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Floppy Fail notice( press F1)


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Please advise how to disable above mentioned notice. Where in the BIOS do I do find means to disable this notice. Its a real pain every time I load up that I have to stop and press F!.
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It could be floppy boot seek

Is there a floppy in the drive
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There is no floppy in the drive, the floppy IDE cable is not connected, because the floppy apparently does not work.

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Have you checked the boot order does not include the floppy drive and then also for floppy boot seek
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Where do I find floppy boot seek. I will check out the boot sequence in the meantime.

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It will probably be on the first BIOS set up screen
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I have found BIOS screen with aforementioned info. Reads as follows: Boot Sequence = C,A,SCSI and Bootup Floppy Seek = Enabled.

Regards and thanks for prmpt reply.
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You could change the boot order to C / CDROM then have SCSI and floppy
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Set BOOT FLOPPY SEEK to Disabled. Then make sure you SAVE SETTINGS before exiting setup. The error on bootup should now be should now be gone.

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Edited by Fenor, 26 April 2006 - 06:25 AM.

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