Remove disks or other media

[James]

Just putting a P11 system together - everything is tested to work - except
the motherboard. System gets to point just after verifying pool data and
stops with this message 'Remove disks or other media' - when a bootable
floppy is in the disk (HD empty) - bios see the hard drive, cdrom... I have
tried various disks (new ones also) and the system will sometimes start up
on the disk and sometimes show this error - could this be a problem with the
floppy controller? - I have changed Floppy drives & cables to known good
ones - still same problem.

thanks

 

[Joseph]

try updating the bios and reset the bios.

 

[James]

try updating the bios and reset the bios.

I have tried both - still no difference

 

[JAD]

lite on the floppy is on all the time? cable needs to be flipped around on the floppy connector

 

[James]

lite on the floppy is on all the time? cable needs to be flipped around on the floppy connector

No - I checked that

 

[JAD]

whats bios say its recognizing the floppy as?
'Reset config data' to -YES?

 

[James]

whats bios say its recognizing the floppy as?
'Reset config data' to -YES?

reset config is set to yes - and the bios sees the floppy -

 

[JAD]

ok

different drives
different cables
cable position
Shorted CMOS jumper? or just a reset to defaults? Floppy read /write enabled?
Configuration has been updated

I would say barring those questions above, the floppy controller is bad, can't think of anything else