Startup Annoyance

[Heathen]

The past few months I have been having this little nag when I restart my computer. Its only a main because when I want to do things like restart and then go crap I cant. I have to wait so I can press F1. Here is what it says.



Floppy Diskette seek failure

Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility
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How do I make it stop?

[legionaire45]

Does your computer have a floppy drive installed? If it does not, go into the bios and set Drive A: to "none" or whatever the equivalent is. If you do have one installed try checking the floppy data and power cables to make sure they are plugged in all the way, etc.

[Heathen]

No I dont have one installed. If you could dumb down what you just said, that would be lovely.

[Rob Oplawar]

I have the same problem. Do you have an NVidia chipset or an EVGA mobo? (I can't remember which determines the BIOS it runs) I can't find the option anywhere in my BIOS to disable the floppy drive. It's so irritating I might just buy a $15 floppy drive to stick in there to get it to shut up.
Now that sounds like a computer stupidity... lol. I feel compelled to figure it out now.

[Heathen]

HAHA, as for your question. I am FUCKING RETARDED when it comes to that stuff. So I really dont know. You have a better chance of finding out. But we did have a little portable one...I might go find it.

[ExAm]

Go into the BIOS (mash the delete key when your mobo splash comes up when you first press the power button) , look around until you find "primary boot device" and select your hard drive instead of your floppy drive. Press F10 to save.

[Zeph]

change your boot order?

[Phopojijo]

Basically what's happening is on your motherboard... there's a chip called the "CMOS". You don't need to know why it's called that, or even really what it's called to begin with.

Basically, that chip analyzes your computer, finds out how much RAM you have, what non-PlugAndPlay devices you have, etc.

After it gathers the list of hardware... it looks through the hardware you have for some Storage device (hard drive, diskette drive, USB drive, network card, whatever) and attempts to load an operating system (Such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Norton Recovery, SpinRite...) from it.

You may however have 2 devices with operating systems on it... so therefore you can tell the BIOS hey, first check my Floppy Drive, then my CD-ROM, then my Harddrive... so that if you want to reinstall Windows... the BIOS (CMOS) will start from the Windows Install CD not the already installed copy of Windows on your harddrive.

For some reason your CMOS is thinking you have a floppy drive and is trying to load an Operating System from it. Normally if it looks at a storage device and sees no Operating system, it just ignores it and moves on without saying anything... however in your case it can't find the floppy drive at all. So when it tries to read from the non-existant floppy drive... it fails and asks you "What do you want me to do now? Ignore (F1) or Play with your Settings (F2)" <--- Normally it's the DEL key... but this time it doesn't seem to be...

So if you go into your settings... you can simply disable the floppy disk... and your CMOS should therefore not check it. And therefore... the error will disappear.

[Heathen]

ok, well I tried pluging a porty A drive to see if that would fix it and it didnt. Where would I go to do any of that stuff?

[Phopojijo]

Nah, portable diskette drives are USB which aren't looked at the same way by the motherboard.

Unfortunately the EXACT menu settings vary by computer.

It seems like pressing F2 on startup will get you into the BIOS screen. If you can find an option "Floppy Disk [Enabled]"... set it disabled and save your changes.

But before you do that... take a picture with a digital camera so we can see.

[Heathen]

Take a picture of what exactly? The screen after I press F2?

[Anton]

On my bios, I have an option that says "Halt on: 'All but keyboard' "

I changed that too "Everything but Diskette Drive" or something like that.

No more error after that. I'll take a look in my bios to see where exactly that was, I think peripherals.

[Heathen]

Well I did it and its working great now.. Not showing up anymore. Thanks guys.

If Ida pressed F2 Ida seen it but like I say in the second video (which I am not uploading because I remembered that youtube takes for fucking EVAR) I would have never pressed it because I am a chicken shit.

It said something like

+DRIVERS
Floppy
Bla bla bla

And I went down to floppy and it had the options

Off, On, USB, and Internal or something like that.

I just put off and its fine now. Thanks Modacity Users! [/infomercial]


E:
Damn, its not showing my vid...

[Heathen]

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