Iam disabled and have way too much free time on my hands. I fool around with computers and sometimes get myself into trouble. Currently 2 out of three are down. But let's just deal with one of them.
FIC VC-11, P 4 1.6, 256 mb Ram, Nvidia MX 400 Video, 40 gb hd, Enermax 350 watt
The CD rom died in another machine, so I decided to run an ide cable tfrom this machine to the other to load software. It didn't work and now I have two problems:
1. At boot I get a message, "Floppy drive failure (40)." I have tried 3 floppy drives and changed the cable. Everything looks ok in Bios. I have cleared cmos and reloaded the bios. The A drive shows up in My Computer, but doesn't work. Control Panel doesn't show any problems with the FD controller or floppy. They are both "Working properly".
2. It took a while to figure this out but the machine is using a CPU multiplier of 16. Prior to figuring this out it wouldn't boot at all. When I set the FSB to 100/33 it then booted. No matter what I do under Frequency/Voltage Control the multiplier is 16. It may say something else, but it uses 16. I have changed the multiplier, and all of the other choices here, i have even set it to default, but It always uses 16 for the multiplier.
My best guess is the Bios is corrupted. I'm not sure how what I did would cause this, but I don't know what else it could be.
Is there anything else i should consider?
Can someone help me out of this mess please Thanks.
FIC VC-11, P 4 1.6, 256 mb Ram, Nvidia MX 400 Video, 40 gb hd, Enermax 350 watt
The CD rom died in another machine, so I decided to run an ide cable tfrom this machine to the other to load software. It didn't work and now I have two problems:
1. At boot I get a message, "Floppy drive failure (40)." I have tried 3 floppy drives and changed the cable. Everything looks ok in Bios. I have cleared cmos and reloaded the bios. The A drive shows up in My Computer, but doesn't work. Control Panel doesn't show any problems with the FD controller or floppy. They are both "Working properly".
2. It took a while to figure this out but the machine is using a CPU multiplier of 16. Prior to figuring this out it wouldn't boot at all. When I set the FSB to 100/33 it then booted. No matter what I do under Frequency/Voltage Control the multiplier is 16. It may say something else, but it uses 16. I have changed the multiplier, and all of the other choices here, i have even set it to default, but It always uses 16 for the multiplier.
My best guess is the Bios is corrupted. I'm not sure how what I did would cause this, but I don't know what else it could be.
Is there anything else i should consider?
Can someone help me out of this mess please Thanks.