Was the floppy disk a failure?

Re: Floppy Diskette seek Failure/CMOS checksum error on Dell Optiplex GX520. Hello Kees_de_kapper. I don't mean to intrude, but you didn't say if you have a floppy drive. or that you turned it off if not in the bios. I had to turn off floppy drive to stop my computer from doing this. Just a though. Tom. 0 Kudos. read more

If the floppy drive was just installed, there is a high likelihood that the cable that runs from the motherboard to the drive was either forgotten, not seated properly into its connector, or was installed backward. In the latter case, the LED light on the floppy drive will come on at boot and remain solid, indicating a floppy disk failure. read more

I have a Dell E520 Desktop running windows 7 that has a "floppy diskette seek failure" when I boot up. My computer has 1 internal hard drive, a CD ROM drive and a floppy drive. read more

Floppy disks were introduced in the late 1960s, and really took off after the advent of the personal computer. Once drives were being produced in sufficient quantity for them to become economical, they became a practical requirement for personal computers. At the end of the floppy disk era, part of what killed them was proprietary standards. read more