Floppy Diskette Failure message!

royP_2

'Floppy Diskette Failure'
When trying to start my computer [Dell Dimension 500, Windows XP] I keep getting the message 'Floppy Diskette Failure' and start up comes to a stop.

I have no Floppy Disk Drive.

Boot Sequence is as follows:
SATA Hard Drive
CD Rom Drive
IDE Hard Drive - not present
Floppy Disk Drive - not present

Also have entered Control Panel/System/Device Manager and Floppy Disk is disabled.
Any suggestions hoy to repair this?

Thanks.

OneADay

In bios - is there option to disable floppy disk?

royP_2

Thanks for reply, yes there is and it is already disabled.

ubergeek

By the looks of it, your hard drive isn't showing and the boot sequence is therefore going through the options until it gets to the last one. Suggest you check that the hard drive isn't disabled in the bios. If this setting hasn't been changed, then your hard drive could be dead.

royP_2

Its not the Hard Drive, at start up I get the message about 'Floppy Diskette Failure' and suggests I use F1 or F2 and Windows opens, from then on all is fine.

OneADay

Could be a malware of some sort (unlikely) trying to boot from floppy or its just the bios warning you there is a problem with hardware somewhere.

You could go to command prompt, type msconfig and select start up and see what is trying to start up on boot.

If nothing there, could look at unplugging the floppy from the motherboard.

wealdroam

OneADay wrote: »

If nothing there, could look at unplugging the floppy from the motherboard.

But OP told us...

royP wrote: »

I have no Floppy Disk Drive.

Entimp

Try setting the bios to factory settings and see if that helps, can be found in the bios.

Guardsman

Entimp wrote: »

Try setting the bios to factory settings and see if that helps, can be found in the bios.

I think it's called "reset to optimum defaults" then enter F10

OneADay

wealdroam wrote: »

But OP told us...

Missed that oops.

macman

Could it be that your BIOS battery is dead/dying and every time you boot it reverts to the defaults-which would look for the floppy drive first?
Check your system clock, if it needs resetting at every start up then replace the battery, a five minute job.