess you swapped out the drive, right?

George wrote:

It's configured ok. Sometimes it would work other times it would not. Now,
it's not working at all.
Any other ideas. I'm getting ready to just junk the thing.
thanks,
George

Well, when you said you tried other "floppies" I wasn't sure if you meant
drives or diskettes.

If you haven't tried another floppy drive then try one. If you have then
break the system down to the bare minimum, and I mean get the CD and DVD
drives off it too, and see if it works then. Because I HAVE seen IDE
problems affect the floppy controller.


David Maynard wrote in message
...

George wrote:


JAD,
Wouldn't I get other error messages if the batter failed. All I'm

getting it

the floppy error and the floppy won't work.

Possibly but it's easy enough to find out. Simply go into BIOS and see if
it's configured for the right kind of floppy.



thanks


JAD wrote in message
...


your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described properly
in bios?

"George" wrote in message
m...


this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't

know why,


but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several

times,


then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up

until this,


no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,

but to no


avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went wrong......................and

how do


I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks

"George" wrote in message
. ..
It's configured ok. Sometimes it would work other times it would not. Now,
it's not working at all.
Any other ideas. I'm getting ready to just junk the thing.
thanks,
George



David Maynard wrote in message
...
George wrote:

JAD,
Wouldn't I get other error messages if the batter failed. All I'm
getting it
the floppy error and the floppy won't work.

Possibly but it's easy enough to find out. Simply go into BIOS and see
if
it's configured for the right kind of floppy.


thanks


JAD wrote in message
...

your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described properly
in bios?

"George" wrote in message
. ..

this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't

know why,

but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several

times,

then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up

until this,

no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,

but to no

avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went wrong......................and

how do

I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks




I had this problem about a month ago on my older computer. Did a Google
search on the problem and found theirs a system file that can get corrupted.
Can't remember the name of the file and was unable to get it without
searching. Since I was ready to reinstall the O/S anyway, thats what I did.
After the reinstall the floppy was operational again.

HTH..............happy Googling.

Well, if I can't get the floppy to work, then doing a reinstall won't work,
I need a floppy for the reinstall.


T Shadow wrote in message
...

"George" wrote in message
. ..
It's configured ok. Sometimes it would work other times it would not.
Now,
it's not working at all.
Any other ideas. I'm getting ready to just junk the thing.
thanks,
George



David Maynard wrote in message
...
George wrote:

JAD,
Wouldn't I get other error messages if the batter failed. All I'm
getting it
the floppy error and the floppy won't work.

Possibly but it's easy enough to find out. Simply go into BIOS and see
if
it's configured for the right kind of floppy.


thanks


JAD wrote in message
...

your cmos battery failed and now the floppy is not described
properly
in bios?

"George" wrote in message
. ..

this started after watching a dvd, it seems for some reason, don't

know why,

but the movie would not finish, system froze, had to reboot several

times,

then, I started getting this message, floppy disk error (40). up

until this,

no problems with the floppy.

i've tried several different floppies, different cables, put them
in
backwards, forwards, upside down, different this, different that,

but to no

avail.

can anyone tell me what the hell went
wrong......................and

how do

I correct it. i can NOT get rid of this error.

thanks




I had this problem about a month ago on my older computer. Did a Google
search on the problem and found theirs a system file that can get
corrupted.
Can't remember the name of the file and was unable to get it without
searching. Since I was ready to reinstall the O/S anyway, thats what I
did.
After the reinstall the floppy was operational again.

HTH..............happy Googling.