I have a Pc-Chips M811LU ver 3.1 mobo with a duron 1.6 windows XP pro and it will not recognize the floppy drive, the green light will flash but thats it. I have it set in the bios for a floppy drive and that but to no avail. Ive had this running for a few years but never needed floppy till now and just now realized it didnt work.

Thanks in advance for any help.

You might make sure your data cable is inserted correctly. As I remember, those cables could be connected backwards rather easily. Other than that, maybe the drive is just bad. Good luck.

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I tried 3 different floppy drives and have hooked the cable up every way i could think of, as i was aware of the cable thing, even tried a couple different cables.

Thanks

I concur with RBR... the red striped side of the cable is supposed to point towards the power connector, inserting the ribbon & plug in the opposite polarity will make the FDD light come on and stays on during POST, also configure the BIOS/CMOS to seek the FDD & enable swap floppy disk drives (this will help it seek them despite them being on the primary OR secondary plug)

BTW I've had a motherboard overvolt and kill FDDs before (early pentium/K62 era) so it would be equally possible for a FDD onboard controller OR the drive itself to fail, did you check out the FDD on any other system?

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