COMPUTER WONT BOOT

[sxull651]

i have a dell optiplex gx240 i was running xp had 2 hard drives installed a wd400 & a wd800 also i had 512mb of memory installed when the computer froze. when i restarted it the message (diskette drive 0 seek failure) appeared .i've try'd different drives ,different memory,different motherboard ribbons and keep getting same message. any idea what i did or didnt do whould be appreaciated..

[Dusty]

This is a common problem when a floppy drive malfunctions but as you say you've tried other drives.   Lots of similar posts noted on the WWW, here's just one.

[Allan]

Go into the bios and put the hd at the top of the boot order. Let us know if that helps.

[patio]

You can also try disabling "floppy seek on boot" in the BIOS as well

[special.ed711]

i get the same type of problem. It says "seek failure, press f1 to skip, f2 to run the bios setup" i just skip and it works completely fine

[Allan]

i get the same type of problem. It says "seek failure, press f1 to skip, f2 to run the bios setup" i just skip and it works completely fine

Yeah. Not the ideal solution, but thanks for sharing.